BR:2-14 Frankenstein

"You may hate me, but I hate myself more"[p.63]

I have listened only name of “Frankenstein” but I didn’t know this story. After reading this story, I thought Frankenstein was a bad man and didn’t have moral.

If he hasn’t created the monster, the monster hadn’t suffered from finding his identity or significance of resentence because he was born this world without relating his intention. Frankenstein’s thinking was just creating a perfect human by using dead person. But his thinking was too shallow. If he haven’t created the monster, his wife would haven’t killed by the monster and the monster hadn’t have suffered from himself things.

I think creating human is too bad things because it destroys race of human and such a shallow action isn’t thought the feeling created things. It is against morality. We mustn’t create humans.    

Mary Shelly(1816) Frankenstein. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE  (146/13667 words）

BR:2-13Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"To their astonishment, she opened her eyes"[p.45]

I have ever watched "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" called "Shirayukihime" by Japanese. When I was a kindergartener, I had watched it first time. It was Walt Disney’s movie. I fascinated this story and musical.

After reading this book, I felt the dear feeling. When I was a child, I liked the Cinderella story like this book very much. And I had thought I want to get married with prince like Cinderella. This story makes girls feel shining feeling. I like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” the best of all Disney stories. Maybe almost girls like it.

Now I am growing so I don’t believe it to be true. But I read this book, my feeling makes warm. I thought it is good that I have such a girl’s dream.

The brothers Grimm(2005) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE   (151/ 13521 words)

BR:2-12 The Fashion Story of Fashion

"By the 1830's, every well-dressed lady wanted puffy sleeves."[p.60]

The opportunity I intended to read this book is I’m interested in fashion. So I picked it up and read.

This book said fashion of the present from accent Roma. Each time’s fashions were influenced the time of culture or change and so on. After reading this book, I think I want to wear France’s clothes of 1700s because they were so gorgeous and fashionable dresses. But people wore the clothes of the time have to squish own the waist. They were laced so tightly, even breathing was hard. I thought if I wore this dress, I couldn’t live to keep my life smoothly. So I want to wear a few times whiling I live.

I think fashion is repeated after the time of years. Especially, woman’s fashion is like that way. Woman’s fashion is influenced more than men’s one. I thought woman is hard to keep fashionable and lovely own.   

Lesly Sims(2006) The Fashion Story of Fashion. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE   (171/ 13370 words)

BR:2-11 Black Beauty

"That's what Squire Gordon called Beauty's patch."[p.62]

I read this story first time. Before having read this story, I hadn’t have think about horses’ feeling.

The cats or dogs like pets are loved by people but horses or caws or others like people uses or eats are just raisin to ride, eat, and do something else. We are human, so we don’t use or eat by others but other animals are used just as human wants. I know we can’t say only high sounding statement to keep our life. We have to live to eat or make a living by other animals.

In this story, Black Beauty was broken his borne, so people thrown away him. I think this is a bad thing. Even if he could not run, we have his important life once, so we have to take care of his rest life.

After reading this book, I thought we have to use or eat many things related to other animals.

Anna Sewell(2005) Black Beauty. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE　（171/13199 words)

BR:2-10 The Three Wishes

"I wish the sausage was off your nose, said Nad"[p.22]

I read this story first time. This story is an old man and woman’s wishes story. An old man wished has a sausage because he was so hungry. But an old woman wished does something more and bigger than his wishes. If I were they, I would wish something like an old woman because I could have rare chance to be fulfilled whatever I wish.

After reading this story, I thought if we have a rare chance to be fulfilled our wishes, what should we have priority? Big whishes like an old man? Have some beautiful clothes? Something makes rich than now? Or we should wish small things? For instance, having a sausage like an old man.

I want to wish bigger things to be rich than now. But if I wish bigger things, I should recognize the situation of mine. Just the greed is not good. I want to wish to make myself good than now exclude the bad greed.

Russell Punter(2009) The Three Wishes. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE　　(180/13028 words)

BR:2-9 The Gingerbread Man

"Yes, that is the end of the gingerbread man"[p.19]

I read The Gingerbread Man first time. I knew the existence of the Gingerbread Man but I didn’t know the story. The Gingerbread Man’s appearance is so cute and looks delicious cookies. I want to bake cookies like the Gingerbread Man someday.

This story was the escape drama of the Gingerbread Man. But he was eaten by a bad fox. I was a little sad because the last ending was the Gingerbread Man eaten by a fox. On this Christmas, I watched TV which introduced the Gingerbread Man. It said the Gingerbread Man is the vogue during the winter.

I was glad to know the story of the Gingerbread Man. And I wanted to bake cookies like it.

Sue Arengo(1998) The Gingerbread Man. Oxford: Great Britain: Univeristy Press　　（137/12871 words)

BR:2-8 The Twelve Dancing Princesses

"They were all still dancing the following night."[p.25]

I read this story first time. This story is funny story but I think the waiting twelve princes are looks so sad because they were looking forward to seeing and dancing with twelve princesses.

I think the action of twelve princesses danced with princes every night is not bad things. Just dancing with princes isn’t OK? Maybe the king is their parent so he was just worry about them. In my case, my parents are so worrywart. It must be if they are my parents. But I wanted to be free more because I can’t do any things than others because my parents are so worrywart. I think parents should believe their children more.

If I would be parent of my children, I want them to do many things to some extent.

The brothers Grimm(2009) The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Saffron Hill:England: USBORNE   (130/12741 words)

BR:2-7 Stories of Princes & Princesses

"The invitation said: "Please come- but take a bath first!"[p.46]

I read this story first time. I think funny story for kids.

After reading it, I think it is difficult to choose the partner on own life. In my opinion, the most important point to choose own partner is matching character or personality with you. The good relation isn't connected only to choose appearance or class. If there is not true love, they can’t live together on their lives. So the most important point is matching character or personality with you to live together on their lives.

This is why I thought I want to be careful to choose the partner if I met ran into someone.

Katarina Dragoslativc(2007) Stories of Prince & Princesses. Saffron Hill: England: USBORNE YOUNG READING　（130/12611 words)

BR:2-6 TITANIC

"The Titanic disaster forced the world to realize that no ship, however powerful and well-designed, was unsinkable." [p.54]

I have ever watched TITANIC movie 5 times. This story is sad but beautiful love story. So I like it. This time, I read TITANIC, I was able to know not only the true story but the story of TITANIC movie.

TITANIC was made in England on 1994. TITANIC sank off sea of winter in 1994 because it bumped an iceberg About 1,513 passengers or crews died on the accident. In the movie, a woman and man fall in love each other. But the woman was a high class, the man was a citizen class. Their love was difficult to recognize from others. I think their love was beautiful because they struggled the difference of class and they loved each other straightly.

I have ever watched TITANIC five times but I don’t get tired to watch it. And then it makes me want to watch it again. Maybe this reason is TITANIC is non-fiction and impresses many people’s heart.

