do my best!

Recently, I am studying hard and am taking a lecture for TOEIC. I didn't think my English is improving so I worried a lot. However, a few days ago, my TOEFL score was sent to me, and the score improved very much. I was pleased so I called my friend!! The score is not so good though my efforts became my treasure. I know I must study more harder so I will try to study hard for sure. The next test is waiting for me on January. I want to have high score next time!
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Party!

I had a party today. My birthday is December 4th, so it's over. My friend might have a birthday party for me, but they didn't have enough time then, so today, they had a party for me. When I went to my friend's room, all my friends were getting ready and they made me surprise. They gave a birthday cake and some presents for me. We talked a lot. After that, we went to supermarket to buy something for dinner. We decieded to have Kimuchi nabe for dinner. We went to another store to take a Purikura, and enjoyed it. Then, we came back my friend's home and cooked dinner. It was so delicious nabe. That's taste was Kimuchi and I love it! After dinner, we were talking a lot again. I really enjoyed spending with my friends. I want to hang out with them as soon as possible.
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I feel bad

Hello. How are you? I'm feeling so bad, because some bad things made me sad. One of the things is that I lost my electrical dictionary!! :'O I have to write essay without dictionary. It is hard for me. I think I lost my dictionary last Wednesday in writing class. I asked about it to people who work at 14th building, but they didn't know where my dictionary is. Also I asked to 学生課, but I couldn't find it. I hope I could find it tomorrow. A electronic dictionary is too expensive for me. However, I really need it, because I have to do many homework and am going to go UK. If someone found my dictionary, please let me know! x( PLEASE!!!!!!!
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Big mistake

Oh my gash!! I made a big mistake!! I applied TOEIC test on January 11th but…The day is a ceremony of the coming-of-age day!! I totally forgot about that. I already paid 6651 yen for TOEIC test, and it won't refund to me at all. I waste money. I disappointed by myself. I always make mistakes. I can't believe me!! I noticed about that in the morning, then, I was unhappy all the day.
I'm considering I should take the test, or not. It is a big decision. There is one time for the coming-of-age day in my life, but also TOEIC test is important for me. I studied hard for it, that's why. Tell me good idea what I should do!!!!!! :'(
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Now

I wrote 9089 words so far except this post. It didn't reach 10000 words, so I was shocked. I have to 6000 more words. I'm gonna write hard from now. Book review is kind of hard for me though.

A birhtday party

Last Saturday was busy one. In the morning, I attended a meeting of my club. It was serious. I don't like it. After the meeting, I went to TOEIC lecture at the downtown. I usually study on Saturday on the class. I was excited during the class because a party was waiting for me!
One of my senior and I are good friend, and our birthday is very close. So we decide to have a birthday party together. The place's name was 'Tennis club'. I think it is funny. Don't you think so? J Many friends came to the party for us. We were pleased. There were about 10 Japanese and about 10 exchange students. Exchange students drunk a lot. One of them ordered 10 alcohols at once. It looked crazy!
We got a birthday cake, socks, snacks, tumbler, and a tree as birthday present! I really like them and I will cherish them! It was such a nice birthday party. I was glad many friends came to the party. Now, I am 20 years old. I have to have responsibility as an adult!!
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My happy birthday!

December 4th…what day is the day? It's my birthday! It was Thursday, but I don't like Thursday because I have to take classes without friends of mine. I usually feel lonely. I took classes as usual that day. At lunch time, I met my friends and had lunch together. Suddenly, one of my friends brought a birthday cake for me! It was a present from everyone. I got other present too. I didn't realize that so was surprised. It made the boring Thursday happy! Thank you my sweet friends!
After the school, I met other friend of mine. He gave me a letter and a present. It was pretty, and I like it very much. We talked sometime. Then, my friend and I went to the dorm together. We went our friend's room, so some friends were waiting for us in the room. They gave big hugs so I was very happy. We talked and laughed together!
It was nice birthday for me. I hope I could be on good terms with my friends forever…
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Country side little trip!

Today, my senior and my friend and I were hanging out together. When I hang out with my friends, I usually go to downtown or somewhere to have fun, but today, we went to country side. The scene was very beautiful so we enjoyed it. First, we went for a drive to Kikuka to visit my senior’s house. We met her grandmother and she gave us some delicious dessert. Those were so nice. Then, we went to Kamoto where is nearby my hometown, and had an ice cream. We look around all over the souvenir shop. Then, my senior sent me to my house in Kikuchi. I had good time today, too.
By the way, I will be 20 years old. I’m excited to be adult but a little nervous. I hope I will have good one!
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A fun nabe party!

Some of my friends and I were invited to a nabe party from senior of us. They belonged to the same club with us and were so kind all the time. We got together at school, and went to one of the senior's house. She is living alone. After we arrived there, we prepared for dinner. It was curry nabe and the first time for me to have the type of nabe. I'm not good at cooking, but I tried as I could. We ate too many, I think. We were having fun to eat and talking. One senior said 'I forgot something in your car. Can I go to take it?' Of course I went to my car with her. After we got something and entered her room…it was too dark. Lights were turned off. I didn't know why. I thought I mistook her room for the other room. However it was not mistake. A birthday cake with two candles appeared in front of me. I was surprised so much, because I didn't realized such a nice thing. December 4th is my 20th birthday, so they prepared a surprise for me. I got a birthday cake and a message card from them. I was so happy. I really thank for them a lot. After we finished dinner, we had some snacks. I must get fat though I don't matter only today, because I was happy and had great time with them at the time.
I think I have to plan some surprise for their birthday… :D
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Dec 2nd Writting class

I'm taking writting class now. Mr. Tomei warned to us 'Please don't copy when you write book reviews.' I'm afraid if I copied the books. Actually I don't know I copied or not so I have to look it over again. I hope I didn't do that.
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*Fluffy goes apple picking* Book review 2-6

Ms. Day’s students are going to go a picnic to pick apples the next day. Everyone was excited! Who is the most excited...? It’s Fulffy! Because he loves apples! Wade asked to Ms. Day whether Fluffy can go apple picking too, or not. Fluffy wished he could go there. Fortunately, Ms. Day answered…Of course he can! He was really really happy.Then, Lina, one of Mr. Lee’s students, came to Ms. Day’s class and was holding Kiss. Kiss’s cage was a mess so she wanted to clean her cage. So she asked ‘Can Kiss have a sleepover with Fluffy tonight?’ Fluffy didn’t do such a thing but Ms. Day accepted readily. Kiss entered Fluffy's cage and then, she ate every bit of Fluffy’s food. And also, she had taken his bed and was snoring all the night. That’s why he was not happy, but he was too excited to be mad because he will go apple picking.Next morning, Emma and Wade thought that Fluffy looks sleepy so they supposed to let him sleep but, actually they took him to apple picking. Kiss also came together though. Fluffy had to have fun to see Kiss’s apple picking in Emma’s hands because he looked too sleepy to pick apples. Kiss ate hundreds of apples so Fluffy couldn’t endure and jumped out of Emma’s hands…he banged into his food bowl. Ow! Fluffy looked around. He was still in his cage. There were no apples. It was dream!!Kiss was lying on her back and didn’t look so good. She ate too much Fluffy’s food. Fluffy could only go apple picking with the students.At the orchard, everyone got off the bus. Fluffy sniffed the air smells like apples. It made him more exciting. A man who is Mr. Hill picked Fluffy up and put him on his shoulder. He took the students to the top of the hill to pick apples. They picked a lot of apples and filled of the baskets. Also Fuffy’s turn was coming. Mr. Hill held him up to a branch of a apple tree. He grabbed an apple but the apple didn’t move a little bit. He tried to pull with all his might. And then, Fluffy slipped out of Mr. Hill’s hands and flew away with the apple. He landed Ms. Day’s basket with a thump, but finally, he got an apple to eat! He took a bite!After that, they had a picnic. It was very nice. When they took a picture, said ‘FLUFFY’!! The picture became one fine picture.I am glad Fluffy could have apples. Kiss is not good to Fluffy so I thought Fluffy is pity. That's why I thought so. I want to recommend this book to my friends because it made me happy.
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Having fun with my best friends

