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)