September Newsletter

 

Campus Activities

Coastal Cleanup Volunteer Program

 
Yumi Komura
 
There are many college activities in Claremont College. For example, Coastal Cleanup. It is to clean up in coast to volunteer. It is started in 1985 and it became a part of big annual event. Every state with a coastline participates, including the Great Lakes states, and even some inland states clean river and lakeshores. Coastal clean up is activity for animals. Volunteer clean up took place on Saturday, September 15. 10,000 volunteers joined at this annual event to clean up California 's beach. It is including individual, community, volunteer group and college. For example, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Claremont College and family. There are people that come to beach to clean up and walk with dog. They picked up trashes that like plastic fork, plastic spoon, and PET bottle. They worked for five hours. I think Coastal Cleanup is very important. Because people took out trash, so people have to pick up trash and Coastal Cleanup is a great way for families, students, service groups, and neighbors to join together, take care of our fragile marine environment, show community support for our shared natural resources, and learn about the impacts of marine debris and how we can prevent them. I haven't volunteer yet, but I think we can experience that very precious if we do volunteer. If you have a chance, I advise that you join in the volunteer activity.

Family Life

My Family

 
Hiroma Hamaguchi
 
My host family is Steven, Kasey, Skylar and Blythe. Steven is a manager. He is funny, smart and good father. Kasey is also funny woman. One day, we went to the furniture shop to buy my desk and cabinet. We looked for them, and found cool cabinet, however we couldn't find best desk. Then, when we leaved at the shop, we found nice table! We were so excited, especially Kasey. After that, when we went back home, we noticed that we forgot to buy a cabinet too excited for table. She sometimes forgets something but she is nice host mother. Kasey has several licenses, for example, makeup artist, photographer, hairdresser and so on. However, she has two kids now, so she cannot work. Her child, Skylar is six years old. Her speaking is very fast, so I cannot understand what she says first. Kasey's other child, Blythe is one year old. She is very cute. I usually play with her.
They usually take me many places. I went to Hollywood, Pasedena and Santa Monica. Hollywood is very nice place and there are many Japanese for sightseeing. Pasedena is also fun place; I went to the farmers market. If you go to there, you can buy lots of food, vegetables and fruits.
My host family is vegetarian and they like organic food. They usually eat pasta, burrito, and tacos in addition sometimes eat Thai food or Chinese. I've never eaten burrito but it is good taste. If you've never eaten it, you should try it.
I am certain that my host family is best! So, I hope I'll enjoy spending the time with them for seven months.

Neighborhood

The Village

 
Miki Harada
 
Claremont is wonderful calm and safe city in the L.A. County. This year, this beautiful city is centennial anniversary.   The Village, which is a small town near the Claremont Colleges, now we can see a flag of Claremont because of that commemoration. 
This Village has good restaurants and pretty shops, and also near the Village, there are new shopping places that are going to open soon. In the Village, for example, there are Starbucks Coffee, good bakery store which named Some Crust, you can see many people line in inside and people who enjoy chatting with having bread and coffee. And there are yummy Italian restaurant Pizza N Such and Kiwi Berry that is non-fat ice-cream shop and also nice shoes store Birkenstock.  On every Sunday morning, there is Market we can see fresh fruits and vegetables.
At new place, there are hot fashion shop American Apparel and romantic dining restaurant Casablanca we can enjoy Greek cuisine. At delicious coffee shop Maui Wowi this store's fruits smoothies is very nice.   You try this once, as soon as possible you may be addicted to tasty flavor.  There is a movie theater Laemmle this place is popular for everyone because it is opened until midnight.
This city is comfortable to live. Near the Colleges, there are gorgeous shops, many trees and flowers, so it is good place to shop, eat, hang out, and walk. If you ever in this beautiful city, you can spend good time with your family, friends, boy or girl friend.

Food

Yakisoba

 
Nozomi Iijima
 
I will teach croquette of Yakisoba, it is enough to cook in 30 minutes and both of them popular in Japan.
 
 
\Ingredients:
  • Chinese Soba noodles – 150g
  • Pork – 100g
  • Yakisoba sauce – 5 tablespoons
  • Vegetable cooking oil – 5g
  • Flour – suitable quantity
  • Bread crumbs – suitable quantity
  • Potatoes – 400g
  • Onion – one half
  • Butter – 10g
  • Sugar – 1 tablespoon
  • Egg – suitable quantity
 
Preparation:
First, cook potatoes in the water for 15 minutes. Second, put the oil in the frying pan and slices of onion to be soft, mix pork and fry them together. Third, add steamed Chinese soba noodles. Then, add a generous amount of Yakisoba sauce . Fourth, crush boiled potatoes, add butter and sugar and mix it. Fifth, mix all of them. Then, coat each piece in flour and dip in beaten eggs. Finally, coat entirely in breadcrumbs and fry in 170-degree oil until browned.

 

Sports

The San Francisco Giants

Ayako Sugihara
There are some prosperous sports in California; especially San Francisco Giants baseball team is famous for many people. The team came into existence in 1883. The original team was New York Gotham, but it was changed the name to Giants in 1886. The Giants took the Golden Age when Christy Mathewson was in full activity in the low 1910s and the low 1920s. The team has topped the league 17 times and won the World champion until 1958.
In Japan, the team is famous too, because Atushi Shinjo and Masanori Murakami belonged before. Shinjo transferred to this team in 2001, and the team has topped the league next season a long time. He was first competitor of World Series as a Japanese fielder. He was popular player not only in Japan but also in California. The present main player is Barry Bonds. He hit the 734th career home run, but he caused a scandal of substance abuse. He is 43 years old this year, the team is said “senior league in major league”, because there are only old age player of veteran in the team. Many fans have high expectation about the record will break of the team.

Around California

Yosemite National Park

Kaori Okimura
The fascination of USA is nature. Magnificent nature will tell us grand, beauty and the secrets of nature. If you want to feel nature, would you say to going for Yosemite National Park? Yosemite National Park locates in the east end of California. It is about five hour's drive from San Francisco, and about seven hour's drive from Los Angeles. There have Yosemite Valley Shuttle Bus and Bicycle Rentals and Yosemite Tours. The bus following a circular route run to several points in Valley every fifteen minutes. If you want to go for a ramble through the Valley, I invite to rented bicycle. Therefore, it practices for April to October. The point you can't enter with shuttle bus, you available a bus tour. You can enjoy activities in the park. There have horse riding tour with guide during April to October. Then, you enjoy skiing in the middle of May to in the latter part of March. Tourist attraction at Yosemite is huge rock and waterfall on the periphery of Yosemite Valley. Don't miss the Half Dome. It's like cut off a dome in half in length. This dome was made by glacier before two thousand years. Entrance of valley exist El Capitan. It is said that there is the largest granite as monolith in the world. Many rock climbers aspire to El Capitan, because there soars vertically 1095 meters into the air. I invite you to go hiking in the Yosemite National Park.

 

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