In the morning, I noticed a big problem… It's Tuesday! Not Monday! Yesterday was holiday because it was Substitute holiday. So I misunderstood and noticed about it in the morning. I had to hurry up.
On Tuesday, I usually finished the classes 2nd period, but yesterday, I had a special class which is involved in getting job. We will be late starting to get job because of the study abroad, so we are preparing for getting job from now. We had presentations on 5th period. Each student gave information about the country where they are going. Of course I talked about England. My presentation was terrible though. Other students did good work so I wanted to go each country like Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
After the class, I got together with Yoshino, and went to Karaoke. Yuu, Ayaka, Miho and Koyoi were already in the room. It was so much fun. We sang a lot of songs and took some pictures. Koyoi bought a bangs wig so we played with the wig. We put it on our head and took pictures. Sorry, Koyoi. :p
I had to go back home soon, but we had good time each other, anyway! We are planning a trip to go somewhere with them and it will be so much fun. I can't want it! :D
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*FLUFFY goes to school* Book review 2-5

One day, a Guinea pig came to Ms. Day’s class. Her students tried to decide their guinea pig’s name. There were three ideas. Those were Sparky, Ringo and Fluffy. Emma wanted to give him name Sparky, and Maxwell wanted to give him name Ringo, but everybody else voted Fluffy. Maxwell walked over and talked to a guinea pig. ‘Hello, Fluffy,’ but the guinea pig thought ‘Who is Fluffy?’ he looked for Fluffy all over his cage. Finally, he noticed that he is Fluffy! But he doesn’t want to be Fluffy. He thought ‘I am big strong bad guinea pig so the name doesn’t suit me! I want to be something strong one, like Butch.’ And he felt asleep…

Emma and Wade made a play yard for Fluffy. There were a box, a coconut shell, and a cardboard tube in it. Fluffy jumped into the box and pretended a police officer, and the box was a police car. He chased some robbers by the car. Next, Wade put Fluffy in the coconut shell. He pretended it was a boat, and he was a Captain Fluffy. A storm rocked the boat but Fluffy held the wheel steady. Then, Emma picked Fluffy up and put him down by the tube so he pretended it was a spaceship. Space rocks were about to hit the ship so the crews cried ‘Help! Commander Fluffy!’ He escaped from the rocks. Everyone shouted ‘Hooray for commander Fluffy!’ After that, he returned the real world and had a carrot. He thought a carrot is good after a hard day at work!

Emma took her doll and showed it to Fluffy. She wanted to wear the doll’s dress to Fluffy so Jasmine and Emma did it. Fluffy didn’t want to do that thought they were pleased. They misunderstood that Fluffy is happy so took him to Ms. Zwick to show him. There was another guinea pig Duke in Ms. Zwick’s class room. Fluffy was embarrassed because of such a funny dress on him so he lied to Duke that he is a spy and on a secret mission so don’t tell anyone about him. Finally, Fluffy could take the dress off and back his cage.

Fluffy did many adventures in the story. He pretended some cool roles so was satisfy by himself. All the students love him so much so take care him. Sometimes it is not good for Fluffy though. Fluffy is cute guinea pig of them!
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*Amelia Bedelia* Book review 2-4

The book, Amelia Bedelia, was kind of funny book. Amelia Bedelia is nice person and was employed by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers as a homemaker. The first day when she started the working, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers had to go out so they made a list and it was written what she should do. Amelia Bedelia did seven things. One was a surprise of her for her folks and others were what the list says.

First, she made a lemon-meringue pie for her folks to surprise them. She went to the kitchen and did something to make the lemon-meringue pie.

Second, she saw the list, and the list says ‘Change the towels in the green bathroom’. The towels were still ok so she thought about it and started snipping the towels!

Third, the list says ‘Dust the furniture’ and she wondered why they want to dust the furniture because she had never done like that before. Then, she just found a big box with the words ‘Dusting Powder’ on it and she figured out. Yes, she dusted the furniture with the dusting powder.

Fourth, she drew the drapes on a paper when the sun is coming in because the list says ‘Draw the drapes when the sun comes in’ even she is not much of a hand at drawing. She tried hard.

Fifth, the list says ‘Put the lights out when you finish in the living room’ so she switched off the lights and carefully unscrewed each bulb. She thought the lights need to be aired out just like pillows and babies.

Sixth, the list says ‘Measure the cups of rice’. She found two cups and filled them with rice, and then, she piled those cups and measured the length. She poured the rice back into the container.

Next, she did really funny things. The list says ‘The meat market will deliver a steak and a chicken. Please trim the fat before you put the steak in the icebox. And please dress the chicken’. It meant cut the fat of the steak, and get ready to cook the chicken, but she misunderstood. She brought some lace and bits of ribbon. Then, she trimmed the steak and dressed the chicken as he could be like a boy.

Soon, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers came back to the home. They found all of her mistakes and Mrs. Rogers got mad at Amelia Bedelia. She tried to tell that she will fire but couldn’t do that because Mr. Rogers put something in her mouth. It was a lemon-meringue pie that she made for them and it was so good. They forgot to fire her because too delicious to say, and they want her to stay more and make lemon-meringue pie from now too. She made a lot of mistakes but she was fine because of her personality.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ahhhh! I disappointed by myself because of my English skills. Today, my friend, Erynn, wanted to go to the post office to send a package to USA so she asked me to go with her. Of course I wanted to help her so I went there together. At the post office, I asked how to send the package to USA and how much is it but I couldn’t tell her the answers in English well. I just told her some words. It was regrettable that I couldn’t speak English well. I guess, I had spoken better than now when I came back from USA. I was unhappy because I wanted to help her very much! After that, I went to the dormitory with her. Also I met other friends of mine, but I couldn’t talk with them well and understand what they were talking. I thought, to practice every day is best. If I didn’t practice, my skills are gonna be poor. I’m scared and afraid that I won’t speak English. Well, I have to try to practice more and more. And I thank Erynn for giving me a prompt to notice such an important thing that I had to notice. JUST DO MY BEST!!
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Romeo and Juliet essay prep

'Romeo and Juliet' was written by Shakespeare (1564-1616) who is from England. It is kind of tragedy. Leonardo DiCaprio was Romeo and Claire Danes was Juliet in the movie. It was arranged like modern society.
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*Shrek* movie review

I’ve only watched ‘Shrek 3’ before. It was so funny. I really wanted to watch the other movies of Shrek. It was a nice opportunity to watch ‘Shrek’. Now I’m happy because of it.

There is an ogre who is known as a cannibal in the depth of the forest. People are scared of him so he lives alone near by a pond. He has green skin and he looks very ugly. However, he has a warm heart but no one knows it.

One day, all the fairy tales creatures were caught by people who live in DuLoc and they were sold to the government for money. A very talkative donkey is one of a creature in fairy tales and he escaped from them and went into the forest where Shrek lives. The government people chased donkey but they suddenly met Shrek. They were surprised and ran away. Donkey appreciated Shrek and followed him even though Shrek didn’t want him to. Donkey stayed outside Shrek’s house. At the night, all the fairy tales creatures came to Shrek’s house. There were exiled by Lord Farquaad. Shrek decided to ask to Farquaad to get rid of them.

In DuLoc, Farquaad decided to marry Princess Fiona. He had a tournament and the winner had to rescue Princess Fiona but Shrek interrupted the tournament and won. So, he had to rescue Fiona to get the fairy tales creatures out of his swamp. Shrek and Donkey went to a castle where a big ferocious dragon lives.

Princess Fiona was waiting in a tall tower for a prince for a long time. Shrek defeated the dragon and rescued Fiona. Fiona was so pleased because she was dreaming a prince would rescue her. Shrek was wearing a helmet but she made him take it offand then, she saw his face. She was shocked because he was an ogre. She wasn’t satisfied that Farquaad didn’t come to help her by himself but Shrek picked her up and went back DuLoc.

On the way, Fiona and Shrek both became attracted to each other but Fiona had a big secret. When the sun goes down, she becomes an ogre. True love’s first kiss would break the spell. One night, Shrek tried to say how he felt though… Donkey saw her night appearance and they were talking about her spell. She talked about herself. Shrek was listening the chatting and he misunderstood. He thought they were talking about Shrek. In the morning, Shrek and Fiona fought because they was still a misunderstanding. Then, Farquaad came to take Fiona to get married. The marriage would be held before sunset so Shrek and Donkey tried to prevent the marriage. At the very moment the sun went down, she became an ogre but Shrek still loved her. Farquaad tried to catch both of them. However, a dragon appeared and ate him. Finally, Shrek told his feelings to her and they got married.

The story is great. Sometimes, I was annoyed because they misunderstood each other a lot. When they made up, I felt very good. Shrek and Fiona are a good couple even though Fiona is a princess. She is very strong. She is also romantic so I hope Shrek could understand her! I like this movie, especially music that they are singing. That’s sounds fun so I could be happy about that too! Now I really want to watch ‘Shrek 2’ right now.
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My answers

1. What is your usual writing/blogging schedule each week? Where do write/blog?
-I write 2 or 3 times a week at my house.

