Autumn

In my image, the autumn is like the spring. The reason why I think so is difficult to explaon. Infact, I don't know the reason clearly. One of the reason may be likeness of both season's wehter. Both season is proper temperature to live for me. So I like the spring ,but I don't like the autumn. Indeed, there are many delicious fruit such as apresimmon and a pear in the autumn, and colored leaves are beutiful. I don't like coldness,and the autumn's next season is the wintera,so I have to live to be frightened in the autumn when the cold winter comes.

When saying autumn, it's a fruit, isn't it? I like an orange very much. A book is being read and a netsurfing is being done while eating an orange.

I did that, and also spent autumn of this year.

A book read a novel called "fake". It was the novel about which it lie in a lie and was a very deep book.

A book called" history in an American slum" is being read now. I'm interested in old society, so when having a fascinating book, please inform me about old society.

Autumn

Speaking of autumn, I remember the best season for reading.

However, I don't read books so much (^^;)

The reason why I chose this topic is, I'd like to have a custom of readind book.

A professor of this university said, "It is decided in your university student whether you have a custom of reading."

Therefore, I have decided to start reading something at the best season for reading.

However, what kind of books should I read? Do you have anything you recommend?

If you'd like to have custom of reading, too, you should miss an opporyunity, the best season for reading.

Apples

Talking of autumnal fruits, we find persimmons, grapes, pears, apples and so on. I like apples the best of all autumnal fruits because apples have some advantages as compared with the other fruit. First, apples are beneficial to your health. As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Second, you can use apples all kinds of food. For example, put a slice of an apple into a salad, grate and put a piece of an apple into a curry and so on. Third, you can process apples such as apple butter, hard cider, cider, apple cider vinegar etc. Therefore I think that an apple is not only delicious fruit but also useful one. Do you agree with me? And what is your favorit autumnal fruit? Please tell me.

Autumn

Autumn have a lot of appeal. It is said that the autumun, when people have a good appetite, the best season for reading or sport, and so on in Japan.
Also, you can see a beautiful scene in autumn. For instance, you may feast yours eyes on the colored leaves of autumn or autumn flowers.

This time I tell topic of regarding autumn flowers.

This is a picture of common cosmos . A common cosmos indicates the universe and means "beautiful decoration" in Greek. Some of them smells chocolate！

This is . It symbolize sternal youth and immortality in china.

In Japan, the festival of chrysanthemum hold. That festivals in every place in Japan are the special feature of autumn season.

The Japanese plum grass are seen frequentiy. Some people use it to "ikebana" and enjoy the moonlight.

Thus, there are many autumn flowers.You may feel the advent of autumn when these flowers.

Autumn (fall)

Autumn, or fall, is an interesting season. As with Spring, the weather is changing, but in fall it is getting cooler, not warmer. The days are getting shorter, not longer, and in fact they are now shorter than the nights. Much of the world is now going to sleep for the winter, and things in general slow down. Everyone is getting ready for winter.

One of the nicest things about Autumn is the fall leaves. There are only a few areas of the world where the climate and the soil are such that leaves in general turn bright colors, especially yellow, orange and red. One is the Tohoku region of Japan, where acid soils and temperate climate combine to produce these fall colors. Another is the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, where similar climates and soil also produce similar effects with the leaves. Pennsylvania attracts many tourists with the largest such forests in easy reach of people from other parts of the country, but New England, with especially poor soils and rugged countryside, is even more famous for its leaves. Canada is so proud of its fall leaves that they have made the red maple leaf a national symbol and even put it on their flag.



Autumn is also the season of the harvest. Food is abundant and harvest festivals and thanksgiving holidays are common. Americans celebrate their Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November, while the Japanese holiday of Labor Thanksgiving Day is also in late November. Fresh fruit is abundant, and there is plenty of other food available, too. While most people prefer Spring or Summer, there are many good points to Fall as well, and many people enjoy this season like any other.

I miss the cider we used to get in Pennsylvania in the Fall, sold in gallon jugs. It would turn hard in a few days, and you had to drink it before it went bad. The flavor was really good.

free topic

Do you know Kankurou Kudou?
He is a scriptwriter and an actor. He is called by the nickname of "Kudokan".

I like his dramas and movies. I think he is one of the best scriptwriter in Japan.

I knew him for the first tme when I saw the drama "Kisarazukyattuai" .

I had not see such an amusing drama like this.

