Risa Matsunaga

Last Meeting

2010-01-14T00:13:00.000+09:00

Today is the last meeting of circle. We are going to go Hiroshima to ski in this spring vacation. I’m looking forward to visiting Hiroshima and skiing. This is the first time for me to visit Hiroshima.

After meeting, we moved to gym of Jousei junior high school and we played sports. The first, we played basketball. It was hard for me to play basketball because I don’t like to play basketball. So I didn’t play basketball so much but I watched it. To Watch basketball was more fun for me than to play it. After basketball, we played badminton. When I was a junior high school student, I belonged to badminton club. So I like to play badminton very much. But I have long time no play badminton, I couldn’t play badminton well. But I enjoyed playing badminton very much. In my circle, there are many people who belonged to badminton club so we organized badminton club in my circle. The name of this club is ERCB (Economic Research Club Badminton). We planned to play badminton again in this spring vacation. Finally, we played dodge ball.
I’ve also long time no play dodge ball. I don’t like to play dodge ball but today I could enjoy playing dodge ball! After sports, we took pictures.

After sports, we went to hot spring. Because it was very cold day, it was very comfortable for us. We stayed hot spring for about an hour and we moved Macdnald because we felt a little hungry. Then, we talked about various things. We stayed there for about two hours! After that, we went back.

I enjoyed the last circle activity very much!

(278 words)

Portfolio

2010-01-06T09:23:00.008+09:00

Student ID: 08164

Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1A OR 1C
[Please delete the unsuitable class section and the word "OR" (above), along with this line of remarks.]
(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. OVERVIEW

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. ESSAYS

(See: Note 3, 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
2-01a (2009.10.07)	Favorite Place, Essay	2009.10.13	5	304	5	0	0	0
2-01b (2009.10.21)	Revised Favorite Place	2009.10.21	6	439	0	0	0	0
(2-01c)
2-02a (2009.11.04)	2-02a English Website review	2009.10.28	6	404	6	0	0	0
2-02b (2009.11.18)	2-02b English Website Review (revision)	2009.11.11	6	519	0	0	0	0
(2-02c)
2-03a (2009.12.02)	2-03a Language Learning Stories	2009.11.30	5	516	5	0	0	0
2-03b (2009.12.18/22)	2-03b: Language Learning Stories	2009.12.16	8	591	2	0	0	0
(2-03c)
Totals	---	---	36	2773	18	0	0	0

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. Most Improved Essay

(See: Note 4, below.)

Selection and Assessment: Which of the three essays that you've written and revised this semester shows the most improvement? What did you do to improve it? Remember that complete answers are better than short answers, focus on your writing (accuracy, appropriacy, content and organization, rather than graphics or other media), and explain at least two major improvements.

I think that essay 2-03b show the most improvement, because this essay is a few words in each paragraph.

2.0. COMMENTS

Showcase	Short 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:	Short 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 comments good.

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.

... My recent comments from blog visitors displayed leftside of my blog.

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

....

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 2-01	WAKE UP, SUN	2009.10.07	172	0
BR 2-02	The Cow in the House	2009.11.20	161	0
BR 2-03	The Princess and the Pea	2009.11.20	193	0
BR 2-04	The Three Little Pigs	2009.12.03	199	0
BR 2-05	The Ugly Duckling	2009.12.03	189	1
BR 2-06	The Garden That We Grew	2009.12.28	96	0
BR 2-07	Stories of Mermaids	2009.12.28	180	0
BR 2-08	The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs	2009.12.29	168	0
BR 2-09
BR 2-10
BR 2-11
BR 2-12
BR 2-13
BR 2-14
BR 2-15
BR 2-16
BR 2-17
BR 2-18


---	---	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.

I think that my best book review is BR2-04, because this book is the most interested for me. And I was surprised that difference of story between Japanese and English.

4.0. BLOG LAYOUT, LABELING, LINKING, and MEDIA

Showcase	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 display a cloud or list of labels in the sidebar?
4.2.1. 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. blog (13) books (18) brainstone (1) drafts (2) essay (3) essays (12) essays. [events] (1) favorites (4) free-writing (1) languages (2) movies (1) outlines (2) portfolios (1) respond (1) reviews (21) revised (1) revisions (3) university (1) university life (1) websites (3)	---
4.3. Links and media	---
4.3.1. Do your blog posts this semester 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 and readability 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.

... Displayed labels on side of my blog.
... Displayed recent comments on side of my blog.
... I should have changed color of my article titles.

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, selections, and reflections).

... I should have posted more variety photos.
... I should have done my homework as soon as possible.
...I should have posted more my diaries.

6.0. ADVICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR YOURSELF, YOUR PEERS, AND YOUR SUCCESSORS

... I have to try to post more links or graphs.
... I have to keep blogging.
... I have to change my blog more colorful.

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The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
The essay selection and explanation item (§1.2, above) differs from that in the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III. Please read the new item carefully before making a selection.

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BR2-08: The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs

2009-12-29T00:28:00.000+09:00

I read “The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs” today. I’m going to talk about this book’s story.

Tom and Elena lived in a small cottage and they were very poor. Every morning, Tom collected the eggs and sell in the village. One day, Tom found a strange egg and it was a golden egg! He sold this golden egg. The next morning, he found another golden egg and he sold it every day so they became rich. He wanted lots of gold. Then Elena suggested that they kill the goose. Because she thought that they can have all gold at once. So they killed the goose. But there was no gold inside at all. They were poor again and he never found another golden egg.

This book taught me various things. It is not good for people too much greedy. I think that people should not forget humility. I believe that if they haven’t killed the goose, they could keep rich and they spend more happy life.

(168 words)

BR2-07: Stories of Mermaids

2009-12-28T16:14:00.000+09:00

I read “Stories of Mermaids” today. This book composed three short stories of mermaids. I will talk about one of three that I like best.

My favorite story is “The ghostly galleon”. This story is; Harmony lived with her mother. They were so poor but Harmony tried to keep up cheerful by singing beautiful songs. One day, Harmony’s mother was sick. The only care is polka dot seaweed but it only grows in the pirate’s Graveyard. There is spooky place but Harmony want. In there, she found it but she was caught by Gingerbeard’s ghost. She sang sadly and Gingerbeard heard her songs. Finally, he let her go home because he couldn’t endure to hear her songs. Harmony’s mother was cured. Thanks to Gingerbeard’s gold, they moved into warm and cozy place.

I loved mermaids stories. Mermaids are very cute. This story is interesting for me. Because Gingerbeard finally liberated Harmony and he gave her not only seaweed but also treasures. I think that he is a kind man at bottom. I believe that mermaid lived somewhere in the world.

(180 words)

BR2-06: The Garden That We Grew

2009-12-28T15:58:00.000+09:00

I read “The Garden That We Grew” today. This story is; children planted the seeds of pumpkin in the garden. They grew these seeds. In autumn, they picked their pumpkins. They scooped the pumpkins inside and cooked. They made faces with pumpkins outside. They saved the seeds to grow pumpkins next year.

I like this story because this story is warm me. I also have grown sweet potato before. And in autumn I picked them and ate. That was very delicious. I thought that if I have a time, I try to grow something vegetables again.

(96 words)

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-26T23:33:00.000+09:00

Merry Christmas! In Christmas day, we held cocktail party at my friend’s house. At first, we went to shopping to buy alcohol drink and ingredient of Nabe. At 8:00 P.M. we started the cocktail party. After finished eating dinner, we played tramp games. It was very fun! We talk various things all night. At dawn, we went walking. It was very cold day but I enjoyed walking. We went to convenience store by foot, and we bought our breakfast. I enjoyed my Christmas day very much.

(86 words)

2-03c: History of Languages Revision

2009-12-18T23:01:00.000+09:00

Do you think that we need to learn languages? I think we need to learn language. Of course mother tongue, English, and other country language. Languages are most important way of human communication. In the past, I have studied our mother tongue, English and French. In the present, I study English in deeply. In the future, I want to learn English and I want to be able to communicate in English.

In the future, I want to put English to account in my job. So I will keep learning English. I think that to communicate in English is essential for us in the future. Because Japan is in internationalization, so we need English. And English is the common language so if I could speak English, I can talk with various people. I want to go to study abroad someday. I’ll go to study abroad by all means if I have a chance and enough money. Then, I’ve never learned Asia countries languages but Japanese so I want to try to learn Asian countries languages like Chinese or Korean.

At the present, I study English in KGU. I study speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Now, we should write English blog. It is hard for me to keep writing blog but I think that to continue writing blog is good way to learn writing. In the speaking class, we learn how to debate or presentations. It is good for me to progress with my English skill. Speaking is the best way to improve my English skill. In the reading class, I learn how to read newspapers in English. Thanks to this class, I can understand rule of English newspaper’s headline. In addition, I learn English history and English phonetics. It is difficult for me. And I’m interested in foreign literatures so I take the class of American literatures. It is very interesting for me. I want to learn not only languages but also literatures.

In past, when I was born, I learned mother language from my parents. After that, I learned hiragana and katakana in preschool. In elementary school, I learned kanji. I didn’t like to study kanji because it was difficult for me so I was poor at kanji. What’s more, in elementary school, I learned Japanese reading. Then I liked reading so I liked Japanese class.

In junior high school, I learned Japanese grammar. I spoke Japanese without conscious grammar so I was confused a little. Also, I learned Japanese classics. I liked Japanese classics very much. “Taketori Monogatari” is the most interest story for me. And I learned English in the first time. Honestly speaking, I didn’t like to learn English the first because it was difficult for me. But soon, I understood English and I enjoyed learning English. So I decided to entered English class of high school.

In high school, I learned English more. In summer vacation of my high school days, I joined English camp. Then we talk each other only in English. That was good experience for me. I experienced English debate the first time and we played English drama at the school festival. Also, I talked with assistant language teacher and exchange students in English actively. They taught me English and I taught them Japanese. One German exchange student taught me German a little.

