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If you really love flowers, I strongly recommend “keukenhof” in Holland to visit!!!

I’ve been there more than 5 times but still I desire to visit there again.

I can and many people who visited there say all together “Keukenhof is the most beautiful flower park in the world”. It is not too much to say that “Keukenhof” is fantastic, amazing and brilliant!!!!

Everywhere is flower and flower. And one of the best things is good color combination. I feel the Dutch’s talent for flowers and colors.

Not only “keukenhof park” but also other places are beautiful. If you are lucky ( I mean if you visit there just the right time) you can see fields which are coverd with flowers!!

Flower curpet \(^o^)/

March 6th

6.00-12.00  snow

12.00-18.00  snow

18.00-0.00 snow

… Enough!!!

As I wrote the previous post, March 3rd is Girl’s Festival (Hinamatsuri)  Japan.

Normally we display specific dolls (Hinaningyou) on a tiered stand. These specific dolls when a baby girl is born, her parents or grandparents buy the dolls. There are some meanings why we give the girl “Hinaningyou”.

I’ll tell you one of them which is the most important wish from the parents of the girl.

The dolls are believed to protect the girl from evil forever.

When I was a child, my mother cooked special dinner for “Hinamatsuri”. It’s called “Chirashizushi” . It’s kind of sushi but looks completely differents and the ingredients also! Few times I wore “Kimono”!!

My mother’s friend sent me a little “Hinaningyou” for me! If you want to see real “Hinaningyou”, please google!!

Normally “Hinaningyou” is consist of seven steps. We call it “Nana dan kazari”.

Today (Februrary 22nd) is “cat” day in Japan!!!! Do you know why? I’m sure you don’t understand or you think it’s absolutuly stupid.

Well, in Japan the sound of cats is “Nyan nyan nyan” . February in Japanese is “Nigatu and 22nd is Nijyu-ni.

That’s why today is “Cat day”.

Ok, maybe some people want to ask “Is there also “dog day” in a year?”

Yes!! Don’t worry we are not mean and like to be equal. Can you guess when it is?

The sound of dogs is “One one one”. So January 11th is “Dog day”.

Are there cat and dog’s days in your country??

As I wrote last December in my homepage, I took a German exam which is called First Certificate. The exam was quite difficult especially a speaking part so after the exam I thought I failed it.

2 months later I got the result and surprisingly I passed it with high score!! Fisrt I couldn’t believe it so I checked the name if it was really mine

!  Last Nobember and December were very hard time for me because of my body condition and it was very hard to concentrate on studying but I roused myself to study hard.

Now I’m happy that my efforts were fully rewarded!