Hi again! :)

JSA is holding a Karaoke Night OCT 11th at Korean Garden.

The event is suppose to be for board members to discuss a few things, but since that wont be taking more than full hour we wanted to invite others to come join us! :D

When: Oct 11th, at 6 or 7 (lasts about an hour, times a little tentative)
Where: Korea Garden
How Much:
You pay for your own meal,
JSA is covering the reservation costs.

So please, send me an email to RSVP! Space is limited (Board Members get priority, sorry :( ) ..... so RSVP soon!

~Tyler
JSA President


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ETA: I likely will be driving there, so if getting there is an issue I can try to form a car pool to stop at the UC Turn Around before the event. My car Fits 6-10 depending on how small/comfortable you are :p

Hey JSA!

We held board elections today and I'm Janice, the new secretary :) Congratulations to our new board members!!!

Japanese Media Chair: Miki
Public Relations Chair: Hanae
PR Committee: Alice, Chelsea
Japanese Gourmet Chair: Rosanna
Japanese Gourmet Committee: Jane

There are still positions available on the PR Committee and the JP Gourmet Committe. Also, we still have two other positions available (Webmaster and Sakura Project Chair) so email Tyler if you're interested! wtd@andrew.cmu.edu

Now, for the updates! We have a lot of events that we'd like to do coming up so I'll try to keep it as short as possible.

Film Festival: Clover and Honey
October 3rd, 7pm in McConomy

KARAOKE NIGHT! (in place of our regular meeting)
October 11th at Korea Garden
RSVP required
Details will be coming soon.

APA Pageant
If JSA wants to enter this pageant, we'll need to enter one male and female contestant. If you're interested, email Mark: mvillene@andrew.cmu.edu

Culture Night
If you're interested in performing for culture night, have any talent or performance ideas for JSA to do OR any theme/tshirt/poster designs for culture night, email Mark : mvillene@andrew.cmu.edu

Fundraising for Japanese Etiquette Dinner
We're aiming to have the Japanese Etiquette Dinner sometime in November, and in order for that to happen, we have to fundraise! We'll be making curry rice and selling it in mid-October.

Until next time,
-Janice ^^

Hi again! I wanted to send out another reminder email to everyone about the Morewood event we are having tomorrow. It will be at Morewood Gardens at 8pm tomorrow night, be there! :D

Also, I am sending another email to remind anyone else who is interested in getting a board position, please please send me an email. We will make our final decision on the 27th for all candidates. Send me an email so I know how many people are interested (if we need to create new positions, change things around, etc.)

So far I have emails from Alice Chan, Hanae Kobayashi, Karen Akasaka, Janice Chen, Andrew Yip, Chelsea Hostetter, and Go Okumura. If I missed your name send me another email and I will add you to the list!

Thanks! ^^

~Tyler Diller,
JSA President in training :D

After speaking with Terry, we both decided on several new board positions that need to be filled. If you are up for the task, then please, please apply!

The curren open positions are...


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Secretary
The secretary is to keep track of all organization meeting minutes, dates and events in a calendar, and write emails to keep all student members informed of club activities.

Webmaster
The webmaster will develop and maintain a website for the organization, updating it with new events and information as needed.
**note: I am redesigning the website, if you want to take over for me that would be great, otherwise just an overall maintenance will be cool too.**

Public Relations
The PR liaison is responsible for the advertisement of club events, recruiting new members, and keeping contact with the student population.

Japanese Media Chair
The Japanese Media Chair will be in charge of making sure JSA shows a manageable amount of Japanese media (mostly movies)

Sakura Project Chair
The Sakura Project Chair is in charge of communicating with the Park and keeping JSA informed of the Sakura project, this involves any mention of additional funding needed or any new details.

Japanese Gourmet Chair
The Japanese Gourmet Chair will be in charge of all food-related events. Although it may sound less important, the reality is food-events really help get our name out in the open more.

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I really want to kick it up a notch this year with JSA, if your interested in a position please please apply, we won't swamped you with too much to do.

If there are several members interested in participating in one position, depending on the position we may make it a committee and see what goes from there.

Also, remember we are having an event Thursday night at Morewood. We will be sending emails about this this week so try and make it if you can!

:)

And umm... Thanks! :)
~Tyler

Just a reminder, Activities Fair is tomorrow 9/3 4:30-6:30 CFA Lawn. Even if you're not signed up, please feel free to drop by at the table!