2. Please look at your first post from Spring term and compare it with what you are writing now. What improvements do you see with your English and what do you think you should work on to improve?
-I think my English is getting better. The sentences were very short at that time. I should keep writing.

3. What are your opinions of doing movie reviews? Please talk about the time it takes and the availability of the movies.
-To watch a movie takes about two hours and it's a little long but good for us.

4. Please give your suggestions for the class.
-I think the class is perfect. Sometimes book/movie reviews are hard for us.

5. Please give some advice to the students who will take this class next year.
-You may use the computer a lot even now. You will use the computer better than now in a year.
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4. Conclusion

The most surprising thing for me is that all the waitresses and waiters were very kind. They took care of us many time and they were always smiling. People might feel so comfortable and give some more tips. The waitresses/waiters expect them for their good service. In Kumamoto, being nice to the customers is natural, so no one gives tips. The waitresses/waiters may want tips of course, but the customers in Kumamoto, they don’t need to pay such expensive tips like 20 percent more for the foods.
To give fun papers for children is also a good idea. They are not bored even if they are very hungry. Also Kumamoto has to have more a larger variety of restaurants, so we won’t be tired of the same foods. By having other countries’ foods, it is good to know other cultures.
There are many things to model in American restaurants. Restaurants have to make every effort to be comfortable everyone.
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3. In the US

The most big difference is to leave a tip. Usually, we have to leave 15 or 20 percent of the price In Minnesota, most people go to restaurants 1 or 2 times a week. This result was the same as Japan. However, one difference between MN and Japan is the variety of restaurants which are liked by people. There are many kinds of restaurants in MN. Kumamoto students answered about 10 kinds of restaurants as popular kinds of restaurants. In Minnesota, there were Mexican, Chinese, Greek and Japanese restaurants, and they have even more kinds of restaurants. In the questionnaire, Minnesotan people answered 16 kinds of restaurants: for example there were Mexican, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Greek, and so on. There were many kinds of ethnic restaurants. Those are not common in Kumamoto. Each style of restaurant has its own atmosphere. For example, the Mexican restaurant had many Mexican decorations and music.
Minnesotan people spend money around 800~1000 yen for lunch, and they spend around 1000~2000 yen for dinner. The highest price which someone answered is 2500 yen. As might be expected this result was affected by age. The answerers are students of KGU so the average of age is 19 to 22 years old. The answerers from MN are our host parents so they would be around 30 years old or more. It makes a little difference. In addition American portions are more　bigger than Japanese portions and this may be another reason why they are a little more expensive.
Polite manners at the restaurant were all connected with being kind to the waiter or waitress: For example, say ‘Thank you,’ and ‘Please’ to them. We have to be gentle with each other anytime. A different manner from Japan is of meal.[1]
Most of the restaurants in Minnesota don’t have example foods in the show window like Japan, but some restaurants do have similar style show windows. In the show window, there are many kinds of foods and we can choose what we want to have. The clerk asks us and serves the dishes. When you want to pay, you will call the waiter or waitress to your table. Almost all people paid by credit card in MN. People ask the price to the waiter or waitress and then pay for the meals.
The waiters and waitresses are very kind to customers in Minnesota. They always take care of us and talk to us. They ask ‘Do you need something more to drink?’ ‘Is everything ok?’ even after they finished serving to us. At some restaurants when we order something to drink, we can have refills for free. It is not every drink but it is possible for some drinks.
Another big difference between Minnesota and Kumamoto is how restaurants treat children. Many restaurants in Minnesota have some good service for children. For example, they have their own menus for children. They are cheap and small, and a desert comes with the meal. Many restaurants give some crayons and paper to children on which is written coloring or easy arithmetic questions or easy games and so on. Those are fun for us too. Children love these papers. They play with the papers until their meals are served. If the questions are difficult for the children, they ask their parents. It also makes good relationships between children and their parents.
[1] At a restaurant, my host parents paid for the meals and went out but they left some tips. My host father, Fred had a book which can learn the way to fold paper money. It was like Origami, so he left some animals which were made by paper money on the table.
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2. In Kumamoto

In Kumamoto restaurants, you can have lunch for about 500 yen at least. For example, At Kumamoto city hall restaurant, you can have lunch for about 1000 yen or so. When we want to pay for the meal, we go to the cash register and call a waiter or waitress. Then we can pay for the meal. In other restaurants, we can call the waiter or waitress to our table. Then we ask the price or look at it on the menu and pay with cash. To pay with a credit card is not common in Japan.
In Japan, we have some rules when we use chopsticks. One of them is that you don’t pass the foods from chopsticks to chopsticks. Next, you don’t stick your chopsticks in rice. These are really rude behaviors.
According to the questionnaire, in Kumamoto, most students go to a restaurant 1 or 2 times a week. The student who goes to restaurants the most answered 5 times a week. There are a few students who don’t go to a restaurant at all. The most popular restaurant was a fast food shop like McDonalds. Other popular restaurants are Gusto and Joyfull, which are kinds of family restaurants. Chinese food and Italian food are also liked by Kumamoto students. They spend around 500 yen for lunch, and they spend 1000 yen or so for dinner. The highest price is 2000 yen.
The following was mentioned as polite behavior by the students when they have meals: Be quiet. Don’t talk with your mouth full. Don’t leave part of the meal.
When people choose their meal, they use a menu book or a card with some pictures. The entrances of some restaurants have artificial sample foods in the show window. This helps their customers decide what they want to have. When you want to pay, you will go to the cash register and call a waiter or waitress. Then you can pay money for the meal.
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1. Introduction

1. Introduction　
Restaurants are very popular places all over the world. When we are hungry, we can go and have meals anytime. There are thousands of restaurants in the world and each has its own style. That’s why I’m interested in the difference of restaurants between Kumamoto and Minnesota and examined about it in this people. For example, the difference of the manners, the prices, and the way to order and pay, and so on will be written in my paper. The research was done by questionnaire which was answered by Japanese friends and our host families in Minnesota.
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Self-introduction

This is my self-introduction that I wrote recently.

My name is Yoshimi Goto. I'm from Kumamoto in Japan. Kumamoto is middle of Kyusyu. We have a lot of nature. Those are so beautiful. There are many hot springs in Kumamoto.

I'm 19 years old. I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University. I'm majoring in English. I like to go on trips so I belong to the Youth hostel club now. We often go camping to other prefectures and enjoyed swimming or skiing. When I was a high school student, I was a member of Japanese drums club and I played the Japanese drums. I like it because it is a good Japanese tradition. I'm proud of it.

My hobby is going on a trip because trips give me great experience. Sometimes I go to other prefectures but I had never been to foreign countries. I really want to go foreign countries. Finally, I could go to the US last summer. I went to Bethel University with my friend. And I stayed American family's house. It was so much fun and I could have a great experience.

I have 5 members in my family. There are my mother, my father, my younger brother, my younger sister and my dog. My father has his own company. My younger brother is 17 years old. And he goes to high school. He plays basketball and has a part time job so he is working hard. My younger sister is 15 years old. She goes to junior high school and plays the trumpet. I often go to the concert to see her.
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*The Musicians of Bremen* Book review 2-3

This story is different from the story that I have known. A man was mean to his livestock. A rooster was too old to lay eggs so a mean man was going to eat the rooster for lunch the very next day. The rooster didn’t want to be had as his lunch so he was crying. Other livestock were wondering why he is crowing so loudly. They knew the truth and decided to leave the farm to escape from the mean man. They could leave and run away so they were tired and needed to rest some time.Then, they found a house in the forest with many foods and drinks but three robbers was living in the house. The animals were scared but really wanted to eat something so they were burst into the house. The three robbers cried and run away. After the house’s lights go out, a smallest robber crept into the kitchen where a cat slept. He put his candle in the cat’s eyes so the cat leaped and scratched at his face. In the room next to the kitchen, a dog bitted the robber’s arm. In the yard, a donkey kicked him away.The smallest robber thought there is a terrible witch in the house so the three robbers have never went back the house. The animals are living there forever with happiness!

