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. 

Threefestivals in one weekend

Last weekend, there were 3 different festivals.
On Friday, we had Blueberry Fest.
On Saturday and Sunday, we had Art on the Rock and Outback Art Fair.

Unfortunately, weather did not welcome these three festivals, but I went to two of them: Blueberry Fest and Art on the Rock. They were both great festivals. Of course, if the weather were nicer, there would have been more people. But oh well.

Blueberry Fest is all about blueberry. We had blueberry cap cake, blueberry muffin, blueberry soda. And BLUEBERRY PIZZA. Yes Pizza with Blueberry.
I did not try this though. Although I try relatively all new things, this was not the one. Sorry.

Art on the Rock was a great art fair. Local people showed their art works. Since I don't have great artistic sense, it was great to see how people make great art works.

I know there will be more festivals and fairs in August and September in Marquette.
Since we have a long winter, people in Marquette plan all festivals and fairs in two months on "summer."

Wait, summer.....

WHERE IS MY SUMMER!!??
Last weekend, it was so cold, rainy, and not pleasant at all.
Yes, although this blog is targeted incoming and prospective international students at NMU, I cannot lie.
It was 13 degrees in Celsius on Sunday. We had to put fire place.

But don't worry, we will have nice summer in Marquette. This is just different from other parts of U.S. and the world :-)

So, keep updating yourself, there will be more things to do in Marquette this coming month, August.

But ah....I miss Japanese hot, humid, disgusting, but fun festivally (?) summer with fireworks.

Port of Marquette

Though it is not ocean, Marquette is along Lake Superior. This means sometimes we get a tall ship and cruise at Port Marquette.

This weekend a tall ship stated here. Next week, a cruise which will come from Chicago, IL, will be here.

This is just a snapshot of summer life in Marquette, MI.