The Land of Penguin

New Zealand

Do you know “ Sunshine Penguin Walk Tour”?
New Zealand is indeed the land of penguin. There are eighteen species of penguin in the world, six of them are in New Zealand. In addition, New Zealand was a first country to be discovered a fossil of penguin.

We can see a unique penguin in New Zealand.
ex.
Little Blue Penguin: They are the smallest penguins in the world. We can see them around the Stewart Island.
Fiordland Penguin: They live around the Fiordland and are called the rarest penguin in the world.

In the old days, they live in the shade of a tree or a grass but people build a lot of house recently so a number of the place where they can live is decreasing. However, they manage to live in a shade of a building. However, on the other hand some people try to clean a beach and make the place for penguins in order to preserve penguins. Moreover, some tourist guides recommend the tour that a traveler can observe the place where penguins live in and try travelers to be interested in penguin’s life.


Japan

They are popular with an aquarium.
There are no wild penguins in Japan but we can see them at an aquarium or a zoo. In the Taisho Era, they were brought into Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. In addition, now Japan has been the strongest country on breeding of penguin. The nearest place where we can see them from NUFS is Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium. (We can see the biggest penguin in the world “ Emperor Penguin” at that aquarium!)

a Bunch of Flowers for Dead Persons

In the old days, some western Catholic thought live people have to clean an evil soul in order to send them to heaven. That is the origin of this festival. In the 16th century, The Reformation broke out so some people thought this festival is informal Catholic event. However, a lot of people wished to continue this convention so it survived.

The way of visiting to a family tomb is various. Some French and German decorate it with a lot of flower. In addition, Brazilian have no school and work that day. It is just like Japanese Bon festival.

the Small Ghosts Wander around Town

Halloween 10,31

~The Christian festival that people thanks to a good harvest and get rid of evil spirits~

The Celtic Thanksgiving Day brought about this event. In addition, originally it was held by Anglo-Saxons. It is familiar as a event that children wearing a pretty, horror costume and visiting someone’s house with a call “Trick or treat!” and getting some sweets. However some people go to a cemetery and light a candle. It looks like Japanese “Bon”.

Costumes

Children wear various costumes of horror stuff for example a ghost, bat, witch, Dracula and so on.

Originally, people thought that the spirits that came back to our world are evil, so they wear horror costumes in order to surprise them. However, these days, they tend to wear pretty costumes too for example a fairy, vegetable and so on. I think that means the popularization of Halloween.

By the way

・Some people place a pumpkin called Jack-o’-Lantern in the entrance because people think that it get rid of evil spirits and draw happiness.

・Some people in Russia cannot take part in this event because they believe in their religion peculiar to that district enthusiastically.

・In 1990s, Japanese started to hold this event too because there is a scene that hold it in the famous film “E.T”.

THE GREEN MILE

Steven Spielberg moved by this movie too! ?

When I was primary school student that still don’t know everything, I was shocked by this movie. We usually recognize that the capital punishment is to kill a condemned criminal by a state, but, in fact, to kill them is the work of person. I wonder if what they think when they send a criminal to the electric chair.

In 1996, the novel THE GREEN MILE (written by Stephen Edwin King) is published in America. That novel was made into a movie later and in 2000, that movie was shown in Japan too. THE GREEN MILE means a way that the condemned criminals pass on when they go to the place of execution. The story begins with an encounter between the person who work at a prison Paul (Thomas Jeffrey Hanks) and the condemned criminal John (Michael Clarke Duncan).

John was sent to prison because he killed twin sisters he has an ability to cure someone’s illness or wound so he begun to doubt his clime and suspect that he wanted to help dying twin sisters.but he was so kind and pure so Paul was thinking that he is odd. But, one day, he noticed that Polices conflicted between their duty as a police and the feeling as a person but the day when they must send him to the electric chair was drawing near・・・

“People should not hurt each other” John said in this movie. I could reconfirm difficulty of to help someone and vainness of person’s life.

Please see this movie and feel sad and painful.

The Author: Stephen Edwin King

American modern horror novelist. He wrote a lot of warm-hearted novels and won a lot of literary prizes. Some his novels were made into movie.

His masterpiece: The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, Carrie, and so on.

