1, January, 2014: Return of George Okuhara-Caswell Blog: "Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say,"I will do better Tomorrow."

1, January, 2014
Dear Friends and Students
I am back to my Blogs after a long vacation.
To Nihon University students of Economics: Remember the last class is on Thursday and one Sub class for Friday.
Test will be listening 60 minutes test from Eiken 2nd grade.
To Meiji students: we will continue the units but there should be a presentation on "New Year's  Day".
To Aoyama students: remember 10th Friday will be the major day for 24th will be an extra day.

Thought of the day:
" Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say,"I will do better tomorrow."
Brigham Young
US Religious Leader
1801-1877
明日はもっとうまくやろう。と言わなければならなくなるような日の過ごし方はしてはいけない。

December 13, 2013: "The ability to deal with people..."

December 13, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.  And I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
John D. Rockefeller
US industrialist and philanthropist
1839-1937

Command/Wisdom Blog: December 12, 2013:Changing from Yokohama Water Workers to Wisdom Blog or Each Chapter/Unit Topic writings.

December 12, 2013:  

Command/Wisdom Blog

Changing from Yokohama Water Workers to Wisdom Blog or each student's chapter/unit topic writings.Also starting 2014, classes will be primarily in English.
Also we will start Twitter lessons.
 
Wisdom Blog:
Our problems are man-made; therefore, they can be solved by man. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable.
I believe they can do it again.
John F. Kennedy
35th US President
1917-1963

Wisdom blog: December 11, 2013:"Nothing is particularly..."

December 11, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Ray Kroc
US restaurateur
1902-1984
何事も小さな仕事に分けてしまえば、特に難しいことなどない。

Wisdom Blog: December 10, 20p13: "All things are possible..."

December 10, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible---and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
Pearl S. Buck
US novelist
1892-1973
物事はすべて、不可能だと証明されるまでは可能である。
また可能なことであっても、現在のところそうであるだけなのかもしれない。

Wisdom Blog: December 8, 2013

December 8, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Steven Covey
US consultant
1932-today
過去ではなく、いつでも想像の中に生き
なさい。

December 7, 2013; Wisdom Blog:"Never tell people...."

December 7, 2013
Wisdom Blog:
"Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
General George Smith Patton
US Army officer
1885-1945
人にどうすべきかを言うな。何をすべきかを言えば、人は独創性で驚かせてくれる。

December 5, 2013; Wisdom Blog

December 5, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
"Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
Polish scientist
1867-1934
人生には恐れるべき者は何もない。
理解しさえすればいいのだ。

Wisdom Blog: December 5, 2013 : "Nothing in life..."

December 5, 2013; Wisdom Blog: "Imagination is...."

December 4, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
US-Swiss-German physicist
Nobel Prize winner in physics
1879-1955

Command Blog: December 3, 2013; this week is number 9, next week is number 10

December 3, 2013
Dear Students
Do Number 9 this week on your meal and selection of food and drinks.
Next week will be Number 10 on shopping. You must submit 10, 11, 12 on the day of Number 12.
gto

We are Three Friends. December 2, 2013; Wisdom Blog

                                                     (We are Friends)
December 2, 2013  (Wisdom Blog)
Dear Friends and Students
Hope all of you are doing fine.
I love this picture of three Friends and I think I will be really  a Friend this month.
With that this picture would be completed of Three Friends.

Wisdom:
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
British statesman and prime minister
1874-1965
成功とは失敗を重ねてもやる気を失わないでいられる才能である。

gto

December 1, 2013:Wisdom Blog: "The Holy Experiment"

December 1, 2013          Wisdom Blog
Dear Students and Friends

The holy book which Dr. Nitobe Inazou brought back from Philadelphia in 1916/1922.
I will be introduced to it  soon when I join the Friends Society. Hope to share their wisdom and ideas and hidden hints to its secret mystery yet to come.

Today's wisdom:
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Italian dramatist
1749-1803
往々にして勇気とは死ぬことではなく、生きることによって試される。

gto

Wisdom Blog: November 30, 2013....An introduction of the Religious Organization of Friends by a nice person from America."We talk about peace but Quakers act."

       (Mr. Kruskal Hewitt, a Quaker friend, introduce me to the Religious Organization of Friends)
November 30, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I have traveled to Takanawa near Friend Gakuen and Keio in Mita for about five years.
In this busy days it is very hard to travel all the way from Yokohama to Sengakuji/Takanawa
on Sundays to attend Silence meeting of one hour but it is worth while to meet Mr. Hewitt and learn that Dr. Nitobe Inazou was the member and share his thoughts.
Today I received the FB notice from the British Quakers about their Kindertransport of Jewish children in 1938 to 1939 from Berlin to London of 10,000 children being saved by the action of the Quakers. Remember out of 6 million killed by Nazi, 1.2 million were children.
I am proud to becoming one of them but fill a heavy sense of responsibility.
"We talk about peace but Quakers act."(by George)
Mr. Hewitt is moving to New York, but hope him best wishes. He was a Quaker and I am proud of meeting him here on the hill of Takanawa.
gto

Aoyama lighting Christmas tree

Aoyama G.U. Christmas Tree Lighting, November 29, 2013

Wisdom Blog: November 28, 2013; " Make every decision...."

