The Nutcracker

Merry Christmas!!

Today, I went to Akasaka and watched a ballet performance,"The Nutcracker" of K-ballet company with my friend.
We met at Akasaka station and talked at Tally's coffe. I enjoyed conversation.
The peformance was held at Akasaka theater. Akasaka sacas was decorated with a lot of illuminations. There were so beautiful.

The performance was really wonderful. My friend watched ballet performance at first time today, but she said,"It was great", so I was happy to invite her.
I have watched only Matsuyama ballet' "The Nutcracker" before, so it was first time for me to watch other company's one. The story is same, but there were a lot of differences. I enjoyed this one as well as Matsuyama's.
At the last of the stage, Mr Tetsuya Kumakawa appeared on the stage,so I was surprised and very excited. I saw him directly for the first time. He was cool. When the performance finished, there were lots of applause. I clapped my hands because I was so impressed by the performance.

Then, the main soloists shook hands with audience. I waited my turn standing in a long line. I was the last person of the line. The two sololists shook hands with smile with audience by turns. When my turn, I was nervous and the sololist said,"Thank you for waiting here to the end" to me. I didn't think that I could talk with them, so I was really glad. I said,"The performance was so beautiful". I talked with another sololist a little. I am very happy and lucky to talk with them!!!
I felt wonderful.

To watch "The Nutcracker", I spent really wonderful time on Christmas Eve.

I want to watch ballet performance again.

Anyway, happy Christmas eve, everyone!!:-D

Christmas Eve Eve

Yesterday, I went to Ginga areana to skate again.
I had lunch with other members at Machida. The restaurant we went to was nice. we forgot to order because of talking.
We skated together. It was fun, but my foot was painful because the skate shoose was tight and firm. There were some people who practiced figure skating. They had high-skill and to look at their practice was fun.

Today, I will go to see ballet performance of "The Nutcracker" in Akasaka, so I am now really excited.

I hope you will have a merry Christmas eve!!:-D

shopping

Today, I did my part time job at a family restaurant for three hours. Then, I went to a lesson. After that, I went to Yokohama for shopping with my sister. I didn't have money, so I just followed with her.But I was bored because I couldn't buy anything. In the evening, I had dinner with my family at a family restaurant where I did a part time job before. I met the orner there. It felt a little awkward.
Tomorrow is the last day of school. I am glad but also sad. Christmas is coming soon. I become excited near Christmas though I have not so many plans. What will you do on Christmas?

Father's birthday

Today is my father's birthday. So, we had special dinner. we ate Sekihan which my grandmother cooked and cake.
We sang "Happy birthday" together. I and my sister gave him some presents. I gave him his favorite senbei and something. I chose the presents after school today. He looked happy, so I was glad.
The school will enter the winter vacation soon. I am looking forward to it though I feel a little sad.
But I have some plans on Christmas and new year, so I am looking forward to it.

movie

Recently, I haven't had anything special, so today I want to introduce one of my favorite movies.
I like to watch movies. Have you ever seen "Enchanted"?
This is Disney movie.The story is that a princess of fairy tale comes to a real world. The interesting point of this movie is that both of animation and drama are used. In this movie, some beautiful musics are used, so we can also enjoy those musics. The costumes the princess wears are cute, and this movie entails some other dieney movie's stories such as "Sleepin beauty" and "Cinderela". It is funny to find such scenes. If you haven's seen this movie, I recommend you to watch this especially for women.

This is one of my favorite scenes of "Enchanted".
This music and dance are exciting:-D

GP final

Yesterday, I watched GP final of figure skating. Did you watch it?
Mao Asada got a glod medal!!
I was really glad:D
To see her performance, I was really impressed. I think she has brave heart because she did her performance in front of many audience and overcame lots of pressures.
I like to watch figure skating, because it is beautiful.
I want to skate like figure skaters.

