☆Big turtle☆

　At this time,　I'm telling about an interesting pet shop that I went. This is near the shopping mall "Yokohama Bay side" in Torihama, Yokohama. The pet shop has many strange animals. For example, a sloth, owl, parrot, pig, penguin and so on. Then, an animal that I was really surprised was a big turtle. He was really quiet and I thought he was an ornament!! If you like animals, you should go there! But,,,I recommend you to take some mask...hahaha

☆My ideal person☆

I saw my ideal person last sunday. She is my aunt. She is the oldest sister of my mothers'. I saw her in Fukushima, because she lives in fukushima and she runs a cafe. The cafes' name is "the city of coffee."She decorates her cafe with photos that she took by herself !! The photos were really wonderful !! Not only decorates of the cafe, but meals and sweets also were delicious! I ate pafe and my mother ate scone there and both were really nice. What is more, in spite of the fact that she is 60 years old, she has less wrinkle and she doesn't look 60! I want to be an woman like her !

☆Hot spring☆

I went to hot spring this weekend with my mother,aunt,uncle,cousin and my grand mother. The hot springs name is Tsuchi-yu onsen, and it's in Fukushima. We soaked in the hot spring 3 or 4 times!! and we enjoyed sauna bath several times! I felt every toxin of my body was cleaned!! Tsuchi-yu onsen is famous for waterfall that is seen from open-air bath. I actually saw it! Both the waterfall and the open air bath were fantastic!! After enjoying hot springs, delicious meals were waited for us! We ate Sashimi, Tempra,Suki-yaki and so on! I really want to go there again!! Also, if you like hot springs, why don't you go to Tsuchi-yu onsen? I'm sure you can have fun!!

☆My brother☆

　I have a brother.
He is 21 years old,and a graduate student now. He belonged to boat club when he was a college student, so he always got tunned.He eats a lot...A LOT!!! my brother always ate the bigger rice of the photo before. Also, He is very talkative, so my mother always pretend to hear him. My mother is not so talkative, nether is my father. Despite the fact, why did he become so talkative??? But I like his talk. Sometimes, I feel he is noisy,but he is interesting! He is very important for my family!! If you are interested in him, please tell me!lol

Mari and Chihiro ☆Food☆

Mari and Chihiro serched for food!


☆Vocabulary
boiled - cooked in boiling water

steamed - cooked over a saucepan of boiling water

fried / sauteed - cooked in oil in a frying pan

stir-fried - fried fast in hot oil

pan-fried - fried in a frying pan

roasted - cooked in oil in the oven

grilled - cooked under a grill

baked - cooked in the oven

stewed - cooked for a long time on a low heat

casseroled - cooked slowly in juices

meat = lamb, pork or beef

poultry = chicken, turkey, goose, duck

game = rabbit, hare, partridge, pheasant

fish = salt water fish / sea fish, fresh water fish

seafood = prawns, shrimps, lobster, scallops, mussels, crab

vegetables

fruit

starter / hors d'oeuvre / appetiser

main course

dessert / pudding


☆ Reading

Go to http://kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/recipes/pretzel.html

Find out what this recipe can make! Please put your eye on what you need to make this and the directions. Make sure you have all utensils that are needed. From this site, you can know nutritional analysis (ex, calories, fat and etc) . Therefor, if you are on a diet, you can check them!!

☆Listening

Go to http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ZL5PzZo6E

Here, you can see the video. The food vocablaries above are used here.


☆Writing/ Publishing

You can use these words at this site http://members.boardhost.com/MissDees/
You can publish the recipe you think of!!

☆Haneda air port☆

Do you like an airport? I went to Haneda airport with my friend last week! There are many shops there. We went to Star backs at first,because our friend worked part-time job there. After enjoying some drinks there, we went to the roof having Frappuccinos! The scenary from there was fantastic! We could see many plains' landing!! Anuway, when you do not have a plan when you hang out with someone, I strongly recommend to go to the airport☆

Publish travel information

　In Fukushima, everyone knows “Mama doll.”　Mama doll is a sweet which has white anko (milk flavor and chocolate flavor) inside it like an omanjuu. This name means “People who drink mothers’ milk” in Spanish. Mama doll is sometimes shown on the TV. Also, only in Fukushima, there is a commercial of Mama doll with a nice song. Many people who visit Fukushima buy it as a souvenir.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Fukushima_%28prefecture%29#Eat




* '''Tric art museum'''. This is an interesting museum near Takao mountain station. It would takes you only 1 munite to get there from the station.It's an easily accesible. There are many unique arts like photographs. This is a museum contains arts and amusement. What is more, it is said that the unique arts are good for peoples' brain.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Hachioji_AVRIL_LAVIGNE_ROKZ_MY_SOCKZ%21#See

Destinations!

