この間、友達と『ノルウェイの森』の読書会をしました。 I had Norwegian Wood book club with my friend the other day.
『ジェインオースティンの読書会』のパクリです（笑） We imitated the movie, 'Jane Austen Book Club',lol.
わたしも友達もあの映画が結構好きで、いつか読書会したいねって話をしていました。 We like that movie and had been talking about doing book club sometime.
で、12月に『ノルウェーの森』が映画上映されるということで、みんなが読んだことのあるこの本に決めました。 And we picked 'Norwegian Wood' because we all have read it before and the movie is hitting theater this December.
わたしはこの作品を2年前に読んだので、細かい所までは覚えていませんでしたが、 I read this book about 2 years ago so didn't remember the details of the story
読書会を進めていくうちにだんだんとストーリーが頭の中によみがえってきました。 but it was coming back to my head as we were talking about it.
ワタナベってむっつりだよねー、とか村上春樹の本に出てくる女の人ってみんな大胆だよねーとか、 We were talking about the characters like Watanabe is lech at heart, the girls in Murakami's book are bold and aggressive or
永沢みたいな人とは付き合いたくないよねーとか、 we don't wanna hang out with the person like Nagasawa
そんなことを言いながらも、途中、直子と元彼の死んでしまったキズキとの関係の話になりました。 and then we started to talk about the relationship between Naoko and Kizuki who killed himself.
キズキはなんで何の前触れもなく、シャボン玉が消えるようにこの世を去ってしまったのだろうかと。 Why did he die like a bubble without words?
直子をひとり、この世に置いて。 He left Naoko in this world.
わたしはその時、直子がもしも自分だったらと想像してみました。 I imagined if I were her.
その途端、一瞬ほんとうに自分が直子になってしまったようなトランス状態になり、 Then I don't know why but I fell into a trance like I was her
なぜか目からは涙が。 and the tears were running from my eyes.
スターバックスなんかで泣きたくなかったけれど。 I really didn't wanna cry at Starbucks tho.
でも、こんな悲しいことって、この世にはきっと存在しないと思った。 But I thought there was no sad thing like that in the world.
自分の大事な人が、自分になんの助けも求めず、ひとりで勝手に選んだ死。 Death of the dearest person who didn't ask help to you and chose to kill oneself.
残されたほうは、どこにも怒りをぶつければいいの？ How should the left people deal with their mind?
きっと一生自分を責めつづけるのかもしれない。 They might keep blaming themselves forever.
直子もまた、自分で最期を選んでしまったのも哀しいけれど、そうならざるを得なかったのかもしれない。 Naoko also chose her end and I was sad about it but maybe she couldn't help it.
喪失感だけが残るノルウェーの森は、なんだか哀しくなるからあんまり読み込みたくない本だけど、 I don't wanna read this book many times because all i get after reading is just sadness,
今回この本をレヴューしてみて、いろいろ思うことがあったから読書会やってよかった。 but I reviewed it this time and had a chance to think over some kind of things in my mind so it was good to me.
次回の読書会は『世界の終わりとハードボイルドワンダーランド』の予定。 We are going to pick 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' next.
11/28(日)=（Dの誕生日）に妹と2回目となる高尾山ハイキングに行ってきました。 I went to Mt. Takao to hike with my sister on Nov 28th ( D's birthday!). This is second time.
この日も気持ちいい秋晴れで、前回と同じようにたくさんのハイカーたちで賑わっていました。10月にも高尾山に来ましたが、そのとき山がみせてくれた景色とはまったく違っていました。たった一ヶ月でこんなにも変わるんだなって、ちょっとびっくり。自然はなんの後悔もなく移り行く。その潔さに脱帽。 It was a fine autumn day and bustling as before. We went hiking there in October but the scenery was completely different this time. I was a bit surprised that it changed so much only in a month. Nature has changed with no regrets. I salute that.
本当に素晴らしかった！ It was so beautiful.
下界が見えます。 You can see the below.
秋の空、秋の色、秋のにおい。 Sky of autumn, color of autumn and smell of autumn.
この日の高尾山は秋一色でした。 Mt. Takao was painted all in autumn.
そして秋といえば「食欲の秋」ということで、今回はいろいろなものを食べまくりながら歩きました（笑） And you know autumn is a season of appetite so we were eating many foods as walking,lol.
頂上付近でのフランクフルト、薬王院の葡萄酢のソフトクリームに精進まん、野沢菜のおやき、種子島産の安納芋のやきいも、から揚げｅｔｃ... Frankfurter around the top of the mountain, grape vinegar flavored ice cream and shojin man, nozawana bun, a baked sweet potato and fried chicken etc...
前回も食べたフランクフルト。 We had it last time too.
野沢菜のおやき Nozawana bun
これはものすごく甘かった！！同じさつまいもとは思えなくて、「さつまいもとは全く違う食べ物である」という意識の下食べていました。手がベトベトになりました（笑） This was soooooo sweet!! I couldn't think it was 'sweet potato' so was eating it under the consciousness of a different food from it. My hands got sticky,lol.
