-A Cinderella story-

Hello.

Today, I'm going to write about one of my favorite movie "A Cinderella Story ". This blog contains the story of the movie, so please be careful to read it.

 In this movie, a girl drops "cellphone" instead of "glass high heel". This story is about love of different worlds. The main character is Sam a girl who is high school student. She lost her mother at her childhood and also she lost her father later. She was working at "Diner" a restaurant that her father left. Her nick name was "diner girl" because she was working at there. She was bullied by her step mother Fiona and Fiona's 2 daughters. At that time, what encouraging her were her only one friend Carter, the clue who were working at "Diner" and one online pen pal Nomad.

 They had a Halloween party and Nomad said to Sam to meet up there. She went there and she noticed that "Nomad" was "Austin" the president of the high school and quarterback of the school's football team. He was really popular guy. He even had a girlfriend. Sam shocked about the truth. However, Sam was wearing a mask so Austin didn't notice who she was.

 

They danced together and when she rushed to go back to “Diner”, she dropped her cellphone, and Austin found it. He started to find the girl who dropped cellphone, who were seeing him without any expectation, just seeing the true him. But Sam didn’t want to tell him that she was the girl. She was a quiet girl.

If I write about whole of this story, you would not enjoy at DVD, so I'll not write any more, but it is a happy ending story. In this movie the actress Hilary Duff got a Golden Raspberry Award, what is an award that present to the worst movies, as the worst leader of the movie. Even though, it got the award, I really like this movie, so I wrote about this movie. This movie has sequels and the first one is "Another Cinderella Story" that starring by Selena Gomez. Another one is "A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A time". I've never watched the sequels, so  I want to watch them as soon as possible. I hope that you can enjoy these movies :)

-Diana-

-Crepe-

Hello.

Today, I'm going to write about crepe.

Have you ever tried it? Crepe is thin baked dough that usually rapping flesh cream and fruits. You can change the filling as you want. For example, my favorite filling is banana with fresh cream and chocolate syrup. If it has an ice cream on the top, it will be really yummy. It also has non sugar filling, such as hamburger, but I've never try it. It is because I really like to eat sweet things.

 In Winnipeg, there is one crape shop in Downtown. The name of the store is "Kawaii Crepe". Kawaii means cute is Japanese. I have no idea why the store used Japanese but maybe because usually crepe is eaten in Japan. When I was high school student, I usually bought crepe with my friends on the way to go back to home from school. It was a kind of symbol of youth for us. The crape is in here, had spread of nutella, a kind of famous chocolate cream in Winnipeg. My friend really likes the cream so once she complained to me that her crape had less nutella than mine. After she saw the bottom of crape she said "Oh, I had" laughing. It was really funny. If you have a chance to go there, you should go at least once.

To make the crepe is not difficult as you are thinking. Even elementary school students can make it. You just need to make a thin rap and fill all the things you want. We usually eat it having in hands but if you want, you also can use knife and forks. The appearance is also important, but the most important thing is the taste. ha ha Enjoy your own crepe~!!:D

-Diana-

-Wedding ceremony in Japan-

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Today, I’m going to write about the wedding ceremony in Japan. I've never been wedding ceremony yet, so even I researched it, it is kind of my image.

First of all, there are 2 types of wedding ceremonies in Japan. One is called Shinto style wedding ceremony and another one is called Christian style wedding ceremony. The Shinto style wedding ceremony is held at Shrine and the bride and groom wear Japanese kimono. In this style, usually a Shinto priest leads the bride and groom and walk in the Shrine.  The Christian style wedding ceremony is held in a hotel or chapel and the bride wears wedding dress and groom wears a tuxedo. Bride has a bouquet and she through it.

If the bride and groom want to wear both of kimono and wedding dress, they can wear, because usually at the wedding ceremony in Japan, they can change their clothes whatever they want. But it is at “Hirouen” that is a party after the wedding ceremony.

After the wedding ceremony, Japanese have a party that called “Hirouen”. It is set with wedding ceremony and if it is not finished, the wedding ceremony can’t complete.

At this party there is a master of ceremony and he or she sometimes they progress the party. One person sometimes it is the master of ceremony, does the greeting and starts to talk about the beginning of the bride and groom’s romance. Then, all of the people cheer the champagne, and starts to drink it. After cheers, the bride and groom start to cut the wedding cake. Usually the people who have camera take the pictures at this time. Then, the meal will start. During the meal, everyone enjoy talking. The bride changes her dress once or twice from wedding dress to color dress or Japanese kimono at this time. The groom also changes hiss clothes but usually the main is the bride. After the bride and groom change their clothes usually 1 or 2 people who are friends of bride and groom say a message of congratulations and talk in front of all the people about the bride or groom or both. After that, bride or groom’s friends do some performance, such as dancing or magic or shows bride and groom’s pictures that making in video to make the party more interesting.

 At the ending the bride and groom give flowers to their parents and read letters. The Hirouen will finish with the greeting by the master of ceremony and after that, all the people who attended at the Hirouen will receive a present from bride and groom.

I want to get married someday, and do wedding ceremony with Christian style, because I’m Christian. But before that, I need to find a groom…:P

-Diana-

-A letter to my friend-

Hello.

