We looked round Unitec with my classmates in this day. Unitec was a spacious building, but I think that there are very good facility in KGU better than Unitec. However, there were a lot of cafeterias in Unitec. I didn’t know the system in there, but I thought this university is very funny for me. I had a razagne at lunch. I ate i first time and it was very good. After school finished, I went to home with Yui and we did our homework. Yui's home was near my home. My host mother gave us refreshment. Cheese was on cracker. We liked it very much. After Yui came back her home, I handed over souvenir that I brought from Japan to my host mother. The souvenir was lilies, a small vase that was made with bamboo, origami and chopsticks. She pleased very much and she wreathed the wall with my souvenir. I was happy when I found it. After we ate dinner, she ate lilies. She said “It is very nice” I couldn't eat the lolly, because it is not good taste for me. However, the taste is Japanese taste. But I tried eating it. I also felt it was nice unexpectedly. Dinner was toast, bacon and egg. I usually eat toast morning or lunch. So, I ate it as dinner, but it was very good. Dessert was can of peach and yogurt. I like peach very much. So, I was in high spirit then. After we ate dinner, I took a shower and I went to bed. My room was very cute. So I could sleep very well. It was a comfortable room for me, because there are TV, big bed, desk, drawer and so on in my room. I had a very good time in this day!
2009年1月4日日曜日
In New Zealand 4/8/2008
We looked round Unitec with my classmates in this day. Unitec was a spacious building, but I think that there are very good facility in KGU better than Unitec. However, there were a lot of cafeterias in Unitec. I didn’t know the system in there, but I thought this university is very funny for me. I had a razagne at lunch. I ate i first time and it was very good. After school finished, I went to home with Yui and we did our homework. Yui's home was near my home. My host mother gave us refreshment. Cheese was on cracker. We liked it very much. After Yui came back her home, I handed over souvenir that I brought from Japan to my host mother. The souvenir was lilies, a small vase that was made with bamboo, origami and chopsticks. She pleased very much and she wreathed the wall with my souvenir. I was happy when I found it. After we ate dinner, she ate lilies. She said “It is very nice” I couldn't eat the lolly, because it is not good taste for me. However, the taste is Japanese taste. But I tried eating it. I also felt it was nice unexpectedly. Dinner was toast, bacon and egg. I usually eat toast morning or lunch. So, I ate it as dinner, but it was very good. Dessert was can of peach and yogurt. I like peach very much. So, I was in high spirit then. After we ate dinner, I took a shower and I went to bed. My room was very cute. So I could sleep very well. It was a comfortable room for me, because there are TV, big bed, desk, drawer and so on in my room. I had a very good time in this day!
In New Zealand 2/8/2008, 3/8/2008
I will write diary that I experienced in New Zealand.
I left Japan. It was first time in my life. I got up early in this day. My sister cut some peach and she also made miso soup in early morning. My father took me to KGU. And we went to airport in Fukuoka from Kumamoto. We felt a lot of check is troublesome. However, when I got on a plane, I was excited to go to New Zealand. We cashed money in R.S. Then, she gave me Singapore dollars about $2 to us as free gift. In Singapore airport, there are a lot of tree and flower. It was very beautiful and big flower bed. The airport also has much store and the each store was very cute. We had waiting time and we dropped into the lots store during our waiting time. And when we were waiting in floor, we heard examiner said “whose jacket is this?” And I looked it, I found it is mine! What with this and that, we could get on a plane. There are many foreigners in there. We had in-flight meal, but it was not so good for us. The sky and scene that we saw from plane was very beautiful and I took some pictures. Our flight time was about 13 hours. So, we were very tired. Next day, we visited Unitec. We studied in there. When we were waiting our host family, some people came in. A grandmother came in there. She was my host mother. It eased me, because she looks very kind. And we went to her house by her car. There is a cat in her house and him name is sam. We introduced ourselves and we sat down at the table. My host mother prepared Sushi for me. I was surprised at the Sushi, because the sushi had avocado, but it was so delicious. And I took a shower and I slept in this day. I was very happy.
