Movie and Mochi Night

In this event, we provided guests an opportunity to pound Mochi (Rice cake). This freshly made mochi 餅 was put into zoni 雑煮 (Japanese Mochi vegetable soup) and served to tthe gests. Zoni is commonly eaten by people in Japan around New Year's Day. Even though this event was held one week before the final exam and it was a heavry snowing day, around 50 people came over and enjoyed free Japanese food and movie.

ISSS Small World Coffee Hour

JSA organized *ISSS Small World Coffee Hour with its committee from 4 to 6 pm on Fri Nov 7.

We provided two types of sushi: Maki sushi and Tirashi sushi, Miso soup and Japanese sweets. It was good turned out. Just this 2 hour period, around 260 guests visited our event and had a taste of our hand-made sushi.

Besides providing food, we did origami lesson and showed a slideshow about Japan.

*ISSS: International Student and Scholar Service

*Small World Coffee Hour

To provide social activities and events for all participants every other Friday, allowing people from different countries to gather for new friendships and fun. Free coffee and refreshments are served. (from Group website)

Career Workshop by P-style

JSA and P-style organized career workshop for bilinguals of Japanese and English from 6 to 8 pm on Nov 6. P-style is a company who provides service related to getting a job and internship in a Japanese company. 22 people attended this workshop and learnt about strategies of getting job; clothes we should wear for going to interview, revision of honorific expressions and manners.

It was a good turn out; we had not expected this large number of people.

JSA Halloween Night

JSA organized "JSA Halloween Night" from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday Oct. 24th, $1 admission.

We served DORAYAKI (japanese sweet) with strawberry jam, red bean, chocolate, and pumpkin paste which was made after the Halloween.

In this event, we had two activities: “007” and “Costume Contest”.

The rule of "007" was simple; we attached a vocabulary card on people's back and people try to make one to say the word on the back in a natural conversation and If one said the word, the opponent will get the card. A person who collected the largest number of cards is the winner.

More than 80 guests stopped by this event with a variety of costumes and we chose the best costume in “Costume Contest”. The best costume of this year was DOMO-KUN! (popular Japanese character) .

Even though the actual Halloween was one week to go, we were able to create a very good atmosphere for Halloween Night since we spent time on the decoration.

$1 Pizza Social Event

JSA organized $1 Pizza Social Event from 6pm to 8pm on Friday, September 26th. It was the first social event of academic year 2008-2009.

We provided a slice of pizza and a can of pop for everyone.

As for activities, first, we had a Japanese trivia quizzes. Then Aikido Club was kind enough to teach us the basics of Aikido. After that, we divided into groups and had activities such as origami, calligraphy, and paper sumo. Also, we had a lot of time to talk to each other about the school work, interests, etc.

This event was great turned out; around 100 guests stopped by.

Video for this event