Thanks, everyone!!! I had a really great time with you!! 

Adam~~~~~!!!!! 

Where is Sizuka~? 

"Say cheese~!!" 

Your essay is....?? 

Hey, boys!! 

Nice smiles!! 

Nozomi&Nana&.....Oh, Adam!!! 

Cute Cute Girls!!

Smile and Wormth
=Mini concert at the institution for handicaped people=


Today, we mandolin club visited a kind of certain institution for people who have some handicaps to participate the small concert. People there are engaged themselves in some work which they can do to train. Today, the mini concert was hold there and we were also invited. It's because we met the person who is woking there on the day of the last concert at Tsuda community center. The woman said to us on the day, "Thank you for beautiful and moving performance!! I was really touched and enjoyed!! Can you come to the institution next year and hold the concert? I want people there to listen your wonderful performance."
So, we decided to join today's concert!! Before we played, people there let us listen to their singing and the woman played for us some music with the harmonica. After that, we played 10 musics for them. People there gave us handclaps and they were singing to our music merrily. I myself really enjoyed playing and had a wonderful time there. Even though people there have some handicaps, they are more and more attractive as people than anybody. Their hearts are extremely pure and warm!! They gave me feel happy and let me smile from the bottom of my heart. I felt that we should respect them. If people talk and spend the same time with them, their feel of discrimination will vanish from their hearts. Besides I realized again that music has attractive power that can give people happiness and smile. I like people's smile very much!! I wanna let people smile through the sound of the Mandola. Today was the last chance for us to play together. Seniors (4th grade) withdrew from our club. Although I'm sorry about that, I was happy, becauses eniors said merrily "I'm satisfied with this last concert!!"
Thank you very much people whom I met today!!

↓↓Down down down...(w☆

Hachinohe
Sansha Taisai Festival

Maybe you understood basic information about my hometown through the following article. Then, I wanna introduce the famous big festival in my hometown which is also my favorite. If you anticipate the festival is Nabuta festival, you’re wrong!! Nebuta festival is the one in Aomori city.

The festival I wanna introduce is Sansha Taisai Festival which is regarded as Japan’s biggest float festival. The Sansha Taisai means that “the big festival of three shrines.” It is the festival for three shrines, Ogami Jinja Shrine, Choja San Shrine, and Shinra Jinja Shrine. The festival takes place every year, of July 31 to August 4. This 270-year-old festival is characterized by the parade of portable shrines and more than 20 wheeled floats gorgeously strolling around the streets. The float is pulled with two long ropes by many people, especially by children. They chant "Yo-I yo-i yoisa - yoisa yoisa - nose –,“ “ ya-re ya-re ya-re-ya-re,” and “ya-re koryanose – “to the sound of the Taiko "Japanese drums" and of the Fue "Japanese flutes". The decorated floats tell stories found in myths, old tales, or Kabuki plays. Besides, Mikoshi - "small portable temple" for three shrines and other attractive things such as ToraMai “dances of the tiger” (it is believed that if you’re bitten by the tigers, you are protected against the illness and the accidents.) and ShiShi Mai – “dance of the lions (although the posture is like the hybrid between the dog and the dragon.)”(The performance consists in making slap the mouth of the mask on a very definite rhythm. It is very impressive, especially when the troop executes it in unison) parade between floats. Whenever I listen to the sounds of the festival with Taiko and Fue, I’m very excited. I love this festival!!

I can’t tell you everything about this festival in this article, but I’m happy if you understand and be interested in my hometown through two articles. There are more interesting festivals like Enburi.
(This picture→)



Please visit my hometown if you want. It’s far from Osaka, but it’s worth visiting at least once☆ I’ll take you around my hometown then. By the way, I'll give you the presentation about my hometown more specifically on Friday. (^w^*) See you!!

You can see some pictures and videos of the floats here. ↓↓
http://www.city.hachinohe.aomori.jp/syokai/kankou/sansya/dasi_all/dasiitirann_2005.html
http://coasterdesign.net/2005/08/02-091909.php
http://www.hachinohe.jp/sanshataisai/index.html
http://www.toonippo.co.jp/douga/2004/sansha/digest_index.html

Enburi→http://www.hachinohe.jp/enburi/index.html

My lovable hometown
　　＊Hachinohe＊



Do you know Hachinohe city in Aomori prefecture? Maybe you don’t know well about it, so I wanna tell little about my hometown, Hachinohe city.

