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Ms. Murabayashi’s Update – March 18

March 22, 2016

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Greetings from Karuizawa!

It’s been quite a week weather-wise; as you know, earlier in the week we were still surrounded by snow, and slowly but surely it has melted away! Here are two photos of the sports field (with Mt. Asama in the background) that help demonstrate this evolution:

Today is sunny and bright but a bit chilly, whereas yesterday was sunny and warm. Typical spring weather!
The third quarter ended on Friday. In celebration, Mr. Jemison bought pizza for the entire school – 55 boxes! Everyone here LOVES pizza and we love Mr. Jemison!

This week is Spring Project Week. The students have been divided into groups to work on different projects to help the “community,” whether the ISAK community, Karuizawa community, etc.

Click through this photo slider to see pictures of a few Project Week groups!

One of our G11 project week groups headed to Tokyo today as part of their project. They’ll be doing interviews of people on the street in Tokyo. Here’s a group selfie, proof that they made it there safely!

The food and hospitality group visited a local pension, “Pi-ment,” to interview the owner, Mrs Kanazawa. They commented, “She had a lot of passion for her business which inspired us in our of eating process for our project.”

This is the selfie of our “Karuizawa Muses” Group (responsible for Art and Culture). “We are having a lot of fun using up all the grey matter in our brain for our project.”

“We are Apoba (apple+soba), a group working on food and hospitality during this Spring Project week. Our goal is to promote local food in Karuizawa!”

Other news from around campus…
A few students in the Theatre Club decided to build a performance stage for the school! You can read about the project here. Another group of students volunteered at the Chikumagawa marathon last Friday.

Finally — today we had a “ISAK flea market” using the clothes, new and gently used, that were donated to us from different people. Seven students helped organize and run the flea market, and it was open to all to do some shopping. Many students enjoyed looking at the items! All proceeds are being used to fund activities and events at ISAK.

-Ms. Murabayashi, ISAK Assistant Head of School