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!!
2008年12月4日木曜日
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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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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2008年11月28日金曜日
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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2008年11月21日金曜日
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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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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2008年11月20日木曜日
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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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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2008年11月19日水曜日
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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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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2008年11月16日日曜日
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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