Wagashi Time

  It was a wonderful day on last Saturday. I have applied for an event ‘Experimenting Wagashi With English’ before and I could get the chance. My good friends also could get it so we all could participated in the event. Ten people got together for the event in the morning on the day. There were many people from another countries so it was good chance for me to talk to them in English. They were very nice and friendly. One of them was a Korean and I talked to him in Japanese, he could talked to me in Japanese, too. I was surprised at that. He was a Korean but good at talking in Japanese. I thought why can he talk well like that and why can’t I talk well in English? I thought the answer is enterprising. I thought that I have to do new things more actively.
 
 In the event, everyone enjoyed making Wagashi. There were a lot of voice with laughing. We tried to make two sweets. It was a little bit difficult to use small tools but, it was interesting. Finally, we all made two sweets completely and took some photos as own memories and ate them with green tea. They were delicious.
 
I was happy to participate this event because I could make new friends and eat sweets so I want to get a chance like this event again someday.

Chinese medicine

 I have felt cold recently. So I can't sleep well every nights when go to bed. I thought why I feel such cold every nights so I worried about that and called my mother. She said that it's the best way to drink Chinese medicine for making your body warm. So I asked her which Chinese medicine is better than others, she said that Youmeishu is the best!. After calling her, I searched the medicine on internet and decided to go to a pharmacy to buy it. I was surprised the cost of it when I found it at the store. It was about 1500 yen. But I bought it for my body. It also was so heavy that hard to take it to apartment.
  Youmeishu is good for cold, fatigue, stomach, etc. And it is work best before go to bed or before breakfast, lunch and dinner/ supper. I feel cold at night so decided to take it before go to bed. It is effective to keep drinking it for two months. So I'm looking forward that how will have I felt good after two months.

Studing And Taiking

 I went to the school to study with my friend, Ayano. I had a little time to buy light lunch and take a cup of coffee so came into Aion and Starbucks Coffee. We got together at the school at 12:30. It was a lunch time so we had right lunch each other. I wanted to be told some subjects I couldn't understand by her so I asked her to help me to do that and I was told by her eating lunch. I couldn't understand about structure of English and North Star: reading and writing so was told those subjects by her mainly. She had already studied those subjects by herself and could understand so I could rely on her about something I couldn't understand. We spent for a long time to study so felt hungry at about 4 o'clock. So we had a conversation about school and spring vacation a little bit and forgot feeling hungry. After that, we noticed that it had already been 5 o'clock. So it had been dark outside. We decided to go back home and left the school. I had a great time with her.

Hot Spring

 I went to a hot spring with my family on 29 Dec because it was so cold day. The name of the hot spring is Yurarikan. That is famous hot spring in Nagano so lot of people come and take bath again and again. We took bathes for a long time because it was very good. When I took off bath, my grandfather and father had already taken off so I was bought a juice by grandfather. After a few moment, my mother and grandmother took off. We all were hungry when we left out the place. My grandmother bought some foods as souvenir for my family. We decided to eat out and went to Katuya in Saku. It was at about five and there was not many people there so we could order food soon. We were eating quit because were hungry so finished eating soon. We felt full and had a great time there.

The Great Time

 I had a great time with my family on 31 Dec. My mother and I cleaned throughout my house in the morning of the day. We were refreshed after doing that. Then we started making dishes for The New Year as black beans, aobatu, kiribosidaikon, butanokakuni, etc. It was the first time to make butanokakuni for us so it was interesting to do it. We made it perfectly although it was the first time. We finished making all the food at pm six thirty. Then we prepared to eat dinner with all my family. We have a large kotatu so used it to eat dinner. It was good time for me to eat dinner talking and laughing with my family. I had a conversation about my college life and my family’s life. And we also had dinner for a long time watching kouhaku. I thought that I want to spend the time like that again with my family.

 
 

Christmas!

I went back to my hometown yesterday. It was 25^th and Christmas day! I was excited about seeing my family again and having a small Christmas party with my family when I boarded the Shinkansen. I’ve heard that Nagano is so cold this month so wore warm clothes. It was a little cold in Kyoto but when I arrived at my hometown’s station, it was not cold but painful. It was painful.

My mother came to the station to take me to home by her car. I was very happy when I saw her. On the way home, we looked some illuminations. There were so beautiful that we stayed there a few minutes.

 

 We held a Christmas party at 6:00. There were everyone except my brother: My mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and me. My parents prepared some dishes: Christmas cake, roast chicken, Sushi and spring roll. They were delicious. We had enough food so all were full.