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Book review 2-7

2009-01-27T02:56:00.002+09:00

This time I decided to read a book about Santa because when I was a kid, I really believed in Santa and in december, I was preying to get my favorite stuff.
So I'm really interested in Santa for example whether he exists really or not and if there is, where he brings some presents like that.
And I'm gonna write about it.
You know for Santa December is the busiest month the best because he has to bring some presents for kids.
My image of Santa is that he's a old old man and he has beard and he in riding on his sleigh and there is reindeer.
This is my image about santa.
And I've heard of Santa living in North counties.
If there is really, I wanna see him, I think from my bottom of my heart.
Don't you wanna meet him if there is Santa really in this world?
I do!

Book review 2-6

2009-01-27T02:25:00.002+09:00

This time I read this book about Snowmen.
I this snowmen are related to winter and especially to christmas and I'm interested in it so I decided to borrow the book about Snowmen.
I'm gonna write about the story and what I felt after I read it.
First one boy appears in this book and his name is Jack. He got up as usual and pulled back his bedroom curtains. And he saw scenary covered with snow.
After changing his clothes, he hurried out and started to make his snowman.
And he found a billboard which was written on Christmas party and he wanted to attend it so he asked Mr.Oats who's a host of the party.
Mr.Oats replied yes to Jack and Mr. Oats asked Jack to helpbuild the bonfine.
they built a huge bonfine but next morning it was disappeared.
First, Mr.Oats suspected Jack but he said "No" to the man and in the end Jack couldn't attend the party unfortunately.And one moring Jack heard sounds outside and went out.
And there was a snowman building a new bonfire.As a result Jack succeed in attending the party and got along with other snowmen there.

I think this is a very fairy tale and impressive story to me.
Snow man can talk to people.
it's amazing!!
And he was walking by himself and moreover he was helping to Jack's work.

Book review 2-5

2009-01-27T01:42:00.003+09:00

It's been since I read this kind of book last and I feel this kind book is also fun to read.So I'm gonna write about this book.
In this book the main character is Jack who is leaving to his new job.
And at his farewell party, his coworkers gave him a cell phone as a present.
And after having fun, Jack decided to go home by taxi and he waited foe a minute to catch and finally he caught it.
And on his way home,the taxi was attacked by a man with a gun.
fortunately,Jack was sitting on the back seat so the criminal couldn't see him.
And at gas station he was found by the criminal and he was obligated to get in the boot. In there Jack remembered that he got a mobile phone from his colleague and phoned a police.
And he asked for help and the criminal was arrested.

Can you image that a taxi attacked by a man with a gun which you got in?
I felt a little scary after reading this story.

Book review 2-4

2009-01-27T01:18:00.003+09:00

You know this is also about Mr.Bean but it's not his real name.
And it's a kind of his works' name.
He's Rowan Atkinson and in this book, he's a secret service agent and he's a number one agent. Can you believe that?
I have an image about him that he's fizzle and sometimes does stupid things
so I think this casting is very rare.
In this book he's supposed to be a secret service agent as you know and his job was to protect the prime minister.

Book review 2-3

2009-01-27T00:29:00.003+09:00

This time I read this book and you know he's a famous actor and he's very funny.
Almost all of the movie he appears he doesn't speak anything and he does only gesture and it makes me laugh.
And I've watched this content which is written on this book.
One day Mr.Bean went to launderette and washed his clothes.
and there he saw a man looks stong with karate suit.
Mr.Bean came to this launderette to wash his all clothes through monday to Sunday but there he noticed that he doesn't have Wednesday's underpants and he thought he's wearing it because it was Wednesday.
And next scene, Mr.Bean mistook his washing machine for a woman's clothes.
So he pull out his trouser but it wasn't his. Exactly it was a woman's clothes.
It was very similar and he took out by mistake.
This scene makes me laugh.
I like his movie series.
So I strongly recommend to watch one of his works if you haven't watched them.

I have twenty days left!

2009-01-09T10:17:00.002+09:00

Today is January 9th right? And I'm gonna go to New Zealand on January 29th. So I have only twenty days left staying in Japan. It's amazing and I can't imagine even now. And from January 21st we'll have tests which are final tests so I have to study toward them so I'll be busy for everything. I have a lot of things which I wanna do while I'm in Japan and I wanna make good memories a lot.
These days I feel that one day passes by early than ever. I wanna make good memories and to do it, I wanna hang out with my friends but, I have to study for the examination.

New year's goals

2009-01-09T09:53:00.003+09:00

Happy new year guys!! It became 2009 at last.
So on January 1st, I decided my goals.
think positively is my goal. But this goal was last year's goal as well.
And I chose this goal this year as well. When bad things happen, I think negatively but I can't advance if I mind it for a long time.
And second my goal is not to speak out negative things. I heard that when people say negative things like 'I'm stupid.' When people speak out negative things, a brain recognize it and it doesn't work well. I think so too. And after I heard about it, I practiced it soon.
To be independent is my goal as well because this year I'll go overseas and live alone so being independent is necessary for me. And I've lived with my family for twenty years so I've never lived alone so it'll be hard for me.
In New Zealand, there are no people who help me when I get sick and neither cook for me and laundry for me so from now, I'd like to do anything whatever I can do myself.
My last goal is to treasure my family, friends, seniors, juniors than ever.
I realized that people can't live alone so we have to help each other.
I think it's very important.
So I decided this year's my goals above and it might increase.
So I hope this year will be best ever and enjoy with smile.

Book review 2-2

2008-12-22T01:27:00.003+09:00

This time I read this book"OXFORD "and I learned many things.
In this book some interesting things about Oxford was introduced.
First, Oxford is located in Britain and there are many famous, old buildings and museums there. Many visitors from different parts of Britains go to Oxford and do sightseeing.
In Oxford, There are some museum named Museum of Oxford. In this museum, people seem to learn sounds and smells from different times in the past and there seem to be taken photos in there.And many visitors often visit there.
I learned in the city named Oxford, the new and old are side by side. Blackwell's is the largest bookseller. It's a famous book shop and it's said that if you are looking for books, go to Blackwell's.
And Beer is also famous in Oxford so there are many pubs in there and there are pubs with live music and pubs with popular games I heard like this.
I think not only in Oxford but also in overseas beer and some other kind of drinks are popular.
Above all, I learned many aspects of Oxford such as drinks, farms and transportation something like those.

Speech contest Manuscript

2008-12-22T01:25:00.000+09:00

Dream comes true

Hello everyone!
First of all, I have some things which I’d like to ask you.
Do you have dreams? If you have them, are you doing anything to realize them?
I’d like to talk about something that I realized this year.
Of course, I have a lot of dreams I’d like to achieve and here is one example.

Studying abroad has been one of my dreams since I was a little child. And after enrolling at Kumamoto Gakuen University, my desire for it became stronger and stronger. I think the strongest incentive was the presence of my friends around me. They always supported me and motivated me. Friends are very influential I think.
I have had good friends since last year and we continue to be good friends even now. People often say‘’ You guys look being together all the time.” “You seem to have built up good relations with them” and other things like that.

I think so too. Come to think of it, I feel we were together all the time but I have one thing I can say. We had common goals that: studying abroad .
If I hadn’t come across them, I couldn’t have realized this dream. They are really nice guys and they are precious to me. And I can trust them and I can talk to them about whatever I think. In this way, I think the circumstance is very important not only for myself but also for everyone.
However, there are some people who decide themselves it’s impossible to attain their dreams. I’d like to say to these people that “ Don’t quit before you try.

Finally I’d like to give you one more piece of advice.
“Nothing can stop you from what you’re trying to but you.
I learned this phrase from my former English teacher and I think that’s right.
So I’d like you to start something and don’t give up.
I think there is no dreams which we can’t make come true.
I would like you to think to yourself again whether you make up your mind before you start something.
I think dream comes true unless you give up! If you have a dream, never give up and keep on challenging yourself.
Thank you for listening.

Today!

2008-12-19T10:01:00.004+09:00

Today is the day we have a speech contest and I'll attend it. So in order to get one of the prizes I practiced very hard and I'm very nervous now. But I wanna enjoy it.
As a matter of fact, I took part in it last year as well but, I couldn't get prizes.
So this time I ptrepared for it from a long time ago. And I momorized it but when I stand in front of the microphone I'll be nervous and my phases went away.
I think everyone gets nervous in that situation because nobody has a opportunity to give a speech in such a big hall.
I think I can't help to be nervous. So I don't mind and I wanna give a speech with relaxed. I'll talk about "Dream". You know, most of the people have them but others don't have their dreams nor quit before they try.
This time mainly, I'd like to talk about this aspect.
So if you're reading my blog, please come to listen it.
It'll be held at the under ground of the library. I think this speech contest will be a good opportunity for both participants and audiences I think.
The speech contest will be held just after fourth period and many people come to listen. But I wanna enjoy it anyway.Iwanna have confidenty with me and give a speech like OBAMA the president in the U.S. And I wana get attention and after the contest I'll go to a dormitory with some of my friends. I heard at dorm a party like a christmas party will be held so after the contest I wanna enjoy it as well.
It sounds fun!!

My diary

2008-12-04T17:12:00.005+09:00

This is a blog which I've a been a long time since I posted last. and I want to post a book review I have borrowed but I've not read all of them so I'll write about what I did these days and some changes which happened these days. First these days, at the end of November now is December you know, and on that day I quite one of my part time job. Which is a sushi bar the reason is much simple because I had two part time jobs but the other one will be busy from December so I couldn't continue both of the two. By the way the other one is cram school teacher. I've continued this job since this February and I've continued it for 11 months at this month. I think this job is challenging and fun to do. And the job quite is also nice but a little bit boring because it's just making sushi I mean I just make dishes. I think anyone can do this job because it's easy but I wanna work where only I can do. So this is the why I quite and the cram school is going well. Now is December and I'm in charge of the third grade students of junior high and high school so I have responsibility and next year, they have to take some entrance exam. So I have to back them up by teaching a lot of important things. But I can't keep this job for a long time from now. Because I won't here Kumamoto Japan next February, i think I wrote about this topic in the past in my blog, and on weekends I was supposed to go to sushi bar for working and now I don't have to go there so I have free time to spend as I want. But in a few weeks I'll be much more busy for the part time which is a cram school, i think I'll have to go
there 5 times a week but now I don't have to so often so I wanna enjoy the rest of my free time.
Above is about these day's my part time and changes. Next I'll write about my school life. These days it's becoming colder and colder, so I don't feel like going out but whenever I go to school, I can meet my great friends and talk a lot. There are a few months left fo me to stay with them, i mean I don't have enough time to
hang out with them a lot so I wanna talk with them a lot while I'm in Kumamoto because the next time we can meet together is when we are in the fourth grade so I think we have to enjoy everyday as much as we can.
these days I got a little time to spend free so I often meet exchange students and let them help with my homework. which is a Spanish homework. In the Spanish class, we have to translate Spanish sentences into Japanese and come to the front and give a presentation. So students taking this class have to use dictionary and look up the meaning and translate but sometimes we don't know3 at all. So when I am in such a condition, I make it a point to ask someone who can understand Spanish. And fortunately, some of the exchange students can understand it so I often ask her about Spanish. I really thank her. She's so kind and she often ask me like how's your Spanish homework going? something like thatt and it's really helpful for me.
I realize that the relation a kind of connection is so important think.
And what else did I do?
these days I'm absorbed in going to karaoke and yesterday I went there with my friends and had fun. My friends always sing foreign songs like a kind of rock and I really think being able to sing foreign songs is cool because I can't do it at all but I often listen to it at home and my favorite singer is Ne-Yo.
he's a kind R&B singer especially of all his song I like So sick. Which is a ballard.
And I wanna master it and someday I wanna sing it in the karaoke.

