Essay 1-01a: A Letter to host family

      Hello, I’m Nana. I’m nineteen years old. I’m from Kagoshima. I’m a student at KGU, so I live in a dormitory in Kumamoto now. I really enjoy Kumamoto and my school life.

      I introduce my family. There are four people in my family. I have my father, my mother and my older sister. My father and mother work at city hall. Recently, my mother began to study English, because some foreigners come to city hall. She has to speak English. And I often go to English lessons with her when I go back to my hometown. I used to study English there. My father sometimes visits my room, and we go shopping and eat lunch. He is very kind. My sister is two years older than me. She is a student at Kagoshima University and she is studying medicine in order to be a doctor. I look up to her because she is good at English. I want to be like her.

      I like to play volleyball. Do you like volley ball or other sports? I have played it since I was in the fourth grade in elementary school. I’m not belonging to the volleyball club now, but I will join the club next year. This year was the first time I came to Kumamoto, so I was not acclimated to the new land.

     And I also like to read comic books. I read “ONE PIECE.” Do you know it? It is worth reading at least once. If I go your country, I want to find comic books which are written by Japanese.

     I stayed with a family in Auckland, New Zealand when I was fourteen years old, so this is not the first time to stay abroad, but I’m nervous. I hope I can spend good days with you. I’m looking forward to seeing you.

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