The Film Directer: Frank Darabont

American film directer and scriptwriter.

His masterpiece: The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Saving Private Ryan, and so on.

The Actor:Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

American actor. He won The Academy Award for Best Actor, Emmy Award, and so on. In 1996, He was evaluated as a film directer too.

His masterpiece: The Da Vinch Code, Forrest Gump, Appollo 13, and so on.

Micheal Clarke Duncan
American actor. He won The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His masterpiece: Armageddon, The Scorpion King, Sin City, and so on.

My Good Memory

This year’s summer vacation, I didn’t have a part time job. And I didn’t hang out with my friends because my friend of NUFS had already visited to their home town immediately and my old friends didn’t visit to their parents home when I visited to my home so I spend almost all my time watching TV at home ( or at my parents home ). But though I was lazy, I could make a good memory that I went to fishing to Hamanako with my father.

I like fishing so I have been going to fishing every year since I was in primary school. But last year I studied hard in order to enter a university that I want to attend so I gave up going to fishing so we were looking forward to that day. We had to wake up earlier than usual because we can catch a fish much than usual in early morning. But we could wake up before the alarm ring.

4:00am, the sun was still raising, the road was quiet because there is no cars. Now, I live in the apartment near by a superhighway so that situation had a strange feel. “ Was there that building ? Was there that road?” It is only half a year since I moved to Nisshin but I noticed that I forgot the state of my hometown and was disappointed at my poor memory.

When we arrived at Hamanako, a lot of fisher had already caught a fish so we started to fish with great enthusiasm. Then, we are catching fish as fast as we could get our lines in the water. Finally, we got a big catch of horse mackerel and blow fish!! We were happy and promised to visit to here again. By the way, then we were thoroughly tanned. My suntan is almost faded but the mark of my list watch is still remaining.

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A cockrouch is a healthy food!?

In the old days, sometimes insects were eaten by people. So today some people think that to eat insects is old-fashion or poor, but these days , it was picked up for native food.

Insects seem to contain a lot of protain and are delicious. But sometimes there are parasites living on them, if you wont to eat them, you should heat them or preserve them in liquor.

Sometimes......

American eat a cicada!?

Japanese eat a cicada, bee, moth, grasshopper!?

Korean eat a moth!?

Chinese eat a cicada, moth, bee, fly, ant, grasshopper, cockroach, scorpion!?

Italian eat a moth!?

Mexican eat an ant!?

Cambodian eat a tarantula!?

Sport? Play?

Do you know Kabaddi? Kabaddi is a team-sport of South Asia (especialy it prospared in India, Bangladesh) and has been adopting as an offcial event of Asian Olympic.
It is something like a tag, so players have to run through the whole game. And there is a rule that players have to shout "KABADDI!!" repeatedly when they attack the oppounent.
I think that interesting game is hard but that is a most suitable sport for unhealthy children nowaday.

Mega Foods

Do you know the word of "Mega Foods"?

That means the foods that are larger size than usuall.
MacDonald started to sell big hanburger named Mega Mac.
That hunburger is luxury and gives us feeling of fulness but
some people thought that it is expensive and high in calories.
So then nobody thought that Mega Mac would be a hit,
but now that is top of the Mega Food among young people.

Surely fatty, strongly seasoned foods are delicious, but they must
hope healthy life. It is contradiction, isn't it?



men…about2300kcal/day



women…about 2000kcal/day



Mega Mac…１４４７ｋcal!!!!!!

To Laugh Makes Us Healthy

According to the recent study, it seems that to laugh decreases a cell of cancer in our body. 200~4000 cells of cancer is growing in our body per day, but why are we healthy every day?

There are special cells named “natural killer cell”. To tell the truth, we owe to be healthy to them. They kill cells of cancer and some bad viruses. Then that useful cell increases when we are laughing. So we can say “To laugh makes us healthy”.

What Is Funny?
CLUMSY BOXER A failure is funny. Because we think that we don’t make a mistake like that.

CHILDREN'S REACTION An overreaction is funny. Because we tend to hide our true feeling, especially adults are.

SKIER’S MISTAKES A sudden incident is funny. Because we always expect what happen in the future.


Up I think that we can laugh when we encounter some unexpected thing. To laugh may　be to be surprised.