Now is December and this is end of the year so I really think I cant waste time.
In this month, exactly next Saturday I have TOEFL test so I have to study for it but these days I've not studied enough so I'm worrying about the result. So I think I start to study for the test hard. But I've studied English not concentrated on the TOEFL I've been studied English since the beginning of the year. So I wanna expect a little bit for the result.I've wrote about these day's my changes and I realize that I have to post book review so from next post I have to post about what I read.

Anyway, I have 3,000 words left to complete so I'll write 1,000 words in each post.
And now in this post, 850words or more so I'll write an event what I did these days.
These days, I went to karaoke and sang for 3 hours. I went there by myself.So I sang without taking care of others. And 3 days later, I went to karaoke with my friends.
But this is not the same place where I went alone. We started to sing from 11 p.m and we were supposed to continue until 5 p.m. but we felf sleepy so we went back and slept. I think I often go to karaoke these days. I like singing. Anyway, I like spending time going to karaoke and singing.
when I first go to karaoke by myself, I was a bit ashamed to do it but these days, I don't mind it at all. I got accustomed to doing it. I recommend to do it strongly.
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Book review2-1

2008-11-28T09:50:00.012+09:00

This time I went to the library and borrowed some books from English garden. Which are books on America because I like knowing other countries on the books.
And their were many books about other counties and I read some of them, a few pages and I decided to borrowed this kind of books and write about them. This time I'm gonna write book review about "AMERICAN LIFE". In this book, a lot of things are introduced about American life for example, American favorite sports. In the book, as favorite baseball players, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are on the book. I think they are really good baseball players and they are famous but now one of them are retired so I think this is an old information. But I don't know well about measure league so It's ok. And something else foot ball, basketball, hockey are introduced.

other topic is "drive through life. And in this section, a story of the car story in the U.S. is introduced. And after I read this story of American cars, I knew that people can't live without cars. Because America is a huge, vast country and every time people go somewhere, they have to drive there because it's far. But it's envious a little because whenever I go somewhere, I can drive a car and I like doing it. I knew that in the U.S. they can get a driver's license at the age of 16. But 16 is the age of high school student. And I've heard that in the U.S. they go to school by car. I think it's really envious. And it sounds fun.
And I could that American like cars and I also like them. And I have one thing I knew for the first time. It's about speed limit. I knew that in Montana state, they can drive as fast as they want on some roads. It's really amazing, but it sounds dangerous a bit. But I really drive on such a free way some day.

Next, about movie on the America introduced. In the topic Titanic was introduced. I think the movie is pretty much famous and interesting but I've never watched it yet.
But in the past people around me were talking about it but at that time I couldn't talk with them about the topic because I didn't know what it is actually. But I think that I really want to watch it some day when I have enough time to watch it.
But now I'm crazy about a movie which name is FULL HOUSE as you know.
I can't stop watching the series of FULL HOUSE. It's published From 1st season to 7th season. And in each season, there are numbers from 1 through 10 or more. And on weekend or when i have time, i make it a point to watch it as I often talk.
If you haven't watched it before, I really recommend to watch it once. It's must be fun.

And in the book I read, other movies which were made in the U.S. are introduced and they are below.
Star Wars,Star Wars-The Phantom Menace, E.T.,the Extra-Terrestrial,and jurassic Park.
Of all the movies which are introduced in this book, I've only watched one movie, which is Jurassic Park. It's a kind of dinosaurs and science but I don't remember what it was about actually. Because I watched it for a long time ago, so I don’t remember well. I often watched it on TV not in the theater. Because the movie was on the air many times in the past.
I think it's interesting and exciting. But the rest of movies of the list, I've never watched them at all so I wanna watch them when I'm free.
And the movies were ranked as a great movie and in the book, the movies made the most money in the U.S. written like this. In the topic, the place exactly, which is called studio, where movie directors often use for filming.
And as a famous place, Holly Wood were introduced and I knew that Hollywood is located in the California state and it's called the center for American movies.

I think California is a good state and it's famous for its mild climate, however, I've never been there yet but I've watched it on TV many times.
And other topic, American history was explained such as the first people, the relation with Christopher Columbus and something other.

In this book a picture of the Statue of Liberty is attached. And I learned that the statue was give from France as a sign of independence. I could learn the relation with America and France and Britain.

And I learned the past of America, slavery and immigrant and so on. In the past in the U.S. the race was complicated and a lot of races were there. And race problem was there as well. Now, it seems that there is no race problem but I don't know whether the race problem exist or not exactly. There might be it.
But I don’t know because I've never been to the U.S.

And as a final topic, American life was introduced in the book. For example, shopping, food houses work and so on.
In the shopping section, the Mall of America was introduced and I've heard about it before from my friends who went there during this summer as a “kaigai-kenshu”.
I heard that it's famous for the size, scale of the store and I heard the store is the biggest mall. It has more than 400 stores there.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I've never sounded such a big store before , however, I really wanna go shopping there and walk around someday.

And about food was awesome because I learned that American people eat 2,000,000,000 hot dogs in one year. The number of them is really amazing for me and every person eats 60 hot dogs in the country. I was really surprised but it's a it envious.
the article about hot dog made me hungry.
I thought America is a nice country and it worth visiting once in my life, as a whole this is my opinion about America.
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Keita's boot camp Season4

2008-11-21T11:27:00.007+09:00

Yeah dude!! I've written 1,0000 words over already and I have 5,000 words left to complete my writing assignment. So I'll have to update this Keita's boot camp until Season 8 I think and it's ok. Because I felt like it's easy to write 15,000 words this semester. It's a piece of cake. Easy as pie. So what should I write about?
Well as usual I'd like to write about what I did yesterday and in my next blog I wana write about what I'm doing now.
So yesterday it was Thursday so I had only two classes and the day before yesterday from night, we held a drinking party. But I had an English conversation so I went there later. And when I got to there, almost all the attendants were drunken already.
So they were in high tension. As soon as I went the house , I forgot saying that it was a takunomi, which is held at house so we can sleep if we want and it doesn't cost like shops. Because we have only to bring some drink for ourselves and we have no time limit so It's easy and I can be relaxed very much.
And when I went there, there were eight people there already and they started to eat and drink with me.
We wached some movies while we were drinking. And it was a METAL GEAR SOLID or somethig but I'm not interested in it and that series so I didn't undersstand what it is.
By the way do you know it? I've heard of it but it doesn't seem to be fun. I'm not interested in such a video game. I'm not a kid you know so and we watched some pictured on the television.
Do you understand why we could watch these on the television? Because Yoshi has a P
laystation3 and we can use it not a gameconsole for playing game. We can use it in many ways and we can watch some pictures. And in advance, Yoshi had the gameconsole read in some pictures so we could do it.
We saw some picture and I was on those.
And the pictures reminded me of my good memories like Freshman-camp and English weekend something like that.
And after doing it, we got one more guest. He is my friend and he came to the party later. And we talked a lot. I think it was fun and we enjoyed it very much.
Some of the attendants were sophomores. And we made friends with them through Freshman camp and English weekend. And one of them hoped to study abroad. And I heard he was studying hard for it so I cheered him up.
And then some of them returned to home and the rest of the attendants went asleep.
I think it was three or four a.m. but I have two classes next day so I didn't mind staying up late.
And the next day is Thursday as I said and I had third and fourth period so I returned to home and took shower and went to school again.

And I took the third period and can you guess what the class is? As I told you last time and it is a listening class. The teacher is Patrik B.
I think he is funny because he always say something, and it's kind a joke.
I think he's good and we did kind of dictation as usual. And then I took Reading class and it was about the easy to read English news paper. You know, we use YOMIURI DAILY Newspaper so often in the class and we learn how to read it. I think the class is pretty much useful and good for us. And we did a fast-reading. Do you know the meaning?

In the first reading, we're supposed to read English news paper and solve some question according to the content. It has three choices. And we time the reading speed and write it down.
I think this kind of class is helpful to read English news paper. I like this class very much. Ad then after I finished the reading class, I went to the fourteenth building and started to writing my previous post.
These days I really write this kind of blog but it doesn't so hard. I think this 1,000 words is not so hard than I expected.

And I wrote the 1,000 words, which is called Keita's boot camp and I finished it for an hour. I think I became a fast key typer than before. And I learned to conclude my idea and write what I think fast.
Then I went to English conversation as usual and I commute to the school twice a week, which are on Wednesday and Thursday. And in that crass, we talked about pirates.
The teacher told that he read newspaper and knew that oil tanker was attacked by the pirates and stolen money. First I heard his talk, I misunderstood Pirates for pilot.
So the pronunciation was unclear but I could understand the whole content.

So yesterday's conversation was like a real conversation.Because we had no text book like a grammar sheet but I like this style better than the grammatical lesson. And after that, on my way home, I notice one shop and it was a sale so I went into the shop and I bought something. Do you wanna know what they are?
I found some serial box sold outside of the shop so i watched it and It seemed to taste so I decided to buy it.
surprisingly the clerk was my friend. But I knew that she was working there but, it was funny and she laughed at me.
And then I went to back home and ate the half of them and fell asleep.
But I should have watched the movie ROMIO and JULIET but I couldn't do that.
Because I was in the cotatu, which is hot and comfortable and after eating dinner I fell asleep.
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Keita's boot camp Season 3

2008-11-20T16:56:00.003+09:00

What'up guys!! I'm writing this blog which is called Keita's boot camp. You know I have to write 1000 words in each post and I wanna achieve the goal 15,000 words as soon as possible. So I'm supposed to write this kind of crazy blog every time. And now I'm thinking what should I write about but I have no idea, which means I don't have good topic to write about so what should I write about from now on?
Anyway, the other day I went to TUTAYA you know, which is a CD, DVD shop of course you can buy them there. And I went there because I was bored and then I looked for some DVDs because watching movie is a good way to spend time. Don't you think so?
Anyway, first I looked for ROMIO and JURIET but I couldn't find it by myself. So I asked a employee about it and I could get it and I wanted to watch other funny a kind comedy movie so I rented FULL HOUSE as usual and by the way it was Season 4 and Season6. I really recommend this movie to the people who haven't watched them. Because It was a comedy movie and I think this kind of movie is good to master English and all the character are American so if you watch them, you will master American English and slang as well. I'm trying to do it whether I can learn something useful phrases by watching it. And I rent last Saturday actually and I wanted to watched it as soon as possible but I couldn't do that because I was too busy to watch it. I had a lot of things to do before I watch it so. And now I have a little time to watch it but I remembered that I have one more thing to do before watching it. Can you guess what it is? Of course it is a assignment of writing class and I have to watch the a movie whose title is ROMIO and JURIET. I told you that I had rent it on the same day. It's for the movie review as you know.

