My summer vacation☆

I start to write diary from today. In July 28th, I went to hair salon to change my hair color. I like my new hair style and it was cheap, but the hair salon’s service is not good. I don’t like my hair dresser, so I think I’ll never go to the hair salon. After that, I met my high school friend in Sakae. We went to McDonald’s and talked many things. We met three friends and went to nice bar. Food is very delicious and I had plenty. I drank only two glasses of cocktail because I was sick when I joined in the drinking party of class. We celebrated two friends’ birthday. The waitress made birthday cake and we sang birthday song for our friends. We had a great time.

July 30^th, I went to Disney on Ice in Nihon Gaishi hall with my friends. It was convenient to go there because my house is near it. There were many children. I want Disney goods, but they were so expensive. The cap is 2,300 yen and the Mickey’s balloon is 1,200 yen. The show was about 2 hours and it was fantastic! There were real Mickey and Minnie, of course and many Disney characters. They were very cute. I felt that we were in Disney land. We enjoyed the show very much. I’m going to Tokyo Disney Sea next week, so I’m looking forward to it.

Our Blog Questionnair

We asked 5 people about their blogs.

Q1. Do you use easy words?
4 people: Yes. 1 person; No.
Q2. Do you make some good links?
4 people: Yes. 1 person; No.
Q3. Do you get many comments?
5 people: Yes.
Q4. Do you leave your comments on your friend’s blog?
5 people: Yes.
Q5. Which do you make, Japanese or English links?
・I tried to link pages in English.
・Almost Japanese, sometimes English.
・Both of them
・Japanese
・Japanese
Q6. Do you try to make your blog easy to see?
5 people: Yes.
Q7. How many links do you use in each essay?
4 people: About three. 1 person; At least two.
Q8. Could you enjoy writing your blog?
3 people: Yes. 2 people: No.

Most people try to make their own blogs good. They make some links and leave comments on their friend’s blogs, but it is hard to write essays.
I enjoyed making my own blog and seeing my friend’s blogs. There are some excellent blogs. It was fun.

☆Blog Ranking in other class☆

1st is Mickey and Minnie. It’s very colorful and cute blog. It is easy to see because there are many pictures. I could understand about Halloween in detail. It was interesting information for me.

2nd is Poco A Poco. The blog’s design is cute. There are many delicious foods pictures and I like these movies, too. I want to watch these movies again.

3rd is LUCKY SEVEN. The blog is simple design, so it is easy to see. I didn’t know that honey is famous in New Zealand. I’m interested in pilates. It seems to be good for health. There are some interesting links.

★Blog Ranking in my class★

1st is Like A Candy, Chisaki's blog. There are many pictures in her blog. They’re beautiful view and cute pictures. I like them. Her blog’s design is so good.

2nd blog is DOOOOOOON!!! , Mai's blog. There is a lot of interesting information. I want to see wonderful lights of Winter Festival in Canada and she seemed to spend good summer vacation. I enjoyed her blog.

3rd is VEGA...★, Satomi's blog. It is easy to see because she emphasized important words and it’s colorful. She wrote detail information, so I can understand well.

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?