Favorite place

Today, we talked about our "Favorite place" in the speaking class. My favorite place is Ninigi Bakery & Cafe. This cafe is in the Sheraton Hotel, Miyazaki. Here is resonable and there has also some sofa which can relax very much. I used to come here very often when I was a high school student, after school. After 6:00 pm, almost breads become half price :) Here is very quiet and good mode. I want to go next time I back to Miyazaki ^^

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Today, I went to the soccer game for the first time. It was the last home game of Roasso Kumamoto. I went there by bus with Satoko and I saw the game with Ryoko, her mother, Kana and Satoko. Ryoko gave us chickets. I was so happy to see the real soccer game at KKWing :)

Roasso scored the first goal n the second half and score the goal again soon after the first goal!! We were so excited and enjoyed cheering them. In about the 40th minutes of the second half, Roasso scored the goal again!! We were very happy ^^! It was my first soccer game and they won, so I'm really happy and I appreciate Ryoko and her mother very much!! Thank you so much for the nice game!!

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Kagura

Do you know "Kagura"? It's very famous traditional dance festival in Takachiho, perhaps in Japan. So many people visit Takachiho to see this festival. This was held in 22nd November to 23rd November. They dance until morning through the whole night. This dance is undecimal for Japanese mythology. My father's hometown is Takachiho so we go this festival every year. We went to Takachiho after I finished the 5th period on Monday and we visited here, 11:30 pm. I like this dance (photo) the best because she is really really really cute! Her endearing gesture is sooooo cute!! Actually, inside her is a man. Women can't go inside the Sacred Rope so only men can dance inside there. Even if inside is a man, she is really lovely so I love this dance the best. Rather, everyone likes this dance the best. This dance is a story of Izanagi and Izanami who made a country, Japan. This story is also very funny and they give us a lot of smiles and that's also the reason why I like this dance the best. They hug some people for dance and it's the funniest scene of this dance. There were more people than last year and a few foreigner was there. Someone said "Oh My God!!" and it was really funny :) Many years ago, when I was a little child, I was like a boy so at first, the woman hugged me but the man realized that I'm a girl so he hurriedly came to me and then, the man hugged me. At that time, everyone was laughing and I was really happy ^^ However, this dance is danced in very late time, like 2:00 am or sometimes 3:00 am so it's hard for children to see this dance but many children are looking forward to seeing this dance and so are adults. Please come to Takachiho once! It's worth seeing this traditional dance festival once :)

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UFO!?

I came back to Miyazaki last Friday night after I went to the part time job. On that night, my cousin stayed our home so we had party until 4:30 am. We really laughed so much. haha Next day, we went out for lunch, then I had to go to the workshop so I went. Then after that, we went out for dinner. It was really funny dinner time and after that, we went to Karaoke and sang until 2:00 am.
Then next day, I went to my grandparents' house to see our dog, Ujiro. He was of course very cute!!!
After that, my mother,sister and I went to the sea to see the moon. On that day, there were no clouds so we could see the moon very clearly and was soooo beutiful :)
Then!!!! I think you wouldn't believe but I'm sure we saw a UFO!! It was on the sky and didn't move but had a strong red light. We thought it was a airplane first, but it didn't move so we said "Isn't that UFO?!" just for kidding. However, it suddenly started to dissappear!!! My sister took that moment on her camera. It was really amazing. I'm sure that was a UFO. hahaha
Anyway, the scenery from there was sooooo lovely and I liked it very much :)

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BR 2-07: The Barbecue

I had BBQ this summer vacation. We went to Korea and after we returned to Miyazaki, we had BBQ at my friend's house. I haven't been having BBQ in a long time at that time so I enjoyed very much with them. Recently, I went to BBQ with my club's OB and teammates after the Kyusyu Students Regatta. He paid us for half of the price. I was very hungry at that time so it was so nice. However, when I was a high school student, I couldn't eat any meats. Now I'm getting over slowly so I can eat but can't eat too much. If I ate too much, I feel not good. I like chicken the best and can't eat beef so much.

Reference
Strong, J. (2001). The Barbecue. England: Pearson Education.

