Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone:) How was your vacation? I spend most of the vation at my hometown, Tochigi with my friends from high school.

At New Year's day, me and one of my friends went for shopping to Utsunomiya. We walked around again and again in the same building for about five hours and our legs were going to dead!!XO


After that, we decided to go for Hatsumoude, but as soon as we saw the shrine, we decided not. Because there were such a looooooong line front of the steps to the shrine, and huge amount of people were waiting for their turn. We didn't have any power to take part in that line, stand and wait for long time. So we just walk through the line, get the huge Gyukushi, and walk to the station with having hard time bite and swallow that beef.lol

sigh

This week is pretty busy. I have lots of things to do. But it will end in four days, and finally, vacation will come soooon! I really can't wait. Again, I will go back to my hometown, and planning to spend lazy time there.

birthday party

Last Saturday, we had a birthday party for Yuri and another friend, Haruka. Before we went to the party, some friends came to my house and made cakes. One is very sweet chocolate cake for Haruka, and another is less sugar cake for Yuri. No one came until four, cream didn't go well, and chocolate floated on the floor, but finally, we succeed making nice looking cakes. My friend, Keiko licked so much chocolate, though.lol




Anyway, we had a really fun night. You can see how much we had fun in Yuri and Takuji's blog too, so I will finish here.:)

Kiyomizu

Last weekend, I went to Kiyomizu temple with my friends. Arriving there, we were up to know that there were lots of people. There was a line all the way of the street which is in front of the Kiyomizu temple. We never think that people were making line to enter the temple, and we finally noticed that when we almost arrived at front of the temple. We were stopped by guard and said to stand there until it opened. We were able to skip people and be in line, but still, there were lots of people making line front of us. I wondered if everyone able to get inside.

Waiting for a while, with eating Yatsuhashi, we were able to go into the Kiyomizu temple. It was awesome!! The temple was beautifully lighted up. Also the night view of Kyoto, and colored leaves impressed me.

If you don't have any plan, you should better go. Well, even you have some plan, why don't you turn them down and go to see??lol If you want to go, you should better hurry, since the last day of that night event is this Sunday.

busy weekend

I'm spending busy, but fun these days.



















Last Saturday, I run up to Hiroshima for a day. The previous day, my mother stayed at my house, and she was planning to go alone. However, fortunately, it turned out that I don't have any assignment to do on weekend. So, she suggested me to go with her for just one day. I decided to go even though it going to be hard to go and come back in a day, because I heard that my grandmother started to seem dementia little by little, and she is going to enter the hospital for health examination. Last time when she went to the hospital, her doctor told that a lump of blood which was made by operation may causing her easy to forget. I hope she would be alright.

















When we arrived at grandparent's home, they were not so much change exept grandmother gave up to dye her hair, so her hair were all white. They said I became bigger as they always do. I didn't get big any more though. And we talked about my life in Osaka, cousin, and my family.

After eating lunch, I walked around house. I went to the path that we used to go for an adventure with my cousin. There were lots of change everywhere. Less wooden house, and more concrete, stylish, apartment. But there still good old place to visit. Also, I went to the field that my grandfather making various kind of crops. It used to be colorful, we could take and take whatever we want. However, the field now is seem to be not groomed so much. I feel like they are getting older than I was thinking. I'm thinking to visit them near future.

Alone at a time of danger

This time, I would like to talk about "Alone at a time of danger" which opinion was written by Peter Sidell. He responds about the news of the murder in Saitama prefecture. The woman was found dead by her colleagues who wondered why she did not come to work for two days. When she was found, her hands tied together and her head covered by stocking. Sidell said that she would not have died if the neighbors did something. Her neighbor said he heard her screaming and the sound of hitting the floor from second floor, but he did nothing and she was found dead after two days.

He also mentioned about the news of raped woman in the bathroom of the train. In this case, there were about forty passengers in there, but they could not stop or tell the conductor, because the man also threatened them. They just pretend they did not hear woman crying, and taken to the bathroom for rape. At last, it was woman herself that reported to the police.

By reading or watching these news, Sidell thinks that in Japan, no one would help you from the danger. So, you must protect by yourself.

Not so welcome to Japan any longer

Today's response is about an article, written by Kevin Rafferty. It’s about system that fingerprinting foreigners who come to Japan by November 20. This action will take to almost every foreigner. Rafferty thinks that it is useless. Even though America took this system, they could not avoid 9/11 terrorism. Then, how it helps Japan? Also, he mentioned that it is not just foreigners, but also Japanese, who cause problems in Japan.

I think it is not bad to take this system, even if it is mimicking of America, and it was no use in there. It might help something in Japan. Also, I think that it is important to do something rather than wait for something happened and think about what we can do afterwards. We should better take some action even if it is said to be useless rather than just wait and see what will happen to us.