In KGU last year, I learned English speaking, reading, writing, listening, and grammar. And I interested in French so learned French in KGU last year. The reason why I interested in French, my favorite Japanese singer sings covered French songs so I wanted to understand the songs meaning. But it is more difficult than I used to think. I could understand French a little.

When I was interested in languages spoken in other countries especially English because I was English major when I was a high school student. French is difficult for me but French classes were interesting. If I have a time, I want to learn French more. I study English in KGU now but my communication skill of English is still weak. I’ll study English more and more. I hope that I could talk in English smoothly. Also if I have a chance, I will try other languages of East Asia, like Chinese or Korean.

(707 words)

2-03b: Language Learning Stories

2009-12-16T10:07:00.005+09:00

Do you think that we need to learn languages? I think we need to learn language. Of course mother tongue, English, and other country language. Languages are most important way of human communication. In the past, I have studied our mother tongue, English and French. In the present, I study English in deeply. In the future, I want to learn English and I want to be able to communicate in English.

In the future, I want to put English to account in my job. So I will keep learning English. I think that to communicate in English is essential for us in the future. Because Japan is in internationalization, so we need English. I’ve never learned Asia countries languages but Japanese so I want to try to learn Asian countries languages like Chinese or Korean.

At the present, I study English in KGU. I study speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Now, we should write English blog. It is hard for me to keep writing blog but I think that to continue writing blog is good way to learn writing. In the speaking class, we learn how to debate or presentations. It is good for me to progress with my English skill. Speaking is the best way to improve my English skill. In the reading class, I learn how to read newspapers in English. Thanks to this class, I can understand rule of English newspaper’s headline. In addition, I learn English history and English phonetics. It is difficult for me.

In past, when I was born, I learned mother language from my parents. After that, I learned hiragana and katakana in preschool. In elementary school, I learned kanji. I didn’t like to study kanji because it was difficult for me so I was poor at kanji. What’s more, in elementary school, I learned Japanese reading. Then I liked reading so I liked Japanese class.

In junior high school, I learned Japanese grammar. I spoke Japanese without conscious grammar so I was confused a little. And I learned English in the first time. Honestly speaking, I didn’t like to learn English the first because it was difficult for me. But soon, I understood English and I enjoyed learning English. So I decided to entered English class of high school.

In high school, I learned English more. In summer vacation of my high school days, I joined English camp. Then we talk each other only in English. That was good experience for me. I experienced English debate the first time and we played English drama at the school festival. Also, I talked with assistant language teacher and exchange students in English actively. They taught me English and I taught them Japanese. One German exchange student taught me German a little.

In KGU last year, I learned English speaking, reading, writing, listening, and grammar. And I interested in French so learned French in KGU last year. But it is more difficult than I used to think. I could understand French a little.

When I was interested in languages spoken in other countries especially English because I was English major when I was a high school student. French is difficult for me but French classes were interesting. If I have a time, I want to learn French more. I study English in KGU now but my communication skill of English is still weak. I’ll study English more and more. I hope that I could talk in English smoothly. Also if I have a chance, I will try other languages of East Asia, like Chinese or Korean.

(591 words)

BR2-05: The Ugly Duckling

2009-12-03T22:32:00.002+09:00

I read “The Ugly Duckling” today. I’ll talk about this story.
Once upon a time, nine ducklings hatched but only one did not look like the others. His brothers and sisters called him “ugly duckling” and he stayed away from them. The another duck family came and they teased the ugly duckling so he ran away. He was lonely. The ugly duckling stayed all winter. One day, he saw some swans flying South and they call him but he couldn’t fly very well. The ugly duckling stayed this lake and he grew so he could fly. Then some swans said to ugly duckling that stay with them. He answered that he is just a ugly duckling but now he recognized he is a beautiful swan.

I’ve heard this story in Japanese before. This is a sad story. When I read this story the first, I cried because this story is too sad. I think the ugly duckling is very poor because he stayed alone long time. But at last, he recognized he is a swan and he could meet his real friends. I hope that he could be happy.

(189 words)

BR2-04: The Three Little Pigs

2009-12-03T22:02:00.003+09:00

I read “The Three Little Pigs” today. This is the famous story in Japan. But It is a little different between Japanese Three pigs and English one. This is the story of this book.
Three pigs traveled around the world. First pig made his house of straw. Then a wolf came his house but the pig did not open the door so the wolf broke the pig’s house and ate him up. Second pig made his house of wood. Then the wolf came again. The wolf also broke the pig’s house and ate him up. Third pig made his house of brick. The wolf came again. He tried to break the pig’s house but the brick house did not break. So the wolf gave up and went away.

In this story, the first pig and the second pig were eaten by the wolf. But Japanese story is not different. In Japanese story, when the houses of the first pig and the second pig were broken by the wolf, they ran away to the third pig’s house. So all three pigs were survived. The first pig and second pigs were eaten up by wolf so that I was very surprised.

(199 words)

2-03a Language Learning Stories

2009-11-30T01:28:00.005+09:00

Do you think that we need learning languages? I think we need to learn language. Of course mother language, English, and other country language. Languages are most important way of human communication. In past, I learn our mother language, English and French. In present, I learn English in deep. In future, I want to learn English and I want to communicate in English.

In future, I want to put English to account in my job. So I keep learn English more. I think that to communicate in English is essential for us in the future. Because Japan is in internationalization so we need English. I’ve never learned Asia countries languages but Japanese so I want to try to learn Asia countries languages for example Chinese and Korean.

In present, I learn English in KGU. I learn speaking, reading, writing, and listening. In speaking class, we learn how to debate or presentation. It is good for me to up my English skill. Speaking is the best way to improve my English skill. In reading class, I learn how to read newspapers in English. Thanks to this class, I can understand rule of English paper’s headline. In addition, I learn English history and English phonetics. It is difficult for me.

In past, when I was born, I learned mother language from my parents. After that, I learned hiragana and katakana in preschool. In elementary school, I learned kanji. I didn’t like learn kanji because it was difficult for me so I was poor at kanji. What’s more, in elementary school, I learned Japanese reading. Then I liked reading so I liked Japanese class. In junior high school, I learned Japanese grammar. I spoke Japanese without conscious grammar so I was confused a little. And I learned English in the first time. Honestly speaking, I didn’t like to learn English the first because it was difficult for me. But soon, I understood English and I enjoyed learning English. So I decided to entered English class of high school. In high school, I learned English more. I experienced English debate the first time and we played English drama at the school festival. Also, I talked with ALT and exchange students actively. They taught me English and I taught them Japanese. One German exchange student taught me German a little. In KGU last year, I learned English speaking, reading, writing, listening, and grammar. And I interested in French so learned French in KGU last year. But it is more difficult than I used to think. I could understand French a little.

I was interested in other countries languages especially English so I was English major when I was a high school student. French is difficult for me but French class was interesting. If I have a time, I want to learn French more. Now, I learn English in KGU but my communication skill of English is still weak. I’ll study English more and more, I hope that I could talk in English smoothly. Also if I have a chance, I will try to learn languages of East Asia, Chinese or Korean.

(516 words)

2-03 Outline

2009-11-25T10:03:00.003+09:00

Japanese
hiragana
katakana
kanji
English
alphabet
French
Asian languages
Chinese
Korean
English history
phonetics
communication
essential

BR2-03: The Princess and the Pea

2009-11-20T00:56:00.001+09:00

I read “The Princess and the Pea” today. This is the story of this book; A prince wanted to marry a princess so he looked and met many princesses. But he sent all of them away because he thought they were not real princesses. One day, a princess came and she said she was a real princess. The queen went off to make the bed to see if this is a real princess. She put a tiny pea and put twenty mattresses and twenty down covers on it. The princess went to bed. Next morning, the queen asked if princess could sleep well. The answer was no because she noticed there was a big lump in her bed. Only real princess could feel a pea under twenty mattresses so the queen and king understood she was a real princess. The prince married the princess.

This is a interesting book. Because the way of find a real princess is pea! I think the real princess could notice however little things. So this is a good way to find real princess. I’m sure the king, queen, and prince also can feel pea under twenty mattresses.

(193 words)

BR2-02: The Cow in the House

2009-11-20T00:41:00.003+09:00

I read “The Caw in the House” today. This story is a man lived in a noisy old house. The bed creaked. The chair squeaked. The roof leaked. One day, he went to see wise man and gave advice. The advice is to get a cow and keep it in his house. It was silly idea but he did it. After that, he also get dog, cat, sheep, and donkey so he was mad. Then, the wise man told him that put all animals out and he did it. The bed still creaked, the chair squeaked, and the roof leaked but he felt that there is a quiet house.

The wise man use delusion. I think he is a really genius man! He makes the man’s house noisier on purpose and he makes the man feel the quiet house when the animals out. It was opposite idea. I think that this book teach us there are many many ways of thinking.

(161 words)

new CM

2009-11-18T23:10:00.000+09:00

Have you already watched new CM of watering kiss mint gum? Sheena Ringo appears this CM. I'm very glad because I love her very much. Also this CM's BGM is Tokyo Jihen's new song 'Noudou-teki Sannpunnkan' mean active for three minutes. Tokyo Jihen is a band that Sheena Ringo act as vocal. This CM started yesterday. So I watched this CM on 'YouTube' again and again. In this CM, Sheena Ringo challenged 'moonwalk'. I would like that you notice her moonwalk. This is link of YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H696rcw_Xs Please check this CM!

(91 words)

2-02b English Website Review (revision)

2009-11-11T09:40:00.002+09:00

I like annual events and enjoy them very much. So I looked at two English sites about history of Halloween and Christmas around the world. These sites are interesting for me. Now, I’m going to talk about these twowebsites.

