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Depending on the regions of the world's waters they're churning through, they are sometimes called typhoons, cyclones, or Hurricanes.
Unlike Japan, in other regions of the world hurricanes get names.
Growing up in Florida it was only girls names at first but now it's both girls and boys as boys are getting into the act as well.

After 16 days of non-stop Olympic coverage on the TV things felt pretty quiet today. I almost didn't know what to do with my self. No medal standings to check in the morning newspaper, no reruns of the highlights to watch and no settings for the DVD recorder. Basically it's all about trying to find my normal life again that I had before the Olympics started. I'm somewhat relieved that summer Olympics happens only every four years, but then again
wouldn't it be kind of cool to try to attend the games at least once in my lifetime.

同級生

先日、幼稚園の同窓会を開きました！
約６０人居る幼稚園の同級生のうち、２２人が集まってくれました
そして当時お世話になった４人の先生方も、参加して下さいました
みんなとても久しぶりの再会だったけれど、みんな昔と変わらず、とても懐かしい時間を過ごせました みんな本当にありがとう！！

みんな一人一人が幼稚園の同級生や先生方にメールや電話をしてくれて
最初は何人集まるかも分からなかったけど、２６人も集まり、感謝しています。

みんなそれぞれの人生を歩んでいたよ

会社員。
システムエンジニア。
幼稚園の先生。
介護士。
プータロー。
大学院生。
警察官。
販売員。
事務員。
自由人。etc

色んな生き方の人が居て、とても面白かった
「十人十色 」
みんなそれぞれの思いや考えがあって、今を生きていました
懐かしくってなんだか元気になったよ！！

よかったらみなさんも、幼稚園の同窓会、開いてみて下さいね

After leaving Ikeda we headed for Cape Erimo. There is actually a famous song about the cape, but I'm not sure how it goes.Anyway this particular cape is very well known for having really strong winds.After our three hour drive from Ikeda we arrived at the cape just in time to witness a beautiful sunset.

Sunset at Cape Erimo

Jump!

As soon as we arrived, we rushed to the dolphin show!

It seemed to me that they are really intelligent and love people.
So cute ...!

road to Kagoshima

I went to Kagoshima with my boyfriend!

We went to only Kagoshima aquarium because we did not have much time.

On August 10th Ken and I made a radical decision to get off the beaten path.
We'd had our fill of large amounts of tourists swarming around all the popular tourist attractions. It was time to find roads less traveled and do our own thing. It didn't take along before we realized that we had made the right decision. The roads were empty and sometimes we were the only ones on the road except for the odd farm tractor.It was like we had a special chunk of Hokkaido all to ourselves.

Off the beaten path

Koshihikari icecream

Rice Grain in Icecream

tang-tang noodle

Niigata is said that "Nihon no Komedokoro" which means most of rice in Japan is made here. The name of the rice is Koshihikari.
None of Japanese do not know this name.

Then, I found a wired Icecream,,,,which is in the first picture. It is named Koshihikari Icecream...RICE ICECREAM?!

Hiroshi is 20 years old and a third year student at a University in Hyogo
He boarded the ferry from Maizuru and arrived in Otaru on July30th to begin his month long cycling adventure around Hokkaido.
He will finish on August 30th also in Otaru.
We met him in front of convenience store in Hiro which is on the way to Erimo Misaki.(Cape Erimo)
We chatted about his experiences so far.
I find this young man to be extremely inspiring!
His efforts should definitely be applauded!
I found his budget for the trip to be especially interesting.

Toki (Ibis): booger?!

toki's dumpling: Toki Manju

Niigata Chips

Nagaoka Hanabi Arare (Fried rice snack)

Niigata has an island named Sadogashima. It is very famous as an Island of Ibis. Japanese last ibis used to be here. Still now we can see many kinds of souvenires related to Ibis.