hello .. this is sushmita pai kane , s.y.b.a

Tokyo Disney land
it was a free day .... we could have slept at hostel but we didn't ... coz ... IT WAS GREAT DISNEY LAND ... AND WE ALL WER WAITING FROM LONG TO VISIT THAT . but the problem was wid ... timings , streets and metros . but thanx to professor sachin ... he managed everything wel . i just cant explain the entire exitment we had while going . we changed total 3 metros to reach there . and finaly we reached mahiema station ... from metro only we wer able to see Disney view ... OMG IT WAS AMAZING ... AND SO SO SO BIG ..

OUR EXITMENT BEGINGS HERE 

 finally tickets in our hands ... 

 after this we wer just running from here and there .... excitement was so much that we wer unable to decide where we exactly wanted to go and what we want to do . 

in between as usual our lots of poses , smiles , images .

    1st we went to fantasy land

it was so nice .. same as we have seen in chilhood story books ,
I KNOW IT WAS NOT OUR TIME TO VISIT THIS BUT IT REALLY GAVE US SHORT AND CUTE JOURNEY OF OUR CHILDHOOD AGAIN .... <3 <3 <3

ENJOYING WORLD OF FANTASY

 then we planed to do something adventures so we decided to go to advantures world of pirates . and see here we reached

it was advantures too but not more then boat ride  below

my god ... this ride was amazing but it made us to wait for so long ....

FUL ON ZHAGMAG ZHAGMAG AT NIGHT .... ENTIRE PALACE WAS LOOKING WONDERFUL .

 

we have experienced and seen so many things there which cannot explained and clicked .  this place have really given us so much .

#Disney land#Tokyo #Amazing#Rides#Mickey mouse#Rollercoaster#Splash#Cues#Crowd#Pictures#Poses# Friends#Hogging#Haunted house#Christmas#Dhamaka#Memories#Lifetime# unforgettable#Tired# — at Tokyo Disney Land ホーンテッドマンション. thats it for today .may be see u soon . take care .

 

sayonara  

by sushmita pai kane 

s.y.b.a .

INDIAN CULTURAL NIGHT

Namaste!!Sasriakal!!Wadakkum!!Salam!!. 19th November, this was the day that we all had been preparing for weeks and waiting for it.We woke up earlier then directly headed to Waseda University. On our way to the university, we proceeded for Brunch to an Indian restaurant "Curry and Naan" that gave us the taste of our delicious Indian food.

After this we moved to the venue for the preparations for Indian day. This was the day we all had been waiting for since long so that we could put forth our rich and pure Indian culture to the Japanese people. We headed to the Okuma Garden and started decorating the hall. We put up our tricolor Indian Flag all over the flag. we also arranged all the food stuffs that we had brought all the way from India like Chakli, Bhakarwadi, Dosh , bebinca and some farsans. We also had a set up of different Indian spices on display so that the Japanese people could view them.

INDIAN CULTURAL NIGHT

Final Preparations

It was around 4.30 pm, the Waseda students and teachers began entering the venue for our cultural night. We all were nervous but excited too. The function started by a short speech welcoming our guests by our teacher in charge Sachin Moraes. and followed by a presentation on Goa and chowgule college. Aditi and Aishwarya were the hosts for today's eve. The Function began by a Fashion show depicting different states of India where all of them were dressed in different attires. After our Fashion show , we had a great glance of Indo contemporary and bharatnatyam performance by Aditi & Alysia. It was a nice and sweet performance, People loved it. Then we had an Aarti recital by Sankalp which created a positive Atmosphere. Soon after this we began our Goan dance called Dhekni by Sankalp, Aishwarya , Chetna , Joanna , Kimberly. It was a lovely performance that took us to the goan villages. In between, we had few spot quiz questions, we all were very shocked to see that Japanese people know alot about our indian culture After this we were all set to take the japanese people to the world of Bollywood by dhinchak performance by Shayzad and Alysia. The crowd enjoyed the performance and they gave us a big round of applause. Soon we moved to our next performance Lavni which was performed by our student Sushmita. It  was an energetic Performance that gave us the maharashtra tadka.

We then headed towards the Mando dance ( Shayzad Alysia Aditi Sushmita Sankalp Chetna Vanessa Joanna Aishwarya Kimberly)  followed by Sachin sir. We were moving towards the last part of our function , we gave a dhamakedar bollywood performance Rendered to our lord ganesha. It was a powerpack perfformance that took us to the streets of maharashtra during Ganapati Visarjan. After this we concluded our function by our Indian National Anthem and the Indian snacks were served after this and the japanese people loved the food.

