Natsuki's Birthday✿

 Today is Natsuki's birthday. So I made caramel shortbread for her and Kaori(her birthday is a week after Natsuki's birthday)♥　In Scot land Ms. Kane's mother made it to us and it was really really great!! All of us liked it. When I was asked what was the best food I had eaten in Britain by Mr. Harris, I answered Ms. Kane's mother's caramel short bread without pose! So I really wanted to eat this and tried to look for the recipe. But I didn't know even the name... Finally I found the recipe and I remember Natsuki and Kaori really liked this in Britain and their birthday came soon. So I made it yesterday♪
 To make caramel short bread was not so difficult but I made some mistakes...

<ingredient>

●short bread
butter : 150g
granulated sugar : tablespoon 4
flour : 150g
●caramel
butter : 125g
brown sugger : 100g
honey : tablespoon 2
condensed milk : 120ml
●chocolate
chocolate : 350g

<recipe>
1. Heat the oven 180℃
2. Make short bread.
    Put the butter(make it soft by room temperature), granulated sugar, flour into the bowl and mix them up.
3. Put them into the shape and bake it for 20 minutes in the oven.
   After bake make it cool.
4. Make the caramel.
   Put the butter, brown sugger honey, condensed milk into pot.
   Simmer it with low heat for about 7 munite. (Pay attention! It easily burn. Low heat and mix it well)
5. Put caramel onto the short bread.
   And make it cool in the refrigerator.
6. Make chocolate's streak.
    Break the plate of chocolates and put them into the bowl.
    Boil the water and put the bowl in it. (Pay attention don't get water in the bowl)
   Mix the chocolate until it melt.
7. Put the melt chocolate on the caramel streak and make it cool in the refrigerator.


  I think we need more flour for short bread. It was too weak and easy to collapse when we eat and take out it from the shape. Another recipe says 150g butter and 225g flour. I should try this recipe again!

Tell me when you wanna eat this I will make! And if you have trouble ask me or Ms. Kane or her mother. I think they know much better than me do, of course!

Recipe in Japanese : http://allrecipes.jp/recipe/2548/-------------.aspx

Wordle!

Orange

{It's heavy!

Country I want to go!

The UK is the most attractive place for me to visit.

I would like to learn English in the UK.

There are a lot of language schools so the UK is one of good countries to learn English.

Now I’m interested in summer school and if I could I want to participate in one of those.

Additionally people in the UK were kind to me.

Especially my host mother and other people who took care of me when I went to Oxford three years ago helped me a lot.

I want to go there by myself someday and to meet my host family and other people I met last time.

 Finally I want to look the cut old buildings in the UK as many as I can.

They were very different from Japanese ones and really beautiful.

From first time I looked at Blenheim palace, I’m really captive of buildings in the UK.

I would like to visit there again and again and to find more attractive things every time!

My degital camera♪

My digital camera is important so I bring it wherever I go. My very memorable pictures are in it. I can remember and think about my old friends, university friends and places I went with them thank to my camera. And to take new memorable ones I always bring it. Additionally,　my father gave it to me when I came to Shimane. It was my father's camera but he gave it to me because I became a member of the photo club. It’s also a good camera. It’s easy to use and pictures which are taken by this camera are really beautiful and rarely blurred. It’s one of important reasons I continue to use this little bit old camera from my father. Finally even though it is little bit old I want to use it as long as I can. I love my Canon digital camera very much.

VIETNAM!

I went to Vietnam from 22th of December to 31st . It was my first time to go to Asian country so lots of things were surprising to me. We enjoy Vietmee food, swimming, shopping and so on. We also joined volunteer. We brought note books to 13 schools because they lost lots of  things when the big flood came. Life in Vietnam is very different from ours and some of them are very poor. I expected to some extend but it was surprising. But they have amassing culture. All of them are good experiences for me. 

 Please enjoy pictures of Vietnam! I'll post some stories next time.

  

SNOW!