This video shows 3 beautiful historical churches in zurich. First one is the Peters church. This church has the largest clock. The second one is the Fraumunster church. The thurd one is the Gross munster church. This is one of the most famous church. This is a Gothic architecture, and has beautiful stend grass inside. When I go to Switherland, I want to visit the well maintained and picturesque churches!!

Good points and bad points of JAL

JAL

☆☆☆☆☆

SIN-NRT and NRT-HKG First Class. Superb service, excellent food and champagne/wine selection. Older style seats, but very well maintained and more comfortable than some of the newer pod seats. Bathrooms look as though they are polished between use. Fantastic new VIP departure service in Singapore and golf cart ride in HK from arrival gate to immigration. I always feel really pampered on this airline. by Bill Atkins

ORD-NRT-SIN and KUL-NRT-ORD in C. Used miles to upgrade from Y to C, great use of miles. Service excellent on both transpacific sectors, lucky enough to be able to seat 19K, upper deck exit row in the shell seats makes for a very good trip. Best service on NRT-SIN, FA couldn't do enough for me. KUL-NRT is a sleeping sector for me because it's a redeye. I understand the complaints from the Aussie pax about the old C seats, they are most certainly a let down compared to the shell flat seats. Other major JAL complaint is the IFE. I rarely use it but I can see where it might lag compared to other Asian carriers. by Stephen Ostrander


☆OR☆☆


I had booked 4 Business Class tickets SYD-NRT-SYD on JL772/JL771 in April and was very disappointed with the service. This flight is sold as JAL but it is executed by Jalways which is a low-service subsidiary of JAL. The 55 seats in "Executive" Class were old and offered very limited recline. There were only 2 toilets which is totally insufficient for 55 passengers. There were no welcome drinks and the famous Japanese Aruga Blanca Clareza wine advertized on JAL's website was not served on these flights. The inflight entertainment list suggested a good selection of movies but apparently this required the "Magic III" system and the aircraft only had "Magic II" so the choice was limited to less than 10 English movies (some of which very old). Only cheap and outdated headsets without noise-cancelation capabilities were offered. The food was equally disappointing: we were sitting in the rear of the executive section and, although the flight was not sold out, there was no choice of meals left by the time we were served and we all had to accept a mediocre "western style" meal of not more than regular Economy Class standards. All in all a very disappointing JAL "Executive Class" experience and not worth any money at all over regular Economy Class. by E DeJong


Sydney/Narita/Sydney. We were booked on this flight as part of a package tour to Japan and our first experience of Y class with this airline, having previously flown Business class with them, which was excellent. The seating on the outward flight was narrow and uncomfortable, and the in- flight entertainment poor. When I asked for an eyemask, I was told that ALL amenities for this class had been discontinued 3 months before! The meal served on the outward flight was good, but on the return trip was appalling, and breakfast also poor. Cabin staff were attentive, and cared well for my husband, who was taken ill during the flight. I would not like to repeat this experience. by Pat Davies

☆My lovely Nelly☆

This time, I want to introduce my lovely cat " Nelly!" I live with her now in Minami-makigahara.
The reason why I live with her is that my mother came not to keep her anymore. She had lived with Nelly for 14 years. So, I didn't want to separate them, but I couldn't but to do so. .. But, in spite of my worries, Nerry was soon attached to me. So now we are nice family!! I hope she thinks so too !!

Trip!!

I want to go to Switherland with Mari.T next week! There are many reasons why I want to go. First, I will have exams next week, so I want to escape from them. And why I want to go Switherland is that there are lot's of beautiful nature, delicious foods(ex.cheese fondu) and sheep. Switherland is a place which is shown in a story "Alps no shoujo Haiji." Actually, there is a house which is shown in the story. I really want to see it and enter there!

We will use ”Air France.” From Narita airport to there, it will take us $2,900. We have only $2,500, so we have to rent money from someone.... Our flight will depart at 12:00pm and arrived at 8:00 pm June 30!

We will spend at a hotel "Coeur des Alpes." It will cost $167 a night. Why I chose this Hotel is that this hotel is said to be the best! It is said that this hotels' room and breakfast are very nice! Also its' lobby is small,but so romantic! Many people who have been there says they could enjoy at this hotel. I'm sure we can enjoy many things there! But, it seems to be difficult to book this hotel, so we may not be able to book it soon...but we will try our best to book it!


The places we are planning to go are the chocolate train and Grossmunster(Great church).People who tried this train said the scenery from this train is beautiful,and the chocolate train was amazing the Chocolate and Cheese were delicious. Its bad point seems to be a little short. Grossmunster is a very famous church. We do not need money only to enter, but if we want to climb the tower,we need a couple euro.The scenary from there seem to be very beautiful!!

