New Zealand Food

New Zealand is an island country that is in the the southwestern Pacific. New Zealand prospers in agriculture because of rich land. Especially, dairy farming and stock raising. Manuka honey, kiwi fruits, lamb, milk, beef, are special products.
Have you ever eaten Hokey Pokey? Hokey Pokey is an icecream flavor that is popular in New Zealand.How to make the Hokey Pokey is this. Melt sugar, honey, baking powder together and make small chunks of caramel. Then mix caramel into vanilla ice cream. It is different from ordinary caramel ice cream, because its texture is lumpy. Honey and milk are special products of New Zealand. It is suitable for making Hokey Pokey. It is difficult to eat Hokey Pokey in Japan, but we can buy from mail-order sales, but it's too expensive. Including postage and shipping charges, maybe an icecream costs us for about1000 yen. I recommend you to cook it by yourself.

Festival

　The other day, autumn festival held at shrine in my hometown. It was small festival, but a lot of people gathered and made merry. I could't go to festival, because I had to work my part time job then in spite of I love festival. What a shame! I love festival, because there are a lot of stalls and I can eat foods that I can seldom eat. I think everyone loves festival, because it is fun, but I don't think everyone knows meaning of their local festivals. Why don't you think it's strange that we enjoy festival in spite of we don't know their meaning? So, I searched meaning of my　hometown festival.

　My hometown is Kira town in Aichi. Do you know Kira town? It lies in the middle southern part of Aichi. The festival was held in Kasuga shrine in Kira town. Kasuga shrine was built many years ago. Kira has big river called "Yahagigawa". The old days, Yahagigawa often overflowed, so people made a bypass and stopped the overflow and built shrine there. I couldn't search really meaning of festival, but I think people held festival, because they wants to thank to god that they don't have overflow.

　There are a lot of festivals in Japan and they have meaning and history. Why don't you know what your local fastival means? If you know their meaning, maybe your viewpoint for the local festival will change!
　
　

Ponyo on the Cliff by the sea

Ponyo on the Cliff by the sea is the animation movie film directed by Hayao Miyazaki and created by studio ghibli inc. Hayao Miyazaki and studio ghibli inc is very popular in Japan and praised many people of all ages and both sexes. Their movie has deep theme and cute character and high imaging technique. I think that's why their movie praised many people of all ages and both sexes. Recently, their movie is praised by foreigner too. I'm glad that japanese movie is praised by foreigner.

　

　Then, I'll introduce the story of this movie. Ponyo is called " gold fish princess". According to the name, Ponyo is gold fish. One day, Ponyo meets a human boy called "Sosuke". Ponyo fall in love with Sosuke, so she wants to be a human girl. To become human girl, Ponyo uses magic, but caused magic, a lot of incident happen.

　

　I saw this movie in this summer vacation with my friend. I thought this movie is like a picture book, so I became the good old feeling as I returned when I was childhood. I recommend you this movie. If you see this movie, you can remember your childhood, and Ponyo is very cute!

DIET&EXERCISE

POTATO CHIPS DIET

There are many kinds of diet way. Some of them are very strange. I'll tell you a strange way of diet. Do you eat potato chips? If you said "yes.", do you think it's good for your health? Maybe you'll say "no.", but there is diet way called "potato chips diet". This way is easy to do. To eat only potato chips every day! I can't believe this way works, but a woman tried this way. What's become of this woman? Did potato chips diet work? Find out what happens by clicking on this link.

SIMPLE EXERCISE

I think there is no man who thinks exercise is bad for our health. There are many kinds of exercise, so I'll tell you exercise that good for diet. If you are busy and don't have much time to do exercise, I recommend you this site. This site shows us 10 ways to exercise. Each ways are very simple, so if you are busy, but maybe you can do it.

LAUGHTER

Dr Patch Adams is a medical doctor. He is considered to be the father of clown doctors. He was a psychiatric patient and was hospitalized a mental hospital. He saved a man who is scared by hallucinatory a squirrel and noticed joy that saving someone. After he left hospital, He entered college and learned about medical science. Then he became medical doctor. He thinks Laughter is the best medicine, so he sets patients laughing with his joke and cure patients of their disease. Why does he think laughter is the best medicine? What does he do to set the patients laughing? Click on the link to see who Patch Adams is.

When I watched this video for the first time, I roared with laughter. This video’s content is that two foreign young men nod their head violently and do lip sync to music. It’s funny what they can do with their face. I don’t know who they are, but think that they have very good sense of humor. They should be comedians. Find out what happens by clicking on this link.