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Speaking survey

Posted: November 22nd, 2009, 6:58pm PST

Our group of speaking questioned 120 people. The survey is about new foods corner on campus. I think I want to write about the result of this survey.
a. 18 years old(1) 19 years old(53) 20 years old(45) 21 years old(12) 22 years old(9)
b. Kumamoto(85) Fukuoka(15) Miyazaki(6) Saga(5) Oita(4) Nagasaki(3) Hiroshima(1) Tokyo(1)
c. blood type A(43) blood type O(36) blood type B(26) blood type AB(15)
1. Yes(87) No(33) 2. Yes(83) No(37) 3. Yes(99) No(21) 4. Yes(64) No(56) 5. Yes(25) No(95)
6. Yes(34) No(86) 7. Yes(45) No(75) 8. Yes(76) No(44) 9. Yes(93) No(27) 10. Yes(79) No(41)
11. A(26) B(38) C(28) D(28) 12. A(55) B(17) C(32) D(16)
13. A(42) B(18) C(50) D(10) 14. A(67) B(18) C(18) D(17)
15. A(44) B(57) C(9) D(10) 16. A(28) B(34) C(58)
17. A(93) B(16) C(11) 18. A(19) B(24) C(16) D(61)
19. A(58) B(40) C(16) D(6) 20. A(61) B(13) C(31) D(15)
21. talk/chat(54) study(21) rest(14) sleep(8) play cards/game(3) read books(3) club meeting(2) do homework(2) listen to music(1) nothing(14)
22. 20 kinds(38) 30 kinds(30) 10 kinds(13) 40 kinds(11) 50 kinds(11) 100 kinds(9) 60 kinds(8) many(6) 70 kinds(1) 80 kinds(1)
23. good mood(24) quiet/silent place(19) calm(10) clean(9) dark place(7) friendly(5) small place(4) wide(3) fun atmosphere(3) familiar place(3) private room(3) cozy(2) gentle atmosphere(2) good service(2) place that can spend slowly time(2) delicious dishes(2) dim light place(1) reserve system(1) place that have fuka-fuka chairs(1) place that can listen to various music(1) nothing(20)
24. good service(20) clean(8) good taste(8) price(5) good equipment(5) self-drink(4) build convenient place(3) large hall(3) make place that can watch movie/TV(3) wide(3) rich selection(3) make room that can use PC(3) make Tatami room(3)make room that can read comics/books(3) healthy foods(2) make soundproof room(2) make sleeping room(2) good mood(1) set up many vending machines(1) set up many outlets(1) Kotatsu(1) good care(1) quality(1) make VIP room(1) make private room(1) make sports gym(1) make shower room(1) make study room(1) nothing(36)
25. KGU original menu(9) today’s specials(6) sushi(6) all noodles(5) good taste(4) all you can eat(4) cheap daily lunch(4) bowl of rice(4) corn doria(3) rice ball(3) pizza(3) foods of a variety of countries(2) special menu(2) can choose some kinds of food(2) sandwich(2) Okonomiyaki(2) egg dishes(2) price(1) a lot of foreign foods(1) season limited menu(1) smorgasbord(1) Takoyaki(1) mainly vegetables(1) delicious dishes(1) stakes(1) fried rice(1) Basashi(1) nothing(48)
My favorite websites revised 2

Posted: November 10th, 2009, 11:44am PST

I found three interesting sites. Those are sites of joy and practice. Those three sites are very fun to browse. One is useful for us and the other two sites are funny . The people who like cats and typing will be interested with those sites.

The first site is Websites for Cats. It is a funny name. When I found this website, I thought it is a site for people who started to take care of cats, but actually it was not. It is actually a site that delights cats. If you have a cat as a pet, your cat will like this site. I want to try this with my cats when I back to my parent's home next time.

On this website, there are many strange movies. In those movies, a flapping bird, a buzzing bee, a fluttering butterfly and so on. Each animal has different motion. As you know, cats are apt to chase and try to catch something fluttering things, especially kitten. Their behaviors are very cute. When you open this website, bring your cat in front of the PC monitor, you could see your cat's cute behavior. If you don't have a cat, this site may be worthless, but if you are cat-lover, this site please you

The second site is Lolcats'n'funny pictutre of cats. This site has a large amount of picture of funny and cute cats. On this site, I can watch cute cats picture until when I feel satisfaction. There is no cats around my dormitry and I can't find any cats. It is very sad for me. I felt hapiness when I found this site. If you want to get pictures of cute cats, you should open this mervelous site.

The third site is Typing test .com. This site helps you to develop your typing skill. In this site, there are various types of illustrative sentences. You have to type each word in that sentence. You can type these sentences with time counter and you can know your typing speed. You can try any number of times. So, you should try time attack. If you type faster than before, it proves that your typing skill has increased. If you play this typing game everyday, few weeks later, you would be able to type without seeing keyboard.

I played this site's typing words is very fun. I can continue this game without weariness. Please try it. This site is worth opening. I want to be a people who can do touch-typing.

First you should try the typing games at Typing test .com and when you feel fatigue, please open the Lolcats'n'funny pictutre of cats. You should also open Websites for Cats and bring your cat in front of PC monitor. So, their cute behavior becomes you calm. Please try it!!
My favorite websites revised

Posted: November 10th, 2009, 11:25am PST

I found two interesting sites. Those are sites of joy and practice. Those two sites are very fun to browse. One is funny and the other is useful for us. The people who like cats and typing will be interested with those sites.

The first site is Websites for Cats. It is a funny name. When I found this website, I thought it is a site for people who started to take care of cats, but actually it was not. It is actually a site that delights cats. If you have a cat as a pet, your cat will like this site. I want to try this with my cats when I back to my parent's home next time.

On this website, there are many strange movies. In those movies, a flapping bird, a buzzing bee, a fluttering butterfly and so on. Each animal has different motion. As you know, cats are apt to chase and try to catch something fluttering things, especially kitten. Their behaviors are very cute. When you open this website, bring your cat in front of the PC monitor, you could see your cat's cute behavior. If you don't have a cat, this site may be worthless, but if you are cat-lover, this site please you

The second site is Typing test .com. This site helps you to develop your typing skill. In this site, there are various types of illustrative sentences. You have to type each word in that sentence. You can type these sentences with time counter and you can know your typing speed. You can try any number of times. So, you should try time attack. If you type faster than before, it proves that your typing skill has increased. If you play this typing game everyday, few weeks later, you would be able to type without seeing keyboard.