I left Japan. It was first time in my life. I got up early in this day. My sister cut some peach and she also made miso soup in early morning. My father took me to KGU. And we went to airport in Fukuoka from Kumamoto. We felt a lot of check is troublesome. However, when I got on a plane, I was excited to go to New Zealand. We cashed money in R.S. Then, she gave me Singapore dollars about $2 to us as free gift. In Singapore airport, there are a lot of tree and flower. It was very beautiful and big flower bed. The airport also has much store and the each store was very cute. We had waiting time and we dropped into the lots store during our waiting time. And when we were waiting in floor, we heard examiner said “whose jacket is this?” And I looked it, I found it is mine! What with this and that, we could get on a plane. There are many foreigners in there. We had in-flight meal, but it was not so good for us. The sky and scene that we saw from plane was very beautiful and I took some pictures. Our flight time was about 13 hours. So, we were very tired. Next day, we visited Unitec. We studied in there. When we were waiting our host family, some people came in. A grandmother came in there. She was my host mother. It eased me, because she looks very kind. And we went to her house by her car. There is a cat in her house and him name is sam. We introduced ourselves and we sat down at the table. My host mother prepared Sushi for me. I was surprised at the Sushi, because the sushi had avocado, but it was so delicious. And I took a shower and I slept in this day. I was very happy.
My research
When I went to New Zealand, I was research about difference between staple food of Japan and New Zealand. So, I will write about my research.1. Introduction
Staple food is the food that we eat mainly in our everyday life. In Japan, carbohydrates like rice are the common. For example, rice ball, sushi and curry rice. Japanese often eat many carbohydrates together. Do they do so in New Zealand as well? I researched about difference between the staple food and carbohydrates of New Zealand and Japan.
In Japan, most people eat rice every day, but they eat bakery goods too. Recently, young people eat breads every breakfast and lunch in Japan. What do they eat every day in New Zealand? Perhaps people in New Zealand eat baked breads every day too. What is the staple food and carbohydrates in New Zealand diets?
2. In Kumamoto
Japanese staple food is rice. Side dishes are made to match rice. For example, pickled ume, miso soup and fish are good with rice. Many people also like sushi which is made rise. A Japanese-style confectionery called rice cake covered with bean jam also exists in Japan. It is made of rice and it is popular among Japanese. And there are other many foods which are made of rice. For example, bread that is made from powder of rice is sold at supermarket lately.
Almost all Japanese people eat rice at breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan. However, we eat bread and noodles as staple foods too. At the present day, although potato isn’t a staple food, some people eat potato as staple food with butter, cuttlefish and so on in Hokkaido. Even so, almost all people live on rice. That is to say, our staple food is carbohydrate.
The reason why rice has been our staple food is that it suits the Japanese climate. Rice is our main food and main source of life for Japanese, but it depends on the weather whether there is a large harvest of rice or not. Rice determines people’s life and fate in its hands.
However, rice was not our staple food from ancient times. Before rice farming started 2000 years ago, the staple food was millet. The millet was barnyard grass, barley and beans. Japan’s population was about 200,000 before rice farming started, but now, it is about 100,240,000.
Rice is a carbohydrate and has much nourishment. Rice also contains a lot of protein, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, dietary fiber and so on.
Finally, Japanese often eat the many carbohydrates together. For example, we put some potatoes in curry and put curry on the rice. Sometime, we also eat bread with pasta. Potato and rice are both carbohydrates. Bread and pasta are carbohydrates too. It is usual for us to eat some carbohydrates together at a time. However, it is different in New Zealand.
3. In NZ
People of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, but they have a concept of main food. I sent out questionnaires to my host mother, her friend and my friend’s host family in New Zealand about their main food at breakfast, lunch and dinner about 15 people. According to the survey, their main food was potatoes and bread. Though cereal also popular in people of New Zealand, almost of New Zealander eat bread and potatoes every day. They also eat carbohydrates as their main food. It is same to Japanese about thing that we eat carbohydrate as staple food.
Potatoes contain much glucose and food value is high. We can cultivate potatoes and sweet in poor soil. Generally, the advantage of growing potatoes is that it is easier than growing grain and good efficiency. However, potatoes do not keep for a long time and they have to have protein as a side dish.