Set up (4:00) Karpur
(4:30) Harry, Tyler
(5:00) Harry, Tyler, Mingyang
(5:30) Ming-Yang, Tyler(?), Andrew, Karpur
(6:00) Karpur, Ming-Yang, Andrew
(6:30) Karpur, Andrew, Terry


Cheers,
Terry Shyu

Activities Fair Sign-Up... 9/3 4:30-6:30 CFA Lawn

Set up (4:00) Karpur
(4:30) Harry, Tyler
(5:00) Harry, Tyler, Mingyang
(5:30) Ming-Yang, Tyler(?), Andrew, Karpur
(6:00) Karpur, Ming-Yang, Andrew
(6:30) Karpur, Andrew, Terry


**Please show up as shown above! Karpur will bring paper for dlist, I will help setting up (got some small candies and such). Tyler will bring a Japanese flag, Andrew has green tea


Ming-Yang, our Marketing Chair, will make some flyers for the Activities Fair. A banner is also in production for future uses and club morale. Tyler will update the website.

*Gallery Opening* 9/5
See www.rememberinghiroshima.org for more information.

*Also Coming Up*
We will try to follow the Japanese cultural calendar for event ideas and we will do some food events around campus. Most likely in dorms w/ kitchens.


Next meeting will be Saturday (9/13) at 2 pm. Most likely Danforth Lounge in the UC again.


Cheers,
Terry Shyu

*Kick-off the year meeting*
Is when we talk about kicking off the year and catch up.
Saturday, Aug 30, 2-3pm, UC Danforth


*Activities Fair*
Is when we charm the freshmen and expand our organization.
Wednesday, Sept 3, 4:30-6-30pm, CFA Lawn (UC = rain site)


*Remembering Hiroshima*
a series of related activities in September, 2008 http://rememberinghiroshima.org/

They are looking for gallery volunteers Tuesday-Fri during September, but since it's 11-2 I don't imagine anybody can make it. If you can though, shoot me an email. It will be fun.

I'll most likely go to the opening. Partly because of the wine and food, but hey, what's so wrong with that?


*Lecture Series*
* September 15: Lecture by Professor Dr. Ronni Alexander, Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies. 4:00pm. Posvar Hall (entrances on Bouquet St. and Bigelow Blvd. across from the Carnegie Library, Oakland). Hosted by GSPIA. [Read more...]
* September 26: Hibakusha Reception and Presentation. 7:00pm. Carnegie Mellon's Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) in Oakland. Reception followed by presentation by a hibakusha (A-Bomb survivor), Ms. Sachiko Masuoka. She will be joined by Dr. Yuki Miyamoto, an assistant professor at De Paul University in Chicago and a second-generation A-bomb survivor. [Read BIOS or SURVIVOR STATEMENT]


-Terry

The first meeting is scheduled to be

Saturday (Aug 30) at 2 PM
UC Danforth Lounge

We will talk about how to kick off the semester, especially the Activities Fair. I will have sign-up sheets and candies available. Please plan to attend.

-Terry Shyu

Hey everyone!

Hope you all enjoyed your mid-semester break. Time to change gears again and face the second half of the semester!

This email is probably going to be relative only to Seniors and Juniors, possibly Sophmores. Forwarded below is an email from Credit SuisseSecurities (Japan) Limited. They're looking to hire both full-time and summer interns at the Boston Career Forum, so if you're interested, take a look below.

Now, for those of you who don't know what the Boston Career Forum is, I'll give a quick overview of it here. It's basically the biggest Japanese-English bilingual job fair held annualy in Boston. This year, it's going to be from 11/17-11/19 (Fri-Sun). There are tons of companies there, and a frightening amount of students there as well. Registration is free, so if you're looking to work in Japan, this is probably a good place to look! I won't be going, but I know a few people who're planning to go, so if you're interested, let me know. I can give you the other peoples' addresses, and maybe you guys can set up a car pool. Or split hotel fares.

Sorry to those who this didn't apply to. I promise we'll do something again soon.

-Tak

( the forwarded email )

Hello everyone.

This is a reminder to all of you that "Linda Linda Linda" is showingtonight (Friday) at 7pm in McConomy. The movie is about a group of highschool girls trying to put togethera band for a school festival. It's gotten pretty good reviews. Besides,it's FREE for everyone, so if you're interested, come on by!

Also,"Dennsha-otoko" will be playing the following week (Oct 6, Friday) at 7in McConomy. This is a cute love story between an otaku, which isJapanese for geek, and a girl he met on a train.

Enjoy your weekend!
-Tak