Give and Take

I have lived in Japan for 18 years, however there are many customs that I don't know.

Recently I'm interested in Japanese culture, so today I learned it and I will write here.

 I learned at first is "present custom".Japanese often give presents to friends,company and even teacher. When you were given something for presents, you have to give a present for return. However you don't have have to buy something that is same price of given present.It's must be half price. I think it's because many Japanese fill sorry when they get something without paying,(except birthday or other cerebrations),

so they want to give something for return. However, if people give presents and he get something that looks same price, he will fill sorry for the paying. For these reason Japan has "half return"culture, I think.

Autumn

It seems that Autumn pasts really fast. Especially this year it seems that winter is coming after summer. Although winter is short, there are a lot of good points in autumn. One of these is school event, for example, sports festival and art festival. I like sports, so I had enjoyed sports festival every year until high school. However threre is no sport festival in university. I was little sad X( I wanted to hold sport festival, so I made the event in Uegahara Habitat at last month. It was really ecxited! I think we must do sports festival in every autumn.

There are not only enjoyable events but also many tasty foods in autumn. Especially I really like sweet popatoes!! Next Wednesday, I'll take part in sweet potato party at Mr.Mike's home. Mr.Mike is Ms.Grubel's husband :) He also held yakinuku party in last spring. It will be enjoyable! I'm looking forward to autumn foods:D

Friends!

I have gone to Kenkoku school for 12 years, so my old friends were my class mates of high school. Especailly, all of my friends who are girls, and had gone to Kenkoku school since 6years old are members of korean traditional dance and drum club. When we were elementaly school students, we did club activity two times a week. Since we were junior high school students, we had done club activity every day for 6years. Therefore we are like brothers. We send 2/3 of our life together. Perhaps, we send more time together than our each families.Now, one of the best friend goes to Korean university. At first, I was very sad...x( BUT! We started using skype. We can free call  by using skype :) Actually, lest of the best friends go to Japanese university, so we meet every weekend. We practice korean dance and drum a time a week.We can keep in touch without internet. I think modern people need Skype! Skype is cibilization :D w