2008年11月15日土曜日

Keita's boot camp Season 1

This is a Keita's boot camp!! Do you know what I mean? Well, of course you don't know the meeting because it doesn't exist in the real world. Keita's boot camp is quite equal to the 1,000 words blog. Can you guess why I'm doing such a stupid thing? well, in short, I don't have enough time to finish writing 15,000 words in this semester, so the reason it pretty much simple isn't it? And I'm supposed to update Keita's boot camp everyday so I think I'll be busy for this but I wanna finish writing 15,000 words as soon as possible. Because these days I'm under pressure to finish this assignment but I'll do it seriously. And this time's topic was what I did on Friday I think it's a slight private but it's ok because It's my blog and i can write anything about what i think.

On Friday, I had a class from the first period so I got up and left home as usual and took the writing class. what did we do on the class? well, we filled in the WEI sheet and answered the questions which was sent on the internet. The content was about the writing class, for example what do I think about doing blog and how do i think about writing movie review and how much time do I spend on writing the movie review and so on. After I finished the work, I put it on my blog and I handed in the WEI sheet in my teishutsu bako. After that I have nothing to do so, I began to write some blogs. And then I had a email from an international center and I went there.
As soon as I got there, I received one paper which is from my host family and a lot of information about them are written on it.
I dare not to tell you about it because it's pretty much private thing. And then I went tho the library for meeting. Can you guess what for the meeting is?
Of course it was for the speaking class. We made a point to meet in the library and decided about it from a long time ago. And we had to practice the recording. In the speaking class, we are doing kid of a drama.
But it's a pretty much serious drama and the situation is so unreal.
The situation is that in two hours a meteorite will come to the earth and collide with the earth. so what will you do in this situation?
But in this drama, we can create other setting for example where we are and so on.
And our group member decided to be in the NASA which is a space station and we're trying to stop it and blow it. Our group member were I, Ayaka,masumi,Yukari,Kosei but on that day , Kosei couldn't attend the drama because of his training so we supposed to do the drama with four people.
We managed to memorize all our manuscript and practiced again and again. But we couldn't do well when we stand in front of a video camera. We were a little nervous. I forgot some phrases as well but I told some ad lib instead of it so I made it.
We were really good job and we were really relaxed after that.

And I had one more class on Friday and it was a an international society and Japan.
We're studying the relation between South East countries and Japan. We are studying about wars and the United Nations and wars happened in the South East. This class is the second difficult class I've been taking now. And the words appear in the class are very very difficult. Then the teacher keeps speaking difficult things for ninety minutes and I always listen to him and try to understand his lecture but I was tired and I couldn't concentrated on the lecture any more so I looked around me a second, so almost one third attendants were sleeping and other people were taking with their friends.
The scene made me laugh and I can understand their feelings.
And we're studying 1950s and the successive prime ministers of Japan.

After I took the class, I went to my part time job directly by bike. Which is a cram school. As I said last time, I'm doing a crame school teacher and I teach all the subjects to the junior high school students and only for the high school students.
It was hard for me because these days the end-of-term examination is coming to each junior high school so I'm busy and I have to do many kind of things to improve students score. But the job is worth doing because I can see the result. So that is my energy and I have good news to tell you. These days I'm often nominated from junior high school students. I'm very glad to hear that. I'm a very cleaver and good teacher and my lecture is understandable. It's a joke. Anyway I feel challenge for this job and I'll do my best but i can't continue this great job for a long time because I'll leave Japan at the end of January so I don't have much time to concern them. I'm so sad but I'll do my best and I think I wanna do whatever I can. And I wanna treasure left time.

I started this job this February and I've worked for 10 months. I taught really a lot of students and all of them are my good memories and I never forget it forever.
As a matter of fact, I have a students who I always teach and they are the third grade so they'll take the entrance exam next year so I wanna cheer them up until the end but I can't continue this job until the middle of January so I'm sad but I promised to keep contact with the cram school and it'll send me the result of the each student.
So I really think I wanna do my best until I leave Japan and I wanna teach them as much as I know.
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2008年11月14日金曜日

1000 words blog no.2

Today I'll write 1,000 words blog again.
Today's topic is what I did yesterday however I don't wanna write about it very much because they're private things and you don't have to know them except me, I don't have anything to write about so I'll write it.

