Hi, it's Illinois Panda. How are you doing? I'm pretty excited about going back to delicious Japanese food, meanwhile, I'm not feeling like leaving here, to be honest. I have very ambivalent feelings. Just 272 days ago, I landed in America…

Hi, It's Illinois Panda. It's almost the last day in America. In 24 hours, I'll be waiting for my flight at the airport. Just only 24 hours. I wrapped up all the things today. I took the final exam in the morning, got the certificate for c…

Hi, it's Illinois Panda. Only three days left! I'm just feeling time has passed fast. I remember the time I came here clearly. I cannot believe that was 9 months ago. The time comes, don't be left behind. Today, I photographed the scenery …

Hi, it's Illinois Panda. I was just surprised that the last blog recorded 23 views. I didn't expect many such people still visited my blog although it was updated in a while. Thanks :) Today, I had lunch with some of my friends who also ar…

Hi, it's Illinois Panda. Long time no see you guys. That's totally my bad. I have other things to do than this blog and wasn't in the mood to write the blogs. However, it's the 10th of May, and there are only 5 days remaining for me to sta…

Hi, it's Illinois Panda. I'm on a ketogenic diet that needs very restricted food control. I'm gonna teach you the pity food I've been eating recently. You can't succeed in working with a ketogenic diet without being patient with food. If y…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Lng time no see!!! Nice to see you guys again, and Happy New Year 2022. While I stopped uploading blogs, I was on the winter break for almost one month. I can't speak what I did for this period in detail for some r…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. This is the last blog of this year, but I'll come back next year... 突然ですが、ブログをお休みします！期間は決めてませんが、今年中はもう投稿しない予定です。ただ来年には必ず帰ってきます。冬休みが終わってから再開でき…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I apologize for skipping writing books these days. I got into the final week for this semester and I'm pressed by final exams and assignments. However, It's not an excuse not to have written blogs. I rather had man…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm writing this at 4 am in my room. The reason I'm awake in such an early morning is that I have to attend a Zoom meeting between Japan and the U.S. I'm attending guidance held by the laws department of home unive…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. It's a holiday and the last day of the long 8 days off. All the dining halls were closed, so I grabbed a pork Taiwanese noodle at MidSummer along Green St. on campus. I love this restaurant because it serves very g…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. We flew from the East Coast to Chicago in the early morning. Technically speaking, today was the last day of the trip. However, when we arrived at O'hare International Airport in Chicago, I just felt everything was…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. This was the last day we stayed on the East Coast. We traveled around Times Square and are heading back to Chicago. I'm writing this blog while waiting for the flight to O'hare Airport at LaGuardia Airport in N.Y. …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the exact day of Thanksgiving day on the fourth Thursday in November. We went to the balloon parade on Times Square in the morning. It is the really popular annual parade festival on Tha…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today is the fifth day of the East Coast trip and is also an anniversary day. Just a hundred days have passed since I arrived in the U.S.! Almost one-third of the exchanging program was done. I'm willing to keep ru…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda, This is the fourth day of the trip. We traveled around in the capital of America. We got up in the late morning because we had a party on the roof of the house and stayed up late. We just start moving around noon a…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. This is the 3rd day of the trip. We traveled around in Philadelphia and moved to Washington D.C. We went to see the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art This place is popular with Rocky Steps.…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Day two of the East coast! I got up at 5:30 am and took a shuttle bus to N.Y. Just after arriving in N.Y. at 10:30 am, we rented a car and drove to Philadelphia. We took the subway in N.Y. to go to the rental shop.…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today was the first day of the trip to the East coast. I leave Chicago at 6 am and landed in Boston at 9 am. Considering the time gap between them, I flew for about four hours. I couldn't sleep very well at the air…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm writing this at the airport to depart for Boston in the morning tomorrow. I'm taking a trip to the East coast for Thanksgiving holiday week! I'll post blogs about the travel for these seven days from tomorrow. …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Apologize for my laziness in not uploading blogs for almost a week. I wanted to share something with you, but I couldn't make myself feel like writing blogs. I don't excuse, lol. Today, I went to a Thanksgiving par…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I took the third Midterm exam in Econ 302 class. I felt I was going well with it. I did recap all the lectures and prepared very well yesterday. In fact, a guy who belongs to the same shooting team in MACS140 class…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm sharing a Netflix drama I'm getting into with you today. It's "MONEY HEIST." It's a Netflix original drama made in Spain and released in 2017. It was very trendy all over the world a few years ago and is still …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today's blog seems to be the assembly of small talks about an ordinal life. I've already experienced a temperature under 0℃ this year. When I get up and go outside in the mornings nowadays, it's freezing as if it's…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I just noticed that I learned to type the above sentences, "Hi. It's Illinois Panda." as fast as the password to open my laptop. It proves I've written blogs many times :) I wanna learn to write a blog within 30 mi…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I went shopping in a shopping mall called Market Place today. It's a little far from the campus, 30 minutes away by bus. I went there to buy clothes and shoes to prepare for a freezing winter. Market Place is a typ…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Have you been excited about Halloween? In America, Halloween is a big annual event. It's not more significant than Christmas or Thanksgiving but as popular as them. Halloween day this year was Sunday, and the last …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda, I went to a university basketball game (UIUC vs. Indiana) and cheered up team Illinois! It was held at State Farm Center on campus. The game really heated up. The team Illinois is the BIG10 champion in 2020-2021, w…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm writing a blog for the first time in 2 days. Once I lost the habit of doing something, it's a little hard to reform the habit again. Now that I have decided not necessarily to post blogs every day, so I wanna b…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Sorry for not uploading blogs for these three days. Though I've tried writing blogs every day, I couldn't make it, and I can't promise you for now that I will post blogs every day since today. However, I'm not plan…