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!
As a Valentine present Stefan gave me a cute card, a bunch of tulips and Laduree Macaron!
Japanese Valentine’s day is different from European style. In Japan Feb. 14th women give chocolate to their lovers. ( Often give something additional such as wallet, tie and so on). And one month later Mar. 14th the men give something to the women as a return gift. Of course it depends on how thick their wallets are!
I always think Japanese people really love events. Compared with the events in Switzerland, Japan has much more… I think this is one of reasons why I miss Japan.
Ok, I’ll pick up some of them… (I don’t write about public holidays, Japanese public holidays are also crazy!)
- Jan. 1st New Years
- Feb. 3rd “Setubun”
- Feb. 14th Valentine’s day
- Mar. 3rd Girls Festival
- Mar. 14th White day
- May. 5th Children’s day
- May. 2nd Sunday Mother’s day
- Jun. 2nd Sunday Father’s day
- Jul. 7th Star Festival
- Oct. 3st Halloween
- Dec. 16th Yuko’s Birthday (Oops! you don’t want to know do you?!)
- Dec. 24th and 25th Christmas
- Dec. 31st New Year’s Eve
I cooked easy Valentine’s dinner I was going to cook a big dinner but after drawing pictures on the cookies, I was so tired and…so I cooked easy Valentine’s dinner. Sorry…Stefan.
I cooked Stefan’s favorite Japanese potato salad, uncured ham, salmon mini toast, and cream stew and so on…
But I ‘m happy he always eats up my dinner and never complains about my food! He must have been disciplined very well by his parents!
I baked cookies for Stefan on Valentine’s day. This time I had a great motivation to do somethig tiny, so I decided to draw pictures on the cookies.
It was a big fun to do it. Using a toothpick and draw picures little by little!!
What should I cook next time…
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.
