Eurocentres Kanazawa

Eurocentres Kanazawa has closed the school in the end of 2018 due to the Eurocentres ownership change in Europe and won’t offer Japanese courses anymore. We would like to thank all of you who have loved and supported our Japanese program in Kanazawa. If you would like to get in touch with us, you can contact Yasuko Aizawa on her messenger.
If you would like to study in Kanazawa again, the Intensive Private Lesson Courses are available at IFIE in the same Rifare building with the same teachers (Homestay arrangement NOT available).
http://www.ifie.or.jp/ijsc/english/j-class/index.html
スイス教育財団ユーロセンター金沢校は、ヨーロッパにおける経営母体の変更による組織再編の一環としまして、2018年度末に閉校いたしました。これまで金沢校を応援してくださった皆さまにこの場を借りて厚く御礼申し上げます。過去の受講生やプログラムに関わるお問い合わせやお知らせ等ございましたら、四十沢靖子のmessengerまでご連絡ください。

Ishikawa Japanese Studies Center　Japanese Classes at IFIE

18.07.05 Cooking/料理
Ayu, the seasonal river fish and colorful summer vegetables in a cooling glass bowl. The Uruguay student #1 practicing with the special training chopsticks for kids (it was for the left-handed, no wonder it didn't work!). The Urguay student #2 won in the fun Bozu-mekuri card game.

2018.06.26 Ishikawa History Museum
Luckily, there was also a special exhibition of Evangelion and Swords at the museum. 「エヴァンゲリオンと日本刀展」もついでに見ました。このアニメがどんなにすばらしいか30代の学生が詳しく教えてくれました。7月22日まで歴博でやっていますよ。オール写真ＯＫ。

2018.06.21 goldleaf chopstick making
The shop offered us to test their new products, goldleaf ice bar!　松任駅前 老舗和菓子屋 田中屋の一日2000本？売れるというアイスキャンデーの試作品を味見させてくれました。冷た～くて金箔も凍る。新しいアイスバーカウンターに集う、いつもフレンドリーな作田のスタッフさんたち。

Students often do something more Japanese than the Japanese do. 刺し子/Sashiko needlework on the traditional design 青海波 card.

18.06.05 Cooking/料理
切る人(cut)、揚げる人 (fry)、盛り付ける人(serve)、そして、食べる人！(and eat!)

It’s always nice to have a visit by our former students and hear about their updates. 17才と20才の時に金沢で学んだスペインの学生、京都の日本語学校での半年間を終えて、帰国前に友達と寄ってくれた。4年前のスピーチに書いたとおり、次は文科省奨学金で京都大学院に進学し「人類存続のための環境学」を研究するのが目標とのこと。今月参加していたオランダの学生も日本への留学を勧めたら、早速京大と東大の大学院の資料を直接もらいに行ったとのこと！（こちらは環境学でもゴミ問題）。学生たちの将来が楽しみです。

2018.03.16 Presentation on the home countries; Holland, USA and you know from the photo. After the presentation, we played Chihayafuru - NOT, bozu-mekuri fun game.

2018.03.15 class under the sunny sky visiting the nearby Shinto shrine and Buddhist temple, picking omikuji fortune paper.

If you are thinking about when to come…
2018 March & April Special: Eurocenres Japanese course cultural activities.
-Meet with Geisha (March only)
-Cherry blossom picnic (April only)
-Sake brewery tour and tasting (March, April only)

This is what Kanazawa looks like sometimes. Hope you can recognize where. Photos by Kano sensei with a private garden (no Kenrokuen) by Kojima sensei.

あけましておめでとうございます。ことしもよろしくおねがいいたします。If you miss Kanazawa, here is a new promotion video by Kanazawa City. How many places do you recognize?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBxDRh70s8

DANZA IN KANAZAWA The city of Kanazawa seamlessly blends traditional feudal-era townscapes, stunning modern architecture, and natural beauty. It is in this city that two paths...

2017.10.16 igo & shogi 囲碁＆将棋
First time to do at a salon as our cultural activity. We used the training version for beginners/children, which has red arrows to help learning the rules. Our German student immediately bought a set to take home!

日本製品大好きなブラジルの学生。Japanese product quality is loved by our Brazilian student. Every time she comes to Eurocentres, she buys many interesting products from amazon. A saw for DIY, leisure knife for forest walk, binocular for bird watching, yogurt maker (you can aslo make 納豆 natto! with this, and on and on.

