Chicago Trip!

Hello this is Kenji.

From Friday, August 13th till Sunday, August 15th, I visited Chicago, Illinois, to see my old friends!

I lived in Chicago for five years from when I was thirteen years old till eighteen years old.

-Friday, August 13th-
As you can see, I left on "Friday of 13th", I knew something not great will happen :(

On Friday, my plane took off at 7:10PM. As my plane was approaching Chicago Midway Airport, the captain said that there was a storm in entire Chicago area. So the captain decided to circle around to wait the storm to pass away, but it unfortunately did not.
Obviously, the plane will run out the gas for circling around for hour, we had to go to Rockford Airport (18 minutes from Chicago Midway Airport) to refill the fuel. ughh.
We had to wait about one hour to refill and get ready to go to Chicago Midway Airport.
Finally, the weather in downtown Chicago got better, so we could finally arrived our destination.
I was supposed to arrive in Chicago just for an hour, but it took almost four hours. ;'(

Well my friends who came to pick me up waited extra two hours, so I could meet them, thank you! :D


I went to McDonald for dinner, and arrived at my friend's house at 1:00AM

-Saturday, August 14th-
I slept until 11:00AM. After that I went to Panda Express with my friend and his girlfriend. I was surprised about the amount they served me, because I could eat all them up when I was a junior in high school.
After eating, they dropped me at Woodfield Mall, which is one of the biggest malls in the nation, while my friend had a football practice. I went to Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Gilly Hicks, Starbucks, Godiva etc. I also met five friends there and I chatted for awhile.


After that, one of my friends drove my around where I lived, so I could see my house where I used to live! It was really weird that I could go there.


Then I went back to mall to get picked up from friend who went to football practice. We went to eat at Chipotle Mexican Grill, watched Inception, went to the high school I used to go and went back to his house.


-Sunday, August 15th-
Again, I woke up around 10:00AM. I was packing all the stuff I bought at mall, and waiting for another friend to pick my up to drive me to Midway Airport. Prior to going to airport, I went to Mitsuwa Store, which is a Japanese glossary store. We ate lunch there and headed to Chicago Midway Airport.

I rode airplane successfully and Chuck, who is my RA, came and picked me up at St. Louis Airport.

Overall, my weekend was just awesome! I already miss time in Chicago. My friends promised that they will visit Japan someday, and I am really ready to guide them up in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka!


I only have ten more days in UMSL, so I will work hard on our business plan. In addition, I can't wait to go to host-family!

Wayz(Kenji) is gone...

Hi it's shinobu. as you can see from title, wayz(Kenji) left here this evening to Chicago to see friends there. He seemed so excited about it before leaving. we wish i could go with him...lol
Wayz! have fun we are missing you bro! :)

we went to target by Metro today. i got a bunch of snacks for my friends and family and large mocha frapecccino(im not sure how to spell it) at starbucks!! i could not eat it all, so i shared with everyone...

Shopping tomorrowwwww! yayyyyyy!

Fun Time

haaaaai!!!
It's Riki time!!

we are now doing group work at the laundry.

today's class was soooooo FUN! usually it's boring and i just concentrating not to sleep. BUT today, maybe because I drunk coffee , I didn't even got sleepy.! at 1st period, our group decided each others background and it was really exciting. we laughed a lot! and 2nd period, we did practice of tomorrow's presentation. that was exciting too! on 3rd period, Kenji did presentation about marketing plan. Thank you!

tomorrow is my turn to present our plan. so from now, i have to work on my preparation. i hope i can sleep...

see yaaah!

Baseball game

Hiiiiiiiiiiii!!!I'm Aki.
I enjoy my school life in UMSL every day. Today, we played baseball after class! It was so enjoyable and fantastic. However, there were a lot of bugs in baseball stadium, so sometimes I felt bad.

After playing baseball game, some of us played Keidoro game which was like Onigokko. I took part in police. It was fantastic, but I was also so tired...(++)

From now, I have to work with my group members, so I will not be able to sleep today... I want to sleep!!!!!

Regular Day

Hello, this is Kenji

We had a regular day.

We went to Ron's class, which follows up the Business Plan.
He said our group is ahead of the schedule, which made me feel relaxed.
I am a little bit stressed out, because my part, which is Marketing Research takes time to complete.
Now, I am researching the competitors of our restaurant in Chicago.

Today, Mr. Matsunaga came to UMSL from Japan. He will be here in St. Louis from Tuesday until Saturday.


Oh, today, I bought tickets to Chicago! I will be there on this weekend to meet my old friends. I'm excited! woot!

Field Trip!

Hi! Riki yeah!

The school started this week again!
We had classes in the morning as usual, and after eating lunch, today we went to fieldtrip.
We went to Hillermann Nursery and Florist. It took us about an hour by bus.
At there, we met Sandi, who is the president of the nursery. We heard a lot about her job. There were many flowers and machines. She served us lemonade and cookies. Nice!! Today was so hot but fieldtrip was fun.

Now, I did beach volleyball. Sand is all over me. I enjoyed!

See ya!

Six Flags!

Hello! I'm Aki.
Today, we went to Six Flags in St. Louis. There were a lot of attractions such as roller coasters, water sliders, and so on. Six Flags had a huge land! So it was difficult for us to walk all attractions. As a result, we couldnt ride every attraction; however we could ride most of roller coasters like Bad Man and The Boss. Every attraction was so exciting and fantastic! However, I think they were not scary comparing with Fujikyu Highland in Japan. Therefore they were not satisfactory to me!! But it had a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it too.

After we enjoyed Six Flags, we went to Asian restaurant. There were Japanese restaurant, Chinese restaurant and Mongolian restaurant. But I ate only Japanese food such as sushi. It was very delicious!!!

Today was a busy day, but I had a lot of fun! Now, I'm very tired.. so maybe I will wake up late tomorrow^^!←