Centro in Buenos Aires

I'm in airport of El Calafate now. I'm waiting my flight.

I stayed in Buenos Aires for 3 days before El Calafate.

These are a main street of centro in Buenos Aires.

There are many performers on the street.

It was fun!

Puchero

This is typical Argentine food "Puchero"

Stewed meat.

Huge...

El Calafate town

El Calafate is a town like Karuizawa.

Many tourists are there and there are shopping malls and hotels.

I took this picture at 8:30 pm.

It was still look like afternoon!

Trekking on the glacier!

I walked on glacier for 2 hours.

There were wonderful tour guides who know which way is safe.

It was amazing to be on Ice which took looooong time to grow!

The glacier is melting here.

New glacier is keep growing on the top of the mountains, and the old glacier is pushed down to lakes at the foot of mountains. Then they start melting.

So, there were many holes and small river on the glacier.

The water is drinkable!

You can hear crack and thundering sound many times from these mass of glacier.

I saw falling glacier a few times.

Glacier!!!!

The boat is getting close to glacier little by little.

Spectacular!! 

Glaciar Perito Moreno

I took a bus to Perito Moreno from Calafate.

The bus run on this road for 1 hour 30 minutes.

Then I took this boat.

CALAFATE

I'm in Argentina now. 

Yesterday, I flew to Calafate from Buenos Aires to see glacier.

Argentina is a big country ranks 8th in the world.

There are huge plain, mountains, big lakes, wide rivers which you can't see the opposite shore... everything is in this country.

I got NY!

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra had a regular concert in Tokyo last night.

It was a wonderful concert. I want to say thank you to all of audience!

Now, I'm in NY. I left this morning, after 11 hours flight, I got here almost same time in same date of departure time in Japan. Because 13 hours different between Japan and NY.

Then, I'm going to Argentina tonight's flight with my husband.

That's a looooong trip!

But I'm looking forward to go to his hometown.

This is my lunch in brooklyn.

I wonder why they always serve so much french fries??

You can't see hamburger... 

Anyway, taste was good!

I'm leaving NY in 7 hours!!

Oise-san

I woke up early this morning to went to Ise Shrine before went to the Marching Competition.

We call the shrine "Oise-san" to fondly.

It was fantastic.

They don't show any explanation boads about each structures and shrines (There are many shrines within Ise Shrine) for tourists. That is good!

Oise-san has dignity.

Look! Stone paving is very neat!

Kintetsu Express

I'm in Ise city for judge the Marching Band Competition.

Kintetsu line took me to Ise from Nagoya.

I like this orange body!

The biggest shark in the biggest tank!

Though whale shark is the biggest shark in the world, they have plenty of space!

@Churaumi Aquarium Okinawa

Churaumi Aquarium♪

I went to Okinawa prefecture.

brothers?

Cute!

Are you sleeping?

Congratulations!!

Congratulations my friends!!

My friends Rie who is a clarinet player in our orchestra and Taka had a wedding ceremony last Wednesday in Nara.

It was beautiful day and the ceremony was wonderful!

They looked really happy.

A party after the ceremony was held in Nara Hotel which has a long history.

The party was not so big, so their families were very close.

They were so nice! I had a great time with them. I felt like I was a member of family. 

Rie and I are same age,  Taka and my husband are also same age.

We got married same month!

Party in Eskisehir

We had a party after the last concert in Eskisehir.

The Trumpet section of TKWO!

Chandeliers in this room were beautiful.

Eskisehir

Turkey is associated with kebab!

This is a small kebab restaurant near a concert hall we played in Eskisehir Turkey.

They were very friendly and the kebab was great!!

Although they only speak Turkish, we talked a lot in Turkish and Japanese. hahaha.

I couldn't understand at all, and vise versa.

Anyway, it was fun!!

I'm a member of this orchestra♪

There were many our posters in Eskisehir.

Everywhere!

I was glad to see them!

Basilica Cistern in Istanbul

This cistern was very mysterious!

There were a lot of fish in the water.

It was used as a location for 007!!

Ayasofya

Ayasofya used to be a church of Greece, then they changed to Mosque.

There were many chandeliers made by wood.

I found some painting windows next to real windows.

They used to have window tax, so they made fake ones.

Interesting!

Blue Mosque

I went to see Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Stained Glasses were amazing.

Flight to Turkey!

Our orchestra moved to Turkey from Germany.

