HOT SPRINGS in NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand is famous for hot springs in Oceania, and there are lots of hot springs because there are lots of volcanoes. In north Island, Rotorua which has strong smell of sulfur and Te Aroha which has sticky hot water and skin enhancement are famous places. In south Island, Hanmer is most famous. It is 40 or 41 degrees. It seems that the Maori knew the medical benefits of hot springs and took it. Today, people use the hot springs for sports or exercises. In addition, hot spring’s swim pools are very popular now and they are main facilities.

Japan is known as a good place for hot springs all over the world. Beppu in Oita has 8 springs and it has been since 8th century. Kusatsu in Gunma has 6 springs and it has been since 2th century. Hakone in Kanagawa has 20 springs and it has been since 8th century. They are famous and old. Japanese hot springs are old, so there are many legends and myths. Japanese take hot spring as a sightseeing and pleasure. In Japan, pelting water, footbath, bedrock bath and eggs boiled in hot spring water are also popular.

La Tomatina

I would like to introduce you about rules of la tomatina . It has 5 rules. I found it is funny. You play by that.

1. You cannot bring dangerous article things like bottles.

2. You cannot rip other’s T-shirt on purpose, especially women’s.

3. You have to crush tomatoes before you throw them, because you will hurt others.

4. You have to be careful of the truck carrying tomatoes or you will get hit.

5. You have to stop at once when you hear the stop signal. After that, you cannot throw tomatoes.

Remembrance Day

Many countries have a special day to remember those that fell in their wars. In Japan, we have an anniversary of the end of World WarⅡon the 15 August. In 1945, the Emperor Showa (know as Hirohito at America and UK) told people that Japan had lost the battle on the radio. Of cause, we cannot forget the days which dropped A-bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well. Those days, we place our hands together and pray that wars will never be repeated the same mistake again. The British Remembrance day is held on the 11 November every year. This is the day that World War One ended in 1918. World War Ⅰ, called Great War left a deep scar on people. They keep quiet for 2 minutes at 11am. The royal family and government officials gather at the Cenotaph. The ceremony for consoling the war dead are hold and paraded by former servicemen. One poem called 'For the Fallen' is often read aloud on the occasion.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
It was written by Laurence Binyon(1869-1943).

I think that people, especially Japanese innocently take peace for granted. So we must not allow our memories of war to fade away. Then we must thank for everything.
　

＊Virgin Snow (Hatsuyuki no Koi)＊

The story I am going to introduce here is called ‘Virgin snow’. It is a Japanese-Korea love story. The scene was taken in the beautiful Kyoto city where the views give you an elegant feeling.

The movie is made by director Han Sang, and is cast by Aoi Miyazaki(宮﨑あおい), Aoi is new-generation actress in Japan, apart from the ‘virgin snow’ she was involved in a lot of other movies, ‘Nana’ which is another well-known movie taken in 2005 and ‘Tada Kimi wo Aishiteru -HEAVENLY FOREST’ taken in 2006. Another main character in this movie is Lee Junki(李準基), another famous actor in Korea, he is seen as the ‘most beautiful man in Korea’. And this is his second time to be involved in Japanese-Korean movie. He is also famous as a singer. And this is his second time to be involved in Japanese-Korean movie.

Kim Min moves to Japan from Korea and met with Sasaki Nanae at the shrine in Kyoto where nanae work as a Miko (virgin consecrated to a deity) and soon he falls in love at the first sight. When Kim goes to his new school on the first day, Kim finds that Nanae was studying at the same high school. Since the first day at school, Kim tries so hard to talk to Nanae. One day, he accidentally drops her painting tools into the river, soon he found that the tool was actually really expensive and determined to get nanae a brand new one to express his sorry. Nanae didn’t like the idea at first but soon succumbed to Kim’s enthusiasm, and agree to receive it.

This incident brings their heart close to each other. One day, Kim tells Nanae a lovely Korean traditional believes, which is that the Korean believe if a couple date on the first day of snow, the couple shall be happy forever and imply that they should date on the first snow day. But what Kim doesn’t know is that Nanae has a problem in her family which drives her to leave Kim, to leave Kyoto.

One day Nanae vanish without saying anything but a pouch which Kim’s grandmother has it. No one knows where she is, and why she do it, much to the disappointment of Kim, he find that there is no reason for him to stay in Japan without Nanae, so he decide to leave Japan and go back to Korea.

Some year later in winter, Kim’s grandmother discovers there was a letter inside the pouch, when she realizes that the letter belong to Kim, she handed it to him. When Kim find out the truth, he determined to reunion with Nanae, at last, they meet each other and kiss. And it was on the first of snow.

♪My summer vacation♪

Umm…I didn’t do anything special during the summer vacation. I wanted to go to see a fireworks display, swim in pools, go to Okinawa, but my dream didn’t come true. In fact, I stayed at my boyfriend’s home most of the time. I stayed there because I ran away from my home about 2 months ago and I have not returned yet…so I stayed with my boyfriend all the time. I had a big fight with my parents because of my trip with my boyfriend. I wanted to go to Okinawa during the summer vacation, but my parents didn’t let me go. They were dead against me all the time. Then they told me to go out and not to want to see me anymore. So I decided to leave.

