My winter vacation

Happy New Year!!

The winter vacation was done,already. That was only two weeks vacation. Too short. But I feel to come to uni two more weeks is too long.

What I did during two weeks was working or drinking. The end of year I just worked in flower shop and cram school. Both of them were very hard, because people in Japan are tend to clean their house and decorate with flowers before new year. Also,the entrance examinations are around the corner,so students are very eager to lern.


But in January, I met many people, high-school friends,Korean or Taiwan friends and some relatives. I enjoyed a lot. The pity thing is only that I can't get Otoshidama any more, even though my cousin can. Maybe, I'll have to give Otoshidama in the near future. I hope the custom will be gone soon!! ha-ha

Prejudice

Yesterday, I had a dinner with my high-school friends. After that we went to cafe. I ordered a chocolate parfait,but othrs ordered sesame ones. I had never tried it because the sesame sauce looks like squid ink and I thought sesame is for healthy food, not sweet. Though, when I tried my friend's sesame ice, I loved it and thought that it was better than mine!!

There are other food that I don't try even though I've never eaten such as Herring or "Kyuuri no kyuuchan" Maybe I have to try them in the near future. Perhaps I'll like them.

Finally!

I finally got a temporally driving license, so now I can practice driving on normal streets, not course in a driving school. There are lots of bicycles whose drivers are totally careless about other pedestrians, cars or traffic rules, so at first I was very scared to drive. Though, since I know that another break is also placed for an instructor, I could rely on it and enjoy driving!

Appearance or taste itself?

Do you like fruits? If you go to supermarkets or grocery shops, you can find from very cheap to expensive fruits. If you go to department shop, you can find expensive and very beautiful fruits. Though, have not you been disappointed the taste?

It might be because you have eaten junk food, and you can not taste food any more. Or the problem might be in the food themselves.

Mishael Hoffman who used to work as a salesman for additive trading firm insists the cause of tasteless is what we eat. He mention his opinion in detail here.

The other opinion was written by Scotto Polisky who has experience that he discovered two type of fruits. One is beautiful appearance and expensive, but tasteless, and the other is tasty and cheap but not good appearance.

We can not decide which is correct, but we should try not to eat junk food so much, and be deceived by only looking.

Driving school

I, these days, go to a driving school in Kyobashi. I had thought that it was easy to get a diver's licence, because in Australia all you have to do to get a driver's licence is just to answer twenty questions for a test. It cost only twenty dollars. There is no driving school there. If you pass the test, you can get a temporary licence, and it last for half year. During the time, you have to drive with a person who has had a driver's licence for more than a year, and if you didn't have any accidents for the half year, you can get a true-driver's licence.

However, here in Japan, we have to pay around three hundred thousand yen for going to driving school, and in addition when we take tests we have to pay exam fees again! If you fail it,of course you must pay extra money!

To get a temporary driver's license, you have to attend ten classes and drive a car for twelve hours at least. I have driven a car for more than fifteen hours so far,though I still don't think I can take a test for temporary driver's licence.

I strongly regret that I tried to get a driver licence in Japan.

Ameria,not Iran, is the problem!

Today's article is about America. Firstly read this article.


The point of this author is Americans do not have to be in Middle East any more, and if America does not allow having nuclear weapons, they also should not have it.


The reason why American went to Saudi Arabia is to stop the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. This war started in 1990, and almost twenty years has passed since the end of the war. However Americans are still in Muslim's holy places. This made Al-Qaeda upset and it caused 911 Terrorist attacks. After two months of the 911, Americans attacked Afghanistan as revenge. In addition, George.W.Bush blamed Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil", because they have nuclear weapons, in spite of the fact America, Britain and France also have one. He started Iraq War in 2003, however they finally could not find any nuclear weapons.


The thinkable reason of this outbreak of war is if America made Iraq democracy or pro-American, other Middle East countries will be same. This is the way called “domino effect” However there is also an intrigue which is since America has big businesses of weapon, they wanted to consume it.

New rule

A new law forcing that every foreign tourist to Japan except only children under 16, diplomats and special statues is fingerprinted and photographed has been operated from November 20.


Japanese immigration think this will prevent from international terrorist activities.


However, there are lots of people who feel this is offended. For example, Kevin Rafferty who wrote this article says this is a discrimination against foreigners. He insists the terrorist are not only from abroad, such as Aum Shinrikyou and in addition, finger prints and photographs are mainly used for identification, not for finding blacklisted people.


Other foreigners also say this is invasion of privacy or the terrorist lists are full of mistakes.


Although, there are some positive foreigners who think the new rule prevents the re-entry to Japan of deported and other aliens banned from entry and by using the tool for identification, we can learn biometric system world widely.