New Zealanders do not open umbrellas!? Part 2

I found other information about customs. They were interesting for me. So I’ll introduce them, first.

It is not late!?
In Japan, trains and bus are on time. But New Zealanders are easy going people. So if a bus arrives on time in New Zealand, in fact, it may be a previous bus.　They think that it is not lateness up to 30 minutes late.
On the other hand, they are exactly close shops and finish their work, and go home.

A rule in bathroom…
When you do not a bathroom in New Zealand, you have to leave the door opened. If the door was closed, they consider that someone use it. So they do not need to fix key to the door. Most bathrooms in New Zealand are not fixed keys.


This is my manuscript of pesentation.


"Hi!　I'm Natsue. I will introduce umbrellas in New Zealand.

When it rains in Japan, it is ordinary for Japanese people to open umbrellas not to get wet. But New Zealanders do not walk with an umbrella up when it rains. You hardly see people who put an umbrella in New Zealand.
Why do not New Zealanders use umbrellas? It is because of how it rain there. In New Zealand, it rains in short time not for all day like japans. It never rains a long time in New Zealand and is like showers. So they do not want to take trouble to have umbrellas.

If they put umbrellas, they open umbrellas like big parasol. But I think it shows New Zealanders spend free lives. It is opposite to Japan. Japanese are pressed for times. That difference might cause because of the difference about how to spend the time. "

New Zealanders do not open umbrellas!?

New Zealanders do not walk with an umbrella up when it rains. You hardly see people who put an umbrella in New Zealand.
It is because of how to rain there. In New Zealand, it rains in short time not for all day like japans. It never rains for a long time in New Zealand and is like showers. So they do not want to take trouble to have umbrellas.

It would be a little rain soon.
It is fine to wait until it stops.
If I get wet because of rains, it would dry soon.
Those are their thought about rains.

If they put umbrellas, they open umbrellas like big parasol. It is an extreme.
But I think it shows New Zealanders spend free lives. It is opposite to Japan.

human castles in Spain

I am gong to talk about history of human castles festival. This festival began in the 17th century and was originally a dance called the Valencian Dance. At the end of this dance a small group of people stood on other's shoulders to create a tower of people. The people that joined this dance at town festivals belonged to the ploughmen's trade guild. According to a Catalan cultural organization called "Carrutxa," this dance was called the Valencian Dance because the word "Valentium" means strength in Latin. Gradually, groups of people began to form the Human Tower aspect of the dance.

Next, I am gong to show you how to make human castles. There are three parts to a castle. The base, or “pinya”, of the castle is formed by a group of people who stand together with their hands twisted together and can hold up to 300 people. Then people stand on top of the base to form a tree like trunk, or “tronc”, with a certain people on each story. And a “pom de dalt” or knob like structure is formed at the top, usually crowned with a small child because they are lighter. When the child reaches the top, he or she waves by signaling the completion of the castle. The end result looks like a human wedding cake! Teams which create the highest castle without anyone falling are considered the winner.

Autumn festival around the world

I will introduce to you a festival of Mexico. The festival is called “the day of the dead”. It is held on November 2. You may feel sad when you see a word “dead”.　But it is not sad festival.

It is similar to Japan's Bon festival. People comfort their ancestors decorating their graves with flowers, sugar candy skulls, candied fruit and pumpkins like this (→). Decoration of graves depends on each family. So you can enjoy the difference when you go to Mexico then.

The sugar skulls have various types and are colorful and cute. They are sold in many places of Mexico for the festival. This site shows you how to cook sugar candy skulls. Try to cook, if you like it.

If you want to see more photographs about the day of the dead, click here. It helps your imagination about the festival.

Our group is going to introduce a festival of Spain. The festival is human castle or “castles” in Catalan. The people of Catalonia build human castles. They believe that the construction of human castles demonstrates teamwork, patient and success. This festival is traditional and began in the 17th century.

Teams try to build the highest and most difficult castle against other team. The highest castle so far is 13m, which is as high as ten human stories in height.

If you click here, you can understand how to build human castles and see many kinds of human castles each team.

The Devil Wears Prada

I will introduce a movie “The Devil Wears Prada”.

I love this movie. It encourages me and I can try to do something. When I feel sad and disappointing, I watch this DVD. And I love Anne Hathaway, she is very beautiful.

