Travel Oregon: Mathieu Lakes Region, Dee Wright Observatory

My Dad and "Three Fingered Jack" in the Distance

Stairs at Dee Wright Observatory, Scenic Byway Hwy 242, Oregon

Life is Found Even in This Environment

One of Oregon's Many Mountains. There are plaques with names and windows facing the mountains in the Observatory

Max Dramatic in Oregon, One Year Ago

Observatory Assembled of Weathered Volcanic Rock

This area is located on Highway 242, 15 miles west of Sister's Oregon.

You can only visit this place between late July through September. The highway opened up really late this year due record snowfall. They decided they would have to just wait for the snow to melt because the plows just couldn't get through it! (So I couldn't go on my camping trip I took just before leaving Oregon)

There are spectacular views, and the Willamette forest on the side of the mountains on the McKenzie Valley to Eugene has some of the richest, cleanest, most soothing air you will ever breathe. I miss that place. There are more things to do in the Willamette Valley which I will post pictures of. I was there in fall and the area was spectacular when the colors changed.

For the meantime, enjoy these photos of a surreal environment and the diversity of Oregon's nature. They are all my own, I finally pried them from my camera's internal memory!

I miss my home, but I am on to my next adventure: Living in Japan! (For at least one year!)

For more information about taking an adventure to this area of Oregon, check out this online guide which gives great detail about many adventures Oregon has to offer: http://www.eugeneoutdoors.com/matthieu-lakes-dee-wright-observatory/

いい部屋ネット/Good Room Network

My hometown is surrounded by many nurseries. I've heard even a lot of Japanese maples are supplied from Oregon.

Crown Melons are Famous in Fukuroi, Japan, sister city of my hometown in Oregon

http://www.eheya.net/

If you want to know something about living expenses in Japan, you can check out apartment costs at that site. Which is kind of fun. Even though depending on the program/employer you lprobably don't get to pick your first apartment.

I caught a cold and it is not fun. Tomona will be here on Saturday and I wanted to be bright eyed, bushytailed, and excited to meet her but looks like I'm just struggling to survive this week. Luckily it is just a cold, there hasn't been a fever involved, so that says something about the severity. The congestion has been keeping me from sleeping well which is making all the difference.

Grumble grumble.

I can't wait for acupuncture because I know one day I had aches and pains and felt all stiff and as soon as it was over I felt wonderful. That's on Thursday.

No word back from the requirements committee.

My net -interview with the ALT company went well, although talking on skype is darn hard. My connection is no good and a lot of the conversation tends to get garbled up. Anyway, excited about my interview with them over the break and looked at the positions in Aichi and Shizuoka. All of them look like they're in really awesome places.

The most interesting to me is one in Mori, Japan which is by Fukuroi, Shizuoka. Fukuroi is my city's sister city and their relationship began in November 1988. My birthday, year and all! It's like I am the patron saint of the Fukuroi-Hillsboro sister city relationship! I'd definitely love to get that post sometime... and would definitely love to live in a rural place.

Anywayyy didn't get the interview information e-mail so I'll be getting back to them about that... so far so good except for this darn cold (and all the catch-up I'm going to be playing... good thing Tomona is coming and we can do the reading together, it will be good for her English and good for my Japanese)

自己紹介

Not recommended to use in-browser translators (such as chrome) as translation is usually inaccurate. Also, if anyone speaks Japanese and wishes to correct anything, I'd be tickled pink and much obliged as I'm sure there are some mistakes.

読んでいる方へ、

この書き物は、実には、日本語話し方期末試験のためのものです。会話パーテナーは期末試験の週の間見つけにくいですから、このブログでその試験のための練習をしています。

では、よろしくお願いします

自己紹介

こんにちは

マリヤ・オーディオと申します。

　オレゴン州の出身で、ヒルズボロ市というオレゴンの一番大きい都市（ポートランド）の近くのヒルズボロー市という住宅街で育てたのです。住宅街以外に、ヒルズボローで盛んの産業は工業、IT産業（半導体工場いくつかあります）、と農業。ヒルズボロー市はオレゴンの有名なウィラメット谷にあります。ウィラメット谷で盛んの産業は農業（果物（ぶどう・りんご））ぶどうがありますので、ワインの工場もたくさんあります。酪農も盛んです。ティラムックと言うチーズとアイスクリーム工場はオレゴンにあります。

　オレゴンの冬はずっと雨が降ります。時々雪が降ってきますが、普通に雨だけです。日本みたいに長い梅雨です。でも、春が終わってから乾燥していて、過ごしやすいところになります。それで、春の最後と夏ではオレゴンの豊かな自然を楽しめると思います。

　経歴についてですが、オレゴン大学東アジア言語・文学部の日本語の専攻です。日本語は高校の時から勉強していて、長く持つの夢は日本で英語の教師になることです。高校の時2回日本の高校で留学することができて、本当に人生の中では明るい思い出です。大学では2年間以上アメリカン・インギリシュ・インツイーツ（AMERICAN　ENGLISH　INSTITUTE)の家庭教師（英語のツターと授業とイベントのアシスタント）をしていますから、それは教えるのためにとてもいい経験だと思っています。

どうぞよろしくお願いします。