The rainbow

The rainbow
We can sometimes see a colorful arc in the sky. It is a rainbow. The rainbow is one of the optical phenomenon which looks very beautiful. The name of “rainbow” is also used in Japan. The name comes from a bow of rain. So, what is the rainbow? The rainbow is an arc light which has the spectrum of light from red to violet. An English chemist, Newton was the first person who mentioned that the rainbow has seven colors. He said that the original basic colors are red, yellow, green, blue, violet, orange, and indigo and between them, there are infinite variations. Therefore, in Britain, the rainbow is regarded to have seven colors. In Japan, it is also that the rainbow has seven colors. However, the number of colors in the rainbow is different in each region and age. For example, in America or France, people regard the rainbow has six colors generally. In German, five colors. In Japan, the number was also regarded as five once. The people living in Okinawa think the rainbow has two colors (red and black). There are still a lot of folk customs who believe the rainbow has two colors even now (http://ja.wikipedia.org/).
By the way, do you know how the rainbow is made? We can see light is refracted when it passes through water. Rainbows are made in the same way. When the sun light is refracted through drop of water in the air, the drop of water plays a part of a prism. Then, the light disperses and looks like a tie having many colors. It is the way rainbows are made. To observe a rainbow easily, we should water over the our eyes by hose turning our back on the sun.
We can see rainbows sometimes soon after the rains stops or in front of the water wall with a splash, or even when we water with hose with our back to the sun.
Anyway, the rainbow is very beautiful optical art.
Generally speaking, the rainbow’s shape is usually arc. But actually, there is also a straight one. Have you ever seen it? The straight rainbow is very rare, so we can hardly see it.
The straight rainbow is called “circumhorizon arc” or “circumhorizontal arc”. The first observation of the circumhorizon arc in Japan was on 6th December in 2005 at Gunma prefecture and there were inquiries to astronomical observatory if the phenomenon was an omen that would cause bad things at that time.
As well as general rainbows, this circumhorizon arc appears by the refraction of light. But this type of rainbow can appear in the particular occasion. Especially, when the light is refracted through the ice crystals in the sky whose directions are almost matched, the circumhorizon arc can appear. We see general rainbow back to the sun, but we see this circumhorizon arc in the same direction with sun. However, we cannot see this rainbow if there are clouds at a low altitude. Therefore, this straight type of rainbow is very rare. In Japan, the circumhorizon arcs are observed only dozens times a year.
If you can see it, you are very lucky.
I have never seen the circumhorizon arc, so I would like to see it sometime.
We don’t have many chances to see the rainbow, so if I see rainbow, I am very happy. I think the rainbow is the most beautiful natural phenomenon.

Japanese population decrease

Japanese Population Decrease
Now, Japan has many social problems. One of them is decrease of people. Wikipedia defines that as by decreasing of women who bear their children and the rate of birth, children decrease. Generally speaking, it is caused by the change of women’s lifestyle. Women have become to give a birth in the older age than before, which means the decrease of children women give a birth in their lifetime. In addition to that, women have more opportunities to work than before, and the notion that women should in a house and care children has become old. After World War 2, in 1950, there were about thirty million children, and they occupied over one third of overall population at that time. Then, since the fist baby boom, the amount of children had been decreasing and in 1970, they occupied one forth of population. In spite of the increasing of children when the second baby boom, the amount of children turned to decrease again. The decreasing has continued even now. According to the statistics, Japan now has the lowest rate of children in the world. The decrease of population causes many kinds of effect.
The most serious problem is Japanese economy will get dull. Decreasing of people also means the decrease of the amount of labors. If the labors decrease, the social power would shrink and the decrease would be an obstacle to the development of the industries. This is one of the effects.
In second, the tax burden on the people will increase. Because the aging people will increase and the younger people decrease, the younger must support the older. Even now, people suffer from high tax, but it can be expected that people will suffer from more tax. The government should think of the good way to solve this problem. This is the second effect.
The third effect is the environment among the children. The rate of birth of children is decreasing, so there will be less children in a class. That has good point and bad point. The good point is that the teacher can care one child more than now. The bad point is, though it is more serious, that children will have less opportunities to interchange. If there are a few children in a class, they can communicate only in small groups. They can’t contact with many people, which means they learn less things from other people than now. They are worried that it will impede progress of their sociality and it will disturb the healthy growing of children.
There is another effect on decrease of children. The competition rate for entering schools may remain stagnant, because the number of schools corresponds with the number of children. The type of classes may also change. One class will have less children, and schools will give them education that aims at development of individual talent rather than learning by rote.
Population decrease cause not only bad effect but also good one.
The good effect is that people can own more area for themselves. It also means the price of land will be lower, so people can buy land more easily. Therefore, more people may move to a house from an apartment, More houses may have even garden.
In conclusion, there are many of effect caused by decrease of people in Japan. There are both good effects and bad ones. However, in total, we should pay more attention to the bad ones. As I said before, decrease of population has caused many serious problems. We should concern of the solution and take some actions to adjust to this social change.