Today’s my topic is a letter to my Japanese friend who wants to learn English in Winnipeg, Canada.

Dear my friend.

Hello. Long time no see. Hey, I heard that you are interested in my English learning program in Winnipeg, right? Then I’ll tell you about it as much as I can!! The program what I’ve been joining since last April is Intensive English Program, in shortened form IEP. It is one of University of Manitoba’s English programs. In this program, we have activities. We usually have them on every Friday after classes. It is really fun. The activity leaders who are also the students of University of Manitoba plan many kinds of activities such as bowling or karaoke or skating and so on... We can make many friends even we are not in same class. And we can have really nice time together. They can take us to historical place so that we can know many things about Winnipeg.

Winnipeg is really good place to learn English but the winter is really cold, so I really recommend you to bring ski wear or buy outer in here. Even you bring warm outer, it would not work in here. And also you should bring really warm socks. When it is really cold, the temperature will be like -40 or -50 degree. If you would be a frostbitten, it is really terrible, because it has really nice ache, so to keep warm is really important in Winnipeg.

By the way, residence or homestay, which do you prefer? I recommend you to choose homestay because it can give you a good chance to speak English and also to know Canadian lifestyle. And after school you can hung out with your friends during going back to your home!!

I hope that my letter will make you more interested in Winnipeg. See you soon and if you decide to come to Winnipeg, let me know!! I’ll give you more information!! :)

From Diana.

-Diana-

-United 93 movie discussion-

Hello.

Today, I'll write about the movie "United 93". If you don't know well about this movie, please be careful to read my blog, because it including some information about the movie.

On September, 11th, 2011, a terrible incident had happened. Terrorists hijacked 4 airplanes and attacked World Trade Center and Pentagon. There was only one plane that couldn’t attack the target because of the courage of the passengers. A movie “United 93” is one of the movies about the incident. The movie’s view is from the plane what didn’t attack the target.

The movie is made with real time. The reason of it is because real time is good for telling the feeling to the audience of the movie. We can feel that we are in the movie or the happening in the movie is happening in our real world. It gives reality to the movie. I think the people who made this movie wanted to tell us how the incident was terrible and to think about the people have the power to change the ending. Even all the passenger of united 93 died, they helped the other people from the attack of the plane.

In this movie, all the character don’t have name. In my opinion, it is because everyone is the main character, so they don’t need any particular name. And also, if they put the name of the terrorists, it can make other people to discriminate the name of the person. So it also protects the discrimination.

In this movie there is also no mention about why the terrorists did such a terrible thing. I think it is prevention for the imitation of other people. In Japan, some people who got bullied usually think about killing by him or herself. There is no connection between killing by oneself and bullied, but some people did it. Because of it, killing by oneself became one of the ways to escape from the hurt. If the director put the reason about doing terror, other people could affect because of it.

The united 93 was the only one plane that didn’t attack the target, because of the fight back of passengers. I think they thought that they might die by hijacking. They heard by telephone that World Trade Center building and Pentagon got attacked by planes, so they could predict that the plane that they were taking could attack something. I think they wanted to stop even they could die. If they do nothing, they will die. If they do something, they can change something. Anyway they had the possibility of die, so they chose one that can help other people and had the possibility of survive.

The ending was really sad, but this is interesting movie. If you are interested in this movie you should watch it. It can tell you how the courage is important and how the usually can change easily. After you watch this movie you can think about the importance of every single day.

-Diana-


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-About Me-

Hello.

Today, I’ll write about myself, about who I am.

First of all, I’m a girl who is going to a university in Japan. I’m living in Japan with my father, mother and an older brother. But if someone asks me if I am Japanese, I can’t say yes, even I have a half blood of Japanese, because my nationality is Peru.

I was born in Peru what located in South America continent. When I was 4 years old, I moved to Japan what is one of island country in Asia. My father also has a Peruvian nationality even he has full of Japanese blood. It is because my father’s parents were immigrant from Japan. They really hated war, so they moved to Peru. My mother is pure Peruvian, so that’s why I am a half Peruvian and Japanese even both of my parents have Peruvian nationality.

After I was born, my father went to Japan for working, so I had just seen my father only in pictures, till I became 4 years old. I asked my mother many times, seeing my father’s pictures, “This is my father right? So… where is he?” I think it really hurt her, but I really wanted to see him in a real world... Because of me, my mother decided to go to Japan. Actually it was just for a visit, but Japan was much better than Peru, safe and interesting, so we are still living in Japan.

Now, I’m studying English in Canada. It has been since 2011 April, so I’ve been Canada for 9 months. Even I’ve been here for 9 months, it is still complicated for me to introduce myself in English, because I need to explain these things to people who I’ve met just now… orz haha That’s why I really, really hate to introduce myself… :P hahaha

-Diana-

-Welcome!!-

Hello!

Welcome to my blog!! :D
My name is Diana.
I'm a university student in Japan, but now I'm studying English in Canada.
I'll write about my daily life in Canada, my opinions or about my favorite things.
If you have questions, please let me know :)
I hope that you can enjoy my blog♥
Thank you for your visiting.

-Diana-