A2 level class: Students are so motivated that the the topic develops from Kanazawa craft beer festival to emperor’s abdication and Lower House dissolution!
週末に行った金沢クラフトビールまつりの話からなぜか、天皇退位、衆議院解散の話にまで発展。大人の学生のクラスはいつも好奇心が旺盛で話題も豊富。

2017.09.15
Katharina blends in so well, it is hard to tell which one is her. Photo from our study tour at History Museum 歴博のなりきりショット。Nameちよこ comes from her study area ’choco'late/food engineering.（2017.09.15北國新聞広告を使わせていただきました。皆さん「金沢おどり」にぜひ！）

2017.09.08 visit to Ishikawa History Museum
Our German student sits in the exhibited typical room from the 1960’s, the midst of Japan’s great economic growth.　三八豪雪のニュースを見ています。

2017.08.31 豆腐づくしAll tofu dishes – fresh mix, fried or steamed
鰻のかば焼きもどき broiled eel imitation, using tofu, mountain popato and nori. サンマの棒寿司 sushi with saury autumn fish.（食工房 三会）

2017.08.25 大好きな「雪見だいふく」アイスでお祝い
Surprise celebration prepared by Ryohei, Katharina and Livio for Julie's 19th birthday on her last day with Eurocentres.

2017.07.25 Samurai Theater/侍館
Fernando with a sword. 初めて午後のアクティビティに入れました。金沢の歴史を物語的に語りながらのショーだから、学生にとっては難しいかなと思いました。でも翌日の授業で教師が学生たちに感想を聞いたら、Farmer（一向一揆の）とか柴田勝家とか前田利家とか金沢城の変遷をちゃんと説明できたそうです。ショーの前に説明しておいた甲斐があって、うれしいです。舞台とお客さんとのコミュニケーションがたくさんあってよかったですよ。

One of our very first students back in 1989 visited us with her children and her 28-year-friendship-lasting host family! 平成元年ユーロセンター金沢の記念すべき第一回目コースに参加したイタリア人がお子さんたちと、交流が28年続いているホストファミリーと一緒に訪ねてくれました！

A Milano-based artist, who studied at Eurocentres Kanazawa for 2 months, is now active in the nearby seaside village, living in the old Japanese house as his art studio. ユーロセンターの日本語コース参加がきっかけで、石川県内に住み始めた人はタラクさんの他にも何人かいます。和食シェフを目指してワーホリで来沢、その後金沢の女性と結婚したドイツ人（ちなみに今は木倉町のドイツレストラン「ビッテ」にいますのでよろしかったら行ってみてくださいね）、ホストファミリーのお嬢さんを射止めたスイス人、などなど。ユーロセンターを通じた交流で金沢の女性と結婚ドイツに連れて行ってしまった学生もいますよ。ご縁もいっぱいですね。もちろん日本の大学に進学したり企業で活躍の学生もいますよ！
And there are many other students who have achieved their ambition after in Japan!

2017.06.16 プレゼンテーション
在学中のカリフォルニアの大学、半年間留学した関西の大学、そして3週間学んだユーロセンター、それぞれの体験について話してくれました。

2017.06.13 The 2nd grade class (age 7-8)
中央小学校2年生クラス

Our lucky students bumped into the crowd welcoming Crown Prince Naruhito who just arrived by Sinkansen to attend the greenery event! Police behind.

1) Ohhh, baby swallows under the eaves of geisha houses. You can also find the nests on the Kanazawa castle gates.
2) Cut-out masking tape pieces can be recycled to decorate the box. Good idea!

Deep-fried and dashi-marinated colorful veggies. Alfred peeled the yellow-tail perfectly!

This annual event will take place in Kanazawa on May 21 (photo source: 2017.5.11 Hokkoku Shimbun). To enjoy the competition more, you can review 82 techniques in 2 minutes→http://sumo-girls.com/

Lost & Found/落し物
In April many students from the past visited Kanazawa to see Sakura, their host families and Eurocentres staff. Among these 4 Swiss and 2 Germans, there is this good story. I had a phone call from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. They called us because there was a Eurocentres emergency card in the wallet brought in to Lost & Found. It was the wallet of our 2010 Swiss student. I called her former host family, who texted my message to the student, who then went to the police station and made it successfully to get the wallet back together with her Shinkansen tickets to Kanazawa scheduled for that afternoon only in a couple of hours! (We give emergency contact cards to all students on the first school day telling them to keep in the wallet as it could work better than the passport sometimes!)

Our Australian student, who studied at Eurocentres 4 times, started a new student life at Kanazawa University.