Typing -About my keitai-

I’m not using what is called smart phone but I want. I’m using folding cell phone. I’m using this about two years. My cell phone’s name is Kohaku. He is made by au. He looks yellow like orange and brown. My friends said it is like a pudding or banana. However, I’m thinking to change my cell phone to smart phone. I cannot see the picture or I can see it very small send it from smart phone. Sometimes it is not useful but I like my phone. I will use this cell phone until it can’t work or it broken. I think that it is important to use the things affectionately.

[112 words]

6.30

I got up 5 o’clock this morning.

Today was intercollegiate competition in Kyushu at Nobeoka gym. Nobeoka is in Miyazaki. It takes 4 hours to reach there.
Our first round opponent couldn’t take part in the game because of lack of members.
So we have to referee first game. The match start 10 o’clock and we had to reach at 10 o’clock. That is why I got up and left Kumamoto early.


We matched Kyushu Kyouritu University. We lost the game 2-0.
In the way home, I and my company reflected on today’s game.
In conclusion, we have to change ourselves attitude and practice schedule.
Older people are always playing with others. They are not on practice.
So, younger people also not practice hard.
And there are lots of useless practice schedule.
We need to consider it and concentrate on practice.
First of all, I must become a regular player! I will to my best!


However, practice is nothing from tomorrow until test will over.
I am happy! But I’m not touch and move about a month.
I will be training so that I can’t move when the practice start.
And I’m going to study hard in order not to fail credits.

[202 words]

 

BR 1-10: Little Bear's Visit

One day Little Bear came to visit Grandmother and Grandfather Bear (p. 9)

I chose this book because the illustrations is cute. Then I read this book I tought this is heart warming story. And this story and illustrations are in harmony.

This story about this. Littele Bear likes to visit Grandmother and Grandfather Bear. He likes Grandfather's hat and Grandmother's cooking. But most of all, he loves to listen to their stories. The stories about Mother Bear's Robin and Goblin story. I like story of Mother Bear's Robin.

I read this book, I want to see my grandmother and grandfather. And I want to listen to their stories. I'm looking forward to what they talk me. I recommend that eveyone. Please try to read this book!

Reference

Eles Holmelund Minarik. (1961) Little Bear's Visit. New York, NY: HarperCollins

[144 words]

Typing -Using the computer-

Recently, I often use computer because I have a lot of homework which have to use computer. I usually use computer to write essays and do English central. But I can’t concentrate for a long time, so I sometime use it to listening music. I’m listening to music on YouTube. I start listening to music to refresh, but I always listening to music without do my homework. It is source of trouble. I want to finish my homework but I can’t concentrate so long. I can’t concentrate, so I begin to listening music, and I never finish it. I call this negative chain. I think computer is useful but it is troublesome.

[112 words]

6.26

Recently, I found that I need more abdominal muscle.
So I decided to go to training room.
I walked for half an hour then I did exercises to strengthen the abdominal muscles.
I couldn’t move 50 kg at first time, but I could it yesterday!
My muscles are giving a scream. It means I have muscular pain.
I will be Maccho.

[60 words]

6.25

Yesterday morning, thunder was rumbling, so I thought today is maybe no practice!
Then I see my cell phone whether today is no practice.
But it didn’t have e-mail from captain of the team.
I was so disappointed and walked to school gym.

The day, two of high school students came and practice with us.
I was envious of young. They played with light movement.
I can’t move like them.
After practice, I went to Geo with my friend. I was just looking.
My friend rent some DVD.
Then we went to 31 ice cream.
It is time to challenge the triple.
It was my lunch. We were so full and satisfied.

I came back my home and take a shower.
And I washed clothes. Then I thought what I eat for dinner.
When I cook rice, my cell phone rang. It was my friend Hashiguchi!
She asked me “Do you eat hamburger with sauce?”
I said “Yes!!! Of course”
Then yesterday’s dinner was hamburger steak made by Hashiguchi.
It was good. I want eat her dish again.
I think I have a good friend:)

[185 words]

BR 1-09: Stories of Robots

"Luke, you're the laziest boy in the world!" (p. 3)

This book contain three stories about robots. Machines cause mayhem in these hi-tech tales. The robot racers are in a fight to the finish line. Who is the winner in the race? You can find the answer if you read this book.

