アメリカ便り〜Report from America "Swing Dance!"〜

Today was also a pretty nice day!

In the morning, I went to Mount Terrace Library to join to the TalkTime.
I also had a teatime with the teacher and members after it.

今日はとっても良い日でした！
午前中はモントレイクテラス図書館のトークタイムに参加して、そのあと皆んなでお茶をしに行きました。

Next, I went to Bellevue art museum because there is an exhibition of Louis Kahn who was the 20th century famous architect.
His works were really great even if I'm out of touch to buildings.

それから、今、20世紀を代表する著名建築家ルイス• カーンの展示会が行われているベルビューアート美術館へ。建築にはとんと疎い私にも、彼の作品はとても素晴らしいものに思えました。

Now the museum also has two exhibitions, China of Chris Antemann at MEISSEN, and ATOMS + BYTES which shows high technology arts.
All of them were really interesting.

今、美術館はその他に、マイセン磁器アーティストクリス•アンテマンの作品と、ハイテクノロジーアート｢アトムズ＋バイツ(コンピュータ用語)｣の２つの展示会を開いています。

And then, I had met up with my friend.
We had an enough time until going our destination, we decided to go the botanical garden Bellevue. While we went to there, I found a clump of horsetail!!!!

それから、私は友人と待ち合わせ、次の目的地までたっぷり時間があったので、ベルビュー植物園へ行くことにしました。そして、そこへ行く途中でつくしの群生を発見！

I was really surprised to find it because there were a lot of horsetail and they were so big; they were three or four times bigger than it in Japan. Anyway I took some horsetail happily.
After that, we walked in the waking in the hill, and refreshed.

その数の多さと、日本の3~4倍はあるその巨大さに超びっくり！私は嬉々としていくつか収穫しました♪♪♪
その後、丘の中の散歩道を歩いてリフレッシュ。

In the evening, we went to Redmond to join to a swing dance club "Learn To Swing Dance".
It was my second time to dance swing dance, and I was still a really beginner. At first, I was afraid to dance with skilled dancers, but some guys asked me to dance with them, and the dance gradually became to be fun.

Finally I became really interested in the dance.

Thank you for inviting me to such an amazing place, my dear friend!!!
And Thank you everyone whom I had met today;)

夜にはレドモンドで開かれているスイングダンスクラブへ。スイングダンスをするのはこれが2度目で私は未だに超ビギナー。だから初めは熟練者達と踊るのが怖くてもじもじしていましたが、何人かの男性が声を掛けてくれて、次第に踊るのが楽しくなってきました。

最後にはすっかりダンスの虜に♪

こんなに素敵な所へ誘ってくれてありがとう！
そして、今日出会った皆様に感謝します(*^^*)