Study Break and friends and unorganized random thoughts.

I am at the public library now to write my capstone.

I was on laptop for about 1 hour, wrote 1 or 2 page(s).

Now I am stuck, and don't feel writing my capstone. So, I decided to update my blog.

The end of year 2013.

My life is different from my plan. By age of 26, I planned to get married.

Reality: single. No!!!!

My plan regarding job: having full-time job in the U.S.

Reality: a grad student and unemployed. I mean I cannot work anyways. No!!!!

 My plan regarding where I live: Chicago or another big city in the U.S.

Reality: middle of snow in the U.P. Ummmmmmmm NO!!!!!! It is so cold! I mean it is a nice city, met many good friends. But at the same time I want to have more opportunities.

Over all: Life usually does not go as you plan. But that is a life. You cannot control a majority of things around you. You need to know your limit - know what you can control and don't even try to control what you cannot control.

I know this post doesn't make sense to you. But this is my thoughts at this moment.

Oh and guess what. You are the cause of your own stress.

I really do not attempt to organize this posting. This seems like my personal journal. Well, of course I don't share my deep feelings with others, but at least this is my surface of feelings. Ha!

無知の知。Know that you don't know everything.
文句言う間があったら、する事しない。If you have time to complain about things, why don't you do something to improve your situation? You decided to do whatever you are doing.

Winter has come!!!!

Yes winter has come to Marquette. This means it is time for some winter activities!

So here is first one:

Yup Ice Hockey! NMU has a good men's ice hockey game, they played against University of Alabama - Huntsville. 

And they won the game with 3-0. It was a good game :-)

And snow:

Yup, it was snowing last weekend! Ummmmmmmm I have a mixed feeling about this. 

I don't like cold weather, but love snow. 

Oh what do we have here....a red pole on water pipe....I assume it is for fire fighters to find water pipe. 

I didn't see this in Illinois and Vermont. 

Oh and snowboarding!! I cannot wait for my first snowboarding for this season!!!! 

Winter has come to Marquette!!

It is snowing! Winter has come to Marquette! It will be looooong winter, but I can't wait for snowboarding this season! I just need to find a good mountain around here though.
Yes, I am spoiled in VT/MA where we had good mountains..
ついに雪が降った！もう冬やね～。てか、めっちゃスノボーしたい！ほなけんど、ここら辺にはええ山無いけんなぁ～。ヴァーモント州とマサチューセッツ州にはええ山があったけん、しょっちゅうスノボーしに行ったのに。。。ま、しゃ～ない。。。

Besides snow, it is the middle of fall semester, and I will be finishing my internship in 2 months. Wow..
Oh by the way, our office got new furniture!
雪以外の報告は、僕の研修も後残すところ２ヶ月。いや～早かった。けど、その後はどうなるかまだわからへん。

あ、新しい家具がオフィスに届いた！

We got a new world map! This also shows where our students come from and where domestic students go for study abroad! It is neat, eh?

世界地図。

And a nice rug. 

と、じゅうたん。

Being buys in last a couple of weeks

Ummm it has been just busy in last a couple of weeks and forgot to update my blog.

Anyways, this is fall in Marquette.

Trees are turning to yellow and red, it is getting cold, and it is getting dark early. 

My internship at NMU has left less than 3 months. Yes, time goes by so quickly. 

この数週間、忙しいて、全然ブログ更新できんかった。

ま、得書くこと無いんやけんど、以前撮った写真でもアップします。

もう秋になり、紅葉が綺麗で、だんだんと寒くなってきとるし、外も暗くなるんが、はや～なってきた。

それに、NMUでの研修も半分の３ヶ月切ったし、歳を取るにつれ、時間が経つんも早～なってきた。

Homecoming at NMU 2013

Last week was homecoming week here at NMU.

For those who don't know what homecoming is, it is a week long welcoming celebration for university alumni. Many alumni return to the university and enjoy a variety of events.
It is a big event for current students as well. Many events are planned by the university. Usually homecoming is concluded with sports event such as American football game.

One of main homecoming event is parade. This is a community event, rather university event.

Many student organizations and residence hall march throughout a town to show their school spirits. It is very American event, I don't think there is homecoming in any other countries. 

北ミシガン大学では先週１週間、ホームカミングでした。ホームカミングの間、大学に在籍中の生徒、卒業生、それに地元の人たちが一緒になって、いろんなイベントに参加します。日本の大学で言う学園祭みたいなもん。日本の学園祭と違うんは、大学のある街全体が１週間ずっとお祭り騒ぎ。で、メインイベントは街の中を行進する、ホームカミングパレードと、スポーツ（だいたいがアメフトの試合）。

ま、年に１回のお祭りやけん、みんな忙しくも楽しいんでました。

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.