The Devil Wears Prada is comedy-drama film which is based on the best-selling novel. It was released in 2006. Wendy Finerman produced and David Frankel directed. The film was distributed by 20th Centry Fox..

It stars Andrea ”Andy” Sachs (Anne Hathaway) goes to New York City to be a journalist. And she gets a job as a co-assistant to powerful and demanding fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Her job is “a million girls would die for”. Unfortunately Andy is not interested in fashion. Moreover Miranda’s demand is high level! So her hard terrible life starts…　Is this what I want to do? What did I want to be? Perhaps you may have thought so in your society, too.

This movie is set in fashion world. The clothes which are wore by actors are so fashionable☆ Many designers allow their clothes and accessories to be used in the film, making it the most expensively-costumed film in history
Music in the movie is gorgeous. Madonna and U2 offered their music. This is music of them. “Vogue”

You can enjoy the fashions, actors, story and music by this movie in many ways.

This is the official site. If you want to know more information, check it out.

my summer vacation

I had very good time during this summer vacation.


I went to see fireworks with my local friend in Okazaki. The day was very food day. I wore my yukata. I can tie it by myself but my mother helped then. Okazaki is a famous city as a place which craftsmen succeed to tradition of fireworks. So fireworks festival in Okazaki is very famous and many people come to see it every year. I had never been to there before. So this time was the first time for me. I could watch current fireworks there. Some fireworks swam on water! That is called “golden fish fireworks”. I was surprised it but those were very colorful and beautiful. I was fascinated by it. When we backed home, there were too many people in the station. Some people couldn’t ride a train well and ride the next one. Fortunately, we could ride a train smoothly because we left before the festival finished.

I went to Nagashima Superland with my classmates on a weekday. Nagashima Superland is a kind of amusement park and “white cyclone” and “steel dragon” are famous roller coasters. Steel dragon is especially famous because it is written on the Guinness book of records as the tallest rollercoaster. Of course we rode it. It took an hour to ride but it was so excited. We also rode white cyclone. We rode it twice and made peace sign to the camera as we were riding. Everyone had very good face in that photo. After that, we went to Jazz Dream which is next to Nagashima Superland and ate ice cream. The ice cream was made on cold stones and staffs made it, singing a song in front of us♪ that was so cute.

I was a model as a bride. I work part-time job at a wedding hall and was asked to be a model in wedding fair. It was fourth model for me. I was made up and set my hair. And I held fake ceremony with a model as groom. I couldn’t walk well and stepped on a hem because I did not get used to dresses. There was a wedding reception, too. I cut wedding cake, poured into tower of glasses and lighted candles with the groom. I was so nervous but I could have the valuable experience.








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Diet & Exercise

It is said that traditional Japanese food is very good for health. Natto and tofu is famous for healthy food. But there are more Japanese healthy foods. This site introduces you about that. This is interesting site. So I would like you to check this site.



Do you know how much calories you take a day? If you don’t want to be fat, at first you need to know it. This site tells you all about calories. It also has much detailed foods information such as nutrition facts,　nutritional　analysis and so on. Would you try to count your calories and plan your diet by checking this?


Most of Japanese girls are suffering from constipation. There is a solution. It is “Massaging the bowels” diet. “Massaging the bowels” diet is good for constipation. Just massage around the bowels by yourself, and you can make the bowels actively. It seems to feel good. This site shows you how to “massaging the bowels” diet. Please read and try it.


Have you noticed that there are two types of sweat? Those are good sweat and bad sweat. Then, what is the good sweat? NHK broadcasted TV program about it. This site is content of the program.

some sites dealing with laughter

This site is about Mr. Bean. You can enjoy playing some interesting games and funny short clips. And you can also get information about Mr. Bean when you enter this site. I like a clip “church” in this site. He didn’t know the words to a song well there. But he is sure a part of the song…. Click and enjoy Mr. Bean.

This is a page of introducing a book. Laughing makes your life happier and healthier. The book tells you how you can have less stress in your life. How about reading this book and start laughing? Check it out, if you like.

This is Japanese enjoyable site, NOUNAI maker. You will know inside your brain if you just fill your name in a place. As for me, the inside my brain was filled with friends rests and lonely. But, be careful! This is just joking. You don’t have to be serious about the result of access.
Then, I’d like you to try searching.

This is an animation from YOUTUBE. A baby is just laughing but it’s really funny. You will know what I ‘m saying when you see this.