2008年12月4日木曜日

★New Zealand★









We searched about seasons of New Zealand and Japan.

★Winter★
◎Climate◎
Cold winter comes to New Zealand from June to August. The temperature drop to only about 10 degree even winter and the temperature in level land hardly drops to minus degrees. So the snow is rare in level land. This is different from Japan. Almost every area in North Island has a lot of rain in winter. In south island, there are snows so people can enjoy skiing. The south island is colder than the north island and there are areas where are no rain.

◎Sports◎
Mountains snow very much so we can enjoy winter sports. New Zealand has mainly 4 skis areas. People enjoy skis and snowboard with a grand nature in the background.

◎Festival◎
One of the festivals in winter, there is a “queenstown winter festival”. This festival is held on June 23 to July 3. Many people come to there from all over the world every year and they celebrate the start of winter. In queenstown, this festival is the most exciting festival. People who ware waiting for the skis season make a fuss. A live is held and fireworks are displayed at the opening party. And also parade is held and they enjoy compete the snowboard or jet boat. The others over 70 events are held, for example, contest of the carving in snow, dog race, dinner. In Japan, we don’t celebrate winter grandly so I think NZ people are looking forward to coming winter very much.



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chi-tan さんのコメント...

I could know about seasons of New Zealand. Ithought this country and Japan have the same seasons. Someday, I want to go there.