Colleges started up again around the first of September and Amy and I have been going to one of the universities to meet with some of the students. I (Caleb) was able to reconnect with a few of the college students that I had befriended two years ago. We have been going every Friday afternoon together (and every Tuesday afternoons by myself) to Kwansei Daigaku (also called Kangaku). We join the students in their lunch time English club meetings and then spend time with some of them afterward individually or in their club room. Everyday they meet for about 30 minutes at lunch. They get into groups and have three English questions that they pick from and answer one at a time with the others asking further questions of clarification. We join in with one of the groups and sometimes get a chance to have lunch with some of the students afterward (if they don't have to rush off to class). The English club is divided into three smaller groups: speech, symposium/presentation, and one other that I can't think of right now.
Recently, I have been helping a couple of the club members with their speeches. I helped one guy in particular and was able to attend the speech contest on campus which he was a part of. The contest was a lot of fun, I was able to visit with some of the other members, and I also learned a lot from the speeches because they were topics of concern in Japan.
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