Well, today I'll watch it and write the movie review about ROMIO and JURIET after other assignments. You know, I have some homework to do and today's ones are those of Honors English Seminar and Spanish. Honors English Seminar's assignment's dead line is by Saturday and we all the students taking the class have to translate Japanese into English. I mean last week we handed in our movie review about a movie which we're interested in and this time we have to translate the movie review in to English. I think it'll spend much time to complete this homework. Because I don't know which word is correct in that sentence, I mean I have to choose word which word is close to my idea. As you know there are too many words in English for example cleaver, and wise, smart, and intelligent something like those and I don't understand.
each meaning correctly. So that's why I spend much time to finish the work.
But when I don't know one word, I'm supposed to use electrical dictionary so I think this kind of work is good opportunity to blush up my English. Don't you think so?

And I think this Honors class is good and serve high level things to us.
In this class, two teachers are in charge of this class. They are Mrs. Mukai and Mr. Sato. We are supposed to do the different things in this class.
I mean, what Mrs. Mukai and Mr. Sato do are different.
And only some defined students can take this class I mean we have to get the definite standards score of TOIEC test in order to take this class. And I satisfied this score so I'm taking this class. And students who are taking this class were twelve or thirteen but since this fall semester, the number of students declined.
I don't know the exact reason but I never quit this class because I this what we are doing in this class is high level and it's good to improve my English ability.

And in the Mrs. Mukai's class we're doing movie review and we're learning how to write review in English. i think her way to teach is understandable and easy to understand. I think she is a good teacher and she sometimes gives me some advice about studying abroad for example Unitec is located in~ and she could talk about Rina-san, who is a junior, I mean she is in the third grade and she's in Unites NZ as a exchange students. And Mrs. Mukai led English American studies students to UNITEC this summer vacation and she knows about UNITEC and New Zealand very well.
Her advice is pretty much helpful for me. I really appreciate her very well.
And next I'll tell you about Mr.Sato's class.
In his class, we learn how to debate in English and last time we did it in Japanese as a practice. His class is also useful and understandable I think. And he always tells us that learning how to debate and doing presentation is useful after we went foreign university. And I heard that in the foreign countries, they often debate in the class. And after I heard his talk, I learned how important learning debate here in Japan.
As my opinion, both of the teachers are really nice and kind and I'm interested in their classes so I'll do my best on these classes and i think I'd like to try to master such a high level abilities.

But, of course I'll do my best for other classes I'm taking.
I'm interested in Honor's class very well. I think this kind of class is good to get a high level skills and I think I'd like to these skills very much after I go to UNITE New Zealand.
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Keita's boot camp Season 2

2008-11-19T16:47:00.004+09:00

On Tuesday, I had 4 classes from the first period to fourth period so got up as usual and went to school by bike. And I took the first period, which was a Japanese history class. I'm taking this class but I7m not so interested in it. Because the teacher keeps talking during the time I mean he talks like a non stop and his class is boring and difficult to understand. But knowing about Japanese past is important especially for me because I'll go overseas next year exactly in two months and more so I this so. And the next class was Honors English seminar2 and we learned how to debate, for example there are basic style you know for example there are affirmative side and negative side and each side mustn't change their opinion and persuade the opponent.
And it was second time to debate and the topic was 'Japanese government should lower the age of voting from twenty to eighteen'. By the way we divided all the attendants into two group, which are affirmative side and negative side. I was in the negative side so our group had to asset that we don't have to lower the age of voting. And before the class we had two weeks to prepare for it so, we collected information on it. And I searched on the internet and I found that almost all the nation think we can lower the voting age so I was difficulty searching affirmative opinion
I mean we were the minority. But I managed to collect the information and challenged it.
We told that if we change the voting age we have to change the age of drinking , smoking and gambling as well. We felt that it's hard for us to our asset.
Because my opinion was a affirmative side so that's why. and I thought I had better study about how to debate more and I realized we had to collect information more. So next time we'd like to do our best.

And then, during lunch time, when I was going to the English Lounge, I met Eryn, who is from Montana university an exchange student so I talked with her a lot and in the conversation I asked her whether she can understand Spanish or not. And she told she can Spanish so I asked her to help me with my Spanish study.
According to her, she learned Spanish for a year when she was a high school student.
So we studied Spanish while we were having lunch in the English Lounge. But she seems that she forgets Spanish a bit so we tried to translate Spanish to English together.
Do you know why I studied Spanish during lunch time? Of course, I had Spanish class in the fourth period and we all the students taking the class have to translate Spanish to Japanese and read it. That's the reason and she could do it and I really tanked her and I appreciated her for helping me with my assignment. I think she's so kind and nice and cleaver. And in the third period, i took the linguistics, which is pretty difficult compared with other Tuesday's classes. In this class, we think about Japanese grammar. I feel like I'm an exchange student from another country.
I think Japanese grammar is more difficult than that of English. Because it's very complicated and I don't know exact reason even me. So I think I'm sorry for exchange students because it's difficult to understand. And I remember that one of the exchange students told that Japanese grammar is complicated and can't understand it sometimes. I know how they feel and I'd like to help them with their Japanese study when they need any help.

After taking the class, I went to the fourth building and took the Spanish class.
I had confidence because I prepared for it perfectly but a problem happened.
I found that I had not finished translating all the sentences. So I started to translate the rest of Spanish sentences but after finishing my part, we have five minutes left I men I didn't have enough time to go to the front and give my speech.
but next time I'll do it without fail.

And after school I went to my part-time job as usual and it's a cram school.
You know I'm a teacher of cram school and I teach all the subjects to the first grade students to the ninth grade students and sometimes I teach English to high school students. I can teach high school students only English. Because I'm an English major student and I'm good at it so I'm teaching English mainly.
I'm a charge of ninth grade students now and they will take an entrance examination next year so I'm doing my best every time.

And I have another part-time job maybe you know, which is an OTARUKOU. It's a kind of restaurant and it's exactly a sushi bar. I started this sushi bar this August and I'm supposed to go there twice a week but I can't continue this job. Because I have two part-tome job and the other job, cram school's job will be busy from now on and I have to go more often so I have no time to go to OTARUKOU.
I'm so sad but I’d like to think positively. I have a little time left because I won't here in Japan next February so I think I’d like to contact with the students very often and I’d like to teach them as many as I know.
I’d not like to regret after I left Japan, so I make it a point to concentrate on this part-time job.

And I'd like to enjoy the rest of stay in Japan and make good memories here so I'd like to hang out with my friends and anyone who have time to hang out with me, please invite me and spend a great time together!!
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My respectful seniors

2008-11-16T13:25:00.006+09:00

I took this picture at the English weekend. It was held at the middle of October. And I was a member of the committee with my great friends. And the seniors who are on the picture are my respectful seniors and they've been to New Zealand as a exchange students. The leftest person on the picture is Kai san. He's called as Yui. He's a teacher of Minamata high school now and I respect him very much. I and him graduated the same high school. which is Kumamoto Gakuen university Fuzoku high school.He's 4 years older than me. He can speak New Zealand English which is called kiwi English. His way to speak is cool and one day Danny who was an exchange student Unitec in New Zealand told me that Yui speaks kiwi English very well and that's perfect. And I thought the way of speaking are similar. And I took interested in it.
I met together Yui when I was in the freshman and it was in the English Lounge.
I often went there and talked well.
And there I took interested in his talk and about unitec New Zealand. And I think it might be my motivative I decided to go to New Zealand. And When I was a freshman I have a lot of opportunities to listen to studying abroad. Because there were many great seniors in the KGU at that time including Kota who has been to Carlton in Canada, Ai-san Mai-san sisters who have been to America and so on. They were great and they influenced me about studying abroad. But this March, they graduated from school and now I've seen them for a long time.
And I was invited some events from my seniors and we had a great time. And I wanted some of them and some of my respective seniors attended the English Weekend. I was pretty glad to see them. And there I took some pictures with them and I listened to unitec New Zealand. They gave me some advice to remember. And the rightest person on the picture is Yuuki-san. He and Yui have been to unitec as a exchange students for one year. Yuuki-san,who is called as Yuuki from exchange students now.
He's nice and interesting senior. He always makes me laugh. He's the same grade as Yui but Yuuki has graduated from school this September and he was in the sixth grade.
Now i sometimes meet him in the campus and we often speak. He's nice person and I attended the ryuugaku houkokukai, which is a report from Japanese exchange students and there I listened his report this June or July.
He's speech was nice and it was understandable for me. And I could learn many unknown things from his report. And He was explaining his life in New Zealand using power point. There were many pictures he took in New Zealand and in his report he told us that he could be on the promotion TV as a Japanese MC. And He showed the video for a while and in his report, he told us his class, which he took Unitec and he could tell us about NZ life. It was memorable and impressed.
And now I sometimes keep contact with his and he gives me some advice. I thank him very well.
Then I'll talk about the person who is on the picture next to me. She's Anri, who is in the third grade and her major is hospitality Management. She is also from the same high school as me and she's one year older then me. I often meet her when i go to the international dormitory and we often talk. She's good my senior as well. And the last person I'll introduce is Keiko. She is also in the third grade and she majors in English as well. She and Anri have been to NZ as a exchange students for half a year. And these two seniors came back to Japan this August. So they know the newest information about NZ. I often ask them how the life in NZ is. And they tell me that it is good and New Zealander are kind but their English is a little faster than American English. They often tell me to study British English. Because it's similar to New Zealand English. And now I'm doing it sometimes when I have time.
That's what I wanna introduce to you and I wanna say that's all but this is a part of Keita's boot camp so I can't finish this post yet.
I think I'm blessed with people including friends, seniors and teachers because I can get information about studying abroad whenever I wanna know and I have good friends to keep trying hard with me. they are my treasure and I'd like to get along with them from now on.

I have little time to spend with my great friends because I'll leave Japan in the end of January and my friends'll also leave Japan next August. And we'll meet each other in one and a half years. I'll be sad without my friends but I wanna try to do my best. We are supposed to meet each other when we are in the fourth grade maybe It'll be on May or June so we won't be able to meet but I wanna keep contact with them on the Face book. Do you know what it is? It's a site we can meet on the internet and we can put on many pictures on it and we can know what's going on.
I said I'm sad but I'm also looking forward to seeing each other in one and a half years. I looking forward to seeing how much we grew in the foreign countries and how we changed and so on.
Almost all of my friends will go to another country and another university but we'll learn English commonly. After coming back to Japan, I wanna hold a drinking party or something and talk about our life in another country, for example how we spent time in another country, what we studied there and so on.
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Keita's boot camp Season 1

2008-11-15T22:00:00.004+09:00

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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1000 words blog no.2

2008-11-14T09:44:00.004+09:00

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

2008-11-14T07:10:00.004+09:00

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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1000 words blog

2008-11-12T17:06:00.007+09:00

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

2008-11-12T16:46:00.006+09:00

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

2008-11-12T16:45:00.002+09:00

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.

