Winter Vacation!!

Good morning, everyone~. How have you been?

I am just enjoying my winter holidays♪ It is so cold and freezing this week, isn't it?

What can I share with you today... Uh!! We are making "hoshi-gaki" at my house. It is dry persimmons. They are said to be so healthy. We tied each end of a string on a persimmon, and we hanged out them outside. The astringent persimmons changed to the sweet dry persimmons! It is amazing!

I am looking forward to eating them. They remind me that it is winter.

It is the season of a cold and flu. Take care of yourself, everyone!

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○ First mochi this winter! ○

In November, I had mochi, Japanese style rice cake for the first time this winter! I really love mochi!

We have a home bakery machine at home, and we usually make bread with the machine and have the bread for breakfast. It is really hot from the oven and too delicious to describe with words!

Furthermore, we knew the machine could make mochi too. How convenient and pleasant it is! We ate mochi with Japanese taste. For example, anko(bean paste), kinako(soybean flour), syouyu(soy sauce), and nori(laver). Mochi is almighty and can be delicious whichever it flavored with. It is good for breakfast and as sweets. I am really looking forward to having it this winter too!

However, you have to be careful about your weight. It is because mochi is made by crushing rice and you will not know how much rice you had. It seems to be less than fact.

Anyway, when you eating mochi, just enjoy the Japanese taste and natural sweetness!

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Winter ～。。

After November began, it has been getting colder gradually. In October, we had even humid and hot weather. Now, we need to wear jackets and the clothes with long sleeves.

Actually, I love winter and its weather! I don't like summer, and I hate humid weather, though. That's why the present season is really pleasant to me. I am looking forward to this year's winter too.

In winter, it is getting easier to exercise. I am still continuing to exercise in our university's gym. Sometime, I can not exercise twice a week, but I try to do it as often as possible. I spend the time on Monday and Friday. It is a little tough to take clothes and shoes for exercising to school, because the bag is heavy. Then, I think of it as a little tough task.

I was not sure that this exercise custom can be really beneficial for me, but my mother said that I do not say "I am tired" recently. I thought that I might have energy more than before. I am really happy!

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Favorite Fall Activity (＾▽＾)/

I love eating in fall! I always eating no matter what season it is, though. Ha ha! However, many fruits like peer and grapes and chestnut...are delicious in fall especially. I can not help enjoying them!

Besides, in fall, we have a good weather, not too hot and no too cold. I think it is a good season for sports and exercises. In second year in the university life, I do not have regular exercises so much. Then, I am thinking of starting exercise in my university's gym once a week with one of my friends.

What is more, fall is also a season for fashion. I love fall color, because they are rich and deep. I want to enjoy the colors!

It is not good for health to eat delicious foods only, don't you agree? I really think so. I would like to spend this fall in a joyful and healthy way!

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The Season for Eating !

Ooh~, the autumn is coming. It is not too hot, and it is not too cold. I feel the autumn is coming from the winds, sky, clouds...

I like winter, so I am looking forward its getting cold.

Before that, however, it is autumn, and it is the season for eating! In fact, I had lost weight a little, at least I did not gain weight before I came to Japan from California. I was glad when I knew that, but now, I have already gained weight 3 kg in only 2 weeks after then... terrible. It is because of the amount of my meals, that is, rice.

I do not know which is better to enjoy eating or to feel stress from save meals for the ceremony next year. I know these choices are too excessicve. But actually, I can not save it... but I am happy. (＾▽＾)/

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BR2-03: Submarine Adventure

I read "Submarine Adventure". It is summer, so reading these books about the sea is nice, isn't it? Are you going to go to the sea, everyone? Do you see the sea on a beech, or swim in the sea?

"Phew! That was close!" In this book, these words sometimes appeared. It seemed that there are some dangers in the sea. I like to see the sea, but I don't like to swim in the sea. It is because of salty water, sticky sand, darkness and mysteriousness. The first one and second one are tolerable, but the last two things are not. The sea is beautiful, but I get nervous vaguely when I can not see in the sea. I can not even know what is there and how deep it is. It is scaring for me. When I see TV programs about the bottom of the sea, however, I feel the mysteriousness of it and get amazed with it.

But! I can not jump in the sea because of it. The sea is beautiful, so I am satisfied with seeing it on a beech or a hill. I think it is also a good way to appreciate a beautiful landscape. Now everyone, let's enjoy the sea!

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Cool!

It is so hot, no humid every day, isn't it? Look at this! This is a glass of shake, which we make and drink every morning. In order to get over this humid summer, you should try this!

The recipe is so easy. Here is how for three glasses. You need only one banana, half of a peach in a tin, milk, some ices. Then, put all of them in a blender and smooth. Pour it into your glass. That's all!

You can enjoy this summer more comfortably and smart. You must love it. Let's get through this heat!