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Anna Claybourne& Katie Daynes(2006）TITANIC London: United Englsnd: USBORNE YOUNG READING     (190/12481 words)

BR:2-5 Gulliver's Travels

"A place called Lilliput," said Gulliver and he showed the captain his souvenirs. [p.62]

I had read this story when I was a kindergartener. This story was made into a movie a few years ago. Now, I read it again and studied about this writer a little bit. This story was written by Jonathan Swift, he was a famous writer. He described the relation between the England and France on the story.

I think Gulliver’s feeling was like a foreigner when he arrived at the country small people living. Because it is different all things’ size we think. And then it was birth the difference of thinking. I have been to US once last summer vacation. I felt the difference of culture of life style. Maybe He felt the feeling like me.

And then Lilliput was described England at then. I think this story was described well the time of relation between the England and France. And then it was criticized the relation by using this story.

This story is funny and interesting for children but it is described the criticism about a few things. I think that it isn’t good for children but adult.  

Jonathan Swift (2007) Gulliver's Travels. London:United England: USBORNE YOUNG READING  (205/ 12291 words)

Revised essays2-3b: Joint movie review

Hello everyone! This time,  this essay is introduced to everybody about Julia Roberts. Do you know her? Have you heard her name or watched movies which she appeared? Surely, you know her because listening classes are used to study “Notting Hill” which she plaued the role of Anna Scotto. Her real name is Julia Fiona Roberts, and the age is 45 years old. She has worked long time since her childhood. Her birthplace is United States of America. The height is 175 centimeter. She appears a lot of movies and she is a very famous actress. In fact she is eight person who has a lot of money as total assets all over the world. “Mirror Mirror” is a movie quite recently and she appeared the part of a bad witch in it. Did you see it in the theater? Many fans of her wait for DVD of “Mirror Mirror”; they want to see it quickly. This time, we are going to introduce everybody about three main movies, family, and awards and other movies and scandal on herself.

At the first, this essay is introduced “Valentine’s Day”. Have you seen it? The movie was shown in 2010, and love story. Its director is Garry Marshall. She appeared the part of a soldier on the American armed forces, and her official name was Kate. Co-stars are Ann Hathaway, Taylor Swift, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Bradly Cooper, etc. The movie drew Valentine’s Day of each ten couples who live in Los Angeles. And it is collection of short stories. We watched the movie. Each short stories were very interesting and moving, Our hurts were moved to tears. After watching it, the feeling made warm. It is very heart-warming movie. We’ll recommend the movie “Valentine’s Day” to everybody.

Next, we’ll introduce about “Pretty Woman”. Have you seen it? This movie is our favorite movie because it is very interesting and pretty story. Maybe, Girls like this movie. She played in a call girl at this movie. The name is Vivian ward, and she played in a poor woman. She was poor woman at first, but she meets one man. After she met him, she changed her life. He is too rich man and he likes her on the movie. She fall in love him and the end is happy end. This movie is love story. This movie is called Cinderella story by everyone. This movie has dream for girls. Her partner’s actor is Richard Gere. He is too cool, so he is much the role. And director is Garry Marshall. He is nice director. So this movie is very good for everyone. in this movie, she is so cute and sexy. If you have free time, why don’t you watching this movie?

Third, we’ll introduce about Notting Hill. Maybe, we think that all 2nd grade students know it or you have ever watched the movie. We were watching it on Listening class now. Notting Hill is a Love story which happens between a divorced man in the UK and an actress tremendously popular among people. The role of Julia Roberts is Anna: she is an actress mainly films. In fact, Julia Roberts is also a real actress today. So we think her performance is like herself. She was thinking about the suffering as an actress while playing the role of Anna when she made the film with others. For instance, if she wanted to get along with other people equally, they would not have treated her as a human equal with others because she is a tremendously popular actress. Surely, she experienced the suffering on real life. We seemed to see her role of Anna performance is simply and cheerful personality. But when she mad, she is so scary on this movie. Her performance is expressed well as a woman and a famous actress of feelings. In our opinions, there are many things we can sympathize on this movie. For instance, the feeling of love which we can’t get along with him well, so please watch this movie, if you didn’t watch it yet. It impresses our hearts.

This sentences are introduced about Julia Roberts’ family. Her family is a husband and the twins of boy and girl and a boy. She got married once in 1993, but it was divorced in 1995. And she got married again to a movie cameraman in 2002. She gets along with Tom Hanks with them families.



She had scandals on herself. She was acquainted with a lot of actors. She was engaged with Kiefer Sutherland, but she didn’t marry with him. After that, she went to trip with Jason Patric. He is closed Kiefer Sutherland. In 1993, she married with Lyle Lovett, but she discover in 1995. And she has an affair with Daniel Moder and she married him in 2002.

And this sentences are introduced that many awards which she was awarded a prize. She was awarded a prize Golden Globe Award of the Best Supporting Actress on “Steel Magnolias” which was shown in 1989. And she was awarded a prize Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy on “Pretty Woman”. She became the candidate the Academy Award on “Steel Magnolias” and she was nominated for the Academy Award on “Pretty Woman”. She was awarded a prize Academy Award for Best Actress on “Elin Brockovich” which was sown in 2000.

Or this sentences are introduced that other on her movies. It is “Larry Crowne” Her role is a lazy teacher of speaking at Community College. A man; Larry Crowne who was dismissed from a Supermarket enters there to reemploy other work. Larry Crowne was played by Tom Hanks. This movie was the luxurious films played two stars: Julia Fiona Roberts and Tom Hanks. They met together and birth a comedy drama. We watched it and felt our feeling made warm. This story has comedy and the way of thinking for life. If you watch it, you can see her different performance as an actress in comparison with some movie which we wrote as above.

That is why; Julia Roberts has a great power and depth of her performance. She has a great ability as an actress. As the evidence, she gained many prizes and she has been as a famous actress from her childhood to now; she is 45 years old. Or her total assets are the eight classes all over the world. “Hollywood Reporter” said, she has the most expensive performance fee if someone wants her to appear films. Isn’t it great? In other words, she has a power as a famous actress. So we recommend you to watch the movie she appeared. Thank you for reading our movie review. Are you interested in our movie review? Please try to watch the movies which Julia Roberts appeared.






Duncan Kenworthy, D. K. (Producer), & Roger Michell, R. M. (Director). (... [1999] of publication). Notting Hill :United state of America, Working Title Films　　　（1145/12086 words)

BR:2-04 Three Billy-Goats

“OK, here I come! says the very big goat.” [p.15]
I read this story when I was a kindergartener. And then we made a play of it in there.

I think the big goat was kind goat because other goats forced him to fight the troll. But he didn’t feel bat it and he fought for others to pass on the bridge. His kind and brave make my feeling warm. This story is that the big goat fought alone. But I thought the best way to pass on the bridge and defeated the troll is fighting all together. So if they fought all together, only one goat hasn’t have a dangerous experience or felt unpleasant.

The big goat’s kind made my feeling warm. I want to be a person like him.