Hachinohe City, with about 250,000 inhabitants, is located in southeast Aomori Prefecture. It is especially famous in all of Japan for its marine products. (e.g. squid, mackerel, sardine) A large number of fishing boats come and go everyday. It is also famous in northern Tohoku for its industries. Hachinohe is and has been in the process of developing its port to be an international base distribution point.　Thanks for its location, there is the famous beautiful coast named Tanesashi coast. You must be fascinated by its beautiful scenery. The beach was crowded with many people who enjoy swimming, camping, picnicking, etc... There is also the unique where thousands of black-tailed seagulls (Umineko) gather especially in spring. This place is designated as a natural monument as a breeding place for the black-tailed seagull.　The place is Kabushima island. It is the breeding ground for them. The very scenic Kabushima Benzaiten shrine overlooks the ocean too. People in Hachinohe city speak in Nanbu dialect not it Tsugaru dialect. (Most of you guys think all of people in Aomori prefecture speak in Tsugaru one, though.) The Senbei-Jiru can be introduced as a famous local dish. The special product Nanbu Senbei (flat rice cracker made by out of flour and salt.) is softened in the soup which is based on soy sauce flavor with many delicious vegetables. I love it!!

There are more and more and more attractive places, foods, goods in my hometown, but I can’t tell you all of them here. In the next article, I wanna tell you about the famous festival in my hometown, Sansha Taisai festival. To be continued…

Wow!! Amazing, isn't it??!? I found this car when I visited the Hirosaki city which is on the side of the Sea of Japan in Aomori prefecture. The city has more and more snow than my hometown in winter, because of the location.

Have you ever seen "Kamakura"? It's the Kamakura made by my friend in Akita prefecture.

Can you see this girl?? This Is Rami!!!! Long time no see!! 

We IES-B girls went to the Asian days near the station and ate Yamucha!! Happy birthday, Lingfang and Yuri!!  

Kobe Ruminarie?? My friend went there!! I wanted to go.... 

"Spices" for comunication

"The new movie titled ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ is really exciting, isn’t it?" “Yeah! I like the last scene the best! How about you? ” Women’s lively voices and laughter were reverberating through the room without cease, next to the men who talk calmly just like that “I watched the movie named ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ yesterday.” “Oh, how was it?” “Good.” Like other countries in the world, you can find the difference of communication styles also in Japan, especially in the field of “speech patterns.”

First, women often use some quantifiers effectively in their conversation such as “sort of,” “a bit,” and “kind of.” They also use the adverb “maybe” frequently. Because they place a special emphasis on the maintenance of the harmony, they use the soft-spoken words not to be oppressive and impress modest images to listeners. Second, women also use some “ending tags” such as “isn’t it?” or “doesn’t it?” It may be because they tend to want listeners to give assents to their opinions. Finally, women put some conversational “spices” that is called intensifiers like “very,” “really,” and “much.” By doing that, they try to make the conversation more exciting and tell their feelings or thoughts more vividly. In contrast to the communication styles of women, those of men are very simple. They don’t need so many “spices” as women. They put emphasis on what speaker says rather than how speaker says. So there is no greasy relationship among men.

30days @ Straight/Gay @

"Everyone is different, but everyone is attractive as he/she is." ---Through this movie I could think deeply about new things which I've never thought before. The issue of homosexuality is not familiar to our daily life in Japan. It doesn't create big divide among people here. I think this can be one of the reason for it that there is no particular religion in Japan and people are not oppressed by the force of it. However, we can't say that there is not bias toward homosexualities. Because the issue of homosexalities. Because the issue of homosexualities is not familiar to us, we tend to misunderstand it. Some famous people/TV talents reveal that they're gay/lesbian without any hesitation and people around them make fun of them in the TV screen. So people may haven't taken the issue of homosexualities as a serious one. There are even some people who think that homosexuality is a mental illness or emotional problem. People tend to deny the objects which are different from themselves, only because they're different. Without trying to understand them, people incline to judge by appearances or images. There must be a stereotype. I've met two foreign women who love each other before. When I first knew that they're lesbians, to be honest, I staggered at the truth and my view toward them changed clarly, because that was the first time for me to meet homosexual people. However, we're getting know each other, the stereotype died without notice. I like them as a person and I became to be able to think that "homosexuality" is also one of the characters. In this movie, finally Ryan became good friend with Ed triumphing the wall for them, the stereotype toward homosexuality. Although it's still difficult for Ryan not to believe words in the Bible, he likes Ed as a person and his view has clearly changed positively through this experience. His mind was broadened.
In our daily life, we rarely see or think things from the viewpoint of others. However, to broad our mind and understand each other with more people, it's very important for us to pause for a moment and think calmly from other point of view. Even if it's not for 30 days, it would be a great plus for you and everyone. "Everyone is different, but everyone is attractive as he/she is."

What I want...

I don't want to see any conflict
What I want to see is your smile

I don't want any position
What I want is unshaken will

I don't want any wealth
What I want is beautiful sky

I don't want to be liked by everyone
What I want is my sanctuary

I don't know why do people strive to get such meaningless things
What on earth is await you after getting them?
I don't want anything
I just want to smile with someone under the beautiful blue sky...


