Wednesday, October 31, 2007

my hometown♪


I'd like to tell you about my hometown. My hometown is Joetsu city in Niigata where is in the northwest of Japan. I grew up there from birth to graduating high school. There are a lot of nature like mountain, sea, agricultural lands, and so much snow!! There are famous for amount of snow! In the winter, most part of Niigata are buried under deep snow. There are apparent season so I enjoyed variety sports or food in season.I realized how wonderful my town is after leaving there...


I have some favorite places.The best place I love is a beach that is near my house, only I have to take 15 minutes by bicycle. When I was elementary school, I always went to beach during summer time because my family all like swimming and getting sunburn. Sometimes we did summer camp.Another reason I like beach is because there are held fireworks festival. It is so beautiful shine with reflected fireworks at face of sea. Even though when there was nothing so special event, my friend and I often went to beach at sunset time. To see the big sun makes us relax and forget any difficulties at that time.

In winter, I used to go skiing to my grandpa's town. There are famous for ski resort. After skiing I usually went to spa. I hated going skiing for chill but I could bear skiing to looking forward spa. In front of my house, in childhood, there are some snowman my sister and I made and snow cave my father made!I spent enjoyable time in winter except for standing cold.

I'd like to mention to famous food, rice is one of the best place to bring up. Another my grandpa works as peasant to make it! I really love his rice!! Sake, Japanese alcohol is also very good!
If you come to my town, please come in winter !!

Image is ski resort in Niigata.
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2 comments:

Dave said...

Wow! This is absolutely gorgeous. Living near there would make me very happy, I would be able to ski every single weekend and get my daily exercise. In my hometown of Kennebunk, Maine, it's right on the beach. Every weekend I would drive to the beach which is about 10 minutes away and sit there and chill with friends and sometimes enjoy a nice sunset or an ocean breeze. It's very relaxing.
I would love to see that area, I'm sure I would love the scenery along with the copious amounts of snow.

Your English and your grammar are very good, but I do see a few spots for improvement. May I suggest,"It is so beautiful, that the fireworks are reflected at the face of the sea" other than that, everything else is pretty good.

Have a nice day

YUKA said...

Thank you,Dave!!

I am really happy to your comment and have a similler hometown location.
I found new use of English from your comment! It is the word "chill with". At first, I could not understand what you mentioned, but as I read, I hit upon the real meaning!! I guess it means "spend a time with" .