Oh! I noticed that they didn’t play music at all even the title is ‘The musicians of Bremen’!!
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I miss

I just remembered my awesome life in Minnesota. I'm missing my host family, my friends, beautiful sight and everything that I saw in the US. I had a great time there. I usually watch the pictures that I took in Minnesota and it reminds me such a wonderful life there. I really want to go back again right now. I decided to go to there for a few years. I'm thinking that after I went to England to study abroad, I want to go the US on the way to come back to Japan. I think that a good idea but it will be expensive so I have to work hard.
I'm wondering that how's everything going in Minnesota. Is my lovely host family doing well? I want to see them! I'm going to send something to my host family later. I want them to remember me! :)
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Takuma sai

I had a school festival on October 31th, November 1st and 2nd. I had to wake up at 5 o'clock those days and it was too hard for me.October 30th, the university was a holiday because everyone had to prepare for the school festival. We carried many things that we made for exhibition to a class room. We created a room and it was expressing each Japanese age, like Meiji, Syowa and Heisei. In the Meiji room, an old dress and jinrikisha were there. It reminds us Meiji age. Next room is Syowa. It was difficult to express the age because Syowa was long age but we could make it! Sadly, I can't explain on the writing. The last room is Heisei. There were many electrical appliances and it represents the time. For example, iPod, TV games, air conditioner and so on. We could relax the room. The quality of each room is very high.

The first day of the school festival, we sold more than 1000 Agepan ice creams that we had making. My friends and I went to some foods shops in the school festival. I liked warabi-moti from sado club very much. Also I liked Korean food that the exchange students made. I enjoyed eating!

The second day, November 1st, is very busy because it was Saturday and a concert was holding on that day. We were working hard and lots of agepan ice creams were sold either. On the day, a Halloween party was hold at the dormitory of the exchange students and I was going to go there though I couldn’t go because agepan ice creams were good seller so those were running short so we had to make some more. That’s why I couldn’t go such a fun party. This is one thing what I am regretting.

The third day was also busy! Our agepan ice creams were sold out because it was very delicious! xD After the school festival, an another festival was held. There were fireworks and slide show. We had a beer party. The most surprising thing is that we got three prizes! Yeah! We moved and excited very much because we didn’t realize like that. We cried a lot.

Anyway, Takuma-sai was all done! Sometimes it was so hard for us but I’m happy that we did awesome work. I thought my friends are very important and we are helping each other through the school festival. Thanks a lot, everyone!!!

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I'm gonna be...

I ate a lot of foods, today. Recently I am very hungry all the day so I'm getting fat. I can't help to eat! I ate two ice creams before the part time job, and also I ate many snacks and chocolates. When I am eating, I am very happy! :) I really want to lose my weight but I can't do it.I decided to do sit-ups every night from today. I don't know how long I can continue but I'm going to try it for myself. I'm going to be fat? Or thin!?
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Umm...

Yesterday, my friends and I made many AGEPAN ICE Creams as usual. We finished it at 9 o' clock and went to the dormitory of exchange students. It was been a long time because I am too busy. Everyone welcomed us. Some people were having dinner and drinking. We talked with them and laughed a lot. Sometimes, we taught Japanese and English each other. It is very good for us! I taught Japanese to some exchange students then too, but I couldn't teach them well. I was so frustrated because I want to help them. :'( I though I need to study Japanese either.
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*AGEPAN ICE CREAM*

On 31st October and 1st, 2nd November, we have a school festival!! It is a big event in KGU I think. If we did good work, we can get some prizes by the school. There are 4 kinds of prizes. Those are the costume division, the portable shrine division, the exhibition and the bazaar division. Last year, our club got 3 prizes. It was really impressive!! In the exhibition, we made 4 parts which expresses 4 seasons in the class room.
This year, we are making 3 parts in the class room. It expresses Heisei age, Syouwa age and Meiji age. We divided each parts and I'm member of Syouwa team. We are enjoyed the preparation for the school festival, but it is a little hard. The preparation of the bazaar is especially hard. AGEPAN ICE CREAM is a traditional food of our club. It is kind of ice cream but it is hot. What do I mean!?!?
I will tell you how to make it.First of all, chop off the crust of bread. Next, sand some ice cream in it and then, freeze it for 3 days or so. When you want to eat, fry in the oil. So you can have hot ice cream! It is very delicious! :D We are making 2500 ice creams so I'm getting so much tired. However, AGEPAN ICE CREAM is very popular and famous menu in KGU school festival so I want to see everyone's smile! I will do my best! :)Please come to my shop and enjoy AGEPAN ICE CREAM, everyone!
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Total words

I just counted the words of my blog post. I wrote 3022 words so far! I think I'm doing better than spring term though I'm going to good work more! If I have enough time, I will check other student's blog and I will refer their blog!
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Good morning

Today, I am late the writing class. When I got up, it was 8 o'clock. It takes 1 and half hours to school from my home. There was nothing I could do at the time. Recently, I go to bed at 3 am. After the school, I work until 9 o'clock. Then, I eat dinner. It is not healthy so I'm getting fat recently. Then, I do my homework until 3 o'clock. That's why I am very sleepy everyday. When I have no work, I have lecture of TOEIC or I have to prepare for the school festival. I have to do something everyday so I don't have enough time to rest. I need to sleep a lot. I guess I will happen to car accident because I am so sleepy even I'm driving the car. It is so scary but I can't help to sleep.
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*Beyond Strange Street* Book review 2-2

This book *BEYOND STRANGE STREET:* is a little childish but also funny book. I expected Sam could go to Strange street by the lift thought…actually she couldn't. She went to Wild woods! There seems excited and scared. She met the strange little creature who name is Obby. He was very angry and looking for his glasses. Sam found it on the top of his head. Obby's real name is Obbygobulum. How strange! But he was sorry about his rude behavior at her. He wanted to invite Sam to his house instead his rude behavior. However, it sounds weird so she said 'I must go back home.' They promised to see each other again. Then, she went back home. It was strange trip, but she had good time I bet.
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Which season do I like the best??

1.Summer!!
I like summer the best in 4 seasons because we have lots of things to do in summer. We can go to camp and beach and mountains and so on. I got many memories during summer vacation with my friends. I like to play in the beach and do marine sports.

2.Spring!!
There are many cherry blossoms in spring. We can meet new people or go new place. It is great thing for me. In spring I am excited with new things around me. Also spring is a ferewell season so it is a littele sad season too.

3. Fall!!
Fall is good season for foods, reading books, sports, and...everything. Fruits are really good so I like them very much. Weather is confortable to live. Leaves change their color to beautiful one.

4. Winter!!
I like winter either though it is too cold. My birthday is December and there are Christmas day and New years day in the winter. Howevery, I can't help such a cold temperture.

Shrek (Essay prep)

Right now, I watched the other function of Shrek. I didn't know the DVD have such a interesting movies. I listened the characters voice each countries. It sounded fun for me so I want to watch next time if I have enough time. Unfortunately, there was not any Japanese dubber. I hope there are Japanese dubbers in the movie next time.
I also watched the dance party of Shrek and all characters on the movie. They were so cute and looked having fun. It made me happy! :)
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The 市中 parade

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 On Saturday, I had a parade at downtown. My club member and I dressed up and walked from school to downtown. We made a portable shrine of gorilla so our costume was like gorilla. Do you know what the purpose of the parade is? It is a advertisement. We are going to have a school festival, TAKUMASAI, on 31st October, 1st and 2nd November that's why we have to tell to everyone about our school festival. We walked from KGU to downtown while carring portable shrine. It was very hard for us. We were getting so tired. Some exchange students came to see us.

After that, we had a party. We ate and drunk a lot. It was so much fun. I hope many people come to our school festival, TAKUMASAI, instead of our hard working.
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JUDO!!!

My family and I were so excited tonight, because the international competition of Judo was held in Tokyo. My cousin participated in the competition and we could watch his game on TV!! The Japanese team lost the game with Russian but my cousin won the game!! Did you watch the exciting game?? I hope many of you watched it. My cousin was trying to participate in the Olympics in China but his dream didn’t come true yet. He is still trying to do that for 4 years in London. I’m always cheering him. Good luck!!
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I am angry at...

It is frustrated!! I have no class on Friday, 3rd period so I wanted to do power words. So I came here in library and tried to do that. However, the computer didn’t work! I couldn’t access power words and I didn’t anything. I really want to clear the 7th level of power words but I can’t. Now, I am mad at the computer!!!!
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*Sleeping Beauty* Book review 2-1

I read ‘Sleeping Beauty’ today. There were about 1oo words what I didn’t know. I could understand almost of the story though I have to study vocabulary hard. (>_<)


Long years ago, a king and a queen lived in a magical castle of their country. They didn’t have a baby. They were sad because they had had no baby for a long time. One day, the queen sat knitting by the lake. Then, a green flog came onto her lap and said ‘You are going to have a baby this year.’ Some months later, a lovely baby girl was boned. They were very pleased. Her name is Rose.