I played this site's typing words is very fun. I can continue this game without weariness. Please try it. This site is worth opening. I want to be a people who can do touch-typing.

First you should try the typing games at Typing test .com and when you feel fatigue, please open the Website for Cats and bring your cat in front of PC monitor. So, their cute behavior becomes you calm. Please try it!!

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My favorite web site

Posted: October 29th, 2009, 10:48pm PDT

I found two interesting sites. those two sites are very fun. One is funny and the other is useful for us. I rewiew these sites and let me report you.
The first site is "websites for cats". It is funny name. when I found this website, I thought that is a site for person who started to take care of cat, but actually it was not. It is actually a site that delights cats. If you have a cat as a pet, you will like this site. In this website, there are many strange movies. In those movies, a flapping bird, a buzzing bee, a fluttering butterfly and so on. Each animal has different motion. As you know, cats are apt to chase and try to catch something fluttering things, especially kitten. their behaviors are very cute. When you open this website, bring your cat in front of the PC monitor, you could see your cat's cute behavior. I want to try this with my cats when I back to my parent's home next time. If you don't have a cat, this site is worthless, but if you are cat-lover, this site please you
The second site is "typing test .com". This site helps you to develop your typing skill. In this site, there are various types of illustrative sentences. You have to type each word in that sentence. You can type these sentences with time counter and you can know your typing speed. You can try any number of times. So, you should try time attack. If you type faster than before, it proves that your typing skill has hncreased. If you play this typing game everyday, few weeks later, you would be able to type without seeing keyboard. I played this site's typing words is very fun. I can continue this game without weariness. Please try it. This site is worth opening. I want to be a people who can do touch-typing.
First you should try the typing games at "typing test .com" and when you feel fatigue, please open the "website for cats" and bring your cat in front of PC monitor. So, their cute behavior becomes you calm. Please try it!!
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sites I might review

Posted: October 27th, 2009, 12:21pm PDT

site 1
"website for cats" http://www.cattv.com/catwebsite.htm
I like cats very much and I found this site.

site 2
"typing test.com"http://www.typingtest.com/

this site helps you to develop your typing skills.
Favorite place rewrite

Posted: October 20th, 2009, 11:43am PDT

I have a favorite places. I will introduce two places. I have spent a lot of time there. I can feel comfortable with these two places. That’s why I chose them.

The first one is KGU dormitory. I live in the dormitory now. I have spent more time there than anywhere in Kumamoto. When I started to live there, I couldn't help feeling lonely, because there was no family, no pets, and there were many strangers. But, few months later, I was come used to living there. As time passed, in the dormitory, I could have many friends.

Now, I eat supper every night with my friends. If I lived alone, I would have to eat supper feeling lonely. However, fortunately, I don't have to make supper breakfast by myself because there are food makers in the dormitory. They make delicious dishes everyday. They always think student's health of the dormitory. I appreciate them.

There is also bad point in the dormitory. Each room hasn’t shower room. We have to go shower room corner in the dormitory. It is little bit inconvenience but I don't care about it. Living dormitory is fun!

Second place is the best favorite place for me. I spent the longest time there in my life. It is my parent's home. My parent's home is in Oita prefecture. I was born in Oita. My home is the best place that I become composed. In my home, I can feel free. I think most people like one's parent's home best. When I come back to my parent's home, my mother make delicious dishes. My father is always kidding, my grand mother always kind to me. My pets make me happy. I like to play video games with my cousins. There are many things what I can't experience in the Kumamoto. I come back to Oita once a month. I love my home.

I'm going to come back to Oita during the KGU school festival because I have no class during festival. It is very good opportunity to return. I have plans to do. I will hang out with my friends, cousins and sister and so on. I’m looking forward to doing these!!

These two places are foothold to live. These two places are indispensable for me.

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Favorite Place

Posted: October 13th, 2009, 12:36pm PDT

I have few favorite places. I will introduce two places.

First one is the dormitory of KGU. I live in the dormitory now. When I start to live there. I couldn't help feeling lonely because there is no family, no pets and there are many strangers. But few months later, I came to used to living there. As time passed, in the dormitory, I could have many friends. I eat supper every night with my friends. If I live alone, I had to eat supper feeling lonely. I don't have to make supper and breakfast by my self because there are food makers in the dormitory. They make delicious dishes everyday. They always think student's health of the dormitory. I appreciate them. Each room hasn't shower room. We have to go shower room corner in the dormitory. It is little bit inconvenience but I don't care about it. Living dormitory is fun!

Second place is the best favorite place for me. It is my parent's home. My parent's home is in Oita prefecture. I was born in Oita. My home is the best place that I become composed. In my home, I can feel free. I think most people like one's parent's home best. When I come back to my parent's home, my mother make delicious dishes. My father is always kidding, my grand mother always kind to me. My pets make me happy. I like to play video games with my cousins. There are many things what I can't experience in the Kumamoto. I come back to Oita once a month. I love my home.

I'm going to come back to Oita during KGU school festival because I have no class during KGU school festival. It is very good opportunity to come back!!

These two places are very comfortable for me.

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my summer vacation

Posted: October 5th, 2009, 2:21pm PDT

I spent a good summer vacation in this summer because I could obtain a driver's license. There are more friends around me who has a driver's license than friends who doesn't have it. It is why I wanted to obtain a driver's license. Before I obtain a driver's license, I had thought that to drive a car is so easy. But it was my optimistic thinking. Actually, to drive a car is very difficult for me. I want to drive a car smoothly as soon as possible. I started to go to driving school of my town from august 25. In the first phase, I drove a car in the school's course and learned how to make a left and right turn and how to change traffic lanes and so on. In the course, there is no oncoming car or something and less risks of traffic accident. But in the second phase, I had to drive a car on a public thoroughfare. It was very difficult and fearful. I always felt a fear of traffic accident. But as I drive a car on a public thoroughfare, I got used to drive a car and I came to feel less fearful than before. September 17, I went to license center to get my driver's license. In there, I took a paper test and I passed. Fortunately, I could get the driver's license. But I have not had my own car yet. I want to have my own car as soon as possible.

