I have been so busy recently. Also for me, there were several thing happened. I am sorry for not writing this blog lately. I was back. I have tons of topics I would like to write, these are a part of it.
1. I visited NYC
I went to New York city during 4/26 – 4/29. I took 2 paid leaves for staying NY. My friend from Japan happened to come Washington D.C. and NY. I had never been to NY, so I decided to go to there with him. He brought the Japanese sake for me, by the way.
It was so much fun.
On the first day, I drove to Dulles international airport to pick him up, and then drove to NYC I do not hate long distance driving, I really enjoyed driving and talking with my friend. I pick him up at around 12-1 pm and we got there around 6 pm. However, it took 3 hours to enter Manhattan island. Finally we arrived at hotel around 9-10 pm.
2nd day was the busiest day. We went to Times square, museum and theater. And we tried to go to Jazz bar “Blue note” which is my favorite in Tokyo, but show time was too late. So we just hang out some bar.
3rd day, we went to statue of liberty. I could meet Japanese friend who is working at NYC And I could eat Japanese food and buy Japanese books. And we went to empire state building, And we finally went to Jazz bar.
4th day, I just went back to Charlottesville. It took 6 hour to drive back. That is not so bad. I realized how I can go to NY better for next time.
2. Watching student video
I watched videos which was made by student who is studying Japanese in the last class of Japanese for 2nd year of undergraduate student. I have watched 8 of videos. Each video was so great and funny. Some of video succeeded to imitate Japanese culture very well. I was surprised to see.
One of student’s group made video based on my interview. That video’s story is something like this :
The physicist who is working for Univ. of Virginia. Actually he was pretend to work, he was obsessed with looking for alien. One day, it happened to come to the earth. It was looking for someone who can fix his spaceship. They met and became close because they both like Deep purple (which is my favorite), and finally, space craft was fix, and alien left. Kind of sad. This movie should be parody of “X-files” (which is my favorite).
I really enjoyed that story.
3. Presentation
I made a presentation. Allocated time for me was 45 min. Recently, I read the book called ‘Presentationzen’, I will write a review though, that book helped me a lot. I am going to summarize the book. Soon.
4 Writing.
I read several book for writing. I will write reviews but, the most impressive books was “On writing” by Steven King. I learned a lot from this book. He said ‘Read a lot, Write a lot’, this phrase push me back to this blog.