FOOD IN New Zealand!!!

~Staple diet in New Zealand~

In Japan, rice is eaten as a staple diet. (“staple diet” means that the food that person normally eats)...... There are lots of countries, especially around Asia, where people eat rice as staple diet. Depending on country, the staple diet is different, I guess. For example, in South America, corn and potato are eaten mainly. In America, many kinds of races are mixed together, so there are many food cultures. Therefore, staple food is not defined clearly......... So, How about in New Zealand?? I didn’t know about it until I checked it on the Internet. Actually, some people mainly eat bread, some people eat rice like Japanese, some people eat potato, meat and so on. That is, according to each person in New Zealand, what they mainly eat is varied. I think this is a big difference when comparing with Japanese one.

~Specialty~

/Fish and Chips/

This is one of the famous foods named "Fish & chips" in New Zealand that is eaten at lunchtime, time for a little snack and so on.

By the way..........Whose hand is that??

/ Meat Pie/

This is a very popular food in New Zealand and is sold at various place in New Zealand like "Daily"(Daily is like convenience store in Japan), gasoline station, and so on. Like the picture above, this pie has various ingredients.

Manuscript

Hello, I’m kohei and I’m going to talk about Stick Fighting. This stick fight seems to be one of the fiercest competitions in Africa and, may be, all over the world, but this event is a kind of scramble for possession of a girl. When their harvest comes to the end, people greet a period of courtship. During the period, they spend days by the river, and paint designs on their bodies. According to the website, the next stage of their courtship tradition is not so peaceful.

When their bodies are painted and men and women have started courting each other, the other side of their courtship starts. Once a week, men from different villages gather. Sometimes, they walk thirty miles to meet each other to perform the wild sport. The stick fight is fought with long, straight poles of about 1.8 meters long made of very hard wood, and men perform these fight to prove their manhood. Some people fight to settle personal revenges, but most importantly, to win wives. The rule of this competition is very simple; You cannot kill your opponent. The winner of the fighting is carried toward girls waiting on a platform, and one of the girls accepts the man as her husband.

Stick Fight!!!!!!!!! in Ethiopia.

This Stick Fight seems to be one of the fiercest competitions in Africa and all over the world, but this event is a kind of scramble for possession of a girl. When their harvest finishes, people greet a period of courtship. During the period, they spend days by the river, and paint designs on their bodies. According to the website, the next stage of the their courtship tradition is violent.

When their bodies are painted and men and women have started courting each other, the violent courtship starts. Once a week, the men from different villages gather together. Sometimes, they walk thirty miles to meet each other to perform the wild sport. The Stick Fight is fought with long, straight poles of about 1.8 meter long made of very hard wood, and men perform these fights to prove their manhood. Some people do to take their revenges, but most important purpose for them is to win wives.The rule of this competition is very simple; you cannot kill your opponent.

The winner of the fighting is carried toward girls who wait on a platform, and one of the girls accepts the man as her husband. Then the girl’s lip is pierced, and her lip’s hole is stretched larger. The size of the final lip plate indicates how many head of cattle must be paid as the marriage portion.

Now........ I have a big question.

Is this a festival??????

MOVIE

American History X


























I’m going to talk about “American History X”. Racial discrimination is one of its themes. It is a social problem almost all of the Japanese ,especially younger generation, is not concerned about, but I was moved by it in a certain sense.

~Story~

A special assignment was given to Danny who is a white supremacist. The special assignment was reports about his older brother Derek who also was a fanatical white supremacist and had been imprisoned, and about influences his brother had exerted on his family. This assignment was given on the day he was released from prison and Danny did not feel like doing it. He didn’t change his mind until his brother who changed his ways came back home.

3 years ago, Derek was arrested. He killed two black who tried to steal Derek’s car. He was in prison for 3 years.

"What happened to Derek in the prison?? Why did Derek change his ways??"

If you see this movie, you can find out the answer of this questions.





