2008年11月26日水曜日

*Art in New Zealand*


Maori is a New Zealand aborigine and is the important thing that it is able to be separate the culture with the New Zealand life.

Maori art is famous for Maori carving.

Curving and knitting were born as practical technology in the traditional lifestyle of the Maori.

There is a sculpture of "Natoroirangi" on the rock face in the extreme south of the mine bay of Lake Taupo.

For the people of the Maori, knitting is not just handicrafts. It is called weving. They use only a plant and knit various things.







2008年10月29日水曜日

*Halloween*

The Halloween is a classic performed in the yesterday evening of the Catholic All Saints' Day. Because it was the eve of former title "All Hallows" of the All Saints' Day, it came to be called Halloween.

The end for one year of the Celt is October 31. They believed that the soul of the dead visited a family and spirits and witches came out. They put on a mask to protect the body from these and lighted the open-air fire of the charm against evil. This is an opportunity of the Halloween.

In Europe and America, people put up a candle in the inside a pumpkin at night of 31st. It is "Jack oh lantan". The children who disguised itself as a witch and a ghost advocate "a trick or treat" and visit near houses. At the home, they make the cake of the turnip, and the children each bring the cake which they took and open a Halloween party.

Death, an immortal monster, black magic, a monster of the tradition are included in Halloween.
In a character related to Halloween, there are Dracula and Frankenstein in ghost, witch, bat, black cat, goblin, van sea, zombie, malevolent deity.
They display their houses by these symbols at the time of Halloween before and after.

2008年10月2日木曜日

*Movie*




I like movies especially Studio Ghibli movies. Their stories are fantastic, pictures are cute and music is beautiful.

My favorite movie is "Kiki's Delivery Service". This story's heroine is a witch. She is 13 years old. When the daughter of the witch became 13 years old, she left the house, and there were rules to train themselves in other town for one year. Kiki gets down on the port town with black cat Gigi. She gets to know with a woman living in the town. She runs a bakery with her husband and she is a pregnant woman. Kiki lives in her house. She begins courier service to fly in the sky because her special ability is to fly in the sky with a broom. She meets a boy longing to fly in the sky and a girl of painter. And she has hard experience and pleasant experience through the new life.

2008年9月20日土曜日

*My Summer Vacation*

I went to my hometown by a train for a week. The train was very crowded so I was tired. My hometown is Matsusaka in Mie. My older sister met me at the Matsusaka station by her car.

At this night, I ate out with my family. We ate sushi and drank alcohol. I and my mother and my sister drank not so much but my father drunk many cups of beer. He was tipsy. He likes alcohol since past. I talked them about my campus life, especially my club. I belong to the executive of joint festival. I invited them the joint festival on October 25 and 26. The dinner was great and we had a nice time!

I met a friend of mine. We made friends when we were high school students. Now, I live in Nagoya and she lives in Osaka but our relationship is very nice. She goes to technical college to learn about dance. Her dream is to become a dancer. We went to family restaurant and we talk for three hours in there. We talk about school life, friends, love and so on.

I went to Okageyokotyou in Ise with my sister. Okageyokotyou is near Isezinnguu and it likes castle town in the Edo period. Look at the picture. There were a lot of people. We walked and ate many kind of foods for example Akafuku, croquette, ice cream and so on.
Okageyokotyou ←Click here!
Isezinnguu ←Click here!

I had nice days and very relaxed.

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2008年7月10日木曜日

*Diet and Exercise*

Click here! ←There are many ways of diet for example, "Blood type Diet", "Grapefruit Diet".
According to this site, the basic premise for "Blood type Diet" is that the four main blood groups each react in different ways to different foods. This is because humans evolved in different ways for the four different blood groups (O, A, B, and AB).
I think it is wonder the way and effect differ from blood type.
And "Grapefruit Diet" based around the premise that grapefruit contains fat burning properties and is similar to the cabbage soup diet. Most of these diets are very low in calorie diets usually about 800-1000 calories.
I like grapefruit so, I want to try it!

Click here!← You can buy DVD of "Billy's Boot Camp" by this site.
This is the for a short term intensive model exercise that Billy Blanks devised. A basic trainning for new faces in the United States Armed Forces becomes the base.This became the topic very much in Japan.But this exercise is very hard so, many people gave up.

Click here!←This site is written about vegetarianism.
The vegetarianism is principles and thought to eliminate animal food for reasons of the health, the morality, the religion. There is various classifications by the difference of the way of thinking only as well as eating vegetable food. A person practicing vegetarianism is called a vegetarian.

2008年6月12日木曜日

*My Laughter List*

Click here!
This is a site of “The World of GOLDEN EGGS”.
This is the animation in American but recently it becomes popular in Japan.
This is the animated cartoon that the daily life of individual people living in the town which imaged American county town was expressed.
There are more than 60 characters but the voice actors are only 2 people!!
A lot of interesting English expression is used.
This was adopted by a character of Eiken.

Click here!
A lot of knowledge and information about the laughter are written in this site.
For example, we can know the definition of the laughter and famous comedian, wise remark and proverb, 4 characters phrase.
We can get deep knowledge of laughter from viewpoints such as the study so it’s very interesting and useful.

Click here!
This may be the comedy program that is the most famous in Japan.
This attracts attention from many people.
Because this is the program for selects the Japan's most interesting laughter entertainer.
This is performed every year in December.
This is a tournament form, and the fun of the comic dialogue is competed for.
The comic dialogue combination that won the championship at this program can become a popular person with considerably high probability.