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2017/08/04

Art in Barcelona, Spain (3)

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Hello, I am green. 6 o’clock in the morning, I head to Pl. Catalunya station. Today I’m headed to Figueres, the birth city of the famous Catalan artist, Salvador Dali. A few months before coming to Barcelona, I went to an art exhibition of his works in Tokyo, so I was very excited to go to his actual museum. Figueres is about 2 hours by train from Barcelona. A few minutes walking from the station of Figueres, there’s a plaza with an anthropomorphic statue and behind it, a white building with impossible-to-describe looking details and figurines. In bright, gold letters, “Teatre Museu Dali” (Dali Theatre Museum). This is the main […]

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2017/05/30

Art in Spain, Barcelona (2)

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Hello, I am green again. Continued from Art in Barcelona, Spain (1) The first place a tourist would head to in Barcelona would probably be Passeig de Gracia. It could be described as a smaller version of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. There’s many restaurants and shops, but the main attraction is Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Batlo and Casa Mila (by the way, the beautiful lamp posts on this street were also designed by Gaudi). Due to budget issues, I was only able to go to Casa Mila (the entrance fees are slightly expensive, around 22 euros per house). Casa Mila is a house designed by the famous architect Antoni Gaudi. The […]

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2017/05/30

Art in Barcelona, Spain (1)

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This is green. This spring break I went to Barcelona, Spain to do things I didn’t get to do when I used to live there during my high school years. I was there for 2 weeks and I stayed in my friend’s apartment. Most of my trip was me visiting museums and sketching in tourist attractions. I apologise in advance for the quality of the photos, I didn’t take a camera with me so they were taken with my phone. The balcony at my friend’s apartment. People in Catalunya love balconies so almost all houses/apartments have balconies (according to my dad, a house without a balcony doesn’t sell here). Also, […]

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2016/07/02

LGBT Allies at a School in Barcelona

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This is ‘Green’ and it is my first time posting an article. I lived in Barcelona, Spain for about 2 years. The image below is a photo of my school.

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2015/08/29

イギリス・ブログ　第二次世界大戦の捉え方(4)　Blog from UK Understanding toward the WW2(4)

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Language言語:　English/日本語 Lytham 1940s War Time Festival was organized and cooperated by the town. Those battle re-enactment field and commercial area were located on the grasses by the sea. However, when you went back to the town main street, you could also immerse yourself in the mood of 1940s by looking at shop windows and even watching the people who dressed up in 1940s. リズム１９４０年の戦争時をテーマにしたフェスティバルは街によって運営され、また、街をあげて協力している。前に説明した戦闘の再現を行うフィールドと商業エリアは海辺のそばの芝生に位置していた。しかし、街の目抜き通りに戻れば、店のショーウィンドウに目をやったり、１９４０年代の服に身を包んだ人たちを観察すると、すっかり１９４０年代の雰囲気に浸ることができる。 Lytham is a small but elegant town. Yet it is a living town, so there are of course the usual fish shop and vegitable shop are on the main street as well. リズムは規模は小さいものの上品な感じのする街だ。それと同時に人々が生活をする街でもあるので、もちろんのこと日常の魚屋や八百屋も目抜き通りにある。 What I learned through this festival this time is how we understand the […]

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2015/08/26

イギリス・ブログ　第二次世界大戦の捉え方(3)　Blog from UK Understanding toward the WW2(3)

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Language言語:　English/日本語 On the 16th of Aug, the weather improved and I popped in the Lytham 1940s War Time Festival. 8月16日、お天気は昨日よりもよくなり、気持ちの良い午後に、リズムの1940年代戦争時をテーマにしたフェスティバルに寄ってみた。 Paul indicated that battle re-enactment field was divided from the commercial area. What is commercial area in terms of 1940s? First, I walked along glancing the whole stalls and tents; they were selling fashionable dresses, fancy hats and accessaries in 1940s, so as soldier’s uniforms, helmets, etc. The music in the war time perhaps was played in the　large tent, too. Ok, all these markets looked very familiar as a festival. Somthing people can have fun. そういえば、ポールさんが戦闘の再現する場所と「営利目的」のエリアとは区別されているといっていた。1940年代をテーマにした「営利目的」のエリアとは何だろう。まずは、全体の屋台やテントをざっと歩いてみる。屋台やテントでは当時の流行だった女性のドレス、飾りのついた帽子やアクセサリーを売っていたり、兵士の軍服やヘルメットまであった。大きなテントでは当時のものと思われる音楽もかけられている。なるほど、屋台エリアはお祭りっぽい。来場者が楽しめる感じだ。 In the opposite side of the area, I saw series of war time airplanes […]

