well low everyone and welcome to omou
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this is omer a park in nagasaki japan
japan and i am out here for Tommy
Tommy in Japanese the word for flower
flower is hannah and the word for
for look is meeting so if you put
put them together , me we get looking
looking at flowers so
so basically what I'm out here doing
doing today is something I like to
to do every year and it's obviously
obviously a big part of the culture
culture here in Japan will explain
explain more about it is i'm at one
one of my favorite places in Nagasaki
Nagasaki can in in all of Japan really
really
really so
so when I first came out here 10 years
years ago I was living and I didn't
didn't really know very many people
people but the first time i was able
able to come out to the park it
it was such a fantastic experience
experience I came here to study Japanese
Japanese garden so as you can see
see kind of behind me we've
we've got lots of different flowers
flowers here and there styled in the
the kind of traditional Japanese Way
Way the kind of thing that I learned
learned when I came out here initially
initially and so I'm out here and
and i'll actually show you a whole
whole bunch of the flowers now right
right now we're kind of in the near
near the end of the season we've still
still got quite a flat quite a lot
lot of flowers out here but you'll
you'll kind of see these i can turn
turn around you get a little bit of
of a shot in the background there
there of some flowers and I walk around
around and show you some more so
so basically what hanami is is people
people get to come out here near the
the kind of beginning of April a little
little bit before that may be the
the last few weeks of march and then
then the beginning of April depending
depending on where you are in the
the country it
it kind of starts at the southern
southern part and then the flowers
flowers work their way up and you
you can actually see that in on the
the news and they track you know where
where the flowers are coming from
from
from so
so it's actually a beautiful sunny
sunny day it's April second here in
in Japan and it's because it's right
right at the middle of the vacation
vacation time between the school year
year it's different basically in America
America we start our school year in
in September and in japan it starts
starts in april so right now we've
we've actually got a lot of people
people there still you know school
school groups that come out here but
but most of the students that are
are graduating and moving to you know
know kind of higher levels of school
school there and
and having fun right now so even though
though we're still kind of in the
the middle of the economy season we've
we've still got quite a few flowers
flowers left and you can see some
some of that kind of pink behind me
me will come in kind of take a closer
closer look at it later now
now one of the coolest things that
that I remember about this park was
was that everybody was so you know
know warm and friendly especially
especially you know people are drinking
drinking a little bit and they get
get to you know kind of relax and
and they're a bit more welcoming so
so you know right now as I mentioned
mentioned it's the middle of the day
day so you got kind of fewer people
people will turn the camera around
around so you got fewer people outside
outside today but you can see we do
do have people sitting down relaxing
relaxing outside and this is kind
kind of the beauty of hanami now in
in America it would basically it's
it's illegal to to to drink alcohol
alcohol outside you
you know even it like a park unless
unless it's you know kind of a private
private property thing but the cool
cool thing about Japan is that you
you can actually walk around and drink
drink alcohol so if you do drink you
you can just bring your alcohol to
to a park and bring your food and
and anything else you'd like and just
just sit down and you get to meet
meet a whole bunch of different people
people now as you can see all of this
this pink that's in the water these
these are all of the flower petals
petals that are coming off the trees
trees so it makes for you know both
both they are beautiful carpet when
when you're sitting down on the grass
grass but also you've got the lovely
lovely canopy or the kind of tree
tree tops above you all
all rides and now we're coming into
into one of my favorite places to
to sit out and give you a little bit
bit better view of it you
you can see there are already quite
quite a few people out here relaxing
relaxing and enjoying the day so
so right here in this spot in the
the middle i spent you know my first
first year first full year living
living in Japan when you are or he
he just got here myself it was how
how many months ago yeah
yeah that guy you don't owe more on
on I want it don't do no no my want
want me to meet you oh
oh yeah but we're snake one of my
my wife boycott net ya no ya don't
don't
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Anna matter of this now you're so
so very much okay cómo
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he knows that ago so there are looking
looking guys with this guy yeah
yeah well you may not be my sit on
on it and he said it didn't I know
know English anyone need to work out
out why this narrow model do teach