November 28, 2013
Wisdom Blog
Dear Students and Friends
" Make every decision as if you owned the whole company."
Robert Townsend
US business writer and former president of Avis Rent-a-Car, Inc.
1920-1998
意思決定はいつでも自分が会社を所有しているつもりでせよ。

November 27, 2013;Wisdom Blog: " Leadership cannot be taught..."

November 27, 2013
Wisdom Blog
Dear Students and Friends

" Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
Harold Geneen
former CEO of IT&T
1910-1997
リーダーシップは、本当は教えることはできない。　学ぶしかない。

gto

November 26, 2013; Wisdom Blog: "If it's a good idea...."

                                 (Ritchie and Phan, SJC grad.)
November 26, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
" If it's a good idea...go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Murray Hopper
Rear Admiral US Navy
1906-1992
いいアイデアなら、いいからやってしまえ。
許可を得るより、　謝るほうがずっと簡単だ。

Wisdom Blog:"Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the class room"

November 25, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
"Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom."
J.Paul Getty
US oilman
1892-1976
人を動かして結果を得るということは、教室では真鍋ない技術である。

Command Blog: to the students on November 24, 2013 < Number 8>

November 24, 2013

Dear Students and Friends


I will restart my blogs to communicate with the students to provide  assignments as well as some ideas for thoughts and critical thinking.

One is we are on the eighth topic of writing or presentation.
休日／休暇
休日はどのように取るか
休日の過ごし方
先週末はどのようにすごしたか。今週末はどのように過ごすか。
長期休暇に何をやりたいか。
How do you spend your holiday or long vacation? What did you do last week end? What is your plan for the coming week end?

Two: Remember to study your textbook. For those having a book report, remember to prepare it.

gto

November 17, 2013 St. Joseph Festa and International Boy Scouts Troop One at Berrick Hall(old St. Joe's Dormitory)

November 17, 2013 St. Joseph Festa with former students and International Boy Scouts Troop One.

Old soldiers never die, just fade away with Alma Mater.

November 16, 2013
Old soldiers never die, just fade away with Alma Mater.

Life is 10 percent what you make it...

November 15, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."
Irving Berlin
Russian-US songwriter
1888-1989

My first student in International Learning Institute a quarter century ago.

November 14, 2014
Dear Students and Friends
My first student of International Learning Institute came back from Portugal
to visit his parents in Yokohama, Japan.  He was the very first student a quarter a century ago when I left St. Joseph International School to start my own endeavor, International Learning Institute in a garage of my house before moving to Negishi.  He was 13 then but now thirty-eight.
I really appreciate all for what I receive, students and good ones.
He graduated Kanto Gakuin and went to the USA for college then to Italy.  He is a movie director in Portugal now.
It was a happy day.
Discuss about your friend(s).
gto

November 12, 2013
Dear Students
You should do the presentation on the Topic given by
Yokohama Waterworks according to the number
Next would be seven: Daily lives; time you get up,
how you travel to schools, how spend time in school,
how you spend lunch and breaks, a life in a day.
Or you speak on the topics given at the end of the chapter(lesson,unit).
gto

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

November 12, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes."
Washington Irving
US writer
1783-1859
 
Dennis mentioned that even the rich in the USA will study hard to prepare for the next era whereas some overseas Chinese in Japan don't work and live with the rents from the tenants.
It is all right if you are wealthy like the Rockfellows He mentioned why he studied hard and his family story of no three generation will keep the wealth. You must improve yourself through education. You must improve yourself to survive in this competitive world.
Chinese study hard but Russians in the US universities enjoy parties. China and Iran never invaded others in history. He thinks there is a great future in China and Chinese.
gto with Dr. Dennis Loh.

" Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

November 11, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I am back to blogs.

For a while I was out of energy plus stopped to make an additional friend by FB, so just receiving
messages and wait till renewing my new FB approach.
I will start with the pictures of Dennis Loh, 1969 SJC, visited the Yokohama Foreign General
Cemetery where our teachers, the Religious Brothers/Fathers are buried. (visited on November 10, 2013, Sunday).

His appropriate line is: "Try not to  become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
US-Swiss German physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics
1979-1955
成功者になろうとするよりも価値ある人間になろうとすることだ。

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

November 1, 2013; Success is the ability....

November 1, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
British statesman and prime minister
1874-1965
成功とは失敗を重ねてもやる気を失わないでいられる才能である。

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Yokohama international institute will be in Kanagawa, Yokohama Station neighborhood.
this weekend , December and February I will move the necessary materials/goods/equipment to Gifu.

Soon I will resume to necessary logistics to work on various challenges.
Thank you
George

Yokohama Waterworks #1: Presentation on Self Introduction

Due: On November 12 week
Give your presentation on
Yokohama Waterworks #1 (Self Introduction)

To love what you do....

October 28, 20p13
Dear Students and Friends

I was busy correcting the verbal behavior of students and had a little time to write the Quote...Unquote for a while
I should return to the initial approach of sending  Blogs of Quote..Unquote and with messages to guide students to their assignments.

Quote... Unquote:
"To love what you do and feel that it matters---how could anything be more fun?"
Katherine Graham
US newspaper Executive
1917-
自分のやっていることが大好きでそれに価値があると思っているなら、
それ以上に楽しいことなどあり得ない。