Miqi MatsuuraMiqi Matsuura on September 5th, 2010

Yesterday, we had a be4do forming party featuring Gyoza, produced by Ryota and Atsunori, co-hosted by and through the courtesy of Leslie and Dennis (Ryota’s hostparents), supervised by Mika the Gyoza Master (her gyoza blog), and courteously attended by charming party crashers Stephanie and Molly.  Mika made mouthwatering Miso Soup.  Ryota made exquisite Yakisoba.  Atsunori [...]

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Ryota AkimotoRyota Akimoto on September 4th, 2010

one week have passed after Rikkyo univesity group leaving from Seattle. So we now have “open course member” in Seattle now… Open Course member?? What a boring group name we have!! But, the day has finally come to graduate from being called “open course member”. Our team name has became “Be4do(beyond)”!! (4 is pronounce in [...]

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iLEAPiLEAP on September 3rd, 2010

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Kenta HidakaKenta Hidaka on September 2nd, 2010

After looking at Daiki and Tomoe’s blog, it made me want to write too! Now, few days has passed since we left Seattle. And I am already missing the wonderful weather in Seattle. Japan is killing me every time I go outside. Anyways, thinking of “what should I do”, I thought to myself, I should [...]

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Tomoe TakashimaTomoe Takashima on August 31st, 2010

Hello,this is Tomoe. 3 days have passed since our special experience finished. Since I back to home, I feel like it was a dream, but it is not a dream. As Daiki said, I think so too. In Seattle,I got a confidence little by little. But now,in Japan,I’m losing faith again like before coming to [...]

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Miqi MatsuuraMiqi Matsuura on August 31st, 2010

We are currently having a guest, Mika Fujisawa, a.k.a. Chuntari, from Japan.  She is a change making traveler having won scholarship money on a world trip making dreams of the world come true by benefitting from everyone’s helps and supports.  Cool!  She believes in 140 characters can change the world.  And I truly believe so, [...]

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