Let's Look Back A Year!

I interviewed 5 members of my class mates. There are 8questions to answer. What they had answered? So, let see the answers!



Q1.Why do you name the blog title?
A1.
3 people―Random.
1 person―Because I live in countryside.
1 person―Study French, and want to enjoy the green days.
1 person―Study German.

I think “I live in countryside” is one of good answer. People who study would name their blog in French/German.


Q2.How often do you search the Internet in English?
A2.
3 people―Hardly ever.
1 people―Always.
1 people―Never.

More than half of group members answered “Hardly never” or “Never.” We are Japanese, so it would be easy to read. However, it is good that we sometimes search in English web site.


Q3.What is the most difficult thing for you to make a blog?
A3.All people said, “To translate Japanese to English.”

I think so, too. This difficulty made us progress with our English by, don’t it?


Q4.What topic did you enjoy to write the most?
A4.
2 people―Summer vacation.
2 people―Movie.
1 person―New Zealand.

Summer vacation was very enjoyable for me. So, I think the topic of summer vacation was easy to write the articles. How about you?


Q5.What topic was the most difficult for you to write?
A5.
2 people―NZ.
1 person―Summer vacation.
1 person―Festival.
1 person―Nothing.

The answers were varied. Person who answered “Nothing” was great! I respect this spirit.


Q6.How many times did you leave any comments?
A6.
1 person―10 comments.
1 person―7 comments.
1 person―3 comments.
1 person―2 comments.
1 person―0 comments.

The answers were also varied. I didn’t leave comments much, too.


Q7.How do you feel when you get comments?
A7.Everyone feels happy!

So, let’s leave comments to somebody’s blog!


Q8.What is the highlight of your blog?
A8.
2 people―Articles, such as some information and lots of writings.
2 people―Pictures.
1 person―Design, such as colors.

They have own policy to make the blogs!


So, thank you for answering !

Imaginative Blogs!

I found good blogs except J-class which I belong to, so I introduced you to that previous day. So, who do you think the No.1?



The best blog―Tu3.919 Flower Town
The author of this blog―totoro is one of my friend. Her blog is very simple and easy to see. She also changes colors between the important things and not so important ones, some examples are red, orange, purple and blue. These colors help us to see what is important. It’s so good point.



The second one―Th4.738 Dolce
This blog is also simple, but there are good pictures. They help me to understand what the theme of the article is. Big characters are good point, because it is easy to see.



The third one is―Th1.107 SquarePants
There are some unique pictures in this blog. The contents of the articles are very clear, so I can read it easily. Sometimes, she writes the articles with big characters. It is easy to understand what she wants to say the important thing is.




Whether they are your friends, you should see their blogs at least once! They are very good blogs. If you know the other good blogs, please tell me.

Who Is The NO.1...?

I rank and introduce a few of my favorite blogs, because it is the last clase in the 2nd semester.



The first blog―the best is... The Lads of Glass
So, hiro’s blog has some articles with a lot of bright colors, they make her blog cute. Some pictures and links help me to read the article, understand what is written and spread my knowledge. Big letters are good looking and easy to read, too.



The second blog―much better is... Regenbogen
Hamu uses some pictures which are suitable for all articles. Those articles are easy to read, because they are clear. Some of her articles are useful for us, such as “Plastic Bottle Tea”and” Swimming Pool”. They are close problem to us.


The third blog―better is... Jeunesse
TommyRe uses imaginative pictures, such as this picture. She drew that when she made the presentation. It’s so nice, isn’t it? Some of pictures help me to understand the meaning of the articles. She writes blog with regular colors, and they make her blog clear to look.


Today, I ranked the blogs. However, I respect them without ranking. If you don’t know these great blogs, you should read their articles!

Why Don't You Wear Those!?-Speech

Hi! I’m going to talk about workmen’s clothes of New Zealand. There are some working clothes in NZ. I'll talk about you to two of them.



First, swanndris were named after “swan” and “dry”. swanndrisare a woolen work shirt with a hood and long sleeves. There are some different sizes. Popular color is olive, followed by blue-and-black, red-and-black tartans. Please look at the person who is in a leftmost position, he wears a swanndri which is printed tartans.





Next, working men in NZ usually wear black singlets―they are called "tank top" in Japanese. The singlet had a deeply scooped neck with looser armholes, and it had been adopted for a broad range of manual occupation. About hundred years ago, it became that singlets are common clothes for working men and athletes. They mostly liked navy blue and black one, because the dirt was hidden by those two colors! By 1940s or 1950s, black was most loved color. Now a days, singlets were worn by shearers, farmers, hunters, trampers, laborers, railway workers, truck drivers, freezing workers, forestry workers, miners and fishermen. So, a lot of working men like to wear singlets.













Finally, let's compare with Japanese woking clothes. They are farmers. Japanese wear clothes which is suitable to work. On the other hand, New Zealanders wear clothes which is all-round to do something! Those clothes are so wonderful, aren't they?

Rural Clothes of New Zealand.

Hi! I’ll introduce you to workmen’s clothes of New Zealand. There are some working clothes in NZ. Some are similar to Japanese, the other are differ from Japanese. Let’s look at clothes for working.






First, Swanndris were named after “swan” and “dry”. Swanndris are a woolen work shirt with a hood and long sleeves. There are some different sizes. Popular color is olive, followed by blue-and-black, red-and-black tartans.




Next, working men in NZ usually wear black singlets―they are called "tank top" in Japanese. The singlet had a deeply scooped neck with looser armholes, and it had been adopted for a broad range of manual occupation. About hundred years ago, it became that singlets are common clothes for working men and athletes. They mostly liked navy blue and black one, because the dirt was hidden by those two colors! By 1940s or 1950s, black was most loved color. Now a days, singlets were worn by shearers, farmers, hunters, trampers, laborers, railway workers, truck drivers, freezing workers, forestry workers, miners and fishermen. So, a lot of working men like to wear singlets.

"Trick or Treat?"

Halloween is held on October 31st. “Hallow” means scared and “een” means event and evening.

So, some foreigners in my university wore Halloween costumes, such as an angel, a devil, Alice in the wonderland and so on. Some Japanese wore costumes too. I was very surprised at it!

Note: On Halloween night of this year, I gave some candies for my friends and seniors who are members of Taekwondo club, and I was given, too. So, I want to try Halloween costume next year’s.

The wine festival at Beaune.

Beaujolais nouveau is lifted the ban on drinking in the third Thursday of November. On the third Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the wine festival is held at Beaune. It is called” Les Trois Glorieuses” in French.


In the former of 15th century, so, people in Beaune are very needy, there are a lot of patients and the poor. The secretary of the treasury of Burgundy, Nichola Rolland and his wife’s hearts ached for the fact. So, they built hospital by their money in 1443. However, most of people couldn’t pay money for treat, and the number of people’s death was not reduced.


Then, Nichola Rolland contributed the hospital to his own wine field. He had an idea that he sells wine is made in there, and allots the profit of the wine for the poor to cure free. So, Many people was redeemed for this charity. The wine fields which thehospitals was increased every year, because wine producers in Burgundy who were stired the spirit of charity contributed their wine fields to hospitals,too. As a result, hospitals owned wine fields in all over the Burgundy area.


After that, the annual auction was held since 1853, and some wine is auctioned off in the public place.