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suggetion

Posted: September 29th, 2009, 12:26pm PDT

I found some important ideas in my classmate's blog and I will show you that. first one is most important things. It is Shiori's advice " try to blogging everyday" (Shiori, july 20) . I think it is most important things that we should do. Mana also had a good idea "Write a blog and read book when you have free time" (Mana, july 8). We should read more books. I also found a good advice in Ponyo's blog. She said that we have to be careful speling miss (Ponyo, july 8) That is important to improve our English. there is a good advise in Kumi's blog. she suggested that we should write a blog as frequent as possible (kumi, july 8). We should write a blog many times in a day if you can. I plan to follow RieM's advice "to write with many words" (RieM, july 8). these advices will help you to write blog.
YUKI-ONNA (snow-woman)

Posted: July 19th, 2009, 5:46am PDT

About one week ago, I saw a Yuki-Onna in my dream. It was the nightmare. I see dream every night. But, this dream is the most dreadful one. I can remember the story exactly. I will tell you my nightmare story.

In my dream, it was winter. I was climbing the Everest Mountain shivering my body. It was very cold. I aimed the top of Everest. But, I wanted to rest and I found a mountain hut on the way to the top of the mountain. The hut was lighted up by orange light. The hut looks very warm. I enter the hut.

In the hut, there is a beautiful woman. She wore a white knit sweater and had a long black hair. Her face is like Nakama Yukie (famous actress). I said to her that let me take a rest for few hours. She said yes. And I slept the bed of her. In the bed, it was very cold, not warm. When I woke up, I was in a big ice lump. I thought I could never escape from here. I found that the woman was laughing quietly.

This is the story of my nightmare. I analyzed why I saw this nightmare. Maybe, I had forgotten to turn off the air condenser in my room before I fallen asleep. I left the air condenser on. This is the cause of the nightmare. I saw this nightmare and thought that I don’t know the detailed story of Yuki- onna. I looked over about true Yuki-onna story and report you.

Yuki-onna

A long time ago, there were two woodcutters. The one is Minokichi. the other is Mosaku. Minokichi was young man. On the contrary, Mosaku was very old. One winter day, they could not come back home because of a snowstorm. But they found a hut in the mountain and decided to sleep there. On this particular evening, Minokichi woke up and found a beautiful lady with white clothes. She breathed on old Mosaku and he was frozen to death. Then she approached Minokichi in order to breath on him, but then stared at him for a while, and she said: ”I thought I was going to kill you, the same as that old man, but I will not, because you are young and beautiful. You must not tell anyone about this incident. If you tell anyone about me, I will kill you.”

Several years later, Minokichi met a beautiful young lady, named Oyuki (yuki=”snow”) and married her. She was a good wife. Minokichi and Oyuki had several children and lived many years happily. Mysteriously, she did not age at all.

One night, after the children were asleep, Minokichi said to Oyuki: ”whenever I see you, I am reminded of a mysterious incident that happened to me. When I was young, I met a beautiful young lady like you. I do not know whether it was dream or real. But I can say, she was Yuki-onna...”

After finishing his story, Oyuki suddenly stood up and said, “That woman you met was me!! I told you that I would kill you if you ever told anyone about that incident. However, I can’t kill you because of our children. Take care of our children…” Then she melted and disappeared. After that, no one saw her.

This is Yuki-onna story. You should remember to turn off the air condenser of your room before you fall asleep. If you forget it, Yuki-onna will appear in your dream.

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My guitar life

Posted: July 19th, 2009, 2:21am PDT

My hobby is playing the guitar. I play the guitar everyday. To play the guitar is a one part of my life. I will tell you why I started to play the guitar.

When I was 14 years old, junior high school second grade, I watched a live DVD. In this DVD, a handsome man was singing nicely and another man was playing the guitar. When the people watch a music DVD, usually, the people tend to watch the vocalist mostly. But in my case, I couldn’t turn my eyes away from the guitarist’s hands. His hand moved quickly and smoothly. It was a first guitar impact for me. Then I thought that I want to play the guitar like him!!! Their band name is B’z. Do you know them? In their song, you can hear a lot of technical guitar techniques. So, their DVD motivated me to start guitar. At first, I started to get a guitar. I couldn’t afford to buy a guitar. But, luckily, my relative gave me an old acoustic guitar. It was first guitar of my life. Since that day, I played the guitar everyday as soon as I came back from school. When I started to learn to play the guitar, there is no one who can play the guitar around me. No one tells me about guitar. So, I have to do a self-education of guitar. One day, I borrowed a guitar practice book from the library of my town. The first song I learned is “Nagoriyuki”. This is famous folk song in Japan. To practice many songs in this guitar practice book and I learned basic guitar techniques. One day, my friend gave me an electric guitar. Its body was heavier than my first acoustic guitar. It is my second guitar. It’s color was black and has sharp body. It was so cool!! Since then, I started to learn how to play an electric guitar. One day, in the bookstore, I found a nice guitar magazine. Its name is “Young guitar”. That magazine had a DVD as a supplement. The price of this book is about one thousand yen. It is little bit expensive but it has good contents. So, this book is really worth buying. In that DVD, many famous guitarists tell me a lot of guitar techniques like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EVvx5joxdA&feature=PlayList&p=9CB4C5EB8CF798B5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=21

The contents of this DVD are the second guitar impact for me!! Their hands move quickly. When I watch this DVD, I thought I could never play the guitar like them. But, I imitate them and leaned their techniques step by step and I came to can play like them!!

When I was 16 years old, I bought an electric guitar. Its color is blue and has a beautiful grain of wood. It cost me about hundred thousand yen. This guitar is my main guitar now. This guitar is very thin and it is easy to play. This guitar is very comfortable for me. I cannot live without this guitar!!!

When I was 17 years old, high school second grade, I attend the school festival as a band and played 2 songs. I played the guitar. My two friends played the drums and vocal. My teacher played the bass guitar. We played two songs. “負けないで/Zard and glamorous sky/Mika Nakashima”. It was the best memory of my school life. We played these two songs in front of a lot of students, parents and spectator. I could not help being nervous. My hands were trembled and I felt thirsty. It was basic symptom of strain. But I could play two songs with no mistakes. This experience grew me up.

