Tuesday [12.16.02]
Onigiri Making
Where: F114 - Nihongo no Kyoushitsu
When: Lunch..

We decided to take one of our lunches and make some Onigiri!! If you do not know what Onigiri (Tim: It's rice balls with a wonderful fish filling!)is then you should definitely come out and check out...easy, fun to make these stuff...and pretty good to eat too...so why not join the fun!

Tuesday [12.16.02]
Holiday Movie Fun!
Where: Academic theater
When: After school

Come after school to join in the Holiday cheer! An incredible episode of Cowboy Bebop followed by the Love Hina Christmas Special! You'd be a scrooge to... not... go. Or something.

Starting from 12.4.02
Ramen Sale
Where: F114 - Nihongo no Kyoushitsu
When: DAY 1 Lunch..
Price: small: $1.50, large: $2.00

Ramen sale is our fund raiser/activity that we do every year...helps us make some $$s...also, we show anime/movies so you can hang around and see those too...So drag your friends and come, even if you're not a big Ramen fan, eating some new food for lunch doesnt hurt, ne?

Fri[11.22]
Fall Mitsuwa Trip
Where: Mitsuwa Shopping Plaza, Edgewater NJ (right across from Manhattan)
When: 3:30-6:30
Every year we try to go to Mitsuwa, a nifty Japanese shopping plaza in Edgewater, at least once. It's always a fun trip so this year we're gonna try going twice, once in the fall, and once in the spring. The fall one's coming up soon, on Friday, November 22, after school. The bus will leave at 3:30 for Mitsuwa and we should be back at the school by 6:30. Permission slips, can be found in F114, just ask Mrs. Sakayama for them. They'll available to print on the site soon.

Mitsuwa Plaza's got a big 'ol grocery store, a food court (with Japanese and Korean food), a sushi bar, and a Kinokuniya Bookstore, with plenty of Japanese manga, artbooks, CDs, magazines, and other cool doo-dads.

Just be sure to bring plenty 'o cash.

Tues[10.29]
Halloween Double Feature: Cowboy Bebop and Blood: The Last Vampire
Where: Cafeteria
When: After school
Details: Animation/horror/sci-fi/action, approximately 78 min. in total
All you anim?fans out there, rejoice! Our first anim?showing this year couldn't take place at a better time. Well, all right, I SUPPOSE it could, but the first anim?of the year will be a Halloween Double Feature!

The main movie is Blood: The Last Vampire, a horror-action (heavy emphasis on bloody swordfighting) flick about a government agent in a sailor uniform who fights vampires. Sound silly? Well, at first it is, but then the blood starts to flow, and you better take it seriously. Also odd is that half the dialogue is in Japanese with subtitles, and the other is in pure English! Weird, but fittingly cool, as the story takes place at an American airbase in Japan. Oh, and Blood's short, only 48 minutes or so, and its story is underdeveloped, but the animation is uber-impressive.

Before that though, is Episode 11 of Cowboy Bebop, Toys in the Attic. A fitting episode for the Halloween season, it pits Spike and the rest of the Bebop crew against a strange creature that's making everyone sick! Taking a page from Aliens, it's up to Spike and a bigass flamethrower to deal with the threat.

Thurs[10.10]
SANJURO
Where: Cafeteria (there'll be food!)
When: After school
Details: Black & white, English subtitled, 96 min.
Our first REAL event of the year is a classic film directed by one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa. His works, including HIDDEN FORTRESS and THE SEVEN SAMURAI, have influenced many American directors, like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

In this samurai semi-spoof, Kurosawa teams Sanjuro, a crude but highly skilled warrior, with nine hopelessly naive samurai in a fight against clan corruption. Usually marveling at the ineptitude of his young conspirators and scratching his scraggly beard, the clever Sanjuro lies and cheats his way into freeing the town of the clan's fight.

But don't let the black and white political drama scare you away, this is actually an amusing, odd little film, with a few cool fight scenes and really good dialogue. And it's all worth to see the bizarre, and violent ending.

Mon[9.30] - Thurs[10.3]
The sign-ups will continue until Thursday at lunch, same place, same amount of cash (five buckaroos). Just go to F114, fill out one of the sign-up sheets and hand in $5 to either Mrs. Sakayama or ME, Tim!! DON'T FORGET TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!