<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159</id><updated>2011-04-22T04:51:23.542+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Haku na matata</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>97</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834423803121925</id><published>2006-01-27T15:43:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:43:58.030+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/IES4.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/IES4.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks, everyone!!! I had a really great time with you!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834423803121925?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834423803121925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834423803121925' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834423803121925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834423803121925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/thanks-everyone-i-had-really-great.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834411487972332</id><published>2006-01-27T15:41:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:41:54.886+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Adam.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Adam.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam~~~~~!!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834411487972332?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834411487972332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834411487972332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834411487972332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834411487972332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/adam.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834410986612391</id><published>2006-01-27T15:41:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:41:49.876+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/ies.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/ies.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is Sizuka~?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834410986612391?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834410986612391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834410986612391' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834410986612391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834410986612391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/where-is-sizuka.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834399037564797</id><published>2006-01-27T15:39:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:39:50.386+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Dango.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Dango.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Say cheese~!!"&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834399037564797?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834399037564797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834399037564797' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834399037564797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834399037564797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/say-cheese.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834391941098518</id><published>2006-01-27T15:38:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:38:39.446+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Ayu.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Ayu.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your essay is....??&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834391941098518?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834391941098518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834391941098518' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834391941098518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834391941098518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/your-essay-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834389242621862</id><published>2006-01-27T15:38:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:38:12.436+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/BOYs.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/BOYs.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, boys!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834389242621862?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834389242621862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834389242621862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834389242621862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834389242621862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/hey-boys.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834379246072298</id><published>2006-01-27T15:36:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:36:32.470+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/SepiAnn.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/SepiAnn.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice smiles!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834379246072298?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834379246072298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834379246072298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834379246072298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834379246072298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-smiles.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834373792736638</id><published>2006-01-27T15:35:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:35:37.926+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Nozona.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Nozona.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nozomi&amp;Nana&amp;.....Oh, Adam!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834373792736638?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834373792736638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834373792736638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834373792736638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834373792736638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/nozomi.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113834355520724080</id><published>2006-01-27T15:32:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T15:45:31.993+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Girls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Girls.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cute Cute Girls!! &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113834355520724080?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113834355520724080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113834355520724080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834355520724080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113834355520724080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/cute-cute-girls.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113784914180500170</id><published>2006-01-21T21:22:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T14:57:57.600+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 148px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 106px" height="116" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%201339.jpg" width="160" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Smile&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Wormth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;=Mini concert&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; at the institution for handicaped people=&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;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."&lt;br /&gt;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!!"&lt;br /&gt;Thank you very much people whom I met today!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;↓↓Down down down...(w☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113784914180500170?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113784914180500170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113784914180500170' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113784914180500170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113784914180500170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/smile-and-wormth-mini-concert-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113723503176476698</id><published>2006-01-14T19:35:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T20:57:17.193+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/P7314379bbb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 191px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" height="147" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/P7314379bbb.jpg" width="171" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;Hachinohe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Sansha Taisai&lt;/span&gt; Festival&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/san2005-1.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="199" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/320/san2005-1.jpg" width="139" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/P1050659bb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/P1050659bb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Shrine, Choja San Shrine, and Shinra Jinja Shrine. The festival takes place every year, o&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/om9613b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/om9613b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;f 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" &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/om9616b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/om9616b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/tora.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/tora.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/shishi2-w200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/shishi2-w200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;(This picture→) &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/enburi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 126px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px" height="148" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/enburi.jpg" width="153" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;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^*) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;See you!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;You can see some pictures and videos of the floats here. ↓↓&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.city.hachinohe.aomori.jp/syokai/kankou/sansya/dasi_all/dasiitirann_2005.html"&gt;http://www.city.hachinohe.aomori.jp/syokai/kankou/sansya/dasi_all/dasiitirann_2005.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://coasterdesign.net/2005/08/02-091909.php"&gt;http://coasterdesign.net/2005/08/02-091909.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hachinohe.jp/sanshataisai/index.html"&gt;http://www.hachinohe.jp/sanshataisai/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.toonippo.co.jp/douga/2004/sansha/digest_index.html"&gt;http://www.toonippo.co.jp/douga/2004/sansha/digest_index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enburi→&lt;a href="http://www.hachinohe.jp/enburi/index.html"&gt;http://www.hachinohe.jp/enburi/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113723503176476698?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113723503176476698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113723503176476698' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113723503176476698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113723503176476698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/hachinohe-sansha-taisai-festival-maybe.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113722407401743696</id><published>2006-01-14T16:32:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T18:00:51.843+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/tanesasi1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/hachimap.0.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="115" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/hachimap.0.gif" width="114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;My&lt;/span&gt; lovable &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;hometown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;　　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;＊&lt;/span&gt;Hachinohe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/p0001811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 152px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px" height="106" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/p0001811.jpg" width="154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/?????????.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="105" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F.jpg" width="104" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/tanesashi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 167px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" height="113" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/tanesashi.jpg" width="153" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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, &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/senbei2.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="175" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/senbei2.1.jpg" width="130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/jinja2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 151px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 129px" height="137" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/jinja2.jpg" width="172" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/tanesasi1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 143px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" height="112" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/tanesasi1.jpg" width="174" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/senbei2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113722407401743696?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113722407401743696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113722407401743696' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113722407401743696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113722407401743696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-lovable-hometown-hachinohe-do-you.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113721565098270878</id><published>2006-01-14T14:14:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T14:16:27.630+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow!! &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amazing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, isn't it??!? I found this car when I visited the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Hirosaki city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which is on the side of the &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sea of Japan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in Aomori prefecture. The city has more and more snow than my hometown in winter, because of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113721565098270878?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113721565098270878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113721565098270878' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113721565098270878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113721565098270878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/wow-amazing-isnt-it-i-found-this-car.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113721484867940764</id><published>2006-01-14T14:00:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T14:19:01.060+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever seen "&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kamakura&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"? It's the Kamakura made by my friend in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Akita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; prefecture.&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113721484867940764?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113721484867940764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113721484867940764' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113721484867940764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113721484867940764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2006/01/have-you-ever-seen-kamakura-its.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113532063994070329</id><published>2005-12-23T15:50:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T15:50:39.946+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Rami.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Rami.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you see this girl?? This Is Rami!!!! Long time no see!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113532063994070329?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113532063994070329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113532063994070329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532063994070329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532063994070329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/can-you-see-this-girl-this-is-rami.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113532024761921994</id><published>2005-12-23T15:44:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T15:44:07.626+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Birthday.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Birthday.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We IES-B girls went to the Asian days near the station and ate Yamucha!! Happy birthday, Lingfang and Yuri!! &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113532024761921994?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113532024761921994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113532024761921994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532024761921994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532024761921994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/we-ies-b-girls-went-to-asian-days-near.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113532009706430403</id><published>2005-12-23T15:41:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T15:41:37.110+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/Ruminarie.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/Ruminarie.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kobe Ruminarie?? My friend went there!! I wanted to go....&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113532009706430403?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113532009706430403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113532009706430403' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532009706430403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113532009706430403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/kobe-ruminarie-my-friend-went-there-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113445623134945391</id><published>2005-12-13T15:40:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-13T15:55:00.596+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff99ff;"&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Spices&lt;/span&gt;" for comunication&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#339999;"&gt;"The new movie titled ‘Mr. &amp; 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. &amp;amp; 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.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#339999;"&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113445623134945391?