First, I’ll talk about history of Halloween. I think that many Japanese suppose Halloween is just disguise party and children get sweets. But of course Halloween has means and long history. Halloween, or the Hallow E'en as they call it in Ireland, means ‘All Hallows Eve’. So November 1 is an anniversary to honor all Saint heavens. After that, Ancient people believed that ghosts, spirits, and witches come to their house at night of October 31 so they wore masks and made fires. This is the start of Halloween. They dressed up as monsters like ghosts, witches, black cats, Dracula, Frankenstein, and so on. But after 1990, people prefer lovely disguises like spirits or vegetables to monster.

I didn’t know much about Halloween. I also thought that Halloween is disguise party. And I was surprised that October 31 of Halloween day is Hallows Eve. I wonder why There are no Halloween events in Japan. I think Japan has the Bon Festival in August. Halloween and Bon Festival are similar events. Because Japan has no Halloween events so I’ve never experienced Halloween party. I want to join Halloween events in America someday. If you are interested in Halloween, I recommend you to look at this site because it is easy to know about Halloween.

Second, I’ll talk about Christmas around the world. Christmas is a Christian’s event but Christmas is loved people around the world. In China, most Chinese people are not Christian but of course there have Christmas. Chinese people call Santa Claus Dun Che Lao Ren, which means ‘Christmas Old Man’. Christmas in India decorate mango or banana tree at Christmas time. Also, they decorate their house with mango's leaves. Christmas in Spain, December 28 is the feast of the Holy Innocents. The children of Spain receive gifts on the feast of the Epiphany.

Christmas loved people around the world! Christmas is no connection with religions. Christmas is a festival to celebrate birth of Jesus by Christian people. So I thought that other religions people don’t have Christmas. But I found that people around the world enjoy Christmas. I think that most countries celebrate Christmas as a same way. Christmas night, people eat feast and children receive gift from Santa Claus. Do you know Bethlehem? Bethlehem is the little town where Jesus was born. I didn’t know that. I like Christmas events but I don’t know Christmas mean well. So I could learn about Christian’s Christmas event and Christmas around the world. In the not Christian country, there has Christmas day but they arranged Christmas to suit their cultures. So I recommend you to look at not Christian countries pages. You might find new Christmas.

These two English sites are very interesting for me. And I could learn Halloween and Christmas means. As I learned about Halloween and Christmas, I think that I can enjoy these two events more.

(519 words)

Speaking: opinion

2009-11-09T00:39:00.003+09:00

1. I don’t think so. Because most American foods contain more fat than Japanese food. What’s more, most American food especially snacks contain a lot of food coloring.

2. I think shopping at a “TouMe Town” is better than shopping downtown.
I think so, too. Because YouMe Town has many shops and if you have YouMe card, you can get some points when you buy something.

3. We need to let more people from other countries move to Japan and live here.
I agree with you. Because I think that Japan is safe country and Japan has many good cultures. Some American food is very healthy.

4. Showing your belly button (heso) is not attractive.
I agree with you. Showing your belly button is untidy and it is not good for your health.

(133 words)

2-02a English Website review

2009-10-28T10:19:00.007+09:00

I like annual events and enjoy them very much. So I watched two English sites about history of Halloween and Christmas around the world. These sites are interesting for me. Now, I’m going to talk about these two events.

First, I’ll talk about history of Halloween. I think that many Japanese suppose Halloween is just disguise party and children get sweets. But of course Halloween has means and long history.Halloween, or the Hallow E'en as they call it in Ireland, means ‘All Hallows Eve’. Ancient people believed that ghosts, spirits, and witches come to their house at night of October 31th so they wore a mask and made a fire. This is the start of Halloween. They dressed up as monsters like ghost, witch, black cat, Dracula, Frankenstein, and so on. But after 1990, people prefer lovely disguise like spirit or vegetable to monster.

I didn’t know about Halloween well. I also thought that Halloween is disguise party. So I wonder why There is no Halloween events in Japan. I think Japan has the Bon Festival in August. Halloween and Bon Festival are similar events. Because Japan has no Halloween events so I’ve never experienced Halloween party. I want to join Halloween events in America someday.

Second, I’ll talk about Christmas around the world. Christmas is a Christian’s event but Christmas loved people around the world. In China, most Chinese people are not Christian but of course there has Christmas. Chinese people call Santa Claus Dun Che Lao Ren, which means ‘Christmas Old Man’. Christmas in India decorate mango or banana tree at Christmas time. Christmas in Spain, December 28 is the feast of the Holy Innocents. As in many European countries, the children of Spain receive gifts on the feast of the Epiphany.

Christmas loved people around the world! Christmas is no connection with religions. I think that most countries celebrate Christmas as a same way. Christmas night, people eat feast and children receive gift from Santa Claus. Do you know Bethlehem? Bethlehem is the little town where Jesus was born. I didn’t know that. I like Christmas events but I don’t know Christmas mean well. So I could learn about Christian’s Christmas event and Christmas around the world.

These two English sites are very interesting for me. And I could learn Halloween and Christmas means. As I learned about Halloween and Christmas, I think I can enjoy these two events more.

(404 words)

Short list

2009-10-28T09:37:00.008+09:00

History of Halloween
http://http//www.theholidayspot.com/halloween/history.htm

Christmas around the world
http://http//www.the-north-pole.com/around/

Revised Favorite Place

2009-10-21T09:14:00.002+09:00

I’m going to talk about my favorite place. I have some favorite places. For example, I like my room, in the car, karaoke, and so on. But my room is my best favorite place. I have four reasons why I like my room. First, it is comfortable place, it also is to do my hobbies, there are many my treasures, and I have attachment.

First, it is comfortable for me. My room catches the sun so there is warm. In winter day, I like to take a nap on the sunny bed. Then, I need not heating. Aroma candle also feel relaxed me. My favorite smell is lavender and when I look candle’s flame, I’m very calm. My furniture especially bed and sofa are very old. I gave them when I was a elementary school student. They are old but I’m attached to them. I have two sisters but my room is not share with them. So I can do what I want to do without interference.

Second, it has many hobbies. In my room, there is a stereo and I always listen to music with it. Sometimes, I listen to music with i-Pod. It is my custom to listen music before go to bed. Reading comic books and magazines is also my hobby. I like comic books so when I have free time, I read comic books with listening music. I have another one hobby. That is painting. I can’t concentrate to paint anywhere but my room.

Third, there are many treasures of mine. On the desk, there are many photos. I always look these photos and I feel very happy. In the photo albums, there are many photos. I sometimes take out and look them. I like jewelry and especially I’m interested in earring nowadays. So I have many earrings. Some of them, I gave my friend. Also, I have big teddy bear. I gave it to my parents when we tripped to Nagasaki. I always put it by my pillow.

Finally, My room is not large and new. There are not TV and air conditioner. Maybe you think my room is unconvenient place but it is the best place for me. My room's smell, extend and atomosphere and so on. All these things are make me relax. I've used my room about for fifteen years so I am attached to my room.

When I am in my room, I recover my health and be happy. There are important place for me. I think my room is more comfortable place than any other place. So I always in my room and I like my room the best.

(439 words)

Respond to comment

2009-10-14T10:29:00.003+09:00

Thank you for writing comments. I refer to your ideas. I also think our own room is the most comfortable place. My favorite music is J-pop especially Ringo Sheena. I always listen to her music in my room.

(38 words)

Favorite Place, Essay

2009-10-13T01:39:00.003+09:00

I’m going to talk about my favorite place. My favorite place is my room. I have tree reasons why I like my room.
First, it is comfortable for me. My room catches the sun so there is warm. In winter day, I like to take a nap on the sunny bed. Then, I need not heating. Aroma candle also feel relaxed me. My favorite smell is lavender and when I look candle’s flame, I’m very calm. My furniture especially bed and sofa are very old. I gave them when I was a elementary school student. They are old but I’m attached to them. I have two sisters but my room is not share with them. So I can do what I want to do without interference.
Second, it has many hobbies. In my room, there is a stereo and I always listen to music with it. Sometimes, I listen to music with Ipod. It is my custom to listen music before go to bed. Reading comic books and magazines is also my hobby. I like comic books so when I have free time, I read comic books with listening music. I have another one hobby. That is painting. I can’t concentrate to paint anywhere but my room.
Finally, there are many treasures of mine. On the desk, there are many photos. I always look these photos and I feel very happy. In the photo albums, there are many photos. I sometimes take out and look them. I like jewelry and especially I’m interested in earring nowadays. So I have many earrings. Some of them, I gave my friend. Also, I have big teddy bear. I gave it to my parents when we tripped to Nagasaki. I always put it by my pillow.
I think my room is more comfortable place than any other place.

(304 words)

The Cocktail Party

2009-10-12T11:25:00.000+09:00

Hello! My name is Alice. I’m from London, England. London’s weather is often fog. So London is called “city of fog”. And England has many famous things. “Big Ben” is the one of them. Do you know Big Ben? It is the big clock tower.
My job is an architect. My specialty is order made house. I create the design of house with customers and I built that house actually. The reason why I wanted to be an architect, I liked to play with blocks and painting when I was a child.
Then, I’ll introduce my family. I lived with my family, father and mother. I am a single. My father is a fashion designer. His brand is poplar in London. My mother is housewife. She like cooking and her dishes are very delicious. My mother sometimes teaches cooking for neighbor.
My hobby is painting. Recently, I often paint view in water colors. But sometimes I paint the houses what I want to try to build. I go to park, riverside, and so on to paint view once a week. I don’t like small spaces because it makes me choking. So I’ve never built small house in my job. My dream is build a big castle for our crown prince and crown princess.

(213 words)

Favorite Place, Outline

2009-10-07T10:13:00.007+09:00

Favorite Place
・My room
-Comfortable
-Catch the sun
-Aroma candle
-Quiet
-No interference
-Furniture
-Bed
-Sofa
-Music
-Favorite singer’s CDs
-Ipod
-Books
-Comic books
-Magazine
-Treasures
-Photos
-Cute jewelry
-Big teddy bear

(33 words)

Favorite Place, Brainstone

2009-10-07T09:42:00.006+09:00

Confortable
Quiet
Music
Magazine
Catch the sun
Aroma candle
Cute jewelry
Artificial flower of rose
Sofa
Bed
Big teddy bear
Photos

(21 words)

BR2-01: WAKE UP, SUN

2009-10-07T09:22:00.006+09:00

I read 'WAKE UP, SUN'. I'm going to introduce this book's story.

