~Sports of New Zealand~

New Zealand is famous for sky sports. In New Zealand, we can enjoy a lot of kinds of sky sports everywhere. For example, glider, hot-air balloon, bungee jumping and skydiving.

★Bungee Jumping★




It is said that the beginning of bungee jumping comes from Vanuatu in southern Pacific.
In Vanuatu, bungee jumping was performed to celebrate becoming adult. It was a dangerous ceremony. And bungee jumping was started to play as one of the sky sports for the first time in 1980s. It was started by A.J. Hackett Bungy. He is also a famous person who jumped from the Eiffel Tower. And now, bungee jumping became a famous sky sports of New Zealand. A lot of people come to New Zealand to try bungee jumping. In New Zealand, there are a lot of places to do bungee jumping.

★Skydiving★




Skydiving is also a famous sky sports in New Zealand. It looks a little dangerous. However, in fact, it is a safe sports. Because when you skydive the instructor who has an official qualification helps you. You can see and enjoy beautiful scenery such as a beautiful mountain, a long deep river, shining snow and a lot of things! New Zealand has a lot of kind of rare landforms. For example, a crater lake, a land heat area and a volcano. If you try skydiving you can see these great scenery from the sky!

I think that New Zealand makes the most of nature. This country still has a rich natural environment such as big mountains, long rivers, wide grassland, volcano and glaciers. If people come to New Zealand they will be relaxed because of rich nature. People can enjoy their staying. If you go to New Zealand let's try sky sports!

~Festival~

★Jidai Festival in Kyoto★



I am interested in Jidai Festival in Kyoto. So I will explain this festival. This festival is one of a historical and traditional festival in Kyoto. It is very famous one. It has started since 1896. When this festival started, Japan is in the Meiji period. In other words, it has been continued for about 102 years. Jidai festival takes place to celebrate the constriction of the Heian Shrine. It is held on October 22nd every year. To be an exciting festival, pepole wear a lot of kinds of traditional costumes and parade to the Heian Shrine. This parade is divided into seven different periods. Each group of period wears each traditional costume. The length of this parade is about 2 kilometer. Therefore it takes three or four hours for all pepole to arrive at the Heian Shrine. The participants in the parade is about two thousand pepole. I have never seen this festival. So I want to see this some day.

~Movies~

I like watching movies. Since we can watch them in a huge screen and loud sound, I like going to a movie theater. I saw two movies in this summer vacation. One is “Detroit Metal City” and the other is “What Happens in Vegas”. Both are very funny.

★Detroit Metal City★

I explain “Detroit Metal City”. This is a Japanese movie. The original of this movie is comic. This comic is very popular. So this movie was really expected among a lot of the comic fans. The leading actor is Kenichi Matsuyama. This story starts one man who wants to be a singer. His mane is Negishi. He likes playing the guitar and has a dream to be a musician of pop music. He sings a song at a street every day. However he cannot be a professional pop singer. It is so hard for him. One day he is offered by a music producer. He is very happy his dream comes true. However the songs he has to sing is not pop music. It is HEAVY METAL music! He cannot be a pop music singer. He makes up his face like a white face and wears a black clothe and sings heavy metal songs! He becomes a HEAVY METAL musician! I think this story is not realistic. However everyone has their conflict. This main character also has his conflict because he really wants to be a pop musician. This movie tells us the importance not to give up. I recommend this movie.

★What Happens in Vegas★

This movie is very interesting. This story starts one woman who was turned down by her boyfriend and one man who was fired by his father. They meets each other in Vegas. They get drink a lot and they get married in spite of not knowing each other well. So they are forced to live together because they became couple. However they get to like each other. Finally they become real couple. This leading actress is Cameron Diaz. She is one of a famous actress in the USA. I think this story will not happen in the real world. I think that living with someone is little hard for me. Because we must be attentive to each other. So I will be tierd. However this love story is wonderful because they accept themselves including good things and bad things. This movie tells us the importance to accept someone who we do not know.

~Diet~

★Bean-starch Vermicelli Noodle★

In Japan, there are a lot of kinds of precooked Chinese noodles. They are eary to cook and we can eat them soon. we only waite three minutes. So many people like them. However, they have high calorie and if you eat them too much, they become harmful for your health. Recently, there is a popular noodle, bean-starch vermicelli noodle. It has low calorie becouse it is made from beans. Therefor it is good our health too!! Bean-starch vermicelli is produced in China, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. I'll explain how to make bean-starch vermicelli. Material of bean-starch vermicelli is green beans. First is making powder from green beans. And next kneading those powder. Finally, boiling it. It is not easy to make bean-starch vermicelli in person. However, we can get them easily at supermarket.


Bean-strach vermicelli noodle

~Exercise~

★swimming★

There are a lot of kinds of exercise. Now I want to write about swimming. Swimming is one of the popular sports all over the world. In Japan, it is also popular. Swimming has various events. For example, crawl, breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke. Recently, there was a big news that whether Japanese swimmer wear swimwear of speedo or not. Speedo is a company that produces sporting goods. Many swimmers recorded a lot of world records with wearing swimmer of speedo company. So Japanese swimmer must decide whether they wear it or not. However, a lot of Japanese swimmers contract with Japanese company. So it is said that it is difficult to wear swimwear of Speedo. Japanese company have to develop another swimwear which is better than that of Speedo. However, it is said that it is impossible to develop swimwear immediately.

~Interesting Information about laughter~

There are a lot of benefits of laughter. It is very important for us to laugh in order to enjoy our daily life. Laughter can relieve stress and heal our wound. We can communicate friendly by laughing and make a great relationship with a lot of people. Laughter has some medical benefits too. Here is the site about benefits of laughter.


★Laughter Therapist★

Do you know “Laughter Therapist”? Laughter Therapist is a person who support self-recovery and prevent from getting sick by laughter. To become Laughter Therapist needs a qualification. There are three grades. In Japan, there are about 300 Laughter Therapist now. However, people tend to feel heavy stress. So we need more Laughter Therapist. Here is the web-site about Laughter Therapist.



~Comedy & Other funny Stuff~

Have you ever watched Full House? Full House is an American TV program and it’s comedy. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner lives in San Francisco with their children, D.J. Stephanie, and Michelle. But one day Mrs. Tanner dies by a car accident. Then Mr. Tanner brings up their children with his best friend, Joey and his brother-in-low, Jesse. In Japan, Full House is very popular American TV program. It is broadcasted by NHK. Here is the site about it.