2004/07/01 (Thursday) After 40 years of working as an office worker, I was about to start a leisurely life. However, even though it is a short-term study abroad program for two months, the students who have been attracted to the Harvard br…

2004/06/30 (Wed) At the Workshop held at Boylston Hall from 1 pm to 3 pm, students will express their thoughts through group discussions and presentations using materials such as tours of suburban facilities such as museums, news articles,…

2004/06/30 (Wed) After finishing my first class today, I learned that the morning class from 9 am to 11 am is the Integrated Skills Class and the afternoon class from 1 pm to 3 pm is the Workshop. The unified theme that runs through the In…

2004/06/29 (Thu) I had a contract with the rental department of HSA (Harvard Student Agency) to rent a small white refrigerator, and today it was a black refrigerator with a small range that arrived at the dormitory from HSA rental. When I…

2004/6/29 (Tue) After a speech by Dr. H, Director of the Institute for English Language Program, we students were divided into levels and received brief self-introductions and future lessons from the instructors in charge of each level. Th…

2004/06/29((Thu) Today, Doctor H , director of the Institute for English Language Program, gave a strong welcome speech to the students at the orientation at Harvard Hall. After a brief introduction, she suddenly asked her students, "Have …

2004/06/28 (Mon) I was surprised at the words "Zero Absence Policy" while reading the English training guide distributed before yesterday's leveling test. According to the text, summer school authorities require students to attend all clas…

2004/6/28 (Monday) At this summer school, I am taking the Institute for English Language Program, which is not related to credit recognition, so anyone can attend if you pay the tuition fee, but the classes are organized by level. And in t…

2004/6/27 (Sun) The dormitory fee includes food, and the place where we eat three times a day is the cafeteria in the Annenberg Hall, which is a remodeled classic large church, a 10-minute walk from Kirkland House. The exterior of the Anne…

2004/6/26 (Sat) After putting the luggage I brought from Japan into the walk-in closet, I set up the communication between the LAN cable installed around the study desk in the bedroom and the laptop I brought in. The laptop I brought in wa…

2004/6/26 (Sat) The room in the dormitory where I brought my luggage from the hotel after completing the admission procedure was the first floor of Building G, which surrounds a large courtyard with eight classic three-story buildings call…

2004/6/26 (Sat) Today is the admission procedure, and the days of rigorous study begin on Monday. For a short period of time, I suffered from jet lag since I arrived in Boston, but fortunately I slept well last night and woke up at 5:30. A…

I retired from a company that worked for nearly 40 years in May 2004, and immediately after that, I attended Harvard Summer School, which started on June 26, for two months. About 17 years have passed since then, and maybe the age of 60 wa…

What I learned for the first time on this trip to London was Cameron Mackintosh, who produced these musicals that have been running for more than 10 years, such as "Cats," "Les Miserables," "Miss Saigon," and "The Phantom of the Opera." Ac…

In 1991, I visited London with a friend (different from this time) and saw the musical, the Phantom of the Opera, where the cheapest seat near the ceiling was bought from a duo's scalper at four times the regular price. I have already ment…

While saying, "Bacon in London is delicious," my friend and I had a late breakfast at the window seat of the cafe on the first floor of the hotel. And when I looked at the window, many people stopped on the sidewalk along Green Park across…

One of the pleasures of this trip to London was to eat beef steak tirelessly. Even today, beef is a luxury item for the average Japanese and rarely appears on the table at home. Moreover, the difference in beef prices between London and Ja…

For a while after arriving in London, my companion found Vodafone, Nokia, and Ericsson stores, checked the stores, and got a pamphlet, so I muttered inwardly, "You are on vacation now?" At that time, mobile phones were beginning to spread …

London's Tate Modern (https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern) is a national modern and contemporary museum with views of the financial district City and St. Paul's Cathedral across the Thames River. So, this is a major remodeling of the…

Billy, an 11-year-old boy from a family whose father and brother are coal miners, was learning boxing to become a strong man, but was fascinated by ballet lessons in the next classroom and finally became a principal of the Royal Ballet. In…

A friend and I, who completed the accommodation procedure at a hotel in London on May 1, 2001, threw the luggage we brought from Japan into the room and set foot on Regent Street enthusiastically for brand shopping. However, most of the br…

After returning to Japan, I decided to contact the call center of the publisher American Express (hereinafter referred to as Amex) to recover the $ 50 travel check (hereinafter referred to as T / C) that I lost in Boston. So, in order not …

For my friend E and I, visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was a top priority during this short stay in Boston. So, I prepared a $ 50 travel check (hereinafter referred to as T / C) that was signed separately from the booklet in advan…

Sheraton Boston, where I and E stayed to attend the Harvard Kennedy School Graduation Luncheon Ceremony in early June 2000, was a luxury hotel with extensive convention facilities. And when we were staying, there was an internet event with…

In early June 2000, my friend E and I were invited by our mutual friend T to a Harvard Kennedy School graduation luncheon ceremony and enjoyed a short five-night stay in Boston. We were asked for this invitation in December of the previous…

One day in January 2006, when I was searching the internet, I found out that the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has been holding contemporary art exhibitions in Eastern Europe since 1990, and I wonder if this program will be profitable. …

During my free time in Warsaw on the tour I participated in, when I was walking alone on the main street in the city center for no purpose, I happened to come across the National Museum in Warsaw and was attracted to the open atmosphere an…

The 12-day trip around Poland that I participated in was finally nearing its end, and the schedule for the day before returning to Japan was all free, so I decided to take a leisurely walk through the city of Warsaw with a woman of the sam…

Poland is the homeland of the composer Chopin (1810-1849), in the capital Warsaw: Chopin Museum, Park Lazienkowski with Chopin statue, Chopin's birthplace, etc. There are several spots about this, but on this tour we visited Chopin's birth…

After stepping on the soil of Poland for the first time and staying overnight in Warsaw, I returned to Warsaw again after visiting Krakow, Gdansk, Czezhova, Poznan, and the summer resort Zakobane. Warsaw, which replaced Krakow in the 16th …