Now, I am working at Takoyaki shop as part-timer. In there, I am teaching the guitar to my shop’s owner. He likes Yutaka Ozaki (famous, great singer song writer of Japan) and he wanted to play Ozaki’s song. I like Yutaka Ozaki too. He and I hit it off well together. I teach him the guitar techniques after finishing of my part-time job. It is very pleasant time for me. It passed one year since I started to teach the guitar. I like that place too much.

Now, I am planning to change the electric guitar parts. To change this electric parts, the sound of the guitar going better. It will cost me about three million yen. It’s very expensive. I have to work harder to get funs of parts changing.

This is my guitar life. It passed 6 years since I started to play the guitar. Time really flies!! I think that most people haven’t played the guitar. It is too sad for me. I want you to know the joy of playing the guitar. If you haven’t played the guitar, you should play once at least. It will be fun!!!!!

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History of Kumamoto castle

Posted: July 19th, 2009, 2:19am PDT

When I enter the KGU, I wanted to go to sightseeing. I came from Oita and I wanted to know about Kumamoto more. Someday, my friend took me out to visit Kumamoto castle. It was first time for me to visit a castle. When I see Kumamoto castle, I was excited. So, I studied about Kumamoto castle and so on and let me tell you that.

The present Kumamoto castle was built on hilly terrain called Chausu Mountain by Kato Kiyomasa. But there were some other castle on the mountain then. In 1469, Kanokogi Chikakazu built the old kumamoto castle on Chausu Mountain. Nobody knows where it was, but it might have been in the present Kojo town. When the new Kumamoto castle was built, it also changed the Chinese character 隈本城 to 熊本城.

The dungeon of Kumamoto castle was burned to ashes.
Who set fire to Kumamoto castle? This is a mysterious incident. The opinion that staff officer Gentaro Kodama set fire to Kumamoto castle is the most convicting one. Other possibilities are fire beginning in the Kitchen that it was arson by the Samurai army or that defending army set fire to its own castle and so on.

The Seinan war
In 1877, the Samurais in Kyushu rose in rebellion against the government. Their leader is Takamori saigo. This war is the last civil war in Japan. In 1877, the government made an announcement called “Haitourei”. It means disposing of swords. Sword was symbol of Samurai. So, it actually meant depriving the samurai of their last privilege. The samurais were angry at it. That is the cause of the Seinan War. After all, the Samurai lost. The cause of the defeat was the failure of the invasion of Kumamoto castle. Then, government army besieged the Samurais. At last, the climate of society turned to liberty to and human rights.

Kato Kiyomasa

He was born in Owari in 1562. He had looked after Toyotomi Hideyoshi since he was a child. He played a big part in the ballet Yamazaki, Shizutake and so on. In 1588, he was given 30 mangoku, half of Higo and he became the castellan of Kumamoto castle. He also worked bravely in the battle made him a very famous samurai. In Sekigahara war, he supported Tokugawa Ieyasu and finally he was given 54 mangoku, all of dominions of Higo.

Musashi Miyamoto

Musashi Miyamoto is famous for fighting with two swords (ni-tou-ryu) and writing “A book of Five Rings”. When he was 57 years old, he came to Kumamoto. And he spent his later year in the Kumamoto castle. He wanted to make the best use of the thing learnt by the kendo for the politics of Kumamoto. When he was 62 years old, he died. The well that he used is still left in Kumamoto castle.

Mushagaeshi

The walls of the castle are made of rocks and are very shape. Nobody can climb it. It was made to knock down enemies. So, enemies were unsure how to take the castle. However, there are another Mushagaeshi in Kumamoto. It is sweet pie. It is famous for souvenir of Kumamoto. I like it!

Kubitake stone

Kumamoto castle has a big stone object called ”Kubitake stone”. Yokoteno Goro brought this big stone from Mt.Hanaoka. He was very strong and brought the stone to Kumamoto by hoisting it on shoulders. This stone’s weight is 18 hundred kilograms. It ended up that Kiyomasa killed him because Goro wanted to kill KatoKiyomasa.

I went to Kumamoto castle three times in the past. How many did you visit Kumamoto castle before? If you haven’t been there before, you should go there. It must be exciting!!

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essay1-03b:Lilo and Stitch (revised)

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 11:55am PDT

"Lilo and Stitch" is the movie of Disney. This story is a very popular around the world. Please let me talk to you about this movie. I watched Lilo and Stitch and I was moved to tears. Before I watch this movie. I thought stitch is very disgusting. But after I watched this movie, I came to like stitch. This movie warmed my heart. This story is really good, and I found two themes from this movie.

The first one is "friendship". In this movie, Lilo is a odd girl. She is fonding the disgusting doll which she made. Her friends are frightened it. The people around her are always troubled with her. Because of it, Lilo's friends hate her. She wishes to shooting star to get new friends. So, Lilo is a lonely girl. Lilo has a older sister, Her name is Nani. Nani is a only person who can understand Lilo. They have the ties that bind Lilo and Nani together.

Stitch is an alien. He has no family member. A mad scientist created him as a biological weapon. He has special abilities. For example, his brain works as a super computer and he can lift objects 3000 times his size. He is a dangerous and ferocious. Stitch had bees arrested and imprisoned but he escaped from there to Hawaii alone. He also spent lonely life.

Stitch starts to live as Lilo's pet. People hated Stitch but Lilo adored stitch. But, Stitch is mischievous character. At first Lilo hated Stitch. But, they experienced various things together and finally they become great friends.

In real life, you occasionally meet people who leave a bad impression but him and you became good friends after all. This relation is like a Lilo and Stitch's case. This case shows us that you can't understand human nature of someone until experience various things with him.

So, we should not judge a person by first impression of him. If you spend more time with him, you will find his good point and bad point. You can understand him after that.

The second theme is "familial love and relationship". As I mentioned above, Lilo has a older sister. Her name is Nani. Lilo and Nani live together. Their parents had passed away. There are many quarrels between Lilo and Nani everyday but they reconcile themselves easily.

I have a younger sister. She is not so noisy. But she and I always get into squabble. But, we can reconcile easily like Lilo and Nani. If I have a noisy sister like Lilo, I can't help going mad. Nani never desert Lilo how Lilo behaves selfishly. I respect Nani.

