Frozen days

Long time no posted.
My examinations were over in January 27th, so spring vacation is already started!
Yeah! ...but I know. There are too many things I have to do before going to studying abroad.
Thanks to Mr.Koji Nakamura(He is a professor in my university ), I'm attending a class that is aim to learn about Japanese customs and history with some exchange students. I thought this class is gonna be a good for my English study, and the first class was in January 31st.
However, when the class finished, I realized that I can't speak and listen English at all! Moreover, when teacher asked me "What makes Japan?", I completely didn't have any clear answer. Even I'm a Japanese, I've never re-thought about Japan.
I think I read and heard this kind of things before, but this time, I experienced. It was such a shock.

I disappointed myself, but I think I'm very lucky. Because if I didn't take this class, I couldn't have any chance to know how my English is awful. So...yeah, all I need to do is "Doing my best"!



Maybe you can't believe how my home is cold. In this morning, the water didn't came from a tap because all of our water supplies were frozen. And about 8cm ice covered my dog's water bowl.
I felt like that I'm living in Hokkaido(I've never been to Hokkaido, though.).

My resolution

It's a responce blog for my English teacher Mayumi Asaba.

My resolution for 2012 is...

"Just do it!"

Is it a resolution? I don' t know...
I mean, I should move, in any case.

I try to be active, and challenge many things.
In more detail, I want to...

    ・Learrn how to take a great picture.
    ・Read many kinds of books. (Both in English and Japanese)
    ・Be a specialist of something.
    ・Be a good English speaker (Of course!)
    ・Know what happening in the world→Read newspaper everyday.
   
                                                                                                                    etc...

I just wrote a loose list.

Happy new year!

Hi everyone! Happy new year!
I'm back from Kochi yesterday.
I can't believe that the university going to start tomorrow. It's too early! isn't it?

Anyway, I had a great time in Kochi.
I ate Oshogatsu food such as Ozoni, Soba, Sushi, etc...wow...I should go on a diet.
By the way, Soba(Japanese noodle) in Kochi is little different from others.

See? It's very big and short.
I was so surprised when I saw this first time, but now I'm get used to this.
And I think it's very delicious!
In December 31st, I try not to eat dinner too much. I make a space in my stomoch for this. haha...

And in January 1st, I went to shrine to do "Hatsumode".
We went to small shrine near from house. I think this is kind of like "secret spot".

My uncle told me that this shrine were made by our ancester. Wow...

I took this near from shrine.
I'm not interested in plant, but I think moss is cute and beautiful.



I introduced a dog "Hime" before. Do you remember her? (Check my last post!)
She loves to drive, so I presented her a goggles.

Soooo cool! Haha...!



That's all!

I hope everyone spend great time !
Happy new year! :)
                             
                                                                  Ayumi

Titanic

My laptop was completely broken.
Now I realized how my laptop was important for me...
Moreover, I have no money to buy a new one.
But...It's ok. I thought I should stay away from PC for a while.

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I restarted to read academic reading.

It's a real story of Titanic.
I watched the movie so many times, and cried every time.
One day, I saw a documentary about Titanic in National geographic channel, and I was so excited. Titanic has been there in 3,650m under the Atlantic ocean since April 15, 1912 at 2:20am.
I heard that the last survivor passed away in 2009. And she was also the youngest person on Titanic(9 weeks after she was born), so she said that she didn't remember anything about Titanic.
Another survivor's story in this book was so interesting. The second officer of Titanic survived, and he continued to work on White Star Line(same company of Titanic). After that, he worked for 2 ships called "Oceantic"and"Falcon", but both of them sank too.


Anyway, I introduced this in one of my English class, and I became more interested in this topic.
Big ship in dark ocean... this kind of stories are so attracted me.

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I decided to quit Twitter.
I have been tweeted the new post of this blog, so I hope everyone continue to check this blog!
Please bookmark here or you can come here from my profile of mixi.
Goodbye Twitter! Thanks for long time!

Lose Yourself

Ooooh...so cold....

These days, I really don't want to go to school.
I just want to stay home, and read books. I have many books to read.(Of course in Japanese!!!)

I think, winter is best season for thinking.
Recently I often think about my future.
And maybe almost of all my friends also think about their future, because it's the time to do jobhunting.

I'm little confusing now.
But I think, I'm in a way to solve this problem.
I try to think and move. Because, It's my life! It's now or never~♪ (I love this song! haha...)


Anyway! I want to introduce my favorite song again.
I think it's also about "Life", but little bit different from our life.
It's "Lose Yourself" by EMINEM.
I love this song because the rhyme is very comfortable to listen for me and rhythm isn't monotonous.
And just so cool. Listen.


The opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
I love this song, and I love his song.
When I was a high school student, I listened his song on the radio, and  go straight to CD shop to buy his album.

If you watch the movie "8 mile", you can understand his background.
Some scenes in this PV.

Japanemation

Do you know the word "Japanemation"?
Maybe all of you guys understand what this word meant.
The animation in this country has been achieved more than any other country.
However I didn't realize it since I watched one famous Japanese animation.
It was "Evangelion".

When I was a high school student, one of my friend told me that "Evangelion is great".
She wasn't the type of Otaku, and I was little bit surprised that she said so.
Because I thought that the Evangelion is just "Robot fighting animation", and maybe the story is easy to predict.
But, I was wrong.

Some years later, I started to watch Evangelion. And I was so impressed.
The story was so grand and constructive. There are some elements of religion. It showed one idea of how mankind was born and why we gonna die out.
All of characters shows their difficulty of living in their age. And we can have sympathy with them.

Then, why I think Evangelion is great "Japanemation"?
It is because that they aren't lose the elements of Japan . If you see the title, you can aware of some elements of Japan. For example, they use Japanese old letter such as "ヱ"and "ヲ". And the orders of movie are expressed by "序" and "破". They originally meant the ways of playing Japanese old music instrument and "Noh-play". All name of characters are Japanese, and they aren't living in shelter or spaceship but they living in small japanese style apartment. Actually, the place of this anime is based on Hakone in Kanagawa.

The animation of Evangelion began airing in 1995, and the movies are still continuing untill now. Newest movie "破" was screened in 2009, and the amount sales of this movie was over 5billion yen.
Sometimes people avoid to watch anime, because they think that anime=otaku.
But, "Seeing is believing". If you watched "anime" once, you can understand why Japanemation is such a big sensation.

Moldman the Bellringer in Dublin

I went to see a play "Moldman the Bellringer in Dublin " with my friend Erika.
It was played by Konan-Ichiza that is a drama club in Konan university.
They usually played in Konan university, but in this time, they played in Osaka because they participate in "Osaka Student Drama Festival". And the place was very big.

I think it was great! I know almost of all actor and actress who appeared in this stage, so I was able to understand how they improved. And the script is also good. They used the script that was writed by Hirohito Goto(Not original one), so the story line is clear and interesting.

Their stage in Osaka was finished today. But they gonna play in Novemver 26th and December 3rd in Konan university. If you want to know more about this show, please visit their HP.