Ikebana (生け花, “living flowers“) or otherwise known as “flowering arranging”, it is the practice of arranging flowers. It is not simply placing flowers here and there, rather there is a discipline behind it. So today we had an ikebana session at the Communication Plaza at NUFS. There were twenty people who turned up for the session, [...]
Volunteering for NUFS Open Campus
Shota, (the “senior” I-House R.A.), had been asking around I-House for a couple weeks about volunteering for Open Day. Basically it was for senior high school students (Year 10-12 approximately) checking out the universities that they wanted to visit. Really, not that much differently from Open Campus days that I’ve experienced when I went to [...]
Ok, so the title of the post is actually taken from the name of the video that me and a couple of others made during our time at the Meiji Mura museum. Anyway, as part of my only culture class I doing (contrary to before, I’m actually finding this class to be really tedious now), [...]
To read part 1 click here, part 2 here. And onwards we go… 28/05/2011 Since technically going to the onsen happened on the second day, and the first post other posts was getting ridiculously long, I decided to split them up. The onsen So basically after Sarah, Chris, Rebekah, Michelle and I had our photo [...]
Now onto part two. Part one and two constitutes Day 1, 27/05/2011. Inachu Laquerware Museum We also made a stop to the Inachu Lacquerware Museum (稲忠漆芸会館). We got a brief tour on the process of creating the lacquerwear and how long it took to create them. Afterwards we could walk around the shopping area of [...]
As some of you may have known that I signed up to go to the Echizen Wajima excursion that NUFS organised on the 27th and 28th. So in the following post I’m going to reaccount what happens during the two day trip. I’m going to apologise in advance that this will be an extremely long [...]
Zazen Meditation: Not what you might expect.
Meditation. What is the first thing that comes to mind? Sitting down, crossed leg, zoning out… Something like that right? Well this was not that! Not even close. Zazen (坐禅 “zazen”), is basically Zen meditation while seating in a lotus position (your legs are crossed on top of one and another). There is no talking, [...]
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Cancelling Classes: What to do?
Class dropped! Thank god there is the option of dropping classes, because I really needed to drop it! Basically, the office gave us a copy of the original form that we had to summit for the enrollment process. It was a form that we had to hand back to say that “yes, whatever I [...]
Culture Classes: to take or not to take?
As part of the Language program, us language kids – people enrolled in the are given the option of taking Culture courses if we want to (or if we really want, we can take regular classes, providing that they don’t clash with our language classes). According to NUFS’s website, it’s called “Japanese Studies Courses” and [...]
Volunteering for NUFS Open CampusShota, (the “senior” I-House R.A.), had been asking around I-House for a couple weeks about volunteering for Open Day. Basically it was for senior high school students (Year 10-12 approximately) checking out the universities that they wanted to visit. Really, not that much differently from Open Campus days that I’ve experienced when I went to [...] |
 IkebanaIkebana (生け花, “living flowers“) or otherwise known as “flowering arranging”, it is the practice of arranging flowers. It is not simply placing flowers here and there, rather there is a discipline behind it. So today we had an ikebana session at the Communication Plaza at NUFS. There were twenty people who turned up for the session, [...] |
A Day in Meiji MuraOk, so the title of the post is actually taken from the name of the video that me and a couple of others made during our time at the Meiji Mura museum. Anyway, as part of my only culture class I doing (contrary to before, I’m actually finding this class to be really tedious now), [...] |
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