teach young and I'm gonna get
there
there no
no medico take it anymore honey singh
singh do this you can do with your
your mother being kitchen I taking
taking and giving it not no
no its you two more people there's
there's only one is do it that you
you get with your most what these
these guys you might think you know
know you know he got old ok
ok ok so now this is this is one of
of the really cool things about her
her mommy again hey
hey I've got like I've just met this
this guy ok now yes amazed and he's
he's trying to tickle me over here
here i just made him like one minute
minute ago so right now i'm out here
here i have this this lovely family
family
family so
so you can tell you can tell your
your names again say say hello hello
hello hello hello hello hello hello
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mobile can only go to the ball hard
hard cock
hard cock ok
ok jun
ok jun one
one of my own I'm up here I god oh
oh my god oh my god that's so great
great the day now
now one of the things you'll notice
notice about you know i was just basically
basically walking and I saw some kids
kids over and you know for practicing
practicing your English especially
especially if you're living in an
an english-speaking country if you
you go out to a place like a part
part especially where you've got you
you know groups of people like you
you know parents and their kids everybody
everybody is out having a good time
time
time it's
it's a really great way to start conversations
conversations you can get into a conversation
conversation by you know trying to
to talk with the kids first because
because usually they're like a little
little bit you know a little bit less
less shy and more willing to go out
out and meet new people so
so if you like you know if you're
you're like I have like a baseball
baseball or something like that you're
you're at a park and you can kind
kind of begin a conversation that
that way so we can have a bit more
more of a great conversation now you
you sit down and you know get to talk
talk with the kids and then after
after that you know I can kind of
of talk with the parents a bit more
more as well ok
ok so I'm here and you know as as
as i expected they're asking me for
for signatures and dropping how
how do you know the the difference
difference in the cultures is really
really not here to do here
here here here is one of those in
in the car some
some people love out here the just
just kind of the wake up one more
more one more you've
you've done it one more time or a
a walk instead of his name to my name
name
name d
d our heat w thank
thank you no money there so don't
don't watch it is named so eating
eating a lot of the this especially
especially kids in Japan they've got
got eaten by a lot more shots he cried
cried out of the show so
so they've got lots of English written
written on their shirts and everybody
everybody likes the way English looks
looks just like we have in America
America you know we like to have some
some people like me and I just kind
kind of the look of japanese or chinese
chinese characters so we got this
this is my my English name here and
and now I'll write it in gentlemen's
gentlemen's all right in , donna going
going to visit I
I can't be that hard to write like
like this
like this so
so we've got talent don't beat you
you go to use here and here and here
here i kinda you're gonna have to
to probably feels when you put it
it
it okay
okay so this is my my signature I
I like to do especially for Japanese
Japanese kids they don't know any
any better so I just do a crazy signature
signature like this yeah
yeah anyway well I will turn this
this off and then we will come back
back in a moment show you some more
more of the whole middle part all
all right and the journey continues
continues you see how fun it is to
to come out here for hanami everybody's
everybody's relaxing having a great
great time and it's just a beautiful
beautiful day it's really a fantastic
fantastic day for hanami so we'll
we'll see what other things we can
can get into today as we walk we're
we're crossing the bridge from the
the main kind of area the can see
see over here the
the main entrance and now we're going
going up to the castle see if we can
can find the castle for some lovely
lovely hanami so one of the really
really cool things you know you got
got all this lovely little rivers
rivers over here people sitting outside
outside having food add
add some corn and hot dogs and ice
ice cream and you can get takoyaki
takoyaki so taco is the word for octopus
octopus and the yahoo is to kind of
of cook something so they got a takoyaki
takoyaki cooked octopus so it's kind
kind of like little balls it's
it's almost like kind of pancake dough
dough with a little piece of caca
caca president so this is a takoyaki
takoyaki secret the lovely octopus
octopus over here and then a soft
soft cream ice cream and then we get
get some traditional japanese sweets
sweets over here I
I might have to get something but
but you know it's kind of a and I
I need to watch my figure I'm
I'm going like a little bit of a diet
diet over here then one of my favorite
favorite trees with some of the leaves
leaves coming out here in the spring
spring this is the moment gene the
the Japanese maple a ride and now
now we are walking our way up to the
