2010年12月25日土曜日

BR 2-13: The tennis match

I read The Tennis Match. I will tell you about this story. The main character is Giraffe and Elephant. One day, they enjoyed the tennis game. First, giraffe hit the ball to elephant, but she couldn't hit the ball. The tiger who is an umpire told her look at the ball.

Next, she could hit the ball, but it was out. She isn't good at tennis. After that, tiger suggested to hit softer. Finally, she could hit the ball, and went in. Everyone be glad without the giraffe. This story was not so interesting, but easy to read.

Michaels, J. (2004). The Tennis Match. Australia: Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd.

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BR 2-12: Goldilocks and the three bears

I read Goldilocks and the three bears. The illustration is so pretty, so I chose this book. Now, I will tell you about this story. The character is three bears. They are family. It is father, mother, and baby bear.

They relax in the living room with reading some books on their sofa front of the fireplace. Father bears reading a newspaper. Then, they start to eat breakfast. It looks like a cup of soup. After that, they go out side to walk in the forest. By the way, there is a bad girl.

Her name is Goldilocks. She was wearing blue one-piece and red shoes. She found the bear's house, and their breakfast. Next, she ate it, and likes it. She tries to sit on the chair, but she doesn't like it.

Then, she found nice chair, but she had broken it. After that, she went to their bed room. Then, she slept long time. After that, the bear family came back their house. The father found breakfast which was eaten by someone. Then, baby bear found broken chair and Goldilocks on his bed. Finally, she runs away. This story is easy to read, and colorful, so I recommend this book.

Sims, L. (2007). Goldilocks and the Three Bears. London: Usborne Publishing Ltd

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Shooting stars☆

A few days ago, I found two shooting stars. We cold see a lot of shooting stars that day, because the day was special day of shooting stars. My father told me. There were a lot of beautiful stars. My father found a lot of shooting stars. I hoped to appear boyfriend for me, and to meet Tadayoshi Ohkura:) I had a nice day.

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Wedding Ceremony☆




I went to my cousin's wedding ceremony in Okayama with my family. I woke up at 5:oo. I wore my dress. We went to Uto station with our baggages by taxi. Then we rode on the train to Kumamoto station. We arrived there. Then, we rode on the limited express TSUBAME to Hakata station.

Then, we arrived there. I went down the stair at Hakata station with my parents. Then, I fell down from the stairs. I received a hard blow my legs and arms. I had hacks.

I couldn’t stand up my self. So my father helped me. Then, station attendants came for me. The cause of the accident was my high heel caught on the stairs. So I fell down.

After that, we changed the bullet train. We rode on the Kodama Super express to Okayama. I bought orange juice from cabin attendant. We chatted in the bullet. Next, we arrived at Okayama station. Then, we rode on the shuttle bus to the wedding ceremony hall.

Then, I ate many delicious foods. I met my relatives. I chatted with my cousins. After the ceremony, we rode on the shuttle bus again. Then, we rode on the taxi. We went to the hotel. We ate the dinner at a restaurant. It was so delicious. I ordered kid's plate. I ate French fries, hamburger steak, omelets rice, fruits, cakes, and sausages, and so on.

Next day, we ate breakfast at a restaurant. I ate rice, miso soup, egg, salad, food boiled and seasoned, pickles, grilled salmon, laver, cod roe, and steamed fish pastes and so on.
After the breakfast, we went to Kourakuen. Do you know Kourakuen? It is famous park in Okayama. We walked around with guider. He explained about several places in Kourakuen for us. We ate kibidango and drank maccha. Then, we saw a lot of cranes, carp, and beautiful yard. Then, we ate peach ice cream. After that, I drew a fortune slip of love. It was very good luck!!

Next, we went to Okayama castle. It is black. The lord of a castle was Naoie Ukita. Okayama castle and Kourakuen are so close. We can go by walk. We went up in the castle. We took a lot of pictures. After we enjoyed watching armour, picture scrolls, and swords and so on, we bought souvenirs. I bought some ball pens, hand towel of Hello Kitty, and kibidango. Okayama is famous for peach, Muscat, and kibidango. Do you know Momotarou? He is from Okayama.