Movie

2008-11-07T10:05:00.005+09:00

Yesterday I was fairy sleepy but I had to write about the movie review for Honors English Seminar so I went to TUTAYA which is a CD shop and I borrowed one movie whose name is BABEL. And When I was there, I thought I have to borrow the DVD school of rock but I didn't have enough money to borrow two DVDs so I borrowed one of them.
Because the deadline of Honors class was next day so I preceded Honors' assignment.
Sorry, Tomei.
And as for the movie content, was so the casts are luxurious.
The main character is Brad Pitt. He's so cool
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Raining!!

2008-11-07T09:36:00.003+09:00

Today, From morning it's been raining.
I'm in the dismals when it's raining.
Don't you think so?
I think so.
Anyway, today, Friday I have three classes altogether.
I feel tired very well, and these days I feel slagish so I don't wanna do anything and I wanna stay home. It's a kinda depression.
I don't wanna meet anyone.
I have a lot of things to do almost all of them are homework, and these days I have no free time to feel ease.
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My favorite music

2008-11-05T23:43:00.003+09:00

Today I went to tower record in the PARCO. Maybe you know where it is and I listened a lot of music there by the time my English Conversation school starts.
I found one singer whose name is Ne-Yo. He' a R&B singer and his song 'closer' is famous. I like this kind of songs ,what is called,R&B.
I think music makes people happy.
I often listen to music home when I'm in low spirit but after listening to music I feel fine.
And my favorite other singers are KARL WOLF, who is from South Africa.
His songs give me power anytime when i listen to them.
And his songs have good tempo.
I recommend you to listen to his song once.
Anyway, my favorite Japanese singer is EXILE.
It's a name of a group.
The group consists of seven people.
Probably I told you about this before but it's ok.
They sing ballade and my favorite song of all is Lovers Again.
It's the best song all of songs and everey time I go to karaoke,I sing this song without fail.
It's a winter song I think.
Please listen to it someday!!
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Fukuoka!!

2008-11-05T23:10:00.004+09:00

Last Thursday ,I went Fukuoka prefecture alone. The reason why I went there on Thursday is very simple because last Thursday we had a school festival which name is TAKUMASAI. I don't any circles or clubs so I was free and I had enough time to go there. And the aim I went Fukuoka is to take medical check and go to Fukuoka bank and exchange yen into dollar. Because it's yen's appreciation now as you know so it was a good opportunity to exchange money.

On that day,I got up seven it's so early, you know, and I went to traffic center by bus and after I arrived there,I bought a ticket bound for Fukuoka and I got on the bus. It's a kind of express bus so the bus went Fukuoka via high way.
But it took two and a half hour to get there.
I was bored when was on the bus because didn't have anything to do so I spent time just chewing gum.
And after I arrived Tenjin, I got on the subway and headed for Fukuoka airport.
Before coming to Fukuoka, I had heard that I could change money only at the bank of Fukuoka airport so I went there at first.
And the business hours of banks usually until 3 pm so I hurried.
I got there at 0ne pm and I changed yen into New Zealand dollar.
By the way I changed two hundred thousand in to three thousand NZ dollars.
So I had difficulty in bringing it back.

And after that I got on the subway again and headed for Akasaka, which is a name of district Fukuoka health center exsits.
And there I handed in some documents related to visa and I took some medical check something like a X-ray.
And then I didn't want to go back straightly without eating something so I looked for some ramen stand.
Because they are famous in Fukuoka so I decided to eat ramen at stand.
It was good and I was satisfied with it so I decided to go back home.
It was a tiring day because I didn't know much about Fukuoka and I lost my way many times and I asked a passer the way everywhere.
That's why.
(378 words)

Preparation for staying abroad!

2008-10-24T10:17:00.005+09:00

I was chosen as a exchange student to Unitec New Zealand as you know, and I have some things to do.
Today I'll write what I have to do until I leave Japan.
First we have some orientations. And I have to take TOEFL test twice before leaving and i have to take a medical check.
I have to fill out some documents of the university which I'm supposed to go to.
And I have to entry overseas insurance.
Next I have to arrange the airline ticket and have to listen to our seniors who studied abroad in the past.
And so on. I can't all of the things on this little blog.
Because I really have a lot of things to do.
(123 words)

English lounge

2008-10-24T09:25:00.004+09:00

I make it a point to go to English lounge when I have enough time.
Actually I went there yesterday but there were no exchange students except teachers.
Anyway, I'm absorbed in darts.
I often play it with some participants.
And yesterday I watched a movie I don't know the title of it but it's a kind of comedy movie I think.

I think English lounge is comfortable but I have one suggestion.
It's to multiply the number of exchange students in there.
Because there are sometimes too many Japanese and a few exchange students and people want to talk to exchange students but they can't.

After that I went to down town and dropped in a bookstore, and I was searching English book and I read one English magazine it's name is 'English Journal'.
I read the first few pages and I found there is a topic about New Zealand moman.
So I decide to buy it because I wannted to listen to English with New Zealand accent.
She's 21 years old so she's older than me by one year.
And She's beautiful.

After that I went to English conversation school as usual and the topic was about food .
I found that I don't know much about the name of food like ingredients and hoe to cook in English. I learned some new words so I wanna try to remember it for a long time.
By the way the a teacher who teaches us English there is from Capetown, South Africa and he's about 0ver 50 years old so I have sometimes difficulty in listening to him.
He has a a little bit different accept compared with American.

But it's a good training for me to listen such a various kinds of English.
Former,I didn't like his class style because his class was boring and I changed my class but when I took his class the other day I thought he changed the class style so I decided to take his class again.
And he often admires my English.
(341 words)

Too many things!

2008-10-24T09:14:00.003+09:00

These days I have a lot of things to do, especially homework is much enough!
Almost all of the task are reports so after I come back to home I have to set up my computer and take in my work.
Actually, It's not only me but almost all the students have to do so.
I didn't think that this year is much harder than last year like this.
But I have to finish my homework one by one.
(79 words)

English Weekend

2008-10-17T10:06:00.003+09:00

Through 11 October to 12 October we had a English Weekend at Nishigoshikenkyu-jyo.
I was a member of committe so we went there and prepared for next day.
And I was in charge of food especially so I and some seniors went go shopping to but some materials. It was fun because we bought a plenty of food at A-price.
By the way, we drove to the store and after we bought ingredients, we didn't have enough room to get in.
It was horrible quantity.
I wanna attach some pictures I took during English Weekend but I had my camera broken so I sent it to Canon which is a comoany my camera was made.
And I think I wanna put some pictures on this blog after I receive fixed camara.
Anyway, English Weekend succeeded I think.
Around 100 people attend it and they seemed to have fun.
And I think committe well done! It was hard work and We were in a little trouble during E.W but we managed to solve it altogether so it's ok.
I think from my heart we're in good relations.
I'm happy to have such great friends.

I wanna write bout this next blog too.
(200 words)

Pre English Weekend

2008-10-10T09:50:00.003+09:00

Today is the day we'll go to Nishigoshi-Kenkyujyo to prepare for tomorrow.
And We mean menbers of the commitee of it.After school we're going to go shopping to buy groceries.It must be busy because we have a lot of things to buy.And the commitee and exchange students are going there today. So just only us will spend three days two night.
I'm looking forward to it so much and I'm so excited.But today we have to decide many things for tomorrow.
I'm supposed to get ready for food mainly. So I and some people cook so it must be delicious!!
After coming back from English Weekend I'll update this kind of blog.
(112 words)

Prepare for Shrek

2008-10-10T09:30:00.004+09:00

Shrek looks funny character.
I've watched this movie in the past but this time I couldn't do it so I wanna watch it after coming back from English Weekend.
By the way my favorite character is of course, shrek. He's the main character of the movie and he always does something interesting.And my friends who watched this movie often tells me that the movie is funny and Shrek is a nice character of all.
And I think so too.I forgot the exact story of it but I remember almost of it.
I think Shrek is like a 3D movie I mean it's so realistic and the image is beautiful.
This time I wanna watch making movie of it and I wanna watch it in some points.
(126 words)

Ten minutes is enough!!

2008-10-03T10:01:00.006+09:00

In this year's writing semester, i have to post 5 on the blog and have to watch some movies and after watching movies we have to review it.
I think it's so hard task and I have a lot of things to do this semester as well.

Anyway,these days I wached a movie which name is Prison break.
I don't think it's interesting it's a detective story and the content is a little difficult to understand.So I decided to rend a DVD its name is FULL HOUSE.Do you kniow it?
I used to watch it when I was a child.and htis time I'll watch it in English with Japanese subtitle.I'll complete to watch the whole series of it for study of English.
I7m planning to go to shop and rend it and watch it.
I'm looking forward to watching it.
I can't wait it.It's funny American home comedy movie.
i think it's famous in the U.S. also.

And I wanna watch many movies in English to develop my English abilities.
The other day I watched Wild Speed through 1~3 series.
It's a movie about cars which is drifting and it's so coool but it's really dangerous if you do it in the real world.
But I don't watch it
(209 words)

My hobbies

2008-09-26T10:19:00.004+09:00

Playing sports
I like playing sports because it's so exciting and I can lose my weight by doing it.
Especially I like swimming and waterpolo.
It's so exciting and hard sports I've ever played.

Going to international dorm to hang out
It's so fun and new exchange students came and I met one of them last time
They seem to be good people. I wanna hang out with them but I have no time to do it these days unfortunately.

Going to karaoke
I like it and I often go there with my good friends but when they can't go there,I go to karaoke and sing by myself.
I can refresh by doing it.
(114 words)

Today's class

2008-09-26T09:52:00.005+09:00

Today I have three classes writing speaking and international law class.
I have three classes today but from tomorrow it'll begin weekend so I can do it well.
Anyway, today after school we have a party for one of my friends.
So we'll go downtown and eat and drink as much as we want!!
It must be fun.
Because recently I don't drink at all so I'm looking forward to it.
And from tomorrow I mean it begin weekend so I have my part time job.
It's a restaurant.
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The result of the test for studying abroad!!

2008-09-11T22:37:00.006+09:00

I passed the exam of studying abroad!! Yeah!!!
And I'm supposed to go to Unitec in New Zealand for one year as a exchange student next year!!
I was so glad to know the result and I was about to cry because of the happiness!!
It's spent almost a week since I knew it but now I can't realize it.
I won't be here Kumamoto in Japan this time next year!
And my great friends also passed the exam.
One of my friends is supposed to go to Incarnet word University in the U.S and other my friend decided to go to Carlton in Canada and one more friend will go to carrol University in the U.S.
Our hopes have come true!!

