Travel Affection

I like traveling. So I have been some places since I was young.
If I get about travel affects asked, I will answer "England".

Before I visited England, I had been Canada, Australia and Singapore.
England was 4th foreign country for me.

When I saw English townscape, I was impressed so much.
I never seen such a excellent and historical country.
After the travel, I noticed all country where I had been are new countries.

Japan is also old country and has many historical buildings and towns.
But I realized European culture is thoroughly different from our culture.
Even if I have learnt about European history, a picture is worth a thousand words.
How extraordinary the world is! I thought.

History is culture.
Culture affects people's mind, lifstyle and idea.
Before travelling, I couldn't notice.
However, I realized culture grows people and long time grows culture.
I'm proud of Japanese culture which have grown up and continued for long long time as a Japanese.
"I" am constructed by culture.


A Japanese scientist who does reseach about the Moon said.
"If we want to know about the Earth, we have to go to the universe. We have to investigate from outside to get more information."

That's why I cannot stop travelling.

My country's opinion about the U.S. in general.

On Halloween in 1992, Japanese exchange student was shot by American guy at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He would go to a Halloween party in his friends house. He costumed and visited a wrong house.
The American guy who lived in the house pointed his gun at him and shouted, "Freeze!"
The student misunderstood as "Please" and approached him.
Then, he was shot and died.

The accident was spread as fear of gun society in the U.S. in Japan.

In Japan, we have a constitution that have not to have any weapons especially gun.
If someone wants to prepare for prevention of crime in Japan, he or she will buy some burglar alarm and some lump which turns on after someone close it.

But American will prepare some weapons.
Although my host family don't have a gun, they have a stun gun.
When I saw the light of stun gun, I realized it has been very common to arm by some weapons for them.

Many Japanese believe the ethical doctrine that human nature is fundamentally good and have a policy of renunciation of war.
But Japanese are only 125 million. There are 6.8 billion people in this world.
Our policy is great but maybe little idealistic theory.
Because for 310 million people in the U.S. think that armament for defend is natural.

To be against for stranger is natural for every animal.
Although human being is a kind of animal, we can consider everything.
We can consider different ways for guard ourselves.

Some day, will an idealistic theory be natural...?

Expectations V.S. Reality.

To be honest, I'm little confused that I couldn't remember about expectations.
I think I didn't expect any good things.

Oh, I remember just one things.
It is about food.
Before I came here, I didn't expect I can eat delicious and healthy foods.

However, my host mother is a good cooker and she likes vegetables.
I also like vegetables.
So I can eat delicious foods which are made from many vegetables every day!
Excellent!


Actually I'm often surprised something.
In other words, maybe it is proof that reality goes beyond my expectations.

I forgot to describe myself.

My name is Haruna and I'm from Nagoya, Japan.
Although I am sometimes asked which city I am from, I don't think they know Nagoya city.
Nagoya is middle of Japan. It takes 2 hours by super-expres train from Tokyo to Nagoya.

Before I came here, I had lived and worked in Tokyo for 4 years.
I am a video editor and worked at a post production company.

Now I'm studying English.
Everyday I find new vocabulary and realize English is really too difficult for me, especially speaking.

Someday, I wish I dream in English...

omnipresence

Although I have written other blogs, I'm going to start new blog.