My kid's summer vacation craft-work this year !!

Hello, How are you today?
Schools started from yesterday in my city. and it depends on cities when they start.
The summer vacation was over, and my kids went back to normal lives.

Yesterday, they had an opening ceremony in the morning and had to hand in the summer homework.

Their homework this time is click here.
Her homemade arts and crafts was a doll house made of cardboard boxes.
She looked into what she wanted to make online, bought what she needed in a shop and made it by herself.

When you look inside the house from a hole, you can see ....

The inside room is ...

A girl is eating rice crackers with watching TV.

女の子が煎餅を食べながら、テレビを見ているそうです。

いよいよ、昨日から学校が始まりましたね。
いつもは読書感想文に泣かされましたが、今回は読書感想文は任意になり、そうなればうちの子は出す訳がない。
ということで、かなり余裕のある夏休み終盤でした。
一日前に、自由工作の最期の仕上げをして、全て宿題は終わったようです。

毎年自由工作は、自分でネットで調べて、道具を揃え、自分で組み立ててくれるので、何の心配もしなくていいので、助かります。
去年は望遠鏡を作り、今年はシルバニアファミリーのようなドールハウスを段ボール箱で作っていました。

ネットとそっくりそのまま、何の工夫もないドールハウスですが、自分で調べて、誰の助けも借りず、ここまで作り終えたことを評価してあげよう～。

この穴から覗いて、部屋の中を見るらしい・・・あまり中は見えず、上から覗いた方が手っ取り早い。
そんなことは、言わなかったけど・・・。

Sweetfish and its fishing~!!

I'm sorry for my absence for these days. I didn't bring my pc during my family's trip and couldn't upload my blog from my cellphone. I just uploaded my Facebook and couldn't connect from Facebook to Blogger correctly. That's why some strange blogs were here.
But I'll finish my family's holiday tomorrow. I'll go back to my normal days as before.

My family visited the brother's house of my husband for 2 nights and 3 days to enjoy swimming in a river and BBQ there with them and their parents.

The river is the upper of the Choshi river in Mie prefecture. Please take a look at the following photos, and you can understand how pure and safe it is.

My brother in law likes to go fishing in a clean and pure river.

He caught so many sweetfish named "ayu" in Japanese. This is the fish.

 He grilled fish.

塩焼き

 His homemade dried fish

義理の弟のお手製の干物

This is a video how to fish this sweetfish in a river.

http://youtu.be/RmrBn9Ji3N8



暫くブログをお休みしていたのは、夏の休暇を満喫していたからです。
パソコンを持って行ってなかったので、フェイスブックには携帯からアップできたけど、どうもこのブログと上手くリンクできなくて、変なブログが数日続いていたと思います。

長い夏の休暇も、明日まで。
また普段の生活に戻るので、今まで通りブログを書いていきたいなって思っています。

今回は旦那の弟の家に川遊びとBBQを楽しんだ写真をアップしています。

この日、義理の弟が昨日釣った塩焼きの鮎と、鮎の干物、メバチマグロ、鰹とタコの刺身、マカロニサラダ、くき漬けと鰹の和え物、おばあちゃんお手製のちらし寿司を頂きました。
どれもこれも、美味しかった♪

My daily : Fishing on August 14

今から釣りをするらしい…。 釣れるんかな？🙄 景色も良く、涼しいけど、たまにフナムシが近くを散歩してるのが気になる…😓😅 

It's almost 9:00am. They will start fishing at this time. I wonder if they could catch something.🙄 It's very a nice view and cool now, but I'm scared small wharf roaches sometimes take a walk around here.😓😅 Whenever I see them, I have to stomp soon...
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Only 2 Japanese sillago named "kisu" in Japanese during 2.5 hours...

We have an eel day ~~

昨日、次女と買い物に行った時に、買わされました。
このウナギ、一匹しかないのに、２０００円もする・・・。(-_-;)

親は遠慮して、他の刺身を買いました。
帰ってからどの部位をいくつ食べるか、三人でジャンケンして、取り分を決めていました。
我ながら、すごく上手く切れました。
頭としっぽは一切れ計算のようです、笑。


This is an eel. Have you ever tried it before?
We have an eel day in Japan, the date we eat an eel in summer. This year is July 30.
This eel costs 2000 yen, I think it's so expensive that I bought different sashimi for myself.

Take a look at the photo. I thought I could cut them into pretty equal sizes. Don't you think so??
The head and tail deserve 1 cut.... My kids discussed and decided the rule.
They could eat 2 pieces of eels with rice.

Fireworks show in my city on August 8

There are many fireworks shows all over Japan in summer, during the summer vacation.
We can enjoy fireworks and many kinds of portable shops named "yatai" towards the launching place.　（Yatai : shops of foods, snacks, drinks, games etc.）

There was a firework show in my city in August 8.
They launch from the nearest mountains from my house, so they hadn't stopped the show for past 2 years because of the possibility of a forest fire. But they could have ways to solve the problems, and we enjoyed it very much.