The king invited many prince and princess and seven fairies were invited to come and give wishes for the baby. On the day of the feast, the guests arrived. Seven fairies came to the castle to give some wishes for her. Each fairy gave wishes to her. The wishes were so good things for her life. When the last fairy Jasmine tried to do that, the mean fairy Nightshade appeared suddenly. She was mad because she wasn’t invite in the feast. Also she wished for the baby though it was not good thing. ‘On Rose’s sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and she will die.’ She said like that. The last fairy Jasmine still had a wish but she couldn’t undo such a wicked spell. She could just change it. Rose and everyone else in the castle will fall into a deep sleep and a kiss from her true love will makes them up. After that the king burned all spinning wheels in the land.


Six years later, rose had grown up. She became a delightful girl and dreamed her prince. The king and queen were planning a huge ball for her. The day of the ball, handsome people came into the Great hall. During the feast, she began Hide-and-seek and went to a top of the turret. Inside the heavy iron door, an old women sat hunched a spinning wheel. Unfortunately, she had never seen the spinning wheel so she wanted to try it and then she pricked her finger and fall asleep. Everyone fall asleep either. For a long time everyone was sleeping. Some prince tried to help them but it was too hard for the princes.


One day, Florien who is a brave prince tried to help them too and he did finally!! He kissed rose and she woke up. Then everyone in the castle woke up too. The very next year, they got marry and lived happily!


The illustration of this book was very pretty. So I choose the book. I had known the story a little and I could make sure it. I like this book because what is a thing woke her up is a kiss from true love. It is really romantic, isn’t it?? And the bad fairy Nightshade was so mean that’s why she wasn’t invited to the feast! I thought.
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Our festival!

I'm so sleepy everyday because I haven't sleep enough time recently. :'( I'm afraid about the car accident if I fall asleep when I'm driving. lol Be careful!!
By the way, I got a new computer of mine finally!! I can write blog posts anytime if I have enough time. :)

Well, I want exprain about our school festival, today.
First, the sports festival is coming soon. It will be hold 25th October. Someone desided that I will join a steeplechace...but I don't want to do it because my face will be coverd with flour. I did it last year either that's why I know about it and I don't want to do that. Actually I can't join the race because I have a class of TOEIC at the downtown the day. It helps me. :p I have to look for other person in stead of me. Please help me~someone!

Then we will parade the downtown this weekend. Now, we are making a portable shrine of Gorilla. We will wear a costume like Gorilla. I remember that the parade was really hard...and hard but it was very fun. I took many pictures of ourself last year.

Ok, that's enough. I will explain the main festival of our university later because still I'm soooo sleepy. ......Good night!
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My favorite sports list

Basket ball
I like to play basket ball because I was a member of basket ball club when I was junior high school students. My team was weak but we practiced hard. We liked to play basket ball with the team mates! We couldn't win any games…X( but I don't care. Playing with my friends is good for me. I was really enjoyed playing basket ball. I like to play basket ball now, either. I also like to watch the game of basket ball.

Badminton
When I go to the elementary school, I was belonging to the badminton club. I really liked to play badminton. Many people can play the game so it is fun! When I wan in Minnesota, I played badminton with car pool members. It became good memory for me.

Valley ball
My mother and my father were belonging to a local valley ball team. I went to the gym to see their practices and games. So, valley ball became my favorite sport. In the class, I played valley ball and I could play well so I liked the sport more.

Soccer
I wasn't interested in soccer at all before but my boy friend loves soccer. He was member of soccer team and always watching soccer games. He effected to me. Then I like watching soccer games. However I don’t play soccer now. Actually, I was also member of soccer team when I was child. I had forgotten!

Japanese drums
Some people say it is not sports because it is a musical instrument. However, it is a kind of sport, I think! To play the Japanese drums is so hard, that's why. It is a musical instrument but also a sports. I want to tell about it everyone. It seems easy though, it is really hard actually. I played the Japanese drums when I was high school students so I was so busy and tired but I loved it. My friends liked to watch them either and they said 'You guys are so cool!!' I was glad to hear like that. We showed the performance to many people even foreigners and they enjoyed watching the performance so much. It made us so happy that's why I like Japanese drums!

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Writting lecture

We were taught how to write a paper in overseas by Mr. tomei. I was kind of nervous because I think everyone could write well more than me. So I tried to write about many things as I can. However, my friend thought same things as me. He was also nervous and worried. We cheered up each other. It made me comfortable. I appreciate him so much!
I thought today that this writing class is so good practice for us because we could learn how to use the computers and the way to write notes. I have to keep on try to writing diaries and reviews and so on. I decided some things to have good time during study abroad!!
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Welcome party!

Today, the welcome party was held for the new exchange students at the dormitory. It would be started at 7 o’clock but my friends and I went to there around 6 o’ clock or so. I could see that they were cooking each countries food. The smells made me so hungry!
After the party started, all exchange students introduced themselves in Japanese. Their Japanese was really good! I was surprised and I remembered last year’s welcome party. The exchange students’ Japanese was also good and I was surprised either. Then a teacher told wishes for exchange students and gave some gifts. Finally, I could have dinner! Every meal which they cooked was very delicious. I hope I could cook well…

After the dinner we danced together and played fun games and talked a lot! They came to Japan this month, but I don’t feel so. I feel that they have been here some months! They all are very cool and funny, that’s why.
I had so much fun but I had to go back home. I’m sure that I will visit again soon! :)

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I wanna be a host family...!!

September 20th!
I had a chance to study TOEIC at the school in downtown. The teacher has 970 points of TOEIC. His class is easy to understand. It was so nice time to study. After that, I went to my boy friend; Keigo’s house. I gave some American souvenirs for him. Also he had been to NZ this summer so he gave some gifts for me. For example, there were cookies, Korean seaweeds and a doll. Thank you so much Keigo!!
And then, Yoshino called me and said, ‘you can be come my house. Now, Spencer who is an exchange student is at my house so it’ll be so much fun if you come and visit us.
We decided to go Yoshino’s house in Aso. We had some Okonomiyaki and sushi in Yoshino’s house. Those were so delicious!! Thank you for the dinner, Yoshino’s mom! Of course Yoshino is so nice, and also her family is so nice! I love them!
I wanted to stay her house longer, but we have to go back Kumamoto so we said good-bye to them.
I thought I want to be a host family someday. J Thank you for sharing awesome time with us!!
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Had fun with new exchange student!

September 22nd, the day was the first day of the fall semester. I was having trouble to get up early though I did it! I was pleased because I met my friends! I haven't seen them for a long time. We talked about many things what happened during summer vacation.After the school, the members of English weekend told about the camp for freshmen in their class. They were so quiet. It made us nervous. I hope many students will come to the camp. It will be so much fun!!And then, I went back my home town and worked five hours. During the time, my friends waited for me at downtown. After I finished my work, I went to downtown and met them.We went to Cowboy freedom and just have fun. But they remained me exchange students from last year. I'm missing them so much because we had great time with them and they were so nice. But actually, I'm sure that new exchange students are very nice either. I will miss them in a year. I really like to meet new people, but sometimes it's sad.
Anyways, I had a wondorful day!
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I am busy girl!

☆September 19th☆
We had first orientation of the exchange program today, so I had to be at the school until 9:30. When I got up, it was 10:40…Ohhhhhhhhhhh my gosh!! I was too late. I’m so sorry Yazawa san. :’( I was so upset. I drove my car so fast and arrived at the school. And I met the other members who will go to study abroad. And I heard some information. I have to learn about England and prepare for my trip soon.
After the orientation, we had a meeting for English weekend. It’ll be so much fun! Also I have to prepare for it. I was being PR person so I will invite many people to come to English weekend! We had some coffee from Mr. Tomei. Thank you very much! The new English lounge is so comfortable!
I came back to my home and met my friends who were my friend since the elementary school. I know them very much so I had a great time with them. We went to Joyful. When we hang out together, we always go to Joyful, because we can talk for a long time.We talked about many things and had fun a lot!
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Sleepy day

September 18th,
First, I went to the school to prepare for the school festival. I prepared a little, and I went to English conversation school at down town. The class was so nice. I really want to join them as soon as possible. But I have a problem. I don’t have enough money. :’(
I went back my home town by my car and went to the shop where I am working. I was so sleepy though…8(
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!TGIF!

☆25ｔｈ July、Friday☆
It’s Friday! TGIF, this word was taught by Jeff at the speaking class in Japan. That means ‘Thank God It’s Friday’! I like the word.
But I was getting trouble at the lecture. Because of jet lag, I bet. It was about Adoption of America by professor of Psychology. She was so nice and kind and her lecture was also nice, but I was too sleepy. Sorry :(

After the school, Amy, Martha Joan, Abigail and I went to a drugstore to get something to drink, because we were thirsty. At the drugstore, I saw some fancy things, like American magazine and makeup kits, and took some pictures. I love American goods like that.

