In June we had another Alliance Eikaiwa in-school event. This time, it was the English-only Doughnut and Gelato Night in the Moriguchi school. The doughnuts and gelato were from local small businesses. I bought six kinds of doughnuts at Le Sourire, in the Senbayashi shopping arcade. They were made from rice flour, so they were gluten-free doughnuts.  I bought five kinds of gelato at Kanon gelato shop. This shop is near the Moriguchi school. Everyone enjoyed the food, and we also enjoyed meeting and talking with each other.  Now the next challenge is planning a bigger event in the future. I often visit these shops, so please support these local […]

Title: The Sixth Sense Japanese Title (タイトル）: シックス・センス Year(製作年): 1999 Director (監督): M. Night Shyamalan Main characters and actors: Character name (actor name) Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis ブルース・ウィリス) Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment ハーレイ・ジョエル・オスメント) Lynn Sear (Toni Collette トニ・コレット) Is the story good? Yes, it is a good movie. It has a very interesting plot twist, and it is fun to watch again after you know the ending. I also like to watch interviews of the director and the cast. They give information about the making of the movie, and I can understand the movie more deeply. The movie is about a young boy named Cole. He has a […]

I like to visit shopping arcades. Every time I visit a different city in Japan, I walk around the train station area and look for the local shopping arcade. When I can walk through the arcade, I can imagine life in the city. In my hometown of Honolulu, there are shopping malls just like Aeon malls. When I go to a shopping mall in Japan, it feels like I am in America again. But when I walk around shopping arcades, I feel different. Big shopping arcades, like in Tenjinbashi-suji or Shinsaibashi, are fine, but I like the local ones more. I use the Keihan main line, so I often go […]