The Place I lived

              Düsseldorf, located in Ruhr area near Frankfurt in Germany, is the place I lived. This city has five good points, so I`ll introduce these. First, this city is famous for industry and economy so many Japanese live. Because of this, Japanese school, many Japanese supermarkets and Japanese restaurants are there. Second, this has beautiful landscape like River Rhine, three castles named Düsseldorfer Schloss, Schloss Benrath and Schloss Jägerhof and Köenigsallee. River Rhine is famous one in Germany and Köenigsallee is the main street of this town. Third, this has traditional foods like Alt beer and Sauerbraten, which is sausage marinated. I like Sauerbraten the best of German ones! Fourth, this city is famous for sports. The soccer team of this city is one of the Fußball-Bundesliga(this means very big professional association football league like FIFA in Japan) Finally, this city is very comfortable to live in. This is because transportation is developed well so you can go somewhere by train or by car. If you go there for business trip, you`ll feel cozy, though there is in foreign country.

 

When is a Good Time for Travel

I think the summer season is a good time for travel. I give you some reasons for thinking like this. First, you can travel longer than usual because you have summer vacation or vacances. For example, you can go to trip abroad more than 7 days in summer but in winter you can`t do like that easily. Secondly, you can exercise outdoors like camping, swimming in the sea or river and so on. In my experience, I swam in Hanauma Bay, in Hawaii. This bay has beautiful clear blue sea and colorful fish. (By the way, I think one of the reason that most Japanese want to go to Hawaii is we like summer and Hawaii is always summer. This is because many Japanese celebrity go there even in January.) Finally, you are so elevated in summer. So you want to go out and do sports more than in winter. Why don`t we travel in summer?

What did I do in the last holiday

I went to the school festival`s of my high school last Sunday. So, I`ll tell you about it. My high school always holds it in May. But this year, the festival was held in April because one of the buildings is reconstructing. This is a photo of it. You can see one of them crushed.

By the way, in every school festival, students decide one slogan and prepare for the festival in the name of it. This year`s slogan is "奏　(Kanade)".  It means that each student esteems one`s individuality and cope for festival together. Actually, they made good one, I think.

 



The school festival of mine is the place of what students do in daily activities. Following are some examples. The drama club and ESS plays a drama and the music clubs like the classical guitar, the chorus and the strings orchestra club held the united concert. (We call it  it "Gōdō-concert", for short "Gō-con"). The history club shows us the history of this year`s theme like Disney`s history. The exercising clubs like basketball, softball, tennis and so on provide you food because they can`t play their sports in this festival of course.
This time, I don`t have much time, so only watched `Gō-con`. The string orchestra club, which I was belonged to, played `Brook Green Suite`, `Over the Rainbow` and `Morning in Slag Ravine and Carrying You`. Probably, you know 'Over the Rainbow' and 'Carrying You' so I attach here the others.  `Brook Green Suite` is composed by Gustav Holst, who is famous for `The Planet`. `Over the Rainbow` is formed by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen and used in  The Wizard of Oz. `Morning in Slag Ravine and Carrying You` is written by Joe Hisaishi and used in the movie, Laputa: Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki. This concert was more wonderful, exciting and better than I did! I want to go next school festival and to listen `Gō-con`.