After that, we went to White Bear Lake (may be…)! We played at the beach for some time and went back home.

We joined with Fred and went to a restaurants that name is FAMOUS DAVE’S. They serve mainly BBQ meals. I had some ribs, potatoes and a muffin. It was first time that I had ribs. They were very delicious so it became one of my favorite foods! But it was too big so I can’t eat all of them. I chose to take out them at home for my tomorrow’s lunch. I was surprised how huge the foods and drinks are. And I was also surprised about clerks. They were so kind for me. If someone’s drink was gone, they came soon and gave a new one for free. It is a difference between America and Japan. In the Japanese restaurants, we have to pay extra money when we want extra drink. But in America, some kinds of drinks are served without extra money. It’s good system, I think. My mother Amy taught me about that. I will write it on my paper.

My father Fred is so clever. He can fold something like ORIGAMI. I was surprised because he did really good job lol
I had a good day! Good night.

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Book review [Stories of Pirates]

I read Stories of Pirates. I had to return the book on last Tuesday, but I forgot and brought it to America! And I can’t contact with librarians. Oh, my god!! I have to apologize to the librarians after I came back in Japan. I'll tell you one of the stories, ‘The pesky parrot’. A boy whose name is Charlie. He had spent ten years at Pirate school. And he tries to be a pirate.He knew how to read a treasure map, how to give a proper pirate's laugh and so on. Fortunately, he got old pirate ship by his grandfather, but he thought that I don't have something special. I need a parrot!!Then, he went to buy a parrot and got pretty parrot. He liked it, first.But the parrot always cried when Charlie try to steal some treasures of others. He shouts ‘STOP THIEF!!’After that, the captain notices his bad action. He gets mad and chases him. Charlie tried to reject the parrot, but he came back to Charlie many times. He didn't know what should I do? He was so miserable and didn't eat anything in the restaurant. Then, the parrot squawked again, because a thief was just about to wipe all the money! The landlord prized them.This gave Charlie an idea. It became his new job! They enjoyed the new job.And Charlie got some money and bought another QUIET parrot, again!

I think this story is funny too. The parrot is bad for pirates. He is too honest to put up with thief of his owner. I don’t know well that he is lucky or not!

School stared

Second day, I went to Bethl university first time. In the morning, my mother sent me a house. There is not university. I confused, but I've got it! This is car pool. I learned about carpool in speaking class so I could understand! Three people shared a car. This is good idea!

In school, we took ESL class and went to tour of Bethel. Bethel university is too huge for me so I may make mistakes many times.
After the tour, we went Riverboat Cruise at Mississippi river. It was so comfortable. I could see a lot of natures. I made a new friend!! She is so funny and kind! She interested in Japan so I want to teach about Japan.

We had good supper in the beautiful garden. We grilled chickens and ate with tomato. There were Delicious!

The next day, we heard lecture of a philosophy professor. He can speak Japanese very well. That was really interesting lecture!

After that, we played with balloons. We had good times! And after the game, we could have discussion with Bethel students. I asked some questions so I could know about American students life. I was enjoyed too.

After the school, we went to eat some Mexican foods and ice cream. It was so delicious. And we went to Velodorme. The place is to race by bicycle. My father really likes to ride bike and he usually go to race in summer. There were a lot of people, and it was so exciting!

Finally, I felt a sleep quickly.

AMERICA

Yeah----!! I'm in America now!!

The flight to America from Japan was really long. I sat down next to Shioro and talk with her a lot. And I talked with a woman who was sitting next to Shiori. She is Indonesian! She can't speak both Japanese and English, but we could talk on paper! I was enjoyed talking with her.

After I arrived in the U.S., I was looking for my host family, but I couldn't. Then, someone called my name YOSHIMI!! Of course, they were my host family! They knew my face so they found me! I was pleased because they had seven lanterns which written YOSHIMI!! My mother took pictures and we tried to find our car. First, we couldn't find the car and we were finding the car for a long time! haha!

After that, we could find the car and went to our house. In the car, we talked lots of things. My host family have four members. There are a father, a mother and two girls! They are 8 years old and 5 years old. They are sooooooooooo cute!! And they have two cats....And me!

First day, my host mother introduced my room. It's special room, I think!
After that, we went to picnic in the park and had lunch. Japanese students taught Japanese traditional playing to Minnesotan people. We had a good time! We went to a grocery store on route. It was first time that I went to go such a big grocery store! I was surprised and had fun with my host sisters! After we went back home, my host mother and sisters showed me their beautiful garden. They picked some vegetables and flowers, and gave me. The most surprising thing is that we can enter the room with shoes!! I was confused!! This is my first day in Minnesota! I want to put on some pictures, but I can't on my mother's computer. Bummer!

I will write more stories in Minnesota! See ya!

Costume drive!

Today, I went to Otachi cape with club members, because we have a big event. It is the costume drive!! We can wear whatever we want to. There are various people. For example, there are like a gang, kindergartner, bear, and cats and so on. They were so funny. I wore the high school uniform and identified with a girl high school student. I’m too old to wear it…haha! We had to take three orders. My group had to take a picture with a figure of toothbrush. Another one is to borrow a summer song in TUTAYA. And we had to go shopping mall to take a Purikira. After that we bought Tapioka. It was so delicious! After we clear the orders, we went to the sea. We had a BBQ. I ate a lot of meets until I’m full. Today was too hot. I swim in the sea but I might sunburn a lot. That’s too bad… We enjoyed swimming and playing in the sea! I was a driver so I’m so tired. I want to sleep right now.

summer vacation plans

I will go to the U.S. in this summer. It is school home stay program. I will stay American home. Each person has an each family. I think it is a little difficult for me to spend every day, but I can speak English a lot. It becomes really good practice. My host family has four members. There are a father, a mother and two girls. I'm looking forward to meeting them. I want to know American culture and let them know about Japanese culture too. I want to try anything what I can do in this summer. I don't want to regret.

What I thin about blogging

A few months ago, I was just reading some entertainers’ blog. I didn’t think that I would start blogging. But I must do that in writing class. First, I can’t become accustomed to write blog spot, but now, I can do that. To keep a diary is a little difficult for me. But I could write diary on my blog, because I can write with pictures and movies. It makes my blog post better. I learned a variety of things about blogging in this class. For example, I learned that how to have the labels on my blog.

All about my Ketai

Cell phone is very important for me, because there are a lot of data in my cell phone. For example, there are many kinds of photos, personal data, and websites and so on. I have a Softbank cell phone, but sometimes my cell phone broke. It's three times. I lost my important data three times. I was very shocked. I think that I must keep my important data in other memory card. I must serve my data by myself. I like to take a lot of pictures so I take pictures with my cell phone.

I wanna go...

Finally, I finished all of the exams for study abroad in New Zealand!! July 6, I took TOEFL test. I studied a lot for the test so I hope that I will get high score because the score is very important for study abroad, I think. And I took an interview test in English. The day before, I went to the dorm of exchange students and I met my good friend who came from New Zealand. But I was really nervous so my friends encouraged me. My anxiety was a little removed. I asked him about NZ and Unitec more than that I heard before. He told me a lot of things so I desire to go to NZ to study abroad. He is looking forward to meet me in NZ again! I must satisfy the need of him. We studied together until 12’o clock. When I go back home, everyone in the dorm cheered me up. I felt soooo good and decide to success the interview the next day.
The next day, I took the interview with other two people. There were two examiners in the room. I told what I wanted to say. I don’t know that the examiners understand my decision. But I did what I can! And finally I finished all of the exams!! Yeah!!
But I must start to study for the next exams from now too…I’m so sleepy now.

Talking about New Zealand

I want to go to New Zealand for study abroad so I asked a friend who is from NZ about his country. I don't want to forget so I will write about NZ and my mind, here!

I heard that NZ is a very outgoing country compared to Japan. There are many differences between Japan and NZ but the biggest difference is the working system. NZ only has five working days which means they only work during week day. New Zea lander like to spend their weekend doing what they want to do. NZ has really good working system.

NZ has a very low number of crimes compared to other countries. So, I think NZ is a safe country to study, where I don't have to be intimidated by crimes or people with guns.

Unitec has a very large campus compared to KGU. Because of the large size Unitec also has large number of students. They currently have 70000 students where as KGU has only 7000. So Uitec has a large campus with a big number of students from all different kinds of countries. It will be a great opportunity to experience things that I could not experience in KGU.

NZ English is very similar to British English which I prefer to learn. So, I think NZ is a perfect country for me to study abroad. There is nothing I hate about NZ. I'm really want to go to NZ.