These two themes "friendship" and "familial love and relationship" is very important in real life. Lilo and Stitch express these two themes well. It is easy to understand these two themes even children. This movie is really worth watching.

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My town

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:54pm PDT

I introduce my town, Mietown. There are lots of places to go and things to see and do. If you visit my town, we can go to a hot spring and take a bath there. I will take you to a lime stone cave and let’s enter it. We will enjoy fishing at Ono River. And I will treat you to the Toriten. The Toriten is a local specialty. You will be pleased! I am looking forward to meeting you in my town.

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How to clean up my room

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:53pm PDT

First of all, I remove materials on the floor. On the floor, there are many books and trashes. Then, classify materials in right order. Next, I open the door to sweep dirt out of a room. Next, I clean the floor using a vacuum cleaner. Next, I wipe the floor to clean dust. Lastly, I put the materials back on the floor. It is how I clean up my room.
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My room

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:53pm PDT

My room is comfortable and has many things. There is no shower room because my room is in a dormitory. But, I don’t care about it. There is a guitar on the guitar stand. I bought this guitar when I was high school student first grade. Its color is blue and has sharp body shape. There is a beautiful grain of wood on the surface of the guitar. I love my guitar so much. There is a laptop on the desk. I finished a lot of assignments by using this laptop. There are many CDs and DVDs in my room. My favorite music genre is mainly heavy metal. In the heavy metal music, there are a lot of super guitar techniques. This is the reason why I listening to heavy metal music. There are many magazines on the floor. I have to clean up them. I love my room.

(149words)
The bucket list

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:52pm PDT

I have five things to do during in my life. First, I want to eat a big steak. I like beef and I want to eat ”Matsuzaka beef”. It is the highest rank of beef in Japan. I want to eat it heartily. Second, I want to drive the F1 car. The F1 car is the fastest car, as far as I know. Third, I want to fly in the sky riding combat plane because combat plane is the fastest and most exciting airplane. I would feel the greatest speed that I have ever felt. Fourth, I want to shoot a gun because I like shooting games and I want to shoot a real gun. I think shooting a gun is would be exciting. Last, I want to go skydiving. Skydiving is the best thing I want to do. I want to dive into the sky from the highest place where airplane can fly. It would be nice!! This is my bucket list.

(163words)
Using cellularphone in public

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:50pm PDT

First of all, we should consider when we use our cellular phones in public. While we are talking with cellular phone, our voice tend to be louder unconsciously. As a result of that, we end up displease others. When we talk to someone over the telephone, we feel as if someone over the telephone besides us. But immediately after hanging up the telephone, we cannot help feeling lonely.

In addition, in silent place, when we e-mail someone and so on, audible click of cellular phone might be annoying. Unexpectedly, click of cellular phone sounds loudly. When we operate a cellular phone, we must be careful that.

Another reason, this is serious problem. If there were a person who is using pacemaker when we use cellular phone, we would plunge him into a crisis of death. In the hospital, there are many precision instruments. To prevent wrong work of precision instruments that is caused by an electromagnetic wave from cellular phone, we have to turn off our cellular phone.

Moreover, When we ride an airplane, turn off your cellular phone, or we will encounter a plane crash. Airplane also loads many precision instruments like a hospital.

Finally, when we use cellular phone in public, we should consider situation around us. Carefully using will save your life. That’s my opinion.

(218 words )
Keanu Reeves

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:44pm PDT

I am a big fan of Keanu Reeves. He is one of most favorite actor in the world. I introduce his biography. On September 2, 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon, Keanu Charles Reeves was born as a Son of Patricia and Samuel Reeves. He was named after his uncle. Henry Keanu Reeves. “Keanu”means”cool breeze over the mountains”. Keanu’s father, Samuel, was half Hawaiian and half Chinese. His mother was of English descent. His sister Kim reeves was born in 1966. But she is leukemia and she still struggle against disease in a condominium in Hawaii. When Keanu was 18 years old, He loved ice hockey and he was elected to the MVP of his school. After 8 years, he organized the rock band “Dog star” and he played bass guitar. But his bass guitar technique was not so good. In 1994, the film “The Speed” came out. I like this movie. The heroine of this movie”Sandra Brock” is very cute!! In that film, he played the leading role and he became popular. From 1999 to 2003, he played the leading part of the film”Matrix”. Now, his reputation as an actor is unassailable.

He is a great motorcycle fan. He owns plural motorcycles. He is still witnessed by someone when he rides a motorcycle. He caused traffic accidents many time. He caused terrible accident just before start shooting of “Matrix” and his neck and his spinal cord got injured that had to perform an operation. He trained battle scene of “Matrix” with a plaster cast. After conclusion of “Matrix” series, he said “Thanks to everyone, the film was great hit” and he gave Harley-Davidson for all the members of the staff of “Matrix”. He is a great actor and he has lived amazing life.

(262 words)
Ikinari Dango

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 6:43pm PDT

I will introduce you to Ikinari Dango. It is one of the most famous and popular foods of Kumamoto. “Ikinari” means “sudden” in English. Why is it called sudden dango? Can you guess? I will tell you the story. Once upon a time, there is old couple. Suddenly their grandchild visited them. They did not prepare for visiting. Then grandmother comes up with an idea! She made Dango. It was sweet potato covered with thin flow paste. It is very easy and quickly. Therefore it started to be called “Ikinari Dango”. This is just one story. There are many stories of origin of “Ikinari Dango”. I like it very much!!

HAYASHI NO IKINARIDANGO
The shop is located on the shopping street just outside the entrance to Suizenji Park. This Japanese ikinaridango shop is widely popular and has been featured on TV programs and in magazines. They have many varieties of ikinaridango sweets. The shop runs all days of the year, so you can enjoy its ikinaridango whenever you want.

(169words)

portfolio for writing Ⅲ

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 11:59am PDT

Student ID: 08131

Portfolio for Writing III, Section 1A OR 1C

[Please delete the unsuitable class section and "OR" (above), along with this line of remarks.]

(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links to blog posts	Dates yyyy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
1-01a (2009.04.08)	essay for Writing 3	2009.04.08
1-01b (2009.04.20)	essay writing 3 rewrite	2009.04.20
(1-01c)
1-02a (2009.06.01)	university life	2009/5/27	315
1-02b (2009.07.06)	university life rewrite	2009/6/24	327
(1-02c)
1-03a (2009.06.29)	lilo and stitch	2009.06.29	405
1-03b (2009.07.13)
Totals	---	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media included in post

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those six assigned essays do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

[Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets, then identify your best essay, and write out your reasons for selecting it here.]