How High ~Be bad boyz~



I bought a used DVD of this movie and watched it. I think it is the very masterpiece lol. Method Man and Redman appear in this movie as Silas P. Silas and Jamal King. Method Man is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor, and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. The origin of Method Mans’ name comes from slang, Method. It means marijuana. Red man is rapper and actor. Besides, a lot of famous actors are in it. If you want to know about it in detail, watch this DVD!!

~FUNNY SCENE~ (not my editing but mike's editing)












sorry....this video doesn't have subtitle.

but you can practice listening english.


"you're an asshole"

"You just call me an asshole??"

"I said that this school has nice hall"


I laughed loudly when I watch this scene.

Black Vinegar Diet & Swimming

Black Vinegar Diet



Black Vinegar Diet is to drink black vinegar by 20ml three or two times a day to go on a diet. To drink it brings us not just effect of diet but various good effects for health. So, do you know the difference between common vinegar and black vinegar?? Vinegar is divided into two kinds. One is the vinegar that is made from grains and the other is vinegar that is made from fruits. Black vinegar is a kind of the former. The materials of it that are left to ferment for more than one year in pot are the black vinegar. It turns black by kooji mold and lactic bacterium, so it is called Black Vinegar. In sum, the difference is degree of maturing.


It is said that the longer vinegar ferment, the more its color deepen, it get flavor and active ingredients. Actually, black vinegar contains organic acid and minerals such as essential amino acid, citric acid, iron, zinc and the like. These many active ingredients　work effectively for health. Active ingredients that work especially are essential amino acid and citric acid. As you know, Amino acid works in order to make human anatomy. Amino acid our body itself can make is called nonessential amino acid and Amino acid our body can’t make and we have to take by eating is called essential amino acid. Our body lacking amino acid, our cranial nerve doesn’t work well and immune strength decline. To get essential amino acid is important to live a healthful life and essential amino acid will help us to lose fat if we take it before exercise. Another important key to lose fat is citric acid cycle. To be brief, Citric acid cycle is that works of citric acid burn off carbohydrate, lipid we take and generate energy. Citric acid that is used when burning off these doesn’t discharge outside the body and it cycles inside the body as Citric acid. If this cycle doesn’t work, fat is accumulated in the body, so to take citric acid regularly is important key to lose fat. Black vinegar contains both essential amino acid and citric acid so to drink it regularly helps us lose weight. I found these information at various sites. I want to go on diet by means of this. My friend succeeded in dieting by means of this.
　　　　　　　　　


swimming




1. Why is swimming good for our health??
Swimming brings different kind of effect upon our health from what track and field events bring. This is because swimming is done under water’s resistance, water pressure, restriction of breath, buoyancy and so on.

2. The effect by the temperature of the water!!
Swimming is done in colder water than body temperature, so because of its stimulus, the blood vessel is contracted and dilated, and body temperature is regulated. As a result, thermoregulation function is trained.

3. The effect by water pressure and resistance of water!!
Human’s body is pressed by water pressure when we are in water. Thanks to our bones, when we are in water, we are difficult to be affected by water pressure, still we are affected by it. For example, when we breathe and expand the chest in water, we need extra physical strength than we do on land. That’s way swimming has our respiratory function improved. I want to go on diet by means of this but I can't swim well so I guess I can't use this.

Laughter

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What does laughter give you? I think it bring a lot of good things to you. Please check this homepage.Various good aspects of laughing are written in this homepage. for example, laughing reduces stress, it becomes exercise because when laughing, you use your abdominal muscle and others. Many things about laughing are written in this homepage so anyway if you check this homepage, you find benefit of laughing.




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Have you heard “Dokkiri”?? The word “Dokkiri” is to have someone surprise or surprised. There are a lot of funny videos which is not in Japan in America. This video are the instance and are very funny for me. The reaction of person who don’t know about the plot at all is very funny.