Kawin’s news corner

久しぶりに雪だるまを作った。昼くらい小さい雪だるまを作った。夜になったら、ちょっと暇すぎて、もう一回雪だるまを作りに行った。弟とすごい大きいな雪だるまを作った。雪だるまの頭はめちゃ重かったよ！

One happy family

Wow, lots of snow this year in Holland (and the rest of Europe). It hasn’t snowed that much in years. I took that opportunity to take some nice pictures of my neighboorhood.

Because of the snow, there were no busses and trains in the morning, so I took the day off. If the train doesn’t work tomorrow, I would be able to get a week off. So, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow….

Wow, have been quite lazy lately for not updating my blog. Well, here’s another post

Between the acts there was also an introduction of the japanese sumo’s. It was the first time that the sumo’s have ever visited Holland, so it’s quite a honour. Some sumo’s looked very familiar, but they seemed to be very famous in Japan. It was quite funny to see the Japanese (old) ladies screaming like “Oooh, it’s them, it’s them!” or “they are looking at me now!”. If you know what the names are of those sumo’s, give me a message.

Very big man

In the city Amstelveen (the city in Holland where a lot of japanese resides) was a big Japanese festival. It seems there was a historical celebration between Holland and Japan. Not sure about the details though. There were a lot of performances, like taiko, japanese dances and sword demonstrations. But the biggest event was making the longest maki sushi of the world. Well, guess what, the sushi was made for the Guiness Book of World Records and they succeeded! It was 133 meters long in the end. Too bad they won’t give the sushi away for free. At least they give their profit to a charity fund.

Wanna have a bite?

Last week, I went to the Nijmegen shopping district for the first time. However I’ve never expected it to be a beautiful shopping district. Just look at the pictures and you will know what I mean. It’s a cosy street with some nice coffeeshops (where you can buy real coffee, not the other crap), and above those store’s there are nice looking apartments.

Some apartments were for sale and out of curiosity I found out how much the apartment cost. It’s around 325.000 euro’s for 118 square meters!! Quite expensive…

It’s already spring, but where’s the sun? It’s has been raining all week in Holland, it’s still cold and windy…..

Waiting for the spring…..waiting, waiting……

昨日俺が大使館のスピーチ大会に出た。テーマは”もっと知りたい日本のこと”だった。
俺が本音と建前について話して、またいろいろな物とを使った（写真を見て）。

全部で２３人が参加したんだけど、案外にも皆の日本語の程度がすごい高い。ヤマサのAクラスのような程度だった。

じゃ、結果はどうと思うか？俺が特別賞をもらった！第三番位くらいだった。俺がすごいな～ははは　（すまん、鼻が高くなちゃった）。

でもね、第一位になったら、日本へ飛行機の切符をもらえるよ。。。俺がもらった物は１００ユーロ（１２０００円）のレストランのクーポンだ。おいしいもの食べよう！

Today I participated to the 22nd Japanese Public speaking  contest, organized by the Japanese embassy in Holland, and I won a special prize! Well, I didn’t won the first prize, which was a plane ticket to Japan, but I won a diner coupon for 2 persons.

I was quite surprised by the level of Japanese of the other contestants. Of course, some of them were beginners, but a few of them are very good, like they have studied Japanese for 5 years! And I haven’t studied anything yet, when I came back to Holland.

Well, I am gonna upload some pics later, because I want to sleep……