Akimatsuri
Hello Alex, hello my friends.
How was your weekend? I hope that it was good.
Ok, I think we aren´t going to agree about the dessert subject. Nevermind! CHEESE WITH FUDGE is really, really good, and you don´t know what you´re missing, Alex. Anyway... Ah! I´ve never could imagine that you´re a vegetarian, ops!, a pescatarian man. When I read your last blog, I don´t know why, I just thought that you would say that you´re crazy about meat. I untill imagine you in a barbie devouring a huge piece of meat! I was totally wrong!
In fact fish is really delicious. I like to prepare fish filet with a tomato sauce and carrots, it´s very good.
Enough of food! Let´s talk about the task! Hmmm... I tryed to fix the sentence Alex, let´s see if now it´s correct:
If the Minas cheese wasn´t perishable, I would send a Fedex straight to Oxford Street.
I´ll be waiting for the right answer in your next blog.
Today I´d like to write about a festival that happened in Mogi last weekend. It´s called Akimatsuri, or the Harvest Festival. In Mogi, there is a huge Japanese colony, which the majority of their members are responsible for the Mogi´s green belt production, and with the Japanese immigration, many of their traditions were brought to Mogi, and one of them is the Akimatsuri.
Aki means Autumn, and Matsuri correspond to Festival, so, in this festival they thanks the gods for one more year of good harvest, and then, they pray for them asking for their protection, in order to keep the diseases and the bad weather away.
Moreover there are various events set in the Akimatsuri, such as: traditional music apresentations, typical food, exhibition of fruits, flowers and vegetables.
One of those fruits is the caqui. Do you know it? The caqui is a very sweet and juicy fruit, which looks like a tomato, and nowadays is very used to prepare jellies, pies and cakes. Mogi produces caqui in large scale, and the city is kindly called as "the caqui land". The Akimatsuri is a beautiful festival, where we can learn and enjoy a little bit of the Japanese culture. Here are some Akimatsuri photographs:
Ah! I almost forget ! Alex Mosky! I really appreciated your comment. I enjoyed reading all the previous blogs, however, I have to confess that I really liked and found your blog superb. Your writing stile is very witty, and I wish one day I could write just like you.
Hey! Good news! You´re in USA! You´re having the chance to pratice your speaking skills.
Marina, from Russia, I read the Dostoievsky novel Crime and Punishment and I loved it, and I also read The Gambler, White Nights, Notes from Underground, The Idiot, and I´m looking foward to read The Insulted and Humiliated, however, books here in Brazil has an expensive price, especially those ones which don´t have the pocket version ( cheaper version).
PS- Thanks Alex for the book recommendation, I`m already looking for Waiting for Godot at my virtual bookstore.
Good bye, see you tomorrow,
Ana Paula.
Comments
This is the first comment for your blog. At first I was so surprised to find Japanese title. I knew that many Japanese moved to Brazil many years ago but I didn't know that there still be a Japanese colony there before I read your blog. And the fruits you mentioned in your blog caqui is maybe kaki in Japanese whose color is kinda orange and seeds are in it right? Anyway I'm glad that Brazilian who live far away from Japan enjoy Japanese tradition.
Hi,Ana.What a wonderful exhibition i must say.Impressively!I think Alex has given you a very challenging task--the second conditional sentence.However, i don't think your answer is correct.Here is my answer to the question:If the Minas cheese weren't perishable, I would send a Fedex straight to Oxford Street. Hah..a little difference.Bye now.
hi Ana Paula, nice pictures! I hope you enjoyed Akimatsuri fest. Very intresting the way people mixed both country flags, showed in last picture. I want to tell you I strongly agree with you about fudge and cheese. It's very good to me! Have a good week Angélica
Hi Ana Paula, your Harvest Festival sounds great. It was very interesting to see photos of it. I guess that the fruit you described is called persimmon? We seem to have similar taste in food you and I; I like cheese with jam. I also eat cheese with ginger bread biscuits, the combination is very tasty. Stilton cheese and ginger bread is absolutely scrumptious… and maybe a class a red wine. It is a pity the Alex´s taste is not so developed!
Hi, Ana Paula. You're Brazilian, but thanks to you we've learnt a little bit of Japanese culture. I've never heard of harvest festivals in my country organized by people from behind the border not to speak of people of other culture. Akimatsuri is really a very intresting festival, especially its location on the hil.