After that I went back home and used a PC and I let Danny know it on the face book.
Danny is a previous year's exchange student from New Zealand.
I heard that Danny was glad to hear that.
As a matter of fact, while Danny was in Kumamoto , I promised with him to pass the exam and go to New Zealand!!
So I kept the promise.
I'm not a lier!!

And a couple of days later I went to the English conversation school and I told the receptionists that I passed the exam.
They were also glad to hear that and celebrated me and I'll continue it until January next year.
Because I'll leave Japan at the end of January or the beginning of the February.
I told Rina-san, she is in NZ as a exchange student maybe you know her.
And Kai-san and Yuuki-san. They have been to NZ as a exchange student for one year.
They are my seniors!!
I really respect them.
And the night one of the seniors called me and celebrated me and gave me some advice.

This year's summer vacation was so busy because of my part time job.
I was working so hard from the beginning the summer vacation and started one more job.
I thought that I wanna make money and work hard in case I passed the exam. And In fact I passed it.
All the because I passed the exam, I have to work much harder than ever.

And I think I should enjoy myself Japanese life style as much as possible.
and I wanna do what I can do only now and in Japan!!
(397 words)

Good friends!!

2008-08-03T23:49:00.003+09:00

This is a picture which I took at the farewell party.
people who filmed with me are my best friends and they are all 1 kumi but it's ok!!
We are all have thought about koukanryuugaku from 1st grade and we have took many TOEFL test and we often studied for it at the library together.
And we always take the same class and often hold a drinking party and hang out.
they're so nice and I wanna keep this good relationship ever.
the two exchange students are Chris and Danny k. Chris is from England and Danny k is from New Zealand at UNITEC. They are so nice too!!
I used to hang out with them for example going to small trip and going to karaoke and going to having dinner and so on.
and with Danny I promised to pass the koukanryuugakushiken and go to NZ and meet again there.
So I have to keep this promise!!
( 159 Words)

August

2008-08-03T23:10:00.002+09:00

Finally, it's become August ay? So now is no school and I have a lot of free time but this year I'll be busy in my part-time. Because ,you know, I have to make money for next year's studying abroad!! I think it'll be hard to make money until I'll be satisfaied with but I'll do it in one way or another. And yesterday I applied for another new part-time and called the office. And tomorrow I have an interview of it and I wrote a resume for it.By the way it's a restaurant near my house. So if I pass the interview of the new part-time job ,I mean I'll have two jobs. It's sweet!! And tomorrow I have my part job from the early morning and after that I have to go to the office to take the interview and then I'll go to the English conversation school. I have a lot of things to do tomorrow, and it'll be busy ay?
And I heard that tomorrow one of the exchange students will come back to his country,and his name is Robert. He's from America.And As far as I know,almost of the exchange students who come last year have come back to their countries.
so I'm so sad because if I go to the international dormitory to hang out, I can't do it with my goods friends.
But we have common net work. It's a face book!!
Do you know it?
We can keep contact with each other on the face book through internet!!
So I think I'll sometime write recent situation and exchange information.
And tomorrow My senior will go to America for studying abroad.
They are Misaki O and Yuki M.
Misaki is the third grade and Yuki is the forth grade.
Ther're so nice my seniors and I owed a lot of things to them especially about Ryugakushiken.
And They'll stay in America but they go to another school.
And we can't meet them for one year but we are connected with face book so it's good. And I hope they'll grow and come back to Japan!
(352 words)

Book review1-7

2008-07-25T17:28:00.000+09:00

This time I read one book whose name is 'ORCA'This book's main character is Jack, Max, Tonya, Sasha and so on.
They were on the boat and ther were planing to sail around the world.
And as the discussion, they dicided to do it and sailed for hours.And on the way to the south, they found one orca in the net and orca means killer whale.It was a baby but they had to be careful.
And Jack dived into the sea and tried to help the captured orca with paddle.
And suddenly there were other killer whales near the boat.
And it was the bad wheather it was raining hard and there is a lot of wind.
The sky was black.
Garadually the storm stopped and Max and Sasha were sleeping on the beach, and it was sunny.
They were thinking about Tonya,they couldn't see him.
But from far place a fin was coming to the beach with something put on it.
It was Tonya and he was helped by orca and they could meet each other there.

2008-07-11T09:39:00.003+09:00

This time I read this book whose name is 'A New Zealand ADVENTURE'
In this book many famous places are introduced,for example Auckland and Sky tower and so on.
In this book two main character appear.One girl's name is Sarah and the other is Jessica. These two girls went to NZ for a holiday.
At the air port in NZ, they got on the taxi and found one mobile phone.
And it's a little boy's. So they looked up the contents and looked for the owner.
And as the result,they could find the boy and passed it to him.
Congratulations!!
(100 words)

WATER POLO !!

2008-07-07T00:53:00.002+09:00

Today, actually on Sunday after taking TOEFL test, I went to the swimming pool of KGU with my friend. He's name is Yoshitaka I and he was also playing water polo when he was a high school student. So we're very good friends.
And The purpose of going there is to see the water polo club of Kumamoto Gakuen University fuzoku high school. And I'm from this high school as well and I was on this water polo club for 3 years.
And it’s been a long time since I visited it last. And when we went there,my junior greeted us finely.
And at first, I would just see it on the ground but suddenly I was asked to join it.
So I didn't reject it, and I took part in the practice.
Today's menu was basically fundamental practice but at the end, we played game.
I played both goal keeper and fielder.
It was so tiring work for me. And I couldn't swim as I want.
I felt my decline.
So I decided to go to swimming pool of KGU at least 3 time a week from tomorrow because I have to practice more.
And I need to keep my shape.
And I realized how hard, exhausting sport it is.
So I wanna admire myself because I continued this sport for 3 years.
(224 words)

English conversation

2008-07-04T09:35:00.000+09:00

On Friday,I went to English conversation school as asual, and I found that the teacher changed. Yeah,and the new teacher was there.
He's from Virginia in the U.S. He's a nice man. He spoke in American English so it was easy to listen. And sometimes during the class, he pointed out my pronunciation,
I mean he corrected my accent. His class was so funny and sometimes serious.
And today on Friday,I'll also go to the English conversation school. Because I go there twice a week so that's why.
And today's teacher is a man from South Africa.
He is so quite and speaks in small voice but he is an old man so it can be helped.
But his class is useful for me.
(127 words)

UNITEC

2008-07-03T04:01:00.003+09:00

UNITEC it's a university which I've wanted to go to for a long time.
It's in New Zealand and to be accurate, it's in Oakland.
And this KGU has a good connection as a exchange student to this country.
I'd like to study abroad for UNITEC.
And I have many reasons why I wanna go there.
First, I'm interested in NZ culture and history. I heard that there are some Maori people, they are ancient people in NZ.And they have unique customs.
It's conspicuous at the rubgy match. At the beginning the their announce their dance.
It's a kind of ritual i think, and something else they have custom which name is bone carving. Maori carves the bone of cows and whales and it means sometimes love and forever friendship and tie.
I took the class related to NZ culture last year and I knew the ancient people Maori for the first time and I thought I wanna study much more about this culture.
And only in UNITEC,I can take the class related to the culture and can learn there.
I often hear about NZ and UNITEC from Danny. k who is an exchange student from UNITEC. He is really a nice guy. I often go to international dormitory and hang out with him and I often ask about NZ and UNITEC.I think NZ is the best place.

And second, NZ is famous for its warm weather so easy to live and beautiful nature and nice people.
I've never been to NZ and I've never got out of Japan so I don't know how foreigners live in another country. And I'm interested in the deference between Japan and foreign country.
And the result of this year's ryugakushiken will be found out on September 4th.
It's a long time and I can't wait so long.
But before it, I'll take the TOEFL test this weekend. It's a last test.
And I wanna get higher score compared with previous one.
And these days I' studying hard for it and I have 3 days left until the test.
So I have to hit the books. And After the test I wanna go to the dorm and I wanna hang out with exchange students because they’ll go back their countries in 1 month, I mean they have only 1month left here in Japan so we don’t have enough time so much.
And I wanna make good memories with them while they’re in Kumamoto.
So I’ll enjoy myself everyday!!
(412 words) Total ( 10089 words)

book review 1-6

2008-07-03T03:27:00.002+09:00

This time I read this book which title is 'A day in London`
This story's main characters are Kipper and Gran and their relatives.
this Gran is Kipper's grandmam and she is so aggressive and usually good woman but sometimes she makes happening.
And this time in the garden, Kipper was about to play with the golf club but at the moment Gran came by and showed him how to do.
And at the next moment, she hit the ball, but she hit too hard and it smashed a window.I mean she broke the window.(Oh my god!)
She is so funny. Gran looks old but she can drive a car by herself. And she took Kipper and his friends round the London.
They visited waxworks and see and go around.
And Gran went off to look at the Royal Family while the children stayed at the street scene.
Gran dropped her handbad and some money rolled among the models.
As she bent down she knocked into the waxworks and they began to fall over.
This old woman is so funny and hasty I guess.
And anything else, she picked the models up and put the heads back on.
She broke some waxworks carelessly.
One lady ran up and rebuked her.
I think this Gran is too careless and hasty.
( 219 words)

Book review 1-5

2008-07-03T03:00:00.002+09:00

I read this book whose title is 'The kidnappers`.
this book's main character is Kipper. He is a boy and somehow he has a majic key.
One day Kipper was sleeping with the majic key and surrounded by his toys.
And one of the toy, exactly the teddy bear made him wake up.
And told Kipper to shake the key.
And Kipper shooked it as he was said, and the majic key started to work.
And kipper's adventure started.
kipper found himself in the airport and there were so many bears around him.
He got on the airplane for Switzerland. And after he landed on the country, he saw a surprising scene. He saw some nasty bears were pushing the famous bears into a car.
He was so surprised at the that time and ,he got on a van and started to follow the kidnappers.
Finally he arrived at the house and he brought honey to the bears.
The bears were greedy so while ther're absorbed in it, Kipper got into the house silently and got the famous people out and ran away.
The famous bear pleased with Kipper and his friends.
And after that the crime was arrested and the majic key began to glow.
So he came back to this real world safely.
(215 words)

These day

2008-07-01T17:15:00.002+09:00

I have a TOEFL test this weekend. Actually on Saturday I have it outside of school.
The reason why I need to take is to apply for document for the ryugakushiken.
And I also took it the other day in June and now is July and I've studied for the TOEFL test ever. So this time I have a little bit confidence.
And at the last time's test my score went up a little so I'm expecting it.
And my final goal is over 500 and my score needs more 10 score.
And I've studied it since the last test and every day I make it a point to study for something related to English of course I solve the questions on the textbook.　And I finished all the textbook which I have now. So I wanna review and brush up the contents which I have learned through it.
And in order to take the test as preparation span, I took this week's part-time off.
So I made time to study.
And after the TOEFL test, I have to prepare for some exams.
So I'll be busy not only present but until the end of July.
But I'll do my best and in one way or another I could succeed in everything.
( 212 words)

Farewell party

2008-06-30T00:25:00.006+09:00

On the weekend actually on Saturday from 7:30 I went to TAIGEKI with English conversation members. It's a bowling centre. About 30 people came there to the farewell party. And the another English teachers came there. It was held to enjoy the last class with the teacher whose his name is Daniel and he's from Oregon state in the U.S.
I have taken his class since on June in 2007. So I know him a lot.
He is so big man maybe 185 cm and he is so funny so I liked his character and his class as well. He was so intelligent because he knew about American literature so much. For example when I told about the man of letters of the U.S. history who I learned on that day he knew it a lot and could tell about it much more.
If I think that I can't take his class any more, I'm so sad.
And at the last his class, he taught me his PC address.
And he said' please tell me when you find out the result of exam of studying abroad and send me an e-mail` so I said sure of course I'll send you and let you notice the result.
I promised.
And I hope I can give him good information.

