Hello

Hi everyone.  This is Jack Vining writing to say thanks for letting me join the JSA community.  I'll be doing what I can to support the website and help with any math needs that might come up.  I'm a math grad student about to start teaching Calc for life sciences for the second summer session.

I was asked to write a quick bio so I'll do that now:
Started studying Japanese when I was a senior in high school(learned a little vocab and hiragana)
I college(at RIT) I took 2 and a half years of formal classes to earn a minor.
Currently I try to expand my vocab whenever I can(try to inch through light novels and exclusively play games in Japanese)

I'm really looking forward to another year of strengthening my vocabulary so if I look confused I'm happy because that means I'm learning.  :-)

６月ももう終わり！

こんにちはーきまぐれドリーです:)

気分でブログのテンプレート変えました☆前のがたんぽぽで春っぽかったから、夏っぽいの探したらこれしかなかったです。エイ…♪
でもこれも夏っぽいんかね？涼しげではあるけども。。。きっとすぐ変えます笑
だから趣味悪いとか思わないでください<(_ _)>

あとBloggerへの絵文字のアップの仕方がわかったんやけど、何かHTMLをeditしてほしいとか言われて、怖いから止めました笑　もっと簡単な操作にしてほしいなぁ。。。
とりあえずテンプレートのアップグレードと絵文字の挿入マスターをこの夏の目標にします☆

今日のシラキュースは６４度！！って思えへんくらいめっちゃ寒かったです(>_<)
外にいたら息が白く見えたもん（これはさすがに見間違いの可能性大）
天候がコロコロ変わるなんてまさにシラキュースですねぇ。
日本は梅雨でジメジメしてると聞きますけど、どうですか？

他にも色々書こうとしたけど、今日はここまで～♪近々またアップします:)
have a good day/night :)))

Sharing a letter from the Consulate General of Japan

Hello everyone! This is Kimagure Dori- =)

The JSA would like to share a letter that we got from the Consulate General of Japan about Japan Earthquake Relief. It will also be posted on our website later. Thank you for your help again.

                                   

Thank you!

Hi all,

How are you doing today? Hope everyone is having an amazing summer!

Here in Syracuse has been over 90 about a few times so far. It’s very nice to walk outside and you can't really imagine how much snow we had a few months ago! 

Today I have some announcement to make. I would like to thank you all for helping to make our Japan Earthquake Relief a worthwhile one. Thanks for your thoughtful insights in our meeting, your commitment to your voluntary work and your willingness to help us improve our fundraising project. As of June 8^th, the JSA has collected over $8950 in total. Details will be made available on our website later. The JSA will make every effort to help the quake victims next semester as well. Please continue to keep Japan in your prayers.

In order to end our fundraising campaign last semester (Spring 2011), the JSA gave students and guests the hand-made budges with $3 or more contributions on May 13^th and 14^th at the Schine bookstore.

The purpose of this project was not to make people’s memory of the earthquake begin to fade. It also aimed to speak not only to SU students but also to guests for the commencement. At the same time, we didn't want to make people feel sorry for Japan on their one of the best days in their life so we made the budges that remind them of SU (two SU budges). One more budge with a red heart was made to be associated with the Japanese flag. These are all our amazing officer's idea :) I'm always taken aback at her work!!

Even though it was a middle of hectic schedule for everyone due to the end of the academic year, our JSA members and officers helped each other make the budges and provided them on those days. More than 100 budges were taken over to someone who would be able to realize Japan earthquake even 2 months after the disaster. We still have some budges so let us know if you wanna some:) We're more than welcome to share them with you!!

Also, our officer made an poster of it. Don't you think it's awesome too?

Have a great weekend!

Kimagure Dori :)

6月でやんす♪

みなさん、こんにちは（＾ｕ＾）きまぐれドリーです♪

久しぶりの更新になってしまいましたね。ちょっとバタバタしてました<(_ _)>
あとGoogle Blogからの初更新です★今まではSeesaaを使ってましたが、便利性を追求しまして、Googleにお引っ越ししました。
ですので、これからはこっちをチェックしてください！よろしくお願いします<(_ _)>
でもGoogleやと、絵文字が使えへんっぽい…って事でショックです(>_<)何か絵文字使える裏技とかないんかな！？あったら教えてくださーい♪

あっ、今までのなぜか３つあったJSAのブログは、今年の９月までにここのGoogle Blogに、JSAの名誉会長によって、総括される予定です★
そうなると今までのブログは閉鎖されちゃうかもしれないので、ここらで皆さん過去のブログを見返してみてください（*^_^*）そして感傷にふけっちゃいましょう！

佐藤家の食卓★
http://sunya.seesaa.net/

JSA Syracuse Blog★
http://jsasyracuse.seesaa.net/

あと、JSAの前団体のSUNYA (Syracuse University Nihon Youth Association/シラキュース大学日本青年会) のブログ「SUNYAな日々」っていうのもあるんですが、なぜかそのページにどうやっていくのかがわかりません笑　

あんまりパソコン詳しくないですが、このブログは維持でも続けていきますので、よろしくお願いします★
今度からはカラフルになるように写真とかもアップしますね。I hope I know how to upload picsですけども笑　should be fineってな感じですー。

ではでは、have a great night =)