My older daughter told she had no plan to watch it with her friends on that day, so I made an appointment with her and my younger daughter before going to her swimming club.

But after coming back home, she told me to go there with her friend and I was turned down by her soon, haha.
My younger daughter and I were watching it near our house with our dog.

The show was for 1 hour, but I took a video only the last part of it.

Have fun at the training camp~

Today is about a sport my son has belong and played almost everyday except for Mondays.
It is a soft tennis and very minor sport in the world.
Normal tennis is more familiar than a soft tennis, but there are many people in japan enjoying it, especially junior high school students.


Please take a look at the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzftdHB6xvg



The difference between (hard) tennis and soft tennis is mainly 4 points.
1. ball

   As you can guess, they use only soft tennis balls.

2. racket
    Soft tennis rackets are different from normal tennis ones, a little smaller than normal racket. And we use the same side for both forehand and backhand.

3. used to be pair tournaments
    Soft tennis had only pair tournaments before, but there are recently single ones too.

4. used to have specialty
    In soft tennis, a forward player played only forward, a back one only back before. But this is also changed recently.

Since I had played it when I was a junior high school and university student, I could understand why he has been fascinated with the sport.

He goes to school and his club activity almost everyday, and even weekends he leaves home from very early morning to the evening. He isn't at home very much.

And he attended the club training camp from yesterday, for 2 nights.
He is in charge of taking care of the members as a manager, too. The most annoying work is to do the laundry alone for all of them according to him.
He has to do the laundry after hard training during the camp, fold clean clothes and bring to one by one.
He bought the detergent at his own expense before the camp.
I thought it was not fair... But I said nothing to him. His club makes him very organized, I think.

He will get sunburned a lot and be back home after the camp.



今日は息子の話。
息子は高校で軟式テニス部に入っていて、普段も、辛うじて週に一回のオフが月曜日の放課後にあるだけで、土日も含めて朝から晩まで家にいません。土日なんて、朝８時までに家を出たなって思ったら、帰りは夜・・・。

で、その息子が昨日から、二泊三日のテニス合宿に行きました。
朝から夕方までみっちりテニスをして、朝の一時間だけ宿題をするために、勉強時間が与えられているそうです。相変わらず、大変厳しいクラブだなあ。

だから、まあ、見事に真っ黒クロスケ。
でもテニスウエア焼けをしているので、見えてる部分だけ真っ黒で、後は地肌の色白で、見事にツートンカラーに焼けています。

クラブの役職は、マネージャーらしく、色々と雑用もあるそうです。
この合宿中も、ハードなメニューをこなした後、全員の分の洗濯を一人でするそうです。しかもその洗剤は自費で自分が買って来ないといけないらしい・・・。
なんかこのシステム、おかしいと思いませんか？
みんなが寛いでる中、黙々と一人洗濯をして、さらに畳んで本人に返してるって。それも合宿中毎日。
軟式テニスには、女子のマネージャー希望も来ないらしく、なんか冴えないスポーツですね。

で、私もそんな軟式テニスを中学と大学四年間、ずっとやっていたので、息子が軟式テニスに魅かれるのは、何となく分かります。
今日はその軟式テニスのことについて、紹介しました。

The World Cultural Heritage : Ginkakuji Temple in Kyoto

I visited Ginkakuji Temple, a Zen temple days ago.

The temple was officially knowm as Jisho-ji, but popularly became known as Ginkakuji, and is situated on the east side of Kyoto.  It was established in 1482 by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth Muromachi Shogunate to spend his retired life.

He intended to cover the temple with silver leaf, but he didn't have much money enough to carry it out.  Only the name lives on now. ( Gin means silver. )

It's famous for Ginkakuji's moss and a unique dry sand garden.
While walking along the path, you can enjoy ponds with islands and bridges, little streams and various plants with moss. Climbing up a hill, you will see nice views of the whole temple and the city in front of you.

Nothing gorgeous in Ginkakuji temple compared with Kinkakuji, but I can be immersed in the world of "wabi sabi", which is one of the most characteristic aesthetic sense towards Japanese arts and to feel something lonely and missing in a very very simple and calm way.  So I like Ginkakuji temple better than Kinkakuji one.

While walking along the path in the moss garden, I felt like washing my dairy stress away gradually. It has something aesthetic and quiet beauty  in the rusty atmosphere and is definitely one of typical Japanese temples.

先日、伏見稲荷神社に行った後に、銀閣寺にも立ち寄りました。
金閣寺に比べて、絢爛豪華さは無いけれど、”わびさび”の世界観に浸れるので、私は金閣寺より銀閣寺が好きですね。
銀閣寺と苔に覆われた庭園を歩いていたら、普段の溜りまくったストレスもスッと洗い流されたような気がしました。
このひなびた中に、美しさがあり、これぞ日本！って感じのお寺ですね。

たまたまかもしれませんが、金閣寺に行った時とは違って、静かにマナーを守って譲り合いの精神を持っている観光客ばかりでした。この静まり返った雰囲気がそうさせるのかな・・・？