His class was so funny every time or he tried to make it funny i think.
And he also knows about me.
And he knows the reason why I commute to this English conversation school.
You know, of course for studying abroad as a exchange student. And in order to develop my English abilities. And through this teacher I learned a lot of things I guess so.
And he'll come back to Oregon state and I heard that he'll enter the graduate school.

And at the bowling centre, we made some groups with 4 or 5 members in each group and played it. It's been a long time since I played bowling last. So It took time a little to get used to it. But I felt it's so fun.
And after that we went to NIJIKAI. And we went eating.
It was so fun and we could eat and drink as much as we want during 2 hours. I was so satisfied with it. It was so tasty!!
And at there, I wet three women who hope to be a flight attendant what is called CA
or FA.

We often meet each other at English conversation school and at school as well.
2 of the 3 the women were from Kumamoto Prefectural University. And their majors were English. and the one person was from Kumamoto Gakuen University. She was junior, third grade, and we often see each other at school.
And at as the conversation was going on, I thought she was thinking me as the same grade as her. She was misunderstanding.
And I said, No, I'm not the same grade as you, I'm sophomore of KGU, I said.
After listening this, she was very surprised at the fact.
She said, you look very adulthood and I thought you are the same grade as me.
And we burst into laughing.
But I'm used to these things. Because I'm often looked older for my age.
And sometimes some people say `we I　meet you for the first time I thought you are 4th grade student or more'. But it's ok. I'm used to be said so.

And the same grade woman who is from Kumamoto prefectural University talked to me a lot. For example 'why did you start to think that you should study English conversation?, And 'What's your dream and so on. And I also asked them some questions the reason why they home to be a FA or CA. And they answered this question.
They like travelling to different countries and like the feeling when they on the airplane.
The English conversation school which I commute to twice per a week has a lot of women who hope to be FA CA and other related to airplane.
So I can hear a lot of talks.
I felt important things through this farewell party, encounter has a time limit and I have to treasure time everyday.
( 708 words) Total (9031 words)

book review 1-4

2008-06-29T23:14:00.003+09:00

This time I read this book whose name is `Key Trouble'
This book's main character is Kipper.
One day he was watching TV at the living room and at that time he was taken into a strange grey world. He went into the television.
Every thing was grey there of course Kipper was grey, I mean he become like an old film.
And wished come back to this real world but he couldn't understand what to do for it.
And he had a majic key. And he banged it and after that he succeeded to get back to this real world, but something was wrong. Kipper was a grey color yet after coming back.
So when his relatives except his parents looked him at the garden, they were surprised at his appearance. They didn't know why he is grey.
And Kipper's parents didn't know what his condition so he tried to cheated by hiding his true shape. And as much as possible he tried not to be with his parents to hide this accident.
And after that he went upstairs and went into his room.
And he was in depression for his appearance. And he looked back himself and at the moment the key which he had twinkled a little and the color came back.
I think this is so funny book ever. I can't imagine this.
He was just watching TV at ease.
And the key point was this majic key which he had.
( 245 words)

2028 my self introduction

2008-06-27T11:56:00.001+09:00

2028 my self introduction

In 20 years, I’ll have been working at what I want. In 20 years I’ll be 40 years old, because I’m 20 years old now but it’s so old I don’t wanna get old very much. As a matter of fact I can’t image what I’ll be in 20 years. And I don’t know where I’ll live in and don’t know what I’ll do in 20 years but, I hope I’ll live a happy life.

I’ve thought that I wanna be a police man in the future but the think has changed.
Because I’ve studied English as a major and I also like to use English I mean that I wanna work with using English. But I don’t know what kind of jobs are there but, I wanna get the job using English.

And concretely I wanna work with foreigners and negotiate with them and contract with them. I think it’s so fun and looks interesting, challenging.
In order to achieve this dream, I think I have to brush up my English abilities much more. Because communicating with foreigners require to use English smoothly and I need to know the back ground of foreign countries.

So I think what I have to do now is to take every class which I take seriously and get useful knowledge and develop my English abilities as much as possible.

And I thinking that I wanna stay abroad to understand various knowledge from different race and I wanna learn the different idea of mine. I think it’s so important to understand the different idea and learn different culture. It’ll help my understanding through my future job for sure.
And of course being in another country helps my English abilities as well.
Because during in NZ, I can’t speak Japanese as much as I think. But it’s a good environment for to develop my English abilities.
So through this time’s studying abroad, my idea for the future might be changed.
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presentation

2008-06-27T10:26:00.001+09:00

WEI No.2

2008-06-27T09:05:00.005+09:00

I usually post my blog at home but as a matter of fact, I wanna post it when I'm at school but I can' t do that. Because I have 4 or 5 classes on average every day and after that I have to go to my part time job directly so I don't have much time to do at school.
So usually I often post it at night after coming back from my part-time.
2. Good point
I think this blog's good point is by writing los of English so we can get used to English and can learn a lot of expression. And we have to read so many English books from English garden, so I don't often read books even Japanese one but because of this assignment we have to read it.
So it's good for us I think.
Bad point
I think this blog's bad point is the amount of the assignment. we have to update our blog three time a week and post book review once and we have typing homework and sometimes our routine increase by some reasons so we are so busy because of this one class. I often hear that this class's assignment is too much and I think so too.
I think other students are doing good jobs. Three post blog regularly and writing a lot and I sometimes visit their blog when I have time.
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What I think these days!!

2008-06-25T23:27:00.005+09:00

I often think about exchange students from a lot of countries. Because I've been in good relationship with them.
But unfortunately they'll come back to their each country in one month so I think about them these days.

I made friends with them on last year's September.
It was a welcome party when I met them for the first time. At first my impression for them was a bit scary. Becausae we didn't know each other so I didn't know what to say and we couldn't speak to each other.
But as the time pass by, my impression for them changed. And I wanted to get along with them in one way or another so I visited the international dorm every holiday and we talked a lot of things and hang out with them. And sometimes we took a small trip during vacation.

And they could come to English weekend and we enjoyed and when I attended English speech contest with my great friends, they came and listened to our speeches.
And the day was also K Danny's ,who is from NZ, birth day so we went international dormitory and celebrated him.
I think he is so nice.
And this year's on April they could come to fresh man camp as a guest.
I think them are so good and nice.
And I'll attach the picture of Danny's birthday party after English speech contest.

And now when I see them at cafeteria,　we eat lunch together and
talk various things for instance' Yo what's up? or how's it going? What are you doing? What kind of classes did you take? and so on.　Our conversation starts with like this.

And At least once or twice I can meet one of them at school.
And these days I'm often invited to their dorm but when I'm invited by them I was saying 'I'm sorry I wanna go to dorm but I have a lot of things to do, So I can't do that.　When I have enough time to go there I'll go there without fail.'

But the chance, opportunity to go to their dorm has decreasing.
And I have only a month to hang out with them,　so I wanna treasure the time which is left.
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Yeah dude!

2008-06-25T23:07:00.003+09:00

Today the last test of studying abroad has finished!! Today's test was Japanese writing test what is called 'shouronbun' And by the way I took the Japanese interview test yesterday as well. I was really nervous but I could talk my passion for studying abroad and I could tell what I was thinking so I'm satisfied with it.
Come to think of it, I've kept endeavor for this ryugakushiken since last year.
So I'm full of relief. But actually I can't take a load off my mind because TOEFL test will be held on July 6 out of school so I'll take it to get much higher score.
I think it'll be the last chance for me to take the TOEFL test so although the ryugakushiken has finished but I'll keep on studying for it.
And I'll find the result of this ryugakushiken whether I'll pass or not on September 4th so I have so long time to find the result.
But it can't be helped.
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My favorite animal

2008-06-20T09:24:00.003+09:00

My favorite animal is panda. But there is no panda in Japan any more because these days a panda whose name is Rin-Rin died.　But I knew the fact that only in Ueno zoo in Japan there is a panda. I was thinking that there are panda in each zoo and I could see them anywhere, but I realized that I was misunderstanding about it. So there is no panda in Japan now so the prime minister Yasuo Fukuda considered whether we should import panda from China to Japan or not. I think we should do it because it fascinates a lot of visitors to the zoo and there are a lot of fun of it. And It has a high popularity among

young people especially among young women or a little boys or girls.
But I think panda is cute and has a popularity among them but sometimes it does bad things because I've seen the scene on the TV program that it attacked the visitors from the cage. When I watched this news, I didn't know the panda attacked the man as a joke or did it seriously.

I felt the terror for the first time for panda. But the victim of this event seemed all right, because the people around him helped and managed to help him so the man didn't hurt fortunately.
I think panda has the both side of cuteness and terror, but it is basically safe.And I would like to see panda in Kumamoto.

And in Kumamoto there is only one zoo as far as I know and I wanna see pandas there but I can't do that unfortunately. So if I wanna see pandas, I have to go to the another prefecture to see them.

I think panda is one of the fascinating animal so if pandas come to Kumamoto, the number of visitors to zoo will increase. So I would like to expect
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Speech contest

2008-06-20T01:17:00.004+09:00

The other day, from afternoon I went to Gakuseikaikan 4F and saw speech contest. I had heard that exchange students will attend the contest so I was really looking forward to it. And Brendan, Danny Jina Candan Chris were there and they were supposed to attend it and other exchange students were there to listen to them.
I was really looking forward to it because I wanted to know what exchange students think and how they feel about their daily life.
And I had listened to one of the people who attend it before.
They were speaking Japanese frequently so when I listened to their speech,I was really surprised.

Because their speeches were beyond my imagination and I didn't know they could speak Japanese so frequently and the contents of their speeches were full.
I was glad to hear that because each person were making efforts to do their best.
And I could understand how they feel and think about daily life.
And I attended English speech contest as well and I was so nervous so I understood their feelings during the contest. And when I attend this English speech contest, exchange students could come and listened to my speech. I was so glad.
And this time I was a listener.

I think this speech contest is a good opportunity to realize level how much could I speak and how much could I express myself and so on.

