2008年5月16日金曜日

Too busy my daily life!

I'm very very very busy in everything every day!! Because I have a lot of things to do for instance, assignments and reports for some subjects and English conversation school and study for TOEFL test and my part-time. It's too much! I don't know what should I do first and what should I highly think of. And I don't have enough time to sleep or I've not slept at all for a few days. So these days I'm so sleepy in classes.

And Add to these things, I have something which I often think about.
Directly speaking, it's about studying abroad, because I've thought that I want to study abroad. But these days I think what do I wanna do in New Zealand? And Should I go there as a exchange student for one year? And I worried about these things,
but I really think that I wanna study abroad as a exchange student during this student life because I'm interested in NZ culture、industry, history, people life style there.

And once NZ was a colony of British so now they speak British English which is famous for its strong accent and speaking speed. I also think its accent is so strong and sometimes when one of my friends who is from NZ speak to me in English. I think the spoken English in NZ is influenced by England I think. And its culture and industry are so fascinating for me and it has Maori culture there and as to the industry, it has developed mainly first sector but in contrast with this, Japan has developed third sector so I'm also interested in the difference between these countries. And I have things which I wanna do for example what customs are there in NZ? Or how is New Zealander spend every day? and so on. I often visit dormitory of exchange students especially who is from NZ and talk and ask his hometown and culture and life style but I that I can't understand well just only listening to his talk so I wanna go there actually and spend a year and make friends and I wanna know about the country New Zealand much more!
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2008年5月14日水曜日

Answering following questions

1. I've organized sidebar and I've visited all the class members' blog. And I felt some people often update their blog, writing diary and posting essay and uploading movie especially about music which they love, and some people don't update so often.

2. I've not labeled all the book reviews yet, and as to essays I finished submitting them however, I've not posted them on my blog because we can't do the work at home, do you know the meaning? In short, we can go into gakunai-shishobako only when we at school so we can't go into it when we at home so when I don't have enough time to use computer at school, I can't do it.

3. I captured picture and video, and the picture is for representating book review what kind of books did I read. And the video is for writing about it as a topic.

4. I think best post is the one which composition is well done and include good explanation and capture image or video properly to see it easier.

5. I think 'Love or Money'. This is the title which I want to recommend to someone who likes detective story, because this book was written on detective and murderer and as you read the book, you have to investigate the criminal of this case. And this book is written in plain English and the level is YL 2.0 so it's quite easy I think.

6. I think the good points of this writing class is what we have to write and use English and doing some assignment using English forcibly because we don't do such a perplexing work by ourselves but if we neglect writing, posting, submitting essays, we can't get credit, and nobody don't do them. I mean all the students who take this class have to use English. And we have some goals to achieve and we have to write blog and post and submit essays so it's good practice to do it I think.


And in contrast the bad point of this writing class is what we must do a lot of homework and there is a limit. I think I don't know other writing class but writing at three times a week is so hard for us because we are sophomore and we take many required subject and on each subject we have homework to do and we're busy in doing them and of course me. And incidentally this week is so hard and busy because I have one home work which I should do and it's for speaking class and by weekend I have to finish watching movie whose name is bowling for columbine and I have to read The Great Gatsby until chapter3. As to these movie and book assignment, all the people who take Honors English Seninar 3 have to do them.
And I have to go to my part-time job four times a week after school till night and two another day per a week I have to go to English conversation school and the TOEFL test is coming soon so I have to study for it.
And add to these things I have to do writing assignment three times a week, I think every day is terribly busy.
And My friend told me that he doesn't have his own personal computer so he have to go to school to finish the assignment even though it's weekend or holiday, after hearing this, I thought I'm sorry for him.

6. As of now, I've done all the weekly typing homework and I think this writing class's assignment is too much. I have some assignments in each week except this class so I have to find time to do it and I'm trying to finish in one way or another but sometimes I can't help myself. So I'm in trouble.

extra. I always attend your writing class and I'm concentrating what you are saying but sometimes I miss your words in short, so sometimes I don't know what you said. So when there is a homework or important news I want you to speak them in Japanese. I think no one can listen to your English perfectly I think and actually I was asked some question by my friends about what you said in the class so please think about it. (755 words)

2008年5月12日月曜日

How to spend my weekend!!

In weekend, I wanna do the special things which I never do. So usually I hang out with my friends or visiting dormitory and talk with exchange students and playing sports with them or going downtown and go shopping and buy something, and sometimes I go to TUTAYA and rent some foreign CD and funny comedy DVD like VIVA LA VAM or JACKASS. These two DVDs are so funny and they always make me happy and fine and burst into laughter. In short, it's a stunt movie and they usually play funny things and sometimes dangerous things I've never seen.
And these days I began to swim in the swimming pool because I'm getting fat so I have to lose my weight. Because I feel sluggish and I feel tired these days because of my heavy weight.

And swimming is my practice for me on weekend and playing sport also helps reduce stress I think.

And when I have home work I should do , I finish it.
And this is my how to spend weekend but today exactly yesterday I didn't any thing except going out to buy carnations.

Because it was mother's day so I bought carnations and gave them to my mother.
They were so beautiful, pink and red and other kinds of flower.
So we decorated them on the front door. It smells well!!
It's a annual event through a year so it's ok I think.

And as a matter of fact ,I have to study for TOEFL test in my free time because I'm planning to take the test on June at school so I should study and get higher score before but these days my motivation for the test is much low and I don't know the reason. I have a lot of worries about everything so that's the reason I think but I'll work on the things which I can do now little by little.
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Book review 1-2

I read this book whose name is `Love or Money'. This book was about detective story, and in this book a lot of people appeared so I was difficulty in ordering my thoughts better. And sometimes I confused because of a lot of names. And usually I don't read book or read about detective story even Japanese book but this book was so easy to read because the vocabularies used in this book was easy so I could understand easily and I could grasp the whole story.And as for this book's content this book's main character was the Clarkson family. And Jackie and Diane were at the heart of the matter. And one day Molly who is their mother was killed by someone around her suddenly. And each her family member wanted to kill her or had malice against her. So The detectives started investigating all the family member one by one. And They found out that all the people had designs on her estate including a beautiful, large garden she had. And finally the detectives found the clue of the crime and found out who is murderer!! There were few clues or motives so I had difficult in finding murder. (201 words)total (2690 words)