As for me, I ate bread every morning in my home in New Zealand, but we didn’t eat bread at dinner, because dinner is a big meal. Almost every day, we ate meat and potatoes at dinner, for example, beef and mashed potatoes or chicken and baked potatoes, and even lion meat! However, we didn’t eat carbohydrates together. For example, potatoes and rice or noodles and bread together, because according to my host mother “it is too much carbohydrate for me.”
My host mother often cooks mashed potatoes and baked potatoes of Kumara to me. It is a kind of potato and carbohydrate. I ate this as staple food in New Zealand. She taught me how to cook the baked Kumara. It is very easy. This is the recipe. (At first, cut the Kumara. Next, mix the Kumara with butter and soy sauce. And bake it in oven.) I made it when I got back to Japan. And my family said me “good”. Many people who live in New Zealand knows many recipes how to cook, because to make a lot of kind dishes with only one carbohydrate. (Though the main foods are potatoes and bread, they have a lot of recipe to enjoy much kind of dinners in New Zealand.) Kumara looks like sweet potato and it is Maori language. There are some Maori people in New Zealand. They learn fishing and they ate fish as staple food during 150 years. However, they couldn't’t eat other food, because the climate changed and it ruined plants and animals. And they made a field of Kumara and Taro. Then, they also eat potatoes and bread as staple food every day.
As to whether or not they eat carbohydrate together, the question about it was split right down the middle. The people who answered “I don’t eat them together” and “I often eat carbohydrate together” were about the some. One person who answered “I don’t eat it together” explained “because it is too much carbohydrate for me”. Another person who answered “I often eat carbohydrate together” explained “I eat bread and noodles” and “I eat potatoes and rice!” It is usual to eat carbohydrate together in Japan, but it was not usual in New Zealand.
4. Conclusion
From the above research, Japanese live on rice and we eat rice everyday. Our staple food is carbohydrates. In addition, we eat carbohydrate together at the some time. And it is usual for us. On the other hand, though people of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, they eat mainly bread and potatoes. And my research said they are also carbohydrates. However, there are both people who eat carbohydrates together and people who don’t eat them together. In brief, it was split right down middle.
5. Bibliography
(Rice Wikipedia) from http://www.iy-place.com/kome-eiyou/
(encyclopedia; Wikipedia) from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/主食
(Q&A of Making rice Wikipedia) from http://agrin.jp/hp/q_and_a/shushoku.htm
Below question is question that I heard to my host family and friend’s host family.
1 What staple food do you eat at your breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2 Do you eat some carbohydrates together? yes→Q3 and no→Q4
3 What carbohydrates do you eat together?
Staple food is the food that we eat mainly in our everyday life. In Japan, carbohydrates like rice are the common. For example, rice ball, sushi and curry rice. Japanese often eat many carbohydrates together. Do they do so in New Zealand as well? I researched about difference between the staple food and carbohydrates of New Zealand and Japan.
In Japan, most people eat rice every day, but they eat bakery goods too. Recently, young people eat breads every breakfast and lunch in Japan. What do they eat every day in New Zealand? Perhaps people in New Zealand eat baked breads every day too. What is the staple food and carbohydrates in New Zealand diets?
2. In Kumamoto
Japanese staple food is rice. Side dishes are made to match rice. For example, pickled ume, miso soup and fish are good with rice. Many people also like sushi which is made rise. A Japanese-style confectionery called rice cake covered with bean jam also exists in Japan. It is made of rice and it is popular among Japanese. And there are other many foods which are made of rice. For example, bread that is made from powder of rice is sold at supermarket lately.
Almost all Japanese people eat rice at breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan. However, we eat bread and noodles as staple foods too. At the present day, although potato isn’t a staple food, some people eat potato as staple food with butter, cuttlefish and so on in Hokkaido. Even so, almost all people live on rice. That is to say, our staple food is carbohydrate.