Sue Arengo(1998). Theree Billy-Goat Oxford; Great Britain, Oxford University Press (141/11246 words)

My favorite mail-order sales site

My favorite mail-order sales site is GRL. I listened from a friend of mine; Megumi recently. This site is popular among young people. I was so surprised at this site because all clothes are cheap and reasonable price. For example one outer is 3,000 yen, one boots is 1,980 yen and so on. Don’t you think that they are reasonable for us? I was so happy. Moreover, all clothes are so cute or cool and there are many kinds of them. But I decided to buy some clothes, shoes and accessories. And then I ordered some clothes and boots recently. They will be reached to my house on Monday next week. I’m looking forward to getting them. If my ordered things are good quality and cute which are like same picture, I will continue to use the site. And I’m going to buy good quality and low price of clothes, shoes and accessories. Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting clothes I ordered on Monday. (164/11105 words)

My favorite place I have been with my family

My favorite place I have been with my family is Disney Land. My parents had said “When you and Emi grew up more, we’ll take you to Disney Land” I and my sister were looking forward to go there someday. Finally, our wish was fulfilled during the last spring vacation. We were so happy to go to the Disney Land with my family. We went to the Disney Land on February 14th. In the morning, we rode some amusement machine. For example, we rode Poo’s Hinny Hunt, Splash Mountain and so on. They were so fun for us but we had to wait long times to ride the amusement machine because the amusement machine were popular and many people wanted to ride them. On the afternoon, we bought some souvenirs to our friends and relatives or ate some meals. And then at the night, we saw parade of night. They were bright and beautiful. I was glad to go there with my family. (163/ 10941 words)

My favorite memory in junior high school

My favorite memory in junior high school is the best athletic meet. I had played Kendo since I was a Kindergartener. So maybe I had played Kendo for 12 years. I was taller than other teammates, so I must have been boss in our team. Most of all bosses in other team were strong player. So I always had very tight games. I have been a rival as Kendo player. Her name is Marin Takahashi. So our game was long drawn out. She contented seriously and her voice was louder that I have ever heard. We contended seriously with each other. As result, we were a draw. I couldn’t win her. It was galling to be a draw by her.She was a strong player and had the result of the national third place. But she was younger than me, and then she was a second grade in junior high school. So I wanted to win the last game which I had played Kendo. (165/ 10778 words)

My favorite Nabe

My favorite Nabe is two kinds. One is Kimuchi Nabe. I don’t like hot meals but I can eat Kimuchi Nabe. I think Kimuchi Nabe is the most delicious Nabe of all. It’s a moderately hot taste and has many vegetables. For example I’ll put Chinese cabbage, touhu, carrot, pork and so on into Nabe. And I like to put Gyoza into it. Finally I usually put Chinese nodal in it. I got together with my friends and sometimes made Nabe in my house during winter. Winter season make us to want to eat Nabe. So we made some kinds of Nabe. I’m planning to cook Nabe with my friends of part time job someday. Another Nabe I like is Motsu Nabe. This is good taste too. But I don’t like Motsu, so I always eatone while avoiding Motsu. Basically I don’t like to eat vegetables but if tere are into Nabe, I’m willing to eat them. So it is good for my health to eat Nabe. I like Nabe. (170/10613 words)

My favorite memory in high school

My favorite memory in high school is a chorus festival when I was a third grade. Our class united each other to win the championship. So we practiced many times after school. We practiced hard to win. My part was soprano but harder we practiced, my throat was getting thirsty and my voice changed too singing. Everyone became be that. The day of chorus festival was get together and form a circle “Do the best!” said. We were so nervous but done the best singing, so we could do the best our possible. But other classes also sang very well. We worried about our result. All classes finished singing, an emcee announced the result. He said “The winner is 3-4 class” We won the championship. We jumped for joy and tear from our eyes. We were so glad the result. We gave our teacher; Mr. Nakamura the praise. He looked like so happy. You did the best. Thank you so much. I’m happy. We were so glad to hear his talk. (171/10443 words)

Essays:2-3a Joint Movie Review

Hello everyone! This time, I’m going to introduce everybody about Julia Roberts. Do you know her? Have you heard her name? Surely, you know her because you study “Notting Hill” in the listening class. Her real name is Julia Fiona Roberts, and her age is 45. She has worked long time. Her birthplace is United States. The height is 175 centimeter. She appears a lot of movies and she is a very famous actress. “Mirror Mirror” is a movie quite recently and she appeared the part of a bad witch in it. Did you see it in the theater? I wait for DVD of “Mirror Mirror”, I want to see it quickly. This time, I’m going to introduce everybody about three movies, family, and awards and other movies and scandal on herself.

At the first, I introduce “Valentine’s Day”. Have you seen it? The movie was shown in 2010, and love story. The movie director is Garry Marshall. She appeared the part of a soldier on the American armed forces, and her official name was Kate. Co-stars are Ann Hathaway, Taylor Swift, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Bradly Cooper, etc. The movie drew Valentine’s Day of each ten couples who live in Los Angeles. And it is collection of short stories. I saw the movie. Each short stories were very interesting and moving, I was moved to tears. I thought that the movie was a very heart-warming movie after I saw. I recommend the movie “Valentine’s Day” to everybody.

Next, I introduce about “Pretty Woman”. Have you seen it? This movie is my favorite movie because it is very interesting and pretty story. Maybe, Girls like this movie. She played in a call girl at this movie. The name is vivian ward, and she played in a poor woman. She was poor woman at first, but she meet one man. After she met him, she changed her life. He is too rich man and he likes her on the movie. She fall in love him and the end is happy end. This movie is love story. This movie is called cinderella story by everyone. This movie has dream for girls. Her partner’s actor is Richard Gere. He is too cool, so he is much the role. And director is Garry Marshall. He is nice director. So This movie is very good for everyone. in this movie, she is so cute and sexy. If you are free, why don’t you watching this movie?

Third, I introduce Notting Hill. You know or have you ever watched the movie? Notting Hill is a Love story which happens between a divorced man in the UK and an actress tremendously popular among people. The role of Julia Roberts is Anna: she is an actress. In fact, Julia Roberts is also a real actress today. So we think her performance is like herself. She was thinking about the suffering as an actress while playing the role of Anna when she made the film with others. For instance, if she wanted to get along with other people equally, they would not have treated her as a human equal with others because she is a tremendously popular actress. Surely, she experienced the suffering on real life. I seemed to see her role of Anna performance is simply and cheerful personality. I think there are many things we can sympathize on this movie. For instance, the feeling of love which we can’t get along with him well,  So please watch this movie, if you didn’t watch it yet.

I introduce about Julia Roberts’ family. Her family is a husband and the twins of boy and girl and a boy. She got married once in 1993, but it was divorced in 1995. And she got married again to a movie cameraman in 2002.

She had scandals on herself. She was acquainted with a lot of actors. She was engaged with Kiefer Sutherland, but she didn’t marry with him. After that, she went to trip with Jason Patric. He is closed Kiefer Sutherland. In 1993, She married with Lyle Lovett, but she discover in 1995. And she has an affair with Daniel Moder and she married him in 2002.

And I introduce that many awards which she was awarded a prize. She was awarded a prize Golden Globe Award of the Best Supporting Actress on “Steel Magnolias” which was shown in 1989. And she was awarded a prize Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy on “Pretty Woman”. She became the candidate the Academy Award on “Steel Magnolias” and she was nominated for the Academy Award on “Pretty Woman”. She was awarded a prize Academy Award for Best Actress on “Elin Brockovich” which was sown in 2000.