I think his most popular movie is "Pinpon" . This movie is about table tennis and the original story is comics.This movie replicates theworld of comics.Of course, this movie entertain people who do not know orginal story.

My free topic

What sport do you like ?
What kind of sport did you play ?

I belonged to Japanese archery club when I was high school student.
I think that you have little chance to watch the Japanese archery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPQx-B0OCQ
That link is the tournament of Japanese archery 2008.

For my club members, this sport was a battle with the self.
That practice was very hard for us, but we was able to cultivate us patience.

You can enjoy taking part in or wacthig a sport, or whenever.
It won't be lomg before the winter season set in.
I would like to go skating this winter.

MAROON5

Do you like music?I like it very much!So,today I want to recommend my favorite rock band MAROON5 to you.MAROON5 is a Grammy Award-winning rock band from Los Angeles,California.Their debut album Songs About Jane was released in 2002 and made a great hit all over the world.Of course,they are very popular among young people in Japan:gave two performances in 2004 and 2008,appeared on television and performed in 2007 and some of their songs are used in a TV commercial.

MAROON5's songs are so cool that I want you to try to listen to their songs for once.I'm sure you will like their songs.

My free topic

I thought a lot about what I wanted to post here for my own free topic. I finally decided on a musician I like a lot, but you probably haven't heard of. I heard of him through the international media and on the Internet, but I couldn't get his music until buying music on the Internet became possible. He's just not that popular in Japan - at least yet. My daughter, who likes J-Pop, thinks he's just too weird.

"Dad, that music is so weird!" She told me.

"Hey, I love Jazz and I love Bluegrass. How could I not love this?" I responded.

Béla Fleck plays music that is an intricate mix of Bluegrass and Jazz, both very indigenous American musical genres that combine African and European instruments and traditions. Music sites like iTunes don't know what genre to put him in, and sometimes his different albums are in different categories. Needless to say, he doesn't get much air play. He's too country for the Jazz stations, but too jazzy for the Country stations. But I do run into other people who like his music.

Japan has both Jazz and Bluegrass musicians. In fact, even before I met my wife and thought of moving here, I had an album of Japanese Bluegrass music that I used to play for friends. And of course everyone who knows anything about Jazz has at least heard of Sadao Watanabe, probably the most famous Japanese Jazz musician ever.

Here's a Béla Fleck clip from YouTube for you to enjoy:

My free topic

I like playing and watching figure skate!!

I think figure skate has become more popular recently. Are you interested in figure skate?

My favorite figure skater is Brian Joubert!

This picture is Brian Joubert.

He is from France and He has participated in the Olympic Games twice. In 2007, he got a gold medal in a world champinonship.

His motto is perform a quadruple jamp.

A quadruple jamp is to spin four times in the air.

It is the hardest jamp in figure skate.

He says,"If you are real figure skater, you must perform a quadruple jamp!"

He is so deeply attached to quadruple jamp. I think the strong faith of his led to his achievement.
I looked up to him!! What do you think of him?

poppin'

I'm dancing. The genre is called "poppin'". Sound is expressed to play muscle of a body literally. It's better to see an animation more than the explanation is heard." poppin'" is the break dance loved from the past. Yourself's, sound can be expressed as you prefer, so as you have your individuality, it would be able to be a fascinating dancer more. If you interested, lets talk.





The person who put on striped clothes is the dancer I like very much. He's Korean, a handle name, "poppin' ds". His expressive power is free and the tedious dance on the textbook street isn't made fascinating. His home page is put.

his HP:poppin' ds!


I'm also playing other street basketball. Street basketball is the basketball which removed a rule from basketball. The work one considered is used, so the individuality is also asked this about. When this is also interested in you, I and talk, oh, I shoulder.





cool!!!!:D!!!!!!

My hometown Nakadomari

I will introduce my hometown Nakadomari!

There are some famous tourist spots.

This is one of the famous tourist spots which is called "Nanatsudaki."

Some tourists come here every year and drink its water. I have drunk the water before.
It is very fresh and cool. Some of them put some water into a bottle and bring back.

This is famous for its beautiful sea. Many peolpe go swimming and go camping in summer.

Also, beach soccer tournament is held here every year. Many people take part in it.

I usually enjoy swimming in summer (^^)

My hometown, Misawa

I'm from Misawa City in Aomori Prefecture.

It is located the Pacific of Japan in Aomori.

This is the picture of a science museum , "Misawa koukuu kagakukann".