The reason why rice has been our staple food is that it suits the Japanese climate. Rice is our main food and main source of life for Japanese, but it depends on the weather whether there is a large harvest of rice or not. Rice determines people’s life and fate in its hands.
However, rice was not our staple food from ancient times. Before rice farming started 2000 years ago, the staple food was millet. The millet was barnyard grass, barley and beans. Japan’s population was about 200,000 before rice farming started, but now, it is about 100,240,000.
Rice is a carbohydrate and has much nourishment. Rice also contains a lot of protein, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, dietary fiber and so on.
Finally, Japanese often eat the many carbohydrates together. For example, we put some potatoes in curry and put curry on the rice. Sometime, we also eat bread with pasta. Potato and rice are both carbohydrates. Bread and pasta are carbohydrates too. It is usual for us to eat some carbohydrates together at a time. However, it is different in New Zealand.
3. In NZ
People of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, but they have a concept of main food. I sent out questionnaires to my host mother, her friend and my friend’s host family in New Zealand about their main food at breakfast, lunch and dinner about 15 people. According to the survey, their main food was potatoes and bread. Though cereal also popular in people of New Zealand, almost of New Zealander eat bread and potatoes every day. They also eat carbohydrates as their main food. It is same to Japanese about thing that we eat carbohydrate as staple food.
Potatoes contain much glucose and food value is high. We can cultivate potatoes and sweet in poor soil. Generally, the advantage of growing potatoes is that it is easier than growing grain and good efficiency. However, potatoes do not keep for a long time and they have to have protein as a side dish.
As for me, I ate bread every morning in my home in New Zealand, but we didn’t eat bread at dinner, because dinner is a big meal. Almost every day, we ate meat and potatoes at dinner, for example, beef and mashed potatoes or chicken and baked potatoes, and even lion meat! However, we didn’t eat carbohydrates together. For example, potatoes and rice or noodles and bread together, because according to my host mother “it is too much carbohydrate for me.”
My host mother often cooks mashed potatoes and baked potatoes of Kumara to me. It is a kind of potato and carbohydrate. I ate this as staple food in New Zealand. She taught me how to cook the baked Kumara. It is very easy. This is the recipe. (At first, cut the Kumara. Next, mix the Kumara with butter and soy sauce. And bake it in oven.) I made it when I got back to Japan. And my family said me “good”. Many people who live in New Zealand knows many recipes how to cook, because to make a lot of kind dishes with only one carbohydrate. (Though the main foods are potatoes and bread, they have a lot of recipe to enjoy much kind of dinners in New Zealand.) Kumara looks like sweet potato and it is Maori language. There are some Maori people in New Zealand. They learn fishing and they ate fish as staple food during 150 years. However, they couldn't’t eat other food, because the climate changed and it ruined plants and animals. And they made a field of Kumara and Taro. Then, they also eat potatoes and bread as staple food every day.
As to whether or not they eat carbohydrate together, the question about it was split right down the middle. The people who answered “I don’t eat them together” and “I often eat carbohydrate together” were about the some. One person who answered “I don’t eat it together” explained “because it is too much carbohydrate for me”. Another person who answered “I often eat carbohydrate together” explained “I eat bread and noodles” and “I eat potatoes and rice!” It is usual to eat carbohydrate together in Japan, but it was not usual in New Zealand.
4. Conclusion
From the above research, Japanese live on rice and we eat rice everyday. Our staple food is carbohydrates. In addition, we eat carbohydrate together at the some time. And it is usual for us. On the other hand, though people of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, they eat mainly bread and potatoes. And my research said they are also carbohydrates. However, there are both people who eat carbohydrates together and people who don’t eat them together. In brief, it was split right down middle.
5. Bibliography
(Rice Wikipedia) from http://www.iy-place.com/kome-eiyou/
(encyclopedia; Wikipedia) from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/主食
(Q&A of Making rice Wikipedia) from http://agrin.jp/hp/q_and_a/shushoku.htm
Below question is question that I heard to my host family and friend’s host family.
1 What staple food do you eat at your breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2 Do you eat some carbohydrates together? yes→Q3 and no→Q4
3 What carbohydrates do you eat together?
Above picture is chicken, mashed potatoes, beans and tomato. It was very delicious!
