Since I am atheist but open to all, in the day time I went to mosque with my classmates, Turkish governors believing in Islam, out of my interest. As I had taken a Bible study for more than half a year, actually I was curious about how different two major religions are: Islam and Christianity. Talking with pious Muslims about Koran was quite stimulating and challenging. In a global point of view, there are not many secular countries like Japan. While living in the U.K., I am going to have more experience in order to gain better understanding about religion.
After receiving the service in the mosque, my friends and I went to Zeugma, a Turkish restaurant in London Street. This shop appear to be one of the most popular restaurants in Sheffield. My classmates told me that the chef served almost the same dishes as authentic Turkish ones. Indeed they had dinner with their superior there as a business entertaining during the last semester. Even if I often had went there with Japanese students, this time I could know how to eat Turkish food in the Turkish way. At night I left them to see other friends.
William, one of them, drove us to his house and cooked Japanese curry and several side dishes because he is half Japanese and half English. He runs his own business in Sheffield but is going to be a MBA student from this September due to the influence of Yasu and I. We gave a toast to his success in getting an acceptance letter and a scholarship from a university.
2009年7月3日金曜日
Travel
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......
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.
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