I went to watch school sports in this weekend. I watched men's ice hockey on Friday, and women's basket ball on Sunday. Although they are amateur, we have to buy ticket. It is a difference between the U.S. and Japan. ●Ice Hockey It was the…

2/22 was the 152nd birthday of this university. There was an event on school cafeteria. But... How SHOBOI ! What a GUTA-GUTA! Website noticed it started at noon, but it started at 12:15. Although 1 student group started dancing for 10min, …

Today is the first RAINY day after I came here. Not SNOW! One of the best thing in U.S. is, there're bunch of local breweries in U.S., and they provides many seasonal brewed beers! I could enjoy spring by beer! To celebrate the beginning o…

Usually, this place has snow as high as 1m in winter, but it has a little snow in this year. On Valentine's day, we had snowstorm and all the classes were canceled. So I went to Mt. Tussey ski area on Saturday wishing I could ski on fresh …

Yesterday, I rent a car and practiced driving by visiting a cave close to our town, Penn's Cave. It was not only amazing, but also warm compared to outside! (outside:-10C, inside cave; +10C!) Also I knew there are many caves around here, s…

It passed a month after I came to U.S.. My wife came to see me on holiday in Feb. I rent a car at first time in the U.S.. I reserved the "sub-compact car", but the car I rent was a car like Callora. Is this called as compact car in U.S.?? …

I found some American vegetable is much bigger than Japanese one! Green pepper is as large as softball, and cucumber is as large as hechima. Furthermore, eggplant is as big as ostrich's egg, leek is as big as hechima! I made maabo-nasu and…

It goes -20C here in winter. So most of apartment in this town has central heating. It means room is always kept at 20C (actually, to keep room temperature 20C in winter is a law in U.S.!). This causes terrible dryness of my skin and throa…

I bought mountain bicycle on Sunday. It costed only $69(\8500) though it had front & rear suspension system! Bicycle is very cheap in the U.S.. but I rarely see the bicycle in U.S.. I think one reason is that U.S. is car society, the other…