Hot spring
I went to Tukasanoyu with my mother and my father. It is name of hot spring. I was soaked in various baths in there. Open-air bath, Hinoki bath and so on. I also went in sauna bath with my mother. The sauna has much salt. The name of sauna was salt sauna. I knew that there is salt sauna in hot spring first time. So, I was very amazed then. I rubbed salt my legs and arms. And I sweated part that I rubbed salt. I like taking a hot spring very much. So, I took some bath about one hour and a half with my mother.
After we took some bath, we had lunch in restaurant. Tukasanoyu also have restaurant. We had smorgasbord and I ate a lot of meal in there. The lunch is above picture. It was very delicious for us and I was satisfied the meal.
When we went to home, we saw beautiful scene. Above picture is this scene. Yesterday was sunny day. So, we could see the scene.I had a good time yesterday and I liked a hot spring that we went to. I want to go there again and I want to go with family next time.
2009年1月2日金曜日
Cream puff
I ate cream puff today. There is cake shop near my house and my sister bought it there. Left picture is the cream puff. I like cream puff very much. So, I was very happy. This cream puff has much cream in crust. It is very creamy and very delicious! Sweets that were sold usually it were made white sugar, but this cream puff was made brown sugar. White sugar is not so good to our health, but brown sugar is not so bad. I want to eat it every day.
A happy new year!!
A happy new year!! It is 2009 years now. Last year, I had very good experience. For example, I went to New Zealand. I left Japan for the first time in my life. And I met a lot of kind people in there. My host mother was very good parson. I was really happy then. And I became twenty years old. So, we will have ceremony in this month. So, I was bought expensive long-sleeved kimono by my parent. I'm looking forward to dress it and see my friends. It was very happy year in last year for me.
Yesterday, it was New Year’s Day. So, I ate Osechi cooking with family. My mother and my sister cooked it every year. So, we ate it in the afternoon. We also had a sweet beverage made from fermented rice. It also is our customs. Osechi cooking was very delicious. We had a good time yesterday.
I want have very nice year in this year too. I want to go to abroad, Europe, next time. I like foreign country very much, but when I go to there, I have to save much money. I don’t have part-time job now, because I gave up my part-time job. So, I have to look for new part-time job. And I have to study English more hard. Last year, I found interesting English book in school. So, I want to buy it. I want to spend safety and happy chiefly. I wish they a happy new year.
Yesterday, it was New Year’s Day. So, I ate Osechi cooking with family. My mother and my sister cooked it every year. So, we ate it in the afternoon. We also had a sweet beverage made from fermented rice. It also is our customs. Osechi cooking was very delicious. We had a good time yesterday.
I want have very nice year in this year too. I want to go to abroad, Europe, next time. I like foreign country very much, but when I go to there, I have to save much money. I don’t have part-time job now, because I gave up my part-time job. So, I have to look for new part-time job. And I have to study English more hard. Last year, I found interesting English book in school. So, I want to buy it. I want to spend safety and happy chiefly. I wish they a happy new year.
2008年12月31日水曜日
Aso
I went to Aso with my father and my sister. This day, we took my sister to Aso, because she stayed there. She often stay to riding horse. The name of accommodation is GREEN VALLEY. There are a lot of horses and dogs in there. Horse is very cute. I got on a horse in New Zealand. I couldn't get on a horse very well, but my sister can get on horse very well. If I have a chance, I want to get on horse again. Some actor often comes there. Tuyoshi Kusanagi also came there to shooting a movie. I wanted to see him.
The return road, I ate rice ball with my father. My mother cooked it for us. And we saw a beautiful piece of scenery. The scene is above picture. It was sunny day in this day. So, we could see a beautiful scene.
After that, we bought Taiyaki and came back home.
We felt refreshed.
The return road, I ate rice ball with my father. My mother cooked it for us. And we saw a beautiful piece of scenery. The scene is above picture. It was sunny day in this day. So, we could see a beautiful scene.
After that, we bought Taiyaki and came back home.
We felt refreshed.
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