Hanamatsuri (Flower festival) I went to Hana-matsuri, or Flower festival, with my family yesterday. Originally, Hana-matsuri celebrates Buddha's birthday and has a long tradition. Now, however, it is not so popular as Xmas in Japan. Many people in the festival I went to may not know what Hana-matsuri celebrates, because the festival was not traditional style, even the date was not the traditional date. The main street was closed for pedestrian and there were many booths. Traditionally, people pour sweat teas over a statue of Buddha decorated with flowers. The statue and teas were set but the place was the end of the street, and the other part was free from Buddhist tradition. I enjoyed the festival but I thought of Buddha only when a Buddhist monk gave me a sweat tea.

Parenting: Tough lesson I have two children; one is a toddler and the other is a infant. I read an article about parenting a few days ago. The writer has two children. She wrote that parenting extend her emotion range both high and low directions. I mean "Parenting makes good times better and bad times worse." I really sympathized it. She also said parenting taught her important things. That is "You can't always control your life. People can live without perfect mutual understanding. This experience convince you that appreciation and tolerance are important." Oh..... I wonder if I will learn this?

A memory of a part time job I live in Tottori prefecture, which has the smallest population in Japan. Usually, trains are not so crowded even in the morning. However, It was crowded than usual yesterday and I remembered a memory of a part time job. Until this January, I lived in Tokyo over 20 years, which is over 20 times bigger than Tottori in population. When I was an undergraduate student of a university in central Tokyo, as a general case in Japan, I worked part time job. I worked at a station near the university before the first lecture. What I did was to open doors of train cars and push commuters into the cars. Could you understand? If you can't understand, please check a video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLK9VU9JSfc&nohtml5=False

Today's dish I live in Torrori city Japan. The city yields many kinds of foods, because it has a variety of terrains from seaside area in the north and mountainous area in the south. Today, I found a reasonable price fish, a pacific cod. I tried to cook an Acqua pazza, which is an Italian cuisine of fish. It tasted good for me, and my wife and child said delicious. I was very pleased with that, so I will try it again.