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113445623134945391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113445623134945391' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113445623134945391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113445623134945391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/spices-for-comunication-new-movie.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113434239404736145</id><published>2005-12-12T07:49:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-12T08:13:53.616+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 117px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 70px" height="142" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/images.jpg" width="140" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30days &lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;@ &lt;/span&gt;Straight/Gay &lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;"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. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;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."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113434239404736145?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113434239404736145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113434239404736145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113434239404736145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113434239404736145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/30days-straightgay-everyone-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113399741933681274</id><published>2005-12-08T08:08:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-12-08T08:25:09.423+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I want...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want to see any conflict&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I want to see is your smile&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want any position&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I want is unshaken will&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want any wealth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I want is beautiful sky&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want to be liked by everyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I want is my sanctuary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't know why do people strive to get such meaningless things&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What on earth is await you after getting them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want anything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I just want to smile with someone under the beautiful blue sky...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;I'm so embarrased to put my parallel structure here.(&gt;w&lt;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;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?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;Don't you feel sometimes to fly toward the free sky? Hehe☆ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113399741933681274?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113399741933681274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113399741933681274' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113399741933681274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113399741933681274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-i-want.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113248206060706470</id><published>2005-11-20T19:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-20T20:46:16.100+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/supersiemze.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/supersiemze.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Oo。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Super&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt; Super&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Size &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;。0O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I were Morgan, I would give up in only a couple of days.&lt;br /&gt;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!&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;It would be clear by their appearance, although there are some exception like the man in this movie who is surprisingly bony.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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^*)//&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;M &lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt; M&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113248206060706470?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113248206060706470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113248206060706470' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113248206060706470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113248206060706470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/oosuper-super-size-me0o-through-this.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113220426179846311</id><published>2005-11-17T13:27:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-20T20:48:25.146+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;@@&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;Okusama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;Kanai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;@@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;The connotation I found is the word which means "Wife."&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, the word "Okusama" is a positive connotation, which shows polite meaning.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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^*)//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113220426179846311?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113220426179846311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113220426179846311' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113220426179846311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113220426179846311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/okusama-or-kanai-connotation-i-found.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113195922862576579</id><published>2005-11-14T18:01:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-14T18:37:02.253+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#99ffff;"&gt;∞&lt;/span&gt;What is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;I&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;l&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;i&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#99ffff;"&gt;∞&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q1: Do you think intelligence is fixed at birth or constantly changing? Explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Q2: why do some highly intelligent people fail to achieve their potential?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Q3: Why do some people of seemingly average intelligence achieve extraordinary success?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113195922862576579?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113195922862576579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113195922862576579' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113195922862576579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113195922862576579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-is-intelligence-q1-do-you-think.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179428745721575</id><published>2005-11-12T20:18:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:18:07.463+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%201050.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%201050.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camellia?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179428745721575?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179428745721575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179428745721575' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179428745721575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179428745721575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/camellia.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179413510778252</id><published>2005-11-12T20:15:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:15:35.106+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20978.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20978.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you wanna go??&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179413510778252?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179413510778252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179413510778252' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179413510778252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179413510778252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/do-you-wanna-go.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179409611943626</id><published>2005-11-12T20:14:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:14:56.130+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20985.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20985.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Kyoto~~!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179409611943626?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179409611943626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179409611943626' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179409611943626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179409611943626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-love-kyoto.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179405667783499</id><published>2005-11-12T20:14:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:14:16.686+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20975.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20975.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel so relaxed...(w&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179405667783499?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179405667783499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179405667783499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179405667783499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179405667783499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-feel-so-relaxed.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179402205796790</id><published>2005-11-12T20:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:13:42.066+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20993.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20993.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of people...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179402205796790?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179402205796790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179402205796790' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179402205796790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179402205796790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/there-are-lot-of-people.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179392411698688</id><published>2005-11-12T20:12:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:12:04.123+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%201015.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%201015.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How wonderful this red leaves are!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179392411698688?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179392411698688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179392411698688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179392411698688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179392411698688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-wonderful-this-red-leaves-are.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113179386173450426</id><published>2005-11-12T20:11:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T20:11:01.776+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%201051.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%201051.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to the Kodaiji temple with Anna!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113179386173450426?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113179386173450426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113179386173450426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179386173450426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113179386173450426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-went-to-kodaiji-temple-with-anna.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113170956860389480</id><published>2005-11-11T20:46:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-11T20:46:08.610+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20945.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20945.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cute mini Xmas tree!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113170956860389480?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113170956860389480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113170956860389480' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113170956860389480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113170956860389480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/cute-mini-xmas-tree.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113145903377134180</id><published>2005-11-08T22:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-08T23:18:43.116+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="161" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20944.0.jpg" width="221" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ff99;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Gotouchi Kitty&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ff99;"&gt;* &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;(^・w・^) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Do you know the "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Gotouchi Kitty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"? The animation character "Hello Kitty" wears various kinds of costumes and it represents the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;special products&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;estivals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;in each prefecture. From when I first bought the Gotouchi Kitty from Yamanashi prefecture, I have been collecting them steadly. Now, I have 7 from different prefectures including &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Aomori&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;Ishikawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yamanashi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Kyoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Shiga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kouchi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nagasaki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; prefecture. I received some of them from my friend, and I bought the others by myself. Because I'm really interested in the culture in each area, they are so attractive for me. What's more, they are very cute♪ Although I have only &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;7 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;now, I wanna add to my colloction hereafter. What does the Gotouchi Kitty from your &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;hometown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; describe? I'm very curious to know it!! Please tell me and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;give&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; it to me....(w☆　I'll give you the Gotouchi Kitty from Aomori prefecture in return. Hehe&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;　I wanna travel all over Japan and collect the Gotouchi Kitty someday!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113145903377134180?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113145903377134180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113145903377134180' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113145903377134180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113145903377134180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/gotouchi-kitty-w-do-you-know-gotouchi.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113127690796169659</id><published>2005-11-06T19:12:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T20:56:19.356+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 144px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px" height="138" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20937.0.jpg" width="149" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;C&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;t &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;t&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; c&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;m&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;u&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;i&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;y &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;r&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;～&lt;/span&gt;♪&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="130" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20926.jpg" width="179" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;　　　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Today, we mandolin club visited the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;Tsuda community center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to perform at the concert. We were asked to perform by the organizer of the concert. This concert was the first time for me to perform in front of such a lot of people. There were more than&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt; 50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; people there. I was little nervous at the begining, but once I started playing, I became relaxed little by little. The concert was absolutely &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;successful&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;☆ I really enjoyed playing and the audience were pleased very much!! Most of the audience were over 50 years old, so I remembered my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;grandpa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;grandma&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in my hometown. They were very warmhearted people and gave us affectionate smiles. Because I have no chance to communicate with senior citizen in my new life, today was the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt; precious&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; time for me!! I was so &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;happy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;to talk with them♪ I like to spend the time with senior citizen or middle-aged people, because there were many senior citizen around me in my hometown. I became more and more want to go back to my hometown!!&lt;br /&gt;When I introduced myself in front of them and said my hometown, they were really surprised!!　Hehe♪(^w^*)//&lt;br /&gt;One of the audience talk to us after the concert. She asked us to perform at the&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;institution for disabled people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; next time. I was very happy about that. Maybe we'll perform in next month. I hope this nice wave would spread &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one after another&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and more and more people get to like the Mandolin. I wanna make people feel happy by the sound of the Mandola.