Watching Soccer Game

Yesterday, we watched the soccer game; Japan vs Saudi Arabia at my house. I watched with Ryoko and Satoko. As you may know, we love to watch soccer game so we decided to watch the game together at my house. We prepared for watching the game and cheer for them. The game was so excited!!! They scored 5 goals when they finished the game!!! It was amazing... really amazing and we were very happy!!! Then we talked about a lot of things until 4:30 am. haha Soccer game make us powerful and we also love the players(♡ω♡)
Today, after we finished the 2nd period, we went downtown to eat lunch and celebrated Makoto Hasebe, who is the captain of Japan team, for his birthday :) Happy Birthday!!

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Soccer Game!

On the 10th January, I went to see the soccer game which was held in Miyazaki produced by Nakata Hidetoshi. Can you see Hide and Kazu in this picture?? There were some famous soccer player :) This game was so excited and we enjoyed watching the special game^^!

At night, my friend's family took us to eat out at Sheraton Hotel. The chef told us that the soccer players stayed that hotel. First, we ate dinner and then we went to the launge. There were 2 people singing very nice songs. Then we started to dance with them and the other people. It was sooooooooo fantastic!!! I thought like here is not Japan. haha Anyway, it was really excited!!!!!!!! I spent the most excited day, I think :)

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Coming of Age Ceremony

I had a Coming of Age ceremony at my hometown, Miyazaki. In Miyazaki, we have the ceremony at each junior high school's gym.
We had that on the 9th January. There were a few people whose I really couldn't find WHO and some people were really changed. However, girls were so cute and beautiful with their Kinomo ^^ I enjoyed with my old friends :)

At night, we had a class party. Most people came to that party and was sooo great party!! After that, we went to Karaoke and enjoyed singing AKB48's songs with every one. haha

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New Year's Party!!

On the 4th January, I met my cousin and friends. At first, I saw my cousin and as you can see, Malaysian friend. The other girl is my sister. My Malaysian friend has been living in Miyazaki as a overseas student for 4 years so she can speak Japanese really well. We are very good friends since she came to Miyazaki for the first time. She will be back to Malaysia this year.

Then at night, I went to my another friend's house. She lives in Miyazaki and working now so she started living by herself last year. They are my high school friends :) Every one is really funny and we kept laughing this night^^ I wanted to stay with them but I had to go to school from next day so I came back around 11:00 pm. I really had a great winter vacation with my family and friends!!

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Family trip to Nagasaki

My family go to family trip once a year and this year, we went to Nagasaki from 29th to 30th. Our plans were to eat oyster and crab!! One more thing that we wanted to do was to touch capibara. In Nagasaki Bio Park, we can touch many capibara.

At first, we ate oyster for lunch. The location was excellent; beautiful ocean!! We could see beautiful ocean eating oysters. haha Then we went to Nagasaki Bio Park. There was much bigger than I was expected and there were so many animals. The animals were really cute(>0<)!!
On that night, we ate "Hitokuchi Gyouza". This is mini-sized gyouza and so nice. We ate that a few years ago and we couldn't forget the taste so we came again.
Then the next day, we went to eat crab!! That was sweet and really nice!!!!! We had to go back to my father's hometown, Takachiho so we left earlier. However, there were so many cars going back to their hometown so we got stuck in the traffic and what was worse, there were heavy snow on our way to Takachiho so it was hard to get my grand parents' house.

We spent new year in Takachiho until 2nd. I had old class' metting of elementary school and my father had to go to work from 3rd so we went back to Miyazaki at 2nd.

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Trip to Yamaguchi

Last christmas, I went to Yamaguchi to see my friend who goes to the Yamaguchi University. We are high school friends and we are so close friends :) She is my best friend. We belonged to the same club and she was a captain.

Last February, she came to Kumamoto and stayed with me for a few days but after that, we couldn't see each other because we didn't have a chance to see :( Then I decided to go to Yamaguchi during the winter vacation. I woke up at 4:00 and prepared for the bus. I took the eariest high way bus to Fukuoka then I changed to train. It took about 6 hours to get there but I really enjoyed riding train because I haven't ride a train such long time for a long time. I got my friend's house at noon then I ate lunch. There's nothing special there but I had a good time staying with her. We also went to the hot spring because there is famous for the hot springs. After we took bath, it was really cold and was snowing but not so cold thanks to the hot spring ^^

On 27th, we left Yamaguchi and took train to Hakata. Then we looked around Hakata, went some shopping there and also went to Ramen Stadium. We ate ramen for lunch and bought a birthday present for my mother because her birthday was 24th December. At 3:00 pm, we took bus to Miyazaki. We arrived my house about 8:00 then she stayed my house ^^

It was a short trip and spent a lot of time to get there but I really had a great time with my best friend and I was so happy to see her!!