After that, we came to the hotel. Then, we ate lunch at a restaurant. I ordered Chinese lunch. I ate chicken nanban, salad, soup, rice, and fried fish and so on. It was delicious.

Then, we rode on a taxi to Okayama station. Then, we bought some souvenirs. After that, we rode on the Hikari Super express to Hakata station. Then, we rode on the Tsubame limited express to Kumamoto. After that, we rode on the train to Uto. Finally, we rode on a taxi to my home. I had a nice trip.

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My Birthday♥ and Merry Christmas!!







December 25th in 1990..., I was born in this world. Time passed 20 years in a flash. Now I 'm 20 years old!! I appreciate my parents. They brought up me for 20 years, since I was born. Thank you, Mom and Dad. I'm not so good child, but they loved for me.

I got a lot of mail from my friends. I was so moved. Thank you so much!! I love you guys~♥
When I woke up, I found a present on my head. So I thought that Santa Claus came to my house! But it was from my father.

Then, I met a Kurumi today. We went to downtown. There were a lot of illuminations. It was so beautiful.

We enjoyed shopping. First, we went to TSURUYA to buy a wallet. I want to buy a wallet of MARRY QUANT or ANNASUI or Cath Kidston for a long time. However I didn't buy it, because there was not my favorite design. After that, I bought pinky ring and strap of teddy bear at mechayasu store, and lunch box at Thank you mart.

Kurumi bought two head accessories of flower at Clair's for her coming-of-age celebration. Then, we ate lunch at McDonald's. I ate MIAMI burger. It was so delicious!! She ate cheese burger.

I always go to PASSER when I went to downtown. It is my favorite shop. Do you have a favorite shop? If you have it, please tell me!

Next, we walked to Shimotori. Then, we found the Relakkuma. So we took a picture with him.
Then, we went home. I ate dinner, and cake. My mother sang birthday song. I blew out a candle. I had a nice birth day.

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2010年12月22日水曜日

Eating Habits in Minnesota

1. Introduction

I visited Minnesota in this summer to participate in a home stay program. I stayed with my host family for a month. I like food, and eating. In addition, I’m interested in not only American food, but also eating habits of American.


I expected Americans would be fat, eat too much, and eat snacks between meals before I visited America. I wanted to know how different in the real, so I decided to write about this theme.
There were a lot of foods both delicious and terrible. Now, I will tell you about my eating habits in Kumamoto and Minnesota.


2. Eating Habits in Kumamoto

We take meal three times in a day. In addition, when we feel hungry, we eat snack. As breakfast, we eat rice, miso soup, grilled fish, salad, Japanese omelet, natto and so on. Sometimes we eat toast, sausage, sunny-side up egg and so on. My mother makes us hot dogs or sandwiches with mayonnaise, cucumber, tomato and tuna, or boiled egg and lettuce. We often drink cold water, barley tea, and hot coffee. Sometimes we drink green tea.


Lunch is not so heavy. For example, spaghetti, okonomiyaki, Chinese fried rice, and, Chinese noodle and so on. However, we often bring lunch box to our school or working place. As contents of the lunch box, for example, rice, an omelet, a grilled salmon, a deep-fried chicken, a meatball, and a salad and so on.


Dinner is the heaviest than other meals. For example, a hamburger steak, a grilled fish, a croquette, curry and rice, an omelet containing fried rice, ginger-flavored slices of fried pork, and tempura and so on. In addition, rice, salad, and soup and so on. If we feel hungry, we eat snacks between meals.


3. Eating Habits in Minnesota

1) Breakfast

Breakfast of Minnesota was very lightly and quickly, so I often felt hungry. My host family often ate hot oat meals add the brown sugar and butter. In addition, they eat cereal with milk almost everyday. Sometimes they ate yogurt and toast, but the toast was different bread from what I expected. It looks dark brown, and bitter. I didn’t care for these breakfasts. Especially, oat meal was terrible. It was like a baby food.


My host father often ate breakfast in his car, because he slept late every morning. My ESL teacher said the American often eat breakfast in the car. Japanese people tend to eat breakfast well, but American people think that breakfast is not so important.


