Merry Christmas!

Today is Christmas so I ate a Christmas cake, sweets and chickens!! But I worked both today and yesterday.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! I wish you the very best for the coming year!!

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BR 2-18: Stories of Haunted Houses

I will review about “Stories of Haunted Houses”. It was an English book and fiction story. When I chose the story, it seemed that the story was a horror and terrible. But to tell the truth, it was not so dreadful and funny for me after I read it. That why was the ghost was kind and cowardice. So I had a sense of closeness to the character. However I really not want to live a haunted house.

My most impressive passage was a revenge scene of chapter one. The page was sixteen. There was a boy who name was Max. He always was teased by a twin. But he and a ghost revenged on them. The scene was pretty good. The twin reflected on their acts. And I thought Max could gain confidence and brave!!

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Reference

(Punter Russell, STORIES OF HAUNTED HOUSES, 2005, P.16, Usborne Publishing)

BR 2-17: Cowboys

I read an English book which title was “Cowboys”. This story was a non-fiction. After I read the story, I learned many things about them, such as their costumes, hard works, sharp shooting. To take care of their cows was their main work. They usually rode horses. They had a lot of freedom, but always faced dangers.

There are many movies of cowboys. They are so cool. So it reminds me about “Toy story” which movie’s lending part was cow boy. This cowboy was toy, but he was active and great cowboy. I have ever watched the movies from series one to three. That was really good.

The most impressive passage for me was page 28 to 29, because they still exist now. And many things of cowboys changed. Today they use trucks, trailers! Some cowboys use helicopters!! I was surprised to know about it. I wish I could see the real cowboys.

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Reference

( Clarke Catriona, COWBOYS, 2007, P.28, Usborne Publishing)

Essay 2-03a: My University Life

I will tell you about my university life. My university life is good. I think I live a full university life now. It makes me happy. And I want to spend good university life more.

I usually get up 7:00 a.m. and go to a college by bicycle and train. It takes about an hour. I am not good at rising early. So I am always careful not to oversleep. Next semester, I will not take the classes of first period when I make out my schedules of classes. Schedules of classes are convenience for students because we can chose the classes which we want to take.

I have twelve classes now. And I have two or three classes a day. My favorite classes are Korean and psychology. I am looking forward to taking the classes every week. I like a university better than a high school. The reason I had six or seven classes a day when I was a high school student. And I can learn specialized field like languages there. I really glad to learn many languages. I took Korean and German classes except English classes.

Kumamoto Gakuen University is beautiful and big because there are many institutions, such as a library, a student’s dining hall, a bakery, a book store. My favorite place is the library. It is a building with three floors plus two basement levels. When I have a time, I can use a computer, study something, read books and watching DVDs there. I use the library once three days. It is pretty good for me.

I have good friends and teachers now. It is the most important thing for me. They are so kind to me. I sometimes go out for dinner, hold a birthday party, go shopping and karaoke lounge after school with my friends. I traveled Korea with my two friends this year. I am going to travel Kyoto with them next year. On the other hands, I study with them before tests. They taught me the subjects. Thanks to them, I can enjoy spending my daily university life.

This year, my university life was full because I took some tests. First, I took examination in TOEIC last February. The score was not good so it made me sad. But, I am going to take it in this February too. This year I will really make an effort! Then I passed certificate examinations for English and secretary last summer. These grades were two. I was nervous when I took them. However I was glad to pass them. Next year, I will aim to pass an examination related to travel. It seem difficult to me. The exam will be held next September. I want to pass it so I am going to take the open lecture.

I am in my second year of the college now. I had good experiences after I became a college student. I still have two years before my graduation from university. I hope I will live a full university life more. I am looking forward to having good memory in the future.

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Essay 2-02c: My Languages Learning Experiences

I will tell you about my languages learning experiences. Of course, my first language is Japanese. I learned German last year. I also learn English and Korean now. To study languages are good experience for me.

Japanese has three literatures hiragana, kanji and katakana. First of all, I started to study hiragana when we were elementary school student, and also we started to study katakana. It was easy to remember for me, but it is hard to write kanji even now, because there are many difficult them.