Luke Lively's Tidybot is out control. I think it is said that you must do yourself what you can do and this story is like The Sorcerer's Apprentice. And mechanical muscle is used to rob a bank. I think its robot is so smart. These stories are so interesting, so maybe you want a robot. After read this book, I want Doraemon. I recommend that everyone.

Reference

Punter, Russell. (2004) Srories of Robots. London, England: Usborne

[128 words]

Typing -My favorite movie-

My favorite movie is action movie. I like Transporter. Its actress is so beauty. I often watch this movie on TV. I have watched it many times. I also like SPEC and Home alone. SPEC was broadcasting on TV. I was watching it every week. I like Toma’s character. These movie staffs are Keizoku staff. I watched it DVD. That is like SPEC but I was really enjoyed. I missed to watch SPEC-TEN-, I want to watch if sell its DVD. I used to watch Home alone on TV many times. I think the boy is so clever. If I met such case, I could not fight thief like him.

[110 words]

6.21

I went to POPOLAMAMA with my friends yesterday.

I ate large helping carbonara. We ate jumbo servings because my friend working there, so it was service to us. We ate large size with normally price. And we ate pizza and ice cream. It was also service to us! I ate my fill.

Finally I could not eat the whole, so I gave my friend. She ate in spite of she ate her large pasta. I was surprised, why she can eat so much and she doesn’t fat.

After a meal, we talked and thought about twitter. In twitter, sometimes tweet a dreadful story if people could understand the mean. We guessed what the mean is. We tried to understand but we could not. It was difficult for us. We were feeling gloomy.

We give up to thinking and paid the money and went shopping. We enjoyed shopping and went home.

I was really full, I could not eat anymore, but it was so delicious. I want to go again. And we make a plan to go to see a night view next time. I’m looking forward to it :)

[184 words]

Essay 1-02c: University Life

Dear exchange students!! Hallo!! Now I introduce my university. My university stays at Kumamoto. Kumamoto is good place. My university nearby downtown. About ten minutes by bicycle. Downtown have many good shops, good restaurants, and good clothes shop and so on. That there is no trouble in usually life. Big super market, nearby my university!! Students who living alone, they often go to this super market!! This store name is “HIROSE.” If you need something, let's go to this super market.

My university has facility. For example, English lounge, convenience store, library and so on. KGU have a lot of buildings, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 7, No. 8, No. 11, No. 12, No. 14. And two gymnasiums, library, students’ hall and professor’s room. Building No. 8 is using as club room. LAWSON is on the first floor of students’ hall. Everyone can use there. At the lunch time, it makes a line in front of the checkout counter. KGU is so large and it has a lot of students, so be careful not to be lost and late the next class.

No.1 building has English lounge. We introduce English lounge. This lounge comes to a lot of students and other exchange students. And also staff exchange students. In lunch time, we eat lunch with various students. Sometimes, come to teacher. In autumn, we hold Halloween party. We change costume. And eat snacks, food and so on. In Christmas, we also hold Christmas party!! We ready Christmas present and a lot of food and game!! This facility so awesome place and funny place.

One thing I think exchange students will need to know is students' dining hall. This is on first floor of building 7. At there, people can buy many delicious, healthy and cheap dishes. And everyone can eat there. A lot of students use there, so there is crowded at the lunch time. If you want to eat there, you must go there early in order to save your seat. In winter, you can also buy Oden and sweet potato baked in hot pebbles. Please try it buy in winter.

Another thing is bakery. Bakery is on the first floor of building 12. A lot of kind breads in there. There is selling not only bread but also sell salad and desserts. I recommend a soft ice cream. It can buy at 100yen. We often buy it. The weather is hot recently, so time to eat ice cream! KGU’s bakery is like cafeteria, so you can eat there. You can use there if you don’t buy something. Many students use there to talk or to eat lunch. We like BGM in bakery. It is always have music.