Or I introduce that other on her movies. It is “Larry Crowne” Her role is a lazy teacher of speaking at Community College. A man; Larry Crowne who was dismissed from a Supermarket enters there to reemploy other work. They met together and birth a comedy drama. If you watch it, you can see her different performance as an actress in comparison with some movie which we wrote as above.

That is why; Julia Roberts has a great power and depth of her performance. She has a great ability as an actress. As the evidence, she gained many prizes and she has been as a famous actress from her childhood to now; she is 45 years old. Isn’t it great? So we recommend you to watch the movie played her. Thank you for reading. (923/10272 words)

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I watched Notting Hill. This movie is played by Julia Fiona Roberts. She is a famous actress. Her perform is a famous actress in US but lonely actress on this movie. She worried about keeping human relationship because she is a famous actress, so others treat like a special person and she is not equal with others. She is worried about them. Julia Fiona Roberts played in the role correctly. (70/9349 words)

Essay prep. for Joint movie review

who is in your ream? Mayu, Hinako
Which movies are you going to review? Notting Hill
Which movies have you already watched? Yes.


Julia Fiona Roberts: Notting Hill, Mirror Mirror, Larry Crowne, Erin Brockovich

2-02b: My favorite place

Hi, everyone! Where is your hometown? I’m from Miyazaki. So I like my hometown because I have lived there since I was born. I introduce my favorite place in my hometown. There are many wonderful places in my hometown. For example nature, school which I had gone, my parents’ house and so on. There are wonderful things for me. I’ll introduce the best place I think that is high school.

First reason, high school which I had gone is there are many good teachers in there. Especially, Mr. Muraoka teacher took care of me, so I appreciated his kind, he always considerate me. Whenever I was worried about something, he talked me “What’s happened?” “I’ll consult with your worrying”. So I talked about my worrying of studying, university and so on. Mr. Muraoka teacher was never in change my class, but he was the head teacher in charge of all classes. And then when I took an exam for Kitakyuushu Kouritsu college’s recommendations from their high school, he was in charge of me. So he told me many useful things.

Second reason, high school is events which we tackled seriously. For example athletic festival, culture festival school excursion and so on. My best memory of high school event is culture festival. Our class won the championship of a chorus in culture festival. We were very happy we were the champion. It was the best memory of my high school life.

Third reason, high school I had gone is there were many goods friend in there. When I was a high school student, everyone got along with each other. So sooo funny every day!! We studied together, played free time, quarreled with each other. But they were good memories for me. Especially I appreciated Shihoko, she is a friend of mine since I was in high school. She is kind and powerful girl. I sometimes quarreled with her but we always got along with each other. When I took an exam of Kitakyuushu University, she made pencil box for me. And the she said me “I wish you will pass the exam!!” I was so happy, I kept it and used it now. I think she is the best friend. She goes to Miyazaki University, so I can’t meet her frequently. However we have free time, we always meet and go somewhere and talk about each other. I want to meet her again.

Four reasons, high school I had gone is there are many lessons for students. This school teacher took care of our studying hard. Especially, there are many lessons after school, after taking Center Examination. And if there aren’t lessons the day, we could listen how to solve the problems we couldn’t solve. Teachers taught us them what if they were busy. They were so kind teachers.

This is why I like high school. Whenever I have free time, I always go there to see teachers with my friends. I think sometimes I want to come back in high school life. So I am looking forward to see each other in a coming-of-age celebration. Maybe some people changed their appearances. They are the part of my pleasure. (550/8279 words)

August 4th, 5th (homestay)

Saturday, my host family’s son and his family came my house in the morning, so I had to get up early today. I got up at 7:00. Ella; my host family’s grandchild was very cute girl. She is 2 years old. She showed me her favorite some stuffed toys and how to use toy’s phone while smiling to me. She is good at jumping on music, so she done many times. Her smiling made my feeling happy. After they went back, I went to the grocery store with my host family. They bought some plants to plan their garden. I think almost all of American people plant some plants in their garden and arranged beautifully I carried their plants into their car.

Frankly speaking, I think I don’t match with my host mother because she often says to me any rude words, so I always fall down. But I decided not to worry about it. So I’ll just enjoy my homestay life. And then I’ll talk my opinion to my host mother directly if I felt difference what she said.

Sunday, I got up at 9:00, I took a shower. I thought American shampoo doesn’t match with my hair. So I think I should bring my shampoo in Japan. And then I ate breakfast my host father cooked. After eating breakfast, I studied English. For example I wrote blog’s articles, remembering words to have many vocabularies.

At lunch, we ate 2 sandwiches; I have nothing to do, so I watched TV or studied today. (254/8135 words)

BR: 2-03 Little Red Riding Hood

‘It’s OK, little girl! It’s OK! says the wolf. “I’m a good wolf”’[p.6]

I remembered I had read this story when I was a child. And I played the part of Little Red Riding Hood on the kindergarten.

I read this story again, I think don’t follow strangers because what if he looks like kind or gentleman on his outside, he might be bad man and dangerous on inside. So we don’t believe strangers immediately.

This world, there are many dangerous problems even if it is Japan. And then parents who have children have to pay attention to it especially. Or others who live in local place have to cooperate with each other. For example someone stay street which students always go to school.

I think “Little Red Riding Hood is just a story” is bad. We have to think about them seriously.

Ruth Hobart(2006) Little Red Riding Hood Britain:Black cat publishing  (152/7881 words)

Draft Essay:2-2a My favorite place

Hi, everyone! Where is your hometown? I’m from Miyazaki. So I like my hometown because I have lived there since I was born. I introduce my favorite place in my hometown. There are many wonderful places in my hometown. For example nature, school which I had gone, my parents’ house and so on. There are wonderful things for me. I’ll introduce the best place I think that is high school.

First reason I like high school which I had gone is there are many good teachers in there. Especially I think Mr. Muraoka teacher took care of me, so I appreciated his kind, he always considerate me. Whenever I was worried about something, he talked me “What’s happened?” “I’ll consult with your worrying”. So I talked about my worrying of studying, university and so on. Mr. Muraoka teacher was never in change my class, but he was the head teacher in charge of all classes. And then when I took an exam for Kitakyuushu Kouritsu college’s recommendations from their high school, he was in charge of me. So he told me many useful things.

Second reason I like high school which I had gone is events which we tackled seriously. For example athletic festival, culture festival school excursion and so on. My best memory of high school event is culture festival. Our class won the championship of a chorus in culture festival. We were very happy we were the champion. It was the best memory of my high school life.

Third reason I like high school which I had gone is there were many goods friend in there. When I was a high school student, everyone got along with each other. So sooo funny every day!! We studied together, played free time, quarreled with each other. But they were good memories for me. Especially I appreciated Shihoko, she is a friend of mine since I was in high school. She is kind and powerful girl. I sometimes quarreled with her but we always got along with each other. When I took an exam of Kitakyuushu University, she made pencil box for me. And the she said me “I wish you will pass the exam!!” I was so happy, I kept it and used it now. I think she is the best friend. She goes to Miyazaki University, so I can’t meet her frequently. However we have free time, we always meet and go somewhere and talk about each other. I want to meet her again.

