Monday, July 28, 2008

My hometown



Hello! guys !!
How's it going ?


Today, I'm writing about my loving hometown..



My hometown is Okinawa, which is located in the most south part of Japan, and it's a small resort island. It's surrounded with so beautiful sea and people can swim from March to October, it's like a pradise especially for people from northern parts. Even if people from the different cities of Japan, they can enjoy there and totally defferent atmosphere. That's why my hometown is known as a very popular resort place in Japan, like Hawaii and Bali island.



There are something dramatically different from 10 or 20 years ago in my hometown. One of them is the increasing number of large shopping centers and mega molls. Of course, they supply to people more convinient life and amusement place to spend their holidays. For example, normally they open until midnight, some of them are 24 hours, and we can get everything whenever we want. We don't need to worry about the time limit any more. It's absolutely covinient and proceed thing in the latest 10 years.


However if I can say about the disadvantage of this, they were built in the places where were familiar with local people including me and made the scenary that was just like a resort in foreign contries... There is one place I used to go to have dinner or parties with my familly and many friends when I was a student. I loved the place, people, foods and time there and everything. But I can't spend there with my feelings like 6 years ago any more, because this place's changed into the huge shopping center. I can't pass through the place without thinking of my sweet memories.

On the other hand, I understand I have to accept the modernism in my hometown, because people take it for granted that they can take such a covinient service as a contemporary function. Even if it's in the resort place to escape from their daily lives, people live in the place have to reply to the tourists's requests to call them there. We need to compromise each other, anyway.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

My trip

5 years ago, my friend and I went on a trip to Seoul in Korea. It was quite a cheap trip because we could get travel tickets for free and we didn't have enough money to spend there. And we planned to find relatively cheap accomodation in person.

There was a big problem, which was that I forgot a guide book which we bought together. So we went to an information center in order to get a map and information to cover my fault. Of course, it wasn't enough to find everything we wanted, so we asked passengers where was the best reataurant around there, where more enjoyable places were and convenient accomodation, and so on..

As a result, it was such a great trip that was worth more than the acutual costs because of many people's help. Fortunately, we could get much more useful information and enjoy every places I learned quite important things from this trip: to know and to communicate with people who live in a place is more interesting and more useful. On the other hand, I'm trying to reduce my mistake for trips by making a list of necessary things...