BR 2-13: Christmas around the world

“People have been enjoying Christmas for over 2,000 years.” (Jane, 2005, p.8) I didn’t know that people have been enjoying since so many years ago. For me, I really love Christmas because it makes me excited very much. Moreover, Christmas eve is my mother’s birthday so we enjoy Christmas as a birthday party and Christmas party. That day is very special too. Since my mother’s birthday, my father cooks every year. He cooks really well so we’re looking forward to eating his dinner every year. Oneday, I want to try staying abroad on the Christmas day. I also like illumination. I went to see it last week with my family in Miysasaki. There was so beautiful with so many lights. I also want to go to Huistenbos to see the illumination :)

Reference
Chiholm, Jane, Christmas around the world [Usborn Young Reading, London, Usborne Pub

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My favorite sports player

My favorite sports player is Kagawa Shinji. He is a professional soccer player. He's in Germany now and he belongs to Dortmund. When I first saw him, he scored 2 goals already and after that, he scored a goal almost every game and he began to show up in the lots of news. He scored 12 goals this year!!! What I like about him is accuracy of shoots and he is doing his best in the foreign country, though he can't speak German. While I was watching the news about him, I thought that he isn't afraid of making mistakes and doesn't make excuse that "I don't understand German". He doesn't matter with language. I was realized that I shouldn't get away from anything, for example, studying, club, living and so on. He gave me a way to do my best so I want to try lots of things from now on.

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My favorite song

My favorite song is "Hero". This song was sung by FUNKY MONKEY BABYS. The song is about "daddy" and when I listened to it at second time, I was almost crying. Our father is working for us, family. The song expresses that and I was really moved by that song. Why I didn't moved at first time, that is because I couldn't listen it carefully. They sang it at Kohaku Utagassen and my father said that "There are many songs about mothers but not so many songs about fathers. This song is nice". I also thought so but I couldn't listen it carefully at that time but now, I listened to the song, I can really cry. One reason is I live by myself. I can't stay with him every day so I feel sad. I really love my father so I feel sadder when I listen to it but also, I feel so thank you to him :)

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My favorite drama

My favorite drama is "Gold", though it finished already. I haven't watched drama when I'm in Miyazaki because in Miyazaki, there are only 2 channels except 2 NHK channels so there are not so many drama. "Getsu9" which means 9:00pm on Monday also doesn't show in Miyazaki. However, Kumamoto has many interesting dramas, so I often watch recently, especially since I started living in an apartment this February. At first, I didn't plan to watch that drama but my sister liked the actor so I recorded it for sister. However, when I watched it once, it was very interesting story about bringing up children and so on. Then I came to watch it in real time every Thursday.

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Kimono

On Sunday, I went to the party of giving conferment, which is given by emperor, for a ex-Diet member. My cousin and I had to give him a bunch of flowers so we wore a kimono. My grandmother can help us get dressed very well and our kimono are very old. They're used since our mother was a little child.
I like to wear kimono and it makes me happy. I've been dancing traditional Miyazaki dance since I was born and I've worn a kimono as a Okame-san for 16 years. When I danced it for the first time, I was a 4 years old. That's why I love kimono.
This day, the party was from 11:00 am so I went to my grandparents' house at 9:00. She dressed my cousin and I. I wore earlier then went to the hotel first then I took with my father. He was in the work time but he came to see us. The man standing right to me is my father :) He is really nice☆
I'm not sure that you can see but our kimono has swallowtail and that's because, our family emblem is swallowtail (butterfly).
At all events, I had a good time this day and was really happy to wear kimono :) Next year has a coming-of-age ceremony so I'll wear it again. I'm looking forward to wearing it again.

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Essay 2-03a: Enjoy Hard Work

I'm a 2nd year student of university and I'm having really busy.. too busy days everyday. That is why, because I have a lot of homework, presentations, exams and so on. For me, I really don't like homework because I don't have much time everyday. Since I'm living by myself, I have to do every hausework by myself and I go to club everyday and come home late so homework makes me tired and of course this essay too. But is this really hard work for me?


When I was a high school student, I was thinking the same things. I have lots of homework, have to go to club everyday, come home late.. and so on. However, oneday, I realized that these things are important for me because I only can experience those, in that time. Then what about now? I live by myself, doing every things, going club every day and so on. Are those things can do in the future after I graduated from university? ....I don't think so and I remembered the high school days.


