Kingdom of Cambodia

(The Kingdom of Cambodia)

Today, I'm going to write about Cambodia in South East Asia. My ex-classmate went to Cambodia last summer as a member of the volunteer activity, and she introduced this activity to me. so, i may go to Cambodia in Feb.

I studied about Cambodia at a class of International Relationship in first semester. Before I took this class, I had not knew about it well. I'd knew just only Angkor Wat.

(Angkor Wat)

This country don't prosper, like Japan and almost people there aren't rich. Then, There was a big civil war, and a lot of people was slaughtered. Cambodia is the same Asian country, but is totally different from us. I think it has a great history i can't imagine.

I've never been to this country, so I'm looking forward to going there in Feb! I wanna watch their way of life and history and reconsider my way of life!! BUT!! I have to save a lot of MONEY!! I need about two hundreds thousand yen until Feb!! 200,000yen!! so, I'll work hard to go there!

(killing field)

The Netherlands- Holland

(National Flag of the Netherlands)

The Netherlands...this country was the place I planed to go next year as a exchange student and really wanted to go, but it was an impossible dream because I failed on the selection. Foreign interviewers robbed my hope. I intend to go there someday , no mater what!!

What kind of image of Netherlands do you have? Tulip?? I have a image of Netherlands as a tulip, marijuana,windmill, football and so on, but don't know about this country well, so I googled The Netherlands from Internet.

From what wikipedia says, Netherlands is often called Holland,where is located Western Europe and bordered by the North Sea to the north and the west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east. The word Dutch is used to refer to the people, language and anything relating to the Netherlands. And then, this country is geographically low-lying country, with about 27% of its area and 60% of its population located below sea level. Ohhh! How dangerous!! Then, it is popular for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and Gouda pottery. In addition, to my surprise, it has liberal policy toward drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, and euthanasia.

(windmills and ship)

What do you think about this country? Do you wanna go?? I felt that this country is Freedom!! JIYU-DA!! I wanna go there once.

Let's Go TO the Netherlands!!

Hakuba -Nagano

(white horse=Hakuba)

Hi!!!!!It's November...it will come winter soon!　It 's timet for snowboading!! Yeah!!

Do you like snowboading?? I went snowboading for the first time when i was high scool student. My friend who went with me was good at snowboading and taught me how to snowboad, so managed to slide .

Last year, I went to snowboading three times in winter season and my skill was gradually going to better. i wanna go to snowboading many times in this year!!

Today, I introduce a popular snowboading spot in Japan. It's Hakuba in Nagano prefecture. I would often go there for skiing, so I'm familiar with this area.

Hakuba is a village placed at the foot of the Northern Alps , northwest of Nagano prefectrure.In winter, a large number of ski/snowboad players massed in this area. Nagano winter Olympic game was also held at Hakuba village. I think Hakuba is good for snowboading, so reccomend you to go there for snowboading!! Let"s go to SNOWBOADING!! with me!!

(Hakuba)