Had A LITTLE BIT BUSY DAY

I had a little bit busy day, and I had heavy duty day same time. I have some stuff usually going on around me, and I am doing some things like what I need to do, but I usually don't mind to do that. However, today some reasons, I felt little bit busier than usually, and I wanted to get some more time to do. I am so happy that what I am going to do everyday, and it is a great thing for me. I just not really mood for a day or something.... Well, it is ok today is almost over anyway.
(少し忙しい一日になり、いろいろなことをしなくてはならない一日にもなりました。いつもなにかといろいろなことをしなくてはならない状況にあるのですが、今日はなぜか気持ち的にどこかおかしかったのです。何があったのか自分でもわかりませんが、集中できない一日だったように思えます。それでも、忙しく感じる事はいい事かもしれないですね。でも、なにをするにも時間が足りないと感じていましたが。。。いつも楽しい日々を過ごしているので１日くらいこのような日があってもいいのかと思ってます。それに気分がのらいに日がたまにあっても仕方ないと思います。)

oh yeah, today I had a good dinner... which it is a delicious dinner for me. I use Fire King Swirl Azurite for dish and set up as I usually like to do. My dinner was Kimuchi Noodle Soup, Rice and Seaweed Soup. It was a good dinner than I thought~!
(そういえば、今日の夕食はおいしい食べ物でした。いつもおいしいと思って食べてますが。。。そして今日はファイヤーキングのアズライトを使用しました。いつもどおりじゃないか！と思ってしまうのですが・・・まぁ、いつも通りにセットアップしてそれから写真を撮って食べ始めました。今日の夕食はキムチ麺、ご飯、そしてわかめスープでした。本当においしかったです。)

here is the picture!

Kimuchi Noodle Soup, Rice, and Seaweed Soup

my roommate food...

eating dinner table!

 Below, I took picture of inside ECU library today after class, and I was little bit surprised that what we have now. I went to several times past year, but I didn't recognized that we have like that now with Coca Cola product with ECU. I just like to see like that. One thing, I wish we have Japanese vending machine which hot and cold for same vending machine!
(下の写真は今日図書館の中でとったものです。久々に授業終わった後に図書館に行ったらこんな感じにコーラプロダクトがずらりと並んでいました。イーストカロライナ大学とコーラカンパニーが提携をして生徒に飲み物を売っているのをみて驚いたものです。でも、残念なことに日本のような自動販売機はないですね。日本のものといえばあたたかい飲み物とつめたい飲み物が両方あるっていうものです。こっちでは一切みません～！)

ECU Vending Machines at Library

Saturday May 7th, 2011

Today, I got some present from my friends. Also, several weeks I got some Fire-King myself too.

I will post picture here sometime later...

Well first day of my summer vacation went well and i am glad to stay in here in Greenville until middle of June this summer.

Hopefully, I will be have a great summer!

May 3rd, 2011

今日は日本語で書こうと思います。
このブログを初めて６年になるんですが(２００５年５月１日から始めたんです)、なんとグリーンビルに来る前からやっています。

前書いているのはとてもグリーンビルに関係ある内容ではありません。

ところで、あと２日でECUの学期末テストも終わりになります。すでに終わってる学生もいますが、まだ終わってない人もまだまだいます。

今回はECUについて少し紹介をしようと思います。
East Carolina University (ECU)は環境面では都会の中にある学校ですがノースカロライナ州の中では都会の中の田舎という所にあります。グリーンビルは都会ではあるのですがまだまだ他の年に比べると田舎であると行ってもいい所があります。高層ビルがあるわけではありませんし、学生の街になっている部分もあります。

学生数：	約26300人			入学者のGPA平均：		3.45
学費：	約23000ドル			必要なTOEFL点数：		80点
寮費・食費：	約9000ドル

ここに留学をしようと考えている生徒はどのような授業を取りたいか、どのような学部に入りたいかで決めるのが一番ではないかと思います。

Well now, I am going to talk about Greenville and ECU from my view in English. I am a graduate student at ECU and majoring MS in Software Engineering. I think we have various major at undergraduate and graduate School education. One of strong field of study is Education, also field of Medicine and Nursing. Undergraduate majors are Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and so on where it is related to Medicine is stronger area at ECU. But still they have good program for all over majors. Also, a lot of people are working at ECU and who live in Greenville, people are working at ECU most of time. I am sure ECU is big part of Greenville society and students who is around here knows what's going on.

