Good afternoon! I'm in Hokkaido now, with my family. The way to come back to home was very long and tired(×_×; I never want to return my home! ...I thought that every time, but I like my members. So I'll back Hokkaido next long vacation, too.
Oh,this picture is my loving dog! She is already old, but in winter, she gets well. And we go to walking, walking, walking...and fell asleep(^^
It is my pleasure to spend my time with family, but I don't forget my classes♪I had very difficulty to find EIKEN site. Because I don't have any classes(...no,I...I have forth-class only!...maybe.),so this site was perfectly out of my mind. Then, my brother told me to search this site. If you want to listen past exams, you can use here. You may study TOEIC or TOEFL now, but if it seems to interesting, please jump and check it!

Have a nice holidays!

I'm in my parents home now(^_^)/

I am in my parents home as this message's title.
I came back on December 22, so we have previous English 3B class on that day.
If you know this, You must seem to surptise.
Now, I enjoy life in this place.
I think to go to somewhere.
If I take a good picture, I want to up this blog.

Now I remember, what is this week's blog assignment?
Hmm... The way to learning English about listening practice on the internet.
How is NHK ONLINE English?
I think that this site is for Japanese.

My Way Of Learning English

I'll recomend Ikumi's question.

I think listening music is one way of learning English with fun and effectively. I like foreign music very much. And I listen many kinds of music. Especially, Celine Dion's music are easy to get lyrics. Back Street Boys , Ben Jelen , Daniel Powter and so on.....Now, I wanna say about Daniel powter. He was brought up in Canada. He can't write, so he always remember sentences wich have beautiful sound and makes them one song in his heart. His songs make me feel happy. And I like his song's melody with piano. Sometimes, his lyrics are difficult to understand, but we can under stand his feeling which are included each sentences. In short, you can learn English with your favorite foreign musics. We can know many expression by lyrics.

Another way is wacthing movies and TV programs. In movies, English is sometimes spoken very fast. I think it trains our ability to understand spoken English. By English TV programs we can learn pronounciation and word which is populer and used frequently now.

We can also use Internet for learning English. Making friends with international syudents is good too. But it is little difficult...(^^; And we should reffer Mr.Philips's opinion.

To learn English and other languages, I want to study abload if it is possible.....☆"

Still

I still live in Hirosaki city. I'm going to go back to my hometown at 28th.

I am doing spring cleaning now. As my room has only six mats, I don't have much things and cleaning is very easy.

When I cleaned my room, a familiar thing was found.

I found my University notice of success in the examination of Hirosaki university. It is not good thing that I forgot the document.But I found it. If I don't get it , what am I doing now? Another university student? A student unable to enter a school? Or an office worker? I can't think about it.

I found my Secret savings. I get 30,000 yen! I get!I get! Money has come!･･･Sorry. But I was very pleasure to find a large sum of money.Money is very important, I think. And I use this money to buy new CD.

I found my previous table tennis racket rubber case. I'm doing table tennis. So I collect rubberof racket. "What rubber is best for me" is still my biggest problem.

・・・Then I restart my cleaning.Bye

Listening practice

One of you asked me about listening practice on the Internet. I came up immediately with the following URLs, butf if you have more, tell us about it, either in the comments or in the blog itself.

Voice of America, especially for Special English.

(They have Hausa for listening practice, and other languages too.)

BBC and BBC News especially the World Service.

And finally, the largest directory I've found of Internet radio, including all kinds of music as well as all kinds of talk radio (or as they say in British English, "speech radio"): Shoutcast. You can search Shoutcast for almost anything imaginable.

Gaius julius Caesar

I watched movie which title is "Julius Caesar" in this March because I was in a hospital two weeks.
The movie seems to be a play and old.
And there wasn't a caption.
I understood little content...
The name Julius Caesar often appears in the text book on world's history.
(Did you take the course in high school?)
My image about him was a strong conqueror.
In the movie, however, he is descrived as a democratic person who is brave and kind.
Maybe, in the textbook, there are things which aren't written.



I am interested in history.
I watched "Troy", "Gradiateur"(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus appears in beginning!), "Peal Harbor", "King Arthur", and so on.
So, I want to read more books and watch more movies on history.
Do you have some recommends?

In addition, I read all volumes of "The Lord Of The Rings" in Japanese.
And I looked into John Tolkien.
I will start reading it in English★
Um..It will be a long jorney...

***Topic/how do you learn English?***

I would like to look for the way of learning English which is effective and interesting (if possible.)

I have been learning English for 6 years, but I don't think I can speak English well.

I want to have confidence in my ability of speaking English before I graduate this unibersity.

So I want to know everyone's way of study.

Hirosaki University.

This time,I want to introduce my favorite places in Hirosaki university.

First,the 3rd floor of common education building.
Our club usually singing at 310 classroom.
So I always go up the stairs near the teller of a scholarship.
After going up,please turn right and we can see the window across from us.
At this time,the view of this window is nice!:)
Oh,yes,please visit there AFTER SCHOOL.
Brcause the lighting of christmas tree is beautiful!

Second,the student hall.
You can find there on the 1st floor of common education building.
There is also near the terrace.
Oh,I love terrace too!
At terrace and student hall,you can eat,enjoy chat with your friends,and so on.
And our club sometimes practicing at student hall on the weekend.

In addition to this,there are a lot of nice places in our university!!

HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY IN SPRING

The scenery most I like is cherry blossams in Hirosaki university.
Hirosaki is famous for chrry blossams and Castle Hirosaki. I have been there every year. When I just entered Hirosaki university, I saw cherry blossams there. And I became look forward to university life with it.
I like cherry blossams very much. And foreign professor's house which are sorrounded with cherry blossams is very beautiful scenery. It is my favorite place.
Christmas will come soon. So we can see Christmas tree in Hirosaki university. It's make me feel happy. I recomend you to see it from the inside of general education building. Especially the scenery from the second floor is best. I wish the tree will be more tall and cherry blossams will bloom more.

Caffeteria

I want to show about storongpoint of caffeteria,
there are a lot of menu , you can eat what youwant to eat at
cheap price☆ and you can eat vegetable a lot,
and there sweets corner!! this corner also has menu,
but you have to care about calorie for your health
Please come to caffeteria!! new fleshman☆

About library

Today,I will wright about library.
When I have no class,I often spend many time in the library.That is the place where is very quiet and there are a lot of books.I often do my homework in the library,because there is good place to concentrate and there are many material.In fact,I use library every time when I have to do a report about grammer.It helps my studying very often.
And,I like reading simply book in there too. As has been mentioned,there is the very quiet place.Moreover,air is conditioned every day.And there are chairs and desks to sit down,to read books and to study.So library is very good place to read books rightly.When I am free,I buy books in seiyou store and to go library to read the books.
In fact,there are many kind of and a number of books.So it is fun to looking them around.

GOOD SIGHT

One of the thing what I like in Hirosaki university is, the sight from the 4th floor at Common Education Building. Sometimes I have to go the 4th floor, because of my class timetable. I used to think "How hard this is to go up the 4th!?". But, one day, I looked down the campus from there, casually...and I feel relief at the sight.
People are walking, talking, standing and eating with smile or serious face.
I like human. So I am in modern society course. I remember.
From then, I am looking forward to seeing from the 4th floor.
In the daytime, sometimes we can see beautiful blue sky nearly than on the ground. After sunset, we now can see pretty decolation lights with Christmas tree. I like the reindeer ornament,very much(*^^*)
Of course, views from other place are also good. For example, the sight from the Faculty of Science and Technology building is very high, so you can see more far.
My relax time is with ordinary schoollife.
How about you to look the view from here?

The class in arts

I had been in the art club for six years and I am interested in arts.
So, I take the class of the world in arts. It is a theme subject.
In the class, we can learn Japanese arts from the ancient Jyoumon to the modern Meiji　and watch many pictures.
Japanese arts are very dynamic and interesting. We can get various imaginations when we watch that. I am moved every time! Especially, I think Jyoumon culture and Edo period are great. About Jyoumon, you can know it at Kamegaoka cultural center in this university.
Not only the history about Japanese arts, but we can also learn the way of looking something.
The professor says, “The right way of watching is very important in arts and in daily life. Let’s watch anything in much detail! Discover something and thinking about that!!”
The professor is very kind and the arts which she painted are wonderful!
I am looking forward the class every week.

place in Hirosaki university

I learn Monday in Hontnyou campus, and learn in Bunkyo campus from Tuesday until Friday. So I'm not familiar with Honntyou campus.I want to introduce Bunkyo campus.

I often bought books in Seikyou store. I bought them to use for my reports and my hobby.
We can buy books at the 5 % off price. Sometimes we can buy more than 3 books at the 15% off price.We can buy every sort of books with Seikyou store.

I want to know the excellence of library in Hirosaki university. There are many collections of books in that library. And, the book which is not there can be borrowed from other universities.I often use the library to read psychological books, medical books and the books of philosophy. To use them we can make good reports.

I often use these place in this year. I suggest you use these places.If you use these places, your university life will be better.

The way to live delightfully in Hirosaki University!

I don't belong to club, and I am not active.
However, I understand that the two of ways to live delightfully for about eight monthes!

First, you use frequently the dining room, and you talk to the cashier!
If you continue to do that, you can naturally talk to the cashier!
In fact, I often talk to her about daily life.

Second, if you hates noise, you should use the library.
This library is very interesting, because there are a lot of books that technical books, news papers, magazines and so on!

