Hello everyone! Did you have a good weekend? I went to the Beer Garden in Oodori Park with my friend on Saturday. I had a very good time.
Well, I have a suggestion about the theme. What do you think that we write about our hometown? I would like to know how it's like because I think I've never been to your hometown.
My image of Shonan is surfing. I was right!!
I hope your wonderful dreams will come true
Well, I would like to introduce my hometown, Sapporo.
The population of Sapporo is over 1.8 million.
Yes, it's quite a big city.
It is famous for Miso Ramen. Oh, my favorite!!
There are the Ramen Alley (ラーメン横丁) in Susukino and the Ramen Republic (ラーメン共和国) by the JR Sapporo station. Zingisukan is also popular. It is said that it's good for loosing weight. Women love it.
There are two big festivals in a year. The first one is the Yosakoi Soran Festival.
It is held on the second weekend of June.
More than 350 teams join in this festival.
Many dancers (踊り子) wear nice and gorgeous costume and compete with their performance.
Over 2 million spectators come to this festival from many places.
I couldn't watch it this year because I had to work.
The second is the Snow Festival in February.
It started in 1950. It's a long history.
You will see huge snow castles, and beautiful ice and snow sculptures there.
Many tourlists visit Sapporo from all over the world.
When I was a child, I used to enjoy playing with snow slides and taking many pictures.
February is one of the busiest month of the year at my work place.
The hotel rooms are sold out and there are many tourlists from overseas.
And one more thing...No rainy days, No earthquake, and No typhoon.
Last week,I read books,and played tennis.
I ate a lunch with my friend.
It was very pleasant.
I live in Kyoto.
Kyoto is the plase where much temples and nature are healed.
I go to a place to vary because I like to go out.
It went for kibune the other day.
http://kyoto.kibune.or.jp/meisho/index.html
The walk with hearing the murmur of the river was very pleasant.
Unfortunately, last Saturday was work, and this Saturday also work. Anyway, I'd like to enjoy Sunday.
My hometown is Chiba prefecture Kashiwa city. I had live there for 22 years.
It's not metropolis, but it's quite convenient city.
I used to go to Abiko city that is next to Kashiwa city for cycling or runnnig. There are some cycling teams, and I belong to one of them, so sometimes I go back to my hometown to join training of bicycle and relax.
Abiko has a large pond named "Teganuma."
It used to call the dirtiest pond in Japan.
When I was childe, it was abusolutely terrible. I was able to feel the smell at my home that is about 3 km far from there.
However, I like that pond because I can see beautiful landscape.
When I was high school student, around the pond was my way to school.
The beautiful landscape made me relax everyday.
Now, Teganuma is getting cleaner.
Concerning summer holiday, I have no plan because I thought I might lose them for work.
Fortunately, I won't lose my summer holiday.