Journal D

 

           What would you do when your birthday came? Do you go outside to have special dinner? Do you take out a few pizzas? Does your mother or father cook something special to eat?

              In my house, usually my mother cooks something special dinner when my or other my family member’s birthday comes. My mother asks one who will be celebrated, “What would you want to eat at your birthday?” My mother is really good at cooking. I love what she cook on our birthday. We usually answer, “I want to eat karaage! And spaghetti! Of course, chicken!!!!” We love chicken, except one of my younger brother Shohei. Basically we stay at home and have special dinner which my mother cooks on birthday. Sometimes we go outside to have special dinner, like yakiniku, sushi, Hamakatu, Chinese restaurant. When we have special dinner at home, my mother and I make a whole cake, and fruit punch. In fruit punch, there are a lot of fruit in it. For example, cherries, pieces of peaches, pieces of pineapples, pieces of oranges, and NATA DE COCO!!!! We love Nata de coco. If it were not put into the fruit punch, it couldn’t be called fruit punch.
              When we were young, we used to celebrate birthdays with candles on the cake. The amount of candles is same number with age. If I were 6 years old when I were celebrated, the amount of candles is six. Also, we used to sing a song, “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ayumi. Happy birthday to you.” Then I breathe on candles and put out fires. But now, we don’t do that. Just say, “Happy birthday to you”, and eat a pieces of cakes. It is sad, isn’t it?
              Now I am a college student, so I would like to celebrate birthday with friends. Go someplace to have dinner with friends, eat cake, and go karaoke. Or, I would like to celebrate birthday at home, and talk with friends.

 

Journal C

 

Spaghetti is the noodle which is used in Italian dishes. But now, it is used in Japan too. The word “spaghetti” is consisted of “spago” in Italy means “string” in English. Here are some spaghetti menu : Neapolitan, Meat sauce, Carbonara, Vongole, Peperoncino, Italian spaghetti, Cuttlefish Sumi spaghetti. Are there any spaghettis that you have ever eaten those in Italy or in Japan or Italian restaurant?

I like to eat spaghetti at restaurant which name is Italian Tomato with my friends which is placed Shimotori. It has a lot of spaghetti, also they offer sweets, cakes, salad, tea and so on. They start cooking those when customers ordered. It takes about 10 minutes to cook, but when it comes out it is very good condition to eat. It is not too hot or too cold. The prices are good, not expensive and not cheap, it is really reasonable. There are various kinds of food, so I recommend you this restaurant. They are really nice to us of course. Here is the picture of Italian Tomato restaurant. It looks really nice, and it is easy to go into that restaurant. You don’t have to order and eat what you ordered there. You can take out a piece of cakes or whole cakes. But always when I go there at lunch time, there are so many people who want to eat spaghetti, sweets or cakes, and brink a cup of tea or more than that. What most people do is not just having lunch there. They prefer to talk with their friends there while having lunch or eating something or drinking something.

I can cook spaghetti which I called “Wafu spaghetti”. The stuff are Bunashimeji (kind of mushroom), onion, bacon. And at the end when I finished cooking, I put nori (seaweed laver) and umedoshi on it. It tastes really good.