For the aboves, we can enjoy university life without relation to other people.

University Life

I guess the only things you all have in common is that you are all students at Hirosaki University, and that you are all Japanese. Usually I have at least one exchange student in English classes, but not this time. You have a wide range of other interests, too, and that has meant that there are not many comments from you on other students blog entries.

Some of the other things you have mentioned are good, and I will probably ask about them later. But the best suggestions are all about leaving messages about university life, what interests you about this university, what you have learned about seminars, places to go, people to see, things to learn, little secrets of university life. I used to tell new freshmen at my own university that it took them four years to find out what was going on, and then they left.

Tell each other what you would like them to know about Hirosaki University.

I want to discuss about,

I want to discuss about countrys and trips!
Everyone of our class may have their favorite countrys which they want to visit someday. So, I think it interesting to discuss about one country that someone likes, and rest of us will look over there. And we'll find the country's sight, history, spoken language, etc...and we'll feel "Does he ( or she ) like this country? Why? ...Oh, I see!"
Such contact seems to be nice,doesn't it?

HOW ABOUT DISCUSSING WINTER SPORTS

I like skiing very much.

I grew up in Aomori, so I have been skiing since I was a child. In Aomori, some elementary schools teach students skiing. Therfore we can go skiing as a phisical class. I enjoyed it very much.

But my family don' t like skiing. And I can't go skiing. So I will go skiing with my friends next year. And I will try snowboarding!! I'm looking forward to it.

Do you like winter sports? If you like, what winter sports you like? I want to know it.

My opinion.

Similar to Masanobu and Rina,
I think it is better fou us to
decide some topis and exchange comment.
We writing an article every week now,
but almost nobody leaves a comment.

I want to talk through this blog about...
Let me see,
For example,about classes,our university,club,
respective hometown,and so on.

Anyway,topics which is at hand for us is better,I think.

***007 CASINO ROYAL***

I watched the movie "007 CASINO ROYAL" last Saturday.

It was very good movie, and I like it.

In this story, James Bond said like...


"I don't like single woman."

(He like married woman.)

But he was so single-minded man.


Not only his love but also his fight was interesting.

He act rashly, so I couldn't expect the next.

Contrary to all appearance, Bond seems to be simple.

He was often cheated by enemy. And he ran each time.

...He was poisoned and also robbed of monney and betrayed.

He had a terrible time!!! I felt pity for him...


Be sure to watch the movie, and you'll know 007's trouble.(^-^;)



ps
I didn't know why there was the word "ROYAL" in this title.

So I looked it up my dictionary.

"ROYAL" means not only "connected with or belonging to the king or queen of a country", but also "known about by few people."(more secret than top secret)

My interest and topic to discuss

I am intrerested in Ballet☆I had been practiced ballet from 4 to 16 years old,At now I want to do it again. but It cost a lot of money for Ballet shoes ,costume and school fees so on. because I can't do ballet now, I want to enjoy Ballet with pictures or

Let's exchange information

I want to exchange information.
For example, about lectures, a part-time job and club activities.
It seems to be interesting to give an opinion about current topics each other.
If we do so, exchange of opinions between classmates will become more active.
Especially, I want to know lectures which others take and your recomends.

About future blog assignments.

We just discuss about something...
In this blog, we talked many things, but these are always finishing with individual opinion.
I think that we should discuss about our university(Hirosaki university) if we want to continue discussing.
For instance, the view whose we look from Faculty of Science and Technology No.2 twelfth floor is beatiful, and so on.

Would you like this suggestion?

Ah...

. It is Dcember 14th. So new year will come soon.

What did I learn in university. What did I get in university. Can I get many good chances to meet people? Did we grow up?

So I suggest this theme; The thing you got in Hirosaki university in this year.

For example

I get new friends! They give me very good time. They teach me study. I sometimes seek them to do my homework especially physics. I'm poor at physics. The time I meet them is very happy. I want to think a great deal of them.

But I have awrong effect by them. It is the time I study has been decreased. It is very serious!I have to study more and more.

How about this theme?

（・' ' ●

I suggest talking about "the season Ｉ most like".
Some people like summer,some don`t so much.
Everyone has each tastes ,also every season has different characters.
And there seem to be people came from various region in this class.
So I think we can talk about it interestingly!


Ｆrom here this is the topic of last week...(@_@；)
I like snoopy which looks so cute!
As one of the reason i like him,
I often read his comic in the newspaper we have subscribed a long time.
In this site,you can read the comics with fun!
But ,for me ,it`s hard to understand even with a dictionary.

What do YOU want for the next assignment?

Please suggest topics for future blog assignments. What would YOU STUDENTS like to discuss here? What should I do for the assignment(s) over the winter vacation? What topics do you think would generate the best discussion here? That's the assignment for this week, to suggest future assignments for the next weeks, for the rest of the class.

My interests

First, I like cats very much and I have a cat who is called Chape.
(Chape means Cats in Tsugaruben.)
And this site tells me a lot of information about cats.
the Cat Fanciers' Association
We can also look pictures of cats.
Second, I am interested in music.
I tink I want to sing in English.
In this site, we can see a video about singer's interview, read world music news, and so on.
Y!music
There is radio too.

★Sites about my interest★

Hi!
I'm interested in music and I had been playing the Trumpet,you know.
So this time,I'll link the site about Trumpet and orchestra bamd.

First,This site.
This is the homepage of Sergei Nakariakov.
He is one of my favorite Trumpet player!
He can do the "Cycle Respiration". Do you know this?
In other words,he can both of breathing and playing at the same time!!

Second,This one.
I'm sorry,this site is written in Japanese(;_;)
But I hope you can enjoy it!
This is the site of my favorite band.
Several player of them was my instructer(speaker) when I was a high school student!

I LOVE HERSHEY'S!! (>ω<＊)

　　　Do you know HERSHEY'S? It's american chocolate. I love it very much!

The Hershey's company make many kinds of chocolate. And there is very big theme park. In there, we can eat very delicious chocolate dessert. Moreovere, there are many hershey's characters. I think they are lovable.(´ー｀＊)　I want to meet them. Someday I'll visit there and eat all kinds of dessert!

HERSHEY'S chocolates are also selled in Japan. So we can get them easily. Why don't you taste it?
http://www.hersheys.com/

I love reading books.

My hobby is reading books.Especially,Itend to read novels.As long as that is novel,I usualy read every type of them.For example,detective story,science fiction,love story,and fantasy.
When I went into the hospital,I had too much time only to be sleeping.So I started to read books.From then,reading has been my hobby.I like music too,but my best is reading.

This is the site that is about the one of my favorite novelists.
http://www.jkrowling.com/
I think you know about her,bedaus she is very famous.Harry potter series are loved by a lot b people around the world.I love them to.

***Winter Vacation***

I think... This winter vacation is very short!

I'll work at part time job the beginning of vacation.

After I will go back my home, and sleep, eat and sleep!!!

...And work again.

This year, I made friends with many people. I hope that I can enjoy next year, too.


By the way, I'm going to watch the movie "007 CASINO ROYALE." I can't wait!!!☆

About my hobby or interest?

One of my hobby is chemistry and computer (I wrote about this into my profile).
My interest is same that, but this time I want to write about chemistry.
Recently, I especially interest about organic chemistry in part of chemistry.

Hmm... I interest this site:Organic Chemistry Portal.
This site have a lot of comments about chemical reaction!
There is "Diels-Alder Reaction" (I studied about this reaction in University) in these reactions.
Therefore, I just use this site, and I will be able to study both Organic-Chemistry and English!!
This is an efficient way!

My interest is making...☆

I found making cakes is interesting in my junior high shool days,affected by Mother. She sometimes makes steamed cake, and I looked her with interest. So I asked Mother to teach me how to bake cookies(it was...oh, I was in primary school!) Then, one day she bought me a cooking book about cookies, sweets and cakes! From this time, I made some good cakes, and made many failed cakes(x_x;)
But maiking cakes is charming!
When I'm waiting for baked it until golden brown, I'm excited.
When I'm decolating the cake with cream and fruits, I feel very good.
And when friends eat and say "good", Wonderful!!
So, I love it.

These sites have nice pictures, so I want to make them someday. But between Japan and America, scales are different. Because of this, I'm very sad, not to use thise recipes soon...

King Arthur Flour:gorgeous and beautiful
all recipes:pretty and complaisance
What's Cooking America:unique and American

Don't you know?

My interest is medicine.
I sometimes use Japanese Medical site to study.
But the site I know about medicine is not English site but Japanese site.
So I find English Medical site in this opportunity. And I found a good one!

It is here.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

This is a site my senior told to me. It is very useful because it has much information about medicine! And the informatoin about health is much!

But it is too difficult for me now. I understand not all what is written.

Because I am poor at not only medicine but also English.

Then I use this site in order to improve Medical and English skill.

Find a site about your hobby or interests

I was looking at your self-introductions from the first class, and I noticed that most of you had interesting hobbies and interests. This week's assignment will let you tell the rest of us about your interests and hobbies, and help you learn English, too.

Please find a website in English that relates to your interest and or hobby. Introduce us to the rest of us. Tell us why you found it interesting, and whether it is something that you will continue to visit. Be sure to link the site so we can click to it. You should be learning how to write links into your webspages and blog entries.

I'll start. I like Africa, and I like to get news about Africa. I have a links page about African Studies on my site. But my site for this assignment is AllAfrica.com, a news site with stories from and about Africa. I even have a page on my site from AllAfrica.com, which has stories about Nigeria, and stories about US-African relations, as well as the most recent stories from the continent.