As a representative of KGU, I would like to introduce Japanese cultures and music, and custom to others who are interested in Japan. I'm a very out going person, I'm always exited to learn different cultures and meeting new people. Studying abroad in NZ will a great opportunity for me to experience a lot of things which I can't experience in my life by just staying in Japan!

Using a computer, good points and bad points

I think that to use a computer's good point is, wherever you are, you can contact your friends all over the world. You can contact whenever you like. The other good point is you can search whatever you want. If you want to some clothes, but you can go to shopping, you can buy their in her house. But it has some bad points too. When the computer broke, all of the date in the computer was delete. It is too bad. The date can't come back again. There is nothing you can do. It is one of bad point of computer, I think.

Senior

I am working at the clothes shop, you know. Recently, my senior quit working there. But, new person is starting to work with us. She is 22 years old and, a student of KGU. One and half years ago, she was working at the shop. But she went to Korea to study abroad for a year. So she should quit her work. Now, she came back Japan and started to work again. Today I worked with her at first. She is so kind. I like her very much! I head about Korea. I'm interested in foreign culture so her story was really interesting for me. I asked her 'Did you eat dogs in Korea??' because I had heard that Korean usually eat dogs, but she replied 'Yes, I tried it, but it was not good. Almost Korean people don't eat dogs.' I was surprised that. 'Seeing is Believing' it is correct, I think. Anyway I'm happy to work with her!

My favorite movie

My favorite movie is 'Shrek the third'. I had never seen the series, but I saw just the third. Shrek is a big monster. He got married with Princess Fiona. One day, Fiona's father died and he had to become a king of the kingdom. He didn't want to be a king so he went to looking for another king. On the other hand, Prince Charming wants to be a king. So he wants to deprive the Shrek's kingdom. Prince Charming was planning to kill Shrek. When Shrek came back his country, the country put in danger. Shrek

my voice

Birthday surprise!

June 29th is my friend Maki's birthday. We were planning a surprise for her that we would go her house and present her something. First, Mai and Hitomi went to a cake shop and bought a chocolate cake. I couldn’t go because I had a part time job then. After the part time job, I went to go to Mai’s house and we were waiting the time is coming. My other friend called Maki, and said ‘Please come the park’. We were hiding. She came the park and we shouted ‘Happy Birthday!!!!’. It was just 0’ clock. We gave a chocolate cake and some presents. Our plan was succeeded. She seemed happy so we were very happy, too.
I hope she will spend wonderful times this year!!

Book review 1-12 [Stories of Mermaids]

The book has three stories of Mermaids. I’ll tell you about the first story. This is ‘The ghostly galleon’. A girl’s name is Harmony and lived with her mother at the very bottom of the ocean. They were very poor so they lived in such place. Harmony was singing beautiful songs to try to keep up their spirits.
One day, her mother was covered in blue spots and her tongue had turned purple. She was terrible sick. To cure her sick, Harmony needed polkadot seaweed where grows in the Pirates’ Graveyard. She was afraid, but she went to the spooky place to help her mother.
Harmony searched countless ships and found polkadot seaweed out of a rusty old cannon. But suddenly, a terrifying figure appeared from nowhere. He was Gingerbeard’s ghost. He thought that Harmony came to steal his treasure so he locked Harmony in a cabin. Harmony felt terrible. She was singing to cheer up herself but the songs sound sad. Gingerbeard heard her songs, after a week of the singing, he had had enough and released and gave a chest for Harmony. There were polkadot seaweed and handfuls of coins in the chest. Harmony’s mother was cured and became fine. They moved into a warm and cozy new cave, thanks to Gingerbeard coins.
I respect Harmony because she tries to help her mother regardless of fears! That’s good story.

Essay-7 [A movie review]

I usually don’t see any movie, but I saw an interesting movie some days ago. My friend recommended it so we saw the movie together. The interesting movie is ‘Shrek the third’. I had never seen the series before, but we have just 3rd of the series. So we saw it in English.

I will tell you about outline of the movie. Fiona and Shrek got married then, and they were living happily. But Fiona’s father became heavy ill and died. He said to Shrek, ‘You must become king of the kingdom. If you don’t want to the king, a boy can be the king instead of you.’ Shrek didn’t want to be the king so he went to go another country where a boy lives to looking for the boy with a donkey and a cat. The boy’s name is Arthur. And the donkey is very talkative. The cat has high pride. And he wore rubber boots.

Shrek found the boy and took own country. At first, Arthur didn’t believe Shrek. But Shrek protect him form danger, so he believed Shrek. When they came back their country, the kingdom was put in danger by prince Charming.

Prince Charming always failed at his theater and he was laughed by everyone. He felt frustrated very much. He decided to become the king of far far away country. The country was Shrek’s one, exactly. Prince Charming urges villains of fairy stories to invade the far far away country. The villains agreed with him, because they always have complaints against fairy stories.

Prince Charming would kill Shrek in drama. Shrek was very strong, but unfortunately, he was caught by villains. The drama was going on schedule to kill Shrek. Then, Arthur, Donkey and a cat came there to help him. His wife, Fiona, and other princess of tale stories too. Shrek was helped safely, and oust the villains and prince Charming.

Few years later, Arthur had been excellent king of the Kingdom. Furthermore, Fiona bore three cute children. Fiona and Shrek were living happily with their sweet babies again.

I don’t see 1st and 2nd but I could understand around the story. I think, this movie filled with humor. We laughed many times during the movie. I want to ‘Shrek’ and ‘Shrek the second’ soon. I became to like Shrek series!!

WEI 2

I usually contribute a blog post at night because I want to write about my daily life. I want to remember what I did the day. My father has a computer so I wrote in my house. But sometimes I wrote at the school.
Blogging have some good points, I think. The good point is to write my minds sometimes make me relief when I was annoying. Writing own mind helps reduce stress. But I think there are some bad points too. It is that everyone could see my blog even the person who I dislike. And the other bad point is I can’t know my mistakes in my blog.
I can’t advice other students because my blog is not enough. But I want to advice one thing. To use some pictures with your blog is good for you. To do this, your blog will be better. And I must do that too.

Book review 1-11 [stories of Marmaids]

The book has three stories of mermaids. The first story is “The ghostly galleon”. A girl’s name is Harmony and she lived with her mother at the bottom of the ocean. They were very poor so they lived in such place. Harmony was singing beautiful songs to try to keep up their spirits. One day, her mother was covered in blue spots and her tongue had turned purple. She was terrible sick. To cure her sick, Harmony needed polkadot seaweed where grows in the Pirate’s Graveyard. She was afraid, but she went to the spooky place to help her mother.

Long day

Today, I took an exam of secretary. I studied hard for that about two months. There were a lot of obscure questions. It made me confused. I don’t know that I could do or not. I am waiting the result now.
After that, I went to the gym with some friends of mine because a convention of basket ball was held then. We went there to just watch them. But I wanted to play together because I played basket ball when I was junior high school. And eventually, I joined the basket ball game. I didn’t move a lot recently so it was too hard. I was sweating all over though I was really enjoyed it. I ran a lot. I could add one two points. It was so exited but I was tired so much.
After the game, I went to the dormitory of exchange students to meet my good friend. We went to a restaurant to have lunch together and we were talking about love, for a long time. We got back the dormitory we watched a movie, ‘Shuleck 3’. I had never seen the series but it was interesting. We watched it in English with Japanese subtitle. It became my good study. I thought that I want to watch some movies in English from now on.
Anyway I had a good day. Recently, there were a lot of rainy day, but I don’t lose such a bad weather!!

Interview

I had an interview to study abroad. I was really nervous all day long. My friends looked such me and encouraged. My anxiety was almost removed. I could relax before the interview. The time was coming. I got nervous again when the interview started. First, I was asked my name and the purpose of study abroad. Next I was asked another two questions. I told them my minds hard in my words. I wanted to tell them that how I want to go to study abroad. But I couldn’t tell all of my minds.
After the interview, I felt relief so much. I will take the interview again. But it is in English. I must tell all of my minds in English. It is difficult for me, but I should do because I want to go study abroad absolutely. I will go to dormitory to conversation with my friends in English. It is good practice for me. I hope that my next exam will be successful.

Introduce myself

Eassy-6 [2028 Self Introduction]

Hello! My name is Yoshimi. I’m 40 years old. I live in New Zealand now. I have ever been to New Zealand before to study abroad when I was 20 years old. It was exchange student program. To go to study abroad was really difficult because I had to take some difficult exams. But I passed the exams and I could go to the study abroad. I was very happy that my dreams came true. In New Zealand, I could have great experience. I could make a lot of friends. There became my special treasure in my house.