It has been cold little by little and we had little in Hamada! I really like snow because it's beautiful. In my home town, Toyama, we have a lot of snow every year. Look at this picture! In Mt. Tate we have really much snow and in May we can see this snow wall there. (In winter we can't enter Mt. Tate because of the snow) When I went there at first time I was so surprised and moved! So if you have chance to go to Toyama, Why don't you visit there ♪　It is also good to go hiking in Mt. Tate in Fall or Summer.

Michel!

Last week we went to Cafe Michel with my friends. I like this cafe because atmosphere  is very nice and their dishes are very delicious.  I ordered potato and fish gratin and croque-monsieur. It was good.

Christmas decoraion!

In the park next to au shop.

 In the same park.

I made one of egg decoration for free.

At cafeteria.

Korirakkuma♪

I found this steamed fish pasted(かまぼこ)　at Izumi yesterday. It's cute, isn't it? It was also delicious.

Tsuwano♪

On Wednesday we went to Tsuwano. It was my first time to visit there. It took about 1 hour and half. After driving we visit Taikodani Inari Shrine. There were very beautiful Torii and the view from there was very nice. After that we had free time, I mean we could go somewhere we planed for small group, we lent bicycles and we visited antique doll museum, Ogai Mori's house and Morijuku museum. I really impressed by these two museums. At antique doll museum, we can see not only dolls but also pictures and beautiful antique lace. And at the Morijuku museum we can see a lot of pictures and when we visit there clerk told about lots of things about their buildings. There are many interesting characterristics as Japanese traditional house. I can't explain them by words so if you go to Tsuwano you should visit Morijuku museum!

Gyouza Party

We had Gyouza party on Sunday. We started to cook at 7 o'clock but we started eat at about 10 o'clock! But we enjoyed cooking very much and also Gyoza and Mabo-tofu were really good! I want to try to make them by my self someday.

Today's Lunch★

I went to Masuda with my friend.And we had lunch at Rakuraku-tei next to the youme-town in Masuda. I ate the croquette set lunch. The coquette was not fried so it was healthy and delicious. And this salad was so delicious! This was with very good garlic dressing.

And we enjoyed driving! It was good weather and the colored leaves were very beautiful♪

And since it was warm we played soccer after driving. I'm not good at playing soccer but I had good time. And recently I didn't do any exercise so it must be good for my health.

Curry★

Yesterday I went to Yasaka to serve curry at the football festival. We made curry for about 40 people.

Running in the morning

This morning I went running at 6 o'clock. I run for 30 minutes and walked for 30 minutes. It was hard for me but landscape was so beautiful! I enjoyed it very much.

Japanese pampas grass

My Favorite!

These are my favorite drink, CALPICO(カルピス)　and chocolates.


I drink CLPICO almost everyday, but I will never be tired of this! I sometimes buy a bottle of undiluted solution of this and make special CALPICO with water and lemon. It's delicious. And in winter I sometimes make this with hot water or hot milk. It's also good. Please try once.


And I really like sweets, especially chocolate. I think this one is new goods and it's delicious! And for another instance, bitter Kit Kat and Toppo for men, salty butter biscuit ice cream(Hagen-dazs) are also good.


If you know something delicious sweets, please tell me!

Cute Dog♥

I like dog very much. And he (she?) is so cut, isn't he?

I really want one.

Iwamiginzan

On Wednesday, our seminar had a bus trip to Iwamiginzan.

During the morning we visit some places with an English guide.

It was great for us to get more information.

This picture of statues is "Gohyaku-rakan".

Five hundred and one statues in the cave.

Every statue have different faces.

I had really good time!

Volunteer Work

Last Saturday, I went to Children museum to work volunteer.

There is a event for children to make some handicrafts.

On that day, that was to make a handicraft with nuts, leaf, and so on.

It was interesting for us too.

I really wanted to join!

I worked for about 3 hours.

And The staff of the museum gave us free ticket!

So I want to go to see trick art exhibition.

I lost....

I played othello yesterday.
Incidentally I was white side!