On September 8th, Mari, Professor Hewer, Aya and myself visited the Radio-i broadcasting studio near Sakae station. It was an arrranged meeting with Ms. Asuka Naito, who is a talented trilingual woman who works at RADIO-i as a DJ. We wanted to go and talk to her about the two workshops she will be doing on the 27th of September. Today, we talked about our proposal-what, we, the GP students, had in mind for the type of events we would organize and what we would like to hear from Ms. Asuka during the events. Mari from the events group, explained that we were thinking of doing the first workshop in a radio-show style. Ms. Naito really liked the idea, and gave us some advice on what we needed to do for preparation. Also, Mari told Ms. Naito why we wanted her to do a Yoga lesson. We told her we wanted to learn about the culture of Yoga as, despite it being very popular in western countries, the true Yoga is not well known in Japan. Ms. Naito understood what we were hoping to learn from the event, and she explained to us the brief history of yoga. I never knew yoga was created more than 5ooo years ago!! Professor Yamagishi was also at the studio as a commentator on Ms. Asuka's show. And unexpectedly, he asked Mari and myself to give a short commentary on Japan-U.S relations. We had a million butterflies in our stomachs when we entered the recording room, but it was a great experience. Ms. Naito seemed to have a very busy schedule, but she was kind enough to spend time with us after the show and discuss further details of the lecture with us. When we were talking about her healthy eating habits, she gave each of us a fruit called "Dates" which tastes like a raisin. Ms. Naito is a very active, open/broad minded, and strong woman. She knows what kind of life she wants to lead, and what she needs to do to realize it. I admire her positive personality and look forward to our upcoming events! You can learn more about Ms. Naito by coming to our events: 1) Ask Asuka! Live Radio Style Talk Show. September 27th, 15:15-16:30 in G30 (open to the public. 2) Beauty from Within. September 27th, 17:00-18:00 in D43 (limited to Nanzan students, dress appropriately for Yoga).

by Rina