&lt;br /&gt;Besides our performance, one professsional pianist and soprano singer performed at the concert. Their performance was amazing!!! Her voice was just like the &lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;angel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and attract us strongly!! I couldn't believe that such a loud voice came out from the slender woman. I was touched and nearly cried by her beautiful voice. At the ending of the concert, we sung three songs together. I felt again that how&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt; wonderful&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the music is!! I had a really good time today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;I wanna treasure the meeting with people all the time.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;♪&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 134px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 105px" height="103" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20936.jpg" width="155" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113127690796169659?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113127690796169659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113127690796169659' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113127690796169659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113127690796169659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/concert-at-community-center-today-we.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113120500343556276</id><published>2005-11-06T00:36:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T00:36:43.496+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20916.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20916.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kirin &amp; Chidori &amp; Buffalo Gorou&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113120500343556276?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113120500343556276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113120500343556276' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120500343556276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120500343556276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/kirin.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113120488258539407</id><published>2005-11-06T00:34:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T00:34:42.593+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20904.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20904.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They're looking toward me?!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113120488258539407?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113120488258539407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113120488258539407' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120488258539407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120488258539407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/theyre-looking-toward-me.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113120473089515447</id><published>2005-11-06T00:32:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T00:32:10.903+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20901.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20901.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cool and beautiful women!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113120473089515447?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113120473089515447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113120473089515447' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120473089515447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120473089515447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/cool-and-beautiful-women.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113120468091891184</id><published>2005-11-06T00:31:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T00:31:20.930+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20898.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20898.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is Spain!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113120468091891184?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113120468091891184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113120468091891184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120468091891184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120468091891184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/here-is-spain.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113120455642027596</id><published>2005-11-06T00:15:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T00:29:16.436+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="116" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20891.jpg" width="161" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;＊＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;The &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;third &lt;/span&gt;day of &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;KG&lt;/span&gt; Festival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;＊＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;　&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;　　　I visited some booth of other clubs with my friend of the same club today! First, we went to the&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;guitar club’s booth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; next to our booth to listen to their performance. The sounds of guitar were so fascinating and made me feel &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;peaceful&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;★ I wonder that how wonderful it is if I can play the guitar like them. They were playing the guitar with smile. I felt that I should follow their example!! Playing the musical instrument is so glamourous, isn’t it!? Hehe♪ Next, we visited the booth of &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flamenco club&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I’ve never seen such a breathtaking performance!! Soooo wonderful!! I felt just like I was in Spain. I wanna wear that costume~!! I wanna dance like them~!! They were really cool and beautiful☆ People who sung the song for flamenco were so talented!! They were singing the songs &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;passionately&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in Spanish. The performance was so amazing that I felt as if the time passed very quickly!! If I was given another life, I would try to dance flamenco. Ah…I can in this life, can’t I?? Besides, I saw the&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Comedy Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; at the Tanimoto memorial Hall. Did you go? I couldn’t stop laughing from the start to the end of the show. Comedians were so funny!! I was happy to see them immediately, although I couldn’t believe there are famous people very in front of me☆ My seat was the&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; third&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; line from the front row actually. Anyway, I had a really good time today!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;How about your time for the festival?? Did you enjoy it?? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="146" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20913.jpg" width="181" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113120455642027596?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113120455642027596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113120455642027596' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120455642027596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113120455642027596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/third-day-of-kg-festival-i-visited.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119744506720270</id><published>2005-11-05T22:30:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:30:45.073+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20865.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20865.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cute!!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119744506720270?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119744506720270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119744506720270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119744506720270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119744506720270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/cute.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119734222127266</id><published>2005-11-05T22:29:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:29:02.226+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20838.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20838.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how many people came here and gave us applauses...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119734222127266?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119734222127266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119734222127266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119734222127266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119734222127266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-wonder-how-many-people-came-here-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119720831998444</id><published>2005-11-05T22:26:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:26:48.326+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20858.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20858.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could you feel as if you're in Italy??&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119720831998444?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119720831998444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119720831998444' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119720831998444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119720831998444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/could-you-feel-as-if-youre-in-italy.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119707855565117</id><published>2005-11-05T22:24:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:24:38.560+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20842.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20842.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Request songs~!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119707855565117?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119707855565117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119707855565117' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119707855565117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119707855565117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/request-songs.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119686148504279</id><published>2005-11-05T22:21:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:21:01.490+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20834.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20834.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music Cafe "Mandolino"&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119686148504279?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119686148504279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119686148504279' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119686148504279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119686148504279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/music-cafe-mandolino.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113119668413919447</id><published>2005-11-05T22:02:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-05T22:18:04.160+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20862.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　Wonderful three days　&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　　　&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;M&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;d&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;i&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;　　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Today was the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt; last&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; day of our performance during the Kansai Gaidai Festival. During the festival, how many songs on earth did we play!? I have totally no idea!! (TwT*)// We prepared &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; songs for visitors to make various requests. They could listen to music as many as they want with a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;hot drink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and some &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sweets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I worked as a waitress while playing the music. It was hard, but I felt interesting for it too!! Visitors gave us words which are full of appreciations. They were the happiest present for us!! So, even if there were few people in front of us, we played with our whole hearts of&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; gratitude&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I myself enjoyed playing too!! For three days, a lot of people came to our booth 2107 including &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Adam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and classmates of IES-B☆ Thank you &lt;strong&gt;soooooooooooo&lt;/strong&gt; much, everyone!! I was really glad for your coming. Although we couldn’t performance completely, I hope you had a nice time with us and got to like the Mandolin♪ Maybe you won’t be able to come our concert on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;December 10th &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;because of the TOEFL test, please come to it next year!! OK?? (&gt;w&lt;*)// I was fascinated by playing the Mandola more and more through this festival!! I’ll keep trying hard to tell the attraction of performance of Mandolin with other instruments for a lot of people!!&lt;br /&gt;Anyway,&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; thank you everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 113px" height="242" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/320/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20918.jpg" width="213" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113119668413919447?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113119668413919447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113119668413919447' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119668413919447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113119668413919447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/wonderful-three-days-mandolino-today.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113110474758230875</id><published>2005-11-04T20:45:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-11-04T20:45:47.590+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20859.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20859.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With my senior who plays the same musical instrument, Mandola!! Thank you for comming, everyone!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113110474758230875?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113110474758230875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113110474758230875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113110474758230875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113110474758230875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/11/with-my-senior-who-plays-same-musical.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068575936386410</id><published>2005-10-31T00:22:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:22:39.370+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20783.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20783.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two reindeers!! Merry Halloween Xmas!??&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068575936386410?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068575936386410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068575936386410' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068575936386410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068575936386410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/two-reindeers-merry-halloween-xmas.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068571384477174</id><published>2005-10-31T00:21:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:21:53.843+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20765.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20765.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to the bar as wearing the costumes...shameful!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068571384477174?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068571384477174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068571384477174' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068571384477174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068571384477174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/we-went-to-bar-as-wearing-costumes.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068567720319225</id><published>2005-10-31T00:21:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:21:17.226+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20791.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20791.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comical or horrible?!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068567720319225?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068567720319225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068567720319225' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068567720319225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068567720319225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/comical-or-horrible.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068558747140336</id><published>2005-10-31T00:19:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:19:47.483+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20810.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20810.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow...Strange people...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068558747140336?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068558747140336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068558747140336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068558747140336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068558747140336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/wow.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068551117523484</id><published>2005-10-31T00:18:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:18:31.186+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20792.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20792.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samurai and Animals!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068551117523484?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068551117523484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068551117523484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068551117523484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068551117523484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/samurai-and-animals.