Graduation Trip at My daughter's School

Elementary kids in my city wear a yellow cap for a boy and a yellow hat for a girl for safety.

It's today when the youngest kid went for a graduation trip!
They go to Hiroshima for a night and 2 days, on the first day they visit the memorial park and museum with listening to the experienced person, and next day, will practice zazen in a temple early morning and then go to an amusement park of Himeji Central Park.
 
She prepared for packaging while she was looking at the homemade brochure by yesterday, set the alarm, woke up by herself at 5:30 am, and then ate breakfast.
Even though the meeting time was 6:30 am, she could get there 10 mins early.

There were many moms to see them off at school. When I talked with a mom, she told her son didn't put in underwear pants and socks, though he read 'a set of underwear'. Suddenly, I came to feel anxious she would forget something because I didn't check it together.
I'm wondering if she would be fine. I hope that...

I felt a kind of proud but a lot of lonely to her because I could understand she left from me completely. She could prepare for everything by herself without my caring.
While I saw every kids one after another, I felt someone to be rubbing my head...

Hmm?
I turned around with surprised, and there was a girl who came to see her older brother.
I couldn't find out what I should reply, smiled back and looked back at my daughter and her friends.
She kept rubbing my head kindly until the bus was about to leave there.
If she could understand how I felt then for sure, she must have been good at seeing through a person.

It's very clearly fine today.
It musts be nice to have a ceremony at the memorial park, listen to the experiences and then look around the museum.

Homemade brochure : My daughter draw it.

'Makuranage' in Japanese : to throw a pillow each other.

Very famous event among friends in a hotel at night after the teacher's check.

In a sleeping photo, a kid drooling from a mouth, fun.

A folded paper crane as the symbol of the peace here : Very realistic, I think.

人形供養の淡島神社とお食事処

先週末に、和歌山県にある友が島に行こうとしたんだけれど、行ったはいいけど、強風のため、フェリーが欠航で目の前に島は見えても、泳いでいくことも出来ないし、諦めて行き先を変更しました。

和歌山県にある淡島神社は、関西に住んでいたら、聞かれた事はあるかと思います。
人形供養で有名な神社で、友が島と淡島神社の中にあるレトロな食堂も含めて、あれは行く価値があるなと思いました。

淡島神社の写真はこちら…。 Awashima shrine

もう必要なくなったお雛さんや、置物の人形等、どの家にもあるかと思います。それを私は能勢にある涌泉寺さんでやって頂いたのですが、今度は淡島神社だわ。
段ボール箱一箱につき、５００円の供養料らしくとても良心的だし、観光する所が周りにいっぱいあるので、お薦めします。

その神社の中にある3軒の食堂がとても趣があり、しかも美味しくて有名で、その日も既に長蛇の列…そこで働いているおばさん方の接客の仕方は威圧的でちょっと怖かったけど、でも結果的に美味しい物を、美味しい状態で、残さず適量食べれて、行って良かったと思えました。
「シラス丼とわさびスープ」が人気で、特にわさびスープはタイの骨を長時間煮だし、うまみ成分を引き出したコラーゲンたっぷりのスープとうどんを、新鮮わさびを入れて頂くのはとても美味しかったです。

満幸商店　http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~sakanahime/index.html

わさびスープ：Wasabi soup

シラス丼:Shirasu don, boiled small fish with rice

それと友が島に渡るフェリーも近くから出てるので、是非、欠航されてなかったら、足を延ばしてみて下さい。

New post on my blog: Memorial service for old dolls at a shrine

New post on my blog: Memorial service for old dolls at a shrine
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Memorial service for old dolls at a shrine

Last weekend, my family tried to visit Tomogashima island in Wakayama prefecture with my friends, but unfortunately we couldn't do it because the ferries were closed for strong waves.
I suggested for my friend to swim there with his exercised body, but it was a little sad that he turned it down politely, lol. We changed to another destination.

