#20 Countries Where I Want to Visit

There are many countries where I wanna visit.



First, I wanna visit... DENMARK, of course!! Maybe you can guess. haha.
I still want to go there to visit LEGO Land, but also I want to learn Danish (Language), and want to see the culture and quality of welfare.



Secondly, I wanna visit Oregon, the US. don't have the reason for this, but I want to see my host family and friends again. I really miss them now. That's the reason.



I have more countries to visit like Germany, US(especially Chicago, Ohio and New York), Canada, England, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Peru, Italy and more.

Because I'm learning German, I want to visit Germany. Now I can say only easy things in German though...

I want to visit other countries to see my friends.

In Peru, there's a ruins called Machu Picchu, and I want to go there!

#10 What are some items which I would bring to my host family'n'friends?

I would bring Pictures, Postcards, Print-Club Picture(Purikura), and a book which tells about Japanese customs or what we do.

I chose Pictures, because it's the best way to show what we usually do in Japan. To see something is easier to understand than reading or listening. So, I prefer Pictures.

Postcards has the same reason as the pictures. The difference is that postcards could show the things which I can't take with my camera. There are lots of interesting postcards recently like sumo, traditional Japanese pictures(Ukioe or Ukiyoe) and such...

Prikura is one of Japanese culture I guess, even though some other country has one. The quality could be different. When I brought the pictures of prikura to the US, my friends there or host family said it's interesting because they didn't have exactly the same machine like Japan.

Finally, the book I picked above would help a lot when we go abroad. It would help when we explain something. That's why I chose the book. Also, it'll help when we explain about our language, Japanese if the book has both English and Japanese.

Pic. from→http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=postcard+katsushika&ei=

#5 A Trip I Took Recently

I went on a bus tour with my best friend in March. It was a mystery tour, which means we don't know where we will go. So, it was an exciting tour!!
Before we decided which trip to choose, the tourism said in the information, "we will bring you to a World Heritage site, and you can stay in a hotel which has a great hot spring!" Then we decided to go!
Actually it was fun trip, because we can't guess where we're going.

We went Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama prefecture, and visited some tourist spots.
The first & second picture is a traditional style of Japanese architecture. It's called "a Gassho-zukuri house." I liked them because they were cool looking building!











The man on the last picture is coating Japanese(Chinese) lacquer. The lacquer is called "Urushi." He said that he need to paint it again and again to finish making one. So, he paints first, then dries it, and paint it again. It seems tough.
It was interesting to see.










This trip was totally different from the other trips which I've done before. But, it was fun! So, I want to do this kind of trip again.