Maori Foods about Hangi

Hangi is an ancient food of Maori. They use heated rocks heated in the ground in a pit oven. Heated rocks and ingredients into a basket and steam that for three hours in a pit oven. Ingredients are pork, mutton, lamb, chicken and generous portions of root vegetables such as kumara (it is sweet potato), pumpkin, carrot, potato, onions and cabbage in basket. Hangi still used heated rocks and a pit oven today. These days, there are many different way to cook Hangi. More recently, "hangi machines" have attempted to replicate the style of cooking without need for a wood fire, rocks and a pit. Hangi has no special preparation of the food is needed besides peeling the root vegetables, but adding herbs such as rosemary, garlic. In addition, stuffing the chicken can add exciting flavors. A Polynesian addition of taro leaves wrapped around some of the food gives it a peppery spice.

Maori History and Culture

The Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of Aoteroa. (New Zealand). They are Polynesian and comprise about 10% of the country's population. Maoritanga is the native language which is related to Tahitian and Hawaiian.It is believed that legendary navigation man kupe came from Hawaiki. Then he was back to "Hawaiki"(Hawaii) and told about Aoteroa. Maori legend says that the Maori came from "Hawaiki"the legendary homeland about 1000 years ago. When the Maori arrived in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and they found a land of volcanic activity and snow capped mountains. Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand and means Land of the long white cloud. In the Maori language the word maori means "normal", "natural" and "ordinary".

Maori has tattoos on their face or all over. The design used by the Maori thought to have been later adopted Polynesians and even in China tattoos. Ta moko was used as a form of rank; genealogy, tribal history and eligibility to marry. Women were traditionally only allowed to be tattooed on their lips, around the chin, and sometimes the nostrils.

1min Speech about Oktoberfest

I'm going to talk about a day of Oktoberfest. On the first day, women acts as a mayor of Munich with a black clork. Women walks on the road and follows some carriages. There are a lot of barrels. When the mayor say "O' zapft is!" (This means released alcohol), the festival start. On the second day, about 8,000 people wears traditional costume. They are from Bayern and wails in the central town as a parade.

Let me introduce this year's Oktoberfest to you. According to the articles, this festival started on September 20th and finished on October 5th. People enjoyed themselves to their hearts,drinking beer and dancing for 16 days. This festival is the largest festival in the world , so this festival's scale, hall and so on were even bigger than last year's one. Munich city was founded 850 years ago, so the shooting fans blank shots from guns 850 times there on October 3rd.

Oktoberfest in Germany

Oktoberfest is a the biggest festival in the world and held in Germany on half of September to November. About 6,000,000 people come this festival every year since 1810.There are huge tents , carnival and a lot of stands. The place is nine times as large as Tokyo dome.The festival open at 10 o'clock and close at 11:00pm on weekday.However open at 9 o'clock on weekend.

First day, women acts mayor of Munich with black cloak. The women walk in the read and follow some carriages. Which loads a lot of barrels. When mayor said "O' zapft is!"(released alcohol), the festival will start.
On the second day, about 8,000 people wear traditional costume who from Bayern and walk central town as a parade.

People not only drink but also eat some sausages and barbecue chicken and stuff like that. In 1999, 6,500,000 people came this festival and became the biggest festival. Then consumed 5,800,000 liters beer.

Movie Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

This movie is a long animation movie of studio ghibli production. Ponyo is a fish's child. She wishes "I want to be a girl" under the sea. Five years old boy sousuke who lives the town along the sea. Hayao Miyazaki wrote all pictures by the hands no use computer and thinks story himself. Therefore I surprised picture of waves and under the sea.



Ponyo lived under the sea, but she was interested in outside world. Therefore she tried to leave home. Ponyo embarrassed because her head fitted in the bottle .Ponyo helped by sousuke, and he named she "Ponyo".　Ponyo　licked blood of sousuke, she gained power of become half fish human. However if she become half fish human briefly, she sleep. Because she use a lot of magic.

Sosuke is a five years boy and commutes to preschool. He lives on the cliff with his parents. He can send and receive the Morse signal of the signal light. He tries to defend Ponyo met under the cliff. He is familiar with sea and ship.

Risa is a sosuke’s mother. She works at day care service center a kind of nursing home to care old people.She is a prompt and masculine woman.

Koichi is a sosuke’s father and works as a freighter of on inside’s captain. He rarely comes back home. He always sends the morce signal to Risa on the sea.

Fujimoto is a ponyo’s father. He was a man before but he is a Wizard now. Ponyo leave home so he runs after her but he was suspected by Risa.

Main music became more famous. Oohashi nozomi and Fujioka Fujimaki singing song. When this movie was released, a lot of children sang this song.

Movie 20th Century Boys

I watched 20th century boys during summer vacation.

Introduction

This movie is made from the cartoon . Chapter 1 was released on August 30th. Chapter2 is going to release on January 31th ,2009 and chapter 3 is going to release in autumn. Director is Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Naoki Urazawa wrote the original. T.Rex(from England) sang this movie's main song.

