My Speech ～About Oktoberfest～

Let me introduce about Oktoberfest to you. According to the articles, more than six million people from all over the world visit Oktoberfest every year and about five million liters of beer is drunk by many people every year. The citizens and the tourists enjoy this festival. If you go to this festival, you can enjoy drinking beer with foreigners. This festival has been held since 1810, so this festival is continuing for 198 years. It’s very long!

Let me introduce this year’s Oktoberfest to you. According to the articles, this festival started on September 20 and finished on October 5. People enjoyed themselves to their hearts, drinking beer and dancing for 16 days. This festival is the largest festival in the world, so this festival’s scale, hall and so on were even bigger than last year’s. Munich city was founded 850 years ago, so the shooting fans shot blank shots from guns 850 times there on October 3.

My Hometown's Autumn Festival

Let me introduce my city’s festival to you. This festival is held at Ogawa shrine. This festival and this shrine are not big, but many citizens of Suzuka visit there every year. This year’s festival was held on October 12. During this festival, people in matching happi coats carry the omikoshi along the streets, shouting “Wasshoi, wasshoi.” Many children take part in this omikoshi and we can hear their cheerful voice, so there is a lot of noise coming from outside every year. When I was a small child, I often took part in this festival with my sister, brother and friends. I don’t know since when this festival has been started, but this festival has been held since I was baby. I wore blue happi and hachimaki which is written “Masturi”.

At this shrine, eleven-year-old or twelve-year old girls dance as “Mai Hime” in front of God. They have Sakaki in their right hands while they are dancing. They dance for God. They put on powder, so their faces become very white. They wear like Hakama and they become “Mai Hime” like Shinto priestess. I have danced as “Mai Hime” twice with my friends. I practiced this dance every night at Ogawa shrine.

After they finish carrying omikoshi and dancing as “Mai Hime”, people enjoy playing bingo game. Many people take part in this game because this game’s free gifts are very nice every year. For example, DVD player, bicycle, digital camera and so on. If you want to take part in this festival, let's go to Suzuka City in Mie next autumn!

Have you seen "Spider-Man"?

Let me introduce Spider-Man to you. If you were Spider-Man, What would you do? Would you use special power for helping people?

Story
This movie’s main character’s name is Peter Parker. He lost his parents and was brought up with great care by his uncle and aunt. He goes to Mid Town High School and likes science. He couldn’t tell Mary Jane Watson who lives next door to him that he loved her because he was a late bloomer. One day, he visited Colombia University’s study room. There were many kinds of spiders in this room. He was bit by spider, “Super Spider” there. This spider was done gene improvement. After that he felt chills, but he has amazing muscular body and good eyesight when he got up the next morning. In addition, webs rushed out from his wrist and he could climb up to a wall by using only fingertips. He has strange power after he was bit by “Super Spider” and he decided to fight against bad persons every day as “Spider-Man”.

Actors and Actress
Tobey Maguire played Peter Parker (Spider-Man). He was nominated for Saturn Award when he played the lead in this movie. He was paid attention to his acting when he appeared in “the Cider House Rules”. And then he became popular when he appeared in “Spider-Man”.

Willem Dafoe played Norman Osborn (Green Goblin). He has been nominated for 2 Oscars. He was nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for an award for the best supporting actor when he appeared in “Shadow of the Vampire”.

Kirsten Dunst played Mary Jane Watson. She has been nominated for Golden Globe. Her first appearance movie was “New York stories”.

About this movie
This movie’s director was Sam Raimi and this movie’s scenario writer was David Koepp. This movie was come out on May 11, 2002 in Japan. This movie was made at an expense of $139,000,000. This movie is three series now. This story was very exciting, interesting and thrilling. Battle scenes were very cool and image technique was great. If you haven’t seen this movie, you should see it.