A dog woke up in the middle night. He thought that it's time to wake up so he woke animals up. A pig said to dog that it is not time to wake up because sun is not up. Then, dog asked him where is sun. Animals started to look for sun. A chicken said to animals that sun is still sleeping so they must wake him up. Animals began to yell. Famer woke up and he thought a fox came in the hen house so he fired his gun. The animals stopped yelling, farmer's baby woke up and yelled instead. Just then, the sun was rising. So the animals thought farmer's baby wake sun up.

The animals are very cute! When I was a little girl, I also thought that the sun is sleeping. When the sun wake up, he started rising and shining, and the morning coming. I believed that. This book is interesting and easy for me.

(172 words)

Reference

David L., H. (1986). WAKE UP, SUN. New York: Random House.

Sugesstions

2009-09-30T10:02:00.002+09:00

I plan to follow Yumi's advice to design own blog (Yumi, July 8 ). Because my blog is very simple so I also think that I want to more cute my own blog. Machiko also had a good idea to make link; medias (Machiko, July 8 ). I've never made medias in my blog so I'll try to make link. Manami's idea noticed me to make and respond comments ( Manami, July 15 ). Especially, I couldn't respond my friend's comment so much. When I gave responses from my friends, Iwas very glad soI'll try respond my friend's comments. Hikaru's main idea tell me about write blog more( Hikaru, July 8 ). I couldn't write blog more at spring term so I'll try to keep write blog at autumn term. Chisako had a good openion to start blogging more early ( Chisako, July 8 ). I couldn't write blog so much during vacation so that I got off to a bad start. I'll keep blogging from today.

(162 words)

Tokyo Disney Land

2009-09-12T10:59:00.000+09:00

I went to Tokyo Disney Land and Tokyo Disney Sea with my friends for three days in summer vacation.

The first day, I woke up five O’clock and we arrived at Kumamoto airport at eight O’clock. I’ve long time no ride airplane so I was exciting. In Haneda airport, we changed from airplane to a bus and we moved to Tokyo Disney Land. There are many people. All of things in Tokyo Disney Land for example characters, buildings, and attractions charmed us. Cinderella castle was the most beautiful building! We rode many attractions but we had to wait more 30 minutes to ride all attractions. I think that the most interesting attraction in Disney Land is "Space Mountain". This is roller coaster which is in dark place so we can't look front.　We entered Minny Mouse's house. It's very cute house! We wanted to enter Micky Mouse's house but sadly we didn't that because there are many many people and we had to wait more 1 hour so we gave up. We met many Disney characters for example Goofy, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Alice, Donald, Deisy, and so on. And we took a picture with them. At night, we watched parade show. That's very beautiful and fun parade. We enjoyed this parade very much. After that, we also watched fire works.

The second day, we went to the Disney Sea. But I was very sorry because it was cloudy, sometimes rainy, and very cold! However, we also enjoyed Disney Sea. First, we went to "Tower of Terrer" and rode it. This attraction's production is terrified me. But it was a fun attraction. After that, we watched two shows. One of Ariel's mermaid show. That's a beautiful show and Ariel is very cute! Another one is Jenny's magic show. This is very very interesting show. And this show used 3D glasses so it was very exciting. Only Disney Sea, it sells Duffy goods. Do you know Duffy? Duffy is a teddy bear which Minny made for Micky. This is very cute teddy bear so I bought Duffy's stuffed doll. In Disney Sea, we also met many characters and took a picture with them. At night, we watched parade. That was water and fire's show. It was wonderful show and I was impressed. But honestly speaking, I felt little sleepy because I was very tired.

The third day, we went to Disney Land again. That day, there are many many people and almost of them disguised of Disney characters, because that day is the first day of Halloween event. All of them wore high quality costume so I can't recognize real or not. We took a picture with some these people. We had to out Disney Land by two O'clock because we had to ride the plane of 4 O'clock. So we spend to buy souvenirs most of time in Disney Land.

I enjoyed this three days very much. Disney Land gave me dream! So I didn't go home. I want to go Disney Land again!

(504 words)

Examination

2009-09-01T12:13:00.000+09:00

In spring term, I examined about situations of pet in America at class. I was very sorry that we couldn't go America because of Flu. I will intoroduce the result of my examination.

I examined about situations of pet in America. I like animals so I am interested in situations of pet in America. I researched mainly about what is popular pet and thought of their pets in America, health centre and pet shops, and facility for pets. I’ll show these topics with comparing to Japan.

First topic is popular pets and thoughts of their pets. Dogs are most popular pet in both America and Japan. This is the ranking of popular dogs in America recently. First place is Labrador Retrievers, second place is Yorkshire Terriers, and third place is German shepherd. On the other hand, this is the ranking of poplar dogs in Japan. First place is Chihuahua, second place is poodle, and third place is miniature dachshund. This result shows that American like great dogs and Japanese like miniature dogs. The regulation for pets in America is easier than Japan. So it is not small that people who have rare pets. Reptiles are popular pet in America. For example snakes, lizards, or miniature crocodiles. The insect, for example spiders are also popular pets. However, the most popular rare pet is animals of the cat family, for example tigers. Recently, monkeys or chimpanzees are rising popularity. By the way, there are families of 62 percent have pets. 40 million families have dogs and 34 million families have cats. According to the questionnaire, dogs of 74 percent and cats of 66 percent are thought like master’s real children by their master. So dogs of 66 percent have Christmas presents every year. In each year, masters use about 405 dollar for their dogs and 371 dollar for their cats.

Second topic is health center and pet shops. In Japan, when you want to have pets, you may go pet shop. It is natural for Japanese to buy pets at pet shop. However, there are not animals in pet shop in America. Exceptional instance, it may sell small animals like hamster. American pet shops usually sell only pet stores such as pet foods or toys. When they want to have pet especially dogs and cats, they go animal shelter or given by animal lover. Then, I’ll tell you about animal protection groups of Japan and America. In Japan, There are only health center that place protect animals. Japanese animal protection groups don’t work well. In America, there are many animal protection groups and it is more strict American law for pets than Japan one. In America, there are animal shelters. It like health center in Japan but animal shelters manage by volunteer. Also, the difference between health center and animal shelter is all animals wait for foster parents in animal shelters. Another, there are animal police in America. It is not in Japan. When animal police find lost animals or abandoned animals, they take animals to animal shelter. Also, when animal police find cruelty to animals, they warn master or arrest master.

Final topic is facilities for pets. You can see many people who take their dogs in America. So there are many café and restaurant which permitted masters into with their pets. They can eat lunch or rest with their pets. These café or restaurant also have menu for pets. American masters enjoy relax time with their pet or talk with circle of pet masters. Pet cafés are also have in Japan but number of shops are fewer than America. In America, there are many facilities for pet. There are many dog ran spots, beauty salon for pets, pet washer and so on. Many American have great dogs but there is no place that they can wash their dogs. Pet washer is the place to master wash their great dogs. I think that these facilities make masters and pets comfortable.

America is pet advanced nation. America has strict law for pets and many animal protection groups. I think that many Americans have pets because America has firmed rule. What’s more, the regulations of pet’s kind are easy so there are many people who have rare pets. However, the most popular pet in America is dogs. Americans especially like great dogs. It is said that the reason why Americans like great dogs, most of American families have large garden. Dogs can run freely there. I think that there are many people who are animal lover because animal shelters manage volunteers. The working expenditure is all donations and fund-raising. It is no custom to buy pets at pet shop in America. However, most Japanese go pet shop when they buy pet. Japanese tend to choose ‘cute’ pet, that is to say it make a point of looks. I think Japan has to model American animal protections.

(813 words)

Summer Camp

2009-08-30T21:25:00.000+09:00

From August 26 to August 28, I joined to summer camp in Iki with my circle.

The first day, we assembled to KGU and move to Fukuoka by bus to ride ferry. That was first time for me to ride ferry. As soon we arrived to Iki, we moved to gym near tourist home which we stay. In the gym, we played basketball and volleyball. Honestly speaking, I felt a little boring to play basketball because I don't like to play basketball. At night, we went to beach and watch sea lightning bugs. I watched sea lightning bugs the first time. Also we watched stars. There were many stars we could see and we watched some shooting stars. I was very impressed and that was very beautiful.

The second day, we went to the beach and swimming. The sea of Iki was very beautiful and water was very clear. Then I was caught my arms by my friends and I was through away to the sea! I was surprised but it was fun. And I also through away my friends to the sea! After that, somehow, we started sand fight. So our bodies were all over mad. But we enjoyed playing on the beach very much! At night, we ate BBQ and drank alcohol. That was very delicious and I enjoyed the party very much.

The third day, I was very sorry that It was rain. So we couldn't go beach. Then we played card game in the tourist home. After that, we went shopping center and we bought souvenirs.

I enjoyed this summer camp very much! I want to go Iki next summer again.

(275 words)

BR 1-13: Joe's Letter

2009-07-19T22:13:00.001+09:00

I read “Joe’s Letter”. I was impressed that reading this book.
Joe writes a letter to Nan every day. He wrote what happened today in the letter.
I had a pen friend when I was a child. We exchanged letter once a month. We also exchanged puri-kura or cute sticker into envelope. But when we had been high school student, we didn’t write letter by degrees. Instead, we exchanged e-mails. E-mail is very easy and we can replay immediately. But we feel more glad to receive letters than receive e-mails. So we have to write letters to our friends or family if you have a chance.

