Coming of Age Day

Hello everyone! It was my Coming of age Day last Monday!! It's one of Japanese traditional ceremony that celebrate the age of 20! I woke up around 6:30 am, went to hair salon, had a set up my hair and make up, and wore Kimono. It took like 2 hours, so made me really tired. I went to the ceremony hall, and there was a lot of 20 years old people!!! Most of girls and some of guys wore Kimono then. Most of guys wore suits in general.
This is me in Kimono! I wore it almost the whole day so I got really tired. It was really tight, but not so warm haha

After the ceremony, I had a big party with old friends from my elementary school. It was really really fun and i was so happy to see them again. There were some friends who I met for the first time in 10 years! Their appearence were changed a lot, but character wern't.

I hope that you guys had a great day as well!!

New Year!!!

We went to Yasaka shrine in Shijo, on New Year's eve. It's one of Japanese traditional to go to shrine and pray for next year when the year changes. That was my first time to go to Yasaka shrine, so I found something new for me. This is the picture of it. There was a fire, and we can get from the fire for good luck.
There was a lot of people in front of the shrine when the year changed. We did countdown all together! It was really fun :) And it was so cold.



I stayed in Hirakata that night and went home in the evening of January 1st. I went to my grandnother's place. She cooks Japanese traditional meal for New Years, called "Osechi". I love it!!! I ate some of them and took a nap.

I already miss my New Year's day!!

Happy New Year!!!

My Christmas

Hi everyone! How was your Christmas? I had really great time!! I went ice skating in Hirakata Park. It was my the first time to go ice skating in 11 years, so I was kinda excited and nervous then, but I didn't fell down at all. (Actually I was about to, but my boyfriend always helped me hahaha) We exchanged Christmas presents then.

After that, we went to Kyoto station to have Christmas dinner. There was a huge Christmas tree, and it was so beautiful!! I put a picts of it. We saw it for a while, went to Italian restaurant. We had a big dinner, and a Christmas cake! It was a little heavy, so we couldn't finish it...

That was Christmas eve. On Christmas day, we went to Namba to watch movie. We watched "WALL・E", the latest Disney movie. It was my first time to watch it, but for mhy boyfriend it was second time, because it already ran in the US.

Anyways, I had really good time!!! How was yours?

American Machanical Pencils

Hi everyone! Recently, it's been getting really cold, right? I love winter though. There's a lot of great event in winter like Christmas, A New Year's Day.. But! Be careful! Don't get a cold!! hahaha



The other day, when I was talking with my American friend in my psychology class, she grabed her machanical pencil, and she said, "Oh it's almost done. I need a new one!" I was so surprised when I heard it. I asked her why she didn't use refills, and she told me, "Oh, we don't use refills. We can get 20 machanical pencils set like 20 cents so we don't have to charge leads." In Japan, if you get a machanical pencil once, you'll use it until it doesn't work any more and won't throw it away right? And leads are gone, you get some refills don't you? That's a really interesting difference between American stationeries and Japanese ones! I got a picture of the pencil which my friends use.

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Kaiyuukan!!!

Hi everyone! How was your big weekend? I had a bunch of great time! On Friday and Saturday, I enjoyed our school festival, On Sunday, I went to Nara with some international students:) And On Monday, I went to the aquarium called Kaiyuukan with my boyfriend!! I haven't been there for three years, so I was sooo excited!!
There's a big ferris wheel in front of Kaiyuukan. We took on it after we got out from Kaiyuukan. I'm afraid of height, so it was kinda scary for me.

I saw 2 sea turtles there. I had a turtle before, so I like turtles. They were so cute and their way to swim was really kalm.

I could learn how to call the animals and fish in English there. For example.. sea lions, sea otters, and so on:)

Look at that guy! He's cleaning the tank, ant the ray came to him and tried to bite him! WHOAAAAA!!! Haha just kidding.

Penguins!! They're sooooo cute and funny!! There were 3 types of penguins.

I really really enjoyed my big weekend!!!!

Halloween!!!

On October 30th, the Halloween event was held at Gaidai. So, I wore my high school uniform. This picture (above) is Bruse Lee(Shark Boy) and a School girl(Me).

This picture is a kitty boy(Glenn) and a School girl(Me).

Mayumi and I are from the same high school.

From left, Scot, Sharkboy, Me, Glenn, Jason and someone in fromt of CIE.

That was my first time to wear a costume on halloween. So at first, I was kinda embarrassed but I was so excited! There was a competition in the evening. It was soo fun!!

Movies!

Hey everyone! I watched a lot of movies in these days. I'm gonna introduce some of them.

This is kanda old one and I'd never watched it before I watched it a few days ago. It's "Out Cold". One day, one of my American friends showed me it and it was awesome! It's a movie about snow boarders in Araska. There are lots of American jokes so it's really really fynny! But you should watch it in English of course. Because if you watch it in Japanese, you won't get those jokes!

This one is "Nights in Rodanthe". I watched this movie last Monday and I was so impressed and cried. This is kinda love story, so perhaps it's boring for guys haha.
But! If you are interested in it, you should watch it! You're gonna cry and miss your BF or GF!!!

This is Angelina Jolie's latest movie, "Wanted". It was awesome as well, but for me, it was too hard to wabtch it. I mean, There were sooo many bloody scenes so I sometimes have to close my eyes!! Angie was so beautiful, so sexy and her action was so cool!

I think most of you know this movie. Yeah this is "Hancock"!!! Will Smith as a super hero was soooo cool!! I watched it twice. The music in this movie was so cool as well:)

I watched so many mivies this summer and fall, I watched "Dark Knight", "What Happens in Vegas", and "Sex And The City The Movie" as well. They were all awesome! I'm gonna watch "p.s. I love you" next week and I can't wait to watch it!

Thanks for reading!

Pictures are from goo.映画 and Wikipedia.