Snow Park in Yamanashi University

The other day, it has snowed slightly around my university after a long time. I became to want to snowboard and I asked my friends in my lab to bring their boots and snowboard. That afternoon, we snowboarded in the playground in our school. We made a box to play with benches and a small kicker. It snowed but it was only 4 cm snow. It was so hard to make even small kicker. In addition, it had so many small stones. Sometimes the edge sparked. It was very bad condition for snowboards. So their snowboards were scraped very much! The three movies 1 2 3 are the then.

In Japan, we have so many articles about president election in your country. I think your president election system is complicated. I don’t know which one will win but now your country is a leader in the world I think. I hope your country will be better as a leader in the world.

Yesterday, I watched a TV program about Kenya. Before, I had known about that from Hank. It was so terrible. I emailed Christopher, Vincent and Dickson because I wander if they are safe in Kenya. If I know their conditions I’ll tell you but it is seems to be rare for them to use Internet. My friends around me were not interested in that because Kenya is so far. It is difficult to think about troubles far from here. If it happened somewhere but Kenya, I might also thought it not so important. However, I have been to Kenya and have some friends there so I want to do something helps them but I can’t do anything to do directly. Anyway I am telling people around me about that. Finally, I hope interest in the world as well as Japan will go to terrible problems of Kenya and Kenya will be better.

I am going to finish writing my thesis this weekend. I have left troublesome tasks now. Here goes!

New Year's visit to Takeda shrine

My friends and I went to “Takeda shrine” the other day. It is a popular shrine in Yamanashi and by my university. First of all, we went to the building that “Noh” play is done. It was built just now so Noh play was not done that day. It is a Japanese famous traditional play. You may not know about it and I also don’t know about it well. I have never seen it. Maybe I think Noh play looks like our figure of a second picture.

Next, we cleansed our hands and mouths with special water. Then we each put some money in an offertory box and pray to the God. Anyway, I prayed for our health and my new job would be better.

We each bought “Omikuji” at about 2 dollars. In Omikuji, our fortune is written and the fortune is divided into six levels. Fortunately, my fortune was the greatest level “大吉” and it said. “All you do is going well so you should have faith in yourself.”

Today is a coming-of-age celebration in Japan. Some people who are 20 years old were wearing “Kimono”. Recently many people seemed to become to wear business suits simply. By the way, I wore “Kimono” of my cousin’s hand-me-downs 4 years ago.

However, today was nothing but a normal holiday for me. I went to a habitual skiing ground with my friends. There were so many items like boxes, rails and kickers. I challenged them trusting myself. As a result, I hit my chin against the ground. It was so hard because it froze. My chin was skinned. The wound smarts.

Don’t be too confident of myself! It was today’s lesson.

Earthwatch Japan asked me to let them use my DVD of Kenya. It seems to be used to make the VTR to explain the activities of Earthwatch Japan and the VTR seems to be telecasted by 25 Japanese TV stations. Of course, I told yes but I don’t know the length of the VTR maybe several tens seconds or several minutes? Which part of Kenyan DVD do you think will be telecasted? I expect measuring trees will be telecasted.