(106 words)

BR 1-12: Hide and Seek With Carla Crocodile

2009-07-19T21:45:00.001+09:00

I read “Hide and Seek With Carla Crocodile” today. I like this book because it makes me happy.
Carla Crocodile played hide and seek with Hippo, Seal and Penguin. First, Carla counted to three. Carla found Hippo first and found Seal the next. Finally, she found Penguin. But when Carla counted to three, he fell over before he got home. Then Penguin has to three.
When I was a child, I often did hide and seek with my friends. I liked this game. “Hide and seek” called in Japanese “Kakurenbo”. I think that it is a little different between hide and seek and kakurenbo. Kakurenbo’s role is the person who found first has to count. I enjoyed reading this book.

(120 words)

BR 1-11:Carla Crocodile's knitting

2009-07-19T21:13:00.004+09:00

I read "Carla Crocodile's knitting". This story is Carla ike knitting and she knitted for her friend ,Charlie.Charlie asked her to make some socks for him. She knitted a sock. But when she will make other sock the same, she forgot how she did it. So she looked at the sock and wrote down what she did. She knitted the other sock but these socks are not the same. But Charlie liked the socks.
I like this book. I also liked knitting when I was a child. I often made scarf or grove. I like hand made goods because these goods are only one in the world. I want to try to knit socks or hat if I had enough time.

(122 words)

two important relationships

2009-07-13T23:45:00.000+09:00

I watched 'Lilo and Stitch'. This movie thought me two things: The importance of family and friendship. I watched this movie first, I only think that it is fun movie, but when I watched this movie second time, I feel to important things. I’m talking about that two things.

First, I talk about the importance of family. Lilo and her older sister don’t have their parents. So she feels lonely. One day, Lilo took an alien like dog, named Stitch. I think Lilo is very happy because she is no longer lonely. Her older sister always thinks about Lilo. She works for Lilo’s future.

Family is most important tie. Almost people spend with their family every day. I also spend with my family every day. So my family, especially my mother helps me whenever I have trouble. I have older sister and younger sister so I know both Lilo and Nani’s feelings. When I am with my older sister, I depend my older sister but I also think I don’t have to be worried her. When I am with younger sister, I think I have to be dependable and look after her. Family help each other like that. I think when I am with my family, It is the easiest time in my life. I special thanks for my family.

I also learned about the importance of friendship. Lilo sometimes fights with her friends so she doesn’t have real friends. Lilo and Stitch are family, also they are friends. Lilo cover up Stitch when Stitch play up toward people. By Lilo met Stitch, she could get her real friend.

When I am in the university, I am always with my friends. I talk about various things with my friends. I think if I don’t have friends, I couldn’t enjoy my life. When I have trouble, my friends give me advices. Reverse, when my friends have trouble, I think about together. So we support each other. Best friends are my good conferee. I want to cherish my friends forever.

I think these two relationships are essential for our life. People can’t live without relationships because we help each other. I think even any people have some relationships. So we have to cherish our family and friends and keep good relationship. I think keep relationship is more important than increase relationship.

(389 words)

Portfolio for Writing III (template)

2009-07-08T09:17:00.010+09:00

Student ID: 08164
Portfolio for Writing III, Section 1A

[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.)

1.0. Essays

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links to blog posts	Dates yyyy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
1-01a (2009.04.08)	letter to a host family	2009.04.09	8	255	1	0	0	0
1-01b (2009.04.20)	Letter to host family (rewriting)	2009.06.10	6	291	0	0	0	0
(1-01c)
1-02a (2009.06.01)	University life	2009.06.03	5	464	2	0	0	0
1-02b (2009.07.06)	University Life (rewriting)	2009.06.29	5	455	3	0	0	0
(1-02c)
1-03a (2009.06.29)	Relationships	2009.06.30	6	351	1	0	0	0
1-03b (2009.07.13)	two important relationships	2009.07.13	6	389	0	0	0	0
Totals	---	---	36	2205	7	0	0	0

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*	University Life (rewriting)
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?	---	---

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	Victorian Adventure	2009.04.19	142	0
BR 1-02	The Storm	2009.04.30	110	0
BR 1-03	Castle Adventure	2009.05.07	143	0
BR 1-04	Pirate Adventure	2009.05.13	141	0
BR 1-05	Who Took the Teacher's Scissors	2009.05.18	140	0
BR 1-06	Ringo the Dingo	2009.05.22	213	0
BR 1-07	Nicky Upstairs and Down	2009.06.01	177	0
BR 1-08	Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple	2009.06.01	258	0
BR 1-09	Giraffe Goes Skating	2009.06.15	117	0
BR 1-10	Zippy Zebra Finds a Friend	2009.06.15	152	0
BR 1-11	Carla Crocodile's knitting	2009.07.18	122	0
BR 1-12	Hide and Seek With Carla Crocodile	2009.07.18	120	0
BR 1-13	Joe's Letter	2009.07.18	106	0







---	---	Totals:	1941

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

3.2. Best Book Review

[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?	〇
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	〇
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?	〇
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?	〇
4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?	〇
5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	〇
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	〇
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	〇
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)		〇
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Shopping

2009-07-04T23:10:00.002+09:00

Today, I had a supplementary lecture of biology.
At afternoon, I went to down town with my friends to do shopping. First, we went pasta restaurant and ate lunch. It was delicious and cheap. Next, we went PARCO. There are many people because it hold summer sale until July 15. I bought a one piece there. It reduced the price by 10% so I could it cheaper. After that we moved Kami-touri and visited some shops. Then, I bought a T-shirt. It was very cute T-shirt and I’ll take it to camp. At 4:00 p.m. we had a tea time at Dotal Coffee. We told about our camp which we planning to go summer vacation. Finally we took ‘puri-kura’ at Festa.
I had a very good time today!

(128 words)

Essay 1-03a: Relationships

2009-06-30T00:37:00.003+09:00

I watched 'Lilo and Stitch'. This movie thought me two things. The importance of family and friendship. When I watched this movie first, I only think that it is fun movie but I watched this movie second time, I feel to important things.

First, I talk about the importance of family. Lilo and her older sister don’t have their parents. So she feels lonely. One day, Lilo took an alien like dog, named Stitch. I think Lilo is very happy because she is no longer lonely. Her older sister always thinks about Lilo. She works for Lilo’s future.

Family is most important tie. Almost people spend with their family every day. I also spend with my family every day. So my family, especially my mother helps me whenever I have trouble. I have older sister and younger sister so I know both Lilo and Nani’s feelings. When I am with my older sister, I depend my older sister but I also think I don’t have to be worried her. When I am with younger sister, I think I have to be dependable and look after her. Family help each other like that. I think when I am with my family, It is the easiest time in my life. I special thanks for my family.

I also learn about the importance of friendship. Lilo sometimes fights with her friends so she doesn’t have real friends. Lilo and Stitch are family, also they are friends. Lilo cover up Stitch when Stitch play up toward people. By Lilo met Stitch, she could get her real friend.

When I am in the university, I am always with my friends. I talk about various things with my friends. I think if I don’t have friends, I couldn’t enjoy my life. When I have trouble, my friends give me advices. Reverse, when my friends have trouble, I think about together. So we support each other. Best friends are my good conferee. I want to cherish my friends forever.

I think these two relationships are essential for our life. So we have to cherish our family and friends and keep good relationship.

(351 words)

Essay 1-02b: University Life (rewriting)

2009-06-29T22:51:00.003+09:00

Most KGU students feel comfort or pleasantness in the university life. But some of KGU students feel inconvenient in their university life. I would like to introduce what is inconvenient for students to spend university life. I will give three examples. How to going to school, when we do our homework, and spend lunch time and recess.

First of all, I’m going to talk about how to going to school. Most students go to school by car, bus, train, bicycle, motorcycle, or on foot. I usually go to school by train and on foot. I think train is cheap but it is inconvenient, because if we miss the train, we have to wait next train. In this instance, we sometimes wait more thirty minutes. Students who come to school by car, I think it is easy and convenient but there are a few parking area in KGU. And they need a permit to park their car. They can park Kenritsu Gekijou’s parking area but they should pay money. Students who come to school by bicycle and motorcycle, it is the most convenient I think. Especially go to school by bicycle. They don’t have to pay money and they never miss. However bicycles have one problem. It is inconvenient to go to school by bicycle rainy day. Even if they wear raincoat, their faces are drenched with rain.

Next, we have a lot of homework. We have to read books, write blog or some reports, and so on. It is too busy for me because I also have part-time job after school. Most KGU students have part-time job to earn money. Homework is important to study subject. But if we don’t have part time job, we can’t enjoy my free time. Some students may pay their school expenses themselves. So they have to earn money. Therefore, it is hard for us to spend after school.

Finally, I think recess is too short. KGU’s campus is very large but we have to move next class in ten minutes. So we sometimes have to run to next building or late for next class. When we spend our lunch time, many of the students go to cafeteria or bakery because it is cheap and delicious. Some students bring their lunch boxes or buy at convenience store.I usually bring my lunch box, but I want to eat in cafeteria everyday because it is hard to make my lunch in the morning.

I think university life is hard or busy, but I enjoy my university life because I can meet my friends in university. It is important to enjoy our university life. And we should challenge many things. It may be hard but we can spend a full university life.

(455 words)

Vacation plans

2009-06-29T02:26:00.001+09:00

Summer vacation will come soon! I planed to go home stay in US but it canceled because of influenza. I was vary sad. However my friends asked me to go to Disney Land. We planing to go there now.
I will also go to camp in Otachi Misaki with my friends of Economic Reserch Club. I couldn't join camp last year so I will surely go to camp this summer.
I will go to see my friend in Fukuoka and go shopping with her.
I want to go driving school and get a license. I want driving license early and I want to go drive.

(106 words)

About blogging

2009-06-29T02:04:00.001+09:00

Honestly speaking, I was weak that write diary. But I think it is good write blog or diary because I can remember past memorial to read blog or diary. Especially blog, it can see other person's diary so we can know what others did or feeling. Also we can contribute comment. When I get comment from others, I feel very happy. Nowadays I enjoy writing my blog. I have another blog, written in Japanese. I can't renew my blog everyday but my friends often see my blog and give comment.