After I came back home, I did job hunting. It was really hard because I wanted to get a job in airlines. The airlines circles were one of the most severe one. However, finally, I could be a flight attendant. I was really pleased and I determined to serve for guests the supreme service. After I became to work, I tried to grant my wishes. Sometimes I had some failure and some of the guests made a complaint about our service. So I regretted about it and I tried to serve better services more than before. When I was said ‘Thank you’ by guests and I saw their smile, I became very happy. I flied the sky all over the word. I went to a lot of places. For example, it was America, Australia, Canada, Korea and any other places.

Five years later, I married with my boy friend. He is a photographer so take many pictures. We have been going out together for a long time. At last, we got married. We had a wedding in New Zealand because my husband had been to there too when he was a university student, and he liked the place. My family and friends was blessing on our marriage. I was really happy in my life.

I was working after I got marry too. That’s why to work in airlines is my religion. A lot of guests’ smiles make me happy. Few years later, I moved to New Zealand with my husband. And I birthed my sweet baby in New Zealand. I quitted my work while I have a baby in my belly, but I began to work after I birthed.

I am working airlines in New Zealand again. I’m enjoying my life and I will enjoy more.

Speech contest

I went to a Speech contest of exchange students at Gakesei Kaikan. Some my friends took part in the contest. There were about twenty competitors and a lot of audiences. My friends were really nervous so I gave a chocolate and encouraged them. I was nervous too, because of them. But after the contest started, every exchange students gave great speeches for us magnificently.
One of Korean student did performance at the stage. If she is Japanese girl, she couldn’t such a thing, I thought so. One of Chinese student told about ‘Coin’. She’s speech gave us impression. There were many good speeches. I was moved very much because I listened to their speeches. At first, they couldn’t speak Japanese well, but now, they could take part in the contest and tell their mind magnificently. It made me emotional very much.
I had to get back home because I had a part time job. I heard the result of the contest. My friend Danny got first grade!! Gina and Sensyu got second grade!! I was pleased to hear that. I thought, other my friends was great too.
To go to the contest gave me many good effects. I want to be like them in the future.

TOEFL TEST

I had a big exam for me last Saturday. It was TOEFL, you know. It was the first time to take TOEFL. Recently, I studied hard for the exam. The day before, I studied until 3 o’clock. It was one of my failures.
In the morning, my friend came to the school to encourage us. He is an exchange student and has good friendship with us. He gave us a case of chocolate to success our exam. I was really happy and wanted to success.
However, I couldn’t it. The exam was too difficult for me. And I was a little sleepy because of the day before. I was depressed so much.
But, I can take the one again in next month. I can study for it again. I must study more…

Rainy day

Today I would go Kyokushi to see a lot of firefly with my club members. But it was rainy so we couldn’t go. Instead of it, we went to Crea to have dinner. We entered Okonomiyaki shop. The clerk cooked Okonomiyaki for us. It was very delicious. I was full. After that, we took a Prikura. We were enjoyed very much. Finally, we bought an ice cream! When you ordered double size, you can get triple size! Today was bad rainy day, but we had a good day.

Roly's Birthday

Roly is a exchange student of KGU. He is from Australia. He is so funny and always makes me smile. Today is his happy birthday. He became 20 years old. It is same age with us. First, BBQ party was held in dormitory. I wanted to go there, but I couldn’t go because I had a part time job. That was too bad…
However, next party was held at downtown so I could go to the party after my part time job. I enjoyed the time with some exchange student and some Japanese. I could make new foreign country friends. For example, it is Korean, American and so on. It was really happy for me.
After that, we went to the Karaoke. I like to listen to foreign music but I can’t sing them. On the other hand, many exchange students can sing Japanese songs! I respect for them. I want to become to sing foreign songs so I should practice. Anyway, I had special times!!

Yuu's Birthday

Yeah!! Yeah!! Yeah!!

★HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUU★

Jun 6th, she became 20 years old.

We hold small party for her in lunch time. I took many snacks and chocolates. Ayaka cooked a birthday cake. Yoshino bought a birthday cake so we had two cakes. Chance who is exchange students brought a present for Yuu. She seemed happy by our party so we were happy too. Have great year!!

Foreign countries

I have never been to any foreign countries in my life. I wanted to go though I had not a chance. But I’m going to go to the U.S. in this summer. It is a school’s home stay program. I’m looking forward to visiting my host family. I hope that they are kind. I feel a little nervous because I have never leaved my home about one month, even Japan. I want to talk with my host family a lot. And I want to teach some easy Japanese words because

Book review 1-10 [The Baby Day]

I read an interesting story. The book name is ‘The Baby Day’. A girl who called Clare came to Billy’s school. She doesn’t like her new school and her classmates don’t like her too. That why, she is so spiteful. One day, Billy’s sister came to his class with his mother. She is Jasmine. Everyone liked her, but Clare didn’t. Jasmine could talk, walk, and climb in myself. Everyone delighted with her cute behavior, but Clare didn’t admire not at all. Then, Jasmine got a paintbrush! She wrote everywhere and everyone was laughing so much. Clare was too. She became to like to Jasmine very much. Billy was pleased and satisfies. That was good story because babies have great ability to make people happy, you know.

Determination

I decided to take the exam to go to study abroad. Recently, I feel so nervous. Because I have many things what I must do. For example, there are each class’s assignment, part time job, study for TOEFL, and study about abroad where I want to go. I sometimes annoyed everything. But if I can do everything, I will be satisfied. I want to do my best for my great future.
I want to go to New Zealand to study abroad. I have many reasons. One of the reasons, my best friend comes from New Zealand. He told me “New Zealand is great country! You should come!” and showed me a lot of pictures of New Zealand. It was so beautiful and great. I thought I want to see them myself. To go to study abroad, I should take some exams. First, I should take TOEFL on 14th Jun. I have to study from now too…

Essay-5 [The worst day in my life]

When is the worst day in my life? I didn't remember all of them. Human beings try to forget about bad things to protect myself. I will talk about the worst day as possible as I remember.
When I was junior high school student, the day came. One day, I went to somewhere with my mother by car. My mother was driving as she talked to me. She said ‘I have to hospitalization.’ I was surprised, but I thought she isn’t so bad. ‘It may take long-term hospitalize. You must take care of your brothers, I’m sorry’ It meant her condition is too bad. I asked her the reason of hospitalize. She got cancer. I was really shocked when I heard the truth.
A few days later, she went to the hospital. I had to cook dinner for the member of my family, but I couldn’t. I had to do club activity and study for an exam. My grandmother cooked dinner for us. I studied something, but I couldn’t concentration. I worry about her very much. I wanted to visit her but I couldn’t, because I had to go to the junior high school. And I didn’t have driver’s license so I couldn’t go by myself. My father sometimes visited her to bring something what she need. I wanted to meet her very much. On holiday, my father took me and my brothers to visit my mother. She seemed fine and I pleased to see it. We enjoyed talking with my mother.
My mother had to have an operation for cancer. I cried to hear it. I felt strong anxiety for her safety. But I just believed her. There was nothing I can do. Some of my friends worried about my mother and me. They cheered me up and I felt better. Thanks a lot.
The operation did without hindrance! My mother could discharge from the hospital. I was happy. It is happy for me to live healthy with my family, I thought. Those days were the worst days in my life. I want my mother to live fine. Other members of my family, my friend, my teacher, too! Health is so important!

Book review 1-9 [Mr. Putter and Walk the Dog]

I read 'Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog.' Mr. Putter and his cat, Teddy lived next door to Mrs. Teaberry and her small dog, Zeke. They helped each other so they were happy living side by side. One day slipped and hurt her foot. Mr. Putter and Tabby took her to the doctor. The doctor said ‘This foot needs a rest.’ Mrs. Teaberry cried because she wouldn’t walk her dog. Mr. Putter said ‘I will. I will walk your dog’. She was glad to hear that.
Mr. Putter said ‘Zeke is a dream dog.’ But Zeke wasn’t so. In fact, he was a nightmare. He tugged Mr. Putter and Tabby anywhere. The next day, he wrapped them. The next day, he chased other dogs. Mr. Putter and Tabby was tired so much. They weren’t sure they could live through four more days with Zeke. But they came up with a deal.
The deal is that Zeke will get a nice surprise after his walk. He was a smart dog so he didn’t tug, wrap, and chase. He became a dream dog.
Finally, Mr. Putter and Tabby took Zeke to his home. They said good bye and went back home and had a party. I think that Zeke is not dream dog! I don’t want to have a dog like this.