Three Cups of Tea

Three cups of Tea

        I think "Three Cups of Tea" is great book for studying because it's including  in Glossary, explanation about character and time line. Its helped me to understand the story. Especially, explanation about character was helped me every time because this story's character name is little difficult to remember, and I wanted to focus on story's content without stress remembering all character's name. And more, the story's content is also good to know problem of temporary society. Finally, I thought we have to learn about problem of society because almost people who is living in advanced country. We use to eat enough food, studying and work.That7s why we can't imagine life such as no school and serious women discrimination. And I think we have to think about what we can do for people who is suffering from such a  problem because we have more knowledge from school than developing country's people. At the same time I thought this is a duty foe everyone who is living in advanced country.

Marriage

Marriage

In Japan, the way of marriage and wedding ceremony is changed. In the old days, the arranged marriage was common things and wedding ceremony was only traditional way. Therefore almost parents decided their daugter's or son's partner.  And all couples wedding ceremony was traditional way. It was in temple and all people were wearing Kimono. Kimono is a Japanese traditional clothes. But now a day, almost people choose their own partner by themselves and only a few people use match maker by themselves. Therefore, we can choose our patner by ourselves. And more, almost couple don't use the traditional way of wedding. Therefore they do wedding like European. For ewample, women are wearing dress and men wearing suit. These are the reason why I think marriage and wedding ceremony is changed. 

Horry Potter

Horry Potter

  I like Horry Potter's movie and book because it's so exciting and good for studying English. When I was high school student I was interested in it, because I went to the UK and see some location of the movie was shooting. A friend of mine who likes Horry Potter was very excited, but I couldn't excited because I didn't know Horry Potter's movie. And then, I thought I want to see the movie. After that I watched all of the movie and visited there and another shooting of the movie again. I was so excited. These are the reason why I like Horry Potter.

Travel in Osaka

Travel in Osaka

  I'm from Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. Osaka is the second biggest population prefecture in Japan ,but Ikeda is a small city in Osaka. Therefore I want to introduce about mainly Ikeda and Osaka. Osaka has some wonderful town,so you can enjoy shopping. Especially, the south part of Osaka-the town's name is Umeda and Shinsaibashi. In addition, I recommend to go Osaka on Spring or fall. This is because on summer there are a lot People-it makes you exhausted. On winter it is cold and day time is short. By the way, in my home town Ikeda doesn't have a lot of shop, but there is ”Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum'' I think it's a little famouse because I sometime see tourist from Korea, Chaina or anyother country. I know it's so interesting because I have been there once. There are many pictures to explain Cup noodle and the cumpany's history. Andmore, there is small cup noodle factory, and you can make your own Cup Noodle. It's so nice experience and you can make good ,cheap souvenir!

Language

 Now, I'm studing English,but last year I was studing English and Spanish in University at Japan. In my university, we have to study English and second language. And we can choose the second language from Spanish,Chainese, Russia, Korean and Garman. So I chosed Spanish because the population of Spanish native speaker is the biggest in the world. Therefore I thought if I could speak Spanish, it's so useful to get job and travel. Because in Japan, there are few people who can speak Spanish and Latin America countries use Spanish! That's why I want to study Spanish. In fact, I studied Spanish but it was not enough to understand the language completely. So I want to study Spanish more after I will go back to Japan.

My favorite extream sport is skydiving.

My favorite extreme sport is skydiving.  Because this is  very precious experience in my life. We can't feel such a thrill in my daily life . But I have never tried it. This is because I didn't have opportunity.  Two years ago, I went to Australia and I found skydiving tour in Cairns at Australia. But this tour was so expensive. Therefore, I gave up to join this tour. I think the reason is we have to entry insurance. It is proof of dangerous. Of course , extreme sport is dangerous. But I want to experience skydiving. Because I want to enjoy my life and we can do these extreme sport while we are young. I want do skydiving until I will graduate from university.

Men and Women

Men and Women

 In my country, Japan we call nurse "Kango-hu" in Japanese, and we write it like"看護（Kango）婦（hu）"in Japanese. "看護"means nursing, and "婦"means woman, lady or wife. Therefore, "看護婦" means nursing-woman, But now there are a lot of nurse of man not only Japan but also other countries. In old days, there are only nurse of woman or few nurse of man. Nowadays, custom was changed so we have to change the way to call nurse. Then in Japan, nurse's formal name is "看護（kango）師（shi）". "師"means the person who has a special licence. So it dosen't involved in gender! By the way, there are a few women in politics in Japan. But it is not only Japan but also other countries. There are 196countries in the world, but there are only 4 women president in the world.

Money

Money

 

 If I won 10 million dollars in the lottery, I want to use for my house's garage roof and buy few stocks. There are two reasons. First, my house's garage doesn't have roofs, and if we mount roof with garage, it costs 600000000 dollars. It's so expensive! We can't pay it now, but we need roof to protect our car from rain, wind and bird's dropping. Second, I want to buy few stocks. Because I have always wanted to buy stocks since I was a high school student. I have always interested in economics, and I thought stock has a big dream. But I know at the same time, stock is so dangerous because it is possible that will crash. If I have a lot of money, I don't need worry about failure. In addition, if I success invest stocks I will be able to get more money! It's wonderful !!

 









Crime

Crime

 I heard that Canada's the number of murder accident is less than USA, but the number of robber,violence are more than USA. And more, these the number of cases are more than Japan. This is because Canada's population is much bigger than Japan. But at first, I was scared; however, Many people who have been Calgary or living in Calgary are always say Calgary is so safety. 

 Today, I researched about Calgary. According to ministry of foreign affairs in Japan, Calgary is located in Alberta-Albarta is composed about seven cities and Calgary is the least crime severity index in Alberta. It's only 65.8.And more, my home town Osaka's proportion of crime is 2.059%. Osaka's number of crime is much, but atrocious crime is less than Calgary. In Osaka,almost of number of crime is robber. For example,thief snatch someone's back from bicycle's front basket. Therefore, Osaka is safer than Calgary because the case of atrocious crime is more than Osaka. But we have to have attention about our belonging in Osaka.There are a lot of thief. 

 I think we have to careful about thief. In Calgary there are few thief, but we have to careful about it. And we mustn't believe strangers. Of course, there are a lot of kind people in Calgary, but absolutely there are few wrong people. It's not only Calgary but also all over the world.

Welcome to my blog.

 Hello. Welcome to Ayaka's blog in Calgary.
I'm Ayaka Nakagawa from Japan. I am a second grade's university student. And I'm 19 years old. Now, I study English in University of Calgary. I am going to write about many things that experienced in Calgary. I don't have so much skill to write long sentence or interesting sentence in English. But I will do my best to write an interesting blog as I can. Therefore, I think this project is very good for me to improve my English skill. I wish I'll be able to write good sentences when the project will finish. Nice to meet you and thank you for reading my blog!