3 Best Blog Ranking!

The semester is almost finishing so today I chose 3 best blogs of my class. Almost all blogs are easy to read and had interesting articles so it was difficult to chose just 3 blogs.

*3rd place*
Killifish Days by Marine
She wrote enogh and had many links. Her articles are easy to read and I like her article of movie. Also there are not so many pictures so maybe she must put some pictures.

*2nd place*
Frisking Around by Melissa
Her blog is pretty simple so I like it. The layout is clear and she has a lot of friends's links. I also like reading her article 'cause it's interesting. There are so many things that I didn't know.

*1st place*
NEAT NITWIT by mamisira
Her blog is the most interesiting one for me. She has so many pictures and links. The other good point is her article is always clear. There are few colors so I like in that way too.

This is what I chose. I want to learn something from these people's blog!

Speech About Netball!

I’m going to talk about Netball. Netball is not well known in Japan but it’s a one the of famous sports in New Zealand. The game is a little bit complicated so I’ll explain briefly. Netball is very similar to the basketball. The decisive difference is that Netball doesn’t dribble the ball so in that way it is similar to handball too. The game plays with 7 people and there are 6 positions. The players have their own roles and they can move the places that be decided by the rule. Therefore only Goal Shooter and Goal Attack can shoot the ball. The players can’t have ball more than 3 seconds and also players can’t touch a player who has the ball in that moment. The way to get the points is just same as the basketball.

A representative Netball player’s team of NZ is Silver Ferns. They won the 1st place in Netball World Championships 4 times. Also in the Commonwealth Games they won 1st place in 2006. This game is basically for women so the team is made up of all women and a very strong team in the NZ.

New Zealand's Sport

One of the famous sports of New Zealand is Netball. It is an unfamiliar sport for Japanese. However, Netball is kind of basketball and it’s usually for women. I’m going to explain the rules of Netball.
*Rules*
It is almost same as basketball and almost same place. But the game is a little bit complicated. The main feature of this game is:
*Can’t dribble
*The players have there own part and the moving places
*The basic movement is just pass and shoot the ball
*Can’t touch to the player who has the ball and make distance (more than 90cm) from them
*It can change the size of ball and time of the game depend on the player’s ages

There are about 6 positions:
*GS (Goal Shooter): the person who can shoot the ball.
*GA (Goal Attack): this is also shooter too but this person can move more widely than GS
*WA (Wing Attack): in the basketball word, the person is Offence
*C (Center): the most important person for the team and this is called commander
*WD (Wing Defense): this person could be the both Offence and Defense
*GD (Goal Defense): Defense only, opposite to the WA
*GK (Goal Keeper): the same position as the soccer game, this is the most important for the defense

The team member is usually 12 but the 7 of them can play the game and there’s no member change during the game. In the rest time or half time or the player injured, they could change the players. The players have to pass the ball within the 3 second or they lost there ball. The way to get the point is just same as the basketball! BUT if some player except GS or CA shoots the ball it can’t count for the point. This is the easy explanation of this game;) This is usually for women but now a day men joining to play the game.

A representative Netball player’s team of NZ is Silver Ferns. They won the 1st place in Netball World Championships in 1967, 1979, 1987 and 2003. Also in the Commonwealth Games they won 1st place in 2006. This team made up of all women and a very strong team in the NZ.

Speech of the Day of the Dead

Introduction
The festival we going to present is about the day of the dead. This festival is held on 1st and 2nd of November in Mexico and people celebrate their own ancestors who are returning to this world. It is a kind of bon festival of Japan. And also recently some people think it’s a continuation of Halloween. On the 1st day children’s ghost comes back and then the 2nd day the adults returns. The way of the celebration depends on the family but almost all people enjoy the day. The citizens decorate their house, school, work place and even whole the city. Mexican people love showy colors and the decoration is mainly about the scull, and of course it’s made with various colors so the cities dye full of colors in that season. Then please listen more information about this festival.

Conclusion
I have been to this festival and my friend’s family celebrated this festival in their grave and ate lunch there. It’s a kind of wired thing but I think it is important to love our own family, and these thinking may be positive and flexible to any kind of incident! It’s unusual to participate to this festival but if you could, enjoy it!

Autumn Festival

Do you know the “Day of the Dead” festival?? This festival takes place in Mexico every year in 1st and 2nd of November. Some people think it is continuation of Halloween.

Day of the Dead is as you can understand the word. In this day we observe to meet our own ancestors, so it is not scare day. It is different from Halloween but it seems like Bon festival of Japan.

Day of the Dead, in Spanish called “Dia de los muertos”. Dia means Day and los muertos means dead. As said this festival takes place in 1st and 2nd of November. In first day came back children’s ghost and then the second day came back adults.