(92 words)

About my keitai

2009-06-29T01:39:00.001+09:00

I think I don't depend on my cellphone but it is inconvenient if I don't have my cellphone. I have broken my cellphone before. While get my cellphone mended for a week, I feel inconvenient and uneasy. Because I couldn't contact my friends whenever I have business. I think cellphone is one of the necessaries of people life. I have used my cellphone about for two years. So it is sooner that decrease charge. I want to buy new one but I don't have enough money. So I use my present cellphone for some time.

(99 words)

Using the computer

2009-06-29T01:21:00.001+09:00

I think that computer is very convenient but I am weak to use computer. I had not had my computer until two years ago so I didn't have many chance to use computers. Nowadays I have to use computer at writing class or doing homework. It is sometimes hard for me to use computer. But if I could use computer well, it might be convenient. I started my praivate blog to used to use computer. I think I can type keyboard faster. I want to learn to type without looking keyboard.

(92 words)

My favorire movies

2009-06-29T00:55:00.001+09:00

I like to watch movies. I often go to watch movies or rent DVDs. My recent favorite movie is 'Tinker Bell'. I like disney movie very much and Tinker Bell is my favorite character. Tinker Bell is very cute! And this movie makes me happy. I watched this movie with my friend. I also like 'the Pirates of the Carribien'. Because I like Jonny Depp very much. I watched the pirates of the Carribien 1, 2, and 3. Also I bought this movie's DVD. I watched 'Sleepy Hollow', starring Jonny Depp, but I couldn't watch enough because I don't like mysterious movie.

(105 words)

Foreign countries

2009-06-29T00:34:00.001+09:00

I'm very interested in foreghin countries cultures. I have never been to abroad, so I want to go abroad someday. I want to visit Australia because I have never seen koala so I want to see them. Also I want to try to climb Ayers Rock. I also want to visit france because there are many famous buildings. For example, Versailles of palace. It is very beautiful palece. And I think French foods are very delicious and I like french foods! I learned French last year so I can speak French a little. I want to study French more.

(100 words)

My other classes

2009-06-29T00:29:00.002+09:00

I take many classes this year. For example, old Japanese literatures, American literatures, biology, history of England and so on. My favorite other class is American literatures because I am very interested in American literatures and movies. In this class, we sometimes watch American movies. We had watched 'the last of Mohecans' before. This movie is a little difficult for me to understand but I learned about Native American. I like history of England, too. I elected world history when I was a high school student. Then I had interest in world history. I'm specially attracted to Middle of Europe. So I enjoy to take this class.

(108 words)

Outline

2009-06-17T10:28:00.004+09:00

Lilo and Stitch's theme

Family relationship
-Sister
-Look after
-Thoughtful
-Help each other
-Easy
-Respectful

Friendship
- Talk
-Always with them
-Truth
-Support each other
-Fun
-Good conferee

(28 words)

Movie Review

2009-06-17T01:32:00.001+09:00

I watched “Lilo and Stitch”. This movie released some years ago but I had never watched this movie. Recently I watched this movie for the first time.
I think that this movie’s theme is family. Lilo has no parents and her family is only older sister, Nani. Lilo has no friends so she always feels lonely. But one day, she met strange animal. She took him her house and she named him Stitch. Stitch has been her family. She was not lonely because she is always with Stitch.
What is the real family? Whether someone who have relationship with me are my family or not? I think yes. But I also think we can be family whoever have no relationship. In this world, there are many families without relationship. For example, adopted children. They live with their adopted parents. Some people say that they are not real family however I don’t think so. I think they are real family, too. Adopted parents think their adopted children are like their real children. I think this thought is the most important thing.
“Lilo and Stitch” was noticed me the importance of family. I think I am a happy person because I have family. I thought that I’ll cherish my family.

(208 words)

BR 1-10: Zippy Zebra Finds a Friend

2009-06-15T23:17:00.003+09:00

I read “Zippy Zebra Finds a Friend” today.
Zippy has no friend. So Zippy tried to be friend Cheetah, Crocodile, and Lion. But Zippy’s mother said that they are not good friend for Zippy. I think Zippy feel lonely. In animal world, it is a world where the stronger prey upon the weaker. Zippy is a Zebra so Zippy can not be a friend with predatory animals. At last, Zippy could make friend. It is Zina Zebra. In human world, I think it is easy to make friends. It is fun to spend or talk with friends. Friends make me happy. I think if I have no friends, I feel very boring in my life. In my opinion, this book’s message is we are not lonely. We may have at least one friend. If you think that you don’t have friend, it just you don’t notice. So we should cherish our friends.

(152 words)

BR 1-09: Giraffe Goes Skating

2009-06-15T22:34:00.004+09:00

I read “Giraffe Goes Skating” today. The Giraffe did not have helmet and kneepads. She thinks it is OK that she had no helmet and kneepads when she went skating. But it is dangerous for her. At last, she skated into the tree and went down. I think there are many children who don’t have helmet when they ride bicycle, skate, and so on. It is danger! Nobody can predict what happened. Helmet or kneepads save our body. So we especially children should use helmet. This book teaches for children how to save their own bodies. So I recommend that children read this book or parents read it for their children. It is good story, I think.

(117 words)

Essay 1-01b: Letter to host family (rewriting)

2009-06-10T10:10:00.004+09:00

Dear my host family,

Hello. Nice to meet you. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Risa. I’m nineteen years old. I like to watch movies. My favorite movie is “Pirate of the Caribbean”. I bought the DVD of this movie. I also like animals. I especially like cats. I have two cats. Do you have any pets? If you have pets, I’m glad and I want to meet them early.
I also like sweets and fried chicken but I don’t like mushrooms and spicy foods. In my childhood, I didn’t like vegetables and I couldn’t eat them but nowadays I also eat vegetables. However, I don’t like any vegetables now. For example, green pepper and broccoli.My family has five people and I have two sisters. One is three years older than me and other is six years younger. How many people do you have in your family?

I like shopping too. But this is the first time that I go to America. So I don’t know which goods are good or not. I also want to buy some souvenirs for my family and friends. Can you recommend something good gift or sweets and snacks? Please help me to buy souvenirs.

Recently I’m interested in cooking and I learned some recipes from my mother. When I go to your home, can you help your cooking and learn some easy cooking? I’ve started to learn cooking since only a month ago, so that I’m not good at cooking. But I hope I can learn at least one recipe.

Honestly speaking, I feel little nervous because I’ve never been to abroad. So please tell me rule and manner in America or in your house. I’m looking forward to seeing you.

Sincerely,
Risa

(291 words)

How I study English

2009-06-09T00:02:00.003+09:00

I'll talk about how I study English. First, I always listen to foreign music and sometimes turn word into Japanese. Also I sometimes turn my favorite Japanese music into English. I'll introduce them if I have a chance. Second, I read English story. I bought easy and long story book and read it. What's more, I wrote down this book's translation in notebook and I made my original book.
I like to listen music and read books so I can keep that. I think it is easy to keep what you like and you can study English.

(101 words)

Food/Eating habits

2009-06-08T23:41:00.002+09:00

I like yoghurt very much. Especially I like fruit yoghurt. I eat yoghurt every morning. This is my eating habit. If I couldn't eat yoghurt for breakfast, I feel very sad. Do you decide to eat turn? When do you eat your favorite dish? At first? Or at last? I save my favorite dish and eat the last. Because I want to save the pleasure at the last. How about you?

(72 words)

Bowling

2009-06-03T22:42:00.002+09:00

Today, I have a club meeting. First, we heard some information about recreation and alcohol party which will hold on June 13. After that, we formed ourselves in groups. Group 1 is going to karaoke. Group 2 is going to bowling. Group 3 is going to eat dinner. Group 4 is free. I belonged to group 2 and went to bowling at “Star Lane”. We played bowling four times today. I couldn’t play bowling well today. Today’s my top marks was 75 points. But I enjoyed bowling!

(87 words)

Essay 1-02a: University life

2009-06-03T00:22:00.003+09:00

Most of the KGU students feel comfort or pleasantness in the university life. But some of KGU students feel inconvenient in their university life. I would like to introduce what is inconvenient for students to spend university life. I will give three examples. How to going to school, homework, and lunch time and recess.

First of all, I’m going to talk about how to going to school. Most of the students go to school by car, bus, train, bicycle, motorcycle, or on foot. I usually go to school by train and on foot. I think train is cheap but it is inconvenient. Because if we miss the train, we have to wait next train. In this instance, we sometimes wait more thirty minutes. By car, I think it is easy and convenient but there are a few parking area in KGU. And they need a permit to park their car. They can park Kenritsu Gekijou’s parking area but they should pay money. By bicycle and motorcycle, it is the most convenient I think. Especially go to school by bicycle. They don’t have to pay money and they never miss. However bicycle has one problem. It is inconvenient to go to school by bicycle rainy day. Even if they wear raincoat, their faces are drenched with rain.

Second, we have a lot of homework. We have to read books, write blog or some reports, and so on. It is too busy for me because I also have part-time job after school. Most of the KGU students have part-time job to earn money. Homework is important to study subject. But if I don’t have part time job, I can’t enjoy my free time and go to home stay. My family is not rich so I promised that I will pay all my home stay’s travel expenses myself. So I have to earn money and save. Therefore, it is hard for me to spend after school.

Finally, I think recess is too short. Because KGU’s campus is very large but we have to move next class in ten minutes. So we sometimes have to run to next building or late for next class. In lunch time, many of the students go to cafeteria or bakery. Because it is cheap and delicious. Some of students bring their lunch box or buy at convenience store.
I usually bring my lunch box but I want to eat in cafeteria everyday because it is hard to make my lunch box in the morning.

I think university life is hard or busy but I enjoy my university life. Because I can meet my friends in university. It is important to enjoy our university life. And we should challenge many things. It may be hard but we can spend a full university life.

