Japanese★Ainu

There are various dance in AINU; rimuse upopo horippa
People make a big circle, dance and sing a song. They don’t use any instrument.
In AINU, most these dance were danced by women.
Dance was the thing to enjoy not only for Ainu people but also Gods.



There are songs called “yaisama” and “yaisamanena”. Women reveal their mind or feelings.

“mukkuri”,”tonkori” is instrument of Ainu. “mukkuri” has a lot of sounds. “tonkori” is like koto.

New Zealand ★maori★

Maori people are the former inhabitants who first settled in New Zealand. Maori’s culture and language are related to New Zealander’s life.
I searched the culture of Maori. There are various and a lot of culture.The cultural arts in Maori are also treasure of Maori. People regard creatures of people as being alive.
*Whakairo　--- carving(sculpture)...We can see it on the pillar of assembly hall. Maori people honor their ancestors, histories, mythes, or legends of Maori. Whakairo is revealed those and very beautiful.
*Raranga --- weaving... Maori peaople need clothes, but they don't have weaving machine. They make use of their skills of ting the rope when they fish. The materials of clothes are hemp or leaves of palm. They created various designs.
*Haka --- It is the group performance.Haka means the dance of Maori. There are many kinds of Haka dance.
*Hongi --- It is greeting of welcome. People press their nose each other.The right picture is that.
*Moko --- It is like tattoo. They put them on their face. It reveals the link to their past which based on myth or features of their ancestors. Also it is to feel their ancestor’s spirit.The design of MOKO contains the origins of their family or information of tribe.

Ethiopia ---Suruma---

The official name of Ethiopia is Federal Democratic Repubric of Ethiopia.Ethiopia is the first independent country in Africa. It is located in East Africa. It is landlocated country and surrounded with Kenya, Sudan, SOmaria, Eritrea and Djibouti.The capital of Ethiopia is Adis Abeba.



In Ethioipia, there ere are about 70 millions peaople and 80 races there; for example, Amahara, Oromo or Somali people.

We picked up one tribe, Suruma! They have cultual big festival.
I'm talking about how to get there!

Suruma is located in the southern part of Africa. There are no direct flights from Japan to Suruma area. Therefor, we have to go to Adis Abeba via Bangkok. It takes about 18 hours. You can use TOKYO, NAGOYA and OSAKA airport. I recommend you to use the NAGOYA airport. You can go to Ethiopia on the cheap! From Adis Abeba, we use a CAR. It takes about 11 DAYS to Suruma area!!

It's a long trip!!

If you want to go there, let's check this site!




Then... I'm talking about Ehiopia and tourist attraction of Ethiopia.
Basically, people in Ethiopia spaek English or Amharic. Moreover, each tribes has thier own langages. Their money is Birr. In Ethiopia, there are a lot of natioal parks. You can see many wild animals.

You can also see beautiful magnificent untouched nature in Lalibela, Axum, Gondar, Debre Damo, Bahir Dar, and Harrar, etc. These are very historic places.



Let's go to Ethiopia!!

Stick Fighting!

Do you know the festival named Stick Fighting??

Stick Fighting is held in Ethiopia in Africa. This festival is held at the ent of the rains. The content of this festival is amaging. They fight each other whit stick called TONGA! However, they never put on the shield, only body paint. It's very dangerous!The winner is led to the ladys and chosen by them. This festival is very based on their culture.


If you want to see actually...

click here!!

Movie!!

At the camp in this summer vacation,I saw a movie called "Coach Carter".




This movie was produced by THOMAS CARTER. NOW,I want to tell you about the cast.Coach Ken Carter is acted by SAMEL L. JACKSON. He also appeared in "STAR WARS". In the almost all movies, he supported the movies. While,in this movie,he was stared.　On this background,real KEN CARTER offered SAMEL to act him. That is to say,SAMEL was the just person to act Ken Carter.


There are 7 main members; DAMIEN,KENYON,CRUZ,WORM,JUNIOR BATTLE,LYLE and MADDOX.
I was surprised at their skills of basketball and slipped my mind that they are actors.





