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Last month on Sunday the 22nd of November, the JOI Osaka "Summit" was held.
The JOI meeting is an opportunity for our manager Ms.Kamioka, the JOI Staff and teachers to gather altogether at the same place and meet face to face. This time was the second such event.
This year 15 people attended. Of these, 6 people were attending their second summit in a row , and for 9 people it was their first time. Members included the manager, Ms. Kamioka, one of the support staff ,Moses, and Steve, our system advisor along with 12 teachers.
We had seen each other's faces many times using our webcams but meeting for the first time, everyone was a little nervous. One would often hear the cry " Wow ! Its really you !"
We first had lunch at a sushi bar near Osaka station, and then changed places and there we drank tea and discussed what was going on in our lives recently and what we have been into recently. Yoga, cycling, baseball, sewing were among some of the subjects that came up as things that people were into.
The scheduled 5 hours passed by like a dream. The time to end the meeting came in a moment. There was no time to say goodbye slowly, we had to rush to get to Kansai airport and get ourselves home. But the feeling of satisfaction, and sense of unity that we all felt that day, was an experience that we could never get from a conference or meeting on the net.
今週の語彙 This week's vocabulary
■一堂に会する 同じ場所に集まる, to assemble at the same place ■緊張気味 feel tension, nervousness ■嵌る（熱中する） to be addicted to , be really into ■近況 current circumstances, present state ■ヨガ yoga ■裁縫 sewing ■対象 object, subject ■解散 dismissal, end, finish ■帰路につく leave for home ■あわただしく hurriedly ■満足感 a feeling satisfaction ■一体感 a sense of unity
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