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Hey everyone. CC here again~
Happy Unity Day!

Today we had a quick meeting and then we started the Japanese Calligraphy Workshop!
Thank you Professor Olenik for teaching!
Thanks to those who participated in the Japanese Calligraphy Workshop! I hope you guys had a great time and learned a lot ^^

ALSO we had given the wrong location as a mistake for the Japanese Learning Circle. Scroll down for more information!

This week's
Manga Recommendation: Uzumaki (うずまき)
Song of the Week: Arigatou (ありがとう) by smap
Japanese Letter of the Week: none this week Dont forget to bring the hiragana chart I gave out next week!
if you dont have one, i will have some more with me. you can also check the minutes from last week...the pdf is attached.

News from Japan!
Priests peer into future on frozen Nagano lake - The Japan Times Online (click here to read article)
Japan’s surprising geisha revival - Global Post (click here to read article)

Next week we will be having sign-ups for our semester field trips!
Mistuwa Trip - March 10th
Restaurant Trip at Sakurabana (Ridgewood, NJ) - April 21st
only if chibicon is not rescheduled to the 21st

ANIME NIGHT:
February's theme: Romance

We will be watching Skip Beat (スキップ・ビート!)


Next Meeting:
Back to our regular meeting schedule!
We will make further plans for the field trips.
Perhaps a small discussion on Chibi Con updates.

Meeting activity: Origami Night!!
We have tons of origami paper and some instruction books.
Bring your laptops or find some instructions online to make some origami!
We will be constructing origami for the exhibition~

Upcoming Events:

Pocky Day (ポッキー) - Tuesday, February 14th at the Student Center Lobby. (2:30PM-4:30PM)
We will be serving a variety of Pocky for you to sample from!
Watch some silly Japanese Pocky commercials~

Origami Exhibition （おりがみ）- Wednesday, February 15th at the Student Center Rathskeller. (2:30PM - 5:00PM)
Look at everyone's origami creations.
Learn how to make some origami!

Amigurumi Workshop (Crochet Workshop) (あみぐるみ) - Thursday, February 16th at Student Center 4th, Room 411/412. (12:00PM - 4:00PM)
Eva will be teaching how to crochet~
If you have your own tools and/or yarn, bring it!

Japanese Learning Circle:

** CORRECTION ON LOCATION.

1st Meeting, Friday 2/17/2012
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Schmitt Hall 202
Run by Professor Olenik of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
**A study group for those who have previous knowledge of Japanese.

Thanks for reading!!
If you have any meeting activity suggestions, topics we should cover, or presentations you want to share please TELL US!!!!!


LATER GATORS!

-CC
President of Japan Club
Japan Club is a Class II Organization of the SGA at MSU