New Zealand and Japanese Sea Food

New Zealand is famous for many kinds of sea food, such as crayfish, salmon, mussel, scallop, and so on. Crayfish is kind of big iseebi. There are a lot of dishes used sea foods. Mussel with garlic paste is one of the most popular homes cooking in New Zealand. It’s a dish using soy source. Recently, there are a lot of Japanese foodstuffs in New Zealand. Lime marinated scallops with coconuts source is fresh and simple taste. Regal salmon kebabs & orzo salad is grilled salmon with salad and topped with yogurt source. We grill salmon on skewer like yakitori and put it on cucumbers and orzo. Orzo is small pasta, the same size rice. Fish and chips of British cooking are also famous in New Zealand. New Zealander likes barbecue. They grill shellfish with some meats and vegetables and enjoy barbecue with their family and friends.

There are also many kinds of fish dishes in Japan. Of course, sashimi is very famous all over the world and we grill, boil, and fry fish. Japanese local specialties of sea food are fugu, anko, tuna, iseebi, crab, and so on. It is easy to get fresh fish in Japan because Japan is an island country, too. Both New Zealand and Japanese sea food are good-tasting.

Tomatina

I’m going to talk about activity of Tomatina.

Tomatina begins with the eve of the festival. People gather in a square of San Luis Street and enjoy many street stalls and simple amusement park for children. There is no tomato but they drink, eat, sing, and dance.

A city hall official gives bread to some people for free, so participants wake up early and go to Pueblo Square to get them. The neighbors begin to pour water over their heads from the windows.

Participants compete to climb a stick. There is a raw ham in the top and they try to get it. A lot of challengers climb at the same time. A hero who gets a raw ham is welcomed with applause. This is the point of the event because they cannot begin to throw tomatoes until someone win the event.

People want tomatoes and shout “Tomato! Tomato!” About 120t tomatoes are carried by five trucks. They are so excited, wait for tomatoes singing and shouting. They begin to throw tomatoes all at once. Not only people but also streets and buildings are dyed in red in a moment. After an hour, they finished throwing tomatoes and wash away tomatoes. They take a shower using temporary showers.

There are some rules of Tomatina.
1. don’t bring dangerous articles like bottles
2. don’t tear T-Shirt
3. smash tomatoes before throw them
4. watch out for the trucksdon’t throw tomatoes after a sign of the end

★Oktoberfest in Germany★

I introduce Oktoberfest in Germany. It is the largest beer festival in the world and 6 million people all over the world join in this festival. It is a traditional festival in Munich which has been held since 1810.

There are 14 big tents and 16 small tents. The big tents contains about 6,000~7,000 seats. The tents are filled with people every year. All people sing and dance drinking beer. They scream “Prost!” with music. “Prost” means “cheers”.

Special Oktoberfest beer is made for the festival. Only Munich beer breweries can make beer in the festival. Six makers are Augustiner, Hofbrau, Lowenbrau, Hacker-Pschorr, Paulaner, and Spaten. The beer is sweeter than normal beer and it contains about 6 percent alcohol. People eat roast chickens, big pretzels, and cheese which called “Obatzda”. The cheese is mixed with camembert cheese and cream cheese. There are many street stalls selling sausages and sweets.

Participants wear the Bayern’s folk costumes like Japanese yukata. Woman wears a checked or striped dress, or a flower print dress. Man wears leather knee pants.

There is Oktoberfest parade and 8,000 people join in the parade. The groups wear their own folk costumes by region in Germany. We can enjoy comparing various costumes. A brass band performs and the other group dances their traditional dances. Other countries, such as Switzerland, Italy, and Austria also join in the parade.

Why don’t you join in the festival when you become an adult and go to Germany?

Movie introduction

I watched The Mummy Returns with my friends in MLC Theater in this summer vacation. It is said Hamunaputora in Japanese. Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in it. It’s adventure movie. It is about the fight of family who is archaeologist and the Egyptian mummies.