Let the rest of us know what you can find in the way of a website in English about your hobby or other interests.

Oh my GOD !

My personal computer was broken last midnight!!!
I couldn't open the Internet Explore.
So, I didn't post blog...



Now, I show you my plan about my vacation.
First, I want to ski.
I was 3years old when I started skiing.
I like skiing very much!
If I have enough money,
I want to go to many ski ground in Aomori prefecture.
For example, Owani, Moya, Ajara, Iwaki, Hyakuzawa, Ajigasawa...
And If I have a chance, I want to try snowboarding.
After skiing or snowboading,
it is nice to go to hot springs.
I will refresh very much!
Second, I want to study Engkish properly.
I want to take TOEIC next year.
I aim high score☆
And, I want to improve my oral skill in Engkish.
I need a friend who speaks in English.
Can I meet such foreigners in a church?
I have to listen to, write, read, English every day
in order to speak in English fluently when I see them.

I must enjoy playing with friends and studying English!^^

I have'nt written in this biog for a while.I'msory for my forgetting to write it.
Today,I will write about my plan what to do in my winter vacation.First,I will be very lazily at my house,and read a lot of books.Second,I will play with my friends to go to "Karaoke",to play video games,and to go to shopping.Finaly,I will study English and German.
I want to do alot of thing,so I must be going to spend meaningful time.

I can`t make out where the picture shows except that that`s a hot spring(＾-＾；).
Hot spring... makes us warm and relaxing,so it`s very good for this cold season.
Ｂｕｔ be careful not to fall asleep at bathtub and catch a cold !

Ｉ`m planning a trip to Sendai with friend during this winter vacation.
Shopping in the city is a good choice ,but I want to visit some sightseeing spots.
Although I have been Sendai several times,never been to such places.
But I don`t have much money,it is still "a plan"(-_-;).
I must make efforts by myself for the realization of my plan!!

See you~♪

Ｈｉ☆☆

I belong to student commitee of Hirosaki University cooperative society.We will hold sukiyaki party in student's cafeteria tomorrow evening.Cost of participation is 500 yen.I will preside on the party.Let's take part in the party♪
Christmas almost comes.I'm looking forward to spend happy time.I want to eat delicious cake☆（´∀｀；）

Snow!!

Today, we had a fine snow. And the ground are covered with snow now.
I can't believe it!('△';)
My friend said me that this snow will continue for five days.

This weekend, I went to see a movie.
I watched ７月２４日通りのクリスマス.
Do you know this movie?
It was so nice, peaceful and pleasant movie.

By the way, let me write about my plan for winter vacation.
My plans are still uncrean, but I want to go back my hometown!!
But the winter vacation of hirosaki university is a little bit short for me...
After I return, I'll pay a visit to a shrine on New Year's Day.
Oh, also I want to go shopping with my local friends!! :)

My Plan Of Wintter Vacation

It's december from tomorrow. And wintter vacation will come soon. I'm looking forward to it. But I have no plan yet. Maybe...I'll go back my grandparents home. However I will spend Christmas with my friend.
　　　If it is possible,I want to go Tokyo Disney resort!! I went to there in this summer. I really enjoyed it!! And in Christmas, there are very beautiful and special illumination for Christmas. So I want to go there. But I don't have enough money. Someday I want to go there again.

I'll returan my Hometown

I'm going to spend this Xmas with club members and friends. Then, I'll return my hometown,Kitami, and going to Onneyu to enjoy onsen too. So I'll welcome new year with my family,but I should come back Hirosaki soon! I feel unhappy that I cannot have much time with my loving family,but to meet university's frends is also my delight(^^
I'm looking forward to Xmas party!

Only I feeling bad, because of many reports and examinations(x_x;)!

***Movies for Christmas***

The suitable movies for Christmas are "Home Alone3" and "Mickey's Christmas Carol".


Home Alone3

A boy who were chicken pox and stayed home found a group of robbers. He decided to catch them to protect his town.
The boy is very smart and cute! And the movie is very funny.


Mickey's Christmas Carol

A very stingy old man, Scrooge, meets a ghost. The ghost reclaims him from his mind which is full of sarcasm, and Scrooge spend happy Christmas.


Both of two are very heart-warming story, so why don't you watch them with your friends or family?

***Amazing Grace***

Watching the documentary, I knew that how people have kept loving and singing this song. One womam said that both of her mother and father had been singing the song, so I understood that Amazing Grace has been popular among people.

It seems that Amazing Grace started being sang on original malody from 60s. I was impressed by people who were singing the song happily.

Assignment about English Site,Movie and winter Holiday

I want to introduce my favorite EnglishSite,EIGOJIN. This site inform us news of Hollywood Sters in English . So we can know informations and learn English. I wish everyone enjoyed it. Next,I have been touched by the Movie about Amazing Grace！The story of this movie teachs us how wonderful twonderful the Life we spend is. I think we should more appreciate life or people around us like lyricist. Third, Winer Vacation will come soon☆　I have a lot of things to want to do, playing with my friends in my hometown,
Shopping,spending with my family etc.But I have to also do study and save oney . Because Happy times go rapidly★Things to do is more important in vacation.

Hmm...

Winter vacation's plan...
In fact, Hirosaki University's winter vacation is shorter than my high school.
Therefore, I will only back to my parent's home, may be.
However, I will be able to eat a lot of delicious foods (christmas cake, rice cakes boiled with vegitables, etc...)(^^;
So I satisfy only this plan!

Prof's picture is... I don't know because I have not very knowledge about hot springs, but I look like that it is deep in the mountains there.

My plan

I'm a student. So I don't have enough time to visit anywhere until spring vacation. Winter vacation is too little and I have to stay my hometown. Please give us free time.

If I have time to visit somewhere, I'll go to Hokkaido. I went to Asahikawa but I didn't enjoy at all because of tournament of table tennis. I went only place for the meeting and hotel. I didn't eat Asahikawa noodle and go to Asahiyama zoo and buy anything. So the travel was too bored.

But I don't want to visit there during winter.I'm good at winter. I like summer. Winter in Hokkaido is very cold. So I don't want to visit; sorry to people who come from Hokkaido.

I want to travel but I can't do that now. Please give us free time.

Oh! I forget! I have a good plan.I'll goto department store to buy winter clothes with my friends in Aomori city, my hometown.

Good ideas for vacation?

It's less than a month now to vacation. What do you plan to do over the New Year's break? I'm going to visit my family in the US and go to a history conference, but sitting in an onsen, and visiting my Japanese in-laws, are other options that are nice for the winter vacation.

What are your plans? Do you have any good suggestions? Any good places to go?

Anyone know where this is?

Amazing grace

I think Amazing Grace is a wonderful song.
The reason is it has been loved and inherited by many people until today.
But There was the part which I was not able to hear well in the video. So, I examined it later.
John Newton who wrote the words has done a slave trade. However, when he encountered a storm in the ship, he prayed to God desperately. And he was helped. He got reverted afterwards and became a clergyman. This music was born to convey an amazing change of his mind.
　Not only the melody is nice, but the words and background are great.

How amazing it is!

I knew this warm song is sang by many people, but didn't understand people likes Amazing Grace so much. They are singing it anywhere, any time, for everything...from young to old, from in church to in prison. It is wonderful to enjoy sing songs, and this song gives us special impressions. Besides singing Amazing Grace is easy, after practice some time, you'll sing it soon!
By the way, the way of singing I like most is, in house, while they are cooking. It was like a gospel music wasn't it? I was belong to chorus club in junior high school, so I like singing too(nou I'm enjoy playing jazz!). Music is necessary for us, I believe.

Last Friday,I have having caught a cold , so I cannot seeing the movie. I'm sorry I cannot write my thoughts and impression about the movie...（>д<；）

Hello! I'm sorry , I was late about taking part in this blog.I cannot understand how to use the blog.
My name is Saori.Please call me Saori or Sao☆（＾∀＾）
I like eating☆ My hometown is Hokkaido.There are a lot of good seafoods in Hokkaido,so I like seafood very much.And my father is farmer.My family make a lot of food.For example,potato and corn …etc.
I like singing♪ I belong to a capella club. Singing is very fun!My favorite singer is aiko and KOBUKURO.Their songs are very good♪

Good bye next time ...

"AMAZING GRACE"...Everyone Loves the Song

I have heard "AMAZING GRACE" many times. But I don't know well about the words and the background. So watched the movie about "AMAZING GRACE", I could know about this song deeply for the first time.

The words of this song was written by John Newtonan. He was an English slaveship master and became an Anglican clergyman after his conversion to Christianity. During his navigation, he wrote the words of this song. He wanted to abolish slavery. Slave's past is sad and gross. And he hardly forgat about the lost life of slaves. So he wrote this for memorialize them.

Then this words were spread and came to be sung by many many people. Now, "AMAZING GRACE" is sung by most American. Prisoner also sing this song.

"AMAZING GRACE" is loved by everyone. And in America, children take over this song from their parents. Through this song people can connect with other people from the bottom of heart. Heard "AMAZING GRACE" , I 'm moved though I didn't know the meaning of the words.
It is maybe common feeling of all people. I want to know more about this song and share feelings with many people.

How sweet the sound

I like "Amazing Grace" very much. All the singer who songs this song has very beautiful and clear voice. When I hear this song, I feel myself relaxed. How sweet the sound!

