introduction about the tunisian primitif art

dearest friend
hello
how are you there? i wish all right.
thanks so much for the explainations that you had wrote to me in your last risala. it's interesting.
ok, now i understand more, you mean about the second job what we call here the Associations activities.
yes, we have such activities, see that we have several associations, and for that each person can choose the activity whom he or she like , and shoose the association whom is like too.

about me, i am not really a member of an association, but always i participate, and help associations when they demand my help.
for example the last years i use to do activities to the association of books of chidren... and also some of my foreign friends helped me too to realise some things, as publishjing books and offer it to this association, or helping them during the days of the international fair of books...

ok, about the tunisian arts, our land is so rich of arts... so i will try my best to write to you some introductions from time to time, in which i will introduce a special art style. and this time i will talk about the old anciant art of painting in tunisia.
this land was one of the oldest lands at world, and for that the primitif humain race had lived here... the most old civilisation is called the KAPSIAN CIVILISATION, in that epoch so deep in history, when the world was trying to rise, tunisia was a little island at the northern africa... the place that was habited by human is no the oldest mountain in our country, it is called JBAL ECHCHAANBI
and this race of anciant man had used to live in Grottes, he don't know how to build homes.... and for that he had left to us a rich artistic grafics painted at the wals of the Grottes in which he lived... this paintings is the most oldest way of arts, and that man used to paint all what he see in his life, the daily life
and for that anthropologues, and archiologues know now severalm things about that civilisation, the way of life, the activities...
and here some photos of that paintings. it's found in grottes at Kairouan state, in the mauntain called DJABAL WASLAT

by the way several Grottes was endamaged, and some of it was closed now, to protek it from bad persons whom stole or undamage that rich history... other Grottes was closed also because the paintings in it don't support the photography flashes, and we have not the materials to protect it....

Translate side job

Hello, how are you today?
Sorry I don't know your culture... What is Tunisia art? If you can, please introduce it.

You asked me about my second job?? Of cource I have to say that Law prohibit us from a side job, because we work in public sector. My saying second job is volunteer activity. I don't earn any money from second job. But it is quite hard as if working. I look working. So I always say "I'm doing translate job."

Once I have calculated translation price. I always translate from Chinese to Japanese. Its price is 10-15yen every 1 Chinese word. If I can get saraly from second job, I can earn 20,000-40,000yen (1us dollar=100yen) every week. For example, this week I have already translated 4500 words...


I always translate China news, after translating I edit it, send to e-mail.
Recently Japanese media report about China, for example Tibet, food, trade, demostration, Orimpic torch... But I don't want to raise such a issue of China.

I'm interested in developing country. China is also developing country, and Japan had been developing country. Now we watch China, we can find same issue that once Japan had had. I want to translate general and universal issue about China.

Today I cooked and eat "Gyu-don"(beef bowl). Perhaps it looks Japanese cuisine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyudon


And recently I have already changed my chopsticks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks
No one use this chopsticks, because it is mine. In traditional Japanese family, every family member have their chopsticks, dish, soup cup... Do you have your tableware that no one use?

Mata-ne!!

about DVD

good morning my friend
how are you there? i wish all right.
also i wish that you'll have sweet mouments when meeting your sanghapourian friend... always it's so fantastic to have friends all over the world, and to have the opportunity to meet them.

it's interesting what you had said to me about the DVD, and the Conan series... the new information that i know now, is that cartoon series use to be diffused in Japen at theatre, this is excelent, and so new.... here only theatre pieces can be played at theatres... and also i am histoneshed abit about that expencive price......... really it's so expencive... 1800 yen... it's about 20 tunisian dinars........ i ticket for cnema here is about 1 dinar, a tiket for theatre piece, when it's expencive it's not more then 5 dinars........ and theatre for kids, is always 0.5 dinar...

about renting DVD, VCD... here there's alot of places that we can rent from it that... but inluckely we don't find the far east movies except some chinese or indian movies... the most popular films or cartoon are american and some french...
about the japanese cinema, i had the opportunity to see some films last year at the french TV, the ARTE chanel. they had diffused during a week some old japanese films, and some new one, really it was so excelent, and i liked it so much... and i hope if they will defuse in our TV such excelent films.

about Didective Conan series, here we can wach it at the TV every day, there's a translated version to arabic language. sure the new series don't rush us fast... we wait always for the companies of translations, usually they are in Libanon...

about your question concerning working a second work... here for clearc (poeple whom working with the state) it's forbidden by law to practice a second work. for me for example, because i am working at the minestry of education as teacher in the gouvernemontal schools, i have no the right to do a second work... but in private sector, poeple can do several other works in their free time if they want that...
due to such system clearcs here are usually poor ;)

do you have an idea about the tunisian arts?... if no, just inform me, i'll introduce to you some of our arts.
sorry for this short talking
next i'll write to you more
have happy and sweet day
best regards
beslama

Watching DVD

Hello... how are you??
I have been busy since end of March. I work overtime every day about 2-4 hour. I don't like overtime work so much. of cource I can get extra money, but I want to get extra time to do something. Now I don't have a time to study, do hobby, to have trip, to meet friends. Do you have overtime work?