Then we began the Jam up session. where we drapped the sarees for girls and Lungis for boys. It was so good to see the sporty character. The dance session was a total blast. The japanese students were grooving best on the beats of bollywood  music. They gave us a lot of compliments. I would really like to thank all the students for giving their best and Sachin sir and Dange sir and we are also thankful to the ICC staff.

Khickik Smile please

Dange sir with Japanese students

Japanese students in Indian attire

Fashion show

Indo-japanese Friendship :p

BY Shayzad Shaikh 

      TY B.sc

Visit to Tohuku

Today is the 8th day of our Tokyo programme. We went to a visit to tohuku today. It was a land which got devasted due to the earthquake and tsunami and thousands of people died in the same. We were lucky to attend the oysters festival which happened today and volunteered for such a international social work. We set off for our journey to tohuku last night at 10.50PM. Before that we the students of chowgule college were divided into 5 groups in which we had to work along with the students of Waseda University. We reached the place at 5 in the morning where we collected our breakfast. From 7 to 7.20AM we had the karakuwa  tour in kesennuma city- isaribi park. It was a heavenly beautiful place with scenic beauty covered in water and trees.

We arrived at the karakuwa elementary school for the volunteering activity and preparation of the festival at  7.30AM. We were given instructions on what ought to be done incase of tsunami. From 8 to 2 we all were busy into the work assigned to us according to our groups.

Group 1: supporting event head quarters
Group 2: grilling and serving oyesters
Group 3: coming and serving swordfish curry and fish bony soup
Group 4: spring and managing performance stage and placing microphone
Group 5: patrolling festival site,  reporting accidents to event head quarters and keeping who station.

The most interesting experience was to taste the half raw grilled oysters. The place was covered with people and the lines for food stalls. Everyone seemed so happy. There were several stage performances which many people performed and entertained the locals. Towards the end by 2PM all the cleaning up work and replacing desks and chairs was done. By 2.30PM we departed from the place back to idabashi and the bus dropped is right outside our youth hostel by 10.30PM.

     ...............   IT WAS 7TH DAY ...................

hello everyone ... this is Sushmita from s.y.b.a enjoying 7th day in Tokyo . today  we started our day by getting up late as it was a free day for us . today we enjoyed our breakfast which was prepared by Sir Sachin and some of my friends .

 we directly moved towards our room to do our final dance practice and cultural show . sir sachin was with us during practices to guide us . FINAL PRACTICE was really good .... enjoyed being with friends in small room while practicing .. it was really good experience practicing in really small place when youth hostel was unable to give us practice studio .

 FEELING PROUD BECAUSE WE CAN ADJUST ANYWHERE

                      ....AT LAST WE ARE ....CHOWGULE TIGERS .... WE ROCK .....
 now we are busy doing our packing for trip 2 in north east japan .. I AM  EXCITED <3 <3 <3 


THANX FOR READING THE BLOG ... BYE BYE .. SAYONARA 

Blog  . BY SUSHMITA S. PAI KANE 
S.Y.B.A

Today we all had our breakfast at the  Indian restaurant in Waseda , where we filled ourselves with butter chicken and naan. After this we boarded a Waseda University bus which took us to the Waseda University of Science  and Technology.  There, some of the students and faculty showed us around the campus for an hour.

 We then came back to Waseda and had a break for one hour, in which we all rested and refreshed ourselves for our next session which was a lecture on the Reconstruction Project for the Great East Japan Earthquake b WAVOC / Waseda University. the lecture was given to us by Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, manager at the center for international division, Waseda University. He spoke to us about the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan on 11th march 2011 and what impact it  had on the people. He also told us about the effect that the radioactive contamination had on on the people and how this caused a divide between the people. The was very interesting and touched all our hearts. 

 Our day ended with the celebration of Kimberly's birthday party. We all had lots of fun. we cut a cake and took lots of pictures.

        

  - By Joanna Valadares.

Today after having breakfast at 'Dautor' we went for a field trip to 'Harajaku'. First, We visited Tepia Video Library which is located in Tokyo city. Tepia is an exhibition facility that clearly introduces advanced technology and progress of human lifestyle and society. They explained us about various exhibitions like, Communications in our lives, Health and medical care,cities and mobility, environment and energy and a small world and high performance materials. we saw a video of various robots which were designed by japanese researchers. it was an very wonderful experience.

Later we went to Meiji Shrine, which is a religious place.  there we did some religious japanese rituals. it was a very beautiful place and we had a wonderful time there. After that we went to  Harajaku for shoping. In the evening we went to see Tokyo tower and clicked lots of pictures.

 outside view of tepia video library

 humanoid robot

 meiji jingu shrine

 some japanese rituals

 ritual of writing wishes on wooden plates

 enjoyed view of great tokyo tower

distance view

BY CHETNA BOTE
SYBA .