Turkish breakfast and Palestinian lunch in Sendai!

Last Sunday was the most delicious weekend of the month as two events of Tohoku University student organizations coincided on May 27, 2012. 

First, Tohoku University Turkish Students Association (TUTSA) opened their doors for the Traditional Breakfast Party serving around 20 different dishes starting from exotic salads, different types of Turkish cheese and pastry to sweets and Turkish ice-cream for the dessert! The participants could enjoy delicious and authentic dishes prepared by the university's Turkish students. The party was accompanied by a slide-show presentation about Turkey and video materials about TUTSA activities. I doubt you could find such a luxurious breakfast buffet even at five-star hotels of Turkey. Top that up with a great company and friends, and you could totally say, “TUTSA, you made my day!!!”

Online Shopping for International Students!

In this post, I would like to summarize some of very useful web sites that I always use in Japan.They may contain plane tickets, traveling, eating, shopping and coupon.

1. Rakuten 

For daily life: http://www.rakuten.co.jp/

One of the largest shopping web site in Japan, there are all most everything you would like to buy.

I strongly suggest buying the bicycle there. Usually if you buy an second hand bicycle you will find the price will always around 6000yen to 8000yen(speed changeable) but sometimes the bicycle is not in good condition.

On the Air with Lily Noriko

Last month, I was invited for a radio talk by a very charming lady. Lily Noriko runs a weekly program for FM76.2 where she invites students from various parts of the world to come and speak about their countries. The radio show gave very interesting insight as to how radio show operations work here in Sendai, where people love Western Music although English is scarcely spoken. Students who would like to appear for the radio show can get in touch with her. She will be most happy to find out more about you. 


LILY Noriko is a resident of Sendai city Japan. After having graduated from university, she worked as a high school English teacher for six years, and then decided to change her job. Her aim was to become a professional Japanese/English interpreter. 


She gained experience as a freelance interpreter through working as secretariat of The EXPO 2005 in Aichi, international conference management, English office work, trade office work and in-house interpreting and translation. Finally, she has started her own enterprise from the year 2010 by the name “Lily’s TranSupport”. 


Most of her interpreting fields are related to administration of justice and computer. In addition to these, press related, lecture meeting of educational and linguistics course, business meetings. Besides, she works as a radio personality (FM76.2) and a part-time teacher of university. 


More information about  Lily-san can be found here:
http://www.lilys-transupport.jp/


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text by
Samantha Marbaniang