2 months ago, he had to leave his room, so I helped to move my boyfriend’s. At the same time, I also needed to carry my belongings. That day was very hot…so we were melting. After I left my home, I was always free because I have no parents, so I could plan to go to Okinawa. My boyfriend and me planed to go to Okinawa or Hokkaido, but it was very expensive. Moreover, we couldn’t choose good plan to go because we started to plan around 10 days before! After all, we gave up going somewhere. So it was waste of time! But 2 weeks ago, I planned to go Okinawa again. Because I really want to go! Finally, my dreams will come true. We can go next month! My time with my boyfriend was lovely, but sometimes we had quarrels. But thanks to that, we can understand each other more. One day, we went to the park near his house and played joss-stick fireworks at 12 o’clock. I enjoyed that time very much. Now, I look back my summer vacation and think that it was not so bad. I will not experience like these things forever. So I will never forget my summer days and proud of it.

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HAVE A GOOD SUMMER HOLIDAY★

Corn♪

Corn is one of the popular vegetable. It is in season Jul~Aug. It contains sugariness, protein, fat,B1, B2, niacin etc. Corn contains lots of dietary fiber, so it helps to relieve constipation. In addition, it helps to prevent an arteriosclerosis and acute nephritis. Don't you think that corn is great vegetable? Let's eat more!
more information⇒English, Japanese, Yahoo! Kids, Shokuiku Daijiten

Wing Oxy Bar

Do you know Wing Oxy Bar ?
It is widely believed that nowadays many people are lack of good quality oxygen, therefore, oxygen products are coming easier to found everywhere. Wing Oxy Bar is one of them.
Do you know the benefits of oxygen? I'm sure you know that man can't live without it. But do you know that it has many other benefits? It helps to purify your blood, increase the strength of the heart and lungs and improve your metabolism, basically oxygen has 11 benefits, it helps to prevent or cure these 8 bad things...↓
Good
●Diet
●Skin enhancement
●Brain activation

Bad
●Tiredness
●Hangover
●Lifestyle-related illness
●Constipation
●Stiff shoulders
●Migraine
●Aging prevention
●Sleeplessness

Wing Oxy Bar came from the USA. In fact, "Wing Oxy Bar means aromatherapy Oxy Bar". Do you know that? So you can choose your favorite aromas, then you will absorb arom oxygen from a nose tube. I have tried it before. It helped me relax very much. If you interested in it, you can try it!★
It has 4 directly managed stores in Nagoya⇒Matsuzakaya in Sakae, Matsuzakaya and Meitetsu in Nagoya Station, AEON Nagoya Dome mae in Ozone.

★CHOCOLATE★

Do you like chocolate? I love chocolate very much because it makes me relax and ... so yummy,of course! These days people who are interested in it are increasing. Because not only it is tasty but it is also good for health. So I investigated about it.
1.Chocolate has a polyphenol . It inhibits the onset of an arteriosclerosis and a cancer.
2.Chocolate makes you relieve stress.
3.Chocolate can cure an allergy and rheumatism .
4.Cocoa can prevent propagating rapidly the germs. Also, a hurt can be got more earlier by cocoa.
5.Chocolate can elevate your concentration,attentiveness and memory.
6.Chocolate doesn't make you put on weight.
7.Cacao can prevent tooth decay.
8.Chocolate contains calcium,magnesium,iron,zinc and etc...
It contains enough mineral. It is a balanced food.

chocolate & cocoa association of japan

My favorite chocolates↓
Lotte
Meiji
Morinaga
BABBI
GODIVA

Sushi

Today, I went to eat sushi to SUSHIRO near NUFS with 5NUFS's foreign students and a NUFS's Japnese student. I have not ate KAITENZUSHI for a long time. In fact...I can't eat raw fish! I told it to my frinds. They were so surprized and asked me,'Are you Japanese?'. I answered,'Yes, I'm Japanese!'. hahaha!!! I ate Tamago,Meatball,Tuna,Daigakuimo and parfait. Are they dinner? uh...I don't think so. My friends are so funny, so I could not stop laughing all the time. They made me happy. I had a good good time.
By the way, do you have any plans of summer vacation? I'm thinking about it. I will go to Adelaide to see my host family again. I'm so looking forward to meet them★ I hope that I will have a good summer vacation.

Okonomiyaki♪

Hi, how are you? Yesterday I went to eat Okonomiyaki with my friends. We ordered a lot! For example Tonpeiyaki, Yakisoba, Monja, Modanyaki, dessert...and so forth. We ate a lot and talked so much. Finally we were full to the brim. I had a good time. I wanna go again★
I will have to study so hard tomorrow, so... do my best!!!

Laughter File

Here are some sites from YouTube.

really funny cat
You Tube has lots of cats movies. It is one of them. So stupid and funny! I like dogs than cats. But I am interested in cats more to watch these cats.

Funny Kids
So funny and cute! I don’t believe it !

vERY fUNNY dOGS 6
You Tube has lots of dogs movie. It is one of them. Which do you like cats or dogs? I like dogs. These dogs aren't normal dogs! This movie surprised me very much. If your spirits are low, you will look at this and you feel better.

Benefits of Laughter
A laugh makes you happy and cheerful, doesn’t it? Even if you are having a difficult time, it makes you feel better. After you laughed, you probably will think this, “what was I bothering? I can’t really remember it.” If you smile and laugh, everybody around you will feel happier, in fact, your brain relaxes more when you laugh, and whatever the problems you are worrying are likely to be solve as well when you are relax!　

Warai no kouka

2005 Benefit Laughter is the Best Medicine

LAUGHTER YOGA