SAILING DAY!

About JFAP

2005-12-11T06:22:00.000-08:00

Today, I would like to talk about JFAP.
JFAP stands for “Japanese Foundation for AIDS Prevention.” Its purpose is to disseminate knowledge about the prevention of AIDS, to assist studies for the prevention and treatment of AIDS, and to conduct international exchanges of information on AIDS so as to contribute to enhance health and welfare of the people.
IEC(stants for “Information, Education, Communication”is one of the activities of JFAP. They carries out IEC activities year round through various campaigns in order to provide people with the correct information about HIV and AIDS.
There are various activities on IEC. For example,
・Ｐroduction and distribution of educational materials such as posters, brochures, audio-visual materials, etc
・Video advertisement concerning HIV/AIDS in the waiting rooms of airports
・Provision of IEC spot announcement at the movie theaters all over Japan
・Support for various events hosted by NGOs and corporations
・Support for IEC events for MSM
・Campaign poster competition for primary school pupils and high school students
・Educational activities for youth on HIV/AIDS Acceptance of visits by high school students from all over Japan for their field work research

Moreover, We can join its fundraising campaign by buying a picture on its homepage.
I think that is very wonderful. We must do that we can to prevent AIDS.

My Neighbor Totoro

2005-11-27T04:26:00.000-08:00

Ｉ want to introduce Japanese Movies today.

Japanese movies are becoming popular in the other countries. I think Japanese movies are very beautiful and meaningful. I love Seven Samurai directed by Kurosawa Akira and Oshin, Japanese popular drama, and other movies very much. I want to introduce every movies but I don’t have enough time to do so.

Now, I will talk about one of my favorite movies and one of the most famous movie of Japan. The title is Tonari-no-Totoro(My neighbor Totoro). It directed by Miyazaki Hayao, one of the most famous animation creators, and released in 1988.

The story of Totoro is full of dreams and wonders. A family moved in Tokorozawa in Saitama. The family is consisted by father and two girls. One of the girls is Satsuki 11 years old and another is Mei 4 years old. Satuki is a reasonable girl and she loves her little sister very much. And Mei is a little selfish but very curious girl. Their father is working for a college.

They moved there because of their mother’s illness. Their mother is in a hospital near Tokorozawa and she will leave the hospital soon. So, this family moved Tokorozawa which has much nature and clean air. The house that they live in was very old and like a ghost house! Satsuki and Mei cried, “There may be ghosts!” And their father also said, “Wonderful! My dream was to live in a ghost house like this one!” The family very liked this house.

One day, when Satsuki was in the school and father was working, Mei was playing in a garden of her house picking acorns up. Then, she found a strange creature running. He was as small as a stuffed animal and holding a sack on his shoulder. He had a lot of acorns in his sack and he dropped them one after another. Curious Mei followed the creature picking the dropped acorns up and lost her way in the forest near her house. She looked for the strange creature but he had gone anywhere. Then, she found an acorn in a hollow of a huge camphor tree. She stretched her arm to pick it up but she fell into the hollow. The hollow was like a narrow tunnel and Mei touched down on something soft. It was the stomach of a huge and strange creature. It was very similar to the one which Mei followed. Mei asked sleeping him without fear, “I am Mei! And what is your name?” He woke up very slowly and yawned, “To-To-Ro!!” “Totoro!? You are Totoro!”, Mei cried and they made friends.

The strange creature, Totoro, was a kind of master of the forest. He live for very long time and only children can see it.

My favorite character is Satsuki. She loves her family very much and does all housework instead of her mother. At the last of the movie, Satsuki know that the date when her mother leave the hospital put off because of aggravation of her illness. She was very sad but she told her little sister that tenderly. Mei cried “I want mom back to the house now!” Satsuki said angrily, “Don’t you mind if mom die!?” They quarreled and Mei leave the house without telling her destination. She wanted to go the hospital to see her mother. However, Mei took wrong way and be a lost child. At that time, Satsuki was running around looking for her sister but she couldn’t found her. Her sandals were broken due to long time running. So, Satsuki took off the sandals and began to run in bare feet. That is the best scene of the this movie, I think. Finally, Satsuki found Mei with help of Totoro and they went to the hospital together. They looked very happy.

This movie is about love of family, sisters and nature. After watching this movie, everyone can feel warm. I hope a lot of people all over the world enjoy this My Neighbor Totoro!!

A man who didn't die.

2005-11-13T06:41:00.000-08:00

Hello! How are you?

Today, I have a short mystery story. Can you slove this mystery?

"A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. Then he left early. After that, everyone else at the party who drank the punch died of poisoning. Why didn't the man die?"

If you have questions, please write comments to me!

Now, good luck!!

My Lovely Town 2

2005-11-06T06:51:00.000-08:00

Now, I have something to add my comment about my hometown.

My family have some farms and My grandparents grow many kinds of vegitables! My best vegitable is pampkins!! They are very sweet and hearty. My mothere often make pampkin-pie using the pampkins for us. I like it very much!

My hometown has good and bad aspests , as many other cities and towns have. Good aspest is that we have very rich nature and peaceful life. We can enjoy the beautiful scenes through a year! I love them very much, especially, autumn.
Bad acpect is that it is sometimes very inconvenient to live in the town. We have not much oppotunities to find jobs in the town, so most people must work out.I think I will have to find jobs in other town. But When I become an old woman, I will come back and spend times in farm growing crops like my grandmother.

My Lovely Town

2005-11-01T21:37:00.000-08:00

November 2st 2005
Tenma 3-3, Aozora city, Osaka, Japan

Dear Kiki

Hello. How are you?

I would like to introduce you about my town.
My town is very small and quiet. There is no big depertment-stores or tall buildings. We can not buy books nor shoes in my town. Some people says the life in this town is very inconvenient and I sometimes think same way. But I love the peaceful atmospere of my town.

There is an old beautiful temple in the center of the town. It is one of the important cultural properties and Meiji-Tenno, a Japanese emperor, has visited it. We are very proud of that. Next to its precinct, there is a ginkgo tree. It is so tall that we can look at the tree from everywhere in town. In autumn, the leaves covering the tree fall at once and they make the ground deep yellow. I want to show you some day.

Ｍｙ family have some farms and rice paddies in the town and my grandparents works there everyday. In summer, we can get very big watermelons and some of them are sold at a town market. Last summer, I helped my grandmother selling watermelons with my brothers and sister. I had very good time.

I love my town very much and I believe that you love your own hometown, too. I want to know about your town and your family. Please write to me.

Now, bye!

Your friend, Apple

Welcome to my page!

2005-10-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone. Welcome to SAILING DAY!!

I am Apple Juice from Japan.
I am wondering I can make a good page because this is my first time to do. But I will try!

Now, I would like to introduce myself. I am a university student in Japan and I am studting English. I love music and movies and drama. So, I am going to write about these things here.
I like almost every kind of music---classical music, rock, pops, jazz, reggae. And I am very interested in folk music! Japanese traditional music called Gagaku so beautiful. Have you ever heard it?
If you know good songsor singers please give me their information!

Now, that's all for today. See you!