Dear James Zhi-Chenf Wu from Taiwan, I don’t agree with you that we people are in today´s world different. At least I can say that I value Asian people a great deal, I have had several work mates and friends from your part of the world. By the way you mentioned that westerners don’t know anything about "Wu Cheng'en ""Sun zi". Did you mean Wu Cheng'en, who was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in Huaian, Jiangsu province. He studied in Nanjing Taixue (ancient Nanjing University) for more than 10 years. Please correct me if we are not talking about the same author. His most famous novel is Xīyóu-jì, or "Journey to the West". The novel has been enjoyed by many generations of Chinese and is the most popular Chinese classic folk novel. I am very pleased that you introduced the issue here. I am sure that others agree when I say, that this site brings us people together and helps us in understanding each other. I sincerely hope you are not saddened by my comment as it is not meant to upset anyone.
Hi Ana Paula, I have just started following the blogs. I wish I had noticed them earlier (student and teacher Blogs) you look very lovely in the photo on the top of the page. I'm interested a lot in the things you have been writting in your blog. you are very good at finding charming topics. i think your answer is grammatically correct. but you can answer like this. "If the Minas cheese weren't perishable, I would send a Fedex straight to Oxford Street." that is also correct i.e. both of them are correct the difference both of them is formal, informal writing. "In the informal writing If the Minas cheese wasn´t perishable, I would send a Fedex straight to Oxford Street." is good. but In the formal writing "If the Minas cheese weren't perishable, I would send a Fedex straight to Oxford Street." is better. of course, in the examinations is important to use formal writing.
Hi Ana Paula, I'm very happy to open this page today in a monday morning ( today is the "Festa da Penha", another religious holiday!)and find so beautiful pictures. Iam also a fan of the japonese culture. Unluckly we don't have any japonese colony here. What we have in Aracruz city is a tribute to other countries like Africa, India and Japan. So there are a piece of them there. In the India square, there is a mini Taj Mahal. In the african square, there are many wonderful masks...but my favourite is the japanese square...so beautiful with a incredible garden and many fishes. While you are visiting this square, a japanese music is being played. You can spend long hours there! Now they are planning to build an italian and spanish square.I think your sentence is correct now...but wasn't it "sedex" inicially? Have a nice beggining of the week. Bye.
Hi Ana, You really had a good weekend. Thanks for the photographs. I am a fan of the japonese culture and caqui is my favourit fruit. By the way, I think Leila is rigth, “caqui” (Diospyros kaki) is called persimmon in English. In honor of you I’m going to have Minas cheese with caqui jam for dessert today. By, by. Alinor
Hi Ana Paula. I have already eaten this caqui fruit and it is very tasteful. I think here, in Belgium, is called "sharon".
HI Anna This is the first time I enter to a blog which deals with daily life issues .The topic you have chosen was really interesting,but I would like to know if you could possibly give us some political backgroung abiut Brazil in your coming writings.Also of spceial importance to me Aare the economic and social challenges that confront Latin America in general and Brazil in particular. Best regards Ramez Ibrahem
Hi, A.P. your last page is great,too. Beautiful photos and interesting news. I like caqui/persimmon/sharon a lot. In my garden there are two caqui plants and at the end of summer they are full of orange balls and no leaves at all. Can you send us some recepies of how to use them in the kitchen since I only eat them fresh.All the best. Romana
Hi Paula!! It is the first time I've noticed a brazilian person posting on this blog,even I haven't been looking at it for a long time!! It's fantastic how our country is dverse, with various kinds of cultures.Here in my state there is a range of cultural parties, I really enjoy those ones wich shows the amazon universe; I don't know wheter you had already got the opportunity to live it up on it.It's a pleasure been writing to someone of my country, poor and corruptible but wich has a superb folks, that just want to be HAPPY!! Nice to meet you!!
Bom dia, Ana Paula! I'm glad you remember me. I'm also glad you found my blog witty. And I'll tell you what - your blog is pretty well and I think you write even better than me. I'm sure. Despite I can't follow your blog every day, I try to do it as often as possible. Yep, I'm in USA and it's another milestone in learning english. And I'm about to learn portugues as well, because my last hobby is capoeira. Ok, I know it's a bit odd for me, don't blame me. :) I wish you keeping the blog as interesting as it is so far.
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