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BR 2-18: The Story of Chocolate

Do you like chocolate? I think most of people like it and also do I. I really love chocolate and my mother loves it so much. However, when I was a 1st grade of high school, I had atopy. I went to some hospital and also went to Fukuoka. Then the doctor said that don't eat any chocolate, meat, daily product, curry rice, eel and so on. I troubled my family not to eat any those. However, since I love chocolate, I couldn't stand without eating chocolate so I ate chocolate. haha My mother loves chocolate too so when her birthday, I make chocolate cakes every year and I also enjoy eating them :)

Reference

Daynes, Adam. (2004). The Story of Chocolate [Usborne Young Reading]. America: Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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BR 2-17: New Tricks

Do you like magic? Magic is really mysterious, isn't it? When I was a little child, I'm very interested in magic and I bought many tools to do magic. I also saw some famous people's magic show. I went to Mr.Maric and Prencess Tenko's magic shows. I of course saw the magic such as in this book like someone into a box and then cut with saw and separate but the person who cut is fine. It was really amazing because hands and legs are moving when it's separeted!! Don't you think that's very strange? I enjoyed watching the magic shows and I tried to do magic many times. I used to do some magic but I can't do anymore. haha

Reference

Reilly, Carmel. (2007). New Tricks. Australia

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BR 2-16: Dangerous Journey

Have you ever experienced dangerous journey? Actually, I had once. It was in Thailand, when I went 6 years ago. I was riding pedicab with my grandmother at night. Then, I really wanted to go to the bathroom. I told the driver that I want go to the bathroom. However, he didn't understand English and he was smiling. I was almost crying so I couldn't see anything. I keep standing during riding pedicab. That was a really dangerous journey in my life. haha
There is also dangerous journry in my trip. It was about 'time'. We used a different company to go Singapore and the airplane delayted almost an hour. We hurry to change the airplane and we ran around the airport. haha

Reference
Cox, Alwyn. (2005). Danngerous Journey. Oxford

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BR 2-15: Arctic Whale Danger!

“Free to swim the seas.” (Waring, 2008, p.18) Have you ever seen whale especially in the nature seas? I’ve never seen both in the aquarium and nature seas but I really want to see them in the nature seas. I was watching TV and there were whales in the sea. I was so moved by that scene and I thought I want to see them. If I could see them in the sea, I’m sure that I will cry because they are sooooo beautiful, aren’t they? Once I’ve heard the song of whales and I cried. Their voices are really tender and beautiful then mysterious. Their body is very big but has so tender voice. If I have a chance, I really want to go whale watching. That’s one of the way to forget the many daily lives and I will feel free with them. Someday, I hope that I can see them in the nature seas.

Reference
Waring, Rob. (2008). Arctic Whale Danger! [The Footprint Reading Library Series]. Australia: Thomson Heinle

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BR 2-14: King of the Go-kart Track

I like to ride go-kart in amusement park. When I was a little child, I used to go riding go-kart where has a very long course. I don’t have a driving license so I enjoy riding go-kart. However, go-kart is a little bit difficult. As this book says, “He’s always driving too fast and crashing into things” (Strong, 2001, p.15), sometimes we crash to something if we drive too fast. My cousin, once she almost crash to the person who teaches how to ride. haha It was funny.
When I’m staying in Singapore for a month, I went to a theme park where is called “Escape” with my Singaporean friends. There was not a big theme park and not so many rides. There was a go-kart and then they liked it very much. We kept riding it again and again but I was feeling a little bit tired because it was just riding go-kart and turning around the same place^^; I got dizzy because of the repetition of turning around. What was worse, we didn’t have lunch that day so I felt a little bit sick… haha

Reference
Strong, Jeremy. (2001). King of the Go-kart Track [Martin Coles and Christine Hall Series]. Essex: Pearson Education Limited 2001

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Essay 2-03b: 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 housework by myself and I go to club activities everyday and come home late so homework makes me tired and of course this essay too. But are these really hard work for me?


When I was a high school student, I was thinking the same things. I had lots of homework, had to go to club activities everyday, came home late and so on. However, oneday, I realized that these things are important for me because those experiences can experience only in the high school days. Then what about now? I live by myself, doing every things, doing my homework at library, studying for exams, going to club activities every day and so on. Are those things I can do in the future after I have graduated from university? I don't think so but my favorite memory at university life is studying English linguistics. That time was really hard and terrible and I was almost crying but that was my favorite memory in my university life. Then I remembered the high school days again.


Since I’m from Miyazaki, I live by myself. 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 compare to last year. When I feel lonely and miss my family, I usually call them or come back to Miyazaki. But it’s not easy to come back every time because it’s really expensive to take a bus to Miyazaki so I mostly call them. 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 so I enjoy housework: cooking, cleaning, washing clothes and dishes and so on. I like Italian and Japanese dishes so I usually cook Italian or Japanese dishes. After I started living alone, I thought I'm lucky. That's because, living alone is good study for being a 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 activities. As you may know, I belong to the rowing club and I go to Ezuko 6 times a week. Monday is only 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 a 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 days and of course I enjoy university life not only hard work but also hung out with my friends when I have a 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. I have to decide what I exactly want to be in the future and have to prepare for job exam. I also want to stusy abroad if I can. To get a good job, I will do my best!

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2011

My new year's resolution is to decide what I want to be in the future. Now, I'm taking special course to be a Japanese teacher but I'm also interested in a company. That company is which I really love and the middle of this month, there'll be held a job seminar in this university so I go that and listen to it carefully then I have to decide which I want to be. If I’ll take the exam of the company, I want to take a exam to go studying abroad. That’s my new year’s resolution.

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