Storｙ

The 1970's for the high growth period in Japan. Huge robot which destroys Tokyo and evil organization (tomodachi) plans the earth ruin . All over the world become chaotic, and getting destruction. Hero confront the evil to saves the earth The world that boys imagined.Boys named such a foolish stories "Prophecy book".When the accident of all parts of the world happened he noticed to happening occurred according to "Prophecy book" . Kenji imagined that book in his childhood.

"Prophecy Book"

・The germ weapon is spread gems in San Francisco ,London and Osaka.

・Tokyo International Airport(Haneda) and the Diet Building are blasted.
・A huge robot raids Tokyo.
・Nine soldiers rise up.

Character

Kenji is main character. He runs convenience store. The human race falls into crisis accuse of “Prophecy Book”. He concentration childhood friends to inhibit Tomodachi's plan and fight with them.

Occho is a Kenji's childhood friend. He is a artificer of symbol of " friend ". He helped people as the name of "Shogun" in Bangkok. He is a good at stick fighting.

Yukiji is a Kenji's childhood friend, too. She works with drug dog. She had been learnt Judo from the grandfather and she was called, "Invincibility".

Busy summer vacation

I had a very busy summer vacation. University students has long summer vacation. My summer vacation was nice but I had no study time.

I went to Yamanashi prefecture with my family and a dog in August. Yamanashi was cooler than Nagoya. We needed an air conditioner in Nagoya. On the other hand, Yamanashi was very cool. We stayed at cottage which was made from wood and cloth and had a window on ceiling. Therefore we could see a lot of stars from that window at night.We had BBQ on dinner. It was very delicious because we ate BBQ outside.My dog ate, too. I felt cold in the morning. Though we had hot soup and tea, It was summer. That day we went to glass museum. We watched glass tree which had glass branch and nuts. It was very beautiful. I made my glass cup. I engraved my initial and design of shells. I always use this cup now.

The second day, we went to blueberry grove. We cloud eat as much as we like for 40 minutes. I ate a lot of blueberry. Then we went to Gotemba outlet. I and my mother enjoyed shopping but my brother and father tired.We came back to home early because I had a part time job the next day !!

Other days, I had a part time job. I am working at character shop. The shop was crowded on vacation and holiday because a lot of children came to there. At first, I worked as a short-term staff but from on September I became a long-term staff. Sometimes we had to do Restricted enter. Foreigner came to the shop and asked me a question. He asked character but Japanese character name is differing from English name. Therefore I checked English name list. Then I found that character. It was not a famous character!!! It was already production break. This character was Kamonegi. Do you know? Kamonegi is like a duck and has a green onion.

I feel my summer vacation was only a week ...
However I had a full summer vacation.

Have you ever seen Balance Ball?

The balance ball which become popular training is very superior exercise to correct a physical skewness. You just sit down balance ball, can do such as stretch, a resistance training is possible and upper body take the right attitude .  Originally this is used for medical care, and rehabilitation. Balance ball is popular because it can use easily while watching TV or listening music. In addition, wild age from a child to old people can exercise with balance ball. You can train parts which usually is not use inner muscle by using balance ball. The body becomes easy to burn fat by performing stretch . The balance ball is most suitable for exercise , a diet, health care , health maintenance. Balance ball exercise possible easily may get closer to an ideal figure.

Do you know Marmite?

It is that several kinds of vegetables were fermented with the yeast plant . There are a lot of vitamins B. There are two kinds of standard goods and Marmait is fermentation food. the vegetarian now. Most people use in soup, paint a toast or cracker . This is wide as popular food,  and loved in the former U.K. territory such as New Zealand, Australia , Ireland. It produced in U.K. . Marmite contains vitamin ,  yeast , a little sodium chloride, vegetables extraction, niacin , vitamin B and so on. Marmite is good for health so you should eat it once.

Do you like Green tea?

Green tea has a lot of merits!!
Tea leaf starts fermenting at once when picking it from the tea plant. The color of the leaf discolors to green → brown → bright red along with time. Japanese tea is made by a special process. It is "No fermentation tea" that stops fermenting. So color of Japanese Green tea is GREEN


SOME EFFECTS

●Control Cancer
If you drink green tea , Incidence of cancer would decrease.

●Prevent aging
Green tea contain a lot of "catechin" .
It effect is twenty times as Vitamon E.

●Beautiful skin
Green tea also has effect for skin.
Catechin activates collagen.
Therefore your skin will rough and elasticity!!


I knew that green tea to be good for health.
But I did not know a lot of points.

My Laughter File

My Laughter File

This movie is Jityoukatyou’s movie . government official visited dirty house Where is “Rubbish House”. The officer said to inhabitant that clears the house but she refuse his offer. Then a man was found in garbage. She used various tools to repulse the officer. Finally, the officer found her husband in rubbish!!!! He slept for long time.




This movie is The World of Golden Eggs. I like this movie all of that series. I like the man said “Look out “ because they are going to steal some protein. This movie contains few stories. First one is athletic class. Teacher said "Focus on your heels , bend your fingers at the first joint and strerch your fingers " Maybe teacher likes say "Necessary" This movie contains many kind. Forexample super man . Superman were appearing the movie. However he spoiled many sequence scene.


This movie contains some baseball games. All stories are very funny. Some player will have some happening. Narration is very funny it is match this movie. When you play baseball, uncommon play and Good play come with the territory.