When I was the upper grades of elementary school, I started to study romaji. I was suffering to remember it. Then I started to study English alphabet. My piano teacher taught me both piano and English, because her sister got married with American. So my piano teacher could speak English.

When I was a junior high school student, I started to study English grammar. I couldn’t understand even simple sentences before I studied English, but I came to understand it little by little. I took private lessons in English and mathematics for about three years. Thanks to my cram school teacher, English became one of my favorite subjects.

When I was a high school student, I started to study classic. These days, we don’t use these languages in daily life. It was difficult for me so I didn’t like to study it. After I became a high school student, I could read English long sentences and I began to think about my course of study. I decided what to do after graduation. I wanted to work for a travel agency after graduation from a University. So I took the entrance examination foreign language department of KGU.

When I was a first-year university student, I studied German. I took the German classes twice a week. It was good for me. I was looking forward to studying it because I liked the teacher. The teacher was Mr. Yagi. If I have opportunity, I want to study it again. German is similar to English, so you may understand it easily. It would be good for you if you studied it!

I am studying both English and Korean now. These languages are my favorite languages. Before I started to study Korean, I couldn’t understand the Korean alphabet. Now, I sometimes don’t understand Korean alphabet, but I can read and write it. Moreover, I can do simple conversations. However it took time for me. This year, I went to both the U.S and Korea. While I was there, I noticed that I have to make efforts to study these languages more! I also realized the importance of to study my languages.

My best learning language experience was home stay in Minnesota. I stayed there about for a month. It was first time to go to the U.S so I was worried about my English skills before I got there. I couldn't speak well at that time so I have to study it more. I realized that the important thing was challenge myself to speak English even if I didn’t know what to say in English!!

MN was such a good place!! I learned many things there. And I could meet my host family, friends and teachers!! Today, I sometimes send E-mail to my host mother and brother. I’m going to send a Christmas card to my host family! I want to meet them again.

These were my precious languages learning experiences!! I was glad because I could gain knowledge. I want to study other languages too! And I want to find a way to make use of these languages in the future. So I have to study these languages hard more from now on.

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Outline: University Life

Outline

University life

• My University life
  • good
    • nice friends
    • nice teachers
    • events
      • cultual festival
      • sports festival
  • comfortable
    • clean and big classrooms
    • students dinig hall
    • book store
    • bakery
    • convenience store
    • big library
      • magazhine, books
      • computers
• University life about 25 years from now
  • more comfortable
  • cheap school expenses
  • amazing facilities
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25 Years From Now

After 25 years from now, I think that people who go to University students will become comfortable and useful more. The reason is development of sciences and so on. It is difficult to imagine about future for me. My children may go to University in the future. And I want my children to experiences precious University life like me.

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University Life

I will tell you about my University life. My University life is good and comfortable now. I have some reasons. First of all, I took some licensees this year. I am going to take another licensees next year! Next, my friends are so nice. I always am looking forward to chatting with my friends when I back home. Then, I can chose classes that I want to take. So I can learn my interest things.

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A Christmas Card!

Last week, I sent a Christmas card to my host family. I bought the card in Franc Franc. I liked it at first sight. I chose pink color envelope, because my host mother’s favorite color is pink! My host family and I are busy now, so I don’t exchange E-mails with them recently. So I hope they like it and the card arrive before this Christmas day. I knew that Christmas is important and special events for Americans when I stayed there. At that time they showed me some pictures of the day. It seemed happy. And they had a special room. The room is used only Christmas day. I heard from them that they decorated Christmas tree and put many presents in the room. Next week is Christmas day. So I decided to send Christmas cards for them!! But I am going to work this Christmas.

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Tests

I am going to take tests this Thursday and Friday. These classes are listening and speaking! So I have to study for the tests from now on. I want to take a good score.

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BR 2-16: The Magic Gifts

I am going to review about an English book which title is “The magic gifts”. I read the story today. This story was fiction. There was a rich man who had three sons. He had big money. His sons shared the money when he died. The youngest child, Chin had tender heart. So he gave poor people all his money. However he became poor by the behavior. His elder brothers walked out on him when he was in a fix.