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068546142423870</id><published>2005-10-31T00:17:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:17:41.436+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/320/%20802.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/104/5764/200/%20802.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Halloween~!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068546142423870?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068546142423870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068546142423870' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068546142423870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068546142423870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/happy-halloween.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-113068373463156084</id><published>2005-10-30T22:48:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-31T00:35:09.896+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 168px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" height="147" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/320/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20738.0.jpg" width="226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;i&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;k &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;R t&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Halloween Party at OEH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;On October 29th, we had the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Halloween party&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the nearby bar.&lt;br /&gt;As you know, my apartment is unique, and various events such as BBQ hold twice a month.&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Itsumi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;has joined the BBQ once☆)&lt;br /&gt;In October, members in my apartment joined two events as usual, the &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sports festival&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in Hirakata and the Halloween party. (I couldn't join the sports festival because I had the club activity on that day, though.)&lt;br /&gt;This time, my friend who joins the same club took part in the party! We had to dress up as someone or something and go to the bar &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;as wearing the costume&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;It is&lt;em&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;sooooo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; shameful, isn't it!?&lt;br /&gt;A lot of people passing us on the street&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt; gazed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; us and their eyes windened in surprise...(TwT)&lt;br /&gt;However, because I wasn't alone and everyone wore noticeable costumes, I didn't feel ashamed so much. About&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; people including people from various countries joined this party, and dressed up in interesting costumes. Some people dressed up with a&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;devil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and other people changed himself into a Japanese&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; samurai&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. There were also some &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;animation caracters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and people who wore the&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese dress&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. What do you think did I and my friend choose as the Halloween costume?? The answer is.... the &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REINDEERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!! You must think this is out of season. Hehe♪ But there was no way except this for busy girls, because we could buy the costumes at the&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100 yen shop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!! After finishing the club activity, we rushed to the shop and bought them on the day.&lt;br /&gt;For me, dressing up for the Halloween was the&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; first time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It was really exciting and precious experience! I have to start thinking about what would I become for the&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; next&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Halloween party from now. I want you guys to join the party next year☆ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Besides, please join various other events at my apartment if you want!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;I always &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;welcome you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 126px" height="129" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20803.jpg" width="146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 92px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 128px" height="123" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20833.jpg" width="108" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Please leave your comments☆" by&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt; Piggy reindeer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-113068373463156084?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/113068373463156084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=113068373463156084' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068373463156084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/113068373463156084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/trick-or-treat-halloween-party-at-oeh.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112948946017004680</id><published>2005-10-17T04:00:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-10-17T04:04:20.183+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;＊＊&lt;/span&gt;50 First Dates&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;＊＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(A＋)  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Do you believe the fated meeting? Do you think love can overcome everything?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;   This film let me believe they are possible, and it told me an importance of strong will to change the head wind to fair wind and believing.&lt;br /&gt;    Henry Roth who works at a Hawaiian sea world as an animal doctor was famous for having his island fling. (This story is unfolds from his point of view.) But he had been believed that a woman who loves him very much and wants to stay in Hawaii forever (not only vacation) will appear someday. He is very kindhearted man in reality, although people around them tend to think that he is flippant. His love for animals and the heroine symbolize it vividly.&lt;br /&gt;    One summer day, he encounters an attractive local woman, Lucy who is tomboyish and had a very pure heart at the local seaside diner. Soon, they socialize with each other and make promise to have a breakfast everyday together. Everything seems to be all right, and nothing can interfere with their happiness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;    However, he comes to know an unexpected fact that she has a short-term memory loss because of the terrible accident on October 13th. He was shocked at the fact that she don’t remember about him on the next day. Yet he never give up, even when her family who also follows the same routine everyday not to confuse her and other people around her try to keep him away from her. He tries to win her heart every morning in a different way to have a breakfast with her, even if she forgets about him everyday and acts differently. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;    In the repeating days, she realizes accidentally that it’s not October 13th and feels strange about her family’s act for several months. Thanks to the idea of Roth to use video tape, she can start the new life. Even if she forgets about the day before, she can remember about it by watching the video tape on the morning. Everything seems to be OK this time, but again, they face the difficulty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;    She suggests that she wants to break up with him and eliminate the memory about him by thinking there is no happy future between them. Yet finally, love overcomes every difficulties! They marriages and starts the voyage with their family.&lt;br /&gt;    There are two impressive scenes for me. One is that walrus acts like human, like waving, kissing, or nodding. It was sooo cute and admirable! One of my dreams is to work at the sea world overseas like him and spend a lot of time with dolphins or other sea animals. So every scene at the Hawaiian sea world were attractive for me. Another impressive scene is that Lucy’s family clears various things every night after Lucy goes to bed. Her father’s disconsolate face is unforgettable. If I were him, I would not be able to put up with the repeating life.&lt;br /&gt;   Through this movie, I could learn a lot of important things, especially love and belief. My heart was cleaned up by this romantic and emotional story. I hope I can encounter such a wonderful love someday…. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112948946017004680?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112948946017004680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112948946017004680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112948946017004680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112948946017004680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/10/50-first-dates-do-you-believe-fated.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112801167563532684</id><published>2005-09-30T01:34:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-30T01:34:35.653+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20679.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20679.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They heals me everyday!! Soooo soft and comfortable. Cute, aren't they!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112801167563532684?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112801167563532684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112801167563532684' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112801167563532684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112801167563532684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/they-heals-me-everyday-soooo-soft-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112801044751973556</id><published>2005-09-30T00:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-30T01:27:27.620+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If I were....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seeing is believing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;” (Hyakubunha-ikkenni-shikazu.) It’s a famous proverb. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;After seeing “30 days”, this proverb came to my mind, and I also felt that “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;experiencing is believing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;” Even if you try to image others’ lives which are completely different from yours, you cannot understand their feeling and their situation. There is a limit of understanding unless you experience it and feel with your heart personally. ”&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experience is the best teacher&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;” I think, it’s the best way to understand people that you experience their lives and see (think about) things from their points of view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;I respect Morgan and Alex, because they decided to start minimum wage life by themselves and didn’t give up halfway. They would have needed a lot of courage and will. It’s hard to continue doing difficult things of our own free will. If I were them, I would throw my hands halfway. They would feel that the 30 days are really longer than usual 30 days. Even though their 30 days as minimum wage workers were very tough one, they would be able to learn many important things. I was really surprised to know the severe facts in America like that 1 in 5 kids go to bed hungry in Ohio, and I fell ashamed that I had been living until now without knowing the fact like that. In my own life, I tend to be absorbed only in my life and the surrounding around me and cannot afford to think about the people or things that have nothing to do with my life. However, I realized that I should know more about people, country, and other things, even if they have nothing to do with my daily life. I should, I want to know about various things in the world that I haven’t known yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;If I was forced to live someone else’s life for 30 days, I would realize afresh that how happy my current life is. During the 30 days, things or surrounding that are natural in the usual life become not natural. I would realize that health body, foods, family, friends, school, and smile….all things are wonderful and it’s really happy that I have all things.&lt;br /&gt;I could feel that I shouldn’t waste my life and I have to think the world of (cherish) them and my very ordinary life. Besides, my horizon would be broadened and I would be able to understand from various points of view and care about people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;This time, I could realize a lot of important things and think about what I didn’t think usually by seeing the “30 days”. The experience was very profitable to me. I want to have a wide range of interests and know about many unknown things to me from now on. (＞w＜＊)／&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112801044751973556?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112801044751973556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112801044751973556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112801044751973556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112801044751973556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/if-i-were.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112796934988182221</id><published>2005-09-29T13:07:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-29T14:06:17.626+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;§ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;J&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;p&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; G&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;u&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;A common ghesture in Japan which came across my mind is the one that means "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Now, make an "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" with your thumb and forefinger....So far, it means "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;OK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;However, turn it over so that thumb nail faces the sky and the back of your hand faces the ground, then it means "money". (The "O" represents the shape of a coin.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;This gesture is used mostly by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;adults&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, especially by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;adult men&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For example, when a person said to you, "You have married and settled. So, why don't you have a house of your own for your family?", you can use the gesture with a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;bitter smile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and would say, "The problem is this...hehe☆" or, "(I would buy it soon) if I have this, you know?...hehe☆"&lt;br /&gt;Usually, Japanese show the gesture somewhere around your stomach to try not to show it to many people. (-w-;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112796934988182221?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112796934988182221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112796934988182221' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112796934988182221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112796934988182221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/japanese-gestures-common-ghesture-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112719943383198703</id><published>2005-09-20T15:50:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T00:14:04.910+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;CNN&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;News Night with Aaron brown&lt;/span&gt;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;First of all, I was &lt;strong&gt;terribly &lt;/strong&gt;shocked to see pictures of tragic sights in New Orleans.&lt;br /&gt;The woman who holds her baby in her arms with tearful eyes... &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/Qoo1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/Qoo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children who don't know what to do and come close together...&lt;br /&gt;Adults who lose their reasons and behave like animals...&lt;br /&gt;The sight was just like a &lt;strong&gt;Hell&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It might be hard for us to imagine such a serious situation.&lt;br /&gt;However, we should not to look the other way.&lt;br /&gt;This Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe which &lt;strong&gt;nobody &lt;/strong&gt;hope. Yet if this tragedy hadn't happened this time, the issue of race (poor black people) would &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; have been disregarded.&lt;br /&gt;Why only black people have to have such a hell of time?&lt;br /&gt;The Govenment should turn their eyes toward the problem which is in their own backyard, &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; thinking about other contry's peace. I hope that not only the Government, but also more and more people who live in the U.S. and people in the world turn their eyes toward this problem, think, and act thanks to the Hurricane Katrina.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The issue of race still remains in America now. I was puzzled about that the word "&lt;strong&gt;poor&lt;/strong&gt;" black people was repeated again and again in the CNN news.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;What can we do for black people in New Orleans? I felt that there're a lot of things about which we have to know in this world....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112719943383198703?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112719943383198703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112719943383198703' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112719943383198703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112719943383198703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/cnn-news-night-with-aaron-brown-first.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701705480476190</id><published>2005-09-18T13:17:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:27:33.466+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20592.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20592.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be careful not to fall down!!  &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701705480476190?