Pretty princess☆

There is an ordinary girl "Mia" who lead a normal life with her mother and a cat. Her parents divorced when she was young and after divorcing, her father died. When Mia meets her paternal grandmother, she is told the truths that her grand mother is her Majasty the Queen of jenovia and Mia is a future princess. Though she does not want to be a pincess, a loyal lesson starts to polish both her apperance and personarity. She become beauty little by little and she has to decide whether to be a princess or not.



It is a kind of a romantic comedy and a heartwarming movie. Not only the plot, but also the actings are wonderful! However, some people may think it is a childish movie, but I strongly recommend this a light, entertaining movie!


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247638/usercomments-309

Dream girls☆

"'Dreamgirls' brings back thoughts of a few years ago when the movie musical version of 'Chicago' knocked our socks off, and (with the help of the gorgeous 'Moulin Rouge') helped to revive the modern movie musical. The sets, costumes, musical numbers all flow beautifully and make for an incredibly affecting motion picture. " nibbly


"The performances are something else. Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murhpy, and Anika Noni Rose will blow you away. " : TheatreManiac7

"The story is told as if it revealed something we've never seen before and his winning innocence triumphs. " M. J Arocena


I really want to see this movie. From comments of imdb site, I could find that not only story,but also this sets, costumes, and performances are great. What's more, casts in this movie are really nice! The comments say Byonce Knowles, Danny Glover and other casts play good!

pretty princess☆

bote-juu☆

Do you know "Bote-juu"? This is a Japanese restaurant where we can eat many kinds of "Okonomiyaki". Bote-juu is a very popular restaurant. I had heard that Bote-juus' okonomiyaki are very delicious, so I tried it yesterday! I ate "Omusoba" and "modan-yaki".
They were so delicious!! Then, I looked around when I was eating them and I realized that a third customers were foreigner! Foreigners like Okonomiyaki? I was surprised at this a little. I want to know what japanese food is the most popular among foreigners!

Anyway, Bote-juu is really nice restaurant,so if you like Okonomiyaki, you should go and eat them!! I strongly recommend it!

What's this movie title?

84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukator tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called *****when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Cal Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of ****** on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Sweets!!

Lately, I ate many sweets. First, I ate sweets in Hachioji with my mother in May,,,I forgot the date.lol All they were nice and so cute!! We talked about many things,(about life, my dog and cat, cooking,,,etc).Also, the day was near mothe's day. So, I gave her a lovely flower. She was surprised at that and pleased with it. I was happy to see her smiling face!
Next, an old G class party was held the day before yesterday.Before the party, we celebrated Asaka, HIkaru, Ai and Haruna's birthday with cakes and crackers! I was really happy to see them being pleased with it! Then,We went to "Sweet paradice"! There are lot's of sweets and meals. Not only we enjoyed the sweets, but also we enjoyed talking! all G class mates are really nice people! I had a really good time!! Thank you for planning the special class party, Natsumi and Misa☆ And, Ayaka, thank you for coming! I was so happy to meet you!

My favourite movie☆

There are many interesting movies in the world.But,I think "I am Sam" is the best movie!! Have you ever seen it? It was on TV last month!Let me introduce about this movie.

One day,a girl was born. Her name is "Lucy". However,Lucys' mother run away after giving birth to Lucy. Therefor, her father had to bring up her alone... His name is "Sam". Surprisingly, Sam has mental deficiency. In spite of the fact, he bring up Lucy healthy being helped by a kind neighber and his friends. But, a one sad problem turned out to be true,,,. Sams' brain is as same as 7 years old childs' brain,so when Lucy become over 7 years old, could he teach things and bring up her?
But,Sam and Lucy were willing to live together,so a judgement about it was held.



It is a heartwarming movie. I think that this movie teach us the strength of love.
In addition, not only the content, but the casts are also good. Sean Penn, who plays a role of Sam, is a nice actor. Also, Lucy is played by Dakota fanning. She is soooooooooo cute!! After playing in "I am Sam", she became really famous and play in various movies. Anyway,this is a great movie. I really recommend "I am Sam"!

challenge!

Good afternoon!! Rately, I try to cook various meals for the future!! Yesterday, I made "Spagetti Carbonara"! It was difficult to cook a little. I introduce how to make it. What you need are garlic, olive oil, bacon,salt,yolk,fresh cream, chiken soup,pepper,cabbege, onion and spagetti. It was not bad,but I thought that I had better add salt or chiken soup more.If you know the secret of cooking carbonara, please tell me!!