Minamata Trip!!

Hello, you guys! What are you guys up to these days?? I went to Minamata last Sunday with my friends in order to see one of the greatest senpai for us who lives in there and works at Minamata high school. Of course, we just not only met him but we hung out with him and stayed his house.

We were supposed to gather at the seven-eleven near the school at 11:00am. Then, we depart for Minamata. We thought it take about 2 hours to go there before departure, so we drove safely. But actually, it took about 4 hours because we spent time in a Jusco about a hour to have lunch. Anyway, it was about 3:00pm that we arrived there.







After that, we went to a beach!! Yes, we went swimming!!! Well, it didn't matter whether it's evening because it's SUMMER!! We have to enjoy swimming! Yay!! After swimming, we went to an onsen. There was no customer, so it was like reserved for us. But though it was good, it was a bit small... Anyway we felt refreshed by the onsen!











Okay, let's talk about dinner and nighttime. Fortunately, the senpai bought us food and drink!! So we decided to make 海鮮丼. It's pretty easy to make it because we just had to put 刺身 on the rice. Here's it. How does it look?


Looks really good, huh? And we drunk alcohol, not so much. But one of friends got drunk a little.


His face was soooo red like this picture. OK, you rock! :P
By the way, it's cold night. I don't know why.




Next morning, we got up early, it was about 7:00am. The senpai had to work because it's Monday. And we had to see him off. We were really glad to see him! And he looks happy, too.

We hope everything is going well for you! Thank you so much for staying us.

Uh! We found something funny on the road.

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Have you thought about...

Yesterday, when I was watching my favorite band's music videos, I found those messages below in the music video. Those messages are not the lyrics of the song. It included in the music video.

"What makes us who we are?
Eyes? Hair? Race? Sex?
Who will you… love? Who will you… trust?
Where is home?
What hardships will you face? What hardships will you overcome?
What makes you happy? What are your passions?
If you could… do it all over again… what would you change?
Relationships? Choices? Direction?
What experience would you relieve?
What will you… achieve? What will you… be remembered for?
Don’t Drop Your Arms"

Have you thought about them? Maybe yes? Maybe no? In my case, I haven't thought about them except a few things. We need think about them in our life at least once because I think it's important what we aim for. I put the music video below, so please check it out.

Anberlin - The Unwinding Cable Car

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Festival

Did you guys went to Hinokuni Festival during 8th to 9th? I went to the festival both of days with 2 friends and 3 exchange students. Actually, I didn't know the festival last year because I'm not from Kumamoto and I was in Beppu last year. But I had time to go the festival this year.

On the first day, I watched fireworks show in Kumamoto Castle. The firewoks were impressed and beautiful, but a fireworks show of Beppu is better than this one. If you have time, you should go to Beppu next summer!! You can enjoy the firework show. Okay, so after the fireworks show in the castle, we went to festa to take purikura, but there were freaking many people there, so we gave up taking it. Instead of taking purikura, we played hockey game and shooting game. It was so much fun!

On the second day, I watched 'The Dark Knight' with 3 friends, including 2 exchange students, in Daiei from 9:40am. The movie was a bit long, but it was exciting!You should watch it out!! After watching it, we went to Thai restaurant for lunch. I ate 生春巻き and グリーンカレー. One clerk
asked me like "Was it spicy??". Of course I answered NO. I think, it was a little bit spicy for you, but not spicy for me. Anyway, it was really good and cheap, so try once! After the lunch, we went to festa again. And we played same game as previous day. Then, we went to 交通センター to watch friend's dance!! The dance was awesome and sexy!haha

After that, we went to Starbucks to take a rest. One of them said, "I want to eat yakiniku for dinner." So, we decided to go to 牛角. I've never been to there, so I was kinda excited. Yep, the taste was good, and we could enjoy eating. Finally, it's time to おてもやん!! We enjoyed watching it near the city hall, and we talked about whether join the parade next year because it seemed really fun! Then, we went to Jeff's World Bar. I was driving scooter, so I couldn't drink the night. Again, one of them said, "I want to eat ramen." Therefore, we went to 天外天.

I'm tired of typing today. Okay, let me finish. So, all I can say is that I really enjoyed the 2 days with awesome friends. The memories are going to be unforgettable!!

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Yeah!!

Hey, it's been a long time, isn't it? How have you been?? Are you melting because of heat? I'm melting a little. By the way, I'm having hot and fun summer vacation now. But I have sad things. They are that exchange students are leaving Japan. Eight of them already left here. I don't want them to leave...

Let's change the topic. So, what are you doing during this summer vacation? In my case, I'm going to work as usual, to go back home, go to short trip, and to drink alcohol. It's not bad, but not good. Oh, I've finally got my own iPod about 2 weeks ago, so I'm going to listen to my favorite musics everyday!! Yay! And I'm going to a Korean drama which I've been wanted to watch since 6 months ago. I guess, I have lots of things to do including chilling at home and hanging out with friends.

Speaking of my favorite musics, I know a nice band! They are "The Fray". Do you guys know this band? I attached one of their songs, "How To Save A Life".



Have you ever heard this song? I think, you have. The Fray is a Grammy Award-nominated four-piece piano rock band from Denver in the state of Colorado, the US, and is formed in 2002 by schoolmates. Most of fans of The Fray like this song. Anyway, don't miss it! Their songs are sweet!

