The climate had been nice for about a month. It's not hot and not cold. The weather had been nice too. We had had many nice days.
However it's getting a little cold now. I feel winter is coming close.
My wife, her mother and sister visited a town in Nagano where they were born yesterday.
You may see Japanese fall and country side with the attached pictures.

So anyone have any links to files exchangers or that something like that?

Pola, Francesca, and I are trying to set up the 2nd drawing contest in next spring.
It's not the drawing contest exactly this time. We accept drawing, pictures, photos, sculptures, music, and origami.
Anyone can submit her/his work to the contest from anywhere in the world.
The people in the Hope House and some students in a Japanese public junior high school will join us.
We want many people in the world to join us and submit their works.
Won't you give us your idea to get many participants?

Murabayashi-san and Hayashi-sensei will be staffs to manage the contest.
Hayashi-sensei is an English teacher and helped me a lot when I did Teenage Workers Project in Matsusaka. He manages International Club for students in his school and some other schools in Tsu city now.
Here is Hayashi-sensei.

Alfa gave us a nice recipe, so I copied it here.

Here the recipe if you want to try it Teru-san, We called it Nasi Uduk:
Nasi Uduk / Savory Rice

Ingredients:
500 gram uncooked rice
600 cc coconut milk
1/2 tbsp salt
2 pieces of bay leaves
2 pieces of pandan leaves, knotted
1 tsp ground coriander

Instructions:
Rinse and steam rice for 25 minutes or half cooked.
Simmered coconut milk together with salt, bay leaves, pandan leaves and coriander.
Shift the rice to a big pan, then pour boiling coconut milk. Stir it with low heat until the coconut milk absorbed.
Shift it back to steamer, steam until steamed well (about 40 minutes)
Ready to serve.

You can serve it with egg, fried chicken, or fried tempe

Here is a nice picture of the pumpkin made by my friend, Gary Politzer.


Well, how do you celebrate Halloween in your country?

These are local Racer Tuners in my area.We meet once a week typically.These are my photos.Lots of Japanese Tuned Cars

Shinya Murabayashi, a manager of the Hope House, sent me some pictures of their exhibition in Tokyo.
I will attache them here.

Just like few times before also in this Year one of cultural events prepared for autumn 2009 in Legnica was the next edition of "Japanes Cutlure Week".
Let me tell you a few words about it. Here's Part 1


The promotion poster

Japanese food degustation (mostly sushi) was prepared by people from "Hoshi-Sushi Bar" first sushi bar in my citty ,which has grand opening at the same time. Nice , don't You think ?

Many students joined "Lecture about Manga and Anime"

The exhibition , quite big I must say.






Lecture about "90 Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Poland". Really interesting although not many people joined ,probably because of bad weather.

One of the main guests was actually Polish priest who is a owner of 4 Akita dogs ,and He bringed with him 2 of them.One male called :"Tori" and one female called:"Zuki" or "Suki" I am not sure.

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They called them "Samurai's dogs " I remember Toyoshi-san wrote about Akita dogs , maybe We can back to this topic? These dogs are Kawaii

Hello Peolpe!
so i know some web-sites in internet to conected with people like facebook, hi5..
want to introduce the site www.vkontakte.ru
I think it is very convenient and it is in many languages. Let's register there. might like it)
unlike facebook where you can have a convenient list of songs, videos.

Since 23rd September, I live in Warsaw to study at Warsaw School of Economics(SGH). It took about 16 hours from Japan to Warsaw by air. I was tired to come here very much! But I like living in Warsaw and have a good time here, Actually this is my first visiting to Europe, so everything is surprising and amazing for me. Foods, diet, temperature, climate, behavior, buildings, and etc are quite different from Japanese ones. I'll show you some photos which show my surprising things which I experienced in Warsaw.

This is Polish traditional dish, "Pierogi". Soon when I saw it, I thought it was very similar to a Chinese dish "jiǎozi(餃子)". I tried to do research about Pierogi, and I could understand why Pierogi and jiǎozi are almost the same. In the past, jiǎozi was transmitted from China to Poland via Russia. But the inside of Pierogi is a little different from jiǎozi. It is not only meet, but also vegetables, mushrooms, and fruits.



This is a landmark of Warsaw, the Palace of Culture and Science. This was built in 1955. This is a present from Joseph Stalin, who was a General Secretary of Soviet Union. There are cinema, museum, offices, and radio and tv station.



These photos show my friends. They are German, Austrian, Slovakian, French, Singaporean, Taiwanese, Korean, and of course Polish. All of them are really nice. Whenever I go to Polish friend's house, I have to drink Vodka with some people. It always makes me feel fine I like Vodka








And I'm going to Krakow this weekend. I'll show you some photos about my this weekend trip.