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● Blueberries ●

In our garden, a tree of blueberry beared fruit. As to the color, it is dark blue or dark purple. Fruits make us happy, doesn't it? I would rather gather or see them than eat them.

The blue berries refreshed us, but it gets more and more humid, doesn't it? Be careful not to suffer from summer heat!

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○● Sweet Corn ●○

My friend gave us( my family and I) ten ears of sweet corn in the shuck from her own field.

Her family is farmers and raise many beef cattle. When I was a kid, I liked to watch cattle and give some milk to calves. There were so many animals, for example, cats, dogs, pigs, chickens. I did not like chickens so much, but I loved the other animals.

They have fields of corns for beef cattle and humans. Of course, the corns that she gave us are for humans.

They were so sweet and fresh, and the color, yellow was so bright. Besides, they are healthy. We boiled them, but roasting is also a good way. This food is in season. Why don't you try some this summer?

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Hot & Humid

Finally, the rainy season has past! Now summer has come!

In Kumamoto, it is especially humid, because of the geographical features. So humid in summer, but so cold in winter. Those climates are poles apart. It is so tough for me to ride a bicycle in summer.

Besides, I have two tests in tomorrow's classes. There is no time for being tired out! I will start to study for the tests!

See you tomorrow. Bye now!


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Rainy season ☂

I am sorry that I have not post so much on CHK Diary. From today, I intend to start making an effort to do so again! There are so many stories are piling up, which I wanted to share with you. So please listen and look!

Now, it is a rainy season. In Japan, a rainy season comes in this time every year. Japanese people call it "Tsu-yu", and it also has another name "bai-u". The word, "bai" means Japanese apricots or plums. "Tsu-yu" is a rain which pours in the season of plums.

I think that Japanese naming for a rains are really aesthetic. There are so many naming for rains, like "sami-dare", "shi-gure", "aki-same", "namida-ame", "hi-same", and so on. These names come from each seasons and conditions which the rains pour. Japanese heart is really preferable, don't you think so?

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Rose Garden → Rosy View！

Recently, I watered the garden instead for my mother. The season of mosquitos will come in summer, and there were a few mosquitos already.

When I did it with a watering pot, however, I had a great opportunity to see the roses that burst into bloom and are in full bloom now. How beautiful! I really felt the beauty of the roses.

There are three kinds of roses in our garden. I will introduce them with pictures(↑). One of them has blooms whose color are the mixture of pink and ivory. Another rose has light pink blooms, and the blooms are big and looks so heavy. The other has white blooms, which is called "ice-burg". They are so pure, clean and beautiful, and I do never get weary of them.

I think that it is good to make flower arrangement with roses, because it will last long. However, I feel that the roses look the most bright in the gardens. They are so beautiful! You must think so too, don't you?

In English, there is an expression that "take a rosy view". I feel that it is a good and lovely words. When I face troubles, I sometimes (or often) get negative in thinking, and it is my bad point. It will never benefit me. It will only make matters worse, never better. I think that I must think of things and matters in a rosy view. "No rose without a thorn", but when I see a rose, I do never see only the thorn of it. Of course, I see a beautiful bloom, and my impression of the rose will be about the bloom, not the thorn. This words is very meaningful expression, I think. I got encouraged by the rosy words!

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道草~michikusa~

The words "michi-kusa" is written "道草" with Japanese Kanji. '道' means roads, and '草' means grass. This expression means to loiter around or trail home, but I associate this words with the children trailing home. They pick flowers and grass by the roadside on the way to home.

I did it on my way from the school to home today. There were wild strawberries which bear fruit well. They were so red and nice. The wild strawberries there were big and looked clean, I ate one, and my friend also tried another one. It smelled good. I felt the benefit of the sun.

I really liked "michikusa" since my childhood. I like it now, too.

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Cherry ●●

Today, my friend gave me a lot of cherries with a massage card. The card says that a cherry tree in her garden bore fruit. They are so mature and sweet. She also gave me some cherries with a branch. I think that is so nice.

I felt that the summer is coming.

In summer, the fruits will get in season, for example, watermelons, grapes, peaches, mangoes, Chinese citron! Besides, the vegetables will get in season. I like litchis, eggplants, cucumbers, tomatoes, corns, green pepper, and so on. My father likes sweet bazils very much, and he uses them when he makes pizza by himself. There are three bazils in our back garden.

I am really looking forward to eating them in this summer!

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First Watermelon ▲

Recently, it has became so hot and humid gradually. The summer is coming this year too...

That reminds me. Talking of summer, I ate a watermelon for the first time in this year. It was so red and sweet and ... juicy! You must think of it to be tempting. I was so happy!

My dog likes the watermelon so much. She always ponies up for it, when we eat. She always eat remnants of the watermelon, especially of the red parts, making a good noise. She looks so happily. The first watermelon brought smiles to all members of my family :-)

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