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BR 2-06: The Great Gatsby

I read this book because I watched the movie of this book in the class. Gatsby is of course “great” I think. I have some reasons to think so and the most important point is to wait favorite girl for a long time. Gatsby and Daisy were lovers but Gatsby went to the war and Daisy couldn’t wait for him. Then she got married with another man who is very rich. In this story, Daisy is said that “idiot and pretty woman”. She symbolizes the age. Anyway, when Gatsby went back from the war, she has already got married. He knows that but he thinks that Daisy doesn’t love her husband. Then Gatsby try to plunder her from her husband.
Gatsby was waiting for her for a long time. That is great to love and wait for a long time. On the other hands, he was having party almost every nights or weekends. I felt that he is playboy. However he is rich, I think he is too much. For me, I can’t trust him.
But I like this story and I have to write report about this movie so I’ll do my best :)

Reference
Fitzgerald, F. (1993). The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin Books.

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BR 2-05: Summer at the zoo

This story is about to work as junior zookeepers at the local zoo. 3 students work as junior zookeepers. I have tried zookeeper too when I was a junior high school student. As you know, we have work experience in junior high and high school. When I was a junior high school student, I wanted to work related animals because I really love animals so I chose the local zoo. We worked there for 3 days but it was very hard work. First, I cleaned the hutches of animals. That was the hardest work for me. Then I made food for animals and that was interesting. Then I fed them. I also touched many animals. They were really cute and I was so happy. I had very funny experience once. When I was cleaning corridor in front of the cage of gorilla, the gorilla threw the skin of banana! It was surprising but really funny.
I love zoo and when I go to the zoo, I was healed by animals. I would like to go the zoo!! Haha

Reference
Wuest, M. (2009). Summer at the zoo. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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My favorite movie

My favorite movie is "The King and The Crown". This movie is the most famous movie in Korea. This movie has set an attendance record; more than 10 million. When I went to Korea 5 years ago, I went to see this movie with my friends. At that time, of course there was no subtitle of Japanese but I cried a lot. It was also showed in Japan and I went to the theater with my friends and I cried again. This movie is really good story and I have watched about 4 times and everytime I watch it, I always cry at the last scene. The story is about the showmen in the sixteenth century. If you haven't watched it yet, please watch it once. I'm sure you'll cry. haha

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My favorite slogan

"We tend to be good at those things we like" This is my favorite slogan. This slogan is given by my former teacher when I was a junior high school student. She was very strict woman but she was always thinking about us, students. She was a only teacher that I respect. If she was not my English teacher, I wouldn't study English very hard. I appeared on stage for English speech contest. At first, I was so bad at pronunciation and accent. She always cut up with me because my English was terrible. Then I practiced really hard with her, even in summer vacation. We both didn't have summer vacation for practicing. Thanks to her, I could get a best prize at the contest. She seldom big up me but I know that thanks to that, I could win. She gave that slogan for me when I graduated the junior high school.

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My favorite dessert

My favorite dessert is cake!! I really love it. However, I can't eat it so often. I eat only for birthday for someone or celebrate something. In these years, I make cake for birthday cake. For example, when my family's birthday, I always make. They glad if my younger sister or I make the cake for them. That's also happy for me and her. Especially, Christmas is the most important. My mother's birthday is Christmas eve so my family has Christmas party on that day every year. The cake means birthday cake and the Christmas cake so I try to make the most difficult one. I like making cake but I'm looking forward to eating the cake that I made.

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My favorite dish

My favorite dishes are my parents' dishes. I like both my father and mother's dishes. They are really good cook. My mother cooks everyday and my father cooks when my mother's birthday or she is sick. He can cook really well and I love his dishes. I'm looking forward to eating his cook in Christmas, my mother's birthday. He can cook anything. I also like my mother's dishes so when I back home in Miyazaki, I'm so happy to eat her dishes. However, I always eat too much so I get weight every time I back to Miyazaki but I don't care because I love her dishes. I want to be like them so I want to make as many dishes as I can.

