1st Latina Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor was born in the South Bronx area of New York City on June 25, 1954.Her parents were Puerto Rican immigrants. Her mother was a nurse at methadone clinic and her father was a tool-and-die worker who died when Sotomayor was only nine years.After her father death Sotomayor mother worked hard to raise the children as a single parent. Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx in 1972 and entered the ivy-league Princeton University. And now she is a U.S. Supreme Court judge.

I admire Sonia Sotomayor because now that I now she became a judge I now I can become something big now.

Folk Dancing

Folk dancing occurs in a festival Japan in summer and is a time when people make offerings of food and other things to their ancestors and pray for the happiness of their ancestor's souls in the next world.

This dance is a free kind of dancing style practiced in the Tukushima Territory of Shikoku

Materials used in folk dancing:

• sedge hat


• Hiyorigeta(-low dry-weather geta)


• Udenuki(-armlet)


• Yukata(a summer garmet dress)


• Kedashi(-decorative underskirt)