So I'm planning to attend this year's English contest and of course I'll aim for the first prize because I missed it last year so I'll prepare enough and I wanna get it.
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interview

2008-06-20T01:17:00.001+09:00

On June 11,I took an interview of studying abroad. I was so nervous, but I had practiced many times about it. And On that day from morning, I was just thinking about it and at the interview, we took it by three people. I had known one person already but I didn't know the other. And on that day before just 10 or 15 minutes the interview we found who she was the one more person. By the way I was supposed to take the interview with elder person who is junior what is called, she is a third grade student and fortunately we had known each other already so we thought and predicted what questions will be asked. And on that day we found who is the person who took the interview with us.It was my one of my friend Ai. She wanted New Zealand as well.so we three people were wanted NZ as a place of studying abroad.
So in the meaning, we were rival each other.
And at last the test has begun. First we introduced ourselves each other and told the purpose of studying abroad. I think I could answer frequently and I could tell what I thought, my idea.
I felt the interview was too short. I was so nervous but I satisfied with my responds. So I finished my test but I cant feel relief because I have more tests which I have to take.
It was Japanese interview test and writing essay its a kind of report?
So I need to practice about these things to success.
I'll do my best and I`ll pass all the ryugaku tests in one way or another and achieve my goals!!!
(284 words)

book review 1-3

2008-06-14T00:42:00.004+09:00

This time I read one book whose name is 'GOODBYE MR HOLLYWOOD` And in this book one man appears, and his name is Nick and he is a travel writer. He is a main character.
When he was sitting on the chair at cafe a woman came to him and spoke to him and sat by him. When I read this sentence I thought that what a aggressive woman she is. Because this is the first time to each other to meet. I was surprised at her action. And she was followed by detective. So she just wanted the detective to follow the man. And because of her, Nick was shot by someone and was dangerd by someone. For example he was pushed to the road a lot of car were running and it was narrow escape. Fortunately, he didn't be injurd and not shot. But he was afraid of many things. At last the criminal was found. If I am in Nick's place, I didn't come close to the woman whose name is Jan but it was not true her name, and her true name was Meg Hutson. She was one of the millionaires. But I learned through this book that I had better not to come close to strange woman.
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The worst day in my life

2008-06-08T21:00:00.002+09:00

The worst day in my life? It’s difficult for me to which one is worst. Because I have experienced a lot of difficulties ever.
But I’ll tell you about one accident happened this April.

On April, I was invited to the HANAMI party at Kumamoto castle so I went there by
bike afternoon. And I parked my bike at the parking area behind downtown. And its parking area was locked at nine so I took out my by to the other place. And I locked my bike surely so I enjoyed the HANAMI party with relief but the party was over and when I went to the place which I parked my bike, I was surprised. Because my bike wasn’t there, I mean I had my bike stolen!!

At first, I couldn’t believe the scene so I looked over my bike for hours but I couldn’t find it. So I called the police and I explained the accident.
And I didn’t have the transportation so I called my parent and I went back to home
by car.

So my bike was stolen so I must have gone to school by bus, it’s so inconvenient. I realized it many times, because it doesn’t come on time and sometimes I was delayed.
So I didn’t wanna use it but I couldn’t help it.
And I use buses for going to school for three months and these days I received a phone call from police box. It was about my stolen bike.
My bike was found at the back of north police box. And one police man found it and brought it to the office and looked up it. And he found out whose bike it is.
And the other day I went to the police box and I saw my stole bike. It was horrible!
The number plate and one mirror were broken. And the traces of scratch were there.
I got impression after seeing it, and I can’t forgive the thief who stole my bike even now.

And I can't forgive the thief but I got a bike for insurance so I have transportation that I can go to the places wherever I want.
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My memorable day in my life

2008-06-06T11:22:00.002+09:00

My memorable day in my life is on May 6 in 2008. It was my 20th birthday. And I was planning to do some special things on that day, because it’s my 20th birthday, it’s so memorable isn’t it? And on that day I spent morning at home and in the afternoon I received a mail from one of my great friends. And in the mail he supposed to hold my birthday party and he made plan to do it in the night so I decided to go to the dormitory in the night after English conversation school. And when I visited there ,my best friend whose name is Danny K, and some other Korean exchange students was waiting for me.
As a matter of fact, there are a lot of exchange students and I can meet many people there but on that day some people were taking a trip to China and going to another prefecture so there was a few people, but I was happy because my friends remembered
My birth day!!

And they celebrated my birthday so I was much happy because they were the only people who celebrated my birthday.
And we talked a lot and after that, went to karaoke for three hours. It was so fun!
Through this event actually my birthday, I realized the importance of the relationship with my friends and it’s my best memorable birth day ever.
So from now, I wanna get along with them and I wanna keep contact with them regularly.
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This weekend

2008-06-06T02:01:00.002+09:00

I've been busy for a long time since the beginning of MAY and I had a lot of things to do and I finished almost of the assignments which I should submit. So finally I became relaxed a little. I think it's good and I've not thought the way to spend this weekend. Maybe I'm getting fat these days and actually I often realize it so I wanna get exercise and I wanna swim because I belonged to the water polo club when I was a high school student. So I like swimming and I know swimming is a good way to lose my weight efficiently. So I'm gonna do it and after that I've not hang out with exchange students these days so I'm gonna dormitory and talk with them about a lot of things and enjoy myself. Like this I wanna spend my weekend for a change of air.
I'm really looking forward to it because it has been a long time to playing sport and hanging out with my friends last.
I can't wait this weekend!!
But I have to study for TOEFL test because I’ll take the test on June 14th so I have few days to prepare for the exam, and these days I make a point to study for it little by little everyday but it’s not enough. And I wanna get better score than previous in one way or another so I need to make time to study for the test.
I’ll do it with all my force!! (255words)

First essay (rewrited)

2008-06-04T10:04:00.008+09:00

Hi、I'm Keita S and I'm a sophomore of KGU. I major in English. And my hobbies are going to dormitory and hang out with exchange students. And listening to music especially foreign songs 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. Let me explain about it. This sport is very hard and it’s unknown to lot of people , 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. And because of this school, my speaking and listening levels have progressed I think. I've commuted to the school since July in 2007.

And I also have a part-time job. By the way it's a cram school teacher so I teach students All subjects , English ,mathematics, arithmetic, social studies, science ,Japanese. I think this job is fun because I can realize the development of students through this job.

And I forgot telling my one more hobby, it’s going to karaoke and it’s so nice I can sing many songs as many as I want. And it’s a good way to decrease my stress.

In contrast, I'll ask you some questions. This is a first visit to foreign country for me therefore I don't know about 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.
Nice to meet you.
( 338 words)

These days

2008-06-02T01:19:00.002+09:00

It's been a long time since I updated my blog last! Because I was really really busy in many things. And these days I'm busy even on weekend because of many assignment and reports, and by the way this week`s weekend was so busy. On friday the day was holiday it's a foundation day of our university and it's also Mr.Tomei's birthday!! I'm sorry for being late to celebrate it.
And anyway　,on that day I received a phone call from police box, but put your mind at ease I didn't do any bad things.　It was a report which notice me.

To tell the truth,this year I had my bike stolen in the beginning of the April and I reported to it. And the telephone was about it. And I went the police box and wrote some documents and I saw my broken bike, it was so miserable. The mirror was lost and the number plate was also broken. When I saw my bike for the first time at the police box,I couldn't believe the sight and I couldn't say any words for shock. It was exactly my stole bike I really got depression.
After that I went to the bike shop and bought helmet and lock.　I'm gonna buy a new bike because I don't wanna go to school by bus any more. Because it's so inconvenient for me and it's sometimes delayed and on the bus, it was so crowded every morning. And it's much expensive using bus to come to school so that's why.

And as to the next day on Saturday　,I finished the report of Honors English Seminar which is the name of the class which I take.
And from afternoon I went to my part-time job until night and after that I went back to my home and studied a bit.

And the last day on Sunday I was writing some documents about studying abroad and at last just now I finished writing it. It took so long time to complete it.
And come to think of it during this three days I could'nt go out except my part-time job. But this is not a special thing for this week because I couldn't do that as well.
So this year I'll busier than I expect. But I can't help being busy this year.

And tomorrow exactly today I have four classes from 1st period to 4th period and after that part time job, I think I need a day off to relax, any way I'm so sleepy so I'm gonna go to bed right night. Bye!
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Too busy my daily life!

2008-05-16T01:10:00.009+09:00

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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Answering following questions

2008-05-14T03:11:00.005+09:00

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)

How to spend my weekend!!

2008-05-12T00:53:00.005+09:00

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

2008-05-12T00:50:00.002+09:00

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)

My treasure

2008-05-09T10:28:00.003+09:00

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

2008-05-09T10:25:00.001+09:00

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)

My last teenage day!!

2008-05-05T18:50:00.005+09:00

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!!

2008-05-05T17:21:00.002+09:00

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)

EXILE

2008-05-04T01:13:00.002+09:00

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)

These days

2008-05-02T09:05:00.002+09:00

It' been a long time since I wrote blog last.Because I don't have any good topic to write. So that's why I don't update my blog so often. But we have to update our blog more than three times per a week so I'm worrying what to write about. And we have to write more than 10000 words in this semester, I think it's so hard to do it because I've not written blog so much yet but I heard that in two weeks we'll have our blog checked and evaluated.So I'm worrying about it and to catch up with the goal I have to update my blog every day and I read a lot of books and write about the content.It`s so hard to read three books per a week because I have no time to read it.(151 words)

It's been a long time since I was free last!!

2008-04-30T00:15:00.003+09:00

Today, it's been the long time since I was free last!! The reason was so easy. I was off today. I had nothing to do so from morning, I went downtown to look for a book whose name is 'The Great Gatsby''. I really had a difficult to look for it. And in order to search it, I visited a few bookstores. And I managed to find it.Why I need this book?? Because I have to read the book by the next week's class I took. Its class' name is honor's English class. And after reading, we have to discuss its content, for example how did I feel about the story and how did I interpret it and so on. When I saw the book for the first time, I thought It's difficult to understand.But It looked a little bit interesting. After buying it, I went to the dormitory of the exchange students'. And there was one of my friends there already.And some foreign friends was watching TV in Japanese. And then I told them to have bought the book today. And I asked some of them whether they know it or not, and they told me that they've read the book when they were junior high school students.At that time,for the first time I noticed how famous book it is. And after that we played game on tv and we went shopping to buy something to eat because we were hungry, and bought some stuff and ate at the dorm. It's been a long time since the welcome party at the dorm . And today I realized that taking with foreigners in English and talking about various things are so fun.I enjoyed myself today. (291 words)

Yesterday

2008-04-25T09:57:00.004+09:00

Yesterday, I had my part-time job, so I went school with dressed up. Because After school if I come back home and change clothing, I wouln't be on time of the job.And by the way my part-time job is a cram shool teacher. I think teaching children some subjects are sometimes difficult and sometimes happy. And making them understood is a littli bit difficult for me in comparison with study myself. And yesterday's subjects were mathematic and English for junior high school students. They were so clever that I didn't need to explain the content so much.(97words)

Book review 1-1 Food and drink in Britain

2008-04-20T22:00:00.004+09:00

I read this book, and this book was written on food and drink in Britain and after reading it, I could know the main food of Britain and drink like tea. In this book fish and chips were introduced and I felt like eating it.And add to the fact like this, some famous places and buildings were also introduced, So I could understand food and drink and a little geography of Britain including one famous church and Big Ben. I knew it for the first time . I thought it's so cool and impressive. (93 words)

Freshman camp!!