Yesterday, as usual I woke up 8 o'clock and prepared for leaving.
And I went to school by bike as usual and I got to school at 10.am because on Thursday I have only two classes, which are listening and reading classes.
So I have a little time I mean it's a free time for me and I left 9 o'clock.
It takes sixty minutes to get to school and it's very far from here.

And after I got to school, I went to the 14th building and I applied for the TOEFL test. I got the 4th number, it means before I applied for it, only three people applied it. And after that I had a little time until the third period starts, so I went to the library and I watched a movie. Do you know what it is?
Can you guess what? Of course I watched `FULL HOUSE' which is a comedy movie especially it's an American comedy movie.
But as a matter of fact, I wanted to study for the TOEFL test because I have TOEFL test almost in one month, and I applied for it on that day so, but I didn't have any material for study TOEFL so I decided to watch the movie.
See, it is an American movie and they speak English so I think it's an Englih study as well.
And I watched it in English with Japanese subtitle.
Because it's a bit hard for me to watch and understand it without Japanese subtitle.
Because they often speak English with a kind of slung.And it's the reason.
I think this kind of movie is fun because it's pretty much practical English.
I wish I could write about FULL HOUSE for writing assignment.
Anyway, after I watched it, I went to the fourth building to take the listening class.
I think this listening class is pretty practical and in this class we do kind of a dictation but it's a good way to improve our English skill and to catch full sentences.

After taking it, I went to 11th building and I took reading class.
In the class, we learn how to read English newspaper.I think this reading class is also pretty much practical and useful I think.
And I'm satisfied with the classes very much.

The other day, I attended a ryuugaku houkokukai and one of the presenters told that
the reading class was useful and it gave me good skills and it's practical.He remember that he said so.
And I think so too and I agree with her opinion.
And after the class I have a little time until the English conversation school starts,so I went to the library and I watched FULL HOUSE again.
I recommend this movie all the people who like comedy movie because it's nice work and there are some series.
I like this kind of movie and I felt America is also good.I was influenced by this movie a little I think.
These days I often go to TUTAYA and I often rend this series of FULL HOUSE.
One of my goals is to watch all this FULL HOUSE series, I mean I wanna complete this FULL HOUSE. This series have until season 6 so I have to hurry up because I've watched only the first season yet. Anyway, after that I went to the English conversation school as usual and our teacher was Nick who is from Capetown South Africa.
He's over 50 or more and his was to speak is a little different from that of other teachers. But I got used to it. He has a bit accent but I can understand what he says.

On Thursday, I always take the class with the same people.
They are all English American studies students of KGU. And two of them are my friends. Their name is Airi and Ayaka. Airi'll go overseas as a exchange student next year and exactly she'll go to the U.S. I know her very much because we've been good friends each other since last year and we often hang out with our common friends. And Ayaka is also my friends and I made friends with a few months ago.
They are nice people.
And on that day, we had five people including me in the class and other students are our senior, they're in the fourth grade and they're hoping to be a Cabin attendant.
Almost all of the students who commute to the school hope to be a Cabin Attendant.
I think it's popular occupation but I don't know why it's so popular among women.

I heard that one of the fourth grade students passed the exam of the air plane company .I was surprised to hear the news. She's cleaver and speaks good English.
The school where I commute is famous for the Cabin attendant and a number of students passed the exam from the English conversation school. I often meet English American studies' student there and say hello.

