Writing Class

     While it is getting cold in Japan, there is a place where short summer has come. At the place the sun creeps on the horizon. It is basically very cold. Sometimes extremely strong blizzard attacks. The place is the Antarctic.      Many people may want to go there once in a lifetime. I also want to do so. Indeed, I want to work there. Yearning for the Antarctic is one of the reasons why I am studying Earth and Planetary Science.  I want to research the geographic history of the Antarctic.      When I was worried about my path, I met the anime:" Sora Yorimo Tooi Basho". The title means a place further than the universe. This is a story about teenage girls who aim to go to the Antarctic. Each one has reasons why they are going to the place, and  difficulties. They overcome them together.  I really moved and decided to pursue the thing I want to do like them.  This anime made me who I am now.      I also loo...

     These days it is getting cold. I am in trouble because I don't have so many winter clothes. I want to go to buy a nice jacket in the city.      By the way, it is the first winter that I begin to live in Saijo. Before I came to Saijo, I live in Yokohama. On the Pasific side in Japan, it rarely snows even in the deep of winter. It is not so cold. So I was surprised by the cold in last spring in Saijo. Sometimes People suffer from dryness. It causes rough skin. I always carried a tube of hand cream. On the other hand on the sea of Japan side, it is called heavy snowfall area. Under the influence of wet air from the sea of Japan, it snows 2 –3 meters every year.      Climate is different depend on the region, but What I was surprised is the difference of temperature between Hiroshima city and Saijo. I don't know why, but in Saijo it is colder than Hiroshima city. What is the cause?

      There are cattle and people playing the cellos in a cow-shed. Cattle are interested in the melody of the cellos. A calf seems to want to listen to the music in front of the band, but many cows are obstructing his path.