I'm so embarrased to put my parallel structure here.(>w<:)
But it's my true feeling. Sometimes, I'm tired of this competitive society, and I hope to be free from any pressure or stress. Don't you feel like this? Um~... Do I escape from reality?
Don't you feel sometimes to fly toward the free sky? Hehe☆

Oo。Super Super Size Me。0O


Through this movie, my image toward America had changed, and I could learn various things. Although I had known that there are a lot of overweight people in the U.S., the number of that highly exceeded my expectation. Over 100,000,000 Americans- 60% of the U.S. adult population are overweight or obese, and these numbershave doubled since 1980. That's unbelievable!! The fact that obesity is now only second to smoking as the major cause of preventable death in the U.S. shows that the obese is really serious problem for Americans. In spite of the dangerous situation, Americans are still absorbed in McDonals world. Not only Americans, but people all over the world are captive of McDonals. The shopes are keep prevailing throughout the earth restlessly. Mc Donals almost makes itself, so to speak, the conqueror of the world. What on the earth is the attraction of it? Is it a low price? Is it the taste? I wondered for a while, but I still cannot find the best answer for this question. We might be fascinated by the magical power unconsciously.

If I were Morgan, I would give up in only a couple of days.
I would miss other foods like rice, miso soup, or something refreshing. Even if the food I have to eat for 30 days is my favorite one, I wouldn't be able to achieve!
So I respect his strong will. I was astonished by the surprising fact that Morgan gained 24 pounds, his cholesterol rose 40 percent, he felt lousy for many times, and his sex life collapses, only for 30 days!! It made me to be afraid of the bad influences which the eating fast foods causes, and at the same time, I cannnot help worring about people's health conditions who eats McDonals everyday. Their body must scream with their bad eating habits.
It would be clear by their appearance, although there are some exception like the man in this movie who is surprisingly bony.
It might be difficult to change their eating habits, but they themselves have to take care of their own body more and more if they don't want to end their lives early. Besides themselves, American society also should exert it self to improve citizen's health.
For example, schools especially elementary schools have to provide well-balanced lunch for students like Japan, not to allow students to choose what they want. Because they tend to choose unhealthy foods and they can't learn proper eating habits. Whether their future became better or worse depend on their parents too.
Actually, in Japan, obese people tends to be looked as people who can't control themselves and social evaluation toward them is low. So, education of foods and health is important for children.

I think I'm healthier than before because I conquered my likes and dislikes about food, vegetables. Yet I realized through this movie that I have to pay attention to my eating habit, because I'm living alone here. This movie gave me valuable opportunity to think deeply about health. Thank you, Morgan!! (^w^*)// M M M

@@"Okusama" or "Kanai"@@

The connotation I found is the word which means "Wife."
In Japanese, there are at least 5 words that mean wife, such as "Yome," "Tsuma," "Kanai," "Okusama," "Nyoubou." I'm going to give you an example about two words, "Kanai" and "Okusama" this time. The word Kanai is a neutral connotation which is only used by the husband. For example, when a husband introduces his wife to others, he says "Uchi no Kanai desu. (This is my wife.)" Make sure you can't use this word toward people except your wife. If you use, it would be very strange and rude.
On the other hand, the word "Okusama" is a positive connotation, which shows polite meaning.
For example, when you want to talk about someone's wife, you can say "Okusama ha nanio shite irassharu no desuka? (What does your wife does?/What is your wife's occupation?) " Then, remember you can't use this word for your own wife, because it's the honorific word.
When I tried to start writing about this connotation, I realized that I myself don't understand the exact uses of the word, like which is positive connotation and which is negative. I should know more about Japanese...Hehe☆ Besides this connotation, there are a lot of connotation in Japanese, of course in other languages. I'm interested in them!! (^w^*)//

∞What is Intelligence??∞

Q1: Do you think intelligence is fixed at birth or constantly changing? Explain.

I think intelligence is constantly changing. Although there might be little difference of intelligence by inheritance, it's up to ourselves whether we waste or improve it in our later life. If we make every effort to find out and make the most of our inherent intelligence, it would improve dramatically. Besides, various instructive experiences, profitable meeting with people and helpful knowledges from varied kinds of books would enrich our intelligence. On the other hand, if we don't make any your efforts and don't do anything on our own initiatives, our intelligence would end without being displayed, even if we're endowed great intelligence. It wouldn't change magically without any action.

Q2: why do some highly intelligent people fail to achieve their potential?

Three reasons came to my mind. First of all, they can't achieve their potential because of their lack of efforts. Even if they're given high intelligence, if they're satisfied with their present level and be effortless, they would never be able to develop themselves. Second, they fail to achieve because their parents force their disires or ideals on their children too much. Obedient children follow their parents' ideas and can't display their talents in the filed where they should be or they want be. Lastly, this can be the reason that they couldn't blessed with people who help them to bring out their intelligence and opportunity to call forth their intelligence.

Q3: Why do some people of seemingly average intelligence achieve extraordinary success?

I think, as Thomas Alva Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." and nothing can defeat efforts. Although they faced a lot of difficulties in the process for their success, they would have been able to achieve extraordinary success, because they had strong will which can defeat any difficulties and unyielding spirit by which they can change disadvantages to advantages. People gathers around such people naturally and give them a helping hand. Even the fortune smiles on them.

Camellia? 

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