Living alone feel very lonely. There is only I in my room. At first, I really missed my family and often had a homesick. But now, I don't feel lonely so much better than before. I enjoy living by myself. After I leaved the doam, I have to cook everyday. I'm not so good at cooking but I like cooking so I enjoy cooking in my home. That is also hard work for me but it's a good experience. After I started living alone, I thought I'm lucky. That's because, living alone is good study for being nice person. I also realized that how my parents are great.


One more thing that I think it's a hard work is the club. As you may know, I belong to the rowing club and I go to Ezuko 6 times a week. Only Monday is day off for us. However, I have a speaking class in the 5th period so I can't do anything on Monday. From September to December, for 3 months, my friends couldn't come to the club because they had job experience. I was of course alone and I helped the rower. At first, I felt it's so hard work but recently, I realy enjoy helping them and talking with them. I think that's because I became alone.


As you can see, not only me but also so many students have hard work. However, as I said before, we can experience these things only in university and there is also, of course enjoy not only hard work but also hung out with my friends when I have day off. We go to Karaoke, eat out, shopping and so on. I really like to hung out with my friends :) I have 2 more years and I'll be 3rd grade next year and have prepare for job exam so to get a good job, I will do my best!

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Univ. life

• homework
• reports
• essays
• presentation
• club
• party
• sports
• rowing
• badminton
• tennis
• job exam
• exam

Univ. life

• homework
• reports
• essays
• presentation
• club
• party
• sports
• rowing
• badminton
• tennis
• job exam
• exam

Univ. life in 25 years

I will be 45 years old in 25 years. I don’t think I’m studying in university but if I’m studying in university, I don’t think I’m having fun with my friends. I’m 45 years old and everyone is around 20s so I’m really old in them. It’s hard for me to make friends with those young people. However, I want to try rowing again so I will enter the rowing club again. Rowing doesn’t matter age and I can row by myself so I’m not try to win but want to enjoy rowing at Ezuko.

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Univ. life now

I’m having fun with university life now. Though I have lots of homework, have to do presentation and so on but on the other hand, that’s only that I can do in the university life. If I was not a university student, I couldn’t have such a lovely day. I also have to go to the club and it’s really hard for me but I think I’m quite enjoying with my teammates. I will be more busy next year and have to start preparing for job exam but I would like to enjoy my university life.

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Practise

Yesterday, we practised for the test of speaking class. There are 4 destinations for vacation and we discussed where should we go. That's not the topic for the test so we just practised discussing. We will discuss about restaurants. I'm going to listen to it again and again.

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BR 2-12: The Game

"Brad, are you in the game?" (Millet, 2007, p.4). He was sucked into the game. Finally, he comes back so you don't need to worry. haha When I was a little child, I didn't have any games so of course I didn't play game. My parents didn't want their children to have or play game and neither did I. I didn't think like "I want to play a game!" or something. That's because, I enjoyed with another things, for example, sports or card and so on. I don't like game even now. It's not good for our health as you know, and much worse for children. I heard from my friend that nowadays, children go to park bringing games. They go to a park not to play but to play games. That's terrible, isn't it? That's one reason why children get sick more than before, I think. I don't deny playing games but children shouldn't play too much for their health.

Reference
Millet, Peter. (2007). The Game. Melbourne: Nelson Australia Pty Ltd

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BR 2-11: Mr.Bean

I really like Mr. Bean since a few years ago. He doesn't speak so much but he's so funny!! Rather, he doen't speak so much "so" he is funny, I think. I watched a movie of this book when I was a high school student. My mother rented a DVD of Mr.Bean and I watched it with my family. We really laughed too much and it was like sit-ups.
My favorite story is Chapter 3-Wet Trousers (Curtis, 1997, p.11). In this chapter, he says "What am I going to do? I can't meet Mr.Grierson with wet trousers!" (Curtis, 1997, p.11). He is in the Grierson Gallery then he went to the rest room. He started washing his hands but his trousers got wet. After he got wet, he trys to dry his trousers. That sroty is so funny and I really like that scene also in the movie. In the speaking class, we watched Mr.Bean's video then described what he's doing. It was of course funny so it was hard for me to describe without laughing. haha However, he is very earnest person despite Mr.Bean's appearances. That's also why I like him very much :)