This is why I like high school. Whenever I have free time, I always go there to see teachers with my friends. I think sometimes I want to come back in high school life. So I am looking forward to see each other in a coming-of-age celebration. Maybe some people changed their appearances. They are the part of my pleasure. (475/7729 words)

August 3rd (homestay)

Today is homestay program 12th day. I prepared lunch by myself because there was nobody in the house, so I prepared the lunch by myself. I was convinced that I don’t match with host mother since I have spent with her for weeks. She said to me “I want to take another exchange student after you will be gone. Because my husband will be gone as his work and he will be busy. I’ll be sad and lonely.” I thought she takes some exchange students not to empty her heart. And she said it directly in front of me, I still be here. She always talk to me that she used to be a host family for some students. She often misstated my name. She calls me “Sakura”. Sakura was a homestay student of Kumamoto Gakuen 2 years ago. It passed 2 weeks, but she doesn't remember my name and she sometimes call me Sakura. I’m shocked. And then she often said “Every student before accepting you could speak English fluently than you.” She sometimes says “You are not polite”. But I think she is not polite either.

After going to school, we did canoeing. I have never done canoeing, so I was worried about over turning our canoe. Our members were Mami, Tomoki and I. I enjoyed canoeing. We crossed a river slowly by canoe, so I felt a pleasant breeze. There are some eagles in the distance sky. It made the atmosphere more attractive. But I got sunburn.

After doing canoe, family picnic started at 18:00. Our group skit was “Invisible bench”. We worried about whether our skit will be accepted for American or not. But it seemed to be accepted and funny. We were relieved to see their response. I thought Yukino’s group was the most of us.

After going back home, I took a nap. Eiden; our host family’s grandchild came our house, so I played with him. I was tired twice as much. (327/7254 words)

August 2st (homestay)

Today is homestay program 11st day. I also cooked two waffles and ate it. Rikyou University students participated in this homestay program from today, so it is different the way to allocate a car today. We went to Bethel University with contain me and Rikkyou University students. We felt awkward each other at first, but we got along with each other gradually. We were overwhelmed them because their numbers were twice than us. However I think I will get along with them gradually.

In the morning, Joel explained us about canoe after we studied ESL. I thought it is difficult for me to get into canoe because I can’t keep my balance so I might fall into Lake.

At lunch time, I ate pasta on bacon and cream sauce in the dining hall as usual. I feel cold inside today, so I drank two cups of hot coffee.

After eating lunch, we played volley ball. I felt too hot outside, so I and some friends of mine took a break under the tree. A friend of mine Maki, she is good at dancing, so we were taught how to dance by her and we danced NMB48’s song. Our dance is as if just like kindergartener’s dancing. It was very fun.

After playing volleyball, we did Education panel Discussion. For instance Charter school, Private school and Public school and so on. Especially I was interested in Home school system in America because Japan doesn't have Home school system. Katie talked about it; she said Home school is small people or one on one. So it seems that has some problems. For instance, it is difficult to make friends, problems of parents and child relationship. But I envied points. I thought if this system will be received into Japanese Education, some people who are bullied. It might be useful for them to spend freely and easily.

Outside was too hot and Inside was cold for me today, so I’ll take care of not feeling bad. I’d like to do my best tomorrow. (340/6927 words)

My favorite Hello Kitty

My favorite character is Hello Kitty. I have liked it since I was a child. I have a lot of Hello Kitty goods. So I have liked Hello Kitty, my parents took me to Harmony land in Oita. I have been to Harmony land three times when I was a child. One day we went to there, the day was my birthday so Hello Kitty celebrated my birthday and sang birthday song form in front of others. I was so happy; I appreciated with my parents taking me to there. When I was a child, my clothes were all Hello Kitty things. Now I don’t have Hello Kitty clothes but I have a lot of Hello Kitty goods. I would like to correct more. For example, a mechanical pencil, pens, notebooks and lunch box and so on. I like Hello Kitty forever. (142/6587 words)

My favorite color

My favorite color is Pink and White. I have two reasons. One reason, my image of pink is cute girls. So I think pink is symbol of girls who are cute, kind, long hair and so on. It is just my thinking, maybe others have different image of pink. The reason why I think them, when I was a child, I wanted to be a cute girl because I was taller than other children and had short hair to play Kendo. So I thought strongly to be cute girls. And then my image of pink became symbol of cute girls. Another reason I like white, my image of white is pure, right, clear and so on. Anyway I think color of image of white is clear against whatever. So I want to be a woman who have image of white. This is why I like pink and white. (148/6445 words)

My favorite season

My favorite season is spring. There are some reasons. First reason is temperature is good for me because it is not too cold and not too hot. I like this temperature and it is easy to spend. Second reason is spring has many things happened. For example this season is graduating from school, so we have to separate friends or teachers. It is sad thing but we can meet someone to enter new school or others. So spring is parting season but encountering season. I think there is what many things happened in spring. Third reason, spring is encountering season, so my feeling will be refresh against whatever I do. I think spring is I can do my best. In other words spring is nothing to worry for me. This is why I like spring season the best. (140/6297 words)

My favorite twitter

I like to use twitter. Twitter is we can post something we are thinking easily whenever we think it. And we can restrict to see own twitter from only follower. So we can post our thinking freely. But I think some slanders against someone are bad. So we have to pay attention own tweets. I usually tweet about my positive thinking. For example “I’m happy now because the meals I ate are delicious so I want to eat again :)” “I played with my friends. Today is fun day!” and so on. Positive tweet makes me happy. So I always pay attention to post negative tweets. And then we can send direct mail and retweet to others or follower. It is fun for me to do them. I like to use twitter than Facebook, mixi LINE and so on. But there are many problems abut twitter. For example one famous people’s twitter was gone up in flames by his fun or others. It was sad news. So we have to pay attention to post words seen by others. (178/6257 words)

My favorite anime recently

My favorite anime recently is “Rurounikenshin”. The start I like this anime is a film “Rurounikenshin” and an actor Takeru played as the leading actor. So I was interested in this film but I couldn’t watch the movie because I had no time to watch it. So I thought I want to watch anime “Rurouikenshin” on YouTube. On Rurounikenshin the hero is Kenshin Himura; he is a gentleman and strong. I like him. He is usually a gentleman. But he was an assassin, so he regards that he had once killed many people and he is fighting to save people are in trouble and never kill anyone. It is great thing, I think. His life makes me think a lot of my actions now. It is bad things that it is only anime. I watch 60 stories but there are many stories so I want to watch all early someday. (150/5979 words)

My favorite place

Augast 1st (homestay)

Today is homestay program 10th day. I mad two waffles and ate them. Susan took us to Bethel University as usual but today is last day she can take us to there because her family is going to accept a Japanese student from Rikkyou University as host family tomorrow. So she won’t be able to take us to there. She bought us doughnuts and café late for us on our way. We were happy to eat delicious doughnuts and café late. They were yummy! I deeply appreciated her kind.


