School Started!!

Hello!

This is Motoki Tamane, who is an officer of JSA and made JSA SFSU website!

How was your summer? Was it good or bad? Traveling, staying in home, hanging out and sleeping all day etc… you could do whatever you want (I was taking summer class and spent whole summer…). However, the sweet time ends and now it’s time to do student’s duty.

The instructions of class began today, and I guess everyone will become very busy.

I have 7 classes including 3 labs; they are going to be tough for me…

By the way, there was a huge earthquake in Virginia (I heard the President Obama has evacuated from White House). Hopefully, San Francisco is not damaged because it’s far from the center. Japan has experienced a lot of earthquakes, and has suffered from the damages. Most buildings collapse and electricity stops. Moreover, Tsunami (tidal wave) comes after those disasters if the earthquake is intensive. All Japanese (me, also) know how scary it is, so I hope everyone is OK.

Have a good one!

Motoki

The first thing i had done in SF.

Hey, guys. This is Taichi Kanemoto and i'm the officer of JSA.
From now on, i try to continue writing a fun post for those who thinking of coming to SF.
Okay, Here we gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

I lost my way. LOL this was the first thing ive met in SF.

when u have a chance to come to SFSU, the first thing you are going to do is to arrive at SFSU correctly. However, the way of coming to school is not easy but sort of complicated.

So, Let me explain how to get SFSU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are going to get off at airport after landing in sf. First thing u should do is to find the BIRT which looks train but super slow and ghetto but dont worry and u are not gonna die. Take Birt train toward Daly City and get off at Daly City. Then, you are gonna have to find a 28 Bus. you are going to pay 2 dollars and jump in it and it would take you to San Francisco State university.

now you know where you are going and what you should do.

Last thing i need to tell u is,,,, dont forget to say "Thank you" when u get out of bus, otherwise, you feel bad.

The places I love in the city :)

Hi all!!

Hope you guys are enjoying this summer and making loads of fun memories with your family and friends! Talking about me, my summer has already ended nearly a month ago as I celebrated my 23rd birthday and started my summer semester at school. Summer classes are always tough.. But still, I'm glad I can live in such a beautiful city as a student :) By the way, this is Aileen, I'm one of the new members in JSA since this summer. Hope I can learn and have fun with other members there, and also those who are thinking of joining the team will also do so too!


By the way, I'm writing today's blog to introduce some of the beautiful and delicious restaurants/cafes in the city for those who are thinking of moving to San Francisco, or new to the city and want to get to know more about this area.




By the way, is anyone of you familiar with this huge round sourdough bread?


(Sorry, I have a trouble uploading photos now. It's coming soon!)








It's the best sourdough bread you can get in San Francisco, and not only that, it is ranked as the No.1 sourdough bread in the nation!!
If you go to the store around 5:10 PM, you will be able to get a fresh one which just came out from the oven at 5PM. The store closes at 7 PM so you only have two hours to get it, but it is worth going there during that time just to get this bread. ;)


If you like to see the Ocean view and mysterious yet beautiful places, Sutro Baths is the place you might want to visit. It's one of the most beautiful places in the city I've ever known located on the north end of Ocean Beach.



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If you go there after walked around the city, you might think you've lost your way to another time... It's actually only 100 years old, but it looks way older than that!


It used to be a privately owned swimming pool complex nearly 100 years ago which was burned down and abandoned soon afterwards in 1966.


When there on sunny days, you can see Golden Gate Bridge,

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and enjoy this magnificent view of Ocean Beach.


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There are so many other places you can visit and enjoy your day in the city. Why don't you take a casual walk on sunny beautiful days and find out the coolest place just for you! :)

1st Meeting with Professor Fubabiki

Hello, Everyone!

How is your summer??

This is Miki Fukai and I am the President of SFSU JSA :)

I normally hesitate to write in public because I am not a good writer,

but since everyone is taking their turns, I will do my best to write an entertaining post today.

SFSU JSA had a meeting last week with one of the Jounalism Professors, Mr. Jon Funabiki. He is such an intelligent and friendly man with a good sense of humor.

