2008年5月9日金曜日

My treasure

My treasure is my friends because I think I can’t buy friends by money and they are precious for me. I’ve made friends a lot since entering this university. And I always act with my good friends when we take the same class. And sometimes I consult with them when I have problems. They are so reliable for me and by contraries they sometimes consult with me when they have problems and we think about it and solve it.

I think I’m happy to have such great friends I can take to anything. And we have common goals to want to come true. It’s studying abroad as an exchange student during school days, so we used to studying for TOEFL test and we would often took TOEFL test in the past, and by their invitation, I attended speech contest in English together last year. Then I knew their English level including speaking and pronunciation. After the contest I realized my English level was inferior to them a little bit so I made a point to rethink about it. And I had a consultation with one of my good friends about it, but he didn’t tell me my English level was so low. And after that I was encouraged a little, And I decided to use English as much as possible in my daily life.

Since I was advised such a thing, I had confidence by myself and I determined to study English 2~3 hours at home. And such my friend good advice made me what I am, so I want to appreciate them and from now I think I want to get along with them.
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My self troduction

Hi、I'm Keita S and I'm a freshman of KGU. I major in English. And my hobbies are listening to music and watching movies and playing sports. Of all sports, I like water polo the best. I played this sport when I was a high school student. I continued it for three years. This sport is very hard and few people know it, but I think water polo is the most exciting sport. Now I don't belong any club but if our university had had a water polo club , I would have belonged to it.

And as for my daily life, I'm busy in everything because I commute to school of English conversation twice a week in order to realize my wish of studying abroad. I've commuted to the school since July in 2007.

And I also have a part-time job. It's a swimming instructor at YMCA so I teach children how to swim and enjoyment of swimming. The above is about my daily life.

Next, I'll ask you some questions. This is a first visit to foreign country for me therefore I don't know this place so much. But I heard this country has a lot of beautiful places to visit and this country is the cutting edge of fashion and culture. I’m interested in fashion and culture of foreign country so if you have enough time to guide me there, would you take me to the famous place? Above is my simple question. So nice to meet you. (260 words)

2008年5月5日月曜日

My last teenage day!!

Today is the last day I can be teenager because my birth day is tomorrow, on May 6 and I'll be 20 years old at this time's birthday. So I'll be adulthood but I'm not so happy, because being 20 I must have a lot of responsibility about society. And I can have franchise and can vote on the polling day. And I should have more adult thinking and flexible ideas because I think I lack these things for me.

Anyway my birthday is during Golden Week and it's always extra holiday and no school so I'm not celebrated by anyone. But it's ok because I used to it.
then this time's birthday is my twentieth birthday and it's memorial so tomorrow I want to spend a day doing special things which I can't do every day. But as of now I have no plan to do tomorrow so I have to make a plan to make my birthday special!
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Jessi's birth day party!!

On May 4 I went to Jessi's birthday party at down town. Jessi is a woman who comes from Thailand and exchange student. And at this time's birth day, she became 23 year's old. So she is from Thailand we held birthday party at the thai restaurant. And there we ate Thai meal and most of the dishes were so spicy and delicious!!
I thought it was close to my birth day because my birth day is May 6 and on that day I'll be 20 years old anyway the day was Jessi's so it's ok!!

By the way about 20 people attended this party including exchange students, and almost of the people who attended it were foreigners, so this was a very good chance to talk to them so I talked to various people. And my superiors whom I respect in many ways were coming to it so I asked them a lot of questions, especially about studying abroad and interviews as for it. They've studied abroad as a exchange student one person last year and the other person did it 2 years ago. I asked why did they think they want to study abroad and why did they decide to go to the country and so on.

In this connection, the two my superiors went to New Zealand. And I also wanna go there. Because I'm interested in New Zealand culture, people, history and industry and the university the name is Unitec and so on. I think New Zealand English is so cool compared with any other spoken English. And New Zealander speak British English So I told the one of my superiors that the accent New Zealander's speaking is so similar to the English British people speak. But he told me that it' not similar to it for me at all. At the time when I listened it, I was surprised it. He can distinguish British accent and New Zealand accent !! I was really surprised it. And now he graduated university and he works for high school teacher. He is an English teacher there. And some times he visit dorm and I can meet him and I can ask some questions. It's been a long time since we met last so I was glad to meet him and his story was so instructive all the time. So I really felt that I want to be superior like him!! (402 words)

2008年5月4日日曜日

EXILE

This is a J-pop group I like the best of all. And their group's name is EXILE. They're so cool and they sing songs very well, and I'm a big fun of it.By the way there are 7members in it and 2men are vocal and sing a song and the other 5people are dancers and they dance around the 2women.I've known them since I was high schol student. And I like to watch the tv program they are broadcasted.And I always sing their songs when I go to a karaoke box.the movie I listed is their song and its name is `Lover's Again' It's a very famous song in Japan and it promoted as a commercial song.If you haven't listened the song yet, you should check it out on my blog. And everytime the new CD of them released, I bought it or rented.And I would like to go to their live (concert) If I have enough time or chance to go there.But I think it's a little hard for me to do it, because I think I'll be busy this year and I have a lot of things to do so I won't be able to go and see it unfortunately. (202 words)