Lights, Cameras, Action

Last week, Hawaii Palms was paid a visit by a Japanese TV crew from BS-TBS. They were in town shooting a new show called "Life Inn Hawaii", and they asked us to introduce our school to their viewers.

As you can see from our student Miyuki's face, there was quite a bit of excitement at school that day. There were cameras, lights, microphones, directors, producers, coordinators.. it all made the school resemble a TV studio.

After they were done interviewing some of us and getting lots of school footage, they followed us to Magic Island where they filmed one of our school activities: hula at the park.

Hula was then followed by a private lesson (taught by Head Teacher Saul) that was filmed in a beautiful mansion in Kahala.

All in all it was an exciting day for teachers, students, and staff. "Life Inn Hawaii" is a new 5-minute-long television series that will begin airing on BS-TBS starting October 5th.

Look for us on their episode on NOVEMBER 23rd at 8:54PM.

A friendly face stopped by

The other day, our dear student Akiyo stopped by to say hello.

Akiyo was our Intensive  Course student for 8 months. She started coming to school last August in order to gain some confidence in her English.  She lives in Hawaii and her husband is local, so learning English was very important to her in order to start her new life in America.

"I initially signed up for a 2-month English Intensive Course, but after finishing my 2 months I just kept extending and extending for a total of 8 months.

Since I live in Hawaii, I have lots of opportunities to practice my English outside of school, so whenever I was able to practice the language I had studied in class, I always felt a deep sense of accomplishment.

Even after graduating from my course, Palms is still a big part of me.  If I have a chance to study English again, I'd like to take another class here. My appreciation goes to all the wonderful staff members and teachers from the bottom of my heart."