my mother

My mother is one a person that I respect most. This is the picture that I took with my mother when I graduated from a high school.

I often said that I take after my mother, though I don't know wether it is true or not. She majored English philology when she was a university student, so she is accomplish at English. Before she got merried to my father, she was an English teacher. After I was borned, she taught Japanese to ALT, who is a teacher working at Japanese elementary school or junior high school. She loves English, so I was taught English by her when I was a little child. It made me to be interested in English, and I decided to major in English at university. Thanks to my mother, she gave me a great oppotunity!!

Moreover, she is very understanding for me. She always cheer me up when I am in very low spirits. Since I've started to live alone, I was helped by her very much. I have to be a good daughter for her:-)

See you~★！

calligraphy club

Hi!! I became drowsy...lol

The last time, I wrote about karate club, so this time I'd like to introduce about calligraphy club that I belonged besides karate club when I was a high school student.

I've learned calligraphy since I was a 4 or 5 years old child, so I love calligraphy very much. Therefore, I wanted to join calligraphy club for I long time. Actually, I became to love calligraphy even more after I joined the club!! I learned many things from seniors and teachers. Calligraphy was so interesting for me. Each person's work has features, and it vary from person to person. It is one of the interests of calligraphy. Moreover, I was not only interested in writing it, but also interested in history of it. Learning about the person who wrote famous work always helps us to write our own work! When I was second grade in high school, I did head of the club. Busy days continued at that time, but I could learn many precious things. This is the pucture with all calligraphy club's members!!

There are so many club members in this club. I love all of them<333


And, I wrote masthead of school yearbook in the third grade of high school!! This is the picture of it:)

School yearbooks are important things for many graduates, so I wrote it many times until a good work was done. Finally, I could write convincing work, so I was relieved. I was glad to get such precious chance;)

See you~:-) 

karate club

Hi!!

Writing about Seiryo-sai reminded me my high school days!! Therefore, I'd like to write about my high school memories once again. I'd like to write about my club memories. I belonged two clubs, karate club and calligraphy club, when I was a high school student. This time I'd like to write about my memories of karate club.

When I entered high school, I didn't dare to join karate club, though I've practiced it since I was 9 years old. I didn't like training at that time, and I was planning to join only calligraphy club. However, that thought was changed completly after I went to see karate club's training. All members were so kind, and they practiced karate eagerly. I fascinated by this club's atmosphere, and I thought I wanted to practice with this members, so I decided to join karate club besides calligraphy club. The training was sometimes so hard, but I could spend a good time with club members:) In second grade and third grade in high school, I could participate a national championship, though it wasn't an Interscholastic athletic meet. That was one of my memoriable events. I could experience many things there!

 This picture is with my teacher and clubmembers in the same year. In our grade, there were four members. The number of member was few, but the atmosphere of the club was so homelike that I love my club.

This is the picture with my teacher.

He's so interesting teacher that I like him very much:) Moreover, his way of teaching karate was great!! I owed a lot to him!! I couldn't meet him in this winter vacation, so I wanted to see him in spring;)

Bye★！

Seiryo-sai 2

Good evening!!

The last time, I wrote about Seiryo-sai. It is so great sports festival!! Seiryo-sai is a memoriable event for me(It might not only for me, but most my high school's graduates might think like me). Last year, I went back to Niigata to see Seiryo-sai after I graduated from high school!!

This is a picture with my friend and juniors:) Juniors, especially third grade of students, did well in that day!! Their performance was soooooo great that I was touched by them. They also carried on our torch well. I was grad to see Seiryo-sai again. Participating sports festival is one of  the perquisites of high school students. In university, there are no events like sports festival. I wish I were a high school student... I envy them!! I want to participate spots festival again, though I know I cannot do it.

Bye★！

Seiryo-sai

Hello~!

The title of this article, "Seiryo-sai", is my high school's sports festival. It is held on the second Saturday of June every year. Seiryo-sai is one of my memoriable events in my high school days!!

