Here comes snow again!!!

The moment I stepped out from the airplane onto the field of my country,Snow started to patter from the sky.Welcomed by my sister at the airport, I became in the mood of celebration for the New Year coming very next day.

In Japan, the period of New Year is the most important national festival ,in which people have holidays from about December 29th and it lasts one or two weeks to return their home and spend the moment with their families and relatives generally.

Toward New Year, we take dust from our houses and decolate with specific stuffs made with pine and bamboo,then make a special unite of dishes,which is called ''Osechi-ryori" and eaten during the event as being able to be kept for a couple of days. The contents are herring roem(kazunoko),sea tangle roll(konbumaki),sweetened black soybeans(kuromame),fish cakes(kamaboko) and so on,accompanied with their own wishes such as ''being able to be active'' for kuromame and '' happiness'' for konbumaki.

By the time we arrived at our home town, the snow mounted as deep as ever, which we never expected on the eve. Astonished by the unusual incident,I imagined that we were watching the annual program for New Year,eating a special noddle ''Toshikosi soba'' to wish our long-last lives at the very moment of the year changing and writing our ambitions for the coming year on the plain mind in the snug room.