A Whole Lotta JUSCO

Yesterday (Sat. Oct. 18) I was lucky enough to be able to attend a JUSCO event! I got to participate in two tea ceremonies, flower arrangement, calligraphy, origami and then go out to dinner and make many friends!

I left the apartment a bit before 11am and didn't get back until 9pm (and then still had to study for a test I had today), the experience I got was well worth the cut from study time ^_^

There were 40 exchange students from various universities (though mostly from Sophia) and of course the JUSCO members.

Explanation of JUSCO:  "JUSCO is a student organization that consists of exchange students and Japanese students who belong to a student organization called the JNSA Fund. JNSA Fund is a student body that is made up of students from many universities in and near Tokyo" 

The order of the photos:

Inroduction/Opening Ceremony

Flower Arrangement (I got to arrange some!!!! They said I have a good feel for it ^_^)

Tea Ceremony on Tatami

Origami (I made 2 shirts and a mini shirt and then a piano)

Tea Ceremony on chairs

and Calligraphy (which I discovered I suck at)

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Afterwards we all went out to dinner <3

Happy 10/10/10 10:10:10

 

A general uneventful day other than that it was 10/10/10

Though I did venture out to Shinjuku to an art store ^_^

 

World Order in Slow Motion

Once again Stumble brought me something awesome

Near the end it reminded me of the Thousand Hand Dance

For the love of Food

I really love food, I mean how could you not? 

So here are some pics (some from Japan and some from before)

After getting to Japan our first night's dinner was brought from Hawaii. We ate some rice. And a few cookies. Then breakfast was cookies...until lunch when we were able to buy some bread at a bakery down the street.

I don't have a photo of our first meal but it was basically the same as this one.

For the first two days we mostly ate fried bread, eggs and cereal.

After our orientation we walked to this really delicious ramen shop that specializes in tomato ramen which was とてもおいしいです！

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And last night we made pancakes for dinner! Which was delicious too <3

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Now I will post all the pictures of delicious meals I cooked over the summer.

Starting with this amazing birthday cake I made...which was more like fudge than cake. Some meals

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And one night my mom, friend Julia, and I, craved something sweet =D and it was delicious

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