I watch the documentary "Amazing Grace". I know this song is sung in various places. I find that the north place of America sing it but it is different from south place of America. I think this differnce stem from the number of black people. Black people sing it only their voice. On the other hand, white people sing it with musical instrument. I like the version without instrument.

According to the movie, the song was written by John Newton. But it isn't clear who made the music. He was a so-called black slave transport slaver trader. But When he experienced disaster, he got to believe God. So he decided to make songs for the atonement for sin.And he resigned a crew.

I think the song was made for not only himself but also every black people. John had some sort of regret. so this song is heard so sadly and holy.

(the lyrics)
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I'm found,
Was blind, but now I see. ←this show his regret, I think.

But I didn't understand all because speakers speak to fast for me.

Amazing Grace!!

I watched this movie for the first time.
But I already knew the song,Amazing Grace.
Do you know Minako Honda?
She released CD recording this song.
Also,a lot of singers covered ths song.

Through this movie,I knew some facts about this song.
I knew...
Amazing Grace is sung by a lot of people in many countries.
There are various arrangements.
Many people inheriting this song from their parents.
This song is aometimes sung as anthem. And so on.

After I watched this movie,I searched the Internet
for this song(especially English lyric).
And I found a nice site.
This one
Please jump here and enjoy amazing sound!!:)

My feeling toward the documentary.

First, I want to say for Professor Philips "I enjoyed music".
I thought that Amazing Grace is strong music and very popular in America.
I understand that Amazing Grace is sung by a lot of people, and the sung time, place and occasion are many different kinds of after watching this documentary.
I like documentary: can hear frank opinions and can see various cultures.
However, I dislike tedious documentary.
Finally, I enjoyed Amazing Grace but couldn't get only half substance, because it is made up of English(^^;

So how was the movie?

I assume everyone saw the documentary about the song "Amazing Grace" today. How was it? Did you enjoy the music? How well did you understand the story of the song? Maybe I should ask what you understood and what you had questions about. What did you like about the documentary and what did you not like so much?

Here's a link to the words and melody of the hymn. Here's the Wikipedia article about it. And finally, here is the urban legend page from snopes.com about it.

My teacher's recomending

My club teacher in my high school Mr.Sakamoto recomends myspace to me.
He is a teacher on arts but he is interested in English very much.
And he makes friends with foreigners by myspace.
He says,"Myspace is close to mixi in Japan. So, take it easy!"
If you register myspace,
you can read blog and get some information about music, news, e.t.c...
I will enter it today!
Now, Let's start myspace!

English blog...

I'm interested in computer.
So, I search for blog about computer!!
Then I find this blog.
This is very interesting and is written about computer bugs, web services and so on.
However, this blog is sure all English.
Therefore, to read all categories is very difficult for me(^^;
But this blog may only little help me.

☆SNOWMAN☆

　　　 Resently it snowed in Hiroski. In wintter, we have a trouble to remove the snow and feel very cold. Therfore quite a few people don't like wintter. But ther are also many pleasure in wintter. "SNOWMAN" show us such things.
When I was a child,I watched the video of "SNOWMAN" for the first time. It was the fast for me to watch a English movie.
This movie is very beautiful and warm. Moreover this story let us dream. Since I watched this movie, I came to look forward to snow. I still like this story very much! If you were interested this movie, please watch it♪

http://www.thesnowman.co.uk/

English Blogs

We're going to see an English movie, the day after tomorrow,aren't we?
I'm very interested in it. Even if I forgot the title of the movie^^;
And I'm so looking forward to see with you, I coudl't sleep well... So I was seached English Blogs.
First, I like these photos...here, be.jazz.
Second,do you like dogs? And more, do you like siberian husky? If you are so, you should see HERE!! They are unbelievably pretty.
Please see these site, and wait Friday♪

***zebrahead***

Zebrahead is a rock group in America. And I love their music★!!

They organized zebrahead in 1996.


Member of zebrahead
Grag:Guitar
Ali:Vocals
Ben:Bass
Matty:Vocals and Guitar
Ed:Drums

I love their music because I think their music is different from other music.

I recommend that once you should listen to their sound!


Official Web Site of zebrahead

***Movie!!!***

Yahoo!Movies

This site is just a movie site but we can get a lot of infomations about what is on sall on DVD or what movie is coming and so on.

To get infomations, you will read the infomations. Isn't it also to learn English?

***Music!!!***

I found a site which I can enjoy my favorite music.

Music Sound Station

You can choose your favorite music from some theme and listen to the program free.

And you can reseach the artist and check news!

Walk too Long and more...

Last week I walked to Ajigasawa town from Hirosaki university.It is a event of table club I belong to. I walked about 40 km and it started from AM6:00. We walked about 9 hour.

So I was very tired and had muscle pain. I still have one. I can't run and it is hard for me to ride my bicycle.

Many people don't think we need much physical strength to play table tennis. But iti is wrong! Never it is true! We need enough physical strength and mental power.

Table tennis is very famous but not popular sport.Many people think it is not a sport but a game.I feel sad when I hear it.It is a very hard sport!

In Japan onnsenn takkyuu ( playing tabke tennis after having a bath) is very famous.But it isn't different to table tennis!

If someone is interested in table tennis, you should try to go table tennis club or circle.You may realize what I want to say.

my club's URL
http://www.geocities.jp/hirosakimttc/

Do you kike nabe??

This Saturday,I had a nabe party with friends(my club members).
Nabe is a dish cooked in a pot at the table,you know.
We made chige nabe(I don't know correct spell).
Chige nabe is a little bit spicy than normal one,I think.
It was very delicious!!

And...
Yesterday,we had the first snow of the year,right?
I was really surprised.
Because in my hometown(Ibaraki),it is unusual effect.
I had full realization of that I live in Aomori now.

thanks for teaching,Mr philips!

At last!! I could enter the blog!!thanks for Mr philips ,I want to intoduce myself!!

Thanks for Mr philip☆

At last , at last I could enter the blog thanks for M r philips ,thank you for teaching.I appreciate you very much☆
I couldn't enter here by myself .today I learned not only how to enter the blog but also
shotage of my skill about PC. I have to make an effforts and do many assaiments that I haven't done☆
Today I am going to introduce myself ('-'),A t first My name is Miku Nakabayashi . I 'm from Aomoricity, It's near Hrosakicity ,I can go home whenever I want. My birthday isNovember 18! It's near . My hobby is Listing to Western music!
My favorite singer is Avril Lavigne(+~+) she has a personality.I wish I could be like her!
In the future,I want to work to use anotherskill or knowledge as well as Engkish!!! forexample,
police who can speak chinese, military who are good at speaking English !!

I wish I could inter the this blog ！

Let's find blogs this week!

There are a lot of blogs you can use to learn English. Ours is one. ALEA English blog is another. ESL Podcast is another.

And of course other blogs for learning English don't have to be ESL blogs. Many blog sites can give people a sense of Internet campaigning and other media-related political activity in the United States. If you are interested in US politics, you can look at these, which I sometimes read myself.

On the conservative/red/Republican side:

Powerline

Little Green Footballs

Free Republic

Free Republic bloggers are nicknamed "Freepers" and the site has given rise to the verb "to freep" meaning to skew an online poll. Freepers have a reputation for allegedly having started the practice of using blogs to alert others to the existence of online polls, thus skewing their results in the direction of one's own opinion.

Red State n.b. The United States lacks a Socialist Party, or even a Socialist movement that is part of national discourse. Thus recently "red" has become the color of the right and "blue" of the left.


On the liberal/blue/Democrat side:

Daily Kos is probably bigger than all of the Republican blogs I already mentioned put together. It is certainly the most important blog on its side of American politics, possibly in American politics as a whole. It has spawned a number of offspring, many of which are listed at the bottom of the right column of the blog.

I know everyone doesn't like to follow American politics, so I want you to ask you to find English language blogs about subjects that you are interested in, and tell us about them. That's this week's assignment. Find a blog that interests you and tell us about it.

I'm sorry for forgeted to write lastweek.Today,I will write sentences with what I had to write last week.
First,I interest in reading books especialy novels.But,recently,I interest in want to read myth.I have not decide to read what yet,but Iwant to read some of them in my time being in university. http://www.pandaemonium.net/rdb/menu/class_2.html
This is a site about myth.I like read here.

Second,I will write about a web-site what is usfle to study English.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global/
This site is written about news on around the world in english.We can make advance our English reading skill by reading sentences what is wrriten in English.And, reading news is usfle to know international situations.I can't read that yet,but I want to be anable to read them through this blog.

Leaning English site

I think 'BBC Leaning English' is very useful.
We can read the paragraf and listen to it's voice.
And we study expressions about various category.
BBC Leaning English

Site for learning English☆

When we learn English, it is better if we could touch with English in short times.
I think these sites are useful when we study English in daily life.

First, eigonomori
In this site, we can listen English(short sentence).
And we can choose the speaker's speed(slow or normal).

Second, Podcast
We can download many kind of Podcast content.
I think i-Pod is very useful when we study English in vacant times.

I'm interested in your introductions,and...

