2009年9月30日水曜日

Sugesstions

I plan to follow Yumi's advice to design own blog (Yumi, July 8 ). Because my blog is very simple so I also think that I want to more cute my own blog. Machiko also had a good idea to make link; medias (Machiko, July 8 ). I've never made medias in my blog so I'll try to make link. Manami's idea noticed me to make and respond comments ( Manami, July 15 ). Especially, I couldn't respond my friend's comment so much. When I gave responses from my friends, Iwas very glad soI'll try respond my friend's comments. Hikaru's main idea tell me about write blog more( Hikaru, July 8 ). I couldn't write blog more at spring term so I'll try to keep write blog at autumn term. Chisako had a good openion to start blogging more early ( Chisako, July 8 ). I couldn't write blog so much during vacation so that I got off to a bad start. I'll keep blogging from today.

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2009年9月12日土曜日

Tokyo Disney Land

I went to Tokyo Disney Land and Tokyo Disney Sea with my friends for three days in summer vacation.

The first day, I woke up five O’clock and we arrived at Kumamoto airport at eight O’clock. I’ve long time no ride airplane so I was exciting. In Haneda airport, we changed from airplane to a bus and we moved to Tokyo Disney Land. There are many people. All of things in Tokyo Disney Land for example characters, buildings, and attractions charmed us. Cinderella castle was the most beautiful building! We rode many attractions but we had to wait more 30 minutes to ride all attractions. I think that the most interesting attraction in Disney Land is "Space Mountain". This is roller coaster which is in dark place so we can't look front. We entered Minny Mouse's house. It's very cute house! We wanted to enter Micky Mouse's house but sadly we didn't that because there are many many people and we had to wait more 1 hour so we gave up. We met many Disney characters for example Goofy, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Alice, Donald, Deisy, and so on. And we took a picture with them. At night, we watched parade show. That's very beautiful and fun parade. We enjoyed this parade very much. After that, we also watched fire works.

The second day, we went to the Disney Sea. But I was very sorry because it was cloudy, sometimes rainy, and very cold! However, we also enjoyed Disney Sea. First, we went to "Tower of Terrer" and rode it. This attraction's production is terrified me. But it was a fun attraction. After that, we watched two shows. One of Ariel's mermaid show. That's a beautiful show and Ariel is very cute! Another one is Jenny's magic show. This is very very interesting show. And this show used 3D glasses so it was very exciting. Only Disney Sea, it sells Duffy goods. Do you know Duffy? Duffy is a teddy bear which Minny made for Micky. This is very cute teddy bear so I bought Duffy's stuffed doll. In Disney Sea, we also met many characters and took a picture with them. At night, we watched parade. That was water and fire's show. It was wonderful show and I was impressed. But honestly speaking, I felt little sleepy because I was very tired.

The third day, we went to Disney Land again. That day, there are many many people and almost of them disguised of Disney characters, because that day is the first day of Halloween event. All of them wore high quality costume so I can't recognize real or not. We took a picture with some these people. We had to out Disney Land by two O'clock because we had to ride the plane of 4 O'clock. So we spend to buy souvenirs most of time in Disney Land.

I enjoyed this three days very much. Disney Land gave me dream! So I didn't go home. I want to go Disney Land again!

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2009年9月1日火曜日

Examination

In spring term, I examined about situations of pet in America at class. I was very sorry that we couldn't go America because of Flu. I will intoroduce the result of my examination.



I examined about situations of pet in America. I like animals so I am interested in situations of pet in America. I researched mainly about what is popular pet and thought of their pets in America, health centre and pet shops, and facility for pets. I’ll show these topics with comparing to Japan.

First topic is popular pets and thoughts of their pets. Dogs are most popular pet in both America and Japan. This is the ranking of popular dogs in America recently. First place is Labrador Retrievers, second place is Yorkshire Terriers, and third place is German shepherd. On the other hand, this is the ranking of poplar dogs in Japan. First place is Chihuahua, second place is poodle, and third place is miniature dachshund. This result shows that American like great dogs and Japanese like miniature dogs. The regulation for pets in America is easier than Japan. So it is not small that people who have rare pets. Reptiles are popular pet in America. For example snakes, lizards, or miniature crocodiles. The insect, for example spiders are also popular pets. However, the most popular rare pet is animals of the cat family, for example tigers. Recently, monkeys or chimpanzees are rising popularity. By the way, there are families of 62 percent have pets. 40 million families have dogs and 34 million families have cats. According to the questionnaire, dogs of 74 percent and cats of 66 percent are thought like master’s real children by their master. So dogs of 66 percent have Christmas presents every year. In each year, masters use about 405 dollar for their dogs and 371 dollar for their cats.

Second topic is health center and pet shops. In Japan, when you want to have pets, you may go pet shop. It is natural for Japanese to buy pets at pet shop. However, there are not animals in pet shop in America. Exceptional instance, it may sell small animals like hamster. American pet shops usually sell only pet stores such as pet foods or toys. When they want to have pet especially dogs and cats, they go animal shelter or given by animal lover. Then, I’ll tell you about animal protection groups of Japan and America. In Japan, There are only health center that place protect animals. Japanese animal protection groups don’t work well. In America, there are many animal protection groups and it is more strict American law for pets than Japan one. In America, there are animal shelters. It like health center in Japan but animal shelters manage by volunteer. Also, the difference between health center and animal shelter is all animals wait for foster parents in animal shelters. Another, there are animal police in America. It is not in Japan. When animal police find lost animals or abandoned animals, they take animals to animal shelter. Also, when animal police find cruelty to animals, they warn master or arrest master.

Final topic is facilities for pets. You can see many people who take their dogs in America. So there are many café and restaurant which permitted masters into with their pets. They can eat lunch or rest with their pets. These café or restaurant also have menu for pets. American masters enjoy relax time with their pet or talk with circle of pet masters. Pet cafés are also have in Japan but number of shops are fewer than America. In America, there are many facilities for pet. There are many dog ran spots, beauty salon for pets, pet washer and so on. Many American have great dogs but there is no place that they can wash their dogs. Pet washer is the place to master wash their great dogs. I think that these facilities make masters and pets comfortable.

America is pet advanced nation. America has strict law for pets and many animal protection groups. I think that many Americans have pets because America has firmed rule. What’s more, the regulations of pet’s kind are easy so there are many people who have rare pets. However, the most popular pet in America is dogs. Americans especially like great dogs. It is said that the reason why Americans like great dogs, most of American families have large garden. Dogs can run freely there. I think that there are many people who are animal lover because animal shelters manage volunteers. The working expenditure is all donations and fund-raising. It is no custom to buy pets at pet shop in America. However, most Japanese go pet shop when they buy pet. Japanese tend to choose ‘cute’ pet, that is to say it make a point of looks. I think Japan has to model American animal protections.

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