今回思ったのですが、ハイキングって会話を弾ませる、なにか不思議な力があるような気がします。歩きながら話すって、楽しい。歩道ではなく、山の道って、なんだか修学旅行の夜にみんなでこっそりと秘密の話を打ち明けたくなるような、そんな気持ちにさせてくれるような気がします。カップルでハイキングに来ているひとが多いもの、なんだか頷けるような気がしました。 I think there is a kinda power that makes conversation lively when you are hiking. Talking during hiking is fun. It remains me the night of school trip and feels like I wanna talk my secret to friends! Now I somehow understand why many couples are going hiking.
1月にDが来るし、次回はDと一緒に行きたいな D is coming to Japan next January so I wanna come with him next time.
今日のお昼は友達のえりオススメの自由が丘にある「ツチオーネ」というオーガニック食材を使ったレストランに行きました。 I went to the restaurant called 'Tsuchione' that serves dish using organic ingredients with my friend Eri for lunch today.
わたしたちが頼んだのは、野菜プレート！ We ordered Vegetable Plate!
写真の通り、野菜がメインディッシュです。 As the above pic, the main dish is vegetables.
じゃがいも、蓮根、さつまいも、かぼちゃ、トマト、キャベツ、里芋、にんじん、えりんぎ、たまねぎと、 Potato, lotus root, sweet potato, pumpkin, tomato, cabbage, taro, carrot, eringi ( one kind of mushrooms) and onion.
なんと10種類の野菜が使われています！ They use 10 kinds of vegetables in the dish!
それらは、蒸す、焼く、揚げるなど、それぞれに合う方法で調理されています。 They cook them by the ways that fits each of them the best like steaming, grilling and frying.
そして味噌ベースのソースでいただきます。 Then you eat them by dipping the sauce based on miso.
副菜に、水菜のサラダ（梅ドレッシング）とキャベツの浅漬け、ゆず風味の味付けがしてあるお豆腐。 Side dishes are Mizuna salad with ume dressing, cabbage pickles and yuzu flavored tofu.
そしてもちろん、ごはんにお味噌汁。。。 And then of course, steamed rice and miso soup...
小さなひとくちが、こんなにも充実してるなんて I can't believe that one small bite is so rich!
野菜は副菜ってかんじだったけど、そのイメージは今日完全に壊れました。 I'd regarded vege as a side dish but the image was broken completely today.
彼らは主役にもなれるのです！ They can be a main dish!
野菜の味の底力を感じました。 I felt the power of vege.
とてもおいしかったです。 It was so good.
ごちそうさまでした Gochiso sama deshita.
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I went to a cafe to read my book last sunday. I borrowed it from my friend and it's not a Japanese book but English so I need to concentrate on it when I read it.
But I got an interruption on that day and couldn't read my book anymore!
Two ladies came to my next table and started to talk. According to their conversation, they seemed the one was a married woman and the other was her mother-in-law. They live together, the young lady's family live in upstairs and her mother-in-law and her husband live in a first floor but they share kitchen, washing machine and bathroom. Then they were complaining each other about their daily life. They seemed have different senses and rules. For example, the young lady doesn't like using a dish towel after washing dishes because they get dirt, so she asked her mother-in-law not to do that. They had been talking that sort of things for about 30 min.
I'm so sorry for them but I strained my ears to catch their talking. It was fun for me,lol.
But thanks to them, I couldn't go on reading for that 30 min...
音楽を聞かせると植物も元気になるらしく、（わたしも聞いたことある）その方法を実践してみたらしい。 I've heard that plants would be healthier by good music and D tried to do it to our pumpkin.
で、KLSU（ルイジアナ州立大学の学生がやってるローカルラジオ局）流してあげてみたけど、あんまり効果なかったらしい・・・ポップとかロックが多いからかな？ He turned on KLSU which was a radio station by students from LSU but it didn't seem to work... It often plays pop and rock music that's way it didn't work I guess.
今度はclassic music流してみよーか？ How about playing classic music next time?
そーいやなんか、このパンプキンひょろっとしてきて若干Dに似てなくもないな・・・（笑） By the way the pumpkin is getting tall and skinny, it looks like D...lol.
夜なのに、昨日はひょっこり空いていた特等席。 There were two vacant seats at the best positions that night even though it was busy night.
コーヒーなしで、一時間（笑） We stayed there without coffee for an hour,lol.
雨降りの渋谷。 Rainy day at Shibuya.
ごった返すスクランブル交差点。 The scramble crossing with crowd.
水溜りに何かを落としたらしく、必死に探す皮ジャンの男の人。 A guy in leather jacket finding for something he dropped on the ground.
右手に傘、左手に靴を持ち、裸足で歩く外国人。 A foreigner with bare feet bringing her shoes and umbrella in her hands.
3人組で肩を組みながら仲良く歩く少年たち。 3 boys with their arms around each other's shoulders walking together.
上から眺める渋谷は結構おもしろい。 It is pretty interesting to see Shibuya from above.
Chiho, Don't worry about him ok?
Why is the seats best? Because starbucks at Shibuya is at the second floor ( Tsutaya is at the 1st floor) and they have some seats by the windows. If you sit there you can have a nice viwe from there. Not sure if you think it is nice tho. But I love sitting there.
）に妹と2回目となる高尾山ハイキングに行ってきました。
ポップとかロックが多いからかな？