A few days later he met a mysterious monk. The monk was carrying heavy bundle. At that time, he was tired but he helped the monk. The monk gave a reward for his good behavior. The gifts were magic straw mat, wooden spoon and pair of chopsticks. Thanks to these tools, he became rich again and lived happily. The most impressive page was 32, because the magic straw changed big castle! After I read the story, I was thought about my daily behaviors. I want to try good behavior in my daily life.

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Reference
(Punter, Russell, The magic gifts, 2009, P.32, Usborne Publishing)

Today

Today I have a part time job. But it is raining all day today. So I am going to walk to my workplace in the rain. I wish the rain stopped!!

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BR 2-15: Jack and the Beanstalk

Today, I read an English book which title was “Jack and the Beanstalk”. There was a boy who name is Jack. He lived with his mother. They were very poor. So he made a deal with an old man. And he sold his cow. He gave five dried beans. These beans were not ordinary beans. He planted seeds in the garden. Next day the plants reached to sky!!! He climbed the plants and arrived to a big house in the sky. A giant married couple lived in the house. The giant woman was very kind but the giant man was cruel. So he stole the man’s magic hen and magic harp at the risk of his life. Thanks to these magic tools, he became a rich.

The most impressive passage for me was scene of escape from the giant man. I was worried his adventure. His adventure was exciting and interesting. I want to experience like his adventure. And I relieved that he came had backed his home safely.

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Reference
(Daynes, Katie, Jack and the Beanstalk, 2006, P.44, Usborne Publishing)

My Favorite Movie Star

I will tell you about my favorite movie star. My favorite movie star is Johnny Depp. I’m fan of him. I think that he is an actor known to the world. He is really cool and good actor. He appeared many good movies for example, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Sweeney Todd”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Public Enemies” and “The Imagination of Doctor Parnassus”. My most favorite his movie is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This movie was really beautiful and was loved by various generations. I am looking forward to watching his next movie. The title is “The Tourist”. This movie will be show next summer. The casts are great because the lending actress of the movie is Angelina Jolie!!

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My Favorite Desserts

I will tell you about my favorite desserts. My favorite desserts are cakes. First of all, there are many kinds of cakes. My favorite types of cakes are a chocolate cake, a cheesecake and a gelatin cheesecake. I like cooking dinner but I seldom cooking desserts including cakes, because it is troublesome for me. So I usually buy a cake when I want to eat it. Next, we usually eat cakes at special events like Christmas, Birthday, a Wedding ceremony, Party and so on. So I think that cakes are special desserts for us. Previously I chose type of Christmas cake! This Christmas, I will eat a fresh cream cake with my family. And my birthday is January so I also will eat birthday cake this winter.

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Last Wednesday★☆

After school, I went to Movie Theater with Kana last Wednesday in Hikarinomori. And we watched “Ghost”. It was remarked. That was moving. Casts of the movie were great. The lending actress was Nanako Matsushima. She was so beautiful and one of my favorite actress. The lending actor was Korean. He was also cool! I really recommend this movie!!

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BR 2-14: Why the Sea is Salty

Today, I went to a library and I read an English book. The title was “Why the Sea is Salty”. When I was a child, I had a question “Why seas are salty”. So I chose the story, but it was fiction. That wasn’t a fact. However it was good story. Once upon time, there was the sea which wasn’t salty.

One day, a thief stole a magic millstone from a king. The millstone was special because it made whatever the king wanted. After he stole it, he ran away from the king by a boat. He was hungry when he was escaping. So he asked it to give him some bread. Then, he got bread, but the bread was tasteless. Next, he asked it to get him salt again. So he got salt and fished eating. Then, he slept because he was full. When he got up, he was really surprised. There were tall heap of salt on the boat. Finally, the boat sank and the salt dissolved into saltwater. I thought that a author of the story has unique imaginations!!

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Reference

Rosie, D. (2009).Why the Sea is Salty. London: Usborne Publishing.