Through this presentation, you will learn how Japanese people feel and
taste Wabi Sabi from three examples; Japanese Garden, Tea Ceremony and Japanese
Flower Arrangement. Wabi Sabi is a peculiar Japanese aesthetic sense. It's a
kind of feeling, an awareness, an appreciation of aspects of Japanese culture.
However nobody can see it because it's your reaction of feeling to traditional
Japanese culture, but you can see thing related to Wabi Sabi. You will exactly
learn about three such examples in this presentation. How are these
examples connected with Wabi Sabi? Why do Japanese feel it is beautiful? Why
is this aspect of Japanese culture a little peculiar and simple? After
listening to this presentation, your point of view and sensitivity may change.
I went on a totally amazing Southwest trip with my classmates. The trip was my first time to go to the Southwest so everything was new to me. Sarah, Anikke and Bethany came with us. They made our trip more exciting. I’m happy I could go on this trip with them and I had a lot of great experiences. First, I really enjoyed New Mexico. It was chilly but not too cold. I went to the Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I liked the Old Town because there are many cute things and good restaurants in there. For example, I found a gate that was decorated with a lot of red chili peppers. I had never seen anything like that before so I was very surprised and it looked like a lot of flowers from a distance. The red chili peppers were absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, I found a great restaurant. I forgot the name of the restaurant but they have really delicious Mexican food. They gave me some Mexican chips for free and recommended that I eat the chips with honey. I really like Mexican chip