2008-04-16T12:32:00.003+09:00

on12~13 I went to NISHIGOSHI- KENKYUUJYO in order to attend a freshman camp as a leader. And my good friends also applied for it. As a matter of fact, I was looking forward to it because we've decided to attend it since a long time ago.
And for the camp we were meeting for a few times and decided many things for example each other's roles. What should we do there so on.
And on that day, at first I was nervous. But I thought I should play my role with confidence because I'm sophomore this year and I'm a superior so I encouraged myself.
By the way, my role was to lead exchange students who attended it, so I spoke to them and expained various things. And as for the hole things, I think the schedule was　so favorable, and I could get along with all the people who attended this camp including freshman and officer.
I attended freshman camp last year and this time I also took part in this camp as a leader. Looking back it, I thought the officer of this camp is so hard but this is a challenging work I think as well.So next year I wanna do this officer of freshman camp too!!(210 words)

2008-04-11T10:16:00.001+09:00

From 27 to 30

2008-03-31T23:43:00.004+09:00

Finally, the spring class has begun since March 27. The class started from 9:30 am but I had to go to the office to prepare various textbook for that day.And I usually taught 6 classes for a day. The time of coming back was 11pm on average, so I was exhausted from the hard work. I had a busy time like this! I spent time working for 4 days from March 27 to 30 like that. And this spring class is gonna continue until April 4. So I wanna work more and earn money much more ,but from tomorrow our school will begin.To be accurate, for a while it's just an orientation not classes. so I don't have time to work but it can't be helped. Anyway I'm looking forward to going to school tomorrow because I've not been meeting friends for a long time so I wanna meet them and talk about something! (155 words)

On March 25

2008-03-26T03:10:00.003+09:00

Today I was so tired! Because I had to go to my part-time job from morning and I had to prepare the text books.They are for spring classes. I had a lot of things to do there and the work continued until 7pm. But I was supposed to going English conversation from 6pm so I stopped my work and I went there. I think speaking English is so fun and talking with foreigners in English is fun as well. I like English and these days I'm absorbed in going to the dormitory of exchange students and hanging out with them.For example talking about recent events and watching DVD and playing the video game together and so on.Come to think of it, the other day I went to ROUND ONE with some exchange students. It's like an amusement park or a kind of game center I think.It was so funny and we enjoyed it. And when we go back home, they told me that they want to play there once more. I was gald to hear that. Anyway, tomorrow exactly today I'm free and I unusually don't have any plans so I'm gonna go to dorm to chill out!!
(198 words)

Daily life

2008-03-23T22:57:00.004+09:00

I don't know what should I write about because I haven't written my blog these days so I'll write about my daily life. As a matter of fact these days I'm busy in my part-time job. By the way, it's a part-time teacher at cram school. This is the secondary part-time job for me. Previous one was a swimming instructor at YMCA. I started it with entrance of this university, but I quited it last December in many reasons. Compared with lots of things, I think a part-time teacher at cram school is far more difficult than swimming instructor. But I think both of them are rewarding jobs. I started secondary job from February and sometimes I feel sad and sometimes happy. I got accustomed to the job lately. Bacically we are teachers at cram school so we teach children many subjects for instance,mathematics, arithmetic, social studies, science, of course English, But there are things what we are taught by children. So I realize I've grown with them through this job. I think it's very important so I'll study for myself to teach children better. I'm gonna do my best! (190 words)

C class students' presentation

2008-01-21T09:17:00.000+09:00

On last week's speaking class, we saw C class students' presentation. They were checking the convenience of building in this university.For example, the convenience of the elevator or slope for wheelchair people.
I think the content was so interesting and they were devising the poster by sticking some pictures on it.But some people were reading a note and didn't speak clearly. So if they improve some points like these, their presentations will be better.

preparation

2007-12-17T02:07:00.000+09:00

We came together last week and talked about presen.
My presen content was almost decided but at this meeting my role has changed.
I'm supposed to make a presen about sport and entertainment, but accidentally changed.
In the end my part of presen was about entertainment and commercial.
I thiught this topic about entertainment is difficult.
Because I didn't know what to write when I heard the word ``entertainment''
Finally, I decided what should I write about.
This time's presen I create a creative things.
So please expect it!

Active of our speaking group

2007-12-10T02:19:00.000+09:00

Last week' Wednesday, our group came together in the library at third period and talked about our group's assignment. And we decided each person's role. And we began to knock up copy draft.As a result of discussion, I had to talk about entertainment and sports in the presen.
As for entertainment,especially international marriage and movies .And as for sports, we created 6 wheelspic and created a new sports. I think this kind of presen is interesting, because we can create a new something freely. Our group will do a live presen so we have to practice not to fail. So we have to come together few days somewhere.

The impressions of the presentations

2007-12-02T20:52:00.000+09:00

We`re supposed to make a presentation about news program. At first, I thought it`s difficult to do it.Because, I don`t watch a news program and not read news papar,so I don`t have knowledge about these days' affair.
But this time, in this class,we can create news program. This presen will be first experience of making news. So we have to decide what do we have to talk about. In my opinion, Iwanna talk about special features. Because in ten years from now is beyond imagination.So It's easy to creat something. I hope our group's presen will succeed.

Future of the world

2007-11-25T23:37:00.000+09:00

I think the world will have changed dramatically in 10 years. First as for the technology, it`ll be more convenient. Perhaps cars will fly in the sky and people walk in the capsule.Or new machine to fly will have invented by someone.And the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Mars might shorten. And Many people will wanna visit there.
Second, as for medical science will have progressed. Someone might create surprising medicine and people who took it will never die!
Next,As for the temperature,it will rise more and more. So the ice in the arctic might melt earlier and earlier.
To stop these phenomena, we have to do our best like recycling and energy saving.

About my future

2007-11-25T22:56:00.000+09:00

My future plans regarding education, career and family are very realistic.
First, my career is to become a police officer. To satisfy my wish, I have to take a session of officer. And I have to study about law and constitution and economics. And If I pass the civil service examination, I`ll go to a police academy. So I will have to spend some time there.
Second, as for my family , I`m planing to marry by the age of 25. I wanna enjoy married life.
Next,as for my future in 5 years is below.
I think I will be working as a pllice officer in Tokyo in 5 years. And I will contribute to society and I will be trusted by neighbors. 　　

The result of our presentation

2007-11-05T12:59:00.000+09:00

Last week, our group did our presentation. Before presentation, we came together in the library and even holiday we met and discussed content of our presentation, and practiced many times. So I had confidence to succeed, but in fact I freezed up in public and I didn't know what to say. So I was chagrined at the result.Then I had realization of the difficulty of presentation.

Preparation

2007-10-26T13:17:00.000+09:00

Our group met in the library and thought about our speaking presentation. And we painted our draft and decided many creative menus. Our presentation has humor and fantasy. And sometimes it is romontic and fairy tale. I`m sure our presentation will be interesting and succeed.

Our group`s activity

2007-10-18T14:41:00.000+09:00

Our group decided to make a live presentation. Yesterday, my speaking group got together in the library and thought about the presentation. we decided our restaurant`s menu and building and history. We needed creative ideas but it was a little difficult to come up with. As the result of thinking, we decided unique idea. So we could draft of the presentation. And Next, we have to think manuscript of it and paint it.

On October 15

2007-10-15T13:05:00.000+09:00

Two weeks before,we talked about summer vacation and drew a picture of it.And each person explained it. And we listened to a song whose name is blackbird.It was a little bit difficult to listen. I imaged the meaning of it and I thought the blackbird wanted to run away.Because in the lyric, there were words such as `broken wings' and sunken eyes'. From this lyric I imaged the bird hurt by someone. I don't know this interpretation is right or wrong, But I thought like this.

On July 13

2007-07-15T15:16:00.000+09:00

On July 13, my speaking group met out of class, and thought about the script of our presentation. This work was difficult and I`m not good at it.But thought serious and completed it. So we made a plan to meet out of class to record our presentation, and we`ll meet out of class on Tuesday and record it.

On July 9`s　activity

2007-07-15T15:02:00.000+09:00

On July 9`s class, we made a map of our country and completed roughly.In the end our country`s shape was decided to pumpkin.Most of the color is orange and there are two lakes in my country. Also, rivers are there.In the mountains, strange animals live in there, for example big foot and witch so on!this country is famous for pumpkins and the residents like them.This trip to go around takes three days. This trip is long but very joyful.So please visit this country once!

On July 2nd`s preparation

2007-07-02T13:13:00.000+09:00

On July 2nd class we will learn how other student think about vanation.And group activity is supposed to make out a draft of a sketch. So I want to cooperate with my group member and complete a draft of a sketch.

On June 29`s activity

2007-07-02T12:56:00.001+09:00

On June 29 our speaking group came together in the library and talked about our country.At first, we couldn`t come up with good idea but as the time passed, good ideas occured to us. In the end our group`s country was determined . The shape of our country became a strawberry. And there was transportation.Two middle class of lake were there.So the next week`s class we will make out a draft of a sketch.

On　June　18‘ｓ　activties

2007-07-02T12:43:00.000+09:00

On June 18`s activity ,we were assigned to 3or 4 people and we thought of our group`s country.
We couldn't come up with good idea so we couldn't decide our country in detail.So we decided to where we come together and the date. As the result of discussion we decided to come together in the library on Friday.

On June 13

2007-06-14T15:02:00.000+09:00

On June 13 we came together in empty class　after school and recorded our view of presentation.There were difficulty in doing record in video camera because all of us in our group didn`t know how to use video camera. But finally we managed to record our presentation.When we were talking in front of video camera, we were in serious so couldn`t talk well.And through this experience I found me talking in very small voice. So scacely we couldn't listen to my voice.so I want to talk in big voice and clearly.

On July 11`s　activity

2007-06-14T14:42:00.000+09:00

On June 11 I did our group activity and practice for next week`s presentation.In practice each group did their practice for next week. In fact on June 11 we were supposed to make a presentation but presentation was lost. So instead of doing presentation ,we had to record the view of presentation in the video camera.So our group decided to come together on June 13 and record our presentation.

June fourth`s activity

2007-06-07T15:02:00.000+09:00

On June fourth we studied about student`s life style.So I learned how other student`s life style is. For example, some people lives in an apartment alone,other lives their home town etc.
And yesterday on June sixth we came together in librery and made homework of our group project. We did our best but our assignment didn`t finish entirely, so we planed to come together on June eighth and we`ll complete it.

2007-05-29T11:26:00.001+09:00