Yesterday I wanted to write "koukan-nikki", and I prepare some picture to write. But I had been asleep, after watching DVD... I woke up in the morning. I wanted something to do at yesterday night, but I couldn't.

My favorite DVD is "Detective Conan", I had introduced about it. your nephew also like it...
If you or your nephew want to see "Detective Conan", what do you do? You will buy it? It is popular to rent a DVD among Japanese. I sometimes go to rent-DVD shop to rent something.


I had got some "Detective Conan" cards for 2 month, when I had rent a "Detective Conan" DVD. It is advertisement about new "Detective Conan" movie. It is 12th movie named "Meitantei-Conan Senritsu-no FullScore" (Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear). Movie will start tomorrow, 19th April.
But I will not watch the movie in theater. Because it costs 1800yen, quite expensive.(now 1us dollar=100yen) If I wait several monthes, I will be able to rent this movie DVD, It costs 290yen. It is cheaper.

And this weekend I will be busy. Because I will want to go there with my friend who come from singapore. He have come Japan for 2 weeks and will back to his country next Monday. I will take some friends and meet him.

Have a nice weekend!!

yours family city is beautiful

dearest friend: good morning
thanks for telling me about your family city, and much rememberences that you have there.
it's excelent always to have such love for a place in which we have spend our childhood and youth... your city looks so beautiful at photos, you are lucky.

about me, i like also my family city in which i lived for long time, and always i seek to be there despite that the place is not fantastic... but i have memories in each stone there...
what make me sad abit, is the full distructions that use to be done always... always when i return there for visiting my family, i discover alot of changes... buildings as spead everywhere, and this kill the old natural characteristics that i know... in the past the city was surrounded by natural forests, and gardens.... now we can see only the stuped buildings, that have no sence or soule... and even the forests out side the side is destroyed from day to day.........

the martyrs' day

dearest friend konnochiwa!thanks so much for this interesting risala, always i learn more about you and your country through the rasael.thanks also for agreeing that we will publish one day this rasael in a book... what you had said about your experience looks sad, it's not good at once to participate in a book and someone stool your efforts...ok, about my suggestion, sure i want a comon book with you. so the writers will be 2 persons, you and me, and this shall be montioned in the book... also i guess that it's better to print the textes in our 2 mather languages, with the english traslation as an intermidiate language... ok, in future we will plan more about how doing it.thanks for telling me about the bananas... you are lucky to conserve such traditions in Japan... this had remembered me a similar old tradition in my region, we have similar thing like that but we used to do it with appels... when i was child i use to eat it alot... but inluckely this tradition is not existing now...i would like also to thank you for telling me about Budha birthday. it's interesting.ok, tomorrow it's april the 9th, we will celebrate as every year the national day of Tunisian martyrs. so tomorrow we have no work all the day. and some ceremonies will be done in each region of the country to give hommage to our heroes whom had fighted the french colonial goverment during 70 years of the colinisation. this memorial day is related to the pricise date: april the 9th 1938. which is the day of the begening of the new revolution against the coloniser... at that day Tunisian poeple, and Tunisian youth had fighted strongly the frech colonial army. and from that day it was born a new kind of defending the country in which national mouvement was able to react in 2 sides the political side, and the army side. the army side colled EL FALLAGHA, whom are revolutionary youth whom attach the ennemy and distroy it, the kind of war was the Gerrilla way... and they had not stoped that till the day of independence in march the 20th 1956.ok, in that day also , the 9th of april, there was several judgments against the FELLAGHA whom had cuptered by the ennemy, and they had fired them in a place called ESSIGOUMI, it's a laque near the capital... ok, have happy daysee you soonlybest regardsbye

Seibu Lions Stadium and Lake Sayama

Last Sunday I went to Seibu Lions Stadium to watch baseball game.
I went to stadium by train. Seibu Lions Stadium station is near the my parents house. so to go to Seibu Lions Stadium means I back my hometown.


Baseball is most popular sports in Japan. Though in 1990's started J-league soccer, and some young people prefer watching soccer, but baseball is most popular sport among all the generation in Japan.

