Japanese Culture

I think ‘sadou’ is one of famous culture. In foreign countries, it’s called ‘Japanese tea ceremony’. First, the host boils water and makes a tea, and then the guests drink it. There are many rules in sadou. For example, they have to fold their legs under themselves, they have to bow before brink the tea and wipe the bowl by the right hand. And gests have to praise the bowl, hanging scroll, flower arrangement, garden and so on. Rules are different between each school.
　Next, there are many schools in sadou. The custom drinking a tea started in the Heian Period in Japan. It likes the oolong tea. In Kamakura Period, tea was popularization among people as medicine. And the tea ceremony came into fashion among rich people.Now, many people learn sadou. I think it is important Japanese culture.

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Blog Questionnaire!!

【1.What is the most difficult thing for you when you making a blog? 】

1:to write in English
2:grammar
3:make a link
4:To gather information
5:to write correct English
6:To gather information

【2.what topic did you enjoy writing most? 】

New Zealand…2
Movie…1
Festival…2
Laughter…1


【3.How many friends did you link?】

11 friends…1
10 friends…3
9 friends…1
8 friends…1

【4.How long did you take to write about one topic? 】

1 hour…2
30 minutes …3
20 minutes …1

【5.Did you enjoy making a blog in English?】

Yes :-) …5
So so :- …1

【6.Did you search the information in English?】

Yes　:-) …4
No　:-( …2

【7.What site do you use most when you want to search?】

Yahoo! …3
Google…2
Wikipedia…2

【8.What topic did you feel difficult to write? 】

Festival…1
Exercise…1
Movie…2
New Zealand…2

BEST 3!!!

I 'll introduce 3 best blogs from other class!.They are very nice!:-)

【No.1】
DOOOOOOON!!!

It has a great impact on the blog name. Not only it, it has many nice pictures , use many color and very cute. So, it's very interesting to see.:-)

【No.2】
GolfyMiky

I like these colors on this blog. It has many nice pictures, so it's easy to understand and interesting to see.

【No.3】
Make A Wish*

This blog is easy to see and very cute. And contents is also good. It's easy to read and unsertand.


　　　

Best 3

I’m going to introduce three blogs which I think they are nice.

【No1.】　Chiemi’s blog
Tu3.919 Flower Town
I think her blog is nice, because it has many pictures on each topics.
The size of font is easy to read.
And I think her topic about New Zealand especially is interesting.

【No2.】　Maika’s blog
Tu3.917 Potage
Her topic is easy to understand and it has nice pictures.
I like her topic about movie, because I like “CHARLIE’S ANGELS” too, so it was very interesting for me.

【No3.】　Emiri’s blog
Tu3.924 Wonderful Days
She uses many nice pictures on her topics, so it is interesting.
And her each topics have good links. It’s easy to understand.

Sea Animals in NewZealand

【Seals】
In New Zealand, you can see many lying and sunbathing seals on the beach. They are “New Zealand Fur Seal”. New Zealand Fur Seal belong among the seals that live the south island coast. Their feature is a sharp brown nose and little jet ears. Now, about 90,000 New Zealand Fur Seals inhabit in New Zealand.
In Japan, you can see seals in an aquarium or zoo, but there are few wild seals. Sometimes they drift ashore in seaside. Most of them are “Callorhinus” who live the North Pacific Ocean.

【dolphins】
Hector’s Dolphin is smallest dolphin in the world and that can see only New Zealand. They called” Hector’s Dolphin” and sometimes “Mickey Mouse Dolphin”, because they have roundish back. In Japan we can’t also see wild dolphins like wild seals.

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day ?


Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival and traditional North American holiday on autumn. It's called ''Thanksgiving'' or '' Turkey Day'' too. Thanksgiving Day is on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in United States. The next day of Thursday of Thanksgiving Day, most schools and company are closed. It's called " The Day after Thaksgiving".

History

It's a from harvest festival. The earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in now Saint Augustine, Florida./1 /2

How To Celebrate ?


American people have a meal with family. It likes Japanese "Obon". Most of all people who lives apart from their family turn to the parent's house and spend with a family or a relative or friends . Macy's ( a long-established department store in New York) sponsores Thanksgiving Parade. Many people come to see the parade from early morning. It follows more 70 years and it's one of the events that are indispensable in Thanksgiving. The huge balloon of the popular characters appears in it.

Movies

Home Alone
I saw some movies in my summer vacation. Especially, I liked ‘Home Alone’. I rented that DVD from the rental shop. This is a 1990 Christmas movie.

Plot
The McCllister family planned to go Paris as a Christmas trip. On the day of the start date, they slept late, because they had a black out. They set for the trip and go to an airport hastily. Kevin McCallister who is the youngest of the five children in the family was left in a home alone, his parent very panicked. However Kevin didn't panic, rather, he was very pleased at to be alone. He enjoyed living alone, but two thieves came in the house. Kevin set many traps to guard them house.

Macaulay Carson Culkin
He played Kevin McCallister who is the leading character in this movie. Culkin was born in New York City (August 26, 1980). He became a world-famous child actor by Home Alone. He was recognized to The Guinness Book of World Records as the most famous child actor.

Home Alone series
Home Alone has fore series. I wrote about the Home Alone（first）.There are Home Anole 2, Home Alone 3 and Home Alone 4. Home Alone 2 and 4 are also Kevin’s stories, but only 3 isn’t Kevin’s story. In Home Alone 4, Alex played the leading character. It’s also funny!