(464 words)

BR 1-08: Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple

2009-06-01T23:12:00.004+09:00

I read “Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple” today. The reason why I chose this book, the picture of Rabbit and Hare is cute. And this book sound interesting.

Rabbit and Hare loved to eat. One day they found a big mushroom. They divide this mushroom but not in half. One piece was a little bigger than the other. They scrambled for the bigger one. Just then Mr.Raccoon walked by and asked them what happened. They explain to Mr.Raccoon and he said that he had a good idea. He took a bite from the bigger piece and he said “I’ll make them equal.” But he ate whole piece. “Now we have only one piece of mushroom,” cried Hare. What’s more, Mr.Raccoon said that he know what to do. This idea is he bites other piece in half. But he ate the whole thing up the last. Rabbit and Hare cried. Mr.Raccoon left quickly. They went to find something else to eat. They found a big and round apple. Hare tried to divide the apple in half. But one piece was much bigger than other. They scrambled for the bigger one again. Mr.Raccoon came and said that he help them. But they were not deceived and turned back him. They split the big part and then they split small piece.

I think this is an instructive book for children. Because this book teaches for children that it is important to divide in half without scramble bigger one. So I recommend to read out for children. This is wonderful book!

(258 words)

BR 1-07: Nicky Upstairs and Down

2009-06-01T22:40:00.003+09:00

I read “Nicky Upstairs and Down” today. The reason why I chose this book, I like cats and Nicky is very cute.

I’m going to talk about this book’s digest. Nicky is a cat and he lived with his mother in a small house which had a downstairs and an upstairs. When Nicky was playing, his mother called Nicky. He always answered “Here I am. I was down.” Or “Here I am. I was up.” He ran up and down the stairs all day long. One day, Nicky’s mother called Nicky but no answer from Nicky. Nicky was hiding. He was tired of running up and down all day long. His mother looked everywhere. His mother called Nicky again. Nicky came out and he ran halfway up the stairs. He called his mother and said “I’m right in the middle.”

Nicky is very very cute!!! And I think Nicky is a naughty cat. I have two cats and they also often run up and down the stairs. They like stairs, too. I like this story very much.

(177 words)

BR 1-06: Ringo the Dingo

2009-05-22T00:34:00.004+09:00

I read “Ringo the Dingo” today. The reason why I chose this book, the picture is cute and it sounds interesting.

I’d like to talk about this book’s digest. Ted and Mary lived on a farm with a lot of sheep. One day, Ted found a baby dingo and he took it home. Mary didn’t think that it was not good idea to have a dingo because she thought that he will eat the sheep when he gets big. Ted persuaded her and they decided to look after the dingo like he was a puppy. They named him Ringo. Ringo came out with Ted and look after the sheep. Ringo got bigger and bigger and he howled like a dingo. One night, Ted heard a howl and noticed a dingo was after the sheep. Ringo liked the sheep so he went out and saw who was getting the sheep. Ringo howled at the dingo and the dingo ran away. Ringo saved the sheep.

I think that Ringo is a very genius dingo! Because he is a dingo but he can look after the sheep without getting the sheep. I feel that I want to have a dog. And I wish the dog look after my cats like Ringo look after the sheep!

(213 words)

University life

2009-05-20T09:20:00.005+09:00

I’m a KGU student. I’m going to talk about my university life. I learn English at university. I want to study abroad but I don’t much money so I can’t. Also I belong to economic research club. We have club meeting once a week. But we don’t always study economic. Instead we always enjoy talking, eating dinner together, or playing sports. I enjoy my university life very much.

(68 words)

Movie review

2009-05-19T23:55:00.001+09:00

I like to watch movies. I often go to watch movies at theater. I like both Japanese movies and foreign movies.
I’m going to talk about my favorite Japanese movie today. My favorite Japanese movie is “Yomigaeri”. Yomigaeri mean that wake from death. I’m going to introduce about this movie’s digest briefly. In part of Tokyo, it happened that people who had dead woke from death one after another. One police officer examined how these people wake from death. He noticed that they have in common. They had a person who strongly wish they were alive. This wish made them revive! However, this miracle didn’t continue forever. One day, people who woke from death went one place and they said that they have to back to underworld. At the last, they all went back underworld. This movie moved me to tears. This police officer also made a woman who he loves revive. But he ended up parting her. I feel sad but I think it is not only bad things. If a car should hit me and I was killed outright, I must have a lot of regret. But if I could revive then, I might feel easy. After watched this movie first time, I considered those things so I have a strong impression of this movie.
I also like Hayao Miyazaki’s films. “Kaze no Tani no Naushica” is the best I think. When I was a child, I couldn’t understand this movie’s story. But I could understand in watch it again and again. One day, I read this movie’s original. After that, I like this movie very much and thought that we have to keep natures. I recommend to read this movie’s original if you have never read it!

(291 words)

BR 1-05: Who Took the Teacher's Scissors

2009-05-18T23:13:00.003+09:00

I read ‘Who Took the Teacher’s Scissors’ today. The reason why I chose this book, illustration is very cute.

I’m going to talk about this book’s digest. The teacher looked for her scissors. She asked animals whether they took her scissors or not. But nobody took her scissors so she puzzled. Then Giraffe said that he can see who took her scissors. Magpie took her scissors.

It is easy for me to read this book. My younger sister often takes my personal belongings without my permission. So I always look for my goods. When I look for something and ask my younger sister, most of her answer is ‘I’m sorry, it is in my room’ or ‘I’m using it now’. So I always puzzle and feel little irritate. It is not good that borrow something goods without owner’s permission.

(140 words)

BR 1-04:Pirate Adventure

2009-05-13T22:12:00.005+09:00

I read ‘Pirate Adventure’ today. The reason why I chose this book, I read ‘Castle Adventure’ before so I want to read adventure story again.

This book’s digest is: Children went inside the magic house and they were in the beach. They played on the sand or in the sea. A pirate came up and he looked at the children. The pirates take children to the pirate ship. They had a party.

I like pirate story! I like ‘Pirate of the Caribbean’ and ‘One piece’, Japanese comic book. Both works are pirate story. And the common of them, the pirates are kind or good. I think that most pirates are nasty in fact. They rob money or load from people. But I think that fiction pirates are cool because they attack only bad pirates. This book is also interesting for me.

(141 words)

writing I-II

2009-05-13T09:09:00.007+09:00

In writing I-II, I learned about basic grammar, how to write letter and so on. The first, I learned to write about myself. Second, I learned how to write letter. That time, we wrote a letter and sent it to friend or teacher in fact. I wrote about introduction of my town. I have no send a letter to my friend long time. Third, I learned to how to write essays. We wrote many essays then. For example, I wrote about a person who I like. I wrote about my favorite Japanese singer. Also I wrote about my experiences of school trip. The others, I wrote about recipe and stories. Then I also learned how to use ‘the first’ or ‘next’ and so on. I could learn in writing I-II various things.

(132 words)

My cell phone was broken down!

2009-05-11T22:50:00.002+09:00

My cell phone was broken down!!

Last Friday, I finished my part-time job and went my friend’s house. In Hikari no mori station, I went rest room. Then I put my cell phone in my jacket pocket. Unfortunately, my cell phone dropped into water. I picked up it quickly but it didn’t work.
I arrived at Suizenji station but I couldn’t call my friend. I looked call box and called my friend. However my friend didn’t come on. So I walk to my friend’s house for the time being. While walking, luckily for me, I could call my friend only once and I could meet my friends without incident.
Next day, I took my cell phone to docomo shop. Shop assistant said my cell phone is in need of repair. I was very sad.

(134 words)

My opinion

2009-05-11T22:05:00.002+09:00

Today, I had a speaking class. Today’s main topic in speaking class is discussion and tell one’s opinions. So I’ll talk about my opinions in my blog today. The topic is pupils or junior high school student should have their cell phones or not. In my opinion, they should have their cell phones. Because the number of crimes has been increasing and also the number of children who go out alone at night to go to cram school has increasing. If children who have their cell phone should involve a crime, they could have help. Or parents can know where their children are now so they can rest. So I really believe that pupils or junior high school students should have their cell phones.
What do you think about this subject?

(131 words)

BR 1-03: Castle Adventure

2009-05-07T22:31:00.004+09:00

I read “Castle Adventure” today. The reason why I chose this book, I like adventure story so my attention was engaged by the book.

This book’s digest is: Gran and children were taken to a castle by the magic. Three nasty witches lived there. A king of this castle who was turned into a frog by witches asked them to help him. They blasted witches and turned witches into frogs. Also they turned frogs into people.

It was interesting story for me. I think it is like “A prince of frog”. Almost people may have bad image to witches but I have good image to witches. Because Japan have a lot of animations or comic books of witch’s story. Kind witches enter most of those animations. So I feel little sad that enter nasty witch to story. But it is just my opinion.

(143 words)

recreation

2009-05-07T21:58:00.001+09:00

May 5th
I had a recreation in a gym. We assembled convenience store near KGU at 14:00. And we went to gym by car. We arrived the gym at 15:00 but we started to play sports at 16:00. We played volleyball the first. I like to play volleyball. But I can’t play volleyball well. Our team lost two times. Next, we played basketball. I dislike to play basketball but I can enjoy playing basketball that day. My basketball team has no three grade students, so we named our team “under 20”. We won all games! But I went for nothing so much.
That night, I had muscular rheumatism. I had a good time.

(113 words)

My aunt came back

2009-05-02T23:10:00.003+09:00

Today is the first day of Golden Week!
My aunt came to Kumamoto. She is my mother’s sister and lives in Nagoya. I have never met her about ten years.
Before she arrived to Kumamoto, I, my mother, and my sister went shopping in Yume town at Hikari no mori. I bought a jacket and a hat. Then, I met my friend. She came to Hikari no mori from Yatsushiro city to shopping.
3:30 p.m. my aunt arrived to Hikari no mori station. Then, my grandparents also came. They live in Kikuyo town. We went to starbacks and drank tea or coffee. After that, we ate dinner together. We eat Chinese food. It was very delicious. We talked various things. I think that my aunt resembles my grandmother in appearance and in character. My aunt will back May 5th. I can’t be going to meet her for a while.