2) Lunch

Lunch of Minnesota was so heavy for me. I ate lunch at Cafeteria in Bethel University on ordinary days. On weekend, I ate out.
At the cafeteria in Bethel University, there were a lot of dishes. As vegetable, for example, there were lettuces, cucumbers, tomatoes, ruccolas, broccolis, carrots, and zucchini and so on. So we could make own original salad. As other thing, there were tuna with mayonnaise, boiled eggs, hams, croutons, cheeses, olives and a variety of dressings. So we could put own favorite dressing on a salad. As main, pasta, pizza, and what like a hamburger and so on. As dessert, a variety of cakes, waffle, ice cream. We could eat as much as we like. As staple diet, there were rolls, buckets, bagels, sandwiches, and a variety of breads.


On Saturday, we often went to outside, so probably I have never eaten lunch in house. I ate hamburger at McDonald’s, tacos at Mexican restaurant, pizza at Mall of America, hot dog or hamburger at party. I often went to party, so I often ate lunch there.


On Sunday, I went to church. and I ate lunch there. There were croissants, hams, lettuces, mayonnaise, mustard, potato chips, orange juice, coffee, and a variety of cookies. We could make own sandwiches. I often ate sandwiches of croissant in America. American croissants were bigger than Japanese. It was delicious.


3) Dinner

Dinner of Minnesota was not so heavy. My host family often ate chicken and spaghetti with original meat sauce. They rarely eat fish and pork. They also ate vegetables, but only boiled potatoes, raw carrots, and raw broccolis without seasoning. I was so surprised at this eating style. After the dinner, they ate dessert almost everyday.


Sometimes we went to restaurant. I went to Italian restaurant. I ate calovonara.It was so good, but the spaghetti was thick. The American often gives a party at their houses. I went to the party five times on first week. There were hamburgers, hot dog, pasta salad, fruits, chocolate cakes, ice cream, pops, corn chips, raw carrots with sour cream, potato chips, cookies, French fries, and so on. They brought a dish each family. Then, they shared.
Americans like hamburgers and French fries, but the people who I met don’t like McDonald’s.


4. Conclusion

I thought that American must be eating snacks between meals before I visited America, but they didn’t eat snacks between meals. I found some Japanese restaurant, and Oriental super markets. My host family likes rice, soy sauce, sesame seeds, and laver. They sometimes ate Japanese food. In addition, American like potato chips. I often saw potato chips as a meal.


Then they always ate fruits. Especially, they ate grapes, cherries, plums, and strawberries. As a vegetable, they eat only carrots, beans, broccolis, and potatoes. I was so surprised. In Japan, almost all the people eat a variety of vegetables every meals. While, we don’t eat fruits so much. American often gives a home party. They bring some dishes each other, and then they share it. American eating habit is very lightly breakfast, heavy lunch, not so heavy dinner.


Generally, Japanese think that food is important for us. So, we rarely leave the foods at meals. In contrast, Americans tend to leave the foods easily. Sometimes, kids play with the foods.

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2010年12月20日月曜日

Essay2-03a: Busy University Life

I'm a student in the second year of the Kumamoto Gakuen University. I'm in the Department of Foreign Language. I'm majoring in English. In addition, I've been studied French. Now, I'm going to tell you about my university life.

I have to wake up early in the morning. I go school by train, which is crowd. I have to transfer to the Houhi Line at Kumamoto station. It takes about an hour or an hour and a half from my house to my university. The morning is hard time for me. Sometimes, I oversleep, so I miss the train, and then I rode on the bus at Kumamoto station.

I have 14 classes in this semester. It’s reading, writing, listening, speaking, French, Japanese history, Japanese modern history, Western history, American history, law, linguistics, cultural anthropology, Overseas training course, and international society and Japan. Almost all the classes are about English. I like English and I'm interested in languages. I study hard these subjects everyday.

My favorite class is overseas training course. I visited Minnesota in America as a part of the class to participate in a home stay program. It was so fun and useful to increase my knowledge. This experience will be the best memory in my university life. I want to visit there again.

My favorite day is Monday, because I have only 2 classes. So I can do my homework on free time. I always use computer at a library every Monday. In addition, I don’t have to wake up early on Monday, because the class starts at second period. I enjoy the Monday.

On the other hand, I always worry about a lot of homework. I don't like homework, especially Power Words, book reviews, and typing homework. I haven't enough time to do homework, so I'm impatient with homework. However I believe that it’s useful for my future. I'll do my best.


