Book review 2-2

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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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