Keihan Densha Line Stations

 I explored the Kadoma station and near area and found new things!

 The station is among Sakae, Shozi, Shinbashi, matsuba cities, and semi-exp. and local trains stop there. There is also the monorail station and bus station near it, but the bus seldom comes as you can look at the following photo. The monorail fare is a little expensive because it costs 200 yen even if you get it off at the next station… but it is comfortable and has a fine view.

There are many shops when you go out the station. Maybe, you can’t miss the big building that be called “pachinko” in front of you. You can find the Tsutaya, Izumiya, Mister Doughnut, Daikoku Drug and the shopping district, Panasonic, and Kadoma plaza. Kadoma plaza has many interesting shops, but I was really surprised that there was a shop that had a hair cut per 1000 yen. It was very reasonable for people! Moreover, there are a library, police office, parking lot for bicycles, a massage shop and a lot of food shops near the Kadoma station.

 I talked with two people who live in Kadoma city. One was a cute woman. She thought that Tsutaya was the landmark near the station, and she sometimes used the Keihan train to go to Neyagawa city. The other person was a woman who works at the monorail station. She liked the station very much and she said that people liked the station because it was very clean, at home and they could relax while they waited the monorail.

 I think this photo represent the station because I haven’t seen a dry landscape garden near any station. People may be comfortable while seeing it and it struck them as a little incongruous because it doesn’t be in harmony with near modern views, but it is good point for they can’t see such a strange view anywhere else. So, I think it is the best photo to represent the station.

reference: http://www.osaka-monorail.co.jp/station/r24_kadomasi.html

Portrait of a Foreigner

 I hadn't have any foreign friends until I came to Nakamiya campus to take this class, Visual Anthropology of Japan. So I introduce my French teacher, Alexis D'Hautcort, to you.

He is a French teacher and he can speak French, English and Japanese. We, my classmates and I, are taught French by him. The impression about foreigners was that they were very kind who have colored eyes and hair. I thought Foreigners were very tall, slender, kind, gentle and had a humor. In fact, he was that. He was very gentle and kind, and have colored eyes and have a humor, So, I was right about foreigner's portrait!

When I asked my friends what you thought about him, some people said he was very kind and I like very much, and others said he was very pretty... I'm agree at the former because he is always gentle to teach us French and he helps me when I can't understand. But I am afraid I couldn't say the latter word for him...

There is the only surprising happening for us. He was angry about a man at our class. When he taught us French, a man suddenly went out the class with the cell phone had in his hand. So, he was a little...very? angry at the man and locked our class door. When the man came back to the class, he said politely "You should say something to me when you went out this class". I was surprised he was angry because I didn't think he was angry. But, I also thought he was right that he did so. We felt he was very kind, but on the other hand he was terrible if he was very angry.

I don't change the portrait for Mr. D'Hautcort because he is our good teacher.

So,our classmates and I like him very much, and I'll study harder French for him!