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)