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In New Zealand, most parents give their children a certain toy. The name is Buzzy Bee. He is a wooden pull-along toy who was born in New Zealand. His colorful body and pretty eyes are very charming. So he is loved by not only children but also adults.

He is different from average bees. Why? …Because he has wheels. He lives in Rolling Downs. It is very comfortable village for him and all his friends-wheelers. His friends are Mary-Lou,Oscar Ostrich, Dorable Duck and so on. He enjoys his life with a lot of friends.

Children who were given Buzzy Bee play pulling a cord from his head. Then he moves along the code vibrating his antennas and rotating his wings. The children will be glad to look at him moving. What’s more, he is very safe for children so parents like to give him to their dear children. That’s also why that he is loved by many people. Most of the New Zealand children grow with Buzzy Bee.

Now he is not only a popular toy but also a popular character. So he appears as paintings, sculptures, television advertisements, postal stamps, magazine covers, school murals and parades. He is the most famous bee in New Zealand!

The Place of Tomatina!

I’ll tell you about the place. The Tomatina is held in Bunyol in Spain. Bunyol belongs to the Province of Valencia. It is located about 40km west of Valencia. The population is about 10000 people, but it is visited by more than 40000 people during The Tomatina.

You can go to Bunyol by plain for Valencia and train for Bunyol. However, you need to transfer when you want to Valencia For example, take a plane for Charles de Gaulle in France. Then change a plane and you can go to Valencia. It takes about 18 hours. When you arrive at Valencia, take a train which leaves Valencia North Station once an hour. It takes about 45 minutes.
In conclusion, if you want to stay at hotels, I recommend you to choose the hotels in Valencia because there are few hotels in Bunyol.

Festival

Do you know what the biggest festival in the world is? The answer is “The Oktoberfest” in Munich which is the city in Germany. It is a famous beer festival, and usually held for 16 days- the final day is the first Sunday of October. In this year 2008, it took place from September 20 until October 5. Every year, about 6 million people visit there.

This festival comes from the horse racing at Theresienwiese in Munich to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese. Since then, Theresienwiese has become a place where the festival has been held. Its area is very large- about 42 hectares, so there are a lot of huge tents of beer halls which can accommodate about 4000-6000 people. However, not all organizations can build their beer halls. Only breweries in Munich can build. Participants not only drink beers, but also eat a lot of foods there- sausages, cheese noodles, roast pork, potato pancakes and so on.

Of course, the main thing in this festival is beer! The beers drunk there are brewed in March and stocked during summer. These beers go down so easily that people drink them at a fast pace. Every year, 5 million liters are consumed. It is a large amount of beers, isn't it?

Now, many festivals like the Oktoberfest are held all over the world- Canada, America, Brazil, Australia, and Hong Kong. In Japan, they take place in Tokyo, Yokohama and Sendai. Especially, the festival in Yokohama is visited by many people.

The Oktoberfest is very lively, so you will enjoy if you join this festival! When you become 20 years old, you can have a good experience.

My Favorite Movie

Do you like animated films? You may think “They are movies for children”, “We are not children now and we adults aren’t impressed by animations”. If you think so, you need to correct your wrong thought. There are animated films which impresses you! I’ll tell you about them.

The movies I want to introduce are series, and they are titled “Crayon Shinchan”. Have you ever watched them? If you answer “No”, you have heard this title, because Crayon Shinchan is televised. Shinnosuke Nohara is the hero of these stories. He is 5 years old, very curious and aggressive boy, so always troubles his mother. However, in these movies, he becomes very HEROIC!

My favorite Shinchan’s movie is this. In this story, his parents- Misae and Hiroshi become enemies of Shinchan. All adults go to the theme park called “20 Century Exhibition” and live there. Of course, Misae and Hiroshi also do. Kasukabe city, which is the city where the Noharas lives, has no adults. There are only children. The boss of this park plans to gather adults and build “Otona Empire”. He and his friends: Kasukabe Defense Party wants to take back their parents, so they decide to go there. In the climax, Shinchan continues to run and go up stairs. He fall down again and again, but never give up! He stands up soon and begins to run. This scene moved me. I shed tears watching him running.

As I told you, Crayon Shinchan’s movies are not only funny but also moving. What’s more, all of the characters are also amusing and cute- like Buriburizaemon. Many characters amuse us! There are some movies that I haven’t watched yet. I want to watch his actions more. Don’t you think so? If you have interest in this anime, please tell me.