This is a shrine named "Awashima Jinja", famous for holding a religious service for old and not used dolls and something like that.
It's worth taking a look at it beside visiting Tomogashima island and an old restaurant in the shrine named "Manko Shoten".
There are some ferries to Tomogashima island in a day, so check the schedule in advance.


Tomogashima Island : http://www.wakayamakanko.com/eng/sightseeing/history9.html 

Awashima shrine : http://www.wakayamakanko.com/eng/sightseeing/history7.html

 Photos of the Awashima shrine

Manko restaurant...

Shirasu rice : boiled tiny fish on rice with Japanese seasoning named ponzu

Wasabi soup : this stock is made by boiling fish bones and water for a long hours.

It has a lot of collagen in the soup good for the skin.

Wasabi is not common one, handmade fresh wasabi in the restaurant, very delicious.

満幸商店　http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~sakanahime/index.html

My recommended plan is to visit Tomogashima island, Awashima shrine and Manko restaurant in a day, if you can have enough time there. 

There are many people having stress in Japan and my daily

I found I didn't upload my blog here and thanks for messaging me greetings.
I've been fine, but focused on some things. One of them is to help my relative to move to a new place to change his life. He really thinks he needs to restart the life strongly.

He told me that he had been obsessed with something bad in his spirit for more than 20 years and nobody could understand it, which makes him live like in the hell. However, while paying attention to his condition, he can go on by himself at his pace to move to Hokkaido. I'm very surprised and impressed at his attitude.

During this weekend, he has to apply for a new apartment and a moving company that he's about to decide, booking of a hotel for a fer days and a flight ticket, and order of the electric appliances...There are many thing hard for him, but he told he would do everything by himself.
I simply and honestly cheer him up until he finishes everything. 

I hope him to live in Hokkaido safely, adjust the life circumstances around him there and be able to spend his new life without problems and difficulties. It's our aim now, and when it comes true, it could give him some conference. I hope he step up bit by bit from it.

I'll go to help to his house to pack his luggage and clean there as he wants tomorrow.




There are many people who are suffered from mental difficulties here. We don't know when we would have some suddenly. Some people have difficulties from a baby, others have while they are grown up.

Of course, there are psychiatric hospitals here too, but the treatments and others' understanding of mental patients in old days were not suitable and good. Recently they have been changed and found how to deal with.

So it's easier to find difficulties at younger ages now and they learn how to go through. That's my specialty and  treat many different types of kids at school.

Everybody has his/her own difficulties, I think. I have a lot of demerits in myself, but also have many merits as well. I think we have to understand our personalities at the age as young as we are and obtain the way to get along with our difficulties by parents' letting kids challenge something new a lot and trying to solve problems by themselves.

We have the problem of the declining birth rate in Japan. Kids have less opportunity to challenge and get it over by themselves. Many parents take too much attention to their kids, I think.

I'm also one of the parents, and have to keep it in my mind from now on too.




今、新天地で人生をやり直そうとしている親戚のお手伝いをしているのですが、明日、引っ越しの準備の日、ようやくここまで漕ぎ着けることが出来ました。

２０年近く訳の分からない物に取りつかれてしまって、誰からも理解してもらえず、地獄のような状態やったと言っていた親戚ですが、今回の北海道移住計画に関しては、自分の体調に配慮しながら、自分ペースでボチボチ進めて来れたことに、驚いています。

今週末に荷造りをして、ほぼ狙いを定めているマンションと引っ越し業者の申込み、当面の仮住まい用のホテルとフライトチケット確保、電化製品の注文・・・と一杯やることがある中で、全部自分でやろうとしているので、素直に応援しています。

無事に北海道に移り住み、向こうで生活環境を整えて、普通の生活が出来るようになることが、目下の目標。その目標を達成出来たら、それが自信となり、次のステップに繋がればいいな。

とりあえず、明日は荷造りと住んでいた家の掃除のお手伝いに行ってきます。