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701705480476190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701705480476190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701705480476190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701705480476190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/be-careful-not-to-fall-down.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701692340010691</id><published>2005-09-18T13:15:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:26:12.746+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20612.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20612.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOW &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701692340010691?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701692340010691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701692340010691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701692340010691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701692340010691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/wow.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701683204787364</id><published>2005-09-18T13:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:13:52.053+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20621.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20621.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japanese garden!! I was really impressed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701683204787364?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701683204787364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701683204787364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701683204787364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701683204787364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/japanese-garden-i-was-really-impressed.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701670484079580</id><published>2005-09-18T13:11:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:11:44.846+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20625.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20625.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neat!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701670484079580?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701670484079580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701670484079580' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701670484079580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701670484079580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/neat.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701654783150767</id><published>2005-09-18T13:09:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:09:07.836+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20637.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20637.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huge huge Torii&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701654783150767?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701654783150767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701654783150767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701654783150767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701654783150767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/huge-huge-torii.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112701638435907976</id><published>2005-09-18T13:06:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T13:06:24.400+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20548.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20548.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heian shrine!! I went there with Annna. It was so wonderful!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112701638435907976?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112701638435907976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112701638435907976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701638435907976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112701638435907976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/heian-shrine-i-went-there-with-annna.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112688390525952476</id><published>2005-09-17T00:18:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-17T00:46:45.500+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20525.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm playing the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Mandola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,and she is playing the &lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!! &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112688390525952476?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112688390525952476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112688390525952476' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112688390525952476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112688390525952476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/im-playing-mandolaand-she-is-playing.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112688342840811883</id><published>2005-09-17T00:10:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-17T00:26:01.536+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20496.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20496.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah!!&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Mandolin Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!! We had a &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;camp&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for practicing in Shiga!! Please come to our concert...PLEASE!!(in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) We'll perform during the Gaidai festival in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;November&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; too. Is there anybody who can play the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;guitar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;??We need your cooperation...heheo0O &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112688342840811883?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112688342840811883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112688342840811883' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112688342840811883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112688342840811883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/yeahmandolin-club-we-had-camp-for.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112626163737269883</id><published>2005-09-09T19:27:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-09T19:27:17.396+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20488.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20488.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biwako Lake (Freshman camp)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112626163737269883?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112626163737269883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112626163737269883' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112626163737269883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112626163737269883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/biwako-lake-freshman-camp.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112583875091328880</id><published>2005-09-04T21:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-09-04T22:04:29.336+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20418.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite painter is holding an&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; individual show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; now!! I want you to go there.&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in it, why don't you see his &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;HP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?? (Look at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112583875091328880?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112583875091328880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112583875091328880' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112583875091328880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112583875091328880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/09/my-favorite-painter-is-holding.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112537313142717720</id><published>2005-08-30T12:38:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-30T12:38:51.433+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20308.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20308.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My high school&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112537313142717720?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112537313142717720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112537313142717720' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537313142717720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537313142717720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/my-high-school.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112537296264375820</id><published>2005-08-30T12:36:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-30T12:36:02.643+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20405.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20405.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful sea~!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112537296264375820?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112537296264375820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112537296264375820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537296264375820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537296264375820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/beautiful-sea.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112537279280655600</id><published>2005-08-30T12:33:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-30T12:33:12.810+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20380.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20380.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the early morning...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112537279280655600?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112537279280655600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112537279280655600' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537279280655600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537279280655600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/in-early-morning.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112537272865372841</id><published>2005-08-30T12:32:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-30T12:32:08.660+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20395.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20395.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rising sun at the beach (Hometown)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112537272865372841?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112537272865372841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112537272865372841' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537272865372841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112537272865372841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/rising-sun-at-beach-hometown.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112507411360201683</id><published>2005-08-27T00:47:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-30T12:27:36.523+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/1600/??????"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7506/1019/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%20058.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;∞&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;W&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt; i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;∞&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q No.1: Are some people relatively happier than others? Why or why not?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;No. I don't think so. Because we are absolutely same when we're born. We make the starting line together. It's up to you if you become happy or not. Your happiness depends on how you think and how you live. Even if the people are born into the poor family, he may feel happy just because he has a wonderful parents, just because flowers are beautiful. Even if the people are born into the rich family, he may not feel happy for his life, because he doesn't have many friends. Then, there are a lot of people who don't notice they're happy because they're too greedy and don't be satisfied with happiness they have now. Our sense of value (value of hapiness) are different, actually. We feel happy for different things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Yeah, we are same as one person when we're born. We can change our life to happier one without limit in the later life after born. It's up to you! And you may be able to feel happy for even a trivial things around you☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Q No.2: What would it take to make you happy now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;People's smiles and nature make me happy now. When I see your smile, I also smile and feel happy!! I like to please people because I like people who are with smile on their face the best. Smile is the symbol of the hapiness. Anybody who smiles is shining and attractive. How wonderful it is, if we everybody can smile everyday. Smile has a magnificent power which makes us happy. Don't you think so? I want you to smile anytime and I wanna smile everyday too!! Nature also make me happy now. Above all, the blue sky and the blue sea give me happy. Whenever I'm depressed, feel sad, or nervous, I can feel happy if I see the sky or the sea. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;I can feel relaxed and become positive. Even if the place you are doesn't have the sea, everywhere have the sky, don't they? You will feel happy when you see the blue sky, even if you spend a very busy life. I think the color of blue(light blue) may make me happy....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Q No.3: What else will it take to make you happy ten years from now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Ten years from now, I become 29 years old. (@w@;) Honestly speaking,  I can't imagine what I'm doing and what I'm thinking then. Yet I hope I'm happy and you're also happy. Hehe♪ Of course, two things which I told in the previous paragraph will make me happy on and on, although people who smile at me will change (increase) and the place I see the sky will also different.  But besides them, I hope I can get the satisfying job (which I can feel fulfillment everyday even if it's little and by which I can make people happy.) and have a nice own family and they always make me happy. And if my friends and people around me are nice as they are in the future and can smile together, I'll feel grand....☆（＞w＜o）/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;How do you think....??(-w-*)/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112507411360201683?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112507411360201683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112507411360201683' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112507411360201683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112507411360201683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-is-hapiness-q-no.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484869362887911</id><published>2005-08-24T10:58:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T10:58:13.653+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT00581.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT00581.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484869362887911?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484869362887911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484869362887911' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484869362887911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484869362887911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/me.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484862338007267</id><published>2005-08-24T10:57:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T10:57:03.393+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0040.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0040.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the beach in Nushima&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484862338007267?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484862338007267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484862338007267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484862338007267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484862338007267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/at-beach-in-nushima.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484857954889949</id><published>2005-08-24T10:56:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T12:19:36.566+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Country scenery in Nushima &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;0o。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;hort&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;rip to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;mall&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;。o0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt; ＊&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Do you know where &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nushima&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is? Nushima is the island under&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Awajishima&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (Awaji-island).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Actually, first....no, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;even&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; after the trip, I didn't know where Nushima was. (Now, I know though!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;On July 30th and 31st, I went to Nushima with members in my unique dormitory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;It was a very short trip, but really good!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;In the morning of the first date, I woke up at 5:00 am. There was one hour until departure. (^w^*) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;However&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I was really surprised that I hadn't finished packing yet!! (TwT;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;I packed very quickly and left my room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;More than 10 people went to Nushima together by 2  big cars. It took about &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;hours to there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;On the way to Awajishima, we crossed the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (bridge) . But during crossing it, I was sleeping...Oh my god!! (I was awake on the return road though♪)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;We took some picture at a park and took a break. (We could see the bridge from the park.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;From Awajishima, we went to Nushima by&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;small ship&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (cruiser). Salt breeze was so comfortable!