I will miss this Blog...

Soon, I have to say good bye to this year. Come December, I always look back on the year. I feel not only regretting something I could not, but also satisfaction to be able to welcome to new year. In addition, there will be some pleasant event like year-end party or meeting my realtives.

Anyway, this educational program will be end , but I wanna continue to relationship with you because I really enjoyed communicating here. By the way, I start my blog called NIKKI , which means ’diary’ in Japanese. If you have the time and are interested in my blog even a little , please check it out!!

LOVE MUSIC & DRAMA

Anytime I am in my house, I listen the music or watch TV.
So I introduce my favorite singer, "Chara", and my favorite drama series, "働きマン".

Firstly, Chara is singer-songwriter. Now she released new single. The title is "bokunokotowositte".
Any her song's PV is so cute and artistic and why I like her is because of her whisper voice. Surprisingly, she is 38- year-old now and has two kids. I wish I could be cute mother like her.
Here is new single PV.



Next is about Japanese drama. I like　働きマン（hataraki man) now.Heroine is hardiest-working woman at magazine company and story goes her growth as a person. Every week I am checking it regularly. I like her character very much. The original is manga. I never read it , but I'd like to read it !!!
The picture is original book.

Wedding Ceremony in the Chapel♡

I'd like to introduce my part-time job.

I have been working at wedding chapel since I was fresh man at University. This was the first job to me. So far, I have ever worked some kind of job, but this wedding job is most attracting job and I have learned many things from there.
My task is wide-ranging. I take charge of assistant of bridal couple in the chapel.
In Japan, it is usual to celebrate in the chapel first, and then people go to reception banquet to have dinner. My affairs are limited only in the chapel. For example, I prepare the some drink, clean up the church, operate the assistants and so on before the ceremony. Actually, I think the main part of task begin when the ceremony starts. I direct the couple to the front of priest and take and give the groves during ceremony.I 'm always too nervous in this time!!

Why I like to work here is because I can see the most wonderful time in the life for people. I think the smile of bride is the most beautiful face in the world. Anytime I go to work, people who get married give me happy!! In addition to this, I like the member of worker very much.

The picture is my chapel inside.

Had a special time★

I enjoyed school festival last weekend!! Every year it was held three days long. The first day is costume parade for freshman, in contrast, second and last day are opened to the public.

I was involved in two club activity and both of these set up shop.

One is the shop of selling YAKISOBA. Do you know it? It is like a baking noodle with some vestibules and pork seasoned lightly-salted source. In addition to yakisoba, we were sold yakisoba sandwich and some drink. We were selling it wearing YUKATA that is traditional Japanese summer costume. Here is a picture of YUKATA.Sales were very nice and after the festival we had a big drinking party...

The other shop is selling mostly sweets of sweet potato, coffee, cocoa and tea. Our club member are interested in fare trade, so we used drinking material from fare trade goods. Also we sold for some Vietnam folk arts. It is so cute! The sales of these goods would donate NGO for Vietnam AIDS. We dressed club T-shits on to match. The T-shirts were designed by my friends and I. At first, only few people come to our shop, but as the temperature rises, many people asked for our drink and sweet potatoes!!

For two days I woke up very early morning. It was very hard for me because I would get up around 9 o'clock every day. When I put off the shop and clean up I suddenly felt loneliness.. Because I spent a good time with club members. I hope to have a nicer time with them next year's festival too!!

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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Hello!! My name is...

My name is Yuka! Nice to meet you!
I am 20 year-old and a third year student in the Yamanashi University. My major is International culture, especially I am studying American literature.
I like to travel and I really want to go abroad in my school days as much as possible. In this summer I went to China and saw the Great Wall!! It's so wonderful!! When I travel somewhere new to me, I am always looking forward to meet some good encounter! In Japan, I love to go to hot spring!
The other hobby is to redecorate my room. I like to see the interior books or to go to shop sells furniture and some fancy goods . In the future, I want to live my self-made room with colorful coloring!!

The picture is I and my friend when I visited to her in kyoto in this summer. We rode JINRIKISHA!I am the right one.

I really hope to communicate each other and brush up our each language skill!!

See you♪