I have to sleep a lot and chill out tomorrow. :P

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Hey, this post is going to be the last post in this semester, so I'll introduce one of my favorite band, "Maroon 5". I think, you guys have heard this name or listened to their song in a car CM. This is the song of it.



So, you have listened to it once, right? I don't explain about them today, but you can check them on any sites of the Internet. And you are going to be their fan, I think...

So, as I said, this is the last post of this semester, BUT I'm going to keep posting in summer vacation as well. So please check my blog when you have time, nothing to do, or whenever you want.

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BR 1-12: Feel the Wind

This is the last book review of this semester, "Feel the Wind". This is one of the series of 'Let's-Read-And-Find-Out-science'. I like to know something new, so I picked up this book. You can find something about the wind in this book, and you may understand where the wind come from.

We can't see the wind, but we can see the wind move things. And we can hear the wind and we can feel the wind, too. People have used the power of moving air for thousands of years. Wind brings changes in the weather. For example, rainstorms blow in with the wind, and again as the wind pushes the clouds along. The wind blows gently, and the wind blows strong. you can figure out which way the wind is blowing by watching a leaf, a piece of cloth or string, or a weather vane.

I don't recommend you to read this book, but I also recommend you to read this book. I mean, it's completely up to you. If you are like me, you will read this, but if you are not like me, you don't read this book. But all I can say is that let's feel the wind! Wind brings us comfortable, I guess.

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BR 1-11: Frog and Toad Are Friends

I also read this book "Frog and Toad Are Friends". I like this series because it's really sweet. As usual, this book contains 5 chapters, and today I will talk about "A swim" in the chapters.

Frog and Toad went to a river to swim. And Frog put on his bathing suit. But He doesn't want anyone to look at him because he looks funny in his bathing suit. Unfortunately, Toad tell about this to turtle, dragonfly, and so on, and they wanted to look at frog. Finally, Frog climbed out of the river, and they laughed him because he looks funny.

I really recommend you to read!! I can assure you that you can enjoy reading this book definitely! And you can figure out the contents ealily!

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BR 1-10: Starfish

I read this book "Starfish". This is kind of picture book, and it has just 479 words. But I can know how starfish live.

The most amazing thing in this book is that if starfish loses their a ray, they just grows another ray. For example, a crab pull it off to eat, or a rock fall on it, they don't feet hurt. It doesn't bother the starfish. The starfish just grows another ray as I said.

I could enjoy reading this book, but I think that some people don't want to read this book because it is useless. So it's up to you whether you read or not.

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BR 1-09: Stories of Dragons

I read "Stories of Dragons". I couldn't get the picture of this book, but the cover of this book is nice, so I chose this book for book review. This book is formed by 4 chapters. Today, I willl talk about one of them, "Stan and the dragon".

Stan is a woodcutter, and he lives in a forest with his wife. They have no child, so they want children. One day, he met a wizard and then, he has got 100 children. But he has no money to take care of them. His friends taught him to get dragon's treasure, so hwe went for adventure. He didn't meet the dragon, but dragon found him. He cheated to defeat the dragon, and finally, he got the treasure. He could take care of his children.

I recommend this book to you to read because this is so nice! You can understand the contents easily and enjoy!

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How to make 'Kimo-han(きも飯)'

Hey, you guys! Do you guys like eating? What kind of food do you all like? Japanese food? Korean food? Chinese food? French or Italian? Or American? There is a lot of different kind of foods in this world, and you guys want to eat them, don’t you? I’m guessing you’ve wanted to cook them at home. But we can’t make them easily, right? Well, today, I’m going to introduce an American cuisine which everybody can make easily at home. It’s easier than “Q■ 3 minutes cooking”. Are you ready to start??

First of all, you need ingredients. Don’t worry, you only need just 6 different ingredients to make this cuisine. Let’s take a look at them. Rice, milk, banana, raisins, cinnamon, and brown sugar. That’s all. Okay, next, you need to make preparations of the ingredients. Firstly, cook the rice, and cut the banana into round slices.

Okay, let’s take a look at how we do this. First, fill a bowl with the rice. Second, pour some milk on the bowl of rice. And then, add the bananas and raisins. Then sprinkle some cinnamon and sugar on top. If you want to you can also warm it up or eat it cold.

See? It’s pretty easy, isn’t it? Oh, by the way, it may be a little late, but the name of this cuisine is "きも飯". "きも飯" derives from 2 words in Japanese, "きもい" and "ご飯". In English, these words literally mean “disgusting rice”. The previous exchange students taught me this cuisine when they were here. One of them said, “It’s pretty easy and for Japanese it is きもいー!!!”

Anyway, making "きも飯" is a three-step process. First, you prepare the 6 ingredients; next, you make the preparations for the ingredients; and finally, you add the ingredients. You can make such a nice dish at home and this recipe can also be enjoyed anytime, anywhere. I’m pretty sure it will be hard for you to finish this on your first try, I mean, it was for me! However, please try it again and again, and you will be able to enjoy the taste and it might perhaps become your favorite food. You can make it, too! If you have forgot how to make it, whenever feel free to ask me anytime. I’ll teach you the way.

Thank you for reading!

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