He knows what college students always like. Yes Cupcakes! :)

I actually met him in the end of May for my first time to brainstorm ideas about Center of Japan and Japanese Culture.

http://www.nichibei.org/2010/12/sf-state-to-establish-japan-and-japanese-cultural-center/

It is a new center in SFSU thanks to Dr. Dilena and this center is going to provide students and faculties in SFSU and hopefully people in the SF community to learn about Japan, Japanese language, culture and many other things.

This time, Professor Funabiki set a meeting with some of the SFSU JSA officers to expand the ideas more and even to discuss about some of the new ones!

 from the left: Sumie Komiya, Yueyu Kanno, Professor Funabiki, Aileen Hara, and Nobuaki Momoi.

With the delicious cup cakes which Professor Funabiki brought to the meeting, We had a great time expanding ideas about potential small events, big events, lectures, exhibitions, and so many  more!

From the left: Yueyu Kanno, Professor Funabiki and me.

This project is going to be very exciting for us because with the center, SFSU JSA is going to be able to plan events which we never had before and also such a precious experience for all of us since we all get to help supporting the center which is related to all of our identity and our root! Also, it is going to be a great chance for us to learn new things about Japan!

Our next meeting with him is in Mid August!

Thanks, Mr. Funabiki and please remember that college students always love sweets no matter how mushy they happen to look!

Thank you very much for reading my post!

Have a great day!

Miki Fukai



Enjoying Your Summer Vacation?

Hello! And welcome to our JSA blog! This is Yueyu Kanno, the Vice President of JSA.

It's already half way into summer vacation and it'll be August will come along pretty soon. Time passes quickly... especially when you're enjoying it! I really hope everyone is enjoying their summer, going out and having fun with friends or just staying home relaxing.

This weekend, I was able to bike around San Francisco with my close friend who visited from LA (When I say bike, I mean bicycle). We started near the Ghirardelli Square, went over the Golden Gate Bridge, then to Sausalito. I wouldn't say it's an easy ride (considering the steep hills in SF), but I would say the experience is definitely worth it. Great sight-seeing too!

There's several rental bikes available for a reasonable price. I rented one of their bike and went over the bridge. So no worry about getting a bike of your own bike or gear. And if you don't want to look like the other biking tourists, simply take off the front pouch attached to the bike.

Unfortunately, the weather in San Francisco wasn't so well when I biked over the bridge. The fog was thick and the wind was cold (That's one of the reasons why I didn't take any pictures in SF). However, the fog cleared up once we hit past the bridge and down to Sausalito.

After arriving at Sausalito, we decided to take a break and grab some ice cream. There's several neat small business shops in Sausalito, it would've been nice to check them out but didn't have much time.. We hitched a ride on the Blue & Gold Ferry back to Pier 39.

It was one tough ride, especially for someone who doesn't ride on a bicycle daily (including myself). After coming back to SF from Sausalito, my knees were giving up time to time. Even now, after a day, my legs are really sore. Biking (although I walked majority) up the hills really works out your legs...

I would suggest biking over the bridge for many people staying at SF. Not only tourists, but locals can do it too! Great view and a great work out! If you have the time and the courage to bike over to Sausalito, I'd say it's a great way to tour around the bay.

Hope everyone is having fun!

-Yueyu Kanno

Welcome to SFSU JSA Blog!

Hi! This is Sumie, one of contributors of this blog from JSA (Japanese Student Association) at SFSU!

I am proudly taking a role as starter of this blog... so let me start with what it is about.

This blog is to provide more vivid portrait of us, and this beautiful San Francisco :)

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To start with, I am going to introduce my most favorite place in San Francisco.

It is Dolores Park! http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=dolores+park&fb=1&gl=us&hq=dolores+park&hnear=0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff,San+Francisco,+CA&cid=0,0,6144503937010318441&ll=37.761012,-122.427263&spn=0.008126,0.01929&z=16

15 min walk from both muni Castro and Church stations.

With a huge bottle of beer, I actually have just been there last weekend. It was a very nice, sunny beautiful day. (You know SF is either foggy or cloudy most of the time)

This is me, the left one with beer, and Miki! Our President!

It is one of our favorite things to do in SF, chilling at Dolores Park with snacks and drinks, chatting whatever things :)

San Francisco is at it's most beauty in sunny day.

Here is view of San Fran from Dolores Park.

There are lots of nice restaurants and coffee shops in this neighborhood too.

I love San Francisco so much!