I commute to the school twice a week and I study English conversation from different teacher. And both of the teacher are nice and kind for us.
After that I got out of the school and I dropped by a book store because I had something to look for there.
The business is to look for a magazine whose name is CNN English Express. It's a English magazine and I make it a point to but it regularly. I think this book is pretty good text for the English learners because in this book a lot of CNN English are recorded and we can listen it in many kind of English, for example of course American English, Canadian English , Indian English , Aussie English and so on.
But unfortunately there is no text book which has a New Zealand English recorded in it.
But last month, by a miracle I found the magazine and which is a English Journal.
As soon as I find the magazine and read it for a while, I decided to buy it and I often listen it at home. I think New Zealand English which is called kiwi English is a bit faster than other English. And it has a unique accent I think.
But I think it's cool and I wanna learn it and I wanna speak kiwi English as if I were a native person.
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WEI post for next class

1 I don’t update my blog so often, or I can’t do it because I don’t have enough time to do it. But I think I have to write more because I have to catch up with the goal I’m late so these days I decided to write 1,000 words blogs and by doing it I’ll keep up with the goal.

2 I think I’ve not got better compared with my first blog.
But I think the words I use are become a little complicated.
I mean, I can use more complicated words compared with the first blog.
Every time I write a blog or post, I do it home.

3. I used to think movie review is useless last semester but this semester you changed the style and teacher modifies the essay if it’s incorrect so my idea against this changed.
I think it’s good work for us to improve our English.
And It takes 1 hour to complete it.

4 I wrote my opinion in my blog last time and I don’ t think this is a writing class because what we are doing in the class is too far from the writing.
We learn how to write essay not just updating our blogs.

5 Up date your blog everyday or you can’t get your credit.
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2008年11月12日水曜日

1000 words blog

We have to write 15,000 words in this semester but I've not written enough so, I'll write 1,000 words blog everyday.
First, I don't have any good idea but I'll tell you about what I did today.
First, I went to school by bike from morning as usual, and I took the first period.
The class's name is Human right. It's pretty much difficult for me to understand, maybe almost all of the students who are taking this class can't understand the class or even if they could understand it, It's difficult to understand it.
And the teacher speaks 90 minutes without rest he always give the class like this.
I'm trying to understand what he's speaking but it's difficult, you know.
And other students seems that they feel tired and bored, some of them were sleeping. I think this class's exam must be difficult, I think so.
And second period was Japanese kind of grammar.
This class is also difficult because the topic we take is pretty difficult and today I learned
Chomsky,I don't know the spell is right or not.
Anyway, my Wednesday's class is a little bit more difficult than others.
But I have only two classes on Wednesday so I'm happy but I have a lot of things to do in the spare time, I mean I have to some homework on Wednesday because I have no time to do my home work on other weekday.
Today I had lunch with my friend who took the same class in the second period.
And when we bought a ticket and we were waiting , we found John and other exchange students in the cafeteria so we decided to eat lunch together.
They were studying Japanese especially they were studying kanji so I asked one of them why he's studying kanji in the cafeteria not in the library.
And John told me that he has a kanji test tomorrow and he have to learn thirty three kanji by heart by tomorrow.
And I read his text book and there were a lot of kanji there.
He was in trouble to learn the way to kanji and the shape of it.
He was speaking out all the kanji and I thought learning kanji is difficult for them because English speaking people use only twenty six letters but they have to learn kanji ,katakana and hiragana to live in Japan.
Even I don't know how many words are there in Japanese and How did I learn these languages.
And I and my friend Tomoki taught him kanji I mean we helped him with his homework.
I don't think I wanna learn Japanese even if I'm not Japanese.
Because it's pretty difficult to learn and complicated.

And after lunch I went to one meeting, which was about a studying abroad.
And we did a presentation in front of the stuff.
I think all the presenters looked up the countries or histories or university where we're supposed to go and after finishing the presentation, we asked abut job hunting.
Because we have to do the job hunting immediately after we came back to Japan.
And the stuff told us that he's been to China and Canada in the past and he is supposed to work for food company.
And we got some advice from him.
He recommend us to study SPI while we are studying abroad.
Because it's advantage or useful to learn about it earlier.
So I decided to study SPI and of course English , culture ,history and traditions in
New Zealand.