I saw beautiful sunset from the window.

Turkey will be the last country for our Europe tour.

Good bye....

When I was sitting at Bodensee in Friedrichshafen, I saw 2 birds.

You can imagine a lot of stories from this picture. hahaha.

I was in Germany

A instrument shop in Friedrichshafen Germany.

The knob is made from violin♪

Cute!

Luzern

We are in Switzerland.

My university friend Miwa lives in Zurich.

We hung out yesterday after a long time!

Miwa, Rie and I were same grade!!

I was so happy to see her again.

She has 3 children! But She's not changed at all.

We had lunch and talked a lot.

This photo was taken in front of Kapell bridge.

I'm in Italy

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra came to Torino Italy for Europe tour!

I'm fine♪ and enjoyed taking a walk this beautiful town.

How wonderful to collaborate old structures and a tram!!

Trams and buses squeeze through such a narrow place!!!!

Amazing!

We are having the first concert tonight.

Union Square?

There was a Greenmarket in Omotesando Tokyo.

It was associated with Union Square NY.

I went to see wedding dresses in Omotesando with my friend Megumi.

We enjoyed walking on the Sunday street after that.

IN THE HEIGHTS!!!

'IN THE HEIGHTS'

Winner of TONY AWARD 2008.

When they won the award, I was in NY and I went to see the moment in Radio City!

The musical is set in Washington Heights.

Yes, where I lived!!!

What a strange chance.

The story is about immigrants from Latin America.

I liked buying coffee and sandwich in a bakery which latino ran next to the station.

There were beauty salons which are look like one in the musical.

Washington Heights was always energetic.

I felt latin peoples atmosphere everywhere.

Their life, their history, reality of NYC.... their patriotism, then their future.

I was touched.

The music and dance also amazing!!!

BTW,

I couldn't understand the story more than half when I saw the musical in NY, but I could see it with subtitles today♪ So I finally understood every single word!!!! 

Thank you for coming to Japan!!!

Apply

I brought my husband's Application for Certificate of Eligibility to the immigration office today.

I've struggled with a lot of documents and papers so far to apply.

My friend who has a husband from USA helped me a lot.

I really thank her!!

By the way, when I applied at the office, a clerk at a window saw my documents and asked me

"You are a musician. What do you play?"

I thought he was checking deeper about us.

"I play the trumpet." 

I answered.

Then he said

 "I play the clarinet, and I often go to your orchestra's concert!"

I was very surprised.

He also said

"You are having a regular concert in Fumon Hall in April right? I might go"

I realize that International marriage makes my life more interesting and wonderful!!

recorder in wind ensemble

It was difficult to play recorder right after playing trumpet..

Every note tend to tip over because of strong breathing. Hahaha.

We played recorder in a concert.

Solo recorder was a conductor Mr. Yutaka Sado.

It was fun!

Mt. Fuji Kawaguchiko Music Festival

I played in my former orchestra Siena Wind Orchestra as a extra player this weekend.

It was the 9th Music Festival in Kawaguchiko.

I was a member of this orchestra when the festival started.

Stellar Theater which is an open-air theater made me nostalgic.

I was glad to be said "Long time no see An-chan." from maestro Sado♪

Mt. Hakuba

I climbed Mt. Hakuba with My uncle.

The first picture is taken in front of a hut.

Haha, I'm closing my eyes...

The sunlight dazzled my eyes.

It was soooo hard!!

But we could see spectacular view!!

Strange Food in Tokyo

"Monjya yaki"

A specialty of Tokyo.

My friend jazz singer Kaoru and I had dinner in Monjya restaurant.

Kaoru is from Osaka, I'm from Nagoya.

Ummmm... We didn't get it......

But, taste was good. It was like snack.

Coffee mill

I'm having a concert in Hamamatsu in August.

Mr. Masahiko Inoue who is my teacher when I was a high school student will play in the concert with me!!

I went to his house after a long time and we had a rehearsal.

He made coffee for me after wonderful dinner which is served by his wife.

It was great.

Lovely Cat

Our cat Din-chan is doing massage.

Then she trample him and gone....

Wonderful morning!

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Japan qualified for round of 16!!!!

The game started from 3:30 am.

I thought I couldn't watch the game.

But It was 4 am when I woke up.

I turned on TV.

JPN 2 - 0 DEN at that time.

Wow!!

And I saw a beautiful morning glow from veranda!

Then, I slept again with pleasure.