Book review 2-7

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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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Keita's boot camp Season 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 Up date your blog everyday or you can’t get your credit.
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1000 words blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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