After that, from night I went to English conversation school as usual today and today's teacher was Taylor, who is from Toronto Canada.
I think Canadian English is easy to listen, understand.
And in the class, he told us that in Canada they learn French as well.
It was what I learned for the first time today.
And I heard they learn French from the elementary school at the third grade to high school and some of them can speak French.
I was so surprised to hear that.

As for the teacher, he's nice and easy to understand i think so, and today as usual I took the class with Ami.
Maybe Tomei knows her.
She's a senior, she's in the fourth grade and she's also in the English American studies. And she's told that she took the exam of the airline company.
Probably she said she passed the exam of Hokkaido's company.
So after I heard that I congratulated her and she looked happy but she told us that she'll have to go to other prefecture I don't remember where it was but she told somewhere.
Today's class were I and Ami, so there were only two students.
But I could a lot because the number of students were a few. So that's why.
And now after I went back from school and I'm writing blog like this.

Can you guess why I'm writing this long blog?
the reason is quite clear.
Because I have to write more than 15,000 words this semester that's why.
And I think I've thought about the topic too much ever, so I couldn't write anything.
I decided to 1,000 words blog everyday and I'll reach to the goal more than 15,000.

But this blog's amount of words is usual but it's ok!
Anyway I have to write more or I can't get this semester's writing credit.
however I want it without fail so I'll try to keep writing blog, update almost everyday.

And from now I have one thing to do it do you know what it is?
It's a assignment of the speaking class.
In the class we are doing kind of a role play.
And in our class we have to do the situation.
the situation is emergency and meteorite is coming to the earth and in one day it'll
crash so What will you do in this situation?
i think this kind of problem is a little bit difficult because we don't think about it so much.
But our group member are very creative so we wrote the manuscript and recorded it last week but by the way our group consist of 5members but two of them were absent so we couldn't do well.
And this week we'll do it second time to record but a problem happened again.
Because one member of our groups can't attend the class so, one person has to do the role play for two people.
I sure that this week's recoding of the speaking class will not be interesting. Because the situation is not good.
But we'll do our best!!
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Blog

Today I'm going to tell you about blog. It's also one of writing assignments and all the students who take the class have to do it, and I know about it however consider it. We have many classes everyday and we have many kind of homework else.
And we have to update our blogs at least 5 times a week. Don't you think it's too much and we don't have enough time to do it?
We can't spare time for the assignments of writing very well.
Last semester We had to wrote 10,000words on our blog. It was hard and we used to be in trouble because we couldn't find any topics, I mean I didn't know what should we write about.
But I managed to reach the goal and I could write 10,000words but this time ,in this semester we have to over 15,000 words on our blog.
How do you think about this enormous amounts.
I think it's too much and I don't know the purpose of writing so much.
After I wrote my blog, I don't know whether my blog's spell and grammar is correct or not.
And I think if we write blogs at random, we'll remember wrong English.
I don't like to do it and I wanna learn correct English so that's why I think so about blog.
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Movie review of School of rock

School of Rock

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Keita Sasaki

I watched this movie and I’ll tell you about it in this review.
First, in this movie one middle-aged man named Dewey who is a little fat and selfish appears.
And he likes Rock music and he wanted money so one day he pretended to be his roommate Ned, who is an excellent teacher . And he became a teacher of a school but other teachers don’t know the fact that he is lying. And the school is a private elementary school.
He gave terrible tuition and it’s not a class. He is crazy about music so he made everything a music class. he decided to play rock music and he and his students aimed for victory of a band competition.
And he assigned all of the students much work as a kind of role. And they practiced music every day but a problem happened. One day it came out that he had been telling a lie. And Dewey applied for the music competition but for the first time they were declined because they are underage.
But Dewey persuaded the committee and he made it.
On that day, they played rock music in front of their parents who had negative thoughts against Dewey.
But after the kids played Rock music, the parents were moved and they acclaimed their performances.
After the audiences called for an encore , the kids played music again.
But they couldn’t take the crown in the music competition but they could grow somewhat compared with before they played music.
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ared with before they played music.