Japanese Culture

The interesting aspect of Japanese culture which I chose is “Pokemon.” It’s one of the most famous Japanese animations. Now, it’s become popular in the world.It has been merchandised into anime, comic books, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. The name of Pokemon is romanized contraction of the Japanese brand, as such contractions are very common in Japan. Pokemon USA Inc., a subsidiary of Japan’s Pokemon Co., now oversees all Pokemon licensing outside of Asia.

Pokemon also has cultural influence, for example, two different Pikachu balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Palade, a Pokemon-styled Boeing 747-400. The species of Pokemon is more increasing. The increase of the species makes children all of the world more interested in Pokemon, even if adults.

Our Blog Questionnair

I asked 5 classmembers about their blogs.


1. What did you pay attention when you made a blog?
spell miss-3
grammer-2

2. Why did you choose your blog’s name?
favorite artist's name-2
live by my self-1

pop into my head-2

3. What’s the most difficult thing for you when making a blog?
long sentences-2
writing-3

4. Do you like own blog?
Yes-4
No-1

5. What kinds of function of the blog do you want to use?
music-3
chatting-2

6. How many sites like blog do you have?
4-1
1-2
2-2


7. How often did you write on the blog?
once a month-3
once a week-2

8. Do you like writing your diary on the blog?
Yes-4
No-1

My Favorite Blogs 2

1☆Ayako Ikehata
Paaan♥.+。*
Her blog is added a lot of decorations.
I like her colorful design!
Her blog gives us many her daily lives.

2☆Emika Yabuoshi
YaB!og
I was surprised for her blog had a lot of sentences.
Her stories are very interesting and good pictures on it!

3☆Yuika Uchi
Kiss Me...☆
Her blog is very cute!
I like it.
It’s easy to look at some pictures. Each of them is big size.

My Favorite Blogs

I pick up these blogs.

3★Chiaki Nasu
Life with You
Her blog is simple design, but every pictures, she put on her blog, are very beautiful!!

2★Mikako Ishikawa
Aqua blog
Her blog is very cute.
It is good font and many pictures!!

1★Seiichi Tomita

1234.u-and-me

His blog is very elaborately.
His blog's titlle and Ayumi Hamasaki are cute!!

These are a lot of interesting pictures!!!!!!!!!!

I could look at their blogs very easily.
And I couldn't decide only three blogs. I like these three blogs but particularly, I like Miho Itou's blog, ★SMILEY★. Her blog is very colorful, and added some Corean letters. It's interesting for me!!

Famous People in New Zealand

I’ll introduce about the famous people in New Zealand. Hayley Westenra is classic music singer. She made her debut internally when she was only thirteen years old in 2000. Her clear voice suddenly became the frontrunner to the top of the music world. Moreover, in 2003, the 2nd album, “Pure” which was put on sale in the world at the same time was recorded as the great hit. “Amazing Grace” is included the album. The music was adopted as a tame song of “Shiroi-kyotou” which is Japanese TV drama.

Next is Edmund Hillaly. He is the most famous climber in 20 century. Do you know the Mt. Everest? The mountain is the highest mountain in the world. He tried to climb to the top of it and success. So, he became a first Mt. Everest climber. Furthermore, he participated in the English South Antarctic Cross Expedition Corps, and arrival at the geographical south pole using a tractor. In 1953, he was awarded a decoration of “Sir” from the English Royal Family. And in 1995, he was awarded the Order of the Garter which is the best decoration in English. He is adopted the $5 bank note, and he helped people in Nepal.

Moon Festival

I’ll introduce about “Moon Festival” in China.
In the old calendar, August fifteenth (this year is September eighteenth), it held “中(zhōng)秋(qiū)節(jié)” which is the one of the biggest event that follows “春(chūn)節(jié)（旧正月）” in China. In autumn, it’s the time of harvest for Chinese. It’s made a custom what they worship the beautiful moon to be thankful for God who brings harvest and including the pleasure of harvest.


It owes becoming clear air and being able to see the moon very beautiful to becoming autumn. So, following the era, the custom of “月(yuè)见(jiàn)” is changed the event which they appreciate the moon to mean religion. In China, it called “中(zhōng)秋(qiū)節(jié)”, ”八(bā)月(yuè)節(jié)”, ”団(tuán)円(yuán)節(jié)”, and just called “八(bā)月(yuè)十(shí)五(wo)”.


In the event, they eat “月(yuè)见(jiàn)” which is one of the traditional sweets. It’s made round shape, and it’s expressed that they live in perfect harmony as family. The standard taste is bean-jam(餡), and the other tastes are chestnut, walnut, and egg Every family members enjoy “月餅” after meal together.

Movie

I saw nice movies during Summer vacation. The Rule to Win The Love in Vegas, SAW, Gakituka, The Panick Room, The Ring, The Eraser in Head, and so on. I'd like to recommend about one of the movies which I excited: "The Rule to Win The Love in Vegas" . It is a kinds of love story. It is love comedy.


Let me bigin about "The Rule to Win The Love in Vegas". This is American movie. The actress is Cameron Diaz and the actor is Ashuton Kutcher. The story is that a woman whose name is Joy. She is a good career woman but her character is making plan about everything. So, she has been dumped by her boyfriend because of her character. And a man whose name is Jack. He has been fired his job by his father. They feel unhappy at that time.

So, their friends recommend the unhappy parsons traveling Vegas to refresh, where they meet at the hotel in Vegas because of the hotel room is double booking. And they drink a lot and he sends 25cents. So he hit the Jack pot. It's 3 million dollars. They have exciting time. Then, they wake up and realize that they are married as an accident. They are very surprised what happened for them yesterday. And they fight because who get the 3 million dollars. So they went to a court and the judgment is that they should try to live together for 6months. If they can be an ideal couple, they would be able to get that money. But If they don't try to do the rule of the judgment, the 3 million dollars would be donated.

So they try to divorce using every ways which can get the money like surprising. For example, Joy held the party to make Jack play another lady. Their plans to make the partner be not like each other are very funny.

One day, they know each real character which they don't know until that time. So, they are changing their feel to them. And they want to live together for more than 6months. That means that they love each other.