Wednesday, September 26, 2007

A trip to Gihu

Hi, everyone!

I can find the clouds of autumn in the sky these days, and feel refreshing.
My family intends to go somewhere in Gihu next three consecutive holiday, but I can’t decide our goal. I’d like to go Shirakawago, where would take too long times. Takayama or Gero…? My family has never gone to Gihu, and so we are looking forward to our short trip. Do you have favorite destination in Gihu?

Yesterday was a deadline for essay junior(?) members. It was hard to finish my essay, but I’ve never have such a worthwhile job. Thank you very much.

3 comments:

magnolia said...

Hi, everyone.

Cherry, I recommend you to go to Gujo Hachiman in Gife, which is a favorite place for foreigners. Maybe it reminds them of Kyoto.

I like small streams with some carps in there like Yanaka no Komichi and I like even its road beautifully designed with pebbles. I 'd like to stay at a nice Japanese inn named Nakajimaya, where Ishii Ryoichi spent a night and consulted with his friend how to save poor girls just after the Nobi earthquake.
Nakajimaya is next to Omodakaya,a famous suvenir shop.
Your children will be interested in fake samples of food at Sample Kobo, if I remember it correctly. There were many samples made of plastic which look so real.

I went to Gujohachiman this July for the first time because one of my foreign friend wanted to go to make a good memory in Japan so my friend and I took her and had a good time there and I bacame a fan of that city. Azarea also likes the city and its food, especially fish.

Plum said...

Hi, everyone!!!
How are you? Yes, we are in autumn just as Cherry says, aren’t we? The air is getting crisp and refreshing, and it is GOOD, isn’t it?

Yes, yesterday was the deadline for our junior members’ submission of their essays, and I got three essays, and I was very happy about it. One member gave me an email, saying that she had to give up writing an essay, because her father was not well and was, for his medical treatment, on a special diet which she was responsible for, and thus she had no time to write. I am very sorry for her, because it is hard work for anyone to look after a sick person at home. She, probably, must make a special meal for him three times a day every day, which requires a lot of energy and patience. I hope she can have a rest from time to time.

Peach could not hand in her essay, since her computer is now broken, but she said that she would finish up and submit it as soon as she got her computer back from the repair shop.

I got a phone call from Sunflower this afternoon, and she asked me what I meant by reproduction, and so I answered that I meant, by that, writing (or talking) something in English as frequently as we could, if possible every day. When and if we learn a new word, we should make efforts to use it by ourselves, otherwise we easily forget it. Because we human beings are excellent at forgetting, in a manner. We keep taking and leaving automatically every day, although this action of ours is not so crystal clear to us. If we don’t try to hold something new we get in our brains, it will slip away very easily, won’t it? It is something like one of the hypotheses of N. Chomusky, an American linguist at MIT, maybe. Our brains are programmed so as to take only anything necessary for our survival. In Japanese society, English is not necessary for our survival, and thus we leave it automatically even if we learn a new word, since our brains are so constituted. Interesting, isn’t it?

I think I wrote last night that I was going to talk about something on the domestic labor debate in Japan tonight, but unfortunately I don’t have enough time, and so I will write about it some other time. Tomorrow, I will go to Osaka, and there I don’t have access for the Internet, and so I will skip writing, but will be back here the day after tomorrow, I hope.

Goodnight, my precious friends. Sweet dreams, and be happy always.

Anonymous said...

Hi, everyone.

Cherry, as Magnolia said, I also like and recommend Gujo Hachiman. Along lanes in the city, conduit runs with transparent water which is flown from spring. In some places, numerous carp and trout(perhaps) are kept. Your children can feed them. Until I went there, I did not like raw fish of carp. However, Gujo'a raw carp dish is very delicious. Soy sauce is a little different from one which you see at the super market. Perhaps you feel salty but profound. You can enjoy natural sweet fish about a half price of Gifu city, I mean not-cultivated.
Eel is also delicious.
And how about cormmorant fishing in Nagara river in Gifu city and you can appreciate the night view from the Kinkazan. This cable car is moved at night this season but you should ask the office concered in advance. I like Gifu. I would like to go to Gifu.