I like to watch baseball so much, because my hometown have professional baseball team that name is Seibu Lions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions
Japan have 12 professional baseball team, only 12team. To watch baseball game is quite cheap for me and for my family, because my mother friends always gave us baseball game free cicket. So when I was a child, I used to go to Seibu Lions stadium to watch baseball game.


Before watching game, I went to Lake Sayama near the stadium. We call Lake Sayama, but in fact it is not lake, it is dam, reservoir. Everyone don't fishing, crusing... and so on, because this lake is build for water service in Tokyo.


When I was 18-23 years old, I used to go to here by car for relax and date to my boyfriend. I liked to drive a car so much. It takes about 10-15 minutes from my parents home to here. Lake Sayama is full of memories place for me.


Of cource, I took hana-mi walk. Once here was famous place for hana-mi. But now here become less crowded place... only local people came here and enjoy hana-mi...
Mata-ne!!

Buddha's birthday

Hello... How do you do??

If you have a plan publish this blog, please don't forget to print my name in this book...
2 years ago, I helped publishing book for my friend. But he don't print my name and write thanksness in his book. I felt shock, because this book made at his dictation, I dictated and edited his voice. I have believed my part is important in this book.

Anyway I want to continue communication to you. If you think it is useful or interesting, you can use this blog topics for publishing...

Last saturday, I went to Ueno park by train. it is about 30 minutes. and I took a hanami walk.

I went to small temple. I saw Buddha's birthday event corner of temple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_Birthday

There are small Buddha in small house, I pour sweet tea on small Buddha. After I can drink same as sweet tea. It taste is strange, not good...
Buddha's birthday event is not big event, I believe many Japanese don't know Buddha's birthday event, though Buddhism is most popular religion among Japanese people. I have also forgot Buddha birthday until I saw special small house...

People enjoyed hana-mi... eating, drinking, smoking, talking, taking photo, walking, drowing picture...


I bought "banana-choco"... It is banana coated chocolate. It is popular food, we can find banana-choco stall in japanese festival. I like so much.
Do you know "banana-choco"??


Mata-ne!!

a picnic in kerkena island

konnichiwa!

i read your risala, it's so interesting, also i liked so much your style of writting... you have an original style...

i have an idea, why not we will publish one day our rasael at this blog into a book... after writing several rasael, and if you are agree, we can publish it to public, it will be a kind new style of books, ok if you are interested at that just inform me.

today i have no work, and i want to change abit my rithm of life here in sfax... so from the early morning i had gone out from my rented home. the weather was cold and fogy... in begening of spring the weather use to change always, and poeple here waiting always for the rain of march and april... it's an anciant habitude... the tunisian agriculture use to mothodes, the Sakwi mothode which is modern and not dependent of the natural weather and rain, and the Baali methode which is so ancient, and it's depending of the natural rain... it's called BAALI methode due to the so old religion in this land, at the epoch of the Carthagian civilisation, the god of rain is called BBAL HAMMOUNE... so doing agriculture from that epoch was depended to the BAAL HAMMOUN grace... when he is ok with the population he offers them rain, and they can be rich, and when he is angry against them he don't allow the rain to fall doun as a punishment of the population when they are not good persons.... so from that old epic we have the name BAALI to show the agriculture that depend to natural rain.

so today i had walked in cold and fogy weather at early morning, i was so happy... i like such weather... i walked about 2 km, it's the distance from my home to the center of the city... when i rushed the city center i had gone to the old port... there's the frech air of the eastern sea... then i entered to the ferry, it's an opportunity for me to visit the island called Kerkena. it's a sweet place.

there i spend all the day, and i have eat regional foods. also i had walked in good little forests. and had met with poeple. poeple there are so welcomed...

have happy and sweet day

beslama

fredj

I took a Hana-mi walk

hello. Last weekend I went for Hana-mi.
Hana-mi is Japanese that means Hana(flower) and mi(see). Hana-mi is Japanese traditional culture. Everyone like to go out and see sakura(cherry-blossom) like a picnic or take a walk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami

Ueno park is one of the most famous place to see sakura and it is so close to my house. But Ueno Park is crowded place, because many sight-seeing people come to park, so I went to Meguro by train to see sakura(cherry blossom).
It took about 1 hour from my house to Meguro station. I took a walk along the Meguro river and enjoy hana-mi.




on the way to backing my house, I went to Sinobazu pond near the Ueno park, but it is crowded so much and it is difficult to walk smoothly...


By the way, you have finished your holiday? Japanese school also have spring holiday. In Japan April is the beginning of a school year, government and company budget.
We see cherry blossom in end of March and April, so when I see cherry blossom, I remember memory of school such as graduation and entrance ceremony.

mata-ne!!