Eight months have passed

Hello there!

Customarily, JASC ECs stop blogging once their JASC is over.
However, here I am blogging eight months after the 61st JASC.

I'm back in Japan, spending my super-senior year at the University of Tokyo.

As many past JASC participants have put it, JASC is a life-changing experience for me.
My life has been changing because of JASC.

I meet JASCers almost everyday on campus, streets or at Izakaya (Japanese bars).
I cannot imagine what my life would have been like if I had not applied to JASC.

Even eight months after the 61st JASC, my JASC experiences are really vivid, which makes me feel as if the 61st JASC ended yesterday.

The 62nd JASC has been planned by the 62nd JASC ECs since the summer 2009.
The Japanese delegation was just announced yesterday, choosing 28 delegates out of more than 250 applicants.
I sincerely hope the 62nd JASC will make a huge impact on the delegates' life.

I would like to say happy birthday to the new delegation of the 62nd JASC.

I wish the 62nd JASC good luck!!

Tokyo site!!

Hello!

Since I'm coordinating Tokyo site with my cutest partner, Karen, I'd like to advertise Tokyo.

First of all, Tokyo site will be the best of all sites!!! (Any oppositions?? <AECs

As you all know, Tokyo is the centre of Japan. (my spelling of "center" is already Canadianized...)

Here is a wonderful introduction of Tokyo by Riyo Mori who won the 2007 Miss Universe beauty pageant.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/09/29/riyo.interview/index.html
You can also watch the video material.

Tokyo is a really awesome city. I lived in Tokyo for only two years, but I have no hesitation to say that.
Are you excited about Tokyo??

Of course, it would be fun just to visit Tokyo as a tourist.
But I can assure you that JASC is the only way to maximize your experience in Tokyo!

I can't specify at this moment, but there will be tons of activities that can be experienced ONLY through JASC!!

You wanna apply?? Then, You MUST! (^^)/

Self-Infroduction: Karen

Hello all readers!

I am...
Karen Jung,
the proud American delegate of the 60th Japan-America Student Conference,
the Vice Chair of the American Executive Committee of the 61st JASC (2009),
the liaison between the AECs and the Int'l Student Conference,
the leader of the Roundtable: Modernized Technology and the Health Issues with sexy Emi,
and one of the 4 Tokyo site coordinators with my best friend YOSHI!

I...
was born on October 15 in a small city in South Korea,
flew to the US on a snowy day in January of 2000,
live in Havertown, PA and attended Haverford MS & HS,
own a deli business in Philadelphia, PA,
attend Dickinson College, class of 2011, majoring in East Asian Studies and Pre-Health,
miss my older brother, Young Woong, who is probably sweating and swearing his butt off in FLW, MO, as an American soldier in-training,
love listening to music [artist playing right now- Rachael Yamagata], taking pictures, travelling, writing journals, being on my bed, talking to people about everything,...

and wish I can be with you [future 61st JASCers and lovely 60th JASCers] right now creating another cherished moments of my life.

Love,
Karen.