2.0. Comments

Showcase	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yyyy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yyyy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes them good comments.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

[Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then write out your reflections on both giving and receiving comments here.]
....

3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates: yyyy.mm.dd	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
BR 1-01	THE SCORPION KING	2009/4/20	83	0
BR 1-02	Animal travellers	2009/6/4	92	0
BR 1-03	Rain man	2009/6/4	107	1
BR 1-04	parallel	2009/6/4	76	0
BR 1-05	Living in space	2009/6/5	90	0
BR 1-06	Unusual hobbies	2009/6/5	67	0
BR 1-07	Water world	2009/6/5	108	0
BR 1-08	Earthquakes	2009/7/8	68	0
BR 1-09	The Antarctic treaty	2009/7/8	68	0
BR 1-10	The history of money	2009/7/8	95	0
BR 1-11	Democracy in action	2009/7/8	58	0
BR 1-12	Taxation	2009/7/8	75	0








---	---	Totals:

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

[Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then identify your best book review, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & Media

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?
4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?
5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? ___ other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. www (n) xxx (m) yyy (o) zzz (p) ...	---	---
4.3. Links & media	---	---
4.3.1. Does your blog include photos or other graphics?
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? ___ posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? ___ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? ___ posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yyyy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog and your writing for it

Please feel free to include reflections on both class work and homework, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, and reflections).

6.0. Advice and suggestions for yourself, your peers, and your successors

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Notes:

This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc portfolios (2007-08), and Writing III, §§1a & 1c and Writing IV: Portfolio, §§1a & 1c portfolios (2008-09).
Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 1st (spring) semester PPF first.
The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).

____________________
License:

This portfolio template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute to "the Writing Studio Blog" (without quotation marks).

Taxation

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 1:50am PDT

The tax that is most familiar to us is a consumption tax. I wonder how many yen cost me the consumption tax during my life. I want to know that but it is cannot be calculated. I think it must be a large sum of money. But, it was money that worth paying. Our tax is being used for many uses. I think the person who thought of the idea of tax is a great. (75words)
Democracy in action

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 1:49am PDT

When I read a newspaper, I skip politic news. I see political news on TV everyday. But, I am not interest in politics. I think most people who are same generation don’t care about politics. But, this year I am coming twenty and I shall have the right to vote. So, I should take an interest in politics.
(58words)
The history of money

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 1:48am PDT

In the past, the people were dealing by using stones or shells as money. A lot of time has passed and there are many currencies in the world now. My grand mother’s hobby is collecting commemorative coins. She has a lot of coins and bills in her treasure box. She often showed me these treasures when I was child. I notice my grandmother is still living. But she quit collecting commemorative coins. Now, she is collecting commemorative stamps. She said me I will give you my treasure box someday. I am looking forward that day.
(95words)
The Antarctic treaty

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 1:47am PDT

I have wondered that what scientists are doing at the Antarctica. But, my question is solved to read this book. They seem to protect and investigate animals on the Antarctica. The climate of Antarctica must be cold. I am sensitive to the cold and I respect them. I have seen penguin on TV but not in the flesh. I want to see penguin once. I should go to aquarium.
(68words)
Earthquakes

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 1:40am PDT

This book tells me the fear of earthquake. In Japan, there was terrible earthquake in 1995. It is called “Hannsin-Awaji great earthquake ”. When this earthquake happened, I was 9 years old. But, I don’t remember anything. The earthquake with a seismic intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale directly hit Kobe and its neighboring areas. I want to be developed equipment for escape earthquakes in the future.

(68words)
Essay 1-03a: lilo and stitch

Posted: June 29th, 2009, 11:33pm PDT

I watched Lilo and Stitch and I was moved to tears. Before I watch this movie. I thought stitch is very disgusting. But after I watched this movie, I came to like stitch. This movie warmed my heart. This story is really good, and I found two themes from this movie.

First one is "friendship". In this movie, Lilo is a odd girl. She is fonding the disgusting doll which she made. Her friends are frightened it. The people around her is always troubled with her. Because of it, Lilo's friends hates her. She wish to shooting star to get new friends. So, Lilo is a lonely girl. Lilo has a older sister, Her name is Nani. Nani is a only person who can understand Lilo.

Stitch is an alien. A mad scientist created him as a biological weapoms. He has special abiities. For example, his brain works as a super computer and he can lift objects 3000 times his size. He is a dangerous and ferocious. Stitch has bees arrested but he escaped alone from there to Hawaii. He is also spends lonely life.

Stitch starts to live as Lilo's pet. People hated Stitch but Lilo adored stitch. But, Stitch is mischivous character. At first Lilo hated Stitch. But, they experienced various things and finally they become great friends.

In real life, we occasionally experience that someone made bad impression on me but him and you became friends after all. This relation is like Lilo and Stitch. This case show us that you can't understand someone's human nature untill experience various things with him.

The second theme is "familial love and relationship". As mentioned above, Lilo has a older sister. Her name is Nani. Lilo and Nani live together. Their parents had passed away. There are many quarrel between Lilo and Nani everyday but they recouncile themselves easily.

I have a younger sister. She is not so noisy. But her and I always get into squabble. But, we can become reconciled easily. If I have a noisy sister like Lilo, I can't help going mad. Nani never desert Lilo how Lilo behaves selfishly. I respect Nani.

These two themes "friendship" and "familial love and relationship" is very important in real life. Lilo and Stitch express these two theme well. It is easy to understand these two theme even children to watch this movie. This movie is really worth watching.

(405words)
Essay 1-03a: lilo and stitch

Posted: June 29th, 2009, 11:33pm PDT

I watched Lilo and Stitch and I was moved to tears. Before I watch this movie. I thought stitch is very disgusting. But after I watched this movie, I came to like stitch. This movie warmed my heart. This story is really good, and I found two themes from this movie.

First one is "friendship". In this movie, Lilo is a odd girl. She is fonding the disgusting doll which she made. Her friends are frightened it. The people around her is always troubled with her. Because of it, Lilo's friends hates her. She wish to shooting star to get new friends. So, Lilo is a lonely girl. Lilo has a older sister, Her name is Nani. Nani is a only person who can understand Lilo.