Reference
Curtis, Richard. (1997). Mr.Bean. Essex: Pearson Education Limited

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BR 2-10: Twins

My younger sister and I are really similar. When I was looking at photo album of childfood, I couldn't find which girl is me. We're very similar and everyone says like that. We often take for "twins" though my sister is younger than I by 2 years. I didn't think we're like twins but since my sister entered to the same high school. she became more taller than before. She is 164cm and I am 166cm so the tall is almost same now. She has visited my school for open campus and at that time, everyone said "She is the living image of you!!". After she entered to the high school, she was often taken for me. My teacher said "Asaki" dor my sister. Even my family take us for each other. haha When we went to Tokyo for English speech contest, my teacher gave my ticket to my sister^^; Everyone says when we meet for the first time. At school, restaurant, hotel and even in the hot springs. However, I like to be said "Are you twins?" so I'm happy now and I love her :)

Reference
Brasch, Nicolas. (2004). Twins. Australia: Nelson Australia Pty Ltd

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BR 2-09: Don't throw it away

Now, almost all the products can throw, for example, plastic bags, used paper, old food or whatever. On the hand, those things also can be recycled into another products. Nowadays, people can make clothes by used plastic bottles. When I was a 3rd grade of high school student, I went to Saitama for inter-high-school athletic competition of rowing in summer vacation. We get some goods every year in that competition and that year, we got a T-shirt made by used plastic bottles. The T-shirt says "Think Future" and bottom of it has a explanation in picture that how it has made. At first, I didn't realize but my friend told me. That's very confortable to wear and I love it.
It's not good to throw away food even if it's old. I don't mean that we should eat old food because old food is of course not good for our body but if we can't eat, we shouldn't buy too much. We must eat them completely if we buy food. I'm living by myself so I take care of food and I always try to buy food as much as I can eat all.

Reference
Chan, Harry. (2004). Don't Throw It Away. Australia: Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd

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BR 2-08: Tea with Grumpyboots

I like to have a tea with my family or friends or anyone so I like to go to restaurant or cafe. When we have tea together, we talk about so many things. That's also my one reason . What's more, if we have tea, we always eat dessert something match to tea. I also love those dessert and sweets. I especially like to go cafe or restaurant after school. We can talk about what we did on that day and so on. I often go to Joyfull with my teammate after the club. I went Joyfull again on Tuesday. My junior asks for us to go there so we often go there.
My other favorite place is Taiyaki shop near Ezuko. We found there last year. After 7:00, all the taiyaki become half price, 50 yen. There's taiyaki and other food and really cheap so I often went there with my friends and we still go there after club, almost in weekend. Do you have any place that you like to have a tea? If so, please let me know :)

Reference

Alexander, Jenny. (2001). Tea with Grumpyboots. London: Pearson Education Limited

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My favorite perfume

I like to correct perfumes. I really have lots of perfumes. On those perfumes, I have 3 perfumes that I especially like recently. At first, Maria Sharapova. This perfume is a little bit floral fragrance. I like the last fragrance. Perfume has 3 steps of fragrance. Then next is FINE LUNA. Its fragrance is unstimulating so I like the first fragrance. Finally, this is my favorite one now, Jeanne LANVIN. This is really nice fragrance. Its fragrance is soft and tender. I really love this one. I think this is good for pillow to sleep well because this is also unstimulationg and soft fragrance so I'm sure you can relax with this :) I will show you the others next time. Fragrance makes me happy and relax ^^

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Restaurants

We will have a text for speaking 4 class so we practiced for that. We will discuss about reataurants. We watched a video about 4 restaurants. Then we worked for the restaurant presentation.

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My favorite junior high memory

I have a great memory of junior high school with my grandmother. When I was a 2nd grade of a junior high school student, I traveled with my grandmother in the summer vacation. We went to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong for 6days. It was the hardest travel for me because we went to those 4 countries only in 6days! Can you imagine how hard it is? We had to take airplane for 5times in 6days. That was so long way to get back to Japan. However, that trip is the best trip for me. I think that's because I could go to the other countries that I've never been to and experienced so many new things thanks to my grandmother. She is so active still now and she likes to go overseas very much. She has been to many many countries. Anyway, that's my favorite junior high memory.

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