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My favorite class

My favorite class is American literary history. In this class, we usually watch some movies. I like to watch movies so I like this class. In each semester, we watch one or two whole movies. However, we have to write a report about it. That's very difficult for me. I don't know what to write. I'm really not good at writing reports. I have to write until November 5th but I'm not sure whether I can write well or not. But!! I know that I have to write until 5th so I'll do my best. I hope I can find the theme of the report. I think that is very important points when we write a report.

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iPad

On Monday, I used iPad for the first time on the speaking class for a presentation. I was excited because I saw and used the real iPad for the first time. It was big than I expected and was very thin. I thought that it's very useful for using computer because we can bring it to anywhere where has a internet.

The presentation was about the "new me". My new name is Aba and I'm from South Africa then I'm a doctor. It's very cool, isn't it? I have a big house and a nice car. I can be a person that I want to be, in that person. haha

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November 15th

Last week, we talked about job in the speaking class. We asked each other about job. There were some questions about job and I liked some of them. I want to be a traveller if I have no problem with money :) And I don't want to be a entertainer(geinin). I hope I can make my dream comes true.

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Essay 2-02b: So I study

I have learned 4 languages; Japanese, English, Korean and Spanish. For me, studing other languages is to meet and know another people in the world. However, at the same time, it's very difficult to study other languages so I didn't imagine that I will be intrested in studying other languages, especially, English.

But first of all, we are Japanese so of course we have studied Japanese since I was a little child and until now in the university to be a Japanese teacher. To be honest, I didn't like Japanese classes until I entered to the KGU because Japanese is very difficult, isn't it? That's why I didn't like the Japanese classes and I liked the English classes in the junior high school. However, since I entered the KGU, I was intrested in Japanese. Japanese is intresting!, I felt. Then I desided to be a Japanese teacher so I took a special classes for being a Japanese teacher.

Next is of course about English. I didn't realize that "I like English!" until I got a perfect score in the first exam of junior high school. I was studying English before I entered the junior high school but I didn't think I like English. I just wanted to study English to talk with my host family in Singapore. Then I got a perfect score and I realized. I really like English and want to learn more and more! Someday, I can talk with my family in Singapore very well, I was thinking like that and I studied really hard with very nice teacher.I also went to the extra English lesson at NOVA but as you know, there closed suddenly so I studied by myself at school. I came to the KGU of course to study English. I want to be a Japanese teacher in abroad so I have to study English very hard. I love English so I study :)

I also learned Korean. That's because, I got Korean friends when I was a junior high school student. I was listening to Korean songs and I liked the Korean singer. Then my cousin received two Korean boys for homestay. We became very good friends and they were like my brothers. Both of them could speak Japanese very well but I wanted to talk in Korean. I studied with my cousin and sister. I couldn't study Korean in junior high and high school so I took Korean in the university. Now I have another Korean friends and I want to talk with them in Korean.

However, I don't have friends who can speak Spanish. I was wondering which language should I take in the university. All 4 languages are difficult for me so I really think about that. Then I heared that Spanish is the 2nd language in the world so I desided to take Spanish. However, it was soooooo difficult for me and that tortured me very much. Teacher says it's not difficult and Spanish is very usual language, but I didn't think so. I couldn't remember words. I think that was because I couldn't like Spanish. I learned that if there is no reason or emotion of like, I can't remember anything. I should have studied Spanish more. I think about myself now.

The other language that I want to try is Chinese. Since I have my host family in Singapore and they also speak Chinese. That's why I want to try Chinese. I heard it's difficult to study Chinese but I think I can do it if I do my best. If I have a chance, I really want to try studying Chinese.

As I wrote in the first paragraph, studying other languages are to meet and know another people in the world. Every time I got foreign friends, I feel like I want to study the language that they speak. That's why I study languages. For Spanish, that was really sorry but I think I will meet someone who speaks Spanish someday. Maybe that time, I will study Spanish again. I love languages, especially English. I do my best to speak English and to be a good Japanese teacher!

