Thursday, December 11, 2008

Music of the Week! 週刊音楽

The Music of the week is "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, pt.1" by The Flaming Lips.
Enjoy!
Here are the words to the song:

Her name is Yoshimi - she's a black belt in karate
Working for the city - she has to discipline her body -
Cause she knows that it's demanding to defeat these
Evil machines - I know she can beat them -

Oh Yoshimi
They don't believe me
But you won't let those
Robots defeat me
Oh Yoshimi
They don't believe me
But you won't let those
Robots eat me

Those evil natured robots - they're programmed to
Destroy us - She's gotta be strong to fight them -
So she's taking lots of vitamins - cause she knows that
It'd be tragic if those evil robots win - I know
She can beat them -

Making Tofu on Ooshima Island

On December 11th, the Ooshima elementary students and several others, including some handicapped adults, made tofu by hand.

This video shows our teacher. Watch how fast she is!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

No Car Day (ノーマイカーデー )


December 10th, 11th, and 12th (12月 10-11-12日) are No Car Days (ノーマイカーデー ).

Please try not to use your car these days!(あなたの車を使用しないでください!) Ride your bike! Walk! It is good for our planet!(私たちの惑星に良いです!) It is good for your health!(それはあなたの健康に良いです!)


I hope you will see that you can use your car much less!


Monday, December 1, 2008

Winter (冬) in Minnesota (ミんネソタ)

Here is a video of nordic skiing on a very snowy day in Duluth, Minnesota from last year. This video is from December 23, 2007 (2007年12月23日) For any Ojika people who think that the weather has been cold recently, imagine being in Minnesota!
The current Duluth temperature is -8 Centigrade.  ダルツの温度はいま -8 です。