For my view that graduate school students has a lot of opportunity to work as Graduate Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, and/or Graduate Research Assistant. International students are allowed to work up to 20 hours per week, and that give us to take 6 hours credits for Graduate Courses which is better then taking 9 credit hours for semester.

In this university, professors are working with you and making sure that we are able to learn and success for what we are learning from them. Also, they are always help us and welcome to ask the questions we have about classes, research topics, and/or our problems. It is nice to have someone like them being alone here. Also, American students who are my friends, and working together sometime. They are a great help for any of us. I am sure that people have feeling like that anytime. Also, I am sure that is the most important university life in America.

In Greenville, Around here American people are really nice and friendly for me and other people. Also, most of international students who talked to me that they thought American people were really great and sweet for us.

It is nice and good. Just one think you may concern that food and eating diet. If you want to eat something good stuff, maybe you can have some good food from cafeteria at university. However, that is not really for some of people, but people can go out to eat sometime and get good Japanese food, Italian, Indian food, Thai, Korean, and Chinese foods around here in Greenville.

Oh well, it is not much to say after all, but you can read this explain a lot more about Greenville's students' life. On weekend...

i will talk about that weekend tomorrow!

The Final Week is coming!

The Final Week will start next week. My classes are already finished, and now I need to prepare for Finals. That will be really different from what I am doing usual. Also, that is really busy week start too. This final will make my grades covered 40 to 50% and I really not ready for final yet.

Well just need to study for my all classes, and prepare for what I can do right now. Also, I need to start organizing my DropBox for my Graduate Assistant job. It's a lot things going but I like my GRA job!

That is my good time and really have a great opportunity to work with my wonderful professor. She is really nice and wonderful person ever I work with. She is Reading Education professor, and her research interests is similar to my thought when I wanted to get this GRA job. I am really happy to have this job anyway. Now, I need to finish working on my part of Graduate Research Assistant and finish for this semester work.

I will miss until I can work there again.

April 20th, 2011

Today, I found my friend comment and message about ECU. That is a great thing to read from who were at ECU and left from here. Also, that helps people to understand what kind of things, and what would be a great things at ECU. However, that message was not only good things, but need to have all over things. Good things are good for people to know, but they need to know all things.

here is my friend's website you can take a look at

http://www.naruto-u.ac.jp/information/07/003001002.html

I like that ECU is good place to study. In fact that we have a lot of things are going on, and people should know all that. Well, if people knows all of stuff maybe not really be ok. But just looking at good things are not helping all the time. sometime you know and understand of bad things that helps for preparing to coming here too. I learned a lot of things during staying here in Greenville, NC, and I am thinking that it is not much different from Japan. When you are getting used to living here, that would make you to think same as where you lived.

I am sure only few months to one year would not hurt to come here and spend time, but if you live more than 3 or 4 years, you will know the differences between Japan and USA, but also you know similar things too!

I really think that is a good thing to living another country for long time and know people around where you live. Also that helps your life to expand your thought anyway.


Well, I just want to post about ECU below with pictures!

football stadium at ECU

ECU students and people

this is art building at ECU

I thought I have some more pictures but I don't think I have here on this computer, and maybe I will post more on later today or tomorrow.

グリーンビル夏になってきた？！

Today was really warm day tomorrow, and I think it was really good day. Just little bit even hotter than I was expected. （今日はとてもあたたかな日になりました。そして、思っていた以上に暖かくなりましたがすごくいい人なりました。)

Also, it's not much going on today for me, I was enjoyed my day at home until I had meeting and tutoring... (今日はいろいろな事が夕方くらいからある日だったのでゆっくり過ごす事ができました。)

I watched Drama and reading some book for since I up this morning. It was really enjoyable day and I really like that kind of days! it's so nice and I really really like that way. (そしてドラマを見たり、本を読んだりといろいろな事ができた日でもあります。とても楽しい一日になりました。そしてこういう日が一番いいグリーンビルでも一時になっています。）

Today's one picture.

This picture is in front of my house picture, and it is nice day. I really like this picture when I took one. I hope after tomorrow will be like this.

Have a great day and night!

April started...