We arrived at Bethel University after we studied ESL, Emily Kennett who is Mark’s daughter gave us lecture of American wedding in America. I think American wedding style is very fun and unique for me. On America, there are more wedding on June or August than other months. It little rain in America, but Japan is more rain on June. American women keep own wedding dress generally after wedding dress and washing it.


At lunch time, we ate two Pizzas and snacks. It was very hot today, so we got sunburned a lots. And then we went to Oliver Felly History Farm. We learned the past Farmer’s lifestyle and saw a lot of animals. For instance pigs, horses, cows, and chickens and so on. We could touch with them. But anyway it was too hot day.


After coming back home, I cooked dinner with my host mother and we ate it. And then her grandchild; Eiden came to our house, but he is shy boy in front of strangers. So I couldn’t talk with him. After eating dinner, I took a bath and went to bed early because host mother took care of him all night. I’ll do my best tomorrow. (290/5829 words)

July 31th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 9th day. I studied a little bit because I got up early than always. I made two waffles and ate them by myself. Susan took us to Bethel University as usual.

Mr. Steven Kats gave us lecture of difference in Education in the morning. He had lived in Hokkaido once, so he can speak Japanese a little. He knew some Japanese things and he was very friendly. He talked about difference of boys and girls behaviors. Boys were going to go themselves, but girls were going to go cooperative than boys. So these are a phenomenon common throughout American and Japanese. For instance boys can’t put up with sitting on chairs but girls can put up with sitting on chairs and making nendo seriously. This is why girls have ability to do both things at the same time than boys. After giving a lecture, I took a picture with him.

At lunch time, today’s lunch is Chinese food. I ate Chahan, meat bowl and so on. I ate much meal, so it is difficult for me to move. I eat much meal every day, so I expect that I will gain the weight. After eating lunch, we went to Shopping at Roseulle Mall. I bought some souvenirs for my friends and family at the Wood. I’m concerned about not filling in my suitcase when I will go back Japan. I have only 1 hour 30 min, so I couldn’t buy goods enough time.

After going back home, I ate dinner with my host family. We are going to go farm tomorrow. I’M looking forward to go there.(271/5539words)

July 30th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 8th day. After getting up on time, I ate breakfast made by myself. Susan took us to Bethel University as usual.

I studied ESL and Dan Bergstorm gave us a lecture of issue “Youth Face” in the morning. He spoke slowly to make us understand well and easily, so it is easy for us to listen and understand his lecture. If there are some unknown words for us, I thought his talk was very fun and I was interested in it. For instance he talked about children fighting various pressures, obesities, educations and so on.

At lunch time, I ate like Tacos. A cup of cake and cookies were so delicious. I envied Bethel University student because they can eat like these delicious foods every day.

After eating lunch, we were given a lecture of Marriage & Family Counselor ~American Family~ and we discussed Family panels with some our host families. On discussion, we asked some question about them. For instance how did you propose or how were you proposed? Where did you go honey moon? I had a good time because I could listen some happy stories.

After going back home, I cooked dinner with my host father because my host mother doesn’t like to cook something much. And then we ate it. After eating it, we drank cocoa and watched Olympic Games because my host mother loves it. I’m worry about Japanese player while watching it. After watching Olympic, I took a bath and studied. I’ll do my best tomorrow.(256/5268 words)

July 28 and 29 (homestay)

This weekend is homestay program 6th and 7th days. I went to see a baseball game Elic’s son; Dylan’s match with my host family. He wore Orange uniform. However I don’t know baseball in detail, so I didn’t know how to see the baseball games. After seeing the baseball game, we went to Macdonald and ate ice cream. It’s so sweet and yummy. On the Sunday, my host family had anything to do, so we came back home on the way. We couldn’t see it all the game. I got sunburned because I was in outside for 2 days.(100/5012 words)

July 27th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 5th day. After eating breakfast, Susan took us to Bethel University as usual.

After listening to Joel’s talk and joke, we went to Minnesota History Center at first. We were divided into 4 groups. Our group investigated “US Dakota War of 1862” and “1943 A New Deal for Artists”. We saw a lot of displays and historical records. I learned why Dakota war happened and this cause, this time’s lifestyle and the historical background of this time. After learning them, we went to “Open House” canter. There were a lot of machines making bombs, some combat plans, some latters at the time display.

At lunch, we ate the lunch prepared by each host families. American lunch box was Sandwiches and some snacks. I thought if American saw Japanese lunch box, they would be surprised at them.

After eating lunch, we went to Minnesota capital. There were stairs as if Princess was going down, great arts and the building I have ever seen. I was surprised at them. In the third place, we went to St. Paul Cathedral. This church was very big. We took some pictures, but it was rude because they are Christen.

After coming back home, we went to Elic’s birthday party. I knew nobody, so I was nervous, but one kind man talked to me. He knew something of Japanese, so we talked about Japan. I was tired because we walked some places to see today. So I went to sleep early. (250/4912 words)

My favorite clothe shops

My favorite clothe shops are IGNI and one☆way. These shops are matched with my fashion. I like fashion which is not too causal but casual. In other words, I like fashion which I don’t become look like “GAL” when I wear clothes of these shops. But these shops are little expensive for student, so I can’t always buy clothes on these shops. Then, I’ll buy clothes on other shops in exchange for I can’t buy clothes on my favorite shops. However recently I like “g.u.” gradually. I had not liked “g.u.” What is shop like “UNQLO”. Because I had thought these clothes are not cute. Now I think these clothes of g.u. and UNIQLO are cute and cheap. I’ll buy clothes on g.u.(125/3662 words)

My favorite things I do recently

Recently, my favorite things I do are two ones. One is listening to western music. I listen P!nk, Maroon5, LMFO, Ke$ha and son on. When I listen to these musicians music and I’m interested in what these music say in English and Japanese. I investigate the song text and translate it from English into Japanese. Maybe, I think these actions make my English skill improve. And then, recently my favorite another thing I do is walking at night. Atmosphere is colder and a lot of stars are seen recently because it becomes colder. I like seeing stars, they are birthing, beautiful and good for human eyes. Or I like walking alone at night. So I sometimes walk at night alone. (120/3537 words)

My favorite pencil box

My favorite pencil box was made by my friend; Shihoko. She was with me as one of my friend when we were high school students. She is kind girl and clever with her hands. So she likes making something by herself. For example, she made pencil boxes, bags, book cover, and aprons and so on. When I had to take exam for university, she made a pencil box for me to pass me the examination. I was impressed her kind. However I was sorry for her kind because the result was a disappointment. I fell down it. Now I have used it for 2 years. I want to do someday something I can do for her. She is I in Miyazaki now to go to Miyazaki University, so we separated to go University each other. We can’t see soon, but I want to see and play again.(147/3417 words)

My favorite music

Recently, I often listen to music by using YouTube music. I like “She wolf” of David guetta ft. Sia. This song is great and the PV is wolf running away from his enemies. I felt wolf’s strength, so it is matched with music. And I like “One more night” of Maroon5. Maroon5 is one of my favorite musicians. This music is expressed sorrow of people parting. I felt the sorrow which someone should have said his love person. This song is sad but attacked a heart. And then I like “try” of P!nk. I like this phrase of try, “You’ve gotta get up and try try try” This is love song but I’m given brave by this song to do many things which I should do but it is hard for me. (132/3270 worsd)

