New Zealand×Japan GEOGRAPHY

New Zealand is 268,680 square kilometers in area. Japan is 377,835 square kilometers in area. Only 16 People live per 1 kilometer in New Zealand. New Zealand resembles Japan in the way that an island country, volcanoes, earthquake and so on.

New Zealand has many volcanoes, whose shape is a cone like Mt.Fuji of Japan. There was big eruption in 181 in New Zealand. The eruption was said to influence in Europe and China in those days. The sunlight of Europe and China was hazy by the volcanic ash in New Zealand. "Lake Taupo" was formed by the violent eruption. The area of Lake Taupo is 616 square kilometers.

The biggest lake of Japan is "Lake Biwa". Lake Biwa is located in Shiga Prefecture. It occupies a one-sixth of the area of Shiga. Lake Biwa was made by crustal movement in Mie Prefecture 4 million years ago. This gradually moved to the north and reached the position of current Lake Biwa. In a world lake, it is the ancient lake which is thirdly old. Lake Biwa is 670.33 square kilometers in area.

Corn Dolly

Modern corn dollies form based on traditional figures made of straw, previously connected with harvest customs of Europe. A corn dolly is made with the people of the district with one bundle of last wheat after finishing gain.
Some corn dollies were displayed in the church at the harvest festival, while some places had a tradition whereby the figure could be sent to make fun of a nearby farm which had not finished its harvest. Others often had a place of honor at the banquet table and they were hung up in farmhouse or barn until the following spring.
In England, materials are mainly wheat besides oats, rye and barley. In Ireland, they use rush.
Traditional corn dollies are named after counties or place names of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For example, Cambridge shire Hand bell, Stafford Knot and Yorkshire Spiral or Drop Dolly. Other, there are corn dollies which are countryman's favors and other harvest designs. For example, Glory Braid, Harvest Cross and Harvest Wreath.
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Autumn Festival

The British makes celebration every year if harvest time is over safety. Then "Harvest Festival" is held traditionally in a school and church of each cities, towns and villages.
A doll of "corn dollies" is made with the people of the district with one bundle of last wheat after finishing gain. In the days of a full moon of the end of September, a festival is held. In the case of the school, they take fresh vegetables and fruits, the bread which a child made at each home to the school. The food which gathered is exhibited with corn dollies in a meeting hall. The few people who aren’t a farming family have begun to bring canned food than a handmade thing recently.
Religious services are held and divide the food which gathered since it is finished into the hall and distributes it to a local old man institution or hospital. Citizens gather in public halls as a second meeting at night on a day of the worship. Many people eat cooking and drink beer and enjoy the traditional folk dance. A lot of cakes and the delicious dessert which mothers of the village made open on a table.

Festival

There is "Yosakoi festival" in Kouchi prefecture, Japan. The biggest Yosakoi festival in Japan is this Yosakoi festival. Other Yosakoi festivals are YOSAKOI so-ran festival in Sapporo city, Hokkaido, Nippon Domannaka festival in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture and so on.
Yosakoi is dancing with the Naruko. It is a unique style on Japan. There is various dancing style. For example, samba, rock and hip hop.
Yosakoi festival was hold from August 9th to 12th in this year. A national convention of Yosakoi was hold in August 12th. Many teams participated in this festival. There was a team from Tokyo. Many fireworks are displayed on the day after Yosakoi festival.
I want to visit Yosakoi festival!!!

Rio's Carnival is hold in Brazil. Rio's Carnival is particularly famous and gathers the tourists from the various countries in the world. Because this carnival is a large-scale and very showy.
There is dance music such as polka besides samba. In the case of a samba, they put on gorgeous clothes called fantasia in the body and dance samba and march with a performance by the percussion instrument. The parade becomes the contest form, and examination is performed.

Movie

I have watched "Pirates of the Caribbean". I rarely see a foreign film. But this movie saw all series. The subtitle of first work is "The Curse of the Black Pearl". It was shown for the first time in 2003. The second work is "Dead Man's Chest" in 2006. And the third work is "At World's End" in 2007. The forth work plans to be shown in 2011.


"Pirates of Caribbean" is an adventure film in America. The film is based on the pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney Land.

The main casts are Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira knightley. They appear in the all series.

Johnny Depp played the part of Captain Jack Sparrow. Captain Jack Sparrow is the leading role. He is a pirate and the captain of a ship of Black Pearl. His character is very strange. But he is clever and a strong man. He is very cool!!
Orlando Bloom played the part of William Turner Jr. He is a smith and good sword man. He loves Elizabeth Swann.
Keira Knightley played the part of Elizabeth Swann. She is a daughter of a noble man. She loves William Turner, too. She is courage and active woman.

There are a lot of thrilling scenes in this film. I like this movie very much. Let's see "Pirates of Caribbean"!!!!! I think this movie amuses us not to see all series :)

Diet & Exercise

(1)DIET
I think that many women want to diet. Now many men want to diet, too. But diet is not continuing. Exercise is very tired and working women haven't a lot of time. Many people give up what people have started.
There are many ways to diet now. We can lose weight in meal. For example, "Diet of Soy milk". Soy milk is low calorie, but soy milk contain a lot of foodstuff same as soy. The foodstuff is mineral, dietary fiber and isoflavone. Isoflavone spoil our appetite.
Soy milk is sold in a supermarket or convenience store. We can drink it anywhere. And there are cookies which are made by soy milk. It is said that the cookies are delicious. The cookies are very popular with women now.
Let's try it!!!!!!

(2)EXERCISE


"Core Rhythms" is popular in Japan now. "Core Rhythms" is diet exercise the base of Latin dance. "Core Rhythms" is sold by DVD like "Billy's Boot Camp". These two make one set; One is the basic program and the other is the upper program.
The instructor are Yaana and Julia. They are Latin dancer with the best in the world.
We can get an hourglass figure after playing "Core Rythms". It is effective that we have played "Core Rythms" for two weeks.
I want to play it!!!!!

Laughter

(1) INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT LAUGHTER
A good laugh has great short-term effects. When you start to laugh, it just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body, beginning with your face.
Laughter helps to remove stress. A rollicking laugh fires up and then cools down your stress response and increases your heart rate and blood pressure. Laughter soothes tension and stomachache, which helps reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress.
Laughter also has physical benefits. Laughter helps us keep healthy. More than 70% of illnesses like high blood pressure, heart disease, anxiety, depression, frequent cough and cold and even cancer, have some connection to stress.
Laughter is effective antidote for these illnesses. Laughter relieves pain. Laughter may ease pain by causing the body to produce its own natural painkillers.

(2)COMEDY & OTHER FUNNY STUFF
I think funny movie is Tom and Jerry.
This scene is Tom is chasing Jerry. Tom catches up with Jerry, but Tom is caught in the trap which Jerry sets.
It’s the kind of thing that happens every time in this movie. Tom catches up with Jerry however he can’t make a counterattack.
Tom is a dupe, and Jerry is cunning.
The information of "Tom and Jerry" is THIS!!