(149 words)

BR 1-02: The Storm

2009-04-30T20:43:00.005+09:00

Today, I red "The Storm". The reason why I chose this book, I could't predict this book's story. So I wanted to read this book.

This book’s digest is: Children looked in the tree house. But the storm came to their town and the tree was down. Their dog found a box. Mom opened the box and they found a key inside.

When I was a child, I longed to play in the tree house. However, I couldn’t look in the tree house in fact. So I and my friends made little house of cardboard. We called this house “secret base”. This book carried me back to my such childhood.

(110 words)

Club meeting

2009-04-24T00:30:00.002+09:00

I belong to the Economic research club (ERC) and I had a club meeting yesterday. Then we wrote our profile.
After that, 1st grade students and 2nd grade students of ERC went to drive. First we went to Dokko mountain to see night view. That was a wonderful sight and we moved. When I went to Dokko mountain before, there are many stars in the sky. That like planetarium! But I was sorry, we couldn’t see stars yesterday.
Second, we went bowling. I can’t play bowling well but I like to play bowling! It is very fun. Yesterday, we made up six teams and compete in the bowling. It was regrettable that our team took fifth place. But I enjoyed very much! Because I played bowling, I had muscular rheumatism today.
I had a very good time yesterday!

(138 words)

Happy news for me

2009-04-22T00:28:00.006+09:00

I heard a happy news!
I like Ringo Shena, Japanese singer. I listen to her songs everyday. Today, I checked her home page, the article said she will sale her new album in June. She never sold her CDs since last July. So I am very happy and I will buy the CD.

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BR 1-01: Victorian Adventure

2009-04-19T13:35:00.005+09:00

This week, I red "Victorian Adventure". The reason why I chose this book, I like adventure novels. "Alice's adventure in wonderland" is my favorite novel.

This book's digest: Three children are took to London in the past by the magic key. Then they meet a girl and a boy. they take three children to Buckingham Palace. They meet grandchildren of Queen Victoria and play with them in Buckingham Palace.

This book is interesting for me. But I didn't understand that the three children go to in the past first. So I wonder why the glandchildren don't know television when I red this conversation; "How did you learn to play it?" said one of the grandchildren. "We saw it on television."said Chip. "On what?" asked Jack. I realize half-red that three children go to in the past and I understand this book.

(142 words)

go to Brazil

2009-04-13T21:02:00.004+09:00

Today, I had a speaking test. I went to class before twenty minutes that the test start, but I waited thirty minutes more. It didn’t according to timesheet. I couldn’t speak as well as I think. After that, I and my friend went to e-campus center to register our curriculum. Both of us are weak to use computer. So we registered our curriculum with troubling.
However, I had big news. My father went to Brazil as business trip this morning. He goes to there for three month. So from today, there are only three people in my house. I feel that my house is larger. I hope that he can arrive to Brazil safely.

(114 words)

holiday

2009-04-12T21:57:00.005+09:00

I have no part-time job today. So I got up toward the noon. Because I have no plan today, first, I did my homework of writing and speaking class. I have a lot of writing class's homework so I will try to do my homeworks everyday. Do my best.
Second, I cleaned my room. I've never cleaned my room since a month ago so my room was in a mess. But my room is clean now. I'll keep my room clean.
At night, I watched TV, "the homeless junior high school student". I don't read This original book but I'm interested in it and I want to read it.

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Ophthalmology

2009-04-12T00:28:00.005+09:00

I've had a sore eyes since a week ago so I couldn't wear contact lenses. So I've worn glasses for a week. I should have went to ophthlmology early but I have no time to go there because I had part-time job. At last, I could go to ophthalmology today. In ophthalmology, my doctor said that I get into allergy. Also, my doctor gave me eye drops and she said that I have to apply eyedrops three times in a day.
After I went to ophthalmology, I had a part-time, too. I noticed that there are many teenager who bought dictionaries of various kind. I think that they may be freshman in high school. So they need dictionaries. But because of dictionaries are heavy, I was very tired today.
I feel very sleepy so I'll go to bed soon. Good night.

(140 words)

my old friend

2009-04-10T15:31:00.006+09:00

Today, I had only two classes. When I took train today, my old friend took same train next station. As soon as he took the train, he noticed me. He is a Kumamoto univercity student and he wants to be a teacher in the future. I and he belonged to badminton club when we were high school students. I don't belong to badminton club in univercity but he belong to badminton club in univercity again. He asked to me "what club do you belong to in univercity?" I answered " Economic reserch club." He was surprised and said. "Economic reserch club!? Are you interested in economics?" I said. "No. But we don't nearly always study economics. We always talking, driving, or having dinner in cafereria instead." "I see." he said. The train got to the station I have to get off and we said good bye. I hope I meet him again soon.
I have a part-time job at 18:00. so I have to prepare for the part-time job from now. See you.

(172 words)

Essay 1-01a: letter to a host family

2009-04-09T21:36:00.006+09:00

Dear my host family

Hello. My name is Risa. I’m nineteen years old.

I like to watch movies. My favorite movie is “Pirate of the Caribbean”. I bought the DVD of this movie. I also like animals. I especially like cats. I have two cats. Do you have any pets? If you have pets, I’m glad and I want to meet them early.

I like sweets and fried chicken but I don’t like mushrooms and spicy foods. In my childhood, I didn’t like vegetables and I couldn’t eat them but nowadays I also eat vegetables. However, I don’t like any vegetables now. For example, green pepper and broccoli.

My family has five people and I have two sisters. One is three years older than me and other is six years younger. How many people do you have in your family?

I like shopping too. But this is the first time that I go to America. So I don’t know which goods are good or not. I also want to buy some souvenirs for my family and friends. Can you recommend something good gift or sweets and snacks? Please help me to buy souvenirs.

Recently I’m interested in cooking and I learned some recipes from my mother. When I go to your home, can you help your cooking and learn some easy cooking? I’ve started to learn cooking since only a month ago, so that I’m not good at cooking. But I hope I can learn at least one recipe.

I’m looking forward to seeing you.

(255 words)

Preparation of Takumasai

2008-10-30T21:35:00.003+09:00

Takumasai will be held tomorrow!! Today, I went to school to prepare the Takumasai. We made flowers of paper and decoration of origami. I belonged to economy research club and we will sell hot sandwich. I hope our sandwiches are bought a lot!

Shopping

2008-10-30T20:49:00.005+09:00

Yesterday, I had no more than one class so I went shopping at Youme Town Hikari No Mori. My mother work there so we made it after she finished working.
First, we had omelet containing fried rice as lunch. I like it because it is very delicious and cheap. After that, we looked around the store. I bought a blue stole. It cost only 1000 yen so I was very satisfactory.

Ringo Shena

2008-10-27T20:44:00.003+09:00

Do yo know Ringo Shena? She is a Japanese singer. I am a big fan of her. 10 years ago, she came out as a solo singer. But 4 years ago, she organized a band. This band name is 'Tokyo jihen'. It's mean Tokyo incident.
I think she is a genious singer. Because she write a song and composition. Besides, she has written a song in English. What's more, she has sung French song or German song.
I wanna be a woman like her.

My older sister

2008-10-26T22:27:00.003+09:00

My older sister came back to Kumamoto on 20th of October and she returned to Tokyo today. She has lived in Tokyo since about two years ago because she got a job with hotel in Tokyo.
Yesterday night, My older sister, younger sister, mother, and I went to Karaoke. We all enjoyed it. But I joined sport festival of university during the day, so I felt tired when I was in Karaoke box. Then I was very sorry, I slept there.

My best friend

2008-10-26T22:06:00.003+09:00

My best friend's name is Kana. She and I first met at entrance ceremony of university. I hitted it off with her at once.
She has two sisters and she is the second danghter. She belonged to tennis club when she was a high school student. She likes shopping and so do I. Therefore, I sometimes go shopping to downtown with her.

Totoro

2008-10-21T21:39:00.003+09:00

Yesterday, I had a part-time job. I work at book store. A little boy and girl came my store and head to department of books for children. Then the girl found a book of 'tonari no Totoro'. Tonari no Totoro is animation that Hayao Miyazaki had directed. She said to the boy, 'Big brother! Look at! There is a book of tonari no Totoro! Let's sing a Totoro's song!' And they started to sing. How cute!! I was softened by them.

Restaurant (2)

2008-10-21T20:49:00.003+09:00

Our restaurant idea has changed! Our new restaurant idea is pasta one. Pasta have many kinds so people of various generations like it. Our restaurant has many set menu. These set menu is pasta and soup besides these set menu change day by day.
Our restaurant's interior docoration is very simple and chic. Our restaurant is fashionable but inexpensive price.
That's all.

Restaurant

2008-10-05T19:53:00.003+09:00

Our restaurant is reggae restaurant. So our main food color are red, yellow, and green. In our menu, for example, three colors salad. This is salad which is very colorful. I suggest that we should bring in hot foods for our restaurant's menu.

My eating habits

2008-09-22T20:38:00.003+09:00

I always eat bread and coffee for breakfast at 7:00 a.m. but holidays, I rarely eat breakfast becausa I wake up late.
When I have classes, I usually bring lunch. My mother make it for me so I thank her. I enjoy eating lunch as I talk with my friends.
I always eat dinner at 7:00 p.m. but when I have part-time job, I eat light meal for dinner at 10:30 p.m.
My favorite food is pasta because it have many kinds so we can enjoy taste of various. I also like sweets especially applepie. And I dislike mushroom because it taste is bad for me. Also I don't like raw fishes so I can't eat sushi and sashimi.

That's all.
Risa Matsunaga