My favorite animals

My favorite animal is cats because I have three reasons about cats. One is cats are free about lifestyle and character. Cats are not cached by people because they don't have disease like some stray dogs. So, they　live freely many places they like. They always gets up at time they want to and they eat foods at time they want to. Anyway they don't have duty to study or work. It is so envy for me. Another is their character. They aren't under a person's thumb like dogs. If one person approaches them, they will ignore him because they have free character. Whenever they want to approach to him, they get along with him, but they don't approach him when they don't want to. It is interesting for me. This is why; reasons of my favorite animal are cats. (140/3138 words)

Script:Voice intro's for Essays 2-01a

Today, Hiromi will talk about her language learning history. She  has three languages learning history. They are Japanese, English and Germen. Her 1st language is Japanese as mother tongue. She learned some ways which are reading, memorizing words, solving texts and conversation. Next, 2nd  language is English. she learned some ways which are studying grammar and words,reading, writing. speaking. Finally, her 3rd language is German. She learned studying grammar and words, reading, writing, speaking. This is why she learned three languages. (77/2998 words)

July 26th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 4th day. I ate bread on the peanut butter and a fried egg. Susan took us to Bethel University as usual. On our way, we went to coffee shop to buy breakfast for Susan and she bought coffees for us. We appreciated her kind every day.

After arriving at Bethel University, we studied ESL and we were going to be given a lecture of Mr. Paul Reasoner but he didn’t come. So we played games. We were divided into two groups and we answered one vocabulary. Our team was defeated but it was very fun for us.

 At lunch time, we ate Chinese food at dining hall. We ate them, but their sense as if we had eaten wire. But dessert is taste good. There are many foods and drinks here, whatever I want to eat and drink. So it is very useful for us. This time is the best pleasant for me.

After eating lunch, we discussed College Panel somebody who go to other university here came to our class and we discussed about some topics each other. I asked them, “How do you think Japanese young people’s fashion?” they asked, “I think Japanese young people’s fashion is too fashionable. If some American saw them, they would think they are fashion models? And then they said, “We have a stereotype of university student. For instance, we have to put on some simple T-shirts pants, sweaters and so on.” But even though they put on simple clothes, I think that they put on short pants and sleeveless dress without a brassier is too exposing their skin because I often see like this situation. My host mother also insisted “Japanese girl wear excessively short pants or skirts.” But I think American put on the same clothes. In my opinion, it is difference of American and Japanese’s sense of values about clothes.

After going back home, we ate a hamburger. It was very delicious. I’ll also do my best tomorrow. (332/2921 words)

BR:2-02 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

“‘Ah! He says happily. ‘It’s good to be home again” [p.19]

 I read this story, I remembered I had read one when I was a child.

Two mice have some different lifestyles each other. So they felt own lifestyle and home are the best for each other. I have experience like this. When I was in Minnesota for Kaigaikenshuu and stayed with my host family’s house, I felt my house is the best for me. Because we have some different lifestyles each other, so a lot of things were strange for me then. For example, they eat a lot of sweets every day; Cookies, cakes, ice creams, anything else.

 My real mother taught me too eat sweet things are bad for our health. So I couldn’t eat many sweets every day. I could eat a sweet a few times a week. Maybe, I felt strange in Minnesota is difference of culture between America and Japan. It was natural for America but it wasn’t strange for me as Japanese.

I had experienced a lots about thinking my home is the best. Anyway, most of people feel own town, home, lifestyle are the best than others because they have ever lived their lifestyle.

 Sue Arengo (1998). The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Oxford: Great Britain; Oxford University Press (217/2588 words)

July 25th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 3rd day. I ate toast on the peanut butter and a fried egg. As usual, Susan took us to Bethel University while listening to music we chose and like in her car. I always appreciated her kind.

We went to Mall of America. Mall of America is called the biggest but this mall was too big, so we couldn’t find them easily. We were lost some times but we could find shops we wanted to go and bought some accessories for my sister and friends at Forever21. I bought shampoo and rinse. And then I bought two clothes at H&M. We were too lost or way, so we didn’t have enough time to buy any things we want. In fact, I want to buy more things but I couldn’t that.

At lunch time, we ate at Little Tokyo, but this restaurant’s meals were Chinese meals. I think American people are thinking some parts of Chinese foods is Japanese food, so I felt very sad as I am a Japanese.
After eating lunch, we wanted to go some souvenir’s shops to buy them for my relative and enjoy there.

After coming back home, I went to buy presents for Erick’s Birthday party with my host family. I didn’t know Erick in detail but maybe my host mother has known him for years. She bought two clothes for him. And then, we ate Chinese food at Chinese restaurant near our house. I couldn’t all because this meals were too big for us.

I watched Olympic with my host mother. She likes watching Olympic every time, so I can’t watch other TV programs. And then, I did my homework. I was very tired today because we walked a lot in Mall of America. So I went to bed early. I’ll also do my best tomorrow. (306/2371 words)

July 24th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 2nd day. I ate two waffles on honey and drank Orange juice. I think I expect I will gain the weight here. Susan took us to Bethel University as usual. We listened music of ADEL. Her voice is beautiful. After arriving at school, we listened Naomi Duffy’s speech. She who lives in here since she was 19 years old is Japanese American. She talked about her experience; her life in here and so on. It seems to take 6~12 months to listening and speaking ability of English well. And then, she grew up in Japan until she was an 18 years old and she used to use Japanese, so she can’t guess like American people. When she has a conversation with them, so she sometimes doesn’t understand what they said and are thinking. Something else, it is difficult for us to get married with foreign people because we guess his or her feeling, intent. So it is important for us to compromise with each other. I think her talk makes me study; I want to refer to her experience story.

 At lunch time, we ate hamburger. It was very yummy, but inside similar to Japanese country marm cookies. These are very soft and sweet. After eating lunch, we listened speech which is the change about the feeling and body staying abroad. A lecture is Yurika’s host mother and she works at Bethel University as a hygienist. Regard to Jet lag, For instance, we will take 2~3 weeks not to feel it, so we have to care not sleeping if we wanted to take a nap in the afternoon.

 After coming back home, I cooked dinner with my host family. And then we went to Mc to eat soft cream. It is very yummy and I thought it was very strange shape for me because I have never seen like that ice cream. But it was very yummy, so I was glad to eat them. And then, we came to back home and we watched TV, I done my homework. I got sleeping, so I went to bed. I was tired English life, but I’ll do my best tomorrow too.

(365/2065 words)

July 23th (homestay)

Today is homestay program 1st day. I ate bread on the peanut butter and a fried egg. It seems that the mainly American breakfast is bread, cereal, waffle, and then drink is Orange juice, coffee, milk and so on. After eating breakfast, Maki who is a student of homestay program and I waited Susan who works at Bethel University and take us to there every morning. We went to school by Susan’s car. She is very kind woman and talked friendly with us. For instance, what did you do last night? What are you going to do at university today? Moreover she has us chose her iPod’s music every times, so I enjoy listening music we like.