Stitch is an alien. A mad scientist created him as a biological weapoms. He has special abiities. For example, his brain works as a super computer and he can lift objects 3000 times his size. He is a dangerous and ferocious. Stitch has bees arrested but he escaped alone from there to Hawaii. He is also spends lonely life.

Stitch starts to live as Lilo's pet. People hated Stitch but Lilo adored stitch. But, Stitch is mischivous character. At first Lilo hated Stitch. But, they experienced various things and finally they become great friends.

In real life, we occasionally experience that someone made bad impression on me but him and you became friends after all. This relation is like Lilo and Stitch. This case show us that you can't understand someone's human nature untill experience various things with him.

The second theme is "familial love and relationship". As mentioned above, Lilo has a older sister. Her name is Nani. Lilo and Nani live together. Their parents had passed away. There are many quarrel between Lilo and Nani everyday but they recouncile themselves easily.

I have a younger sister. She is not so noisy. But her and I always get into squabble. But, we can become reconciled easily. If I have a noisy sister like Lilo, I can't help going mad. Nani never desert Lilo how Lilo behaves selfishly. I respect Nani.

These two themes "friendship" and "familial love and relationship" is very important in real life. Lilo and Stitch express these two theme well. It is easy to understand these two theme even children to watch this movie. This movie is really worth watching.

(405words)
Essay 1-02b: university life rewrite

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 11:34pm PDT

University is more free than high school. Most university usually don't need you to put on school uniform. If you don't want to take mathematics, you don't have to take it. If you skip a class, no one would get angry. But if you absent classes too much, you would failed the courses. There is no restrain but you have to brace yourself.

At the university, you can learn more specialized education. Compare to highschool education, university education is very practical. In my case, I am in the department of english. Another departments also teaching specialized education. It is study worth doing.

In the university, You have no limits to study something but if you haven't mind to do it, it is just waste of time and money. Spending fullfilled university life or useless university life is entirely up to you.

By the way, some students start to live alone. Living alone is very troublesome. For example, you have to cook your own meal, wash your clothes and so on. And some almost students take part-time job. And almost students tend to take higher payment job but high payment job is also hard work or late-night job. If you take high payment job, you might orversleep and might be late for school. It might exert a harmful influence on university life.

Actually, I have a friend who takes late-night job. He seems to busy and he rarely appear in university. He wases his university life. He is a good example of bad student. So, you have to be careful about it.

So, what I want to say is, university is less restraints than highschool but because of it, some students tend to become corrupted. What important point on university life is to brqce yourself. You shouldn't take hard or late-night part-time job. So, Please pay attention to this point and you will spend fullfilled university life.

(327words)
Water world

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:15am PDT

We cannot live without water. This book taught me various information of water. For example, we can get water from foods. In the tomato, 95% is water. Apple is 85%. corn is 70%. So, foods have a lot of water in them. Our body also has a lot of water. More than 60 percent of our body is made up of water. In the brain, 85% is water. I often drink water, when I get up, when I eat some foods, before I go to bed. I can get clean water easily. But, some people have to drink dirty water. I have to thank to this good environment. (108words)
Unusual hobbies

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:14am PDT

In this world, there are many kinds of hobbies. Usually, it is sports or reading books or video games or shopping or something like that. My hobby is to playing the guitar. It’s usual hobby. This book reports unusual hobbies in the world. For example, there are some people who like to chase a twister. They enjoy following and looking at tornadoes. I can’t understand their bobby.

(67words)
Living in space

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:05am PDT

If you read this book, you could know how astronauts spend in the space. According to this book, the first spacecraft with astronauts blasted into space in 1961. Before the trip to space, astronauts have to do some severe training. During the trip, we have to live inconveniently. For example, they don’t rinse their teeth after brush their teeth. The water is very valuable in the space. So, they have to save it. There are many inconvenient things on the space trip. But, I want to go space trip someday.

(90words)
Vacation plan

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 3:29pm PDT

During next summer vacation, I have an important plan to do. I will obtain a driver's license. I am already 19 years old and I have a qualification to obtain it. Actually, I know my friends who have a driver's license. Next summer vacation is valuable opportunity to take driver's license. No one knows one's self future plans. It might be very busy. So, I should obtain a driver's license during summer vacation. It is said that to obtain a driver's license is very challenging. But I have been dreaming to drive a car and I will carry it out at any cost. that's my vacation plan.

(114words)
parallel

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 2:34pm PDT

This story is very mysterious. Max is a common man like us. One day, mysterious man, Fairhead visit him and said ”I’ll take you to parallel world”.
Fairhead takes Max to parallel world by using subway. Max experienced strange incident there・・・.
Concept of “parallel world” is very interesting. Many movies and novels use this concept. If there were parallel worlds, I can’t help wondering that in the parallel world, another me spends what kind of life. (76words)
Rain man

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 2:27pm PDT

This is touching story of special brothers. There are two main characters, Charlie and Raymond. Charlie is rich man. He is younger brother. Raymond is autistic man. He is older brother. They haven’t met when their father died.
Charlie is nonplused by Raymond’s strange behavior. Charlie has amazing ability about memory. This is rare symptom of autism. I was surprised by his behavior. You should check it!

This story was made into movie. I like movie too. In the movie, you can hear beautiful music. I like that song so much. I want you to hear that song. Please click this URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-61pYCe6po

I like this touching story. (107words)
Animal travellers

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 2:13pm PDT

This book is story of animal that migrates somewhere. This book introduces the way of migration of several animals. I am impressed by Monarch butterflies especially. They migrate twice, in spring and autumn. They migrate to find milkweed. It is important to breed. And they migrate to colder place. They fly 3200kilometers on their journey. I didn’t know that and I was surprised. Monarch butterflies dies when they lay their eggs on milkweed. It is very wistful. They spend their transitory life strongly. If I find butterflies, I couldn’t help feeling pitiful. (92words)
table tennis

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 3:07pm PDT

I take sports class on Monday 2nd period. It is table tennis. In that class we learn about detailed rules of table tennis and play table tennis pleasantly. When I was high school student, I often played table tennis with my friend who are belongs to table tennis club. Thanks for him、 I come to play table tennis well. But, in table tennis class, there are many people who are good at t'tennis. I surprised and thought that I want to be better t'tennis player than them. I am looking forward every t'tennis class.

