Japanese Program Georgetown University

Mori-sensei and Omori-sensei are hard at work at the AP Japanese Reading in Tampa!Mori-sensei is the Chief Reader (a.k.a. The Boss), leading and organizing the entire team of readers (scorers)! Omori-sensei also has a demanding job that requires both accuracy and speed while scoring thousands of AP Japanese exams. She was on a mission to become the fastest scorer and help her team beat the other team. Mission accomplished! 🏆😆 But let’s just say her shoulders and neck are feeling it now. 😭😆

Of course, we still managed to find some time for pickleball. 😆 Omori-sensei even squeezed in a little pool time, too!

As an unexpected bonus, the New Zealand Men’s National Soccer Team is staying at our hotel ahead of their World Cup match on Saturday! ⚽🇳🇿 Mori-sensei even got her picture taken with some of the players. Omori-sensei, meanwhile, completely missed the opportunity because she was lured away by the desserts in the lounge. 🍰😂 Priorities, people. 😆

A special shoutout to Jaime-san, who will be graduating from the MASIA program (Master of Arts in Asian Studies) next week! 🎓✨

It has been such an honor teaching you over the past two years at Georgetown. You have accomplished so much during your time here, and you have truly been like a big sister (姉御／あねご) to so many of the undergraduate students studying East Asian languages, especially Japanese 😊

Your presence will definitely be missed next year, but we are hopeful that you will still be around DC a little longer! Wishing you all the best as you begin your career as a U.S. diplomat. We can’t wait to see where in the world your journey takes you! 🌎

Please stay in touch! You know we expect occasional Georgetown Instagram appearances from you 😆 Congratulations, Jaime-san!! ❤️ .cantwell

(And Yinzhe-san, don’t worry, your special shoutout will come when you graduate too 🤣)