I did a chief who decided contestants of each event. The work was so hard!! Around the same time that I was preparing for sports featival, the day of prefectual tournament was also coming, so I was very busy!! Though preparing for spots festival was so hard, I was really enjoying it because I could worked with my friends♪ My friends always helped me, so I could do my work smoothly. This is the picture with my friends.

I also practice hard in preparation for the performance of cheer and dance. In my high school's sports festival, each group performances original dance according to the group's color and theme. Our group's color was purple and the theme is "Prison breaking".

The story of this dance is like this. Prisoners were working hard at jail everday, but one day, they decided to break out of the prison, and they did it. Meanwhile, The Police soon knew prisoners' breaking out, and they started to look for them. One day, when prisoners got tired to escape from the police, they met kind girls and recieved flowers from them. However, the police found this scene, and they arrested the girls. Prisoners were shocked to it, and they decided to return to the jail and help the girls without regard for their arresting. They fought against the police and finally they could helped the girls, but they were caught again. Though they started to work at jail again after the dust settled, they seemed to be happy because there were flowers which recieved from the girls in their hands. They were captive prisoners, but their herats were free at last!! This is the whole story.

I played one of the girls in that performance. This is the picture of it:)

I wore pink coustume while I played.lol
Though I felt little ashamed of wearing that costume, I could enjoy dacing♪♪








We expressed conflict between prisoners and the police so well that finally our group got the first prize in dancing section!! Moreover, our group finished second overall!! I was so glad of these prize:-D In our sports festival, top three groups of each section can recieve bean-jam buns!! Finally, we got 5 bean-jam buns<333 We ate it after sports festival. It was sooooooo delicious♪

This is the picture that I took after school festival!!











And, Thanks to all classmates!! I could spend a great time;) I love my class★

See you:-)

hina doll

Hello~:-) How are you doing?

In the last day I went back to Niigata, my father displayed hina doll for me. This is my hina doll!!









My parents bought it for me when I was born. Hina doll is Japanese traditional doll which is diplayed in Doll Festival(Hina-matsuri in Japanese), which is held on March 3th. Families with girls display a set of hina dolls at home, so my father display it every year since I was born:) Most families generally start to display the dolls around mid-February, but I didn't know when I came back next time, so my father displayed it ealier than usual in this year. Thanks to my father, I was happy to see my hina doll this year:) I love this doll very much!! When I was a little child, I often played house with these doll in March.

My father always display this picture frame with hins doll. The picture frame with my and my mother's picture in it★! It is the picture that my father took when I was one year old. I and my mother wore kimono!! It might be the first time for me to wear it:-) Does it look good on me?lol

The reason why Japanese display hina doll on March 3th is because it is believed hina doll protect girls from bad luck. Thanks to my parents, I'm doing well these days. This might because hina doll was displayed♪lol

See you~;)

New Year's cards

Hi, guys!!

Did you write New Year's cards? I've finished writing them yesyerday's evening. I was so busy last year that I couldn't write them through the end of the year. In this year, I only sent replies to the cards that I received because of my business. Though I was too late to write them, I love to write New Year's cards using Chinese ink and a writing brush. This is because I've learned calligraphy for a long time. I write New Year's cards by hands every year, though today is the IT technology of the Internet age. This is my New Year's card in 2011.

I didn't have much time to write it, so I considered how I wrote it simply. And I considered how I write the words "賀正" in friendly letters. Finally my New Year's card was completed!!



I wrote it all by my writing brush. The Chinese zodiac sign in this year is rabit, so I drew simple monochrome rabit using Chinese ink. I discovered an easy way to draw it!! And I decorated it using a decoration tape♪ However, I wanted to decorate it more, but I had little time to do it because I had to leave Niigata, so I couldn't do it after all. This New Year's card can't be said that a beautiful thing, so in the next year, I want to draw it much better than this year!! I have to allow enough more time for writing it to do that...

By the way, fewer young people are exchanging New Year's cards these days. I was so sad to hear that!! I think, New Year's card is one of the important Japanese cultures, so we must cherish it more.

See you:-)