Batch Experiment

These days are really busy for us. We are doing Batch experiment. Preparation took 1 week and today, we run the system. We hope the experiment will have good result as we expect. It is really interesting, however, it makes us tired >"< Many problems occurs when we do experiment. We try to control everything as we want, however, something still happen as to challenge us. This time is also the first time I try with electric field. Although I just follow our Professor's instruction, I still feel happy with my first achievement in electric field. Now, everything is on its trajectory. Just 1 more week, our Spring vacation is coming ^^ 

NU WTG Supporter's update

It's been 4 months since Princess Fujioka first appeared on our NU water treatment group's blog. She is back now below with some more hair on her head:)

Nagasaki Chanpon festival

Last Sunday we joined the Nagasaki Chanpon festival organized by city office. Lets see how wonderful we were.

First winter in Nagasaki

We have passed through a very wonderful winter in Nagasaki. Although temperature is not comfortable for us, we try to find optimistic ways to enjoy the weather. Now outside is -2 Celsius degree and we have snow now. We heard that this is the first snow in Nagasaki for 15 years. So, we think we are so lucky to have chance to enjoy snow.

Our university now

And here is our dormitory - Snow everywhere 

 We joined snow activities with Japanese friends in our dormitory

And here is our achievement ^^

First New year holiday in Japan

We have gone through a very wonderful New year in Japan.  A first day of New year, we went to Shimabara with our special friend - Michiko. She and her son took us there and we all together watched the sunrise. Wonderful!!! It made us fell peace, refreshed all our soul and let it be ready for a new year coming.

After that, they took us to their house and invited us enjoy their first meal. Again, we were really surprising. Many food were served and we could not eat all. Michiko asked us to bring to our house :D

Our special friends - Michiko and her son

A groaning board they gave us

We voted this is the best delicious food ^^

It was really a wonderful memories. We are all student who study abroad and live far away from our family, sometimes we feel homesick, our friends here have helped us overcome this bad feeling. This special friendship makes us be more strong and give us many special things to our student life in Japan. Thank you Michiko, thank you Japan.

Wishing you a year filled with great joy peace and prosperity. Happy New Year 2016.

Party for International Students

Last Tuesday we joined a party for international students who will graduate on March 2016. Although we will graduated in 2017, we participated in this party as guests who have a performance.  We performed in front of hundreds of people. There was a little dither at first seconds but finally we did it.We chose a Vietnamese song with our traditional dress. There was a special support from our special friend from Thailand. It could be say that if we hadn't received his support, our performance wouldn't have attracted audience. It was really a wonderful time. Let's enjoy again our performance.

2nd NU Membrane workshop

On 13rd November we hold successfully 2^nd NU Membrane workshop. The topic was Forward osmosis (FO). FO membrane is emerging membrane technology that could play an important role in the production of water, and recovery of energy and resources in many water treatment applications. 

We were please to welcome the participants from water treatment industrial commercial companies and students from Nagasaki University. Keynote speaker was Prof. Hokyong Shon from University of Technology, Sydney. Also, we had web-conferences with Prof. from Australia and USA. Despite of difference in time (USA was 2 AM in the early morning on 13rd Nov while we were lately afternoon in Japan), they enthusiastically presented their topics. 

The 3rd NU Membrane workshop will be held on July next year. We are happy to welcome you all to our workshop. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or sharing ideas.

Now let's enjoy some photos of the  2n NU Membrane workshop.

Prof. Hokyong Shon is presenting his topic 

Web-conference with Australia and USA

Our sweet memorable memories

This time is really a point time for looking back warm days in summer. Now Nagasaki is around 16-18 celsius degree. It's not too much cold to make us feel uncomfortable. At first, we expect to see how autumn Japan is. While there is not too much change in landscape, the weather suddenly change. We almost come from tropical country where temperature is always above 28 celcius degree. So we are not familiar with the rapid change of weather. And we also heard that, day by day the temperature will decrease and can reach 0 celsius degree. OMG! It is really terrible.

Just for fun, when looking back summer, we have some sweet memories to share with you.

Hanging out with our Vietnamese Professor. He was a keynote speaker in our first NU Membrane workshop. We had lunch with him and our Japanese Professor. After that, we had a city trip and joined a summer festival held in Nagasaki port. We think he had a nice memory with Nagasaki by the attraction firework performance in this festival. Now he is in Australia and we hope to see him again. 

We call this is an international party. On this day, we had [Japan, Vietnam, Thai, Korea] food. We had to ask our neighbours for extra chairs, this means we had many people and it also means we had lots of fun ^^ 

Unzen trip with international friends. 

Ms Kung - an exchange student from Thailand. She was in Japan in 1 month for doing her master thesis. She had lots of fun with us, especially her Thai friends. She said that the biggest thing she got after this trip was knowledge and international friendship.

Fire drill

How amazing Sunday was! We joined an interesting fire drill and were showed how to survive when be on fire. We got how to use the fire extinguisher, how to escape from the high building or from the smoked area, how to do a basic first aid, etc. We deeply appreciate the thoughtful preparation of Nagasaki fire station officers. They have showed us the ways how to survive when fire occurs. The more things you know, the more opportunities you get for saving yourself and people around you. We also realize the risks that firefighters have to be faced. The firefighters do admire jobs in helping the victims get out of the fire.  We really admire them. Let’s enjoy some photos of our amazing Sunday.

 

 

Urakami site trip

Such a wonderful day! Instead of having lecture in classroom, we had a site trip to go to Urakami drinking water treatment plant (DWTP). Urakami DWTP was built in 1945. Until now, it has operated for 70 years. This plant plays an important role in Nagasaki inhabitant’s life. It supplies many purposes with clean water. Although it was a rainy day, we were really excited to enjoy our first site tour. We were greeted by warm welcome from Urakami staffs. We really appreciate their help and hospitality during our trip. The site tour helped us more understand lectures and gave us actual view point in drinking water treatment plant. Let's enjoy some photos from our trip.

Can you find the difference between 2 pictures above? ^^

Surprisingly, this dam is very huge. 

We were attracted not only by its beauty but also by its majestic view.

The performance briefly shows coagulation and sedimentation processes.

From left to right, raw water, coagulation, and sedimentation.