My favorite holiday!

Hello!
My favorite holiday is New Year holidays :-)
All the relatives gather for New Year holidays and eat New Year dishes.

New Year dishes

In addiction, I get a New Year's present from a relative!
Furthermore, I go for a New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine in families, and I pull a sacred lot there.

Shrine

I go to buy a lucky bag on the next day :-)
Because there are a lot of pleasant things in this way, I love New Year holidays!!

Oshogatsu!!!!

Hi, I try to introduce my favorite holiday.

My favorite holiday is New Year. People call it Osyogatsu in Japan. Do you know the day? Its period is until Jurnually 31. The first day is called gantan. Osyogatsu is special day in Japan. My relatives or my brothers gather in a parent' home. The home becomes very cheerful. My parents or grandparents give me otosidama. Otosidama is money which they gave their children as congratulation. I really applicant them. By using them, I go shopping with family and buy many things. Because there are many sales, I use amount money for shopping.

I usually eat osechi or ozouni then. Osechi is cooking which are packed varieties foods in the box. There are kuromame or datemaki. For three days, we have to eat osechi for my mother does not have to do housekeeping. So I can feel a mother's kindness. Ozouni is soup containing rice cake. It is very delicious for me.　In my hometown rice cake contains anko. Many people call it anmotizouni. Many people who are not from my hometown usually surprise, but it is very delicious. I want you to eat them. In my house, I make a lot of mochi with my family. It is routine occurrence. I usually make about 2 kilograms. Because I eat too much mochi, I grow fat.

New Year is very fun for me!!!!

Bon holidays is my favorite!

     My favorite holiday is summer vacation!! Bon holidays is the holiday of the summer vacation!! I want to talk about this 2012 summer vacation memory. I got a driver license with my friends for 2 weeks. But I don't have car, so I am paper driver:( And,I came back my hometown, Yonago city of Tottori prefecture. I met my old friends and family and pet!! I went my old szhool with my friend when held school festival. I met many teacher. It was very fun time!!



At my old school!

I went shopping and karaoke with my old friends. If we go shopping, we always buy clothes, accessories, books, and so on. Do you know karaoke? Karaoke is born in Japan. What’s karaoke? I see....Karaoke is to sing singer’s song on microphone. My favorite artists are PornoGrafitti and Utada Hikaru. I sometimes song their songs! But my sing voice is not good!!haha

 

Next, I want to talk about next summer plan. Just plan! I don't know whether if I do on my plan. First, I want to go America for 4 weeks! I’m interested in America and foreign country people. I try to talk in English and communicate with many people. Another summer vacation plan is reading many books and watching many movies, in other words, hobbies!! That’s all!

The New Year ;-D

     I love the New Year. All my family have to back home before the New Year. My mother wants to spend with all  members of my family. She wants us to back home, and she wants to meet us. I also want to meet my family. We clean with our house about a week ago. My mother make Osechi from 31th morning. I sometimes help it, but my mother almost make herself. By the way, Do you know Osechi? There are a lot of dishes in a box. It looks like a lunch box. Each dish has meanings. For example, shrimp means a long life, herring roe means having many children and so on. On 31th diner, my family eat buckwheat noodle. Then we make myself at home. On New Year's Day, we say "A Happy New Year!" each other, then we go to bed. It become next day, we get up early and eat Osechi. Then we go to a shrine to pay our first visit of the year. I always pray for health and happiness of all my family. This is my family's New Year :-)

My favorite holiday,New year day

Hello,everyone. I'm Ryoma. Today, I write down about my favorite holiday, New year day.
The reason is...ambiguous.But, I have certain feeling of new year. In particular, first sunrise is great event. It is ending of ayear,and it is biginning of a year. I feel that exaggerated phenomenon.

I love one singer's saying. "There isn't a drem that we can't awake. There isn't a rain that don't stop forever. Long night will dawn eventually. So, people can start to walk each other's way with sure wishes."
I'm given great hope by the saying."Long night will dawn eventually"..It's great.
So I like to see first sunrise. It is usual event for us. I went to go that with my friends when I was high school student. Will I go to see first sunrise with someone next year? I'm looking forward to.

My Favorite Holiday!

My family and the rejoin invite and send our ancestors in August. It is Bon Festival. Before, Bon Festival, we burn wood. So ancestors return to their house the reliance of the smoke. I like the mood. It is because it might be able to meet the grandpa and grandma. And during Bon Festival, we offer the Buddhist altar various the one. And we do to ancestor's grave in turn. When we go there, we have a lantern. There are many lanterns, so beautiful :> And the final day, we have many offering and we go to the sea while ringing the bell. We burn the offering in sands. Ancestors rise to the heaven getting on the smoke. This is our region’s Bon Festival.

 

Golden Week

My favorite holiday is in May. The name is Golden Week in Japan. It is composed of three holidays. The Constitution Memorial Day, Green Day, and Children's day. They become the consecutive holidays!
A lot of Japanese people go trip or hometown use this consecutive holidays. Therefore there are heavy traffics around Japan.
I am looking forward to the holidays every year. This year I went back my home town and trip to Kyoto with my friends. It was very fun. And I could spend good time.
Do you have consecutive holidays? And what do you spend your time? Please tell me about it.

Gaki




Gaki member

Hello it is Kohei. In this time I introduce my favorite Japanese holiday. My favorite Japanese holiday is the period overlapping the close of the old year to the start of the new. It is the event that is the biggest in one year. when this time comes, I feel that every year one year was short. I like this busy period before greeting the New Year. We call year end December 31 Omisoka. We cook traditional food prepared in advance for consumption during the first three days of the New Year and containing various specified ingredients. Japanese people call this food Osechi. In Omisoka my family eats rolling by hand sushi every year. My mother watches Kohakuutagassen. This is music program. This program has the long history. Many Japanese people watch this program. But I don't watch this program, because I watch Gakinotukaiyaarahende. The people are gradually increased watching this program on the Omisoka. This program is variety program. This is a program of the Downtown. I like them than anyone else. Kokoriko and Yamasaki Hosei are regulars, too. The performer must not laugh in this program. However, much interesting thing is happens. When they laugh, it is clapped buttocks. The theme of this year is Zettainiwarattehaikenainekkethukyoushi24ji. We eat buckwheat noodles eaten on New Year's Eve when 24:00 comes. Children get money from adult for Oshogatu. Japanese people call this money Otoshidama. I spend New Year holidays to watch comedy program leisurely. I look forward to return to Hyogo for winter vacation.




Toshikoshisoba

Osechi





The New Year holidays are my favorite holiday!

     Hi! In Japan, it has become considerably colder in the morning and evening. This time I will write about my favorite holiday. My favorite holiday is the New Year holidays. So I will write about the New Year holidays.
 The New Year holidays are the most my favorite holiday. Because Japanese New Year's cuisine is very delicious! Eat Japanese New Year's cuisine in the New Year holidays is most Japanese people's custom. Japanese New Year's cuisine is one of the Japanese traditional food. It include various kind of food. For example, chestnuts mashed and sweetened, black soybean, herring roe, and so on. But the contents of Japanese New Year's cuisine are different of region. I especially like chestnuts mashed and sweetened. Because it is very sweet and very delicious! If you have a chance, please eat it.
 My family has a habit that pay the New Year's first visit at New Year's Day every year. After we pay the New Year's first visit, we come back home and eat Japanese New Year's cuisine. Then we usually have some quality time with my family. This is my family's habit.
 Let me finish to write about my favorite holiday. Thank you for reading! See you!