Doe maar gewoon

日本語

Somehow, I don’t feel being a stranger in this city, Amsterdam.

Almost all Dutch people (also non Dutch people) talk to me naturally

in English while I just studied Dutch language a little.

I can hear many accented English in the whole city where

nobody care about my Japanese accent and broken grammar.

That makes me easier to speak English for me.

 

Today, my friend Martha walked around the city with me.

She went along with me and told me more.

Dutch culture is working out differences between

where they were born or their position or their age.

And she continuted telling that one idea will be at the bottom of

Holland, especially Amsterdam.

“Doe maar gewoon”

It’s a little tough for me to translate Dutch into English,

“Be natural ” or “Go to your natural way” .

 

Now, the city is  filled of the air that they have thought so for hundreds years in Amsterdam.

If I call the air, it would be “freedom”

 

In this Evening, I went to her place and she cooked me “Martha dish”.

I loved it.

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A talk about bee with Hannie

日本語;http://florist-westvillage.com/archives/5844/

Groede morgen!

This is the very first day in Amsterdam!

I was just unpacking my bags when she visited me.

I actually can’t start talking about my Amsterdam life without her.

 

She is Hannie van den Bergh, the support member of this

‘deshima AIR’.

We talked about how we manage our flower exhibition,

and the schedule of appointments to see people who will help us.

 

Then, she invited me to a talk about “bee in the city”.

“Why are bees so important?” I asked,

Flowers won’t bloom without bees.

When bee is fine, the natural circumstance is fine.

“That’s why People here have interest about bee in these days”

We Japanese wouldn’t think that much.

We think making a effort to protect our nature but

our discussion doesn’t reach to the Amsterdam level, I feel.

 

This is the only first day in Amsterdam.

I’m really excited what’s going to happen tomorrow.

 

★My Japanese friend in Kyoto city office told me the bee project in Kyoto

http://www.miyako328.org/

 

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Ryoko Nishimura

Hoi!

I am Ryoko Nishimura, an ikebana artist. from Kyoto, Japan.

I’ve come to Amsterdam to see how Dutch people love flowers and live with them.

I will stay here for 3 months then I hold a flower exhibition in the last terms of my stay.

 

Ikebana is a Japanese tradition,

but I don’t think it’s only a tradition.

Ikebana has many rules we created in the long history.

But I think the rules and traditional shapes aren’t the most important thing.

I say, ikebana is,  trying to image something unvisiable on the flower.

Or, arranging flowers to make something visiable.

Blowing wind, seasonal changes, someone’s heart, attractions of the place, history of the city…

Even Japanese people will say “ikebana is complicated” but

If you just can feel those things on flower whether you can’t arrange flowers in the traditional way,

ikebana is your side.

Ikebana is imagination.

 

I’d like to tell that to Dutch people, and Japanese people.

Hannie (8)

 

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Ryoko Nishimura
Website; http://florist-westvillage.com/
Email;westvillagegoodgirl@gmail.com

BIMHUIS

Hello!

I went to BIMHUIS to see the dance performance on December 1st.

I was so touched!

The performance to attracts is great.

BIMHUIS is big and beautiful 🙂

こんにちは!

12月1日にビムハウスという所でダンスパフォーマンスを見に行きました。

感動しました!引き付けるパフォーマンスはすごいです。

ビムハウスは大きくてきれかったです(^^)

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PERFORMANCE

I went to dance performance at Overtoom on November 27th.

I was really touched!

The space world was amazing.

I learned a lot from that.

Thank you .

11月27日にOvertoomでダンスパフォーマンスがありました。

すごく感動しました!

その空間の世界がすごかったです。

とても勉強になりました。ありがとうございたした。

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MOVE MASTERZ

Hello.

It became cold 🙁

Take care of yourself.

It became late…

I went to dance event on November 16.

They enjoyed dancing with music!

I was very touched and fun 🙂

Thank you.

こんにちは。

寒くなりましたね(><)

風邪には気をつけてください。

遅くなってしまいましたが…

11月16日にダンスイベントに行きました。

参加していた皆さんは、音楽に合わせて踊ってるのを楽しんでいました!

私はすごく感動したし、楽しかったです(^^)

ありがとうございました。

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Birthday!

I went to 15th anniversary of dance events on November 14! It was fun 🙂

I danced with dancers!

Was a good experience for me 🙂

11月14日に15周年ダンスイベントに行きました!楽しかったです(^^)

私はダンサーさんたちと踊りました!

私にとっていい経験になりました(^^)ありがとうございます!

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Toko Dun Yong

I went shopping today!

I went to Asian supermarket Toko Dun Yong 🙂

Good shop!

今日、買い物に行きました。

アジアンスーパーの Toko Dun Yongに行きました!(読み方わからなくて申し訳ないです(> <))

いいお店です!

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DANCE BATTLE

Hello 🙂

I take part in this project from October!

I’m sorry this update is overdue 🙁

I want to give you a lot of updates this month!

There was dance battle event in Eindhoven on November 1 !

I was glad to participate.

I really learned a lot, it was good!

10月からプロジェクトに参加している者です!

ブログの更新が遅れてしまい申し訳ありません(><)

なので!今月はたくさん更新できるよう努力します!笑

11月1日にEindhovenでdance battleがありました!

参加してとても楽しかったです!

とても勉強になったので良かったです!