We can see many models of plane and thre are displays, facilitiies, and so on.

The Hotoke swamp was registered the Ramsar Convention in 2006, this is picture of bard, "oosekka".

This is "Ogawara lake". It is the eleventh largest lake in Japan.

There are camping facilities, I can recommend that families go there.

Some other place in Misawa have joyful facilities and beautifl nature.

Moreover, a lot of events hold every year. For instance, the flying festival and Halloween festival. Many people can take part in these events.

If you finds an oppotunity, I want to visit to Misawa. (^-^)/

my home town Tokyou

I want to show you two things about Tokyo.

First thing is the Tokyo Tower.
This picture is the Tokyo Tower.This tower is 333 meters in hight.We can climb up this tower on stairs.This tower is illuminated very well, so this plase is popular for a date spot.

Second thing is a bronze statue of Hatikou.
This place is known as place where people meet with.

I think this place is not good for waiting people,so many people use this place for waiting people that we take a trouble to meet wiht people.

my hometown Gosyogawara

My home town Gosho

gawara is quite famous area in Aomori. When I say on the map, it's in the location like the top.

The station is such feeling. It's the very small station compared with Hirosaki, but everyone is gentle and the station employee is kind. There is a shopping area where I'm degrading around the station. It was very conspicuous before, but a shopping area was just obsolete by establishment in a supermarket.

But there is also something which doesn't change from the past. That's a traditional entertainment in an area and local specialties. Local specialties are introduced this time. There is a lot of one which used apple mainly, but local specialties are also doing pottery making as the one which dried and dried rice cake as rice cake and "tugaru kaneyamayaki". " The tugaru kaneyamayaki" is very beautiful, and there is elegance very much. I have wine, jam and juice in local specialties of apple. My grandfather is growing apple and is making juice and jam. The depth different from an over-the-counter one and the sweetness can be tasted. I think the place where I play is a place good for a little but elegant person in the country.

My home town,Kuroishi

Various traditional events and festivals are held during the season in my hometown Kuroishi.

The cherry blossom festival is held in spring and many street stalls are opend there.We enjoy beautiful cherry blossoms with eating and drinking.

In summer,Neputa festival which one of traditional events take pleace.There are from 60 to 70 Neputas parade the street at night and entertain spectaors from children t0 adult.

Also,the autumn colors are beautiful.Many people visit Nakano maple hill which famous for maple viewing.It is illuminated at night anda the view is getting still more beautiful.

We have a sale which is called Makkoichi in February.All sorts of goods are sold at a bargain price in addition people who buy a thing on the day can get a free gift.

Thus there are many enjoyable entertainment in my hometown,how about coming to Kuroishi for once?

My hometown, Grand Rapids, Michigan

I don't know if you know it or not, but both Professor Carpenter and I were born in Michigan in the United States. I was born in Grand Rapids, a small town in the southwest of the state. I moved away when I was young, before I started school in fact, and I've lived a lot of places (they say Americans are always on the go), Los Angeles mostly, but my birth is still registered in the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids.



Grand Rapids is a very religious town. In fact, Wikipedia has a whole category about religion in Grand Rapids, rather than just a single page about it. When I was born my father taught at Aquinas College, a Catholic college in town run by the Dominicans, one of the three great intellectual orders of the Catholic Church.



Of course Grand Rapids is very modern now, and has changed a lot since I was born there, but there is still a lot of traditional Americana there.

blog vol.3

Turning fall, we can saw red leaves when we go outside. I like fall season very much.Of course, they said that some people feel sentiment(? or sad?) in fall, I feel it, too, but we can have a good time to eat tasty food in fall.

There are many fall's vegetables and fruits at super market. Especially, my favorite food is pampkins. I ate a Halloween lunch with my friend at Hirosaki university's restaurant today! We were very pleased because we could ate two slices of punpkin and a cup of punpkin's soup. And I want to cook with my friends by using punpkins until this year.


So I'd like to ask you to your favorite fall's foods. What fall's foods do you like?

blog vol.3

All sorts of things happen to us as long as we live. Of course, life is not all beer and skittles. Everyone has a bad day sometimes. Everyone makes mistakes now and then.

"When you feel low about failing, what would you do?"

As for as I'm concerned, it is better for you to dismiss the problem from your mind because you can't win them all. We dread failure, however, we can learn a lot of things from bitter experience. As the saying goes, failure teaches success.