When I use Internets, I only see Japanese sites...but, I sometimes look for lyrics about JAZZ musics. For example"My Funny Valentine" and "Love for Sale"and... So,I'm taking great service from here.
I'm enjoying now,searching other English homepages, but I can't finish my homeworks!
So, I have to do this...(;_:) Please teach me some interesting homepages, everyone♪

Sorry about being late for contributing my message

First, My interests are music, animals, and writing something.
My fevarite musician is The Gospellers.They have good voice.
The Gospellers Web Site
I like cats very much. So, I often watch this site.
cats
In this site, we can see the pictures of sweet cats.
And, I write blogs in Japanese.
Some of them, 'The small small diary' is my important blog.
Not only about daily life ,but I also write some poets.
However, I don't open it in public only now because I can't write any good poet.
If I do so, it will be released.
The small small diary

English Stady On Internet

I don't know well how to handle PC. So I rarely use my pc.(^^; But since EnglishⅢB class has started, I came to use my PC frequently. I have never use sites written by English for lerning English except the case I consult something. Therefor this time I sought English site wich help us learning English.
We have not so many chance to read newspaper written by English. Using a site of English newspaper, we can read many kind of articles and learn many words. Moreover, we can also know events happened in Japan and all over the world.
From now on, I decided to make use of English sites for learning.
The site I introduce is this.....
http://www.asahi.com/english/index.html

My study medium

I think watching news and reading newspaper is good medium to know society.
In Japanese news, only internal news are broadcasted. Foreign news are broadcasted but a little information are conveyed.

So Japanese people have only one aspect of news. I think it is necessary to know ideas from other aspect. Foreign news medias broadcast same news from different views. It is very profitable to understand another comment.

So I introduce Foreign news media, ABC news. This is American most famous news media. Many Japanese news media use this media as referrence of foreign news.

http://abcnews.go.com/

This is the URL. Let's click here and know the world!

Sorry!!m(_ _;)m

I had been being busy for the school festival.
But,like Yoko,I should wrote short message.(@_@;)
I‘m sorry!

I ilke the popular music in USA , US and Japan.
For example , the beatles is very famous,we have known some melody of their songs.
But we have never known their lyrics;we can hum their songs,but,can`t sing songs.
Then site i`ll tell you is this；http://www2.ucatv.ne.jp/~memo_vip.sun/fourth.htm
Thanks to this site,I could know what the composers want to say ,a little.
And,it`s useful to study English too!

Site for our learrning english is this; http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/
Though this is quite popular site,we can watch many examples .What is better,if you know japanese proverbs in English,you can!Please watch these（＾＾）!

sites for learning English(^_^)/

This time, I use Yahoo! and I retrieve sites for learning English.

I found a site for ESL(English Second Learner). That is one.
This site has some quizes. If you use this site, you can enjoy and you can learn English grammar, idiom, and etc.

However, I think that if you want to learn sure English, you should read this site; NEWS that written by English.
If you read English sites, you must grow up gradually!

Are we having fun yet?

I was thinking about the campus festival, but it could refer to the blog, too.

This week's assignment is to find English sites and link to them. I have several such sites on my very own website. Look for the section labeled "ESL" and click some of the links. There are links to sites for studying for TOEFL and TOEIC, as well as sites to help you practice every skill except speaking. One of the most interesting sites is a Biblical site, The Brick Testament. WARNING: it's not the Bible you heard as a kid.

Some of the other links on the page will be useful for those trying to learn English, including most of the "other literature" links, and all of the "Ballads" links.

Let's see what you can come up with as far as links to sites that help with English!

My favorite site☆

Same as Yoko, I'm really busy now because of the school festival.
So I'll just link and introduce it.

First, aiko
This is homepage of aiko, my favorute singer.
She is very cute and nice singer!!
Please jump here and enjoy it.

Second,J-total-music
I use this site when I make a score.
In my a cappella club, we make our score by ourselves.
When I make a score, chord is one of the important data.
So this site is very useful for me.

*☆**STAR ISLAND**☆*

This time I will talk about "Star Island". Do you know Carp island in Palau? This island is like a star in shape. This island has a rich natural environment and very beautiful scenery. Therefore people can see a lot of stars in the night sky. This island is small, but it has many wonderful things.
I have never been there. But I want to visit there some day. And I wish to experience and learn many things in there.
This is Carp Island..... http://www.palau.or.jp/islands/index.html

(>_<)ﾉｼ

I'm very busy now because of school festival,so I'll only post short passage(>_<)sorry.
Then, one of my favorite sites are here. When you are interested in making sweets, you can use this site! Looking this site makes me so happy(*^_^*)
Please jump there.
See you!

Links

I show you two links.
First is a recipe page.
I live by myself. So, I have to cook everyday.
It is useful!!

Second is a cute character. You may know "SpongeBob SquarePants".
SpongeBob become famous in Japan. Many goods are sold.
I have't watched its TV program yet. If there are some people who watched it,please tell me your thoughts.

Interesting links(^_-)☆

Whenever I get free, I do the computer, because I've a lot of this weeks assignment; your interesting links.
However, I also want to introduce my English blog; I make for this class (?).
This blog is written about computer relationship, my daily life, etc. ... But, I wrote only a few message. I will write about it from now on.

Another links is ... this.
I was on the baseball team when I went to junior high school, only I play not good at(^^;)
I like playing, watching baseball!! Also, My hometown is Hokkaido, so I'm happy about Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters became champion in Japan.

What do my classmates like?

It's good!

I'm interested in music. So I want to write about my favorite music.

I like Western music. My favorite musician is "Avril Lavigne".

I'll introduce her. She was born September 27th, 1984. She was very popular in the USA. She has hit songs; Sk8er boi, I'm With You, and Losing Grip.

Her voice is very powerful. She is also very popular in Japan. Her debut album, "let go" became very big hit. It was sold twenty milion all over the world.
By the way she married recently. I want her to live a happy life.

This is her web site.We can check her musicand news.

text of linked words

Please link here and enjoy it!

I guess I should start

This week's assignment is to post an interesting link. I know lots of interesting links and I should really update my links pages with at least some of them. What could I find that would interest you, though? I've already put some of them on the sidebar to this blog. And next week we are supposed to post links about English. So what to link this week?

Hmmmm, . . .

Since one of you likes Latin, maybe I should link two Latin dictionaries that I like. This one is from the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Notre Dame is famous as a football school, but it also has very good academics. This other one is from the Perseus Project at Tufts University, also in the United States.

After English I studied Spanish first and Latin second, but my real second language is Hausa. UCLA has a very good Hausa program and the link will take you to the UCLA Hausa program. Hausa is taught in Japan at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and I think at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, but I'm not sure.

Well, everyone here isn't interested in languages (although you do have to study them) but they do seem to be interested in music and movies.

I like all kinds of music, especially American music(s)(I have a small section about music on my American studies links page) but also European and African classical and African folk and pops. I download more and more music, and buy from Amazon.com, because I can't find my tastes in the stores very much here in Japan.

I like to read up on movies at the Internet Movie Database. They have lots of information about movies from all over the world. Did you know that one Japanese movie is in their top ten movies of all time? I've seen 8 1/2 of those top ten movies. (No reference to Fellini's film of that nameis intended, although I do like his films, too.) I only watched about half of "Pulp Fiction" and couldn't finish it, it was too disgusting. Worse than "Pink Flamingos". As they said in Latin, "De gustibus non est disputandum." or "There's no arguing about taste."

◎Writing is difficult!◎

I find writing is difficult. Not only in Engrish but olso in Japanese. I've written randomly until now.
For example, I have written "My memory of the outing" in primary school, long and incoherent ,(and considering now , it was terrible!) as composition.
But my teacher gave me "A"!! What's happen? I just wrote long...long? Her gave me the grade as reward the effort?
In juniior high school, I often used to sammary about my experience or books. But my teacher praised me! (In high school, I haven't wrote without the examination writings.)
So, now, I'm in trouble about writing. I couldn't write with theorical and logistic, I find after I enterd this school. But I think this is an important experience. And enjoying writing is important.
Now? Yes, I'm nice with writing this! (If this writing is grammaticaly right or not is anther...^^;)

I could join this blog at last ! (´～｀；)

I have been in trouble of late because I couldn't join this blog. I tried to sign in again and again, but I always failed. When I try to sign in, I always entered my date that I was sure it's correct. Yet I received messages that told me wrong password, each time I entered. I knew the reason today. I didn't entered wrong password. I made a mistake in username(>_<) I thank my friend and Mr. Philips for your advice.

I love listening to music. And I usually listen to foreign music. My favorite vocalists are Back Street Boys, Eminem, Ben Jelen, Evanescence and so on. Listening to music relaxes me. So music is necessary for me.

★Hello★

First, I'll write about this weekend.
About 1 week ago, one of my friends moved.
So this weekend, I went to her new house with my friends and stayed overnight.
We made humburger steaks, watched TV, and enjoyed chat, e.t.c.
It was very nice weekend!!

Oh!
November 3 to 5 is our university's festival, you know?
Our club (a cappella. 【V.E.L】) will hold a cappella cafe!
We sell some cakes and hot drinks (tea, green tea, coffee) and perform our a cappella songs.
Please come to our cafe!

***My favorite movie and music***

I like action film, SF and history film.　But I don't watch horror film. I watched horror film in the dark music room before. It was so scary!! So I don't like horror movie.

What I like to do with watching movie is to think about its world view and what is the best important thing of the main character. It's very interesting for me.


My favorite music is rock music and I like "zebrahead." Their song is very cheerful. I'll write about them next time. Regrettably, I can't understand the words with listening to their song.
So I need to improve the level of my listening skill.

comment on this week

Nowadays I am little busy, because it is hard to prepare EnglishⅢA Debate on next Wednesday.
I search for references, but I can not find objective essay at all.
I thought again that there are a lot of infomation in internet.

My first blog!!

