August 1st is Swiss National Foundation Day.
Switzerland was founded in 1291. So still 719 years old!! Young country isn’t it?!
Today I’ll compare Switzerland with Japan.
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Switzerland |
Japan |
| Year of founding |
1291 |
660B.C February 11th |
| Capital |
Bern |
Tokyo |
| Biggest city in the country |
Zurich |
Tokyo |
| Size of country |
41,290km2 |
377,914km2 ( 5 main islands and 6’847 islands) |
| Population |
7,568,ooo |
127,288,419 |
| Density |
180/km2 |
377/km2 |
| The 3 kantons or prefectures which have big populations |
No1 Zurich-1’273’278 (736/km2) |
No1 Tokyo-12,700,000 (5790/km2) |
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No2 Bern-956’000 (160/km2) |
No2 Kanagawa-88500,000 (3663/km2) |
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No3 Luzern-354’662 (238/km2) |
No3 Osaka-8’200’000 (4’654/km2) |
Official language
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Swiss German(65%) French (24%) Italian(10%) Romansh (1%) |
Japanese |
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Posted in: Different culture.
This is “Gyo-za”.
Stefan’s favorite food! For dipping sauce. We make with soy sauce, vinegar and “ra-yu” (special spicy oil).
Nearly every bite Stefan said “Oishi!!! (Delicious in Japanese).
About 20 minutes later the plate was completely empty w(@ @)w
Posted in: Food.
”tetsudai” means help in English. But in Japanese we often use “otetsudai” when children help their mother… so today on purpose I use this word “otetsudai” instead of using “help”.
We also have a word that mother ask her children to go shopping. We say “otsukai” in Japanese.
It’s quite interesting I often have difficulties translating words or sentences from Japanese into English or German.
So sometimes I shouldn’t use English or German words, otherwise the word loses its original meaning.
By the way today Stefan did “otetsudai” to prepare for dinner. I know he is 28 years old and shouldn’t use the word “otetsudai”. But many Japanese children love this preparation as I loved it when I was a child.
What we cooked is…”Gyo-za”. One of Stefan’s favorite Japanese food. I used garlic, cabbage, ground pork, ginger, sesame oil and so on… I couldn’t find a vegetable (special leek “nira” in Japanese) so I used a long green onion instead of “nira”.
Stuff the ingredients in a thin wrapping of dough. And use water to stick the both side!
Posted in: Different culture, Food.
Today is my mother’s 49th birthday.
To my regret I can’t celebrate her birthday with her any more…
But somehow I want to celebrate it every year, so this year Stefan took me to the Italian restaurant which is near our house.
Unfortunately I couldn’t toast with a glass of wine. But I had a great time with my Stefan.
Happy Birthday My Mother!!
I’ll be a mother, you’ll be grandmother!
Posted in: Private.
Beginning of July I changed the balcony flowers! Summer version!
Red, white, purple… all of them are from the same seedling!
Soo cute!
Now some bees are enjoying drinking the nectar v(^^)v
Posted in: Flower.
August 1st is Swiss National Foundation Day.