Third, We will talk about library. This library is so big!! Maybe our library has 30,000 books. And also has many computers!! We can use it free. This library can use in midnight. In holiday also open. But open short time. So we have many homework, we often use this library. We aren’t study homework in our house because we can’t concentrate in our house, and library is very quiet and pleasant. If you like watch movie, you should use this library, because this library have a lot of DVD. You can watch about foreign movies, Japanese movies and so on. We were often watch DVD with our foreign students and Japanese friends.

Next we will talk about not have my university facility. We need a lot of facility. For example, more foods shop, music store, more elevator and so on. We need the most facilities are restaurants. In lunch time, we can’t sit a sheet in cafeteria. We can sit a sheet in lounge. But other students couldn’t sit. We want to build of McDonald!! Almost students love McDonald. And McDonald short latency of the meal. Our university has a little place. Maybe make McDonald easily of university.

And we want to also make CD shop. In downtown not have CD shop. Only build TSUTAYA. But TSUTAYA, CD not selling much. we want to build Tower Records!! Tower Records is the most famous CD shop in Japan. We often listening to foreign music. In English department has listening class, so we should practice listening. We want to buy more foreign music and teaching material. Please make this store in our university or nearby university.

Finally Kumamoto Gakuen University is good university. This university has good facility and good student and good teachers!! One year ago, we were admitted at Kumamoto Gakuen University. The first time was nervous every day. But spend much times, we could make a lot of Japanese friends and exchange students. We have been able to send the full daily. In this summer vacation, We will go to trip with friends. We want to use to enable this college life. If you have interested or come to this university, we are looking forward to you coming here and talking about something!! We hope meet soon.

[832 words]

I co-authored this essay with Junpei. We used content from our previous, individual essay posts (1-02a-b).

Individual essay posts (1-02a-b)

Nana's revised essay (2012.05.23)
Junpei's revised essay (2012.05.21)

Here are links to each of our co-authored essays:

Joint essay posts (1-02c)

Nana's joint essay (2012.06.20)
Junpei's joint essay (2012.06.22)

6.17

In Kumamoto prefecture, it is the rainy season now.
The damp is an enemy of naturally curly hair.
Yes! I have naturally curly hair so I need hair iron.

Umbrella is a necessary article during the rainy season. I also need crocs because I walk along the road do not avoiding the puddles. So, if I have on shoes, my shoes will be bad.

My favorite place is behind of teacher’s building. There are a lot of puddles on a rainy day.
I walked there yesterday and I got drenched to my legs in the rain.
At the time, my theme songs were “MR. RAINDROP” and “Umbrella”.
I like these songs. Do you know these songs? MR.RAINDROP is song by amplified but I don’t know who is singing Umbrella. I heard this song when I watched Glee. 

By the way, I don’t like rain season think about my hair, but I enjoy this season.
Although, I want sun! My laundry won’t dry because of the rain.

And I am anxious about mudslide.
My parent’s house is standing near the hill.
The hill has little landslide. I think reinforcement work is not finish.
I wish something not happen with my family.

[200 words]

BR 1-08: Puss in Boots

A talking cat - his master must be a magucian! (p. 24)

Tom's horrified when this is all his father leaves him in his will. But he soon finds out that Puss is no ordinary cat. He wears boots for one thing, and what's more, he talks. Healso has plenty of crafty ideas up his sleeve. Sonn Tom and his cat are mixed up in an incredible adventure with an ogre, a king and a princess.
I think Puss is so clever. I want to see the cat which can speak.

Reference

Patchett, Fiona. (2005) Puss in Boots. London, England: Usborne

[100 words]

6.13

I went to a movie theater with my friend. We watched HOTARUNOHIKARI. 
We have a time until movie start, so we take a Purikura. Then we watched with eating popcorn. I think popcorn is important when watch movies. I had watching HOTARUNOHIKARI when it has broadcasting on TV, so I was looking forward to seeing this movie. We were so enjoyed it. There are a lot of movies showing now, so I want to watch another one next time.