Types of performance

Types of performance

People sometimes see performances. Performances have sometimes power to heal or cheer up people. A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behaves in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Performers often adapt their appearance, such as with costumes and stage makeup, etc. Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the audience may become blurred. The performance can be largely divided into three groups: musical genres, theatrical genres, and other genres.
The first group is musical genres. This group includes concert, recital, and music competition.
A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music maybe performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band. A recital is a musical (vocal or instrumental) performance. It can highlight a single performer, sometimes accompanied by piano, or a performance of the works of a single composer. Also, a recital may have many participants, as for a dance recital. A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles and/or soloists. This group is performance using music.
The second group is theatrical genres. This group includes play, opera, ballet, and so on. This type of performance is performed in the theater. A play is a performance in which people play roles of other people (things). In play, the actors are needed to become other personalities. Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score. Ballet is one type of dance origined from Europe. Ballet dancers perform with dance without speaking nor singing.
Other genres can be in the third group. Circus acts, magic, storytelling are in this group. A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists. Magic is a performing art that entertains an audience by creating illusions of impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means. Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment.
There are vriety types of performance. However, all performances have same point. It is that performers entertain the audience. For the purpose, performers make much practice and prepare for it. Performances have a power to make people happy. The good performance moves our hearts. In this busy society, people may not be able to have a chance to see performance, but good performances work to us in various ways. They sometimes heal us, or entertain, or cheer up , and it can also be an opportunity in which we can notice something that we have forgotton in this busy life. How about going to the theater and have good time seeing the superb performance?

white stew

Today, I went shopping. I bought some cosmetics.
I like to collect pretty straps, and I found some pretty ones at IT'S DEMO which sells pretty goods.
I wanted to buy one, but I gave up, because I think I must not waste money...
In my house, I have lots of straps. I often change the strap which attaches to my cell phone.
I read a book for book report at a cafe. The book I am reading is a little difficult for me, because it has many words whose meanings I don't know. But I want to try it.

After I got home, I cooked white stew. I don't often cook by myself, so my mother told me to cook when I can.
I succeeded to cook it except for burning the bottom of pan.
The taste was nice.

I want to cook various repertoiers.

After dinner, my mother told me that a letter from my hostfamily arrived before yesterday. I opned the envelope and there was a Christmas card in it.
Messages were written in the card. I was really glad to receive this card.
I want to meet my host family...
I think I also send Christmas card to them.

Christmas is coming

Hi.
Today, I went to ballet lesson. Today a different teacher taught us. We took unusual lesson so I enjoyed.
I practiced grand fette(turning with one leg). I like to dance with music. When I listen to ballet music, I want to dance.
I won't take a part in the next performance,but I danced with other students. Anyway, I thought I must go on a diet...

On the way home, there were a lot of illuminations. I felt Christmas was coming. Do you have any plans on Christmas?
I did a part time job in Christmas last year because, I was working at a cake shop. I worked all day in Christmas...
This year, I don't want to do part time job, but I don't have any plans on Christmas.

The illuminations were so beauriful. I want to go to Roppongi and watch the illuminations.

Ballet

As I said before, I like ballet. I like to watch ballet and also dance it. I have been taking ballet lessons since I was four. My mother liked ballet, so she took me to the ballet school.
When I was a little, I was so shy that I couldn't dance with other students. We often use a bar when lesson, but I took a lesson with a chair instead of it near my mother. But other older students were kind and introduced me to take a lesson with them, so I gradually took a lesson with them.
When I was in the elementaly school, I took ballet lessons three times a week. I really loved dancing ballet.
However, I quited it when I entered the junior high school. After that, when I was a high school student, I started ballet lesson again in the same school. I realized that I can't live without ballet.
Ballet is very beautiful and wonderful dance. It has no word, but we can understand the story.
I have watched many ballet performances, and I have been impressed by them. Even now, I take ballet lessons two times a week, though I am not so good dancer and I haven't been there so much recently.
I think ballet is very important for me. I like ballet music, like The Nutcracker, Swan lake, The sleeping beauty. I often listen to them when I go to school in the train.
My favorite ballerina is Miyako Yoshida. She studied abroad in England and became one of the top ballerina of the Royal ballet. I watched "Coppelia" in which Miyako Yoshida played main character. The performance was really wonderful. Do you know Tetsuya Kumakawa? He is very famous ballet dancer in Japan. He is famous for high jumping. I have never seen his performance directly, so I want to watch it sometime.

Change hair color

Today, I had my hair dyed black. There was no reason to dye my hair, but I wanted to change my image. I had my hair dyed blown when I was freshman, and I wanted to return my hair color to original color.
I was a little hesitated to change the color.

After school, I went to a cram school and taught two students. I enjoyed it because I like to talk with them.
But there are something that I bother.
One student was sleeping during the class. He looked tired and very sleepy. I must wake him up, but I hesitated it... But I think I must wake him up.
See you.

Skating again

Yesterday, I went to Ginga arena in Fuchinobe with skate members.
It has been a month since we gathered last.
We gathered at Fuchinobe station and went there by bus.
We enjoyed skating until 5 p.m. and went to Gratche where we had dinner.
There were 9 members in all. Two persons came there by their own cars, so we drived to the restaurant by cars.
I am not so good at speaking, so I listened to the conversation but I had fun.
They said that they would gather again in December.
If I can, I would like to go.
I am surprised that this meeting continues, but I want to attend and keep relationshops with them.