Hi. My name is Asami ARAI. Nice to meet you.（＾＾）

I`m not good at listening,reading,speaking and writing English. (...All skills!?)
But, making efforts can make me use English.
And I want to study Latin language,so I think it useful to acquire English skills.
I`d be glad for iiib class members and me to get some skills through this class and this blog.
Thank you.See you tomorrow!

My Interest

I write about an organtransplant operation in Ehime Prefecture.
This is a crime that a person mediated for organtransplant for her husband and pay 300,000 yen and a car as collateral to an oragan donor.

The focus of this crime is that an organ was used as an object. In Japan the case hasn't happened. In many countries, the organ transplant with money has made a problem.

Organs never things. So I think we mustn't sell our organs. I have several reason as my basis for my idea.
First when this event occur, the view of the society to the transplant may change.
Second only the person who has money survives when the buying and selling prevails, and the person who not is can be sold internal organs .
Finally even the internal organs of the person who doesn't have the sold intention might be bought and sold.

I worry this event may cause new events. I want you to think seriously how to see organs and treat them .

What I'd like to brog about

This is my first writing on this brog.I would like to brog about my daily life etc.
For example I will write about myself and my family and friends.
I'm not good at writing sentences in English. But I expect to progress of my English writing skill through this brog. So I will write this blog as hard aspossible I can.

Oh, dear! (@_@)

I was going to give an assignment on Friday, wasn't I? Sorry about that. Someone came by my office after class and I had to deal with that. Then there was a problem with the office that I had to deal with (and that's still not finished). Then I was expected to go to the Middle East peace cartoonists talk and exhibition at the 50th Anniversary Hall. Then they had a party for the cartoonists at a nearby shamisen bar and I was expected to go to that, too. Then I had to get back to Akita to see my family. I bought food and wine at Yamaya in Akita and drove back the long way through Hachimantai. I really like the selection at Yamaya.

Hachimantai was beautiful yesterday, and crowded with people taking pictures of the fall foliage. I wish I had more time to see the natural beauty of northern Tohoku. I'm glad I at least got to visit Hachimantai this year. I hope I get out to Towadako or someplace like that this year.

What did you do this weekend? Probably you weren't as busy as I was, but you must have done something besides study English. Even if you just relaxed at home and caught up on your sleep, Please blog about it and tell us what you have done the past few days.

What I'd like to brog about

I'd like to blog about my daily life.
For instance, classes,club activity,hobbies,party with friends,e.t.c.
Some time, I may intruduce my family and friends.
I want to enjoy writing in English.
Originally,I like to express my feelings and I have some japanese blogs.
So, I want to be able to write blog in Japanese and English.

I'd like to blog about...

I want to write about various things about me on this blog.
For example, my favorite songs, movies, books, shops, family, hometown...etc.

I love music and I'm a member of the a cappella club, you know.
So sometimes I'll put an advertisement about our concert and live street performance.

Oh, I'll also write about my daily life.
"About this weekend" etc.

Let's start!

Now I start this blog,I'd like to do various things.
First,I want (maybe everyone wants too,)to improve my English skill. This is one of the reason why I have chosen English ⅢB class.
Second,I hope Ican acquire the way of thinking by English.This reason is similar to first reason,but what I'll start is"blog",this isn't formal! So I want to know jokes and smart expressions too.
Third,I like someone who are smiling.If somebody become smile by my writtings,I'll feel very nice.
Those are what I want to about blog.

Various Topics

I want to exchange our ideas about various topics.
For example, hobbies, news, some troubles of studying English and so on.
The blog helps to know each other and to improve our English skill.

***I love movie and music***

I'd like to write about movies and music. When I was 16years old, I was interested in movies. It's the best entertainment and it please or move people all over the world. So my dream is to make movie.

Please tell me about movie when you find some interesting one.

what I'd like to blog about

I don't have my own computer. So I'm not familiar with computer. I know a little thing about blog; I just know what is blog and how useful and convenient it is.

My major is medical. So I'm interested in modern medical technology and medical cures. I recently read news about an organ transplant on situation that money had changed hands in Japan. Many blog gave their opinions about this case.In their blog, I got new problem of medicine in Japan.

I want be a doctor. To be a good doctor, I need a lot of ideas about medicine. To read them, I have new aspects of ideas about medicine. When I start my blog, I'll write my idea about medicine as possible as I can.

What I'd like to blog about.

I have some interesting things which is computer, chemistry, shopping and so on, so I think that would like to blog about these things.

If I write about computer, I think good that writing about how to make homepage.
Because I can only use HTML:Hyper Text Markup Language, CSS:Cascade Style Seat and little PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor.

Ah, I forgot one more.
I think good that writing about daily life.

Anyway I think that we should select contents that we can write easily.

Hi!

I am Rina saito.
My nickname is Chan Lee.
Please call me Chan Lee.
I wear glasses and
I am short very much.
So, you can find me soon!

My hometown is Hirosaki.
I belong to the pedagogy faculty
and I want to become an English teachar in junior high school.
But I can not speak English fluently and I often miss spells...
I have to study English more and harder.

By the way, I belong to a cappella club because I love singing.
Of course, we sing at the school festival.
Please come to listen to our concert!!

Oh, I have forgot!
I like joking too.
I want to know American jokes.
So, I will watch comedy movies.
What do you recomend?

Self-introduction

First, I'm sorry I didn't write this massage sooner.
But I couldn't understand properly how to use this blog.

Now, let me introduse myself lightly.
My name is Ayaka Shibasaki, and my hometown is Ami.
Ami is in Ibaraki prefecture, amd near Tsukuba city.
Do you know Tsukuba city?
My birthday is February 19th, so I'm 18 years old now.
My major is the education in elementary school.
But I want to learn not only the education in elementary school but also that in other school.
For example, junior high school, kindergarten, and so on.
My hobby is listening to music and I'm a member of the a cappella club now.

I can't have confidence in my ability of English now, especially writing.
But in this class, I want to try to develop my ability of it.
And anyway, I want to enjoy this class.

Nice to meet you!

Hello! I'm Mika Abe. I'm 21 years old. So, I may be older than class members.
I want to enjoy this class and blog.

Professor. Philips, I'm happy I can take your class again.
I want you to help to improve our English skill.

Self Education

First of all, I'm sorry to be late to write to this blog.

I will introduce myself.

My name is Kensuke Saitou. I am eighteen years old. My hometown is Aomori city.
I major in medicine.

My hobby is reading . My favorite writer is Makoto Siina and Misima Yukio.

I belong to table tennis club.Table tennis looks like easy , but it's a very hard sport.
But table tennis is interesting, and the club teaches me very useful things .(I learn how to drink alcoholic in the club)

I really want to be good at speaking and wrighting in English.To tell the truth , I'm not good at English. But I`ll try to do my best in this class.I'm try and try.

My feeling about last class.

First, sorry Professor Philips.
I posted this message late, because I do not understand how to use this blog.

Now it is hard for me to listen to what Professor Philips says in last class.
This is honest about my feeling now.
However I will improve English skill.
I am just trying for such objective.

Um, is this message OK?

It's too late

Oh！　It's already Monday!


In ⅢB　English　class, I failed to comment on blog several time.
That means I didn't do my homework .
I'm sorry Mr.Philips.

Thanks to thiss class, I came to be able to write pargraph quickly.

That's fine!!

Good by ⅢB class!

Writing English

I couldn’t write English smoothly but now, thanks to this ⅢB class, I can write. Furthermore, I noticed that I can use Brainstorming, Outlining, Rough Draft, and Final Copy for writing Japanese. These are very useful. I am glad to have learned these ways. Thank you very much!

ⅢＢ Ｅnglish class

Thanks to ⅢB English class, I studied how to write English. At first, I did not like writing English, but I used to writing English now.
I keep studying English!! Thank you.

ⅢＢ Ｅｎｇｌｉｓｈ Ｃｌａｓｓ♪

In this class, I failed many times. I couldn't understand how to write a paragraph. So I was said "I don't think you understand a paragraph." So I thought a thing over, and I could understand a paragraph at last ⅢB class. I learnd a lot of techniques to write English. I enjoyed studying English very much!

TEST is over!!

I studied very hard for test last week. But the summer vacation comes before long. So I lay a plan of the summer vacation. I want to go back to my hometown "Morioka"and go to a hot-spring resort; the spa at Tsunagi. I would like to feel refleshed there.I look forward to going there.

★A public bath★

Ｉ　went to a public bath with my friends. Since I had a terrible hangover, I wanted to have a sauna to reflesh my feelings. It is very comfortable. I got warm and I drank a cup of cold coffee-flavored milk not beer. It was very delicious! I was very happy.

This ⅢB class

In this ⅢB class, I had a lot of trouble. First, I am not good at writing English. So it was difficult for me to keep up with class. Second is this blog. I can't use well a computer, so not only participation but also renewal of blog was not easy for me. But in this class, I learned many thing to write English. I would like to exploit these in the futuer.

thank ⅢB class

I think I'm still not good at writing in Englsh now. But I wrote about many kinds of themes in English many times at this class. Thanks to this I can get accustomed to write in English. And I learned orders of paragraph. When I was a high school student, I learned English grammar but I didn't learned orders. This class gave me a lot of knowledge and chances to write in English. Thank ⅢB class and Prof. Philips! I want to continue reading "Writing Academic English" and study orders.

English ⅢB class

I have studied English in ⅢB class for about four months.
English of ⅢB class was difficult for me.
But I feel that through English ⅢB class , my English writing skill has improved.
So I think that English ⅢB class was good for me.
Thank you very much , Professor Philips.