the castle so
so this is almost a castle i really
really like this the whole atmosphere
atmosphere this place very traditional
traditional area with lots of beautiful
beautiful flowers that you can come
come look at all it's just a perfect
perfect day idea which you could be
be sitting out here to experience
experience this with me we're going
going to walk up the stairs and see
see what we can find so
so now we're getting up to the top
top of the mountain you can hear him
him a little bit breathless but
but actually now we get to see what's
what's up at the very top now
now usually you know temples and shrines
shrines those things like you come
come here there's a kind of an order
order that you do things and usually
usually come over and wash your hands
hands first and
and there can be different ways to
to do it but usually they give you
you some kind of a little bit of an
an example of how you're actually
actually supposed to wash your hands
hands
hands now
now what can be tricky as if you've
you've got you know just kind of one
one hand and especially if you're
you're trying to hold a camera you
you know I kind of hard to wash your
your own hand but but just the feeling
feeling of it it's very relaxing to
to wash your hands and get kind of
of cleaned up as you enter a temple
temple or shrine and
and then after you finish that we've
we've got an area where you can come
come up ring a bell say
say a bit of a prayer deposit a little
little bit of money and
and enjoy the day we've also got places
places for people to write particular
particular wishes that they have and
and you know prayers for the future
future especially around this time
time of the year when we're starting
starting a new school year so a lot
lot of people are wishing for you
you know a good prosperous new year
year
year all
all right well i hope you enjoyed
enjoyed getting to walk around in
in the first video in this series
series
series well
well kind of see where it goes depending
depending on the questions and comments
comments and the number of likes that
that kind of thing if
if this becomes a popular video I'm
I'm really excited to make more and
and kind of get into some of the things
things that maybe people aren't so
so familiar about about Japan so
so if you know you want to learn about
about like a particular you know martial
martial art or tea or something like
like that maybe there's already plenty
plenty of videos about that I probably
probably be less interested in making
making a video about that i really
really want to kind of get into some
some more detailed things that maybe
maybe people don't really know about
about
about so
so please no comment below this video
video be sure to like it if
if you're enjoying this video and
and hopefully i will get lots of great
great ideas for more videos to make
make
make well
well I will leave you with a kind
kind of one final note here since
since I'm in this beautiful setting
setting
setting one
one of the reasons that I come to
to places like this and the reason
reason that i got interested in Japanese
Japanese gardening in the first place
place is that it because it makes
makes me so relaxed and calm so
so if I'm ever having other things
things that I'm thinking about our
our worries i've got too much in my
my life that's happening I
I can come to a place like this and
and i can forget and I can really
really focus on you know whatever
whatever it is I'm thinking about
about or especially if I have a particular
particular problem i can really clear
clear my mind and focus on that specifically
specifically now
now I bring this up because a lot
lot of times I'll here in a comment
comment or a question from a learner
learner that you know they say like
like my english sucks or
or you know i'm not happy with my
my English or something like that
that and what happens when you you
you kind of say a general thing like
like that is you you kind of trick
trick your mind and you make your
your mind think about too many things
things at one time so
so what I recommend is that you know
know number one remember that your
your problem is probably not that
that big so anytime you have something
something that you're worried about
about there's probably a better way
way a more simple way and a clear
clear way of expressing that so
so if you can come to a place like
like this or you know whatever that
that happens to be for you that will
will help you have a much better experience
experience and be able to solve that
that problem much faster so
so remember if you're able to watch
watch this video and you understand
understand most of it your English
English is already fantastic so
so don't say that your english sucks
sucks or anything like that you
you know you may have a particular
particular problem and if you can
can find that particular problem then
then you can solve it so
so maybe the pronunciation of one
one or two words is actually a problem
problem and the problem is really
really much smaller than you thought
thought it was so find your place
place like this wherever that is it
it could be in a city or it could
could be you know out in like kind
kind of nature like i enjoy but whatever
whatever it happens to be have
have a fantastic day get down in the
the comments below let me know what
what you think of this video and I'll