Winter Vacation!

I really enjoyed winter vacation!!

What I enjoyed the most was the drinking party with my friends who were the same class in high school. It was held in Tokushima and 6 people took part in it. I haven't met one of them since we graduated. We went to Izakaya and talked a lot. Everyone have changed a little compared to when we were high school students. They were like city boys and girls. After that, we went to another Izakaya to spend a time until we went to karaoke and we drank a lot. We stayed there until 5:30 am. We promised to have a party in March. I had a really great time with them.

Another news is I bought a kimono for Coming of Age Day. I went to 3 kimono shops and tried on many kimono. I bought the last one I tried on. I liked it so I'm looking forward to wearing it.

How was your winter vacation?

Soon...

I had the year-end party with my basketball teammates last Friday.
Many people got drunk. After that, some of us want to bowling and karaoke, and I stayed there until 5:00 in the morning.
I was really tired but I had a good time.

The class of this year will be finish this Friday! ...But I have a lot of assignments this week. I will be busy... I hope I can have a rest.
I'm looking forward to winter vacation!!

Christmas Tree

I went to Umeda last Saturday. There were many Christmas trees along "EST". I took the picture of the biggest one. Many people stopped and gazed at them. They were very beautiful and it made my heart warm.

Christmas is coming soon! Do you have any plan for it? I will have a party with my friends... maybe. If I have a time, I wanna go to see illuminations.

... I wanna eat cake, too!!

In Tokushima...

I went back to Tokushima last weekend. I haven't gone back there for 2 months, and it is unusual for me. I took the picture of my dog, Cookie, and it is Christmas version.

I got new cell phone. It is the new series of Docomo, 905 i. It cost 50400 yen, very expensive. Its color is yellow which is my favorite. I want to use carefully so as not to drop it.

I drove in Tokushima after a gap of 2 months and it was dangerous driving. I need more practice.

My hometown, Anan city, is called "Light town Anan" and we have a lot of LED everywhere in my town, and I saw many illumination. They were very beautiful.

I spent this weekend with my family. I enjoyed the short trip to Tokushima.

Beautiful and Moving

I went to Kyoto, Toufukuji, to see the colored leaves. They were very beautiful and I took some pictures. I felt refreshed.

You should see them for a change.

I'm sure you can spend a good time.

After seeing them, I went to theater to watch "Koizora" and it moved me to tears.

I had a good time on that day.

About the article of the Japan Times

In the article, Vegans have a long way to go yet, the writer mentioned about the vegetarian food and vegans in Japan. Recently, they are increasing but still few so they are sometimes misunderstood in Japan.

The writer has lived in Japan for almost 10 years and he has taught students all over Japan, and he wrote the students' reaction that they did when they met the people who are vegetarianism. He also used generalizations to make his article credible. He talked how in fashion the vegetarianism is now which is rare and misunderstood. It is not known so well to everyone so the writer is telling us about it by describing the students' air. He wrote the names of countries and he is telling that the vegetarianism has boom in those countries, it means that he is giving us the example of other countries. He is a vegetarian so he hopes that the vegetarianism will be booming in Japan. These are his authorities and he is trying to persuade the readers. In the last paragraph, you can see there are only a few vegetarian restaurants and vegans, so by writing the sentence, he is showing the fewness of them.

Counterterrorism

The article, "Not so welcome to Japan any longer" is about the new procedure, which will be started from November 20, in entering Japan. It obliges foreigners to be fingerprinted and photograph when they enter or reenter Japan. Only children under 16, diplomats and special-status and permanent residents can escape it.

Fingerprinting and photographing are not good policy because they are taken as a discrimination against foreigners, and they do not assure that terrorists come into Japan. They target almost everyone. However, anyone cannot recognize who is a terrorist, and we do not have their fingerprints and photographs. Therefore, the percentage that the terrorists are arrested is really low. Taking the policy of fingerprinting and photographing means that Japan sees foreigners as terrorists and it is a discrimination against them. It is also an invasion of privacy. So its effects are doubtful and many people will point out the policy.