Two weeks journey

In this week, I'd like to talk about our vacation. Have you ever been to another countries? My answer is Yes, but its number is not so much. I visited U.S. (four times) and South Korea, and my family always chose Hawaii as our vacation site, therefore my opinion is partial. However, I love to travel for outside-Japan (also I like domestic travel!). As you read, I never been to Europe and now I interested in France which belongs to EU.

France are located on near U.K., and I think this country might be best place to stay as your vacation. First, France is far away from Japan about twelve hours by plane. I have no problem to board a plane for long hours, and long time air travel gave me great imagination that how should I spend great holiday! And I heard from my friend, climate of France were pretty good. It means that there is no worries location and flight time. And also, as you know, France has great food histories and it would be delicious, I believe. Finally, it is most important thing to consider another county; culture. However, I don't know much about French culture because I never met person coming from France.

Vacation in France will be great time because it has plenty of food and historical points we should visit. I' m looking forward to kindness of Français(French people).

Impact of Media

I think media effect is huge for everyone especially for kids and teenagers. For me, one tv drama changes my thought for future. The name of TV show is "The West Wing"(Click to read details of this story). Genre of this drama is political and human. Its story took place on the white house in Washington D.C. The West Wing detailed on American Politics and characters in this story are almost staffs of the White house. The reasons why I choose this as changed my life are following;

1: People in all over the world is not equal -People in Japan can use electricity, waters, gas and our life called "developed country". In this drama, they are trying to solve this huge huge problem. I thought people in this world should try to think about that.-

2. Before I watched this, I hated learning English because it was difficult to understand for me when I was junior high school student. (Still complicated for me!) However, I thought I should study English because its drama emphasized the importance of English as an world language.

From these two reasons, I thought the media effect could be changed our mind. And slos, I learned importance of "equalness" and "world language".

Version 2 Invisibe Belief

It is difficult to recognize invisible beliefs because people from different culture cannot follow or realize that. Therefore, someone thought it is common sense, but others said it is invisible or it cannot be a common sense.

In Japan, there are many beliefs in Japanese common sense which is difficult to understand. "annmoku no ryokai" is one of examples. It means "Answer the question without saying about that". If you are going to buy home electronics at the retailer, you are planning to get discount from store cloak. You say "How much is it?" if price card are already displayed. Store cloak will answer "it's already tried the best effort for you". It means "please don't expect more discounts." Sometime, you can get more discount at there but almost you can't.

From Ted's videoclip, we could understand the definition of "Invisible beliefs". From her perspective, it is unusual why staff and manager did not to serve tea with sugar because they have it. I think her opinion is right. However, Japanese people afraid to take a position which majority did not. Why? Japanese tend to tease people who did not follow current trend or tradition. "annmoku no ryokai" is one of traditions, so people who will come Japan should understand before you arrive!

Invisibe Belief

It is difficult to recognize invisible beliefs because people have their own measures. Therefore, someone thought it is common sense, but others said it is invisible.

In Japan, there are many beliefs in Japanese common sense. "annmoku no ryokai" is one of examples. It means "Answer the question without saying about that". If you are going to buy home electronics at the retailer, you are planning to get discount from store cloak. You say "How much is it?" if price card are already displayed. Store cloak will answer "it's already tried the best effort for you". It means "please don't expect more discounts." Sometime, you can get more discount at here but almost you can't.

I really suffered to express this meaning. If you can't understand, please forgive me...