*STORY*

This movie is real-life story that happened in Richmond High School in California in1999.Richmond was the city which was very dangerous and had high unemployment.Coach Ken Carter was a graduate of Richmond and a representative member of the team of America.One day, he was offered the coach of the Richimond's basketball team. However, the team has no teamwork when he watched their match. Instead of accepting the offer,he signed with the members that they don't fail to award a minimum grade and have a good manners.His coaching was very strict! Owe to it, they gradually became strong. They extended their winning streak right along. However...one day, Coach Carter canceled all of their matches and shut them out the court, it is because that they had cleared their contract. He was rally angry and disappointed. He tried to make them do well their study and basketball. This action of Coach Carter was criticized by their parents or the mass media. The members who were shut out the court weren't motivated at first. However, they gradually started studying. Then, they clear the contract. Their teamwork becomes stronger and they aim to the top!!



I want you to see this movie in your own eyes!



If you want to know more about this movie, let's go to this official site!!

!!DIET!!@o@

There are a lot of foods which are BAD for our health ;for example, a humberger, potato chips,fried potatps and so on. Certainly, they are delicious. HOWEVER...they contain a lot of oil. They makes us fat and cause serious disease. When we eat, we need to consider about the balance of nutrient.


**A well-balanced diet**


There are 5 important nutrient; carbohydrate, protain, vitamin, mineral and fat. In addition, dietary fiber is also necessary. We need to eat with thinking about nutrition.


To take these important nutrient well, food is divided into 4 groups.

1. milk/a dairy product/ egg -They contain calusium or vitaminB2. It is said that Japanese is in lack of calucium. So these food are very important for us.
2. fish and shellfish/meat/ bean -They contain protain, fat, vitaminA,B1,B2 or calucium.They make bone, muscle or blood.
3. vegetable/potato(sweet potato,yam,taro,etc)/fluit -They contain vitaminA,C, mineral or dietary fiber.They make our conditions good.
4. grain/suger/fat -They contain glucide, protain or fat. They make our energy.

!!Let's check your diet balance!!

EXERCISE!! ）’０’（

Today's topic is EXERCISE!!


Recently,"diet"or"exercise" is in the spotlight.We often see the TV programs about them. Now, many girls or ladies long for being slender and beautiful. Exercise not only makes our figure beautiful but also keeps our conditions good. Being on a hard diet is bad for your health and causes serious disease;for example,anorexia or bulima. So I think Exercise is the best way to become beautiful!!

There are many kinds of exercise; for example, jogging, walking, walking in the pool, stretch, yoga, boxing,ballet and so on.


I'll pick up YOGA!!
It is slow exercise and has a lot of poses. YOGA removes our fatigue or stress and enriches frexibility of our bodies. Moreover, by moving slowly and keeps the pose, we can burn off fat. There are a lot of types of YOGA; power yoga, matarnity yoga, baby yoga and so on. If you start doing YOGA, try to find the best YOGA for you.
Let's try YOGA　with this movie!!

Laughter(＾o＾)!!

1, Benefits☆

Laughter removes our stress and makes us relaxing. While we are laughing, we can forget about the bad things. If our stress reduce, our blood pressure decline. As a result, the risks of heart disease will decrease. Moreover laughter contains the substance called “endorphin”, which is said that it soften our pains. So laughter is used as one of treatment at the hospitals. Our abdominal muscle or diaphragm is trained by laughing. By using our muscle, we can sleep well. Moreover laugher lets us keep good terms with others and speeds up our rate of work.




♪Let's know more ^o^ more♪








2, Funny!!

This clip is about funny imitation performance. It’s from “komakasugite tsutawaranai monomane sensyuken”. Many comedians or the public appear in this show. Their imitations are little different from general ones. I picked up one of them. Her name is Mariko Morita. She is a comedian of Yoshimoto Performance Company. She is not so famous but her imitations are comical. Check it out!!

♪Let's laugh ^o^ ♪

　　　　　 ♪Let's　laugh more^o^♪