JICA

Yesterday, I went to JICA in Osaka with my friend.
We participated  the lecture of Mr.Koji Nakamura(a teacher of Konan university)
I have been intersted in that kind of international organization, then, my friend asked me to go to his lecture.

He did a lecture about Japanese culture and history to 30 people who came from mainly Africa.
Before the lecture, we have to introduce myself in front of them, and actually I felt vey nervous.
But they listened very warmly so I became so relaxed.

The lecture was very interesting. Mr. Koji Nakamura is very funny, but he talked about Japanese war history very seriously. They listened his lecture very carefully.

The lecture in JICA was very good experience for me, and I'm very thankful for him to inviting me.


After the lecture finished, my friends and I went to JICA cafeteria to eat lunch.
It was a buffet day, so we can ate many kinds of foreign foods.

That was great! and it costs only 600yen!
But...we ate too much...haha...

Sweet Halloween!

Halloween day isn't special day for me.
But I'm glad to take chocolate, candy, and some other sweet things!
Here is my result of this halloween↓↓

My English teacher David gave me ： )

On the other day, I went to 31 with my friends, and ate Halloween special ice.

Eating sweets after dinner... it is my rule.


I hope everyone had a sweet day!

Autumn

Hi!
Today, I had a interview for studying abroad.
I think I did ok, but I'm very nervous about consequences...It'll be change my life...!

But anyway, I should concentrate now.

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Recently, I read many kinds of books.
It is said that autumn is the best season for reading.
I don't know why, but I agree with this saying.

And I also watched this　↓↓


When I rent a DVD, I try to choose a DVD that makes me feel happy.
But It is so stupid ! I love it !haha...

This is a spoof film of famous vampire movie "Twilight".
If you feel depressed, I recommend you to watch this.

Yoshimoto

Yesterday, I went to Osaka to see a Yoshimoto-Shinkigeki(It is comedy show stage) with my family, grandparents and some relatives.
Although I have been living in Kansai for 21 years, It was the first time that I saw this show.
So I was so looking forward to watching this.
Saturaday is a start of three-day holiday, so there were a lot of people around Nanba Grand Kagetsu.

Show schedule was so tight. They held 4 stages in 1day, so we can entered theatre 20minutes before starting the show. And next show was started 30minutes after we left.
I think that was pretty hard but maybe it is a "Osaka style".

I was also surprised that there were many opening performances. Japanese called it "Zenza(前座)".
It took about one and a half hours and it was so great! Because many famous comedian appeared in this Zenza such as "Warai-Meshi", "Katsura Bunchin(He is a Rakugo performer)","Miyagawa Daisuke and Hanako" and so on...I was so excited!!
And I was realized that Japanese "Rakugo" is so fun! I mean...it was so elegance!
A motion of Rakugo performer was really smart...I don't know how to explain in English but I thought it was so cool!


And main event "Shinkigeki" was also great!
Fortunately, my favorite Yoshimoto comedian Tuzimoto Shigeo appeared on this stage.
Do you know famous Yoshimoto character called "Shigezo"?

He is just great!
The whole audience were always full of big laughter.


It was a great holiday!
I love Osaka!
I love Osaka's "chaos" atomosphere! lol

My summer vacation 2 "Kochi trip 2 -Shimanto-"

Hi !
I haven't uploaded my blog so long time. Sorry!
This is about my Kochi trip after I went to my father's hometown Shimanto-town.

I want to introduce my cousin's dog "Hime"↓

She is treated just like a Hime(It's mean "Princess" in Japanese).

I think she should go on a diet.

In Shimanto-town, There is a beautiful river called "the Shimanto-river"
I swimmed there with my cousin and relative.

We jumped off the bridge into the river.
It's me! ↓↓

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SPLASH!!
It was so excited!
I forgot that I am already grown- ups...haha...

And I painted the Tyrannosaurus on a rock in the river.

I used only a piece of red brick and my finger.
I know it is a little childish, but it was so fun for me!


After that, we went to "Kaiyodo Hobby Museum".
Kaiyodo was a small hobby company, but became famous as "Choco Egg".
The museum was built on this July, but It was built in so deep in the mountains.
Maybe, you can't belive how deep is here.

However, A lot of people came to see a museum.
In a museum, so many kinds of Figure dolls are displayed.
Like this ↓

Cooool!!!! I love STAR WARS!!

They made "Real" Gremlin. It was used in a movie.





That's all !
I enjoyed Kochi so much!!

And I try to keep uploading my blog!
Goodnight !!

My summer vacation 2 "Kochi trip vol.1"

Good morning!
The next is about Kochi trip with my friend!

I went to Kochi on August 9th to 15th.
My father's hometown is also Kochi, so I stayed in Kochi-city with my friend on August 9-10 and go to my father's hometown on August 11-15.
It was great!! I went to Kochi so many times but I rarely go to tourism spot. So maybe this is the first time I climbed the Kochi-castle.
There are many histrical spot in Kochi. I think this is one of the reason I like Kochi.
The most famous one is Sakamoto Ryoma. If you go to Kochi, you can see a lot of "Ryoma" !!

We visited many places and ate delicious Kochi food!

This is Harimaya-Bridge. It is famous as the three major "GAKKARI" spot in Japan.
And we also felt GAKKARI! haha...(better than we thought...!)

Katsura-beach(桂浜). Maybe Ryoma saw the same sight.

The Sasimi of bonito(鰹のたたき). It was so good!

The statue of Ryoma. It was bigger than I thought.

Shirasu-don. Goooood!


However, My true purpose of this trip is...Watch Yosakoi dance!
291 teams were participated this year. They danced through the street of everywhere in Kochi-city with beautiful costume and loud music. This is so big festival in Kochi.

This is my favorite team "Obiya-Machisuzi"↓↓

They all use big truck called "Zikata-sya(地方車)" to play music, and singer and music player on this truck.
I was sooooo excited to watch this team.

Japanese famous actress Ryoko Hirosue is from Kochi, and danced with this team every year.
She appeared 2nd days of this festival, so I wasn't able to watch her.
Actually, She wasn't danced this year. But she is so cute↓↓



Yosakoi festival is so exciting! I can't wait to see next Yosakoi festival !
I suggest you to see this festival one time !


Oooooh...so long...
But I want write more!so please check out my next blog also!

My summer vacation 1 "Volunteer work in Minami Sanriku"

Hey!
So long time no see...!
I was just...enjoy my summer vacation! haha...
I have a lot of things to write!



But first, I have to write about my volunteer work in Miyagi, Minami-Sanriku on August 1 to 4th.
I participated in the volunteer group called "Takarazuka Kibou-Ouentai". They wasn't the student group, so wide range of ages joined this group.

We took 15 hours to reach Minami- Sanriku, and worked 2days to eliminate a lot of garbage.
In Minami-Sanriku, There's nothing there.

Everythings are gone.

We tend to feel that disaster is end. But there wasn't.

It was far away from recovery. There were still a lot of garbage and debris.

Many volunteer people came from anywhere in Japan.

This is free meal(BBQ) for volunteer↓↓

They used Yonezawa beaf ! It was great!

They are so positive. I respect them.

I heared that they want more volumteer.

So If I will have time and chance, I try to go there again.