Last Thursday...

I went to Aomori PARURU to see my favorite artist"shakalabbits"!I was so excited and enjoyed that I hit my knees against the chair(**;)Now, my knees are blue...Anyway, the live was great!!Their music makes me happy(^_^)/

Finishing class

We only have a few weeks left, and on Monday I plan to have you practice some listening. This is your chance to tell me what you want to do for the final class meetings. What do you think we left out that is important? What should we do more? Which skills do you think we should have worked on more? What information about English, its history, its dialects, its grammar and its vocabulaty, its literature and folklore, or anything else there is about English, do you think I should talk about in the remaining few classes?

The movie 'Otokotachi no yamato'

I went to the movie-theater to watch 'Otokotachi no yamato' last week. Main actor was Takashi Sorimachi and Sidou Nakamura, but I don't know them very well. So I couldn't know which actors play whom even if the movie had ended.
P.S. Professor Philips. My computer was seemed to repair.

Today,we talked about money and food.Then,I remembered a birthday cake made by american woman for my cousin.　It was big ,rectangular and decarated with colorful flowers(pink,yellow,sky blue,red and so on) made from sugar.It was so beautiful!Do americans eat such a lovely cake whenever they celebrate someone’ｓ birthday? If so,it is wonderful!

Today's menus

I'm glad everyone seemed to like today's lesson, even though it was more of a lecture than English practice. I hope everyone will be ready this Friday for more practice with menus, ordering food, takeout, being a waiter or a waitress, etc.



Here's the website for Giordano's pizza in the Chicago area. Chicago has a large Italian populaion (Alphonse Capone was the most famous, but they don't like to talk about him much) so it is famous for Italian food.

Chicago is also famous for Greek food. I'm sorry I don't have a Greek restaurant menu for you, because I love Greek food but you can't find it in Japan. Even in Tokyo the closest I've come is a Turkish restaurant. Whenever I go through Europe I try to eat at a Greek restaurant.

What kind of food do you most like? What kind of food would you like to try?

summer!?

It was very very hot in winter in the Philippine Islands!
To tell the truth, I stayed in Club Paradise at new year^^
I thought there is the real paradaise.

2006 is the sports year!!!!

Hi this is my first writing in 2006. 2006 is the very sports year!! We have many sports events!! For example , World Cup of soccer, World Baceball Classic, and the Olympic Games in Turin!!!! I like watching sports very much. So I will be excited this year!!! So excited!!! I'm looking forward to these sports events!! Don't miss it!!!

Someone wants to contact you people:

This is from an e-mail I just got today:

"Hi John, I'm just writing with news of something that might be of interest to your English class blog. I'm an author but I'm currently experimenting with a live novel - I'm writing a short chapter every day and publishing it directly to http://likeplastic.blogspot.com/
"It's very unusual (it's actually a skewed updating of Pope's "Rape of the Lock") but the central characters are Japanese, one of them inspired by a comic book hero, and I'd be very keen to get feedback from Japanese readers. There are four chapters already up and it should run until early February."

"Many thanks and all best, K"

I leave it out here for students and lurkers who may be interested in it. -JP

Where do we go from here?

We have three weeks of classes, 6 classes in all. I do plan to bring menus and money for you to practice ordering food (restaurant, takeout, delivery, etc.), but you can ask for anything else you want to learn about English, or practice in English, before we finish this class next month.

COUNTDOWN JAPAN

Do you know "COUNTDOWN JAPAN"?
This is one of the largest rock festivals in Japan.

I attended COUNTDOWN JAPAN held at Makuhari Messe on Dec. 31th.
Actually,it held for 3 days.(12/29~12/31) The last day,festival lasts all night!

I love Jackson vibe very much.Do you know??(If you want to listen to their music,please call out to me.)
I watched their performance in the front row,and I was moved very much.

It is very exciting to watch and listen to live music.Lets go live♪
Link

Coming of age day

In this winter holidays, I participated in coming of age celemony. Most women wore HURISODE(This is kind of KIMONO) and looked sooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful!!
Some of them have already got married and had a child. I met a girl who I had been in love with in my junior high school.

couldn't say anything...

She was very very beautiful more than I expected.
That was my bittersweet memories:)

How many people did participate in coming of age celemony in our class??
Please tell us your impression!!

Today's video

We watched the video of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales in today's class. I didn't impress this story, but I was surprised because I watched old-style SFX in some scene. It was cheap, but I felt fresh by contraries because CG is so gorgeous recently.

Bonenkai

I'm sorry I couldn't left comments for so long.
Today,I attended Bonenkai and had a great time with you. Unfortunately, some people couldn't attend because they have another plan.
Incidentally, 8 people are attended(Professor Philips and his seminar student, hiroyuki, jun, masashi, hirono, mika and I).
We had a lively conversation and I enjoyed it very much.

Professor Philips, thank you so much for the dinner you treated us today!!

Winter vacation begins tomorrow. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Let's keep blogging over the break!

I know many of us will be gone over the break, but I think we can keep blogging.

Let us know what you are doing during the break, and keep in touch with the rest of us.

Go to abroad

Today's presentations were very interesting to me.
Through the class, I want to go abroad and pay attention to Lady First.
I want to go Germany for FIFA World Cup 2006. Language is different, but English is World Langage, so there is no problem maybe.
On Lady First,the presentation shot the point, but my friend had said "It looks to depend on male". How about her opinion? Some want it, some dislike.
Female is difficult to male. Of course opposite.

I love ....

I love whiskey and sake. These alcoholic beverages on the picture are very, very, very good! Of course, I have this whiskey with rock. It is the happiest moment for me. I recomend them for you!
But, there is a big problem. That is these are very very expensive. If you are interested, please click on the link.

The Glenlivet
Hakkaisan



By the way, have you ever had DOM PERIGNON?
I don't like wine. So, I didn't think it tasted good when I had it.
But, DOM PERI is not so expensive.
Christmas comes soon. If you have a good time on Christmas with your friends and your honey, plese drink it.

If you can, this Christmas will be on a memorable day for you.

See you tomorrow!! Bye!!

HEAVY SNOW...

In much snow, how do you live ? It's hard for me to ride bicycle.
Do you play any winter sports ? I'm from Hachinohe, so I did skate in childhood.
But I prefer snowboard to skate. On TV program, snowboarders jump high and make fantastic trick. I wish I could jump like them...

Hey, everybody!

Thanks for some great reports today. I'll comment more fully when I get the last ones Thursday.

Don't forget to take any old newspapers you want from the front of my office. Practicing reading them is good for your English.

Bonenkai information is in the comments below. (^_^)/~~~~~

winter vacation mood:))

Good evening. how's everything going??
I'm playing,playing,plarying and playing.LOL
As if I were in the winter vacation.

Friday,I with 5 only guys went to Bowling till 2:00 pm.
Saturday,my girlfriend and I went to ajigasawa for snowboarding.
After that participated in bonenkai(English club)
And today,I spent in playing CP all daytime.

Hard Schedule!! I'm HS Hiroyuki,not HG hiroyuki haha:))) Fwo~!!!!

As a matter of fact, I will go billiards club this night.

Oh!! I have to prepare for tomorrow class.
We are going to play skits.
And I'm looking forword to other groups!!

see ya

Snow

Recently I think I don't need snow any more. It 's frustration that I walk to the university on the snow. I also hate this cold.