Blog#4:Norton House

 Hello, this is Mai. Today I checked a lot of architecture of Frank Gehry and decided to introduce Norton House in Venice, California, was built in 1984. This three-story house has bed rooms, kitchen like other common houses, and also a studio which is separated from the main house. The studio looks like a big birdhouse and I think it is remarkable and cute.
 This is the picture of Norton house.

 The owners requested access to the ocean views without sacrificing privacy from passers and neighbors. I think Frank Gehry satisfied this request fully with his unique sense. I really want to study in this studio looking at the Venice beach.

 The main house colored nice blue, green and orange, and there is a gate, which looks like a Japanese temple's torii. I like it because it is like a gate to the mysterious and fantastic house.

Do you want to know more about Frank Gehry's works?? There is a movie about him, called "Sketches of Frank Gehry". Please click here to check the trailer of the movie.

Blog#3: A nice restaurant

     Hi, I'm Fumika. How's it going?
     Today, I'd like to introduce a restaurant which I went to 2 weeks ago, Cucina Italiana la Lingua Ochiai. It is Italian restaurant, but there are no pizzas. It is bad for me, because I'm a pizza lover, but the all dishes are good! The nearest station is Nogizaka. It was quiet, clean, and with nice lighting. When I took my seat, a table napkin was folded like this in front of me.

It was really cute! I ordered many dishes, the best one was that a pasta with sea-urchin sauce. The taste was simple but delicious.

Not only the dishes were good, the service was also good. All wait staff were really care about us, for example, they brought next dish soon after we finished. So we always could take warm and delicious dishes. The price was kind of expensive, but it is worth visiting. I want to go there again, even there are no pizzas. Here is its official blog.

Blog#2:Lacrosse

Hello! I’m Mai Yoshida. How are you??

Today I introduce International Friendship Match of lacrosse, which was taken place on 3^rd May in Kasai. The game was between the team representing Japan, and the team of university of Hofstra from America. The Japan team was narrowly defeated by one point. Players from Hofstra were tall, big, and really powerful.

 This is the picture of the game.

 By the way, have you ever seen lacrosse?

 I belong to men’s lacrosse club as a manager. I had never seen lacrosse until I entered the university, and when I saw it for the first time I was surprised because it was a completely new sport for me. It is very interesting to watch as it has many unique rules, for example, there aren't goals on the edge of the field so players can run behind the goals. There is never a dull moment and actually it is called "the fastest sport on two feet".

 This is the picture of our game in May.

 This is the official homepage of Japan Lacrosse Association, so please click here to know what it is like.

Blog#3: My favorite spot

  Hello, I'm Natsumi Shiraishi. Today, I'll introduce my favorite spot, Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. Do you like Ghibli? I like it very much especially 'Tonari no Totoro.'
   I went to there in March in this year with my mother. There were exhibition room, mini movie theater, reading room, cafe, and so on.

This is a robot which appears in 'Castle of Laputa.'

I drunk this cafe latte at a cafe in the museum. Is this cute?

I thought this museum was amusing for adult and also children.I recommend you to go there. I think you will enjoy the museum even if you don't like Ghibi so much .
Link is here.

Blog#2:My club

 Hello, I'm Rina. Yesterday,June 3rd is my 20 birthday! In the morning, many letters about the election and pension reached me from the ward office, so I really felt I must have obligations as a member of society. Yesterday, what do you think I did? I joined my club at 11:00AM~8:30PM. I was exhausted, so I went to bed as soon as I got home without taking a shower.  This is all what I did yesterday. It's too  sad! But rugby club members which I belong to celebrated my birthday. They gave me presents and poured a bakett of water. Last year, they also cooked cakes and gave me presents. I was very happy!! This is my teemmates.It took at Sugadaira, Nagano where we camped for training every year.

If you watch the game, check out our homepage. Every game, players sing this song(Click shinshu).