2008年10月21日火曜日

Festival in the World


Today, I researched about the Harvest Festival in UK.


Harvest Festival is one of the oldest known festivals. Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word hærfest, "Autumn". It then came to refer to the season for reaping and gathering grain and other grown products. In the UK it is traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This moon is the full moon around the time of the Autumn Equinox in September. Unlike the USA and Canada, the UK does not have a national holiday for Harvest Festival.

In England, they have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. They celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September.


Harvest Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. This makes them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools and in Churches, people bring food from home to a Harvest Festival Service. After the service, the food that has been put on display is usually made into parcels and given to people in need.



Please check this link to know what the Harvest festival is.

2008年10月7日火曜日

My favorite movies

Movies

Today, I would like to introduce you my favorite movie. The titles of the movie is “SPY KIDS”. What do you imagine when you hear spy-kids? At first, I explain about movies content easily.

Cortez’s family is a main character of the movie. Gregorio is a father, Ingrid is a mother, Carmen is a old sister, Juni is a young brother. At first sight, the family is general one. But in fact, parents were first-rate SPY! They start to work together after a long separation, but they were caught by enemy. Carmen and Juni go to rescue their parents.

In this story, Carmen and Juni flourish very much though they are kids. They couldn’t handle their weapons and didn’t do well. In addition to this, they don’t have good relationship, either. But finally, they grow up and have good relationship, and they can success to rescue their parents! That process which they become great spy makes me excited!

Alexa Vega play Carmen and Daryl Sabara play Juni. Thanks to their great play, I can enjoy the story more.

There are two more series, “
SPY KIDS 2: The Island of Lost Dreams”, “SPY KIDS3-D Game Over”. All series are very interesting to watch. I especially recommend you to watching the first one “SPY KIDS”. I think man and woman of all ages can enjoy watching!