It's already April, and I am really really surprised about time goes fast every year.
(もう既に４月になりました。そして、いつも時が早く過ぎ去っている事に驚きを感じます。)

I wish I were something I can do important for my life soon! (何か自分の人生において重要な事をやり遂げられないかと思う日々があります。)

Well, now I am studying in some stuff at Graduate School, and I am tutoring everyday, but still something I am missing....(今は大学院で勉強をしていて、家庭教師もしています。しかし、何かが足りないような気がするのです。)

I shouldn't think about that, because if I think that, I am going to spend a lot more time than what I need to do.... lol
(今それを考えない様にしないといけないんです。なぜかって？！もしそれを考え出したらきりがなく、自分がやらなくてはならない事以上に時間を費やしてしまいそうだからです。)

By the way, I was away from Greenville yesterday, and went to several different places...
(ところで、昨日はグリーンビルから少し離れていろいろな所に行ってきました。)

I took some pictures, and hope you can see them to know what is around NC. But I don't have picture with this computer right now... so I will put that sometime later tomorrow or on Sunday...

SAKURA in Greenville, NC

I totally forgot to post about SAKURA TREE.

In Greenville, NC and around here, you can see a lot of SAKURA TREES. When I first came here, I was not expected to see these trees, and I was surprised. Also East Carolina University has a lot of SAKURA TREES around campus.

I took some pictures last week on Thursday, but I forgot to posted here yesterday or before that.

Well here is the picture of the tress.

This is one of big SAKURA TREE in front of Austin Building at ECU. I like to watch the Tree all the time during this time of year. Also, when weather is nice, I like to study under the tree.

Here is one more picture of it.

you can see this tree is big enough and tall near the building next to that. I guess you can tell that Japanese people are like to see this SAKURA every year when they are comes around.

I hope you are enjoyed looking at this picture.

and

Enjoy reading my comment !

Have a great day!

グリーンビルのクリスマスシーズン

クリスマスシーズンにアメリカは突入しました。

やっとグリーンビルにも少しずつクリスマスらしくなり始めました。

家の周りにはそれぞれの家庭家庭で色々なデコレーションが着き始めました。

家の中はクリスマスツリーでデコレーションといった感じできれいなデコレーションをされていらっしゃる方が多いです。日本でも結構やってるので珍しくはないのですが、こちらの方は毎年毎年オーナメントが増えていきます。もし子供がいれば子供がいる記念という形で生まれ年から毎年子供のためだけの飾りを作っている方もいます。

もし日本で自分の親がそれをしてくれたらビックリな感じですが、こっちでは結構当たり前のことになってる方がいっぱいおられます。

やはり文化は違うのだということを思い知らされる部分があります。でも、アメリカの文化なのでそれはそれで大切な習慣で後世まで残っていってもらいたいと思います。私もそれにちなんでというか習って勝手ながら今年からアメリカにいる記念として飾りを買っていこうと決めました。

サンクスギビングが終わるとすぐにクリスマスのデコレーションが始まります。

でも、今年はいつもの年よりもまだ少ない感じになってます。

やはり、政府の思考で行われている景気回復もまだまだといった感じです。でも、去年も２００７年に比べるとデコレーションをやっていない家庭がめだっていた気がします。

でも、クリスマスはクリスマスでイベントと考える人とやらなとだめだと考えてる方に別れるようです。

さすがにやらないといった人はいないようでした。最低でも家の窓ガラスにはろうそくの明かりが毎晩のようについている所が多いです。温かい家のイメージがそこにある感じですごく嬉しくなります。

やっぱり、景気がまだ回復していない所為なのかはわからないのか全くわからないけどお店にいくとクリスマスショッピングの人たちであふれています。

みなさんやっぱりクリスマスは一番のイベントで一年で最後のイベントなので盛り上がってる感じです。

そういえば。。。

日本人の家庭でもそれぞれでデコレーションをしてる方がいます。やっぱりこっちに来ると楽しそうです。

もし機会があれば写真を見てみて下さい。

皆さんが少しでも楽しく読んでもらえると嬉しいです。

Happy Holidays and Have a wonderful Christmas in Greenville, NC!

日本の方々へのグリーンビル紹介

グリーンビル市はノースカロライナの東にある大学を中心として栄えている都市です。

ここには日本からの留学生や日本の会社からの駐在者などなどいろいろな日本人の方がいます。

ここでは、グリーンビルのいろいろな情報をのせていこうと考えています。

色々な人に見て欲しいので、もし有力な情報、グリーンビルに関しての情報などを載せていこうと思っています。

何か情報を欲しい時などもコメントなどをもらえばいろいろと調べてのせていこうと思います。

初めてくる方、これから何年かグリーンビルに住む方などなど色々とあると思いますが・・・ここから情報をもらって活用してもらえればと思います。

連絡を取りたい時などはここにコメントを下さい。

よろしくお願い致します。