Responses to all comments
>>Haruka
I also think so. I want to be a Japanese teacher because I thought it's interesting, last year:)
>>Chikako
I of course like English the best!!
>>Asuka
Spanish is difficult... I like LEXY, TVXQ and so on^^
>>Kosei
I thought you already know about it^^ I take special classes for being a Japanese teacher.
>>Mizuho
I have a lot!!haha I want to go karaoke with you:) Let's go!
>>Nana
I didn't know that you took Spanish last year. I want to study Chinese if I can:)
>>Ayaka
Spanish is difficult but Korean is not so difficult, maybe.haha
>>Chika
I like English the best and I want to try Chinese if I have a chance^^
>>Saki
I like listening class the best! I also like writing class :)

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Umpire

I took umpire test of rowing last Sunday. On Saturday, we had a training program for the rules and umpires for 4 hours at Esuko. It was sooo long and cold. It was not difficult, we just read the rules one by one. Then we did last years test for practice.
Then on Sunday, we also had a training program for 2 hours. Then soon after the training program, we had test. It was very easy this year. However, oral test was a little bit difficult because we had to remember some of the rules correctly. There were 15 people and the oral test took much time more than that I expected. It took 30 minutes per person. I've been waited for 3 hours so I remember all the rules correctly. The oral test was a little bit difficult but it took only 10 minutes for me thanks to 3 hours. That day was very tired so I had a leisurely bath then I went to bed very early and slept a lot :)

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Halloween Party

On the November 11th, we had Halloween Party ^^! After we finished 4th period, we went shopping for that party. Actually, that party also had a surprise birthday party for Kana. Her birthday is 3 month ago but we couldn't have party for her. We planned to have on camp but she couldn't come so we had on that day. We had little cake and some snacks. Then after that, we went to Karaoke!!!!! It was really really really great!!!! I realllllllly enjoyed!!! It was a lot of fun!!!!! GREAT :) We also planned for Sayaka but she couldn't come because she had a part time job so we gave her a present next morning ^^

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Kyusyu Students Regatta

On the November 7th, we had Kyusyu Students Regatta at Kikuchi. I woke up at 5 am and went there at 7:30 am. I was sooooo sleepy and we had to wait until 4 pm because the university students' regatta is from 4 pm. Until that, high school students' Kyusyu regatta was held. Kikuchi was very cold and we had too much time so I walked with my friend. However, we got a phone call from our OB and we had to help them again. I timed high school students. I'm almost professional for timing them. haha I time most of the high school students' races every time.
In the lunch time, other member came and prepared for the race. My friend and I found a very nice place to sleep and we slept for a while. There was sooo nice. There would be our secret place. haha
Then from 4 pm, we had races for university students. I had to do waterman which holds the tail of boat in the water. However, it was really cold!!!!! I thought my hand would be gone somewhere.... really cold.....
Unfortunately, we couldn't win but I enjoyed the last regatta of this year. We left there 6:30 pm and was very dark. My senior asked us to go BBQ with him so we had to go but I haven't been BBQ in a long time so I was happy :) However, I got up very early that morning so I was really sleepy and tired :(

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TVXQ Party!!

On the November 6th, we had TVXQ Party!! The member were; Satoko, Megu, Nabe and I. We all like TVXQ so we had a party for that. Af first, we met at the in front of the PARCO then we went to McDonald's to have lunch. We talked about ourselves there and we went to Karaoke then sang their songs. It was really funny and we had a lot of fun!! We sang until 8pm and we back to our own houses. I almost first time to see Megu and Nabe but we became close very soon. They are so nice :)
We hope to have that party again, next time, at Satoko's house ^^ haha

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November 11th

On that day, the school was day off for school festival. Satoko and I had a presentation for Japanese grammar class so we got together at the libraly. However, prepareing for the presentation was not so easy and we examine very hard. Then on that night, she stayed my home. We went to shopping for dinner together and I made. We stayed up very late and we went to bed 5am. haha

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New member

Yesterday was really cold and I went to Ezuko after the 5th period had finished. I really didn't want to go because it was soooo cold yesterday. However, I had to go so I went. When I got there, they were adjusting their own boats. I helped and waited them. Then after we finished the club, my junior asked us to go to eat out for dinner so we went to Joyfull near the KGU. I went to with 2 girls and 2 boys. That was first time to go with them so I felt fresh. We had dinner and talked about a lot. I enjoyed having dinner with them yesterday :)

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