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;After arriving at Nushima, we went to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and did a barbecue party. We had swum for a long time, of course!! I can't forget that I experienced &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BANANA BOAT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for the first time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;The speed was &lt;strong&gt;unbelievable&lt;/strong&gt;!! SO&lt;strong&gt; scary&lt;/strong&gt;!! We &lt;strong&gt;screamed&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;screamed&lt;/strong&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Kyaaaaaaa Gyaaaaa!! Help~~~!! Stop it~~~!!!!"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; But a man who drived jet ski was laughing and didn't stop!! I clung to the grip for my life. Suddenly, when the boat cornerd fast, we were blown off in the air and dropped into the sea!! I felt like I almost &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. (;w;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Banana boat was very fun, but sooooo scary.... I'll never forget this experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;For dinner, we ate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Hamo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(Do you know it? It's just like a eel.) which cooked variously at the inn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;The alive apperance is strange, but cooked one is delicious. You should eat at least once!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;At night, we enjoyed fireworks and slept soundly....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;zZZ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;On the next day, we went to the beach again and enjoyed soccer, swimming, BBQ and so on...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;However, time passed so quickly.... we started for home unwillingly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;People in Nushima is soooo &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;friendly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The small island is full of nature and interests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;I wanna go again someday. I recommend the trip for Nushima to you☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Besides, I hope I can go to a lot of prefectures and countries during my university life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Please take me to your &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hometown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;♪ Hehe!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484857954889949?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484857954889949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484857954889949' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484857954889949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484857954889949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/country-scenery-in-nushima-0oshort.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484846907836761</id><published>2005-08-24T10:54:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T10:54:29.086+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0148.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0148.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nushima (island under the Awaji island)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484846907836761?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484846907836761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484846907836761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484846907836761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484846907836761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/nushima-island-under-awaji-island.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484802536786278</id><published>2005-08-24T10:47:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T10:52:37.866+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say "cheese"!! around the monument &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484802536786278?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484802536786278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484802536786278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484802536786278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484802536786278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/say-cheese-around-monument.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112484806774359545</id><published>2005-08-24T10:47:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T10:47:47.753+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0003.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0003.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi (bridge)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112484806774359545?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112484806774359545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112484806774359545' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484806774359545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112484806774359545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/akashi-kaikyo-ohashi-bridge_24.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112477440413423041</id><published>2005-08-23T14:20:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T16:15:20.360+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hozugawa kudari &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;～&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;～&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Hozugawa kudari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;～&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;～&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Do you know about "Hozugawa kudari"? You can go down a Hozu river (in Kyoto) on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;wooden boat and enjoy touching the beautiful &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nature&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;On July 23th, my parents and I experienced the Hozugawa kudari in Kyoto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;First, we went to the upper area of the river (&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kameoka&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; station:JR) by train. It took about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 30&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; minutes from Kyoto station to the Kameoka station. Because we were very excited and &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;loo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;king&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;forward to experience the Hozugawa kudari, we were reading the pamphlet again and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;again on&lt;/span&gt; the train. After arriving at the start, we paid fares (￥&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3900 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;on each) and waited our turn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;On a boat, about&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; peple could be seated and 3 experts rowed the boat for&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 2 hours&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;I respected them, because they rowed hard the boat for 2 hours without saying any &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;complaints. In addition, they told us interesting stories about history of Hozu river&lt;/span&gt; and explained about the animals or mountains with smile. We really enjoyed their stories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I thanked them and thought that people who are absorbed in doing something and enjoy doing it&lt;/span&gt; are so attractive. When we shooted the rapids, the boat shaked again and again, so we were very &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;excited!! I felt &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;refreshed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; by the beautiful scene and clean air♪♪They were soooo nice!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;I realized the wonderfulness of nature again.(＞w＜*)/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;At the halfway point, a small boat was approaching our boat. I was very surprised, because&lt;/span&gt; there were a lot of&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; foods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on the boat and we could buy them even though we were on the boat!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;We had a really good time on the Hozu river and were fascinated by the attraction. I really &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;recdommend it to you (especially people who live in a &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;city&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Finally, we arrived at&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Arashiyama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and had tasty lunch. We took a walk between a beautiful&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;bamboo grove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; too. It was so nice day.... I wanna go again☆ Let's go &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, everyone!!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Um....&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;U&lt;/span&gt;R&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;S &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;O&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;E&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!!! (-w-&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hozugawakudari.jp/index.html"&gt;http://www.hozugawakudari.jp/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112477440413423041?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112477440413423041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112477440413423041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112477440413423041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112477440413423041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/hozugawa-kudari-hozugawa-kudari-do-you.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112477437490832038</id><published>2005-08-23T14:19:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T14:19:34.936+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/PICT0058.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/PICT0058.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hozugawa kudari&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112477437490832038?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112477437490832038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112477437490832038' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112477437490832038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112477437490832038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/hozugawa-kudari.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112473202380968190</id><published>2005-08-23T02:33:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T02:33:43.816+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20059.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20059.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dog is running happily!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112473202380968190?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112473202380968190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112473202380968190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473202380968190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473202380968190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/my-dog-is-running-happily.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112473192128295498</id><published>2005-08-23T02:32:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T02:36:36.890+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pacific Ocean&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112473192128295498?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112473192128295498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112473192128295498' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473192128295498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473192128295498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/pacific-ocean.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112473182958715362</id><published>2005-08-23T02:30:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T02:38:06.240+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; 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It's sooo vast and beauiful!! &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112473182958715362?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112473182958715362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112473182958715362' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473182958715362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473182958715362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/quasi-national-park.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112473173432778134</id><published>2005-08-23T02:28:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T02:38:46.356+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/%20049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/%20049.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seaside in my hometown &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112473173432778134?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112473173432778134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112473173432778134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473173432778134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473173432778134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/seaside-in-my-hometown.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112473076491427351</id><published>2005-08-23T01:20:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-08-23T02:40:15.356+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I'm wondering.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Long vacation is a good time to think about your &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;future&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Recently, I wonder&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; why&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I'm studying English...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;What on earth is my &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dream&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in the future??I think about them every day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;If you ask me, "Why are you studying English?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;I will answer, "Because I wanna&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;tell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;people in the world various things about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#6600cc;"&gt;Japan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;However, I can't find &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;attractive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; job which is connected with this aim.&lt;br /&gt;My dream which I can not give up is to be a &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dolphin's trainer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;But I'll not be able to make the most of my &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;English&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; skill, even if I become it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Besides, it's very difficult to be a dolphin's trainer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;You don't need the special qualification to be a dolphin trainer. However, because &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sooooo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; many people want to become it, it's more advantageous to have some useful qualification or some experience. Although I can go to the&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; technical college&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; during the university life, it must be hard for me. What is the &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; way for me?? I'm confused...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;To be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#663366;"&gt;motivated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and study hard, I need the&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; specific goal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in the future now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;My friends of high school are studying &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;practically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for their dream like to be a nurse, teacher, or singer. I really envy them. I don't want to make my university life &lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meaningless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;I really wonder these days.（＞△＜；） How about you?? What is your dream?? Why are you studying English?? Please tell me and give me some &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;advices&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smileycentral.jp/?partner=JSzeb043_JSBVTCI015" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.smileycentral.jp/ajj-sig/sig.jsp?pc=JSzeb043&amp;amp;pp=JSBVTCI015" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112473076491427351?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112473076491427351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112473076491427351' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473076491427351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112473076491427351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/08/0o-im-wondering.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112158181050490622</id><published>2005-07-17T15:30:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-07-17T17:20:54.066+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/320/050609_1719~011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/104/5764/200/050609_1719%7E011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandola &lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mandola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;la&lt;/span&gt;la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;la&lt;/span&gt;♪&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;This is the &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; musical instrument, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;MANDOLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which I play in my club.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Mandola is little&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; bigger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; than &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mandolin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and it's sound is little&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; lower&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; than that of Mandolin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; members in my club. Each of them play attractive musical instruments, like the Mandolin, Mandola, &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guitar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Mandolin cello&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Contrabass&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The sound of them are really fascinating!! we had a concert with other Universities in June. Though I didn't play at the concert, I could listen to wonderful music at the concert. Besides my seniors, there are over &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; players from different university and the performance was very powerful and beautiful. I could make&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with other freshman from various universities too. