http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com Just another KansaiBlogger.com weblog Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:22:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The exhibition season has come! I prefer autumn because I was born in November. But this season, beautiful flowers are blooming and brilliant greens can be seen here and there. In March, I went to see " Japan's Encounter with European Ceramics", "Jusaburo Tujimura's Dolls Collection", "Germany Poster Exhibition" and "Edvard Munch; The ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2008/03/25/exhibition-2/ I went to Beijing with my sister and her son from July 8th to 11th. My nephew works for The Ritz Carlton in Osaka. As he got three free tickets to Beijing ,he took us there. It took about only three houres from Kansai air port to Beijing capital airport. So ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/07/15/traveling-to-beijing/ From May 4 to May 11, my first traveling in this year was the visiting to Baltic three countries,Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. My sister and I joined the 19 people-tour and we were away from Kansai airport to Helsinki in Finland. It took 9hours 40 minutes and we had to ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/05/19/the-visiting-to-baltic-three-countries/ She is a four-year -old girl and she had a pleasant experience at that exhibition in Kyoto with me. Unfortunately , most of pictures were landscape paintings . She wasn't interested in them. So, she could see only few portraits. After seeing the exhibition , we went to the Kyoto Zoo . ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/03/31/my-granddaughters-first-experience-in-the-great-ermitagh-museum-exhibition/ In Japan , most homes with girls display Hina dolls ,then they celebrate the Girl's Day.  My Hina dolls are very old ones which were bought for my elder sister's first Girl's Day . At that time , my family lived in China and my grandmother sent them from Japan. Most ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/03/06/girls-day/ I read a good news on The Daily Yomiuri.   A research team from York  University in Tronto and other institutions said that bilingual people typically develop dementia about four years later than those who only speak one language. In my case,my English speaking  is beyond the reach of bilingual one.  I'll ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/01/31/the-dementia/ My husband and I suffered from diarrhea and vomiting of epidemic virus from Dec.24 to 30 ,2006.  So we couldn't see my daughter's family and couldn't eat the Christmas,New Year food.  I lost my weight 3Kgs,but I had many wrinkles. This is a bad things. We quickly went to the hospital ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2007/01/08/the-unhappy-new-year/ I traveled to the Kingdom of Nepal from Nov.26 to Dec. 2 with my sister and 17 tour people. We  flew 6 hours from the Kansai Airport to the Suvarhabhumi Airport in Bangkok which was built in this year.  It is the biggest one in Asia, so we had to walk ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2006/12/18/travel-to-nepal/ It was very hot like summer on Sept.8. I visited three museums allday. First I went to The great Ancor wat exhibition in Osaka. I've been to Cambodia and visited there , so it reminded me the magnificent temples. Next I went to Prado museum exhibition. I've been to Spain twice, of ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2006/10/05/the-exhibitions/ 1　　Ｔｒａｖｅｌｅｄ　ｔｏ　Ｐｅｒｕ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｍｙ　ｄａｕｇｈｔｅｒ　ｆｏｒ　ｔｅｎ　days.2 Went to the Takarazuka revue with my sister.3 My daughter's family moved from Yawata city to Hirakata city on August.4 Visited my ancestor's graves at Obon.Ｔｈｅ　ｍｏｓｔ　ｉｍｐｒｅｓｓｅｄ　ｅｖｅｎｔ　ｗａｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｒａｖｅｌｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　Ｐｅｒｕ．Ｉ　ｗｅｎｔ　ｔｏ　Ｐｅｒｕ　ｆｒｏｍ　Ｊｕｎｅ　２９　ｔｏ　July 8 with Takako.I stayed at her house on June 28 and flew ... http://yoshikohirata.kansaiblogger.com/2006/10/05/the-summer-events/