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Last day out for the TAP students

The TAP students had a great day on the Noosa River! For our last day together we all enjoyed an afternoon on a Pontoon Boat. The weather was fine and allowed us to play some beach cricket on one of the islands in the river mouth. Kosuke, Satohiro, Yuto and Koki played soccer while the girls preferred to play “Onigokko” (tag).

After a well-deserved snack we all headed upstream and each student got to steer the boat at least once. What a beautiful day to remember. Lexis English School wishes all the best to all the TAP students and we hope to see all of you very soon!

Good bye everyone, we wish you all the best and hope to see very soon!

Our TAP students enjoy playing indoor games

The rain kept us inside but it did not take away the fun. We started the afternoon activities with a nice game of Twister! There is nothing better to bring students together The girls definitely won the game… well done girls!

We then all enjoyed a great table-tennis competition. Kosuke was the big winner of the finale against Yuto, well done boys!

The TAP students  learn how to surf

It would have been a shame if our students did not try surfing before leaving Australia, so all of them gave it their best shot. What a day, nice weather, good waves for beginners and lots of fun!

At the end of the day, all of the students were standing on their boards and felt great about their performance! Sensei Dave, our surf instructor, was also very impressed and congratulated all the students for their good efforts. It was Haruna’s last day , we all hope to see her soon and wish her all the best !

Top (left to right): Haruna, Kaori, Nanuko, Hana, Koki, Yuto, Kosuke, Satohiro. Bottom left: Koki, Satohiro. Bottom right: Nanuko, Hana, Haruna, Kaori, Koki, Yuto, Kosuke, Satohiro, (and Sensei Dave!).

Top: Sensei Dave, Kosuke, Koki, Yuto, Satohiro, Kaori, Haruna, Nanuko, Hana. Bottom left: Koki. Bottom right: Satohiro, Kaori.

Top: Haruna. Bottom left: Hana. Bottom centre: Nanuko. Bottom right: Yuto, Kosuke.

TAP students go hiking!

It  was a beautiful day again for the students to go out hiking on Mount Coolum. We were happy to have two new students in our group, Hana and Nanako, welcome girls!

It took our students about 20 minutes to get on top of this old volcano and enjoy a nice 360 degree view of the Sunshine Coast.

Pete, our bus driver came up and enjoyed the view with us.

Koki was very happy to meet and chat with some friendly locals on top of Mt. Coolum. Other locals even posed on our group photo, thank you guys!

Once we all got back in the bus all the students were very quiet and some of them even enjoyed a little nap on the way home Congrats to all of them for their good efforts!

The TAP students get to shop at the huge Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre!

We departed from Noosa after our lunch break, direction Maroochydore: Sunshine Plaza! Nick, our bus driver was very happy to meet a joyful group of students. We all got to shop for two hours in the big shopping-mall at Maroochydore. Satohiro bought a skateboard for himself while Kosuke and Koki preferred to buy some presents for their friends.

It was very nice to see that all the students enjoyed their time together and that they all found their way back to the bus on time On our way back there was a little quiz for the students with two small Rugby balls to win! First question ”What does the name “Noosa” stand for?”, Koki was the quickest student to answer “Shade”! Well done Koki! The second question: “What is the “Mountain” we will climb on next week Tuesday?”. This time Haruna was the quickest student to answer “Mount Coolum”. Well done Haruna!

Our bus driver, Nick, stopped at Castaways beach where we all enjoyed the nice weather before heading back to the school. What a great day to remember, especially for Yohei who is leaving us We will probably see him again very soon .

“We discovered that Yuki and Hiroki’s spoken English is much better than we thought when we asked them to participate in Coopers reading homework last night. 

Cooper is 7 years old.  He would read a page from his school reader out aloud and then one of the boys would read a page aloud.  Their English is amazing!

Yuki was having trouble pronouncing a word and Cooper tried to give him a hint.  Cooper said “Yuki – it’s your favourite food!”  The word was “rice” 

We received some lovely gifts from Hiroki and Yuki and Cooper is taking them to school today to show his class.”

Thank you Carthy Family