After we arrived at university, we went to our classroom. Our teachers, Joel, guided us some places in inside and outside of university. After done it, we done English Speaking Lecture. I think Bethel University is equipped students some useful rooms. For example, a concert hall, a big dining hall, coffee shop, broadcast room and so on.

 At lunch time, we can eat freely in a dining hall on this summer because we are homestay students, so we don’t need to pay money for lunch at university. We could chose salads bar desert, drink, and main dish, so I took too many meals. Today’s main dish is Tcos.They were all delicious meals. Yummy!! I think food in here is sweet or strong taste.

 After eating lunch, we went to Mississippi river. I studied “Huckleberry Fin” on American literature history in KGU recently. So I thought Huck had crossed this river by boat on that story. I bought a bottle of water in ship. But it was my first time to buy something in here, so I didn’t know how to pay dollars or cents. I was in a fix a little bit. I have to understand how to pay dollars and cents from now on.

 After coming back home, I cooked a backed chicken, potato and corn with mu host father. I was surprised that he said, I like cooking, so I often cook something to eat every day. I thought he is a kind and nice gentle man. My host family has pets. They are Oskar of a cat, Kngko of a dog and three chickens. But Kingko is cowardly dog against other. I want to get along with him from now on. I was tired because I done more activates, so I went to bed early. I’ll do my best tomorrow. (420/ 1700 words)

Essay2-01a: Language Learning Presentations

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BR:2-1 Elmo says ACHOO!

"Achoo! Elmo sneezes. The clowns all tumble down" [p.22]
I read this story; I felt there are some ways to sneeze all over the world. In this story, way to sneeze is "ACHOO!” In Japan, way to sneeze is "HAKKUSHON!” If one person sneezes in Japan, we think that person is having cold? Or he is gossiped by someone? And we speak him, “You’re having cold? or someone gossips about you!”
In America, way to sneeze is ACHOO. If American sneezes, others say “Bless you”. I thought it was marvelous idea. Even if that person is a stranger, they can say it naturally each other.

 Maybe, there are a lot of ways to sneeze all over the world and what to say after someone sneezing. This story is very interesting for me.

Sarah Albee (2003). Elmo says ACHOO! New York, America: Random House (143/1280 words)

My favorite animal

My favorite animal is cats because I have three reasons about cats. One is cats are free about lifestyle and character. Cats are not cached by people because they don't have disease like some stray dogs. So, they live freely many places they like. They always gets up at time they want to and they eat foods at time they want to. Anyway they don't have duty to study or work. It is so envy for me. Another is their character. They aren't under a person's thumb like dogs. If one person approaches them, they will ignore him because they have free character. Whenever they want to approach to him, they get along with him, but they don't approach him when they don't want to. It is interesting for me. This is why; reasons of my favorite animal are cats. (146/1137 words)

July 22th (homestay)

At length, the day we participate in the homestay program in Minnesota came. Yurika’s family took me to Kumamoto Airport to get together at am 8:30.

After we got together and listened to some advices from trip agent, we went to Narita Airport by air plane. At lunch, I was going to eat Japanese food because I will be sick of one. However a restaurant’s an omelet containing fried rice looked like delicious, so I ate it after all.

At pm 4:00, we took off for Minnesota, and it started a flight trip which took 13 hours. It was too cold on DELTA plane due to we were on high up in the sky and temperature was too row. I couldn’t sleep well because it was too cold, so I got up every 2 hours. On airplane we could listen to music and watched movie whenever we want to. I watched 2 movies on airplane. One was “Carl’s flying house”. I have ever watched it when I was a high school second student with my friend. It was so fun. Another was “Twilight –breaking hearts-“I had been thinking “I want to watch it, but I had no time and it was a new DVD in Japan, so I couldn’t watch it. But I found in airplane, so I watched it. I was glad to watch it. While watching, I was so surprised the end of it because it came to an unexpected ending. And it was difficult for me to understand the all story because it was spoken with English and it had no subtitle. After long 13 hours flight, we arrived at Minnesota Airport. Carl and Elizabeth Patten met me at the airport. They are very kind people; I think I’ll get together with each other.
After coming back home, we went to picnic. We ate dinner with each host families and we introduced each Japanese culture presentation to our host families. Homestay life just starts today. I want to have enjoyable time with my host family and Bethel University in Minnesota. I will make effort to understand English more than now.  (353/991 words)

 

Something special I did during this vacation

Something special I did during summer vacation is Kaigaikenshuu because this experience is to be the best treasure I have ever lived. It was first time to go abroad and live other country people. So I was nervous before arriving at Minnesota. As expected, I was troubled many things. For instance my English skill, bocurvraly, grammar or difference of culture, difficult of communication and so on. It was stimulated for me and I thought I have to study harder than now. So my consciousness against English was changed after going Minnesota. It is important for me to study from now on. I'll go English Lounge or International community center to have some chances using English. (116/638 words)

good and bad point of summer vacation

So I like long vacation like summer vacation or spring vacation. But any bad points of summer vacation are we'll feel languid usually. For instance we can't adjust getting up time or going to bed, study hard by ourselves, waste much money to do we want to and so on. That is why there are any good or bad points of summer vacation. But in my opinion, Whether summer vacation is made good or not depends on our effort. (125/522 words)

How I study during the vacation

It'll be finished summer vacation. When I had been at Minnesota, I had studied English hard. For example, when I talked with my host family and I found words I didn't know in detail, I investigated words and wrote down my English note or grammar. Or I watched DVD and showed subtitle with my host family and if I hadn't understand well, I listened to host family in detail and so on. These things made me study English and to be things for me. After coming back to Japan, I had to take Tsuishi, so I didn't have any time to study English well. I'll study English hard from now on. (111/397 words)

What classes I will take next term

I'll take 15 classes during fall term. Especially, I'm looking forward to taking Honors. I took it during spring term but I couldn't speak English well and didn't have brave because my vocabulary was very row, but now I want to have some chance to speak English. So I'm looking forward to taking it. And then I'll take the theory of career design. This class is thinking own future or job. I think it'll make me many things. I have to think my future gradually. So it'll be referred for me. I'd like to do my best fall term.  (100/274 words)

My vacation plans/ preparetion

My vacation plans were Kaigaikenshuu,Tsuishi, a part time job driving license. First, I'll tell my Kaigaikenshuu experience. This experience became my treasure I have ever lived. When I went to Minnesota found my English skill, row vocabulary and grammar and so on. So I have to study English more and make some chance to have conversation with using English. And then I thought I'd like to go abroad to contact with foreigner and I want to touch global thinking. Second I took Tsuishi. It was hard for me to take Tsuishi as soon as we arrived at Japan from Minnesota because I have jet lag, but did my best. Third is part time job. I had been absent while I have been at Minnesota. So other arbiters fill my job instead of me. I have to join part time job more during left summer vacation. Finally, I took a driving license. I spend 3 months to take a driving license from I graduated driving school. I'm glad to take a driving license at length. (178/178 words)