Hanami (花見)
April 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Posted in homestay, Japan, PPI Activities, Spring | 4 CommentsTags: hanami in Tokyo
It is spring now, cherry blossoms are blooming everywhere. Usually during this time, Japanese will gather with their friends or family and have hanami (flower viewing) under the cherry blossom trees. Usually people will gather in the park or public places which have a lot of cherry blossom trees, bring some food and drink and enjoy their time under the cherry blossom trees.
Yesterday, Indonesian students studying in Tokodai also had hanami in Shinjuku Gyoen (新宿御苑). It is a park with many different kinds of cherry blossoms in it. It is open from 9.00 am to 4.30 pm, with 200 yen admission fee for one person. But for people going in a group (30 people or more), the admission fee will be reduced to 150 yen per person.
In this hanami, everybody brought some food or drink to be shared with each other. There were also some introductions of new students coming to Tokodai. After having some introduction of new students and lunch, the photo session came. I walked around the park and took some pictures of the cherry blossoms.
My New Year in Japan
January 1, 2010 at 1:59 PM | Posted in Japan, PPI Activities | 11 CommentsTags: nabe, new year
Happy New Year!
あけましておめでとうございます
Today is the first day in 2010. It is my first time to have a new year abroad. Tokodai Indonesian Students Association (PPI Tokodai) had an avent in order to welcome the new year. We gathered together and had some dinner together at Isa-Yudha’s house. The main dishes was nabemono (鍋物). There were also other kinds of food like Yudha’s pizza, which were then also made by me and Ipul, Laras and Chandra’s cream cheese blueberry tartlet blueberry cheese cake tartlet (please correct its name if I’m mistaken, Laras Quinn), Bahar’s es buah, blueberry cheese cake, gulai, etc. The purpose of this event was to gather PPI Tokodai members and pass the year together, since PPI Tokodai hadn’t had a big gathering for quite a long time.
Playing Ski
December 30, 2009 at 2:48 AM | Posted in Japan, Play, PPI Activities, Winter | 5 CommentsTags: first time ski
On December 25th – 27th, I went to play ski in an event “Winter Daisuki” which was organized by PMIJ feat PPI Kanto. It took place at Nagano (長野), at Hakuba Sanosaka (白馬さのさか). Actually we played ski for two days, the Dec 25th was only for the trip from Tokyo to Nagano. We stayed at Happy Memory Ougiya (ハッピーメモリー扇屋).
Indang Dance Performance at Sumatera no Kaze
December 6, 2009 at 12:57 AM | Posted in Japan, PPI Activities | 1 CommentTags: PPI Tokodai Indang Dance, Sumatera no Kaze
On December 5th, 2009, PPI Tokodai Dancers Group performed Indang Dance in an event called Sumatera no Kaze. Sumatera no Kaze was a charity event organized by ICJ (Indonesian Community in Japan) to raise fund for Padang earthquake victims in Indonesia. It was held at Ark Hill Cafe, Roppongi (near 六本木一丁目駅). The entrance fee was 5000 yen for on person, 4000 yen was the actual entrance fee but 1000 yen would be taken and given as charity for the earthquake victims, so it made up total 5000 yen.
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Indang Dance
December 5, 2009 at 3:00 AM | Posted in Japan, PPI Activities | 2 CommentsTags: PPI Tokodai Indang Dance
Today will be my fifth time to perform Indang Dance. Indang Dance is a dance from Minangkabau culture, West Sumatera, Indonesia. This dance is performed by sitting. Indang Dance was established by observing how fishermen cast their net and how rice is winnowed. (I got explanation about Indang Dance from this site). I was recruited as a member of the dancing group, together with other Indonesian YSEP students and some other Indonesian students at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Up until now, the dance we had been performing was Indang Dance. Maybe after this fifth performance, we will change to other kinds of dance too, but I’m still not sure what dance it will be.
Momiji @ Takao-san
November 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM | Posted in Autumn, Japan, Play, PPI Activities | 6 CommentsTags: Momiji, Takao-san
On November 22nd, my friends and I went to see momiji (紅葉) at Takao-san (高尾山). In the autumn, the leaves of Japanese maple turn red, and this is called momiji, which means red leaves. Takao-san is one of the places where this plant grows a lot, so it is a perfect place for seeing momiji.
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