Rick, Evelyn and their son, Alex discovered a strange bracelet in Egypt, and they brought it to their house in London. Alex put on it and he saw the place where Scorpion King slept. But people who plan to overpower the world revived Imhotep who has great power and kidnapped Alex. Their purpose is killing Scorpion King and controlling the world. Rick and Evelyn pursued them to rescue him. Evelyn’s ancestor is a princess in Egypt. She was killed by Imhotep’s wife, Meela but Alex revived her. She fought against Meela and won. Rick fought against Scorpion King and Imhotep, then he stuck Scorpion King with the spear and he died. Rick and Imhotep were falling into a hole, but Meela didn’t help Imhotep and escaped. Evelyn helped Rick. Imhotep fell into a hole. The pyramid collapsed and they managed to escape from it. They saved the world.

There are different kinds of The Mummy series, such as The Mummy1, The Scorpion King, and The Mummy3 released recently. I want to watch The Mummy3. I was little scared at a lot of mummies but so excited. I was impressed by family love. I recommend this movie if you like action movies

My summer vacation

I went to Utsumi with my NUFS friends in first day of summer vacation. We swam and sleep on the beach. It was very hot day, but I didn’t get tanned because I had much sunscreen. We had a great time.

I went to cousin’s house with my sister and play with cousin’s children. We played the games and had a barbecue in the yard. I like children very much. They are so cute. But they’re going to forget me by the next time. I am sad but they are attached to me soon. I’m going to go to cousin’s house next week. I’m looking forward to it.

I went to see Tokai fireworks with my friend. They were very beautiful. It was so crowded. There were a lot of yatai and I ate fried chicken, a shaved ice, tamasen, and warabimochi. I like yatai.

I visited Kyoto and Nara with my friends. I went to Kiyomizu temple, made a wish, and bought a talisman. I saw The Great Buddha of Todaiji and could go through the hole of the Buddha’s nose. I was surprised. We fed deer in Nara park. It was a nice trip.

I went to Lake Biwa with my friends from high school, 12 people. We play a lot of sports such as table tennis, badminton, basketball, and volley ball. After that we swam in the pool. I felt comfortable. In the evening, we shot off fireworks on the beach.

I was soooo fun. This is my best summer vacation :)

★July 7th★

It is the star festival today. We watched the suspense movie, ‘Air Force One’ in English class. I’m sooo excited. It was interesting and instructive movie. I like movies, but I don’t go to see a movie recently. I wanna watch Hanayoridango now.

After the class, I talked with my friends about summer vacation. I'm going to the sea, pool,and a fireworks display, and have a barbecue. I'm looking forward it. And I have to do my part-time job hard. I need a lot of money :(

Then we went to Mcdonalds and I ate Teriyaki chicken fillet for the first time. I was full. It tasted very good ：） So try it！

Health foods

You should choose foods carefully if you want to diet. There are many delicious foods, such as pizza, fried chicken, hamburger, ice cream, sweets, and so on, but they include much fat. Here are some helth foods. Japanese foods are healthy. Some examples are Tofu, Natto, and Soba. You should eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, and keep off sweats, carbohydrate, animal food and fast food as possible as you can. Check the calorie list, and good luck on your diet!

There are some problems about kids who are fat in the world. They eat too much, don’t exercise regularly, and they may have a life- style related disease in the future. Their parents should care about their kid’s health. It is important for them. Here is a site of health foods for kids.

Laughter

Power of laughter
Laughter connects with treatment of disease. People who have disease become better for laughing, The cells which fight against disease increase in the body by laughing, and immunity which fight against germ and viral infection gets high.

And laughter　removes stress. Laughter makes people feel better than sadness or anger.

And laughter is exercise, too. People breathe in and out by laughing, and heartbeat increases.

Here are the sites of variety show, Hanerunotobira. There are 11 entertainers: Drank dragon, King kong, Robato, Impulse, and Hokuyo in this program . They amuse us with tricks. They play funny games and comedies. In the game they tumble, bump against the wall, and fall into the pool. I often watched it when I was a junior high school student. I sometimes watch it now. The variety show makes me so excited.
The movie from youtube
The official sites

And have you watched the comedians, Taka and Toshi on TV?
They are so funny comedians and their character is cute.
I like them because I am amused whenever I watch their comedies.