Community Fun Day 2

Today, I joined the Community Fun Day with our members of JLCC(http://www.freewebs.com/jlccsuny/).
In the morning, I had to ware Yukata (Japanese traditional kimono made by cotton) but it was sooo difficult to ware by myself. It took over 30 minutes. Also, it was difficult to drive waring Yukata. I arrived the church almost 9:45am and some members have already prepared and decorated our booth. half of our booth was Anime area and rest of them were game and Origami (Paper holding) area. In Anime area, 3 of our members brought some magazines and comics, and showed animation with PC. In the game area, we presented the game with chopsticks. As for the Origami area, we made some model and presented them for the people who visited our booth. Also, we taught how to make them.
All food and drinks were free in this event and I got soda, hot dog, pop corn, shaved ice and so on. It was fun event and I enjoyed very much.

Community Fun Day

I am a member of JLCC (Japanese Language and Culture Club) and we will join the Community Fun Day this Saturday. We will have a booth and will introduce our club, demonstrate Origami (Paper craft) and show Japanese Anime. However, most of us have a job and we did not have enough time to talk this event. I am so worry if we will do good performance in this event...

Family Potluck BBQ

I joined the "Family Potluck BBQ" organized JCACD(http://geocities.com/jca_cd/). This BBQ was held at River Road Park in Niskayuna. This park is huge and there are playground for kids, basket Cort, base ball field and picnic field. We use big pavilion and BBQ oven. Each of us brought 1 food and I cooked "Inari-sushi (a kind of Sushi)". Other members brought Cheesecake, Salad, Rice ball, Chicken and so on. Children were crazy in playground and they did not care not to eat lunch. During these time, adults ate a lot of foods and drank Sake (Japanese rise wine). I was so happy to eat and drink such a fine day!! About 20 people joined today and I know the most of the people, so I chatted a lot and had a good time.

Farmers Market

I went to farmers market at Troy(http://www.troymarket.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=63) this morning. There were more kinds of fruits and vegetables than last month, I think. I bought some nectarine ($5.00/1 kg), cherry ($4.50/720g) and plum ($3.00/420g). Nectarine looks little young, so it is little firm and sour. Cherry is different kind of one that I bought before. It is smaller and its skin is soft. Taste is little sour. This plum is called "early plum" and size is smaller than the plum I saw before. The skin is hard but its taste is soooo sweet.
I love farmers market because I can see some interesting fruits and vegetable. I think I should go to another farmers market because I always go to Troy's. But this market is attractive to me, so I cannot help going there.

This weekend

I will join BBQ party this weekend!

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JCACD (http://geocities.com/jca_cd/)is hosting a potluck BBQ party on August 3 at Noon.

Anyone interested in Japan is welcome. Please bring a dish to share. JCACD has rented the Pavillion, please come rain or shine. $5 per adult, $3 per child under 12(Facilities fee, hamburgers, hot dogs,chips and drinks included).

Souvenir Again !

My husband came to Albany on the way to San Francisco and Los Angels for business. He stayed only 2 nights but he brought Japanese souvenir for me, such as books, medicine and snacks. One of the snacks is "Cocco", which is famous in Shizuoka-prefecture and I like it very much. Those are a kind of steam ban but there are whip cream inside. This time, he bought plan one but there are some kinds of creams; strawberry, green tee and chocolate.
Because he stayed only 3 days and I had to go to my lab these 3 days, we did not enough time to talk. I was little sad... But he will have summer vacation in end of the August and will come to Albany again.

Barcelona (Spanish & Mediterranean)

I went to have a dinner with my friends at "Barcelona Restaurant(http://www.barcelona-albany.com/)" . This restaurant is so nice and I love it! Inside the restaurant, there is bar counter and some tables, and also 2F. I ate "Veal Marsala" and my friends ate "Ram", "Chicken" and "Seafood paella". All of them were very delicious, especially I like Paella. Rice of paella sacked seafood taste so much and they fascinated me a lot! This restaurant looked so popular but parking lot is small. This is only regret thing for me. But even if the parking lot is small, I will go again!

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Barcelona
1192 Western Avenue,
Albany, NY 12203
TEL (518)438-1144
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