Sora? [Shallot met someone yesterday by that name] Your friend Sora doesn't happen to be the same Sora that's here, does he? A human like you, has spiky brown hair...
I've read about places far from the forest with different climates... You must live somewhere warmer if you don't get a lot of snow.
Bowling is a game. The objective is to knock down mushrooms by rolling a lantern pod fruit at them. You get more points if you can knock down multiple mushrooms in one throw. Knowledge of trajectory helps a lot. Or, you could just throw it really hard like Clover does...