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Hello everyone, There's only three days to go until the Hario Speech contest 2016! It's the biggest event of the year for us, so I'm very excited. I can't wait to see the students put on a great show for everyone. This year the quality of the speeches is very high. We have put a lot of effort int…　
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Hello everyone, How are you doing this week? I'm surprised. On Wednesday, Donald Trump won the US presidential election. There's been a range of reactions from my students and on my Facebook timeline, from excitment to fear and concern. This year, the UK decided to 'Brexit' or leave the European …　
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Hello everyone, As winter creeps in, we are taking out the warm clothes and getting the kotatsu ready at home. In Japan everyone has two kinds of bed quilts and clothes, for summer and winter. In Ireland we only have one. It's always cold at night, so we only use warm blankets in bed. It's also q…　
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Hello everyone,    It's a beautiful day today. I hope you're enjoying the lovely autumn weather.  I was walking in Central Park this morning when I walked past some junior high school students practicing singing for some performance. There were a few Hario students and I said hello. They sounded …　
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Hello everyone, Halloween week is over now. We had a great time and I really appreciate all of our students who wore costumes during the week. There were so many fantastic and creative costume ideas! Witches, wizards, skeletons, ghosts, superheroes, police, criminals, zombies and many more. It wa…　
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Hello everyone, Happy Halloween! We began celebrating Halloween week here at Hario yesterday. Our students are arriving this week all dressed up in weird and wonderful costumes. I've seen some great ideas already and there's still four more days to go! Us staff are also dressed up all week. Can y…　
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Hello everyone,How's your week? Last weekend my wife and I visited a place called '虹の郷’ or Rainbow Village in Izu. It's a kind of theme park with a British themed village, a Canadian themed village and a Japanese village. In between is a beautiful park with lots of different flowers, plants and tr…　
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Hello everyone, Recently, I've been getting to know the parks around Fuji. I didn't use to go to parks very often, maybe once every two weeks. Now, however, I take my daughter to the park every morning on weekdays. I didn't know there were so many beautiful parks in this city! I've been trying to…　
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Hello everyone, How are things with you? Well done to our students who took the Eiken test last week. There were many good scores and I know everyone studied hard and did their best, even those students who didn't quite make the pass mark this time. The 2nd rank …　
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Hello everyone, I'm enjoying the cooler weather now. The summer humidity has left, and it's still warm during the day. I just hope that the typhoons stop coming to Japan. Did you enjoy the long weekend? Japan's "Happy Mondays" holiday system came into play last Monday with "Health and Sport's Day…　
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