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2015/08/24

イギリス・ブログ　第二次世界大戦の捉え方(2)　Blog from UK Understanding toward the WW2(2)

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Language言語:　English/日本語 Very luckily, the man in the uniform, Paul, is a history teacher and he explained about this battle re-enactment, as the way I wanted. He was dressed in German soldier’s uniform and he explained that it would be a battle re-enactment in the afternoon, a battle between British, American and German teams (mock armies?). The main purpose for this battle is to re-enact the war time and makes his students/younger generation know how the war was like, he said. It sounded more like experitential excercise of education. Ok, I felt relieved, in one way, because being a Japanese I was the enemy for British & American armies in war […]

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2015/08/23

イギリス・ブログ　第二次世界大戦の捉え方(1)　Blog from UK Understanding toward the WW2(1)

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Language言語:　English/日本語 This year I happened to be in Lytham, the north of England, on the day of Aug 15. The end of WW2. This year is 70th year since the war ended. I was wondering how British people will see or do on this day. If I was in Japan, our local goverment announcement through the public speaker to remind us about the day, I would stop the things I was doing and close my eyes to pay the respect and think of the dead, victims of the wars and nuclear bombs, in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa, though only within my limited imagination of what happened to them. 今年の8月15日に、私は北イングランドのリズムの街に滞在している。第二次世界大戦の終戦日。今年は戦後70年にあたる年。私はイギリスの人たちがこの日をどのように捉えて何をするのだろうと思いを巡らしていた。もし、私が日本にいたならば、自治体のスピーカーから終戦記念日であることを知らせるアナウンスがあり、それと共に私は仕事の手をとめ、黙とうを捧げ、広島、長崎、沖縄の戦争と原子力爆弾の犠牲者、死者となってしまった人たちに思いをはせていただろう、彼らに何が起きたのかということは限られた想像力の範疇でしか思いを寄せることはできないが。 This […]

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2014/10/01

SS 20(4) Moomin World and Nursing room ムーミン・ワールドと授乳室

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Although I have been to Moomin World in June, it turned to be October. I shall continue report on Moomin World, this time in the perspective of nursing room in the amusement park. ムーミン・ワールドに足を運んだのは6月でしたら、すでに10月になってしまいました。それでもムーミン・ワールドについて報告を続けることにしましょう、今回は、このテーマパークの授乳室という点から報告します。 I was attracted by this baby sling and a dyad of this father and baby in my first sight. So, I approached him and asked him the permission of the photograph and explained about my website. There was this baby’s older sibling and his mum beside them, so obviously it is logical one parent carried a baby and the other a child. The mum and the sibling were enjoying following Moomin whereas the father and this […]

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2014/07/03

SS 20(3) Moomin World and Multicultual ‘Kyosei(co-existence)’ ムーミン・ワールドと多文化「共生」

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In Naantali, we had to park and leave the car. Then we got on the official bus to the coast, bought tickets and crossed the bridge. ナーンタリに着くと、車を特定の駐車場に停めます。その先からは、専用のバスが駐車場から海辺まで運んでくれ、海辺の施設でチケットを購入、それから橋を渡りました。 The Moominworld is located on one individual island and this is the entrance to the island.ムーミンワールドは一つの島がそのまま立地になっていて、これがその島への入り口です。 The map of the island is this website　ムーミンワールドの地図はこのウェブサイトで。　http://www.muumimaailma.fi/en/info/moominworld_map There were Moomin characters staying around the Moomin house in the middle of the island and they were willing to be taken photographs.島の中央に位置するムーミンの家の周りにはムーミンのキャラクターたちがうろうろしていて、みな、一緒に写真を撮っていました。 Since I have been researching on children’s language acquisition, I observed several interesting interaction between Mooming characters (adults) and children. For example, the time I visited was the beginning of summer holiday in Scandinavian countries, so […]

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