This week,there are a lot of examinations, but I don't study at all. Even now, it's not too late.I must study hard!

This week

I am very busy studying for examinations in this week. There are many subjects to study, so it is difficult to do hard all of them. But of course, I don't want to fail credits, so I have to study very hard.

HANABI

I played fireworks with a friend at the night of Monday. There were various kinds of fireworks. The fireworks were very clean all. I was very happy.

Summer Vacation

Summer vacation will come soon.
I am looking forward to summer vacation.
In summer vacation , I will go back to my hometown.
My hometown is Hachinohe.
I am looking forward to meeting again with my friends and
talking about the present situation of each other.

ⅢB English class

Through ⅢB English class, I learn how to write sentence in English. However, I don't want to write sentence in English any more. Writing is very difficult for me.

Through English ⅢB Class

Through English ⅢB Class, I reconsidered how to write in English. I learned many things to write in English well. For example, I learned brainstorming. Brainstorming is basis of writing. At first, I had difficulty with brainstorming. But, once I got accustomed to brainstorming, it was easy for me!! Outline is also very important. Before I learned outline, I spent a long time writing in English. After I learned outline, writing in English became very interesting for me. So, through this class, I came to write well. From now on, I will continue writing in English logically and correctly. Thank you very much, Professor Philips.

Now I'm so busy because I have to study for the tests and I need to practice playing the drums for the live held next week.
When summer vacation starts, I'll practice playing table tennis for the tournament held in Tokyo.
I hope summer vacation will come soon.

Summer vacation

Our school will be out for summer vacation soon. Do you have any plans for summer vacation? I have some plans! First, I will get a driver's license. Next, I will go to see with my friends. Furthermore, there are many things I want to do during summer vacation. I'm looking forward to summer vacation.

My last weekend

I went to Tokyo last weekend to see my family. I had not met them for three months. I ate dinner which my mother cooked and I went to the movie with my sister. I drunk with my father. And we went shopping. I enjoyed my weekend!

UMINOHI

Because a school was closed on July 17, I went to the sea with a friend.
I went by car to the sea of Ajigasawa. Weather was cloudy, and the seawater was cold,though I was pleasant.

Driving and Sea

The other day , I went to the sea in Azigasawa with my friends.
We used rent-a-car and I drove.
Driving was very very fun.
Though it was cloudy , we swam in the sea.
We enjoyed ourselves and we had a good time.
I want to drive and go to the sea again in summer.

Equality?

I heard that in Japan's Self-Defence Forces women are treated equally. That is , there is no prejudice and discrimination against women. For example,Yumi Fujita,who is Airman First Class, is judged by performance, not gender. I think that in Japan there is still prejudice and discrimination in many working places. But the number of prejudice and discrimination are decreasing. This is a good thing. After I graduate Hirosaki University, I will work in the hospital in Japan. Then, I want to work in the workplace where there is no prejudice and discrimination.Well, is there still prejudice and discrimination in working place in America?

Summer vacation

Summer vacation will come soon. I want to go back my hometown and see my friends.
What do you want to do in summer vacation?

nowadays

Recently I'm busy.
I have a lot of tests and I must study in order to earn credits. In addition to studies, I must practice playng tennis. I will do my best.
Are you busy recently?

When August comes, summer vacation will come. I wait eagerly summer vacation because I go back my hometown and I can see friends.

sorry

I'm sorry for being absent from last class.I had a bad stomachache.

A chameleon☆

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Can you notice people who hides himself? I could'nt find him at once. Let's challenge!

Yesterday, I lost my glasses. I have very poor sight. I have to buy new glasses as soon as I can.

a temporary driver's lisense

I took a provisional licence test on last Saturday and passed it. I was very happy because I hadn't thouht I could. I went a driving school and receive a temporary driver's lisense. I want to get a driver's license in summer holiday, so I must go a driving school many times in July.

Driving School

I have gone to Mitsuya Driving School since April.
At first, I couldn't even take curves in a road easily.
However, now I can drive in a public road.
I managed to drive in a speedway yesterday.
I'll take a graduation test next Saturday.
I hope I'll pass the test and graduate from school.

Dog's broken heart.

I think foreign TV commercials are more pleasant than Japanese. An interesting idea is studded in the commercial.I like the dog which has the mind like us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpG7D59rqc

An optical illusion!

http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html

I think human sence is not always right. An optical illusion is very interesting.

Let's play the game!

http://www17.plala.or.jp/suigin/themaze.swf

I was astonished by the game.

THE BEATLES

I told you that I am crazy about THE BEATLES.So,this week's blog will tell you how great THE BEATLES is.
First,John and Paul wrote various kind of music.For example,"Come Together"is rock music, "Michelle" is love song,"Lucy In The Sky With A Diamonds" is psychedelic music and so on.You don't lose interest in THE BEATLES music.My favorite album is "White Album".Please listen to this album!!
Second,John is charismatic.John was shot to death in 1980.But now John has a hight popularity among many people all of the world.Of course,I like John very much."Imagine",Woman Is The Nigger Of The World"and "Woman" are good music!
Oh!!I can't tell you well in letters!Please listen!!Go to music shop!!

club activity

I belong to the tennis club. From Augast 1 to Augast 5, I will have the match "Touitai" in Karuizawa. So, I have been busy practicing tennis recently and I am a little tired. But, playing tennis is very fun and playing tennis makes me feel refreshed.
I will do my best!

Simpsons

I watched the Simpsons in the English class.
I could not understand what character said.
So, I do not know why Mr.Philips laughed.
But the Simpsons seemed to be interesting.
I want to watch the Simpsons in Japanese.

the da vinci code

I am reading " the da vinci code " . You know, the novel is one of the best sellors all over the world. The move of it is performed now. I want to go watching the move after I finish reading.

SIMPSONS

I watched the movie of Simpsons in the class.
It was difficult to understand the story.
But I felt this movie is interesting.
I would like to watch this movie in Japanese to understand the story deeply.
Then, I want to watch this in English again.

SIMPSONS

I watched the movie of Simpsons in the class.
It was difficult to understand the story.
But I felt this movie is interesting.
I would like to watch this movie in Japanese to understand the story deeply.
Then, I want to watch this in English again.

simpsons

Though I was not able to understand, as for the English of Simpson, the Simpson was very interesting. I do not understand why Mr.Philips laughed.

simpsons

Last week, I watched simpsons for the first time. I can not understand it. I want to watch simpsons in Japanese.

THE SIMPSONS

Last Thursday,I watched the video of Simpsons.Bart Simpsons get transceiver as a birthday present.He play a trick on people by using it.But,he fall into well.At the end of the story,he survive the accident.The accident knit the Simpsons's family together.
The video of Simpsons is very interesting to me.But,I didn't understand why Professor Philips laughted at the story.It is hard to listen to what characters say.

Simpsons

I couldn't understand English in the Simpsons. I understood the broad story, but didn't the detaijed thing. Is there the parody of movies in it...? The scene many people are singing in story1 and a man play the mistaken tape in story2 are especially riddle for me.

Simpsons（ ＾ω＾）

In this class I watched the movie,Simpsons, last thursday. The boy played trick on many people by his birthday present,microfone.In fact I couldn't understand the story of the movie very well.But I felt an cheerful atomosphere.So I thought the movie was very funny.I want to watch Simpsons more.

Pokemon

I watched Pokemon movie in English class.
I could not understand the story well.
But each Pokemon was active.
When I was in elementary school, I played Pokemon game.
It was very fun.
Now , I want to play Pokemon game again.

Simpsons

I watched the movie "Simpsons" for the first time. I could not understand English well, but the movie was very interesting and I could enjoy watching it. I want to watch other series of Simpsons.

Pokemon

When Iwas junior high school student, Pokemon became popular.Most students had Pokemon game,but I didn't have it. So, I am not familiar with Pokemon. Pokemons which I know are Picachu, Raichu, Myu, Koikingu, etc.

pokemon

Pｏｋｅｍｏｎ　ｉｓ　ｖｅｒｙ　ｆｕｎ．I　ｌｉｋｅ　ｐｏｋｅｍｏｎ！

Simpsons

Last Thursday, we watched Sympsons. I watched it for the first time.
It was interesting, but I was't able to understand the details of the story.
The characters speak English very fast for me.

I want to be able to laugh at the jokes in the movie.

watched Simpsons

Skins of Simpsons were too yellow. I cared if they had jaundice. Jaundice is symptom of liver desease. They have to go to a hospital soon!!

Two questions about The Simpsons

I have two questions about The Simpsons. First, in the story which the son fell down a well, singers were singing. Were the singers modeled on WE ARE THE WORLD? The song was different but they looked like the singers of the song WE ARE THE WORLD. Second, in the same story which the son fell down a well, what was the ending? The son was scared but he wasn’t scolded. Is that a happy ending?

Pokemon

I watched Pokemon movie last week. I could not figure out what the character said.
When I was an elementary school student, I watched Pokemon every week. but I can't remember the story. I want to play Pokemon TV game again.

Pokemon

Last week, I watched Pokemon movie in the class.
Actually, I couldn't figure out what the characters said.
However, each character was so active.
Pikachu was very cute!
Though I haven't played games of Pokemon, I think Pokemon is attractive.
It's incredible that Pokemon keeps its populality over more than ten years.
Now Pokemon is loved all over the world and I guess it will continue for a long time.

