creative wild boar

i have started my project here. i'm listening to japanese people talking and mimicking. i'm sitting in my room for hours with my finnish-japanese-finnish dictionary (the only one i found!) and picking up funny words. i find more and more japanese words which exist in finnish as well. mostly they don't mean the same, but sometimes the meaning is actually close in a surprising way. it's a nice game for me. here are some appetizers (specially for the finnsih speakers):
hikari= super quick express train ari=ant
hoho= cheeks
hana =nose
niko niko= smiley
sora= heaven
and so on...

just now i was sitting in a jury, choosing the prize-winning postcards of the year. people from yamaguchi area, young and old, had sent their postcard drawings to this competition. i was pretty impressed about the devotion and accuracy they presented. they were often graphically skillful, combaining text and picture.lots of drawings of animals, specially wild boar which is the animal of the soon starting new year, the winner.
lot of creativeness around.