What
immediately comes to mind when you hear the word “castle”? Everyone has
different images of castles. I would guess that American’s imagine Western
style buildings like palaces, but Japanese castles were totally different.
Their form was very unique. Nowadays, the number of Japanese castles are about
200. Each castle has different history, stone fences and exterior buildings. In
this presentation, the speaker will focus on three famous Japanese castles:
Osaka Castle, Himeji Castle and Shuri Castle.
I had a good time visiting the Southwest USA with Extension students from 15 to 21, October. It was an education trip and I experienced new things and there was a lot of nature which is comfortable for me. I was looking forward to going on the Southwest trip for a long time. I have image that the Southwest is very hot but this place was cold than Spokane. It was interesting that the temperature was totally different in the same place. There were three emotions that I experienced on this trip. First, I was moved by the beautiful landscape of the Grand Canyon. It is absolutely enormous. When I look down the cliff, I remembered the teacher's caution for us that there are lots of people who die and I scared. I and my roommate wanted to see the sunrise so we tried to got up at 4:00 a.m. and then we could see the sunrise which was really fabulous. After that, we decided to rent a bicycle but we changed our mind and because we had lots of time. Surprisingly, we walked 10 miles aro...