Next week, my friend and I are going to visit Prague, a world heritage, in Czech Republic for 4 days. Our flight, Jet2, which is a short-haul airline, is taking off from Leed Bradford airport. It is unusual that I am a little bit concerned about the procedure for boarding. I suppose that is simply because my classmate missed her airpcraft at the last Easter break. Her carrier was different from ours, Ryanair but it can happen to me in turn. From her talk, despite her 3 hours' earlier arrival, she was refused to get on the aircraft to Spain since she did not have a Visa stamp on her boarding ticket. She is still disgruntled and does not know the reason in detail. If my memory serves me correctly, mostly Japanese do not need a Visa stamp to travel across the Europe. Actually, I did not have to show a Visa stamp to go to Barcelona, Spain. Umm.. it is not understandable.
After that trip to Prague, I will move to Birmingham from Sheffield. There is little enough time to pack my stuff, a Delonghi heater which an old MBA student gave me and a lots of textbooks about Managemet etc. If someone has interest to buy them, please tell me by email. Probably, I will give you free of charge or at a bargain price. Interestingly, most British students do not use a transportation company. This time I also will follow the custom and hire a car with my friends, Andy and Kaori, who are going to help me make the move. Although my international driver's license is available, largely Andy will drive the car. As long as I am not used to a roundabout, a British cross road, there is no way that I drive a car in this country......
2009年7月2日木曜日
These days
I am sorry not to write a blog for ages. There have been a lots of thigs happened during this time. Briefly, I travelled to several places in Europe and succeeded in getting a scholarship from my university.
Last week, I went to London to see the Wimbledon tournament with my friends. Luckily, we could see William sisters' play in front of us. We also enjoyed having a drink, Pimm's and the traditional dessert, strawberries with double cream. Through this experience, I got familiar with this lawn tennis championships attracting people from all over the world. If you have interest in going there but don't have a ticket, let me know in advance. There are some advice.
On the day after going back to Sheffield, I paid a visit to Cambridge with other friends. By chance, there was a graduation ceremony. We could see students wearing an academic gown. Partly because of that ceremony, city was even more atmospheric. Although there was a long queque of tourists for each college which is a major sightseeing spot, we did not have to wait to enter there because of my friend having graduated from Cambridge university as a first class student.
Today, I took my classmates, Turkish governors, to a Japanese restaurant, Yama in London St. Indeed sushi was the most suitable dish for them considering their religious and dietary custom but sad to say, some of them could not eat just one piece of sushi. It seemed rather too challenging for them to eat uncooked fish. Since sushi is my favorite dish, their resposes were unexpected and opened my eyes to the cultural differences again.
Last week, I went to London to see the Wimbledon tournament with my friends. Luckily, we could see William sisters' play in front of us. We also enjoyed having a drink, Pimm's and the traditional dessert, strawberries with double cream. Through this experience, I got familiar with this lawn tennis championships attracting people from all over the world. If you have interest in going there but don't have a ticket, let me know in advance. There are some advice.
On the day after going back to Sheffield, I paid a visit to Cambridge with other friends. By chance, there was a graduation ceremony. We could see students wearing an academic gown. Partly because of that ceremony, city was even more atmospheric. Although there was a long queque of tourists for each college which is a major sightseeing spot, we did not have to wait to enter there because of my friend having graduated from Cambridge university as a first class student.
Today, I took my classmates, Turkish governors, to a Japanese restaurant, Yama in London St. Indeed sushi was the most suitable dish for them considering their religious and dietary custom but sad to say, some of them could not eat just one piece of sushi. It seemed rather too challenging for them to eat uncooked fish. Since sushi is my favorite dish, their resposes were unexpected and opened my eyes to the cultural differences again.
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enthusiasm & new challenges
Recognize your own enthusiasm and make sure you feed yourself new challenges.
2009年2月16日月曜日
Manchester
先日、マンチェスターに行ってきました。マンチェスター大学のビジネススクールに寄って、その後近くの美術館を回って、中華街で昼食。午後はショッピングセンターで買い物をしました。久し振りに休日らしい土曜日を過ごしました。今回は珍しく日本人クラスメートと一緒に観光。最近、自分の位置づけが「日本語を一切話さない変った日本人」から、「見習うべき英語しか話さない頑固な日本人」へ変わりつつあります。そのおかげか、日本人の知り合いも気づけば徐々に増えていました。みんないい人達ばかりで、今回の旅で更に仲が深まったことは嬉しい限りです。
Manchester University
Manchester University
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