Summer Vacation!

During summer vacation, I went to Omachi city in Nagano prefecture. Omachi is my hometown. I stayed about 2 weeks. I wanted to stay longer, but I had to go back to Aichi prefecture because of my schedules. However, despite of short homecoming, I enjoyed everyday.

At first, I did the part-time job in the soba shop near my house for a week. Everyday a lot of customers came to eat soba, so I was very busy. I washed and washed the dishes. When I ended the job, my trousers got wet. It was true that I was tired very much, but it was also true that I was very delightful! The owner and his wife were very kind to me. I thanked them very much. I want to do part-time job there again.

The job was during daytime, so I was free during night. One night, the fireworks display was held at Lake Kizaki. I went there to watch fireworks with my friends wearing yukata. The fireworks were displayed about 2 hours. They were very beautiful! I like the fireworks called “Niagara Falls”. It was the last program and the most impressive one. I think yukata and fireworks bring me the feeling of summer. I enjoyed both during summer.

In this stay, I met my friends. Since I hadn’t met them for the long time, I was glad to meet them. Some friends had changed, and others hadn’t. However, everyone’s character hadn’t changed at all, so I had a good time!

I always felt happy thanks to my family, my friends and so on. The stay in Omachi gave very happy and memorable time to me!

Sports Drink!

It’s important to drink water during exercise. When you take exercise so hard, you will sweat in order to keep our body temperature. If you don’t drink water well, you will be dehydration because our body has less water. To protect our body, there are drinks called “Sports Drink”.
They aid the absorption of water faster than other drinks. They contain a lot of minerals- magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca) and so on. What’s more, the sugar which has our body recover is also contained. Recently, there are the drinks which contains the amino acid and vitamins.

The most well-known drinks are POCARI SWEAT and AQUARIUS, you know.
They are sold not only as liquid, but also as powder. If you buy the powder type, you can drink them weakened as you like.

However, it’s bad for you to drink too much because they conclude a lot of sugar. It may lead you to be fat. You should pay attention when you drink these drinks!

Sweets!

I'm sure that everyone loves sweets. However, they have a lot of sugar and butter, so you can grow fat easily if you eat them too much.

Recently, I found the word "Vegetable Sweets". These sweets are made of the vegetables. They use organic vegetables and healthy ingredients. Thanks to pay attention to our health, they are healthier than ordinary one. They are popular among especially women. You may be interested in them, too. But, don't you wonder if they are really delicious?

"Potager" is the store specializing in the organic vegetable sweets. There are many vegetable sweets. Please look at the picture. Can you guess what this is? It's called "Fondant Gobou Chocolat". It's made of burdocks [Gobou]. It looks very delicious, doesn't it?

These healthy sweets will make us happy because we can eat vegetables as the sweets. We can take in a lot of nourishment. I want to eat vegetable sweets very much! Don't you think so?

New Arrival*

I like ice cream very much! I eat it everyday because it's hot. Today, I ate this ice, "ICE BOX". It's my favorite one! I usually eat the grapefruit taste, but today I ate the new taste, "Sicily Lemon". It also tastes good. I bought it at the convenience store. Please try to eat if you want something cold! I recommend both the grapefruit and the Sicily lemon to you☆

Laughter(･∀･)

●INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT LAUGHTER●

Cancer cell is born in our body everyday even if we are healthy. However, natural killer cell protects us from cancer. Natural killer cell is kind of white blood corpuscle and can destroy cancer cell. This hero of us is increased by laughter. In short, the more we laugh, the more we become healthy. What’s more, even forced smile increases natural killer cell. So, it would be better for you to force a laugh if you don’t feel like to laugh. This site tells us about above article.


●COMEDY & OTHER FUNNY STUFF●

It’s my favorite stuff, “Tanoshii Kokugo 2”. Though “Tanoshii Kokugo” is series, I think that part 2 is the best. There are questions and answers in this Flash. Questions are that make the sentence using a certain expression. Answers use the expression, but it’s wrong. Its error is funny. What’s more, I admired these errors.

It’s also my favorite stuff. There are many cats in this video. These cats’ activities are very funny and cute. They make me heartwarming. I suppose you laugh naturally if you watch this video.