I have a dream. I hope to become a flight attendant in the future since I was a child, because when I rode on a plane, I ached my ears. Then, one flight attendant helped me. In addition, flight attendant can trip all around the world. I'm interested in foreign countries. So I want to be a flight attendant. In order to become one, I have to study more during the university student. I need not only to improve my English skill, but also to acquire cultures. I especially want to speak English fluently.

After all, I enjoy my university life, because I have a lot of friends. They help me when I was in the trouble. I appreciate their cooperation. In addition, they always make me laugh, and happy. I like chatting with them. They are my precious friends.

Sometimes, I go to downtown or Movie Theater with my friends after school. I like to go there. When I spend my time with friends, I feel so happy. In addition, I often go to cafeteria and book store at KGU with my friends. It’s also happy time for me.

As you can see, my university life isn't only busy, but also fun. The university life is important experience. I can study a variety of subjects. There are a lot of chances to learn what I don't know. Moreover, I can communicate with friends, teachers, and other people. I want to enjoy my university life from now on too.

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Mind map: University life

Quick post: University life about 25 years from now

25 years later, I'll be 45 years old. I can't imagine...may be, every students use computer in class, and the level of classes will be so high. It is difficult to enter the universities.

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Quick post: University life

I like my university life, because it is fun by my funny friends. I often laugh in class. As a class, I have only three classes in a day, so I don't feel tired so much. I majoring English, so I study English almost everyday. I haven't favorite English class, but I try to understand what the teachers say. The source of my distress is a lot of homework. For example, books reviews, typing trials, essays, news quiz, rapid reading questions, power words, preparation for lessons of French, and blog and so on. This homework makes me crazy, but I'll do my best!

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2010年12月13日月曜日

My favorite club

I belonged three clubs in my life. When I was an elementary school student, I belonged to music club. I was at a loss whether to belong to bally ball club or music club. I wanted to belong to bally ball club, but there were a girl who I hate, so I chose music club. I played a xylophone, an accordion, and drums and so on. When I was a junior high school student, I belonged to chorus club. I like to sing a song. We got many gold prizes in a musical contests. We often sang Latin songs, for example, Gloria, and Ave Maria, and so on. I enjoyed chorus club. In addition, I belonged to Uto sports club. I played badminton, since I was 12 years old. I love badminton.

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My favorite junior high school memory

My favorite junior high school memory is school trip. I went to Nara, Kyoto, and Oosaka. First day, I visited Nara park. There were a lot of dears. I fed them. Next day, I visited Kiyomizu temple, Uzumasa film village, and Touji. Last day, I visited Universal Studios Japan. I rode on a lot of attractions, for example, ET, Jurassic Park, and Back to the future and so on. In addition, there were many snoopy goods. I like snoopy, so I bought some souvenirs. I enjoyed school trip with my friends. I would like to go to there again. Some friends went to Okinawa as a school trip. I have never been to Okinawa, so I would like to go to Okinawa.

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2010年12月6日月曜日

My favorite sports to watch

I like sports to watch. My favorite sport to watch is figure skate, because it is beautiful. When I watched figure skate on TV, I fixed my attention on Mao Asada and Yu-na Kim. Their play is so beautiful, and attractive. They and I are same age. They are so pretty. I want to be like them.I like sports to watch not only figure skate, but also basket ball, tennis, and bally ball. When I was young, I often went to see basket ball games with my mother, because my brother belonged to basket ball club. So I sometimes watched videos of NBA with my brother. In addition, I like Kei Igarashi. Do you know him? He called prince of basket ball. He appeared on drama “Buzzer Beat”.
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My favorite high school memory

When I was in the third year of high school, I chose music course. We organized boys’ band and girls’ band. First, our teacher decided a set piece. I was a vocal, because everyone didn’t want to be a vocal. Then, we practiced each part. We had to show our performance. We performed remain a score, but boys band arranged a score, so teacher evaluated boys’ band.

Next, we had to make own music. We wrote words, and composed by myself. We learned a chord. Then, teacher chose only one in each band. He chose mine. I was so happy. After that, we decided role. I wanted to play the drums, so I chose it. I practiced every day. After the performed, teacher gave us CD included my song. I was so happy.

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