Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Questions about COTS

The first question is for the Homeless: Are you satisfied with your shelter's circumstances?
Although the staff may be satisfied with working for the Homeless, it may be inappropriate for them. So this question is very meaningful to know their real intention.
The second one is for the COTS's staff: What is the most successful aspect since 1982 when COTS was founded?
The most successful aspect which I think is saving a lot of people particularly in winter. The average temperature in Vermont is below the zero. So if don't have the shelter, a lot of Homeless are freezing to death.
The last question is for the residents and the advocates which donates money: Do you think the investment is appropriate? I mean whether the way of using money is appropriate or not.
In usual, donation will be used inappropriately because it is difficult to work that system. 

Monday, July 29, 2013

July 25th, 2013/LCC

We went to the Lake Champlain Chocolate Factory in Vermont last Thursday. Arriving at the factory where is also direct sales store, we took a lecture about LCC's history, how to make a chocolate, and so on.
First, we knew that LLC was born in 1983. It is gradually famous since then. We also learn about how to make chocolates. Its process is unexpected for me because it depends on the tastes. For example, if we make a black chocolate, which contains a hundred percent cacao, we add some ingredients as usual. On the other hand, if we want to make a white one, we have to add a cup of milk to make chocolate be white. Cacaos which is raw material of chocolate are come from mainly Central Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia. It has various color like red, green, and yellow.  It sounded like maracath.
Second, we tasted three types of chocolates including black, bitter, white. But, in fact, I don't eat sweets in usual therefore I didn't enjoyed tasting it:(
Anyway, it spent a meaningful time! Although chocolate will be melted until I will go back to Japan, I want to give LCC to my family and friends!!!

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Introduce about Myself

     I'm going to introduce about me and my family. I'm Tetsuya Saito from Tokyo, Japan. I was born on January 17th, 1995. I hardly go to the outside of Tokyo and foreign country because I grew up in Tokyo since I was born. So this is my first time to come to the US. At first, I like watching sports. In particular, I love watching soccer. However, I had never played soccer. Instead of playing soccer, I play basketball because I was fascinated by NBA's player! Although I can't play like them, I always practice hard. In addition, I'm interested in the language. No matter how hard I use six languages, which assume Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic, I want to use easily in order to get the precise information from all over the world.
    I'll tell you about my family. I have father, mother, and the young sister who is fifteen years old. My sister belongs to the basketball club like me and she is good at studying mathmatics. If I couldn't solve a question, she can solve it easily. She is genius. That's all, thank you!

This is Tetsuya!

Hi, everyone! I'm Tetsuya from Tokyo, Japan.