Diversity in tiny town in MI

From this posting, I will write in both English and Japanese.

Last weekend I took a couple of international students to Michigan Tech University for Parade of Nations.
Parade of Nations is to celebrate a variety of culture, nations, and diversity at MTU.

MTU has over 1,000 international students, which is about 15% of total student population. 

After an event, we went to waterfalls.

It was a good weekend....

日本人の知り合いの方から、日本語でもブログしたらええのに、って言われたけん、今回から日本語でも投稿します。

先週末、車で１時間半ほど行ったところにある、ミシガン工科大で開かれた「パレード　オブ　ネイション（日本語訳で国のパレード）」に、留学生を連れて行きました。最初の写真３つがそのときの様子。

ほんで、帰りにちんまいけんど、滝を見に少し寄り道。残り３枚の写真が、滝付近で撮った写真。天気が良かったけん、ええ週末やった。

Like a roller coaster in 4 days

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! It was a good American football weekend except Sunday.....Carolina Panthers lost. :-( But Saturday was good football day; my two favorite teams, Alabama and Oregon won!

Well, there were a couple of events in last 4 days.
On Friday, our office hosted a picnic. Many international and domestic students, and faculty and staff members at NMU showed up. It was a good time, and it seemed like everyone enjoyed it.
I was going to upload pictures, but I forgot to bring my camera to the office........

And yesterday we had American Football 101 at football stadium.

After presentation, students and IPO staff played American football

Home of Wildcats: Superior Dome

So Superior Dome is the largest dome that made with wood. Our first home game is this Saturday, and next week is Homecoming game. 

Nature in Marquette

So Marquette has not only a beautiful lake, but also beautiful trail and green.

So as you can see, if you like nature, Marquette is the place for you!

Good weekend with old cars and more

It has been good weather in last a couple of days. Sunny and temperature has been above 30 degrees in Celsius, which is nice. But for Yoopers, it hasn't good weather. Oh well, summer supposes to be hot!

Anyways, last weekend, we had Harbor Fest in Marquette. It used to be called Seafood Fest. But HEY! We got no seafood here. 

Well, although we didn't have seafood, with my new housemates, we went to see old cars. They were mainly from 60s and 70s classic American cars. But there were a couple of really old cars from 20s. 

This is old Mustang, a classic American super/muscle car

And this is really old car, I believe it is from the 1920s

Besides old cars, we had an art performer

He was painting with spray cans. He was really good!

And this was what was happening at evening. Musicians played and people was listening or dancing. 

So this was one weekend in Marquette. There will be another festival this weekend in Marquette. 

New Office New Semester

I did not realize that I haven't posted for nearly 2 weeks. Opps...I guess there haven't been events in town for a while.

But it is getting busy again in Marquette and NMU.

Students are coming back to school, so it is getting busy.
International Programs Office has moved to a new place, and it looks good. I will post picture soon. It is still sort of too messy to post.

But at least I can show my office.....

Yes I love magnets......I still have more at my home.

And I guess I can show our new IPO Office.......

Please come to our new office to sit down these comfortable sofa, chat with your friends, or simply visit us!

Little American town in Michigan

Sadly, City of Marquette is the biggest city where I have lived in my life so far. 

Yes, it is kinda sad, I wish I have lived in Osaka, Chicago, or other big city. 

But Marquette isn't a bad city. Actually, it is a beautiful city, here is evidence :-) 

View of Lake Superior from main street in MQT

Washington St, or main street. Many night life happens at this street

There are many good local restaurants along Third Street

View of Lake Superior will never disappoint you......;-)

Just one of weekends in August at Marquette

There were numbers of events in last weekend at Marquette. 

One was Farmers Market. 

This is banana bread and lemonade with basil, which I got from two of vendors at Farmers Market. They were both good, but especially banana bread was fantastic! I am sure that I will keep buying this from them. 

We had farmers market in Vermont, but one we have in Marquette is smaller, but still as nice as one in Vermont. 

Then, on Saturday and Sunday, we had Guts Frisbee National Tournament in Marquette. 

I know about ultimate Frisbee, but I did not know about Guts Frisbee. It was very different sports. 

Oh buy the way, Frisbee is very popular sports in the U.S. You will see people playing it almost everywhere in the U.S.

So besides my grad school work, this was what happened last weekend. I know more events are coming this weekend. People in Marquette is very active during summer.