My Type

My type of girls is one who is single-minded and pure.

I wanna do a variety of things and go to many places with her.
Since I like going out, climing mountains, cycling, fishing, and taking a walk with her look really exciting to me. However, I also want to try what she likes such as shopping, cooking and watching movies.

Yeah, that's it.

Unusual Culture

The most unusual custom I've ever seen is Brazilian way of greeting.
When Brazilian people see their acquaintances, they often press their cheek on each other and make lip sound.
When I went to Brazil about five years ago, My host mother did me that, which surprised me a lot. People in Brazil can make lip sound very well. It's like the sound we make when we kiss. I couldn't understand how to make it well at all.
During my stay in Brazil, I realized that different culture can lead to misunderstanding.
Let me tell you what I experienced when I leave Brazil.
When I said good-bye to my friends in Brazil, a girl came up to me and then she pressed her cheak on mine and made a lip sound. I mistakenly believed that she loved me and I was about to kiss her cheak haha
After all, what she did was just a brazilian way of greeting.

If I could add one custom to Japanese culture, it would be hugging as Kevin said in his blog.
Hugging among family and friends give us happiness and joy. In addition, Patch Adams,who I really admire tells us how important it is to hug each other when we get sick.
I hope huging will wide-spread in Japan in the future.

Technology

What technology is most important in my life?
Well, they are computers.

First of all, they enables for us to get information much more easily than ever before. Imagine you were a college student in 1970's. If you had to get information for your college assignment, how would you get it? Well, you might go to the library and look for some books that contain necessary information. This would take much time. College students today,on the other hand, can get necessary information easily by using computers. They only have to use the Internet in order to get it.

Secondly, we can communicate with people all over the world whenever we want. Before computers were invented, we can only communicate with them by letters or telephone, which cost a lot. These days,however, we can keep in touch with them for almost free thanks to e-mail, skype and so on.

Without computers, my life would become difficult. I would have to spend much time looking for information for my assignment in the library. In addition, missing my favorite TV drama would make me more disappointed because I couldn't watch it until the drama's DVD released.

Anyway, computers undoubtedly play an important role in my life.

My Summer Vacation

Hi everyone !

How are you going? I hope everything is going well with you.

Today I'm going to talk about my first summer vacation.

If my friends ask me what I did during my summer vacation, I will answer "camping. That's it."

Above all ,I went caming for about a month! （August　3rd ~31st）

I had a wonderful time with children and my friends.

During summer camps, I enjoyed a lot of things with them such as cooking a variety of dishes,playing in the river, and camp fire.

There were a lot of nature around the camp cite. I was impressed by many stars in the sky, fireflies.

I lead a leisuirely life during summer camps.
There were no TV, cellphone, and computer.
I didn't have to care anything about my daily life.
All I did was to play with children , clean our camp cite , enjoy delicious dishes for free and laugh laugh and laugh.

Anyway, my first summer vacation was great.
Though it passed like an allow for me, I'm really looking forward to fall semester at K.G..

What I want to bring with me!!

What should Japanese people bring with them when they stay with a family living abroad?

Well, you might think about bringing some traditional things like origami and kendama with you.

To my surprise, however, something we take for granted can please foreigners.

Let me tell you what I experiensed when I was a high school student.

An Australian boy once stayed at my house for about two weeks .
I went to many places with him and his friends such as shopping center and game center.
At first , I thought they liked traditional Japanese culture but later I realized they are more interested in modern Japanese culture.

Some of them liked "calpis" and "pocky" while others a variety of Japanese anime.

I didn't know that "calpis" and "pocky" were too expensive, 3000yen, in their country .

I was also surprised that they knew much more about Japanese anime than me.
They looked to me as if they were "otaku" in Akihabara.

So, I want to bring not only traditional things but also more modern things with me when I go abroad and stay at my host family's house.

LOVE

Many people believe that love is the most important thing.

Of course, love plays an important role in our life. However, we can hardly tell what love is to others.

There are many kinds of love such as family love and lovers love, which makes it difficult for us to define the word "love".

Actually, I am not sure how to love others.
However, I know LOVE exists around us.

I wanna think about what I can do for others during my college life.

My favorite.....

My favorite musician is Billy Joel.

Do you know him??

He is an American rock singer.

Some of his songs such as "Pianoman" and "Honesty" are famous in Japan.

When I was in my last year in high school and prepared for college entrance exams, I often listened to his songs. This encouraged me a lot.

I have two favorite songs.

One is " Pianoman".

In the beginning of the song, he plays the harmonica.

I liked this part very much and practiced the harmonica very hard.

Now I can play it .

The other is "My life"

The words in this song are good!!

" I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm allright.

I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home.

I don't care what you say anymore. this is my life.

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone."

Whenever I listen to the song, it tells me that what is important is not what other people think about you but what you are .

Though Billy is much older than me, he looks powerful and really cool to me.

I want to be a grandpa like him in the future.

If you have a chance, listen to his songs.