(95words)
First trip to foireign country.

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 3:05pm PDT

First country where I traveled first is China. I went to china in high school excursion. In china, the sky was cloudy and air was dusty. I have asthma and I feel bad. In Chinese I ate many Chinese foods. But, all meal tastes awful. I disappointed it. But, KFC was very delicious. KFC always supply us same taste humbugger, no matter there it is. The excursion was 4-day trip. When I come back to Japan, I had lost two kilograms. I don' want to go to china again. (89words)
Food I like

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 2:15pm PDT

The food I like best is curry. I think this is most Delicious,popular food. I believe strongly that there is no man who don't like curry. I want to eat curry at least once a week. But, I live in the dormitory of KGU now and opportunities of eating curry is rare.
I want to eat curry more. fortunately, in cafeteria of KGU, there is curry menu. and it is Delicious. i love it.

(76words)
My hobbis

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 1:30pm PDT

My hobby is to play the guitar and piano. I like to play the guitar especially. I started to play the guitar when I was 14. There was no one who can play the guitar and I had to practice the guitar alone. During Playing the guitar is my best precious time. I want to progress my guitar skill. It's my hobby.

(64words)
University life

Posted: May 26th, 2009, 12:45pm PDT

KGU has smoking space but it is
University activities I dont do.

Posted: May 26th, 2009, 11:58am PDT

●Driving to school
●Doing the club activity
●Going to a students’ dining hall
●Chatting loudly with my friends
●Cheating an exam
●Sleeping during a class
●Skipping a class
●Living with my family

(40 words)
Qualties of good essays

Posted: May 12th, 2009, 12:46pm PDT

I think the best essay in this class is Shiori's essay. her essay is the longest essay in this class. She wrote a detailed essay. It is important to imagine what her done. I could understand what her learned.

I think that good essay has contents what attract the interest of many people. I want to write essay like that.

(60 words)
what I learnedin Writing l-ll

Posted: May 12th, 2009, 11:52am PDT

In Writing l-ll, I learned grammar mainly. For example, noun, verb, adjective, adverb and so on. And I learned correct order.

I have a impressive class. It was "correct order of adjective". I didn't know that. But, I learned it and found that if I used adjective in wrong order, I might give him a strange impression.

And I learned how to write a letter in English. I wrote a letter to my teacher. The decisive difference between English letter and Japanese letter is write order of address. It was perplexed problem to me.

But now, I can write correct order of English thanks toWritingl-ll.

(99 words)
holiday

Posted: April 19th, 2009, 4:42pm PDT

Last Sunday, I played basket ball with my friends. Because I read SLUMDANK recently.

SLUMDANK is one of most favorite comics of Japan. If you had not this comic yet, you should read it. It's worth to reading!
THE SCORPION KING (books review)

Posted: April 19th, 2009, 4:06pm PDT

I read this book. the story is set in the age of ancient Egypt.

The Mennon is going to dominate the country by using evil magical power. The peoples of that country is afraid of it.
The Mathayus is strong, brave man. He is a master of the martial arts, fencer and archery. The people of that country asked him to kill the Mennon.

this story makes me feel uneasy just to read it. I like action stories and I choose this book.
essay writing 3 rewrite

Posted: April 19th, 2009, 4:04pm PDT

To the Martin family

It's nice to know you. My name is G.Yuutarou. I am going to stay with you in America for 6 weeks. I am a student at KGU in Japan. I am a sophomore. I am learning English there. My future job is still unclear but I'm interested in translator recently. I want to find idea of my future job in your country. I wished to study abroad and that dream comes true. I feel happy now.

But, I am worried that I won't be able to speak English so well because I am not good at English. Can you speak Japanese? Is there anything you are interested in about Japan? Are there any rules that I should keep in your house during my stay? Do you have any animals as pets? I like animal so much and I hope you have pet. I like cats and dogs especially. The animal I like best is cat. I like their soft fur. Are there any musical instruments in your house? I like to play the guitar and piano. I would happy if someone could play any musical instruments.

I decided to study harder to communicate to you more smoothly. At least I want to understand eighty percent of the English that you speak.

I will bring you a nice present from Japan. I expect you will be pleased. I am going to have to depend on you for a lot of things once I get to stay with you. Since everything in your country is new to me. I am looking forward to it. I hope you will enjoy having me there. I am happy if I can get a letter from you before my departure.

I am looking forward to seeing you soon. Thank you. Sincerely yours.

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Essay for Writing 3

Posted: April 8th, 2009, 11:25pm PDT

To the Martin family

It's nice to know you. My name is G.Yuutarou. I am going to stay with you in America for 6 weeks. I am a student at KGU in Japan. I am a sophomore. I am learning English there. I wished to study abroad and that dream comes true. I feel happy now. But, I am worried that I won't be able to speak English so well because I am not good at English. Can you speak Japanese? Is there anything you are interested in about Japan? Are there any rules that I should keep in your house during my stay? Do you have any animals as pets? I like animal so much and I hope you have pet. Are there any musical instruments in your house? I like to play the guitar and piano. I would happy if someone could play any musical instruments. I decided to study harder to communicate to you more smoothly. At least I want to understand eighty percent of the English that you speak.I will bring you a nice present from Japan. I expect you will be pleased. I am going to have to depend on you for a lot of things once I get to stay with you. Since everything in your country is new to me. I am looking forward to it. I hope you will enjoy having me there. I am happy if I can get a letter from you before my departure. I am looking forward to seeing you soon. Thank you. sincarely yours.
My spring vacation

Posted: March 24th, 2009, 6:21pm PDT

My spring vacation was very boring. I had nothing to do. But, I'm happy now. Because, I have 2 dogs and 3 cats as pet. I spent all day taking care of them. They are so cute. They always satisfy me. Their each behave are very funny. I will not be tired of them. I am happy to be with them. That's all.
Winter

Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 4:17pm PDT

WinterIt's getting cooler day by day. It's very comfortable. But, "cool" will canges to "cold". I am weak in winter. I can't help wearing thick clothes.
My first post

Posted: September 26th, 2008, 7:40pm PDT

I finally succeeded to make my blog. It was difficult to me.

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