Beautiful Sunset :)

When I went back to my home, I saw a beautiful sunset.
My house is surrounded by rice farms.
Yes, I live in country side. Not Tokyo.
Anyways, the sunset is 100 times beautiful than the picture.
I wish I could see it with you :(

Do you like it? :)




Ciao Ciao~~!!

Teaching Japanese

I found an advertizement the other day, it said there are some Japanese class and they are looking for people who can help to teach Japanese.

When I found the advertizement, I'm not sure if I could teach Japanese but I'd love to do it even though  I don't know much about Japanese grammar.

Anyways, I apply it and today was the first day of the classes :)

There were 8 students, 4 from Philippines and 4 from China. Some of them can speak Japanese but most of them don't understand Japanese well. They know some like "Thank you" and greetings.

In the class, there were three teacher include me :)
I helped Chinese student group today. (I don't speak Chinese, but understand little bit.)
They are really good students!!!!
Today, we taught how to write Japanese "Hiragana" (It's like alphabet "A, B, C, D......") and some basic phrases "Good night" "Have a nice day"and so on.

Chinese students were struggling with pronunciation.
"Ki" sound is the most difficult sound today.
("Ki" is like "[Ki]ck", "[Ki]ss", "[Ki]ndergarten.")

The pronunciation is difficult, and the class is difficult for them, however they smiled when they understand, and write Japanese letter beautifully :)
We laugh together sometimes.
This made me happy.

Seeing people's progress is really great, so I love teaching Japanese too.

I'm gonna bring Chinese dictionary next time :D It may help our study.

台風です。

今日は台風が来るという事で、昨日の夜から警報が出たり、注意を促す放送があったりしました。
私の住んでる所は、台風が来るとか言われても、なんだかんだで、直撃せずにすんでいて、ありがたいのですが、今回の台風は直撃するということで、明日は大丈夫かなぁ？と思いながら昨日は寝ました。

そして、迎えた今日なんですが、雨がず〜〜〜〜〜っと降ってます。
とにかく雨です。
朝から弱くなったり強くなったりしながら降り続いています。


台風なんてタイトルをつけたのに、台風の模様は雨ばかりなので、別の話をします（笑）

平井堅ってご存知ですか？
私の好きな歌手の一人なんですが、私は普段ほとんどテレビ見ないんですが（週刊平均視聴時間約2時間です。世間の話題から取り残されてます）平井堅が出る時は見ちゃいます(^^)

そんな彼が、私の住む町でライブをするということで、
「めっちゃ行きたい!!!」
と、意気込んで、チケットの一般発売をチェックしたりしてたんですが、それに先駆けての先行電話予約があるっていう情報を新聞から得て、その当日、必死に電話をしました。
その甲斐あって、チケットを取る事が出来まして、とっても楽しみにしています。
しばらく日本に居なかったので、これが日本に戻ってから行く初めてのライブです!!!

最後に行ったライブはニッケルバックのワールドツアーでした(^^)めっちゃかっこ良かったです!!!彼らのライブの時は、始めに２つのバンドがライブをしたのですが、その両方が私の好きなバンドで、めちゃめちゃ良かったです!!!
（バックチェリーと、スリーデイズグレイスっていうバンドです。）


話がどんどんそれてますが、久しぶりのライブ、楽しみです!!!

Learning Russian Culture :)

I work at a museum in Japan now.
We have a guests from Vladivostok in Russia.
They demonstrate some traditional things, making dolls, needle works, and wooden birds, and they play traditional music.

The museum provide special classes to know and make Russian traditional things for three days. So, we can actually made those crafts with Russian instructors.
So, I participated those classes :)
I learned cross stitch yesterday in the class.
Here's the cross stitch I made :)

It takes about an hour, but not too hard.
So, I could finish making this.
The instructor brought some sample from Russia. It was really really beautiful!! It's like a picture!!!

I also went to their petite concert.
They use a lot of instruments, Cow's horns, wooden old washing tool, and tin.
One of the instrument called "balalaika" has a beautiful sound!!!
I love it!!!
This is balalaika.

 I never been to Russia, but I'd love to go there :) It's gonna be an awesome trip!!!!