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Now, we are practicing hard for the &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;concert in &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Decembe&lt;/strong&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The concert will be held in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;Multimedia hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at our university and we play various kinds of music there. If you come, you'll &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;certainly &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;have a good time with us☆ Yeah, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;certainly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;To make the concert successful, we have a &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;camp training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; during the summer vacation in &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shiga &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;prefecture too. Although we don't have club activity in August, I'll bring the Mandola to my hometown and&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; continue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; practicing. I'll try my&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; best&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and become a great player of the Mandola as soon as possible. So, I&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; really&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; want you to come the concert in December!! Please come~~~(^▽^o)/ Actually, I'm absorbed in playing the Mandola recently. Uh~~~!! How nice musical instrument, the Mandola is!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;If you click this,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www5.tok2.com/home2/keiandti/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;http://www5.tok2.com/home2/keiandti/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;you can listen to some music of Mandolin... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;↓　Please look &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;other&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;articles and &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;leave &lt;/span&gt;your comments♪　&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112158181050490622?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112158181050490622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112158181050490622' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112158181050490622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112158181050490622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandola-mandolalalala-this-is-italian.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112066087416002087</id><published>2005-07-06T23:17:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-07-06T23:53:45.126+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;ё&lt;/span&gt;　Wall-seats　&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;ё&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;have found an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;interesting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;essay in a certain book. It's about people's feeling when they choose tables to sit at, in the restaurants. When I go to the restaurant, I always choose....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;"In restaurants many people prefer to sit at tables near the walls. They rarely select a center table in an open space. Tables in such positions are usually taken when all the wall-seats are occupied. This dates back to a very old feeding practice. By sitting near a wall people could avoid being surprised by enemy attacks while consuming their food. From here, at every moment, they can see all the approaches. With his back against a wall, a scared man gets the most protected view. Many restaurants place small screens around their center tables. This gives their customers a sense of security and privacy. A 100 percent 'backs-to-the-wall' table setting is the most attractive proposition for modern diners who are haunted by ancient fears. But it makes the serving of food extremely difficult." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Surely, I can feel&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; relaxed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; when I sit at tables near the walls. Even in the classroom or other confined rooms, I prefer the seats &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;near the wall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I don't like to &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;be surrounded&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; by many people, actually. Image the situation that you go to the restaurants or some other places and choose sheets to sit down.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;How would you react?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;↓&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;own &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;own &lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;own&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112066087416002087?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112066087416002087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112066087416002087' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112066087416002087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112066087416002087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/07/wall-seats-i-have-found-interesting.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-112065934956794714</id><published>2005-07-06T21:58:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-07-06T23:15:49.586+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;@Rambling stories...&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;@&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ecently, I sometimes go to the restaurant with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Seppyoru&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on the way home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;We go to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;"Pomu-no-ki"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which is the restaurant of omelet containing fried rice (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Omu-rice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)  frequently.  Today, we went to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;"Oushou"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which is the Chinese restaurant,  and then went to the  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;"Thirteen-one"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  to eat&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; triple&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ice cream!! We ate&lt;strong&gt; too&lt;/strong&gt; much, didn't we!? Yet they were really tasty!! I recommend these restaurants to you. I wanna go other restaurants next time.  &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;If you know some attractive restaurants, please tell me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt; Let's go together!! Hehe.(-w-o)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Actually, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Shopping &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eating&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;tasty foods help me to lessen my&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; stresses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I have to be careful not to put on weight, though.  I'll get fat during the summer vacation. Because I can eat many tasty foods in my hometown, Hachinohe. Although I don't want to gain weight, I'm looking forward to go back my hometown and eat delicious foods...(^￢^)/ In my hometown, I want to play with my&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;dog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Golden retriever, named LOVE)&lt;/span&gt;,  go out my friends,  join some&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;festivals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, go &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;swimming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, visit my high school and meet my teachers and juniors......and so on. I'd like to come back my hometown as&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; soon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as possible. There will be &lt;span style="color:#33ffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cooler &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; more comfortable than here. Besides, I wanna go to the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt; Disney Resort&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and other prefectures, like &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;hometown. Please take me to your hometown...(@w@) Then,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; what is your plan for the summer vacation? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Llook atother bloggings too . (^w^o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;↓&lt;/span&gt;↓&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-112065934956794714?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/112065934956794714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=112065934956794714' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112065934956794714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/112065934956794714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/07/rambling-stories.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111996993851593836</id><published>2005-06-28T23:09:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-06-29T00:14:33.876+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;*** &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;We are relaying morning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;While a young man in Kamchatka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Dreams of a giraffe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;A young girl in Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Waits for the but in the morning haze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;While a little girl in New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Rolls over in her bed with a smile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;A little boy in Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Winks at the morning sun that colors the column capital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;On the Earth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Always, somewhere, morning is starting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;We are relaying morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;From longitude to longitude&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;Prick up your ears awhilebefore you go to sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;And, somewhere, far away, you'll hear an alarm clock ringing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;It's proof that someone has firmly caught&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The morning you've passed on&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;****************************&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;　　Today, I introduce my favorite&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; poem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; written by&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Shuntaro Tanikawa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;★&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Do you know him?? This poem appeared on TV commercial for &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;Nescafe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;in Japanese.&lt;br /&gt;I like this poem because it seemes to mean that people in the world are exactly &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;coexist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; together on the earth. Mr.Tanikawa must have wanted to appeal the importance of the&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; peace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;... Yeah, I hope the day we can live &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;together&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; without prejudices and hatreds will come!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO BORDER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (^w^*)/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;How do you feel about this poem? Please let me know your &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;feeling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111996993851593836?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111996993851593836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111996993851593836' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111996993851593836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111996993851593836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/06/we-are-relaying-morning-while-young.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111883851590249204</id><published>2005-06-15T20:41:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-06-15T21:29:35.900+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;Y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;c&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;v&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;y &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;p&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;In the following article, I introduced my unique apartment before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;At least once a month, we do an&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; event&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; like a cherry blossom-viewing picnic, Halloween, Christmas party, member's birthday party and so on... They are very interesting!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of course, the party for my birthday was held and I got many &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;presents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;☆ we ate a hole &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; too!! I was really happy. Anyway, does&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; anybody&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; want to visit my appartment??(^w^o)/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;If you want, you have a nice opportunity to visit here at the end of this month♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On June 26th (Sun) 12:00~,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; we have a&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; BBQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; party at our garage of OEH (Osaka English House).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Though you need to pay &lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;￥1000&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; you will be able to have a good time with members of OEH.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Let's eat together tasty meats and vegetables and...(＞w＜)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;If you want to come, please tell me&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!! I hope you can join us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　&lt;a href="http://www.o-e-h.com/"&gt;http://www.o-e-h.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Please see my other articles and leave your comments☆　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;↓↓　&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; go&lt;/span&gt; go &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt; down &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;down &lt;/span&gt;down&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111883851590249204?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111883851590249204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111883851590249204' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111883851590249204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111883851590249204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/06/you-can-visit-my-appartment-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111787063092903436</id><published>2005-06-04T16:21:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-06-04T16:37:10.933+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;Blurb of My Life&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;○&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;On January 7th &lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1995&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, at &lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7:37&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a.m. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hachinohe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;city was hit by a&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;severe &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;earthquake registered&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;On the day, an &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#663333;"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt; year-old girl, Yoshiko was still in her&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; dream&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with her older sister, Yuko. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Suddenly, the house started to shake &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;terribly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;! Yuko got up and shouted,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt; “Hey! Get up!! We have to run away!!” However, Yoshiko was &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;frozen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to the spot with fear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;The next moment, a big closet started to&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; fall over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; toward Yoshiko. Yuko tried to prevent the heavy closet from falling over with her &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thin &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;arms. She shouted for help, but&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; nobody&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; answered. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;At the time, their parents were trying to climb the &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shaky&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; stairs to help them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Can Yuko &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;withstand &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;the weight!? Can Yoshiko &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;survive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111787063092903436?