From KCP Teachers to KCP Students

How are you doing during this break? Even though we do not have classes today and Wednesday, school is open from Monday to Friday. If you have questions or troubles, please come to school or call us.

We will resume classes on March 17 (Thursday), but the morning class will start at 9:45 am, because that train timetable is confusing in the early morning. So please check the train service condition and leave your home early. Afternoon classes start at 1:30 as usual.

If there are any further changes, we will inform you as soon as we can.  You can also check our web page and twitter to see the latest information on school.

From Michiko-san, student coordinator—

You may have heard the word “rolling blackouts” in the recent news. Due to the shortage of electricity, Tokyo Electric Power Company divided Tokyo and five prefectures into five groups and will conduct planned outages.

This may continue until April.  It won’t be a big problem for those who live in the 23 wards of Tokyo, but those who live in Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama prefectures may have blackouts for about three hours per day.  During the blackout, all traffic lights and elevators will stop, so, you need to be careful getting around.  Furthermore, it is more dangerous to walk around at nights.  Please arrange you plans so that you can reach home during daylight.

For more detailed information on when your residential area has blackouts, please check the web pages of your local governments.  If you are not sure how to get information, please call the school.

It will be difficult for those in beginner-level classes to understand Japanese news.  You can try the multilingual radio news broadcasted by NHK.

NHK Radio News (Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, Swahili, Thai)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/16lang.html