400th FADIG Meeting

400th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr. Steve Silver
Program: The History of Jews in Japan

Mr. Silver was born and raised in a Jewish family in Tampa, Florida in the USA. He received his undergraduate degree in English and his graduate degree in Education from Florida State University.
He came to Japan in August, 2003, and currently teaches English at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya.
He speaks Spanish as he lived in Costa Rica for four monthsas an exchange student. He has visited Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, Cambodia and Thailand.
He is interested in singing, photography and learning more about Japan.

399th FADIG Meeting

399th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by :
Program :

398th FADIG Meeting

398th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, Apr. 10, 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr Nick Halewood
Program : My Thirty-seven Years in Kansai

Mr Halewood is from England. He has a B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of London. He came to Japan in May 1973, and taught at Baika Women’s University for 29 years until he retired three years ago.
He enjoys hiking, cycling, bird-watching, stamp collecting, rail transport and rock music.
This is his third lecture for us. His last one in January 2010 was entitled ‘My Life: An Anecdotal Journey’.

Dear members,
We would like to collect our membership fee \2,000 for the first half of this year in April. (Our annual fee is \4,000.)

* IMPORTANT NOTICE to the members receiving post cards as well *
The post card will be arriving today or tomorrow, which will be the last one.
From the May meeting, for the members who have email address I would like to switch the way of sending information to email only.
If you would still like to receive post cards with some reason, please contact me as soon as possible by mail or phone.
Thank you for your kind cooperation in advance.

397th FADIG Meeting

397th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr. Robert Elliott
Program: Language, Culture and Communication 

Mr. Elliott was born and brought up in Michigan, the USA.
He studied BA Divisional Humanities (History, Art, Literature)
at Michigan State University.He came to Japan in 1985. Before coming to Japan, he visited Ireland, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg.
Now he is retired and enjoys designing and making jewelry.
He is an NLP practitioner and has a wide range of interests.

396th FADIG Meeting

396th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, Jan 9 , 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr Nick Halewood
Program : My Life: An Anecdotal Journey

Mr Halewood was born on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England, and mainly brought up in Manchester and North Buckinghamshire, England.
He has a B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of London.
He came to Japan in May 1973, and taught at Baika Women’s University for 29 years until he retired two years ago.
He enjoys hiking, cycling, bird-watching, stamp collecting and rock music.
This is his second lecture for us.
His first one in September 2009 was entitled ‘Language Death’.

395th FADIG Meeting

395th FADIG Meeting
on Saturday, Dec 12, 2009, 2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr. Shawn Hazelton
Program : Online/Distance Education and Teaching in America
since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Mr. Hazelton was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He received his BA from the University of Toronto and College degree from Sheridan College in their Co-op Art and Art History program.
He is currently finishing his MEd at Jones International University in Colorado.
He came to Japan in February, 2001.
He is currently an ALT/NET　working at elementary and junior high schools in Neyagawa.
This is his fourth lecture for us.

394th FADIG Meeting

394th FADIG Meeting
Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009,  2:30-4:30pm
at Kansai College of Business & Languages
by Mr. James Hershman
Program : American Inventions and Their Inventors:
A Brief History
Mr. Hershman was born in Los Angeles and raised in Glendale, California,
which is the sister city of Higashiosaka.
He studied sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
He first came to Japan as an exchange student in 1993,
then returned as a teacher from 1997 to 2000.
After five years in America he returned once again in 2005.
Now he teaches English at Nisshin High School in Higashiosaka.
He is currently studying how to read kanji.
He enjoys playing the guitar, reading books, listening to music,
watching sports and especially camping.