Kiwi
College
English Conversation cafe
Fujigaoka
Come, relax and
practice your English listening
and speaking
skills with English (and other languages as well) speakers from
all
over the world in a pleasant cafe with endless coffee,
green and other teas and juices. No reservation required,
just
roll up, sit down and enjoy yourself! If you don't want to chat,
check out our magazine rack with the following:
The Japan Times
Time
The Economist
Foreign Policy
The Nikkei Weekly
The Fortean Times
International Living
Charges are ¥1,200 for the first
hour and ¥1,000 an hour or
parts
thereof after that. Students at our Kiwi College schools get a
20% discount
on cafe fees.
For how to get here, see our Fujigaoka
Map.
Rick's Cafe (not)
Americaine is Open!
Starting from Saturday, November 10, red and white wine will be
available on weekends and customers will be able to bring alcohol
into the cafe and order pizza and other food. The cafe will remain open until
"late."
Hey!
Don't listen to this "Rick" guy. He's a fake. The only Rick's cafe is
with me, Sam, Ingrid and Claude in Casablanca. What a jerk.
Below are our current cafe staff.
Come and see us today!
Click here for this week's staff
schedule
Current staff
Warwick Francis
is the proprietor and principal of Kiwi College. He is from New Zealand
and has been in Japan for 30 years teaching English and working as
a business consultant on political, technical and economic matters to
the
Fuyo and Mitsui Groups as well as to Sony, NTT and other companies. He
is
usually in the lounge on Sundays when he teaches
classes
at Kiwi College's Fujigaoka school. When not at Kiwi College, he
teaches
at Waseda and Meikai Universities and the
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs' training center in Sagami ono. He has traveled
extensively
for pleasure and on corporate and government business in Australasia,
S.E.
and East Asia and Europe. In New Zealand he has a private pilot's
license
as he is crazy about anything that flies, especially home built
aircraft.
He is the chief cook and bottle washer for our Party
Animal barbecues and dinner
parties.
Carol
Sobana
is
from Manila in
the Philippines
where she
graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration to work
in a bank and later a wood products company before going to work
in Singapore for a Japanese trading company. She later moved to
Australia for a while and subsequently traveled though out Malaysia and
Taiwan before coming to live in Japan. In addition to her native
Tagalog, she speaks English
and
Japanese. Her interests are reading, listening to music, watching
movies,
and doing craft and volunteer work.
When not at KC she works at a
preschool.
Lina Gallego
is from Columbia and is in Japan as a student at Tokyo Institute of
Technology's International School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
where she is finishing a master's degree in genetic studies. In
Columbia she worked as a teacher at the university and high school
level and she has traveled to both the US and Mexico. In addition to
genetics, she is interested in unexplained mysteries including
paranormal phenomena, UFO sightings, religious experiences, etc.
Simon Hanson is from northern England where he
trained as a gardener in which capacity he worked for the National
Trust
before coming to Japan. He likes gardening socializing and making
plastic models.
Heather Johnson is from South
Carolina in the USA where she got a Bachelors degree in English before
going on to Masters degree in Teaching from the School for
International Training in Brattelboro, Vermont. An inveterate traveler,
she also pIcked up a CELTA certificate in Thailand and has 7
years teaching experience in Yamagata, Japan. She has also done
volunteer work in Nicaragua and spent a year traveling through Europe
and South East Asia. Her hobbies are snow boarding and photography.
Reiner Tsutsui is
from Auckland, New Zealand and has been living in Japan with her
Japanese husband for about 28 years. She has lived in many places in
Japan and has worked as an English teacher and interpreter. She loves
music and all sport and plays softball, tennis and goes bowling. She
has traveled widely and lived in Singapore for several years.
This week's lounge
staff
schedule
Monday,
October 6th - Sunday, October 12th
| Monday |
Reiner
|
| Tuesday |
Heather
|
| Wednesday |
Lina
|
| Thursday |
Carol
|
| Friday |
Heather
|
| Saturday |
Reiner
|
| Sunday |
Warwick
|