In about before 1 week of this festival people decollate the whole city with skull that made of sugar and decorations of skulls. The skulls don’t have scare faces; they all have fanny and happy faces. It is so cute and colorful. Mexico loves showy colors so in this season, the cities become plenty of color and it is so beautiful and also they make alter in their houses or in the school for the dead.

By the way, there are some different customs for observe the Day of the Dead each town in Mexico, but in the town where I was, people went to their ancestor’s grave and eat lunch or dinner there! (With their grandpa or grandma ;) )

For the interest… “Trick or Treat!” in Spanish is “Noche de brujas, Halloween! (Witch’s night, Halloween!)”

If you want see the alter of my graduated junior high school's alter, check here!

Click the United San Agustin, Actividades, General and then click Alter de Muertos ;)

My Favorite Movies

In the summer vacation I saw 4 movies which are BIG FISH, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Oceans 13 and Sleepy Hollow. I only watched Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in a cinema. The others I have DVD so I watched in my house. I love movies so I have many favorite movies but I will introduce some of my favorites. These are BIG FISH, Oceans Series (11, 12 and 13), Sleepy Hollow and Shakespeare in love. I recommend watching these movies and I’m going to tell you some details of BIG FISH and Sleepy Hollow.

Here, I will introduce the movie “BIG FISH”. This is a movie of 2003 and the director is a famous Tim Burton. I love this movie because I love Tim Burton. His movies are almost all using dark colors. However, in this movie he is using much of colors. A name of the main character is Will Bloom (Billy Crudup). He had a quarrel in his wedding party with his father named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) and he hasn’t talked with his father long time after the marriage. However, Will’s mother; Sandra Bloom (Jessica Lange) called Will that Edward’s nearing his end. Sandra was trying to make up her sun and her husband. Will came back to his home town with his wife; Josephine Bloom (Marion Cotillard). He hated his father because he told fantasy and made up story to other people. People pleased to hear his stories but Will was thinking it is ridiculous and those are just lies. He went to meet his father and he started to know the truth of his made up stories. Then he starts to notice those are not just a lie stories and so on… Also when Will finding the truth, appear many episode stories of Edward and Ewan McGregor act the young Edward. The young Edward's wife was acted by Alison Lohman.I strongly to watch this movie! It’s really good!














The next movie is “Sleepy Hollow”. This movie is Tim Burton’s too and it was made in 1999. This IS using a dark color. I hate horror movie but this is very visionary and beautiful scene so I like it. The main character is Ichabod Crane who plays Johnny Depp. Ichabod is a police officer. He was sent to investigate a string of grisly murders from New York City. In the movie he always gets faint when he saw a murder. In the town, he met a beautiful girl named Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) and with her, he solving the mystery and the mysterious suspect. You can see the ending by yourself!

My Summer Vacation!

This year’s my summer vacation was super fun! Those days were special for me because I met my old friend from Mexico. The friend calls Nany, and she is going to study Japanese in this university. She came Japan in July and she home stayed in Gifu. She was learning many things for example how to go Nagoya from Gifu and how to buy ticket of train and so on! I met her in August and also she was a friend of my family too so we met with my family and my father took us to Iga Ueno the Ninja Town! We exited so much because there were many kinds of Ninja! We saw little boys and girls changing clothes of Ninja and also there was woman Ninja too. The kids Ninja were just normal people that came to see Ninja town but the adults Ninja were working there and showed us their Japanese sword which called Katana and Shuriken which is kind of small knife. Those things are all real things and could cut in real so we were much exited to see their shows.

In September, Nany changed her house to a dormitory of our university so my parents and I helped to carry her bags from Gifu and we went to shopping for her new life. First we went tableware corner and some cups and plates for her. It was very fun because we were talking like we are real adult! She was confusing how to throw garbage because Nagoya should divide the garbage by their kinds but even I knew the rule of Nagoya so I couldn’t explain how to so I felt sorry for that. Anyway we back to her new room and left her alone and we back to our home. Since then I didn’t have contact with her but I am looking forward to see her in the university!

Another interesting thing in my summer vacation was about my part time job. I’m working in Titan Shop since November of last year and the shop is in JUSCO which is a kind of big supermarket. The shop has no relating with JUSCO but many people didn’t know about that so they came to ask “where can I buy pencil?” or “Where is the rest room?” something like these questions to me!! But I’m not worker of JUSCO so how can I know and answer those questions?! But if I couldn’t to answer the people who asking me these questions are start confusing, because almost all of people who ask those questions are kids or senior people. Because of those happening I started memorize the map of JUSCO and to introduce “where could we buy which things”. I can say that I worked very hard so I want my payment twice!!