Christmas is comming

もう１２月に入り、クリスマスの雰囲気満載になってきたロンドンですが、実際普通に生活していれば、イルミネーションがちらほら見えるくらい。しかし、ちょっと足を伸ばしてクリスマスマーケットや、ハイドパークにできるちょっとしたテーマパークへ行ってみれば、別世界のような気にもなります。そんな突如現れるテーマパーク、Winter Wonderland なるものへ行ってきました。こんな大掛かりなマーケットやテーマパークがHyde Parkにできてしまうなんて、どんだけHyde Parkがでかいんだという気もします。（しかもHyde Parkのほんの一部分でこの規模・・・）随時チケット購入で割高ですが、入場料はいらないし、マーケットで飲むホットワインはとっても美味しかった。ちょっとした気晴らしにはいい場所ですね。

already mid-December...christmas illuminations are out here and there. i expected we would see more illumination throughout city. indeed, we could find christmas ornaments indoor places. and we went to Hyde Park to enjoy christmas markets or theme park called Winter Wonderland ! usually nothing there but only in this season, those facilities are shown up. i just thought how big hyde park is... a fare to take amusement facilities seemed a little high but entrance fee was free. i couldnt take so many but took two of them. and i couldnt forget the taste of hot wine... definitely i will try again !!

Football

ロンドンに住み始めて初めてFootballをみんなでした。はじめ寒いしインドアのところの予約を試みるもだめになって、結局外でやったのだが、奇跡的な快晴でよかった。はじめ、公園の芝生で遊んで、それから隣にあったちゃんとしたコートで遊んでた外人に混ぜてもらって結構ガチ目の試合。中国の友達に人数を集めてもらったため、中国VS他の国みたいになってたが、楽しかった。にしても、外人（欧米人）の球離れの悪さはすごい、というか日本人もあれくらい頑固にプレーしないとなと、毎回感じる。またみんなでFootballしたいな。今度はインドアで。。。

It was the first time to play football in london with study abroad students. at the beginning we tried to book a indoor pitch near by london bridge station. but according to their web site, the facility was closed due to weather....it doesnt make sense...then why indoor pitch is affected by weather... so we changed a pitch to outside pitch. we played football with japanese, taiwanese and chinese stu in a park. after that we moved to better pitch and played with others. but actually the former game (played in the park) was much better. i dont wanna be serious to play sports with friends, just wanna have fun with a lot of laughing. next time should be indoor and i wanna laugh as playing football ~

japanese hot pot

数週前から雪も降り始め、０℃を越えない日もあったりして、鍋が恋しくなる季節。どうにかこっちで鍋できないかと考えると、炊飯器でいけるんじゃ！？とひらめく。早速、鍋パを開催。日本人＋台湾人でもののけ姫を見ながら鍋。(台湾の子はもののけ姫をどう感じたのだろう・・・)鍋は鶏塩鍋。ちゃんとしめに雑炊も。準備も簡単でうまい鍋、冬の定番になりそうな予感。

It is extremely cold these days, and sometimes temperature doesnt rise to over 0℃. almost all of japanese are missing NABE (hotpot) in this season especially. we came up with an idea to have NABE as using a rice cooker. and last weekend we had it whose soup was chicken salt taste(?), then we watched 『princess MONONOKE』which is a japanese famous animation while we were having hotpot. we really want to know how foreigners think about these animation, especially GHIBLI animation. but actually i have no idea why many friends of mine really really like those films much much more than me. haha

Harrods

 

 

 

 

I should go there again to get some shouldnt I ...? haha