Memories of Pokemon

Last Thursday,I could’t attend class.So,I can’t explain about video of pokemon.I will explain about memories of pokemon instead.Pokemon was very popular when I was junior high school student.Almost all of male students played pokemon game.Pokemon game has three types;red,green and blue.This difference is enemies which appear on the game.Main character advances to defeat boss of enemis.On the way to boss,enemies that are defeated by main character become partner of main character.Main character brings up them and fight together.This was the key to Pokemon's popularity.Pkemon reminds me of my good old days.

Billiards

I played billiards with my best friend last week at Asahi Bowl. Since we drank a lot

of alcoholic drink, we couldn't give full play to my ability. But billiard is very exciting!

Next week I'll play billiards with my friends.

pokemon

I watched pokemont`s movie in this class. But the speed of English is very fast!!

So I couldn't understand the movie very well. I want to study English hard in order to

grasp several English movies.

Well, pokemon-movie reminded me of my childhood. In those days, I was absorbed

in pokemon-game. I want to play the game again.

The video of Pokemon reminded me of my elementary school days. In those days I was crazy about Pokemon like many children at that time were.
I managed to understand the content of the video, because I know what will happen next.
But I could hardly realize what the characters actually said.

As Ryuhi mentioned, there are both common things and diferent things between Japanese Pokemon and American one. It was fun to see what are different and what are common.

POKEMON

I watched pokemon in English class last Thursday, but I couldn't understand the story well. I was surprised because the speed of English was very fast!!
When I was about 10 years old, pokemon was very popular. Even now, pokemon is very popular. I'm looking forward to watching pokemon again.

Pokemon

I think Pokemon is popular when I was a pupill. I wasn't interested in it then. But my little sister played that game and I saw it. She said the game was very interesting. Propably there is many Pokemon, but I can remember a little. I watched the animation first last Turseday.

I played pokemon game.

You know, pokemon program is adaptation of a TV game that has same name.When I was a pupil, pokemon was popular among children. I liked pokemon too. Then I didn't only played the TV game pokemon but also watched pokemon on TV.I watched pokemon last class. The program recalled me recollections that I played the game and watched the program.

What did you think about...

What did you think about pokemon? I couldn’t understand very well. It was very fast, wasn’t it? But pokemon brought me back old memories. Kogyaru was a trend at that time... I was watching pokemon every week when I was an elementary school student. Did you notice? The voices of some pokemons, for example pikachu, are same ones in Japan. So, we would be able to understand them. Hum...

Last week,I caught a cold, so I could not attend the lecture.

Last week

I went my father's parents' home last week.　I met many relatives I haven't seen.
Because we assembled for my grandmother's funeral, we were very busy. many people saw sad.
I am unaccustomed to assembly of relative, so I was very tired and had a cold.

Today, I attended a lecture of a private teacher.
I want to have a part time job.
Do you have part time job?

I belong to an orchestra club, and I play the viola.
Last sunday, we had a concert in Gosyogawara. The concert was for children. We played classic music like "Pomp and Circumstance", "Hungarian dances" and pops music like "The theme of E.T." or "Totoro." It was good experience for me. I was able to find many problems in playing viola. I will practice it more and want to play it well.

A regular badminton game

My club had a regular badminton game with Akita University and Yamagata University. And we went to Akita. Akita is between Yamagata and Aomori so Akita University is host. I was able to know many people and made new friends. We played badminton in the daytime and of couse drunk in the night though we played badminton next day. We talked with them drinking.

Playing tennis!!

Last Saturday, I went to Iwaki to play tennis. At first, the weather was not so good, but gradually the weather became good. It was very hot weather.
Next Sunday, we will play tennis against Akita university and Iwate university. I'm a little nervous, but I want to enjoy playing tennis.
Do you belong to any club activities? What clubs do you belong to and is the club fun?

Do you have a dream?

I mean not your goal of future,
but what you see when you fall asleep.
These days I'm very busy everyday,
so I don't have a dream much than before...
Everyday I wake up to find morning,
and I'm always dissapointed.
In the daytime I'm more positive than negative.
But in dreaming, things change. I have had many
horrible dream. For example dropping valley after
I aimed at bad fellows, death of my younger sister,
crashing many dishes when I working....etc.
That's all are strange for me, but no one tell me why.

Please tell me about your horrible dream.(if you remember)

HOKUITAI FINISHED

I belong to kendo club.Last Sunday,I took part in kendo match held in Spporo.I took part in sinjinsen;freshan,second year student and third year student have qualification to play. Team competition of kendo is one team by 5 people.We finished second.I am not satisfied with this result.Next big game "TOUITAI" will be held in August.I want to continue efforts.

I found this web site,http://www.lecture-online.net/.You can learn how to write a English essey.

essay?

I found this site. It is for TOEFL test. If you think to take an examination, I recommend looking this at least one time.

Internet Essays

I recommend this website. http://salon.livedoor.biz/
If you try this website, you can read news in English.
And there are other interesting themes. Please try it.

The sea

Today I went to the sea with my friends and my senior by my senior's car. The sea was very beautiful. I wanted to swim. But it was too cold to swim. I want to go there again when it is hot enough to swim. Then we ate chinese noodle. It was very delicious. I enjoyed today!

Internet Essays

I told you that I read THE DAILY YOMIURI.THE DAILY YOMIURI has not only news but also essays.The title is "Chronicles of My Life in the 20th Century".You can get information about it.http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/essay/

WORLD CUP

Now , World Cup is held in Germany.
I have been looking forward to World Cup.
I cheer on Japan national team.
However , Japan was beaten by Australia.
But , I enjoy World Cup.

My grandmother

My grandmoter passed away on Sunday. I had little opportunity to meet her, and the time I met her is about four years ago. But I feel sad. I must go my grandfather's home and help funeral preparation.
You shold cherish your relatives.

English essay

I recommmend this web site( http://home.att.net/~keiichiro/gokai/)
In this site, you can read writer 's misunderstanding when he lived in USA.
It is very funny!!

Internet Essays

You're learning to write paragraphs and essays in this class. One of the best ways to learn that is by reading good examples of essays. That's why I gave you a copy of an essay from the Japan Times to study.

This week I'd like everyone to find an English essay they like on the Internet. There are lots of them out there on the Internet, about almost every topic you can imagine, from sports to politics, including Japanese politics (or was that article about Japanese higher education?), and from music to technology.

Find an essay on the Internet, in English, about something that interests you, and that you think might interest the rest of us. Post a link to it in this week's blog message.

Reading

I read an English paper.I read mostly THE DAILY YOMIURI.If you read THE DAILY YOMIURI,you can study current English.You can get information about it.http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/
And I read English Zone.English Zone has many subjects;psychology,sports,movies,medicine,love and so on.You can get information about it.http://www.englishzone.jp/

Hello everyone!

How are you? I'm fine but I'm very busy now. A few weeks ago I said I was idle. But now I have a lot of tests and reports. So I have to study hard,for I didn't study hard and have many
understanded things. I have lots of things to do soon. I think had to study everyday without saying I'm idle. Even if you don't have a test now,you should study in order to be repent afterward that.

HOUSE

These days , I listen to house.
House is a kind of club music.
It is a excited music.
My favorite artist is GTS.
They are great.
So let's listen to house music.

Anniversal Competition of University's Founding

Last Saturday, I had my first competition of golf at Tsugaru country club.
It was anniversal competition of university's founding.

I didn't compete against other golf clubs , but just among our Hirosaki University golf club.
Because it was my first competition, I was so nervous. But my senior who played in same party encouraged me, so I could play relaxing.

My goal was the first place among rookies and I did it!
I got the cup and drunk with it. It was so great experience!

I'll keep practicing golf.
My next goal is to take part in Hokuitai next year.

First match of karate

This Sunday, I played karate match for the first time. I played two match. Fortunately, I won the first match, but I lost second. I played twice running, and I don't have strength, so I was completely tired. But I enjoyed match!

I'm so tired.

I have been very busy lately.I practice kendo every day.I'm so tired.The time for match,hokuitai,approaches.However I am very tired,I'll do my best!!I want to win.
Moreover,I fall into poverty!Oh my God!Help me!I have to work part-time.I want to earn money!I want to ask my classmates.Do you have part-time job?What's kind of part-time job?


I'm so tired.

Walking Race

This weekend, I participated in a walking race in Akita.
We had to walk 40km long.
I started walking at nine p.m. on Saturday.
On my way, I felt bad pain in my legs.
I finally reached the goal with my teammates at five a.m. on Sunday.
I'm exhaused and I have terrible muscle pain.
But it was a good experience.

Walking Race

This weekend, I participated in a walking race in Akita.
We had to walk 40km long.
I started walking at nine p.m. on Saturday.
On my way, I felt bad pain in my legs.
I finally reached the goal with my teammates at five a.m. on Sunday.
I'm exhaused and I have terrible muscle pain.
But it was a good experience.

I have a bad cold・・・.

Hello, everyone!
I have a bad cold from Friday. My temperature went up to 39.3 degrees centigrade at night. I was very surprised because I had been very fine on the morning of Friday. On Saturday, I went to hospital and I got some cold medicines. Today, I have a slight fever・・・. I want to cure a cold as soon as possible.
Please take care of yourself not to catch a cold.

Last week end, I went to Akita university to play baseball game. But, when we started to play baseball,rain came down in torrent. we gave up playing game.It was unfortunate.

Cold↓

Ｉ　ｃａｕｇｈｔ　ａ　ｔｅｒｒｉｂｌｅ　