2009年5月31日日曜日

GreetingⅡ

1.How do you greet members of your family?

When I greet with my family, I said "Ohayou" , " Oyasumi" etc. So I use a casual style greetings.

2. How do you greet people that are important in society?

In this case, I change how to greet. I do a polite greeting. For example, " Ohayougozaimasu", "Situreisimasu" etc. So I use a polite words.

3. Do you greet people from the opposite sex in a different way?

In my case, my greeting are not different with the opposite sex.

4. Do you hug anyone? If yes, who and when. If no, why not?

I don't hug anyone in Japan. Because Japanese don' t have such a habit. I think Japanese ashamed to hug. When I go abroad, I sometimes hug foreigner. I think hug is good greeting way.

2009年5月17日日曜日

Greeting

I always greet every people. For example, my family, my friends and teacher. When I meet people who is stranger in the elevator, I greet them. When I greet, I never fail to see a people's eyes. Because I want to do comfortable greeting. I think it is important to greet. If we can not do a comfortable greeting, we feel sad or not good feeling in a day.

I sometimes touch with my friends' shoulder with we are talking. But I do not know why I do this action. I think it is habit. And also I do this action unconsciously. So I want to notic about my these habit.

2009年5月10日日曜日

Buddhism

There are our daily life affected by Buddism in Japan.

For example, we say "itadakimasu" when we bigin to eat somethings. Besides we join our hands together.

Next when we go to the tatami room, we must take off our room shoes.

Third we care about pillow's position. I often hear that north pillow is good.

Forth when we sit down on the floor, we fold our legs under ourself.

Fifth we pray in front of household Buddhist altar.

I do these action almost everyday. Especially I always say "itaakimasu". When I say this words, I appreciate that I can eat many foods every day. And I appreciate that my mother and farmer makes foods for me, too. I did not learn this action at school. I learn this action in a natural way.
I want to learn about Buddhism more.