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111787063092903436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111787063092903436' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111787063092903436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111787063092903436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/06/blurb-of-my-life-on-january-7th-1995.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111702682418766686</id><published>2005-05-25T21:36:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-05-25T22:13:44.193+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adam became a &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;Y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;      &lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;-Can you do any imitation??-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Today, Adam did an &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;imitation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;of monkey!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Did you see it?!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;It was &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;sooooo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;wonderful, excellent, magnificent, and amusing, wasn't it!??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;I've never seen such a great imitation of monkey in my life...(@w@)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;I couldn't &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; laughing...(&gt;w&lt;*)/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;He may be able to talk with monkeys...??!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;I did &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;videoed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; his performance with my cell phone♪ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;I see it again and again...(^-^☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;When he approached and made a gesture to eat something, I was really surprised!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Adam, Can you do &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;imitations!? If you can, please &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;show us&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; next time!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Huum...actually, I want to put the tape recording on my blog!! If I can...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;But maybe he won't say ...."&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ok, go ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!!"(w A-ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111702682418766686?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111702682418766686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111702682418766686' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111702682418766686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111702682418766686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/05/adam-became-monkey-can-you-do-any.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111646804121500508</id><published>2005-05-19T10:49:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T20:29:49.706+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;N&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;×&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;N&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;s&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;m&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pashett and Bashett&lt;br /&gt;Sitting on the big bacholanca&lt;br /&gt;Pashett plays the pickoran&lt;br /&gt;Bashett sings baranlary&lt;br /&gt;They're always together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Pashett and Bashett&lt;br /&gt;wathing yayap on the mogip&lt;br /&gt;Pashett says "It is a yonbels, isn't it!?"&lt;br /&gt;Bashett smiles gently like a minchard&lt;br /&gt;They're always together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Pashett and Bashett&lt;br /&gt;Sleeping on the suspanzee&lt;br /&gt;Pashett dreams of kickoron&lt;br /&gt;Bashett shettles in her sleep&lt;br /&gt;They're always together &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;On the morning&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;They will get up together as usuall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;They will go somewhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because they're always together&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, always...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, forever...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;k &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;o&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt; f&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;r &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;d&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;n&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt; ...(&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;)/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111646804121500508?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111646804121500508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111646804121500508' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111646804121500508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111646804121500508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/05/nonsense-nonsense-poem-pashett-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111598590925725338</id><published>2005-05-13T20:38:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-06-15T21:32:43.856+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osaka &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;I have just edited a&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;about my apartment in my blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(o^w^o)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;My appartment is&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; so&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; unique....Hehe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;★&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Please see it and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;leave&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;a lot of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; comments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;       &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.o-e-h.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;http://www.o-e-h.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;My &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;favorite&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;paintings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;I've also edited a link about my favorite &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;painter&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&amp;&lt;/span&gt; paintings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#33ccff;"&gt;His name is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;'Shoji Kazunobu'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#33ccff;"&gt;His painting is sooo beautiful!! I like natures (like the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sea&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and so on...) very much&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;☆&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;He publishes some &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;picture books&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; too. I have one of them, &lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Kasajizo'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#33ccff;"&gt;I wanna go to his one-man show in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;...(&gt;▽&lt;)／&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#33ccff;"&gt;Let's go there &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;with me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!? Why don't you see his HP &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;soon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;?? Ha-ha♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Please leave your comments on my blog!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;          &lt;a href="http://www.kazunobu.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;http://www.kazunobu.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111598590925725338?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111598590925725338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111598590925725338' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111598590925725338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111598590925725338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/05/osaka-english-house-i-have-just-edited.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111530470926086427</id><published>2005-05-05T20:00:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-05-05T23:58:38.976+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homecoming during this GW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Did you have a &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; time during this &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;??(&gt;w&lt;;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; did you do!? Did you return your&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;hometown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;I have just come back to Osaka from&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Aomori&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;It took about &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;hours...and it cost about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;42000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;yen. it's sooo expensive, isn't it??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;But I had a really good time in Aomori. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;It was &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;soft&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; weather (wasn't hot like Osaka!!) and really very &lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;comfortable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;☆（＾－＾*）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;The temperature there is about &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10℃&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; lower than Osaka. For example, when it is 28℃ in Osaka, it is 18℃ in Aomori(&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hachinohe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; city). And it's still cold at night or at dawn. So, sometime, the &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;heater&lt;/span&gt; is used!!! Can you belive it?? Hehe☆(^w^;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;I'm uncertain whether or not I can &lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stand &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;the heat of summer in Osaka...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;It was short but nice stay in Aomori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;I had a wonderful time with my friends and family (and &lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;my dog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;♪).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;I learned to like my hometown &lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;more and more&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;I'm looking forward to returning home in summer vacation...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Till then, I'll try my&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"&gt;best&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in Osaka!!(&gt;o&lt;;)/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111530470926086427?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111530470926086427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111530470926086427' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111530470926086427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111530470926086427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/05/homecoming-during-this-gw-did-you-have.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111434809259437860</id><published>2005-04-24T21:14:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T22:08:12.600+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome festival for freshmen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;It was &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;so hot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; today!! Is&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;summer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;comming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;!??&lt;/span&gt;(@△@;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I got&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sunburned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Did you have a good time??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I had a &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; good time all day today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I looked around various circles and clubs with Seppyoru and Anna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;And, I was&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt; sooo &lt;/span&gt;surprised when I saw a group of my&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;IESb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Maybe...There were  You, Itsumi, Yuki, Nana, Yuri, Lingfung, Mina....and so on...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;We're &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;extremely&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;good friends, aren't we!??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Anyway, I decided to belong to a &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mandolin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;(&gt;w&lt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Did you see their performance??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The sound was very &lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;comfortable&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to me♪&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I'll try my best to be a good player of mandolin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;So, if you have a &lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;chance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, why don't you come and see my performance!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haha...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Oh...I'm having lectures tomorrow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...(T△T) zZZ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I'm looking forward to see&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt; all of you&lt;/span&gt;!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111434809259437860?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111434809259437860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111434809259437860' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111434809259437860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111434809259437860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/04/welcome-festival-for-freshmen-it-was.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12184159.post-111352889195648968</id><published>2005-04-16T05:34:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T22:09:25.330+09:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to my blog!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Hi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; I'm&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;Yoshiko Yamashita&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Nice to meet you . I'm from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Aomori&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;prefecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Is it so far from Osaka prefecture?? Haha...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;It takes about&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;6 hours&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;by super express.&lt;br /&gt;But, when you have a chance(ex: summer vacation), please come to my hometown!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Please tell me about your hometown and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;take me there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Because, I'd like to visit a lot of place in Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;I'm happy to be a member of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;IESB &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;class and meet you!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Please talk to me anytime. And sometime, Shall we&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;have a lunch&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;together??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;I wonder which club should I join.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;I'm interested in a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt; mandolin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; club. If you were in terested in this club, please tell me☆&lt;br /&gt;And if you knew other interesting club, also, please tell me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;My dream is going to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Australia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; and swimming with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;dolphin&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Do you like swimming? Let's go to the swimming pool sometime♪&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;And then, I like&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Kyoto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;too. Supposing that I had a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;, I want to go there every weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;I'd really appreciate any other advice on where to visit in Osaka, Kyoto and so on...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Anyway, when you have free time,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;please comment on&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;my blog☆　I'm waiting your many many many comments!! Thank you for reading. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Have a good time at my blog...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Oh,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;my birthday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; is coming soon...(-w-;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12184159-111352889195648968?l=irukaustralia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/feeds/111352889195648968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12184159&amp;postID=111352889195648968' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111352889195648968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12184159/posts/default/111352889195648968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://irukaustralia.blogspot.com/2005/04/welcome-to-my-blog-hi-im-yoshiko.html' title=''/><author><name>Yoshiko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07061075147800887484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