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BR 1-07: Magical Animals

Spreading his wings, Pegasus soared in to the sky. (p. 9)


A horse that can fly? A creature that's half-lion, half-eagle? If you think they sound amazing, wait until you see the other incredible animals roaming these pages. This book has a CD, so it brings the stories to life through lively music, dramatic sound effects and superbly characterized readings. This book really interesting and it can image detaile with listening CD. It is a fantasy but it may exist if you find hard. I believe it. Please read and enjoy this book.

Reference

Watson, Carol. (2007) Magical Animals. London, England: Usborne.

[103 words]

6.11

Yesterday was volleyball match.

Recently I think I wrote about volleyball, but I don’t matter. Because I only playing volleyball everyday. I want holiday!! I want to back to last year!

We were defeated in the semifinals. We lost the game to Sin-ai High School which is the best high school team in Kumamoto. I think we could not match them in youth. 

Preliminary of intercollegiate competition hold end of this month. If we lose, we start holiday for examination until Aug. 6th. I want holiday but I want not lose. Anyway, I am a manager, so I want to play…

[101 words]

Typing -Foreign countries-

I want to go New Zealand, Germany. I have been to New Zealand when I was 14 years old. It was a nice place. I went to NZ to homestay program. I don't want to go abroad alone, but my friend asked me to go abroad. So I could make up my mind to go. I went to DUKE, it is a school, a lot of international students in there. The school is mainly Korean. I learned history of NZ with them. Sometime I learned Korean language. I was really enjoying NZ. I went shopping, hiking, watching sheep and golden pig and so on. I want to go again. And I was learned German last year, so I want to go there. Then I want to eat sausage and German food. If I have a lot of money, I want to travel all over the world.

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6.6

It is writing class now.
Today is lest of my practice.

I'm so boring now...


Recently, last match of high school.
My old school was lost by Kanoya-Chuou.
The counts is 1-2.
I think it was so close to winning!
They will win next time.

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BR 1-06: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Sticklewick had never left him alone in the castle before. (p. 7)


Max is learning to be a sorcerer and he can't wait to try out some magic on his own. One day, left alone in the castle, he grabs his chance. And Max's spell works very well until he finds he can't stop it. Then he in a trouble.

This story is famous, so this sotry became classical music. I have listen to that music. It was nice. Please try to read this book then lesten to the music. I think people can enjoy it. I recommend everyone.

 

Reference

Chandler, Fiona. (2007) The Sorcerer's Apprentice. London, England: Usborne

[110 words]

6.1

June is start from today.
How time flies!

Today, I will talk about me.

I was born in Ebino in 1992 and grew up in Okuchi, Kagoshima.
Kagoshima is famous for Sakurajima, Okuchi is famous for Sogo fall and cherry blossoms. 

Some years later I was entered kindergarten the name of Houou Gakuen. And I began to English conversation lesson and piano lesson. I started English conversation lesson because my sister studied first and I envied her.

At the age of 10, I was joined a volley ball club. I was always after my mother’s practice, so I decided to join the club. I lacked physical strength at first, so it was hard for me to catch up with my teammate. But it was interesting for me to grow my skill.

I was in the 6th grade; I took part in thirty-legged race with my classmate. We couldn’t win the championship, but it was mine memory for us.

After finished elementary school, I entered Okuchi junior high school. My class won gold prize for chorus festival at Kagoshima prefecture two years later. At that time, I accompanied on piano because I am not good at singing. And I went to New Zealand. I was galling because I could not make myself understood in English. Same teacher took charge of my class for three years.

Then, I was entered Okuchi high school. In 2nd grade, my class made folded paper crane art. It was war. We folded more than 20,000 paper crane. We were always fighting with crane and oneself. It continued I was finish high school. Same year, I was selected a captain of volley ball team. So I could get along with teacher and member. I decided to play volley ball until I can’t play.

Last year, I moved to Kumamoto. Then I entered Kumamoto Gakuen University. I enjoy Kumamoto life. One day, however, I was stolen about 7,000 yen during I was working. It was first time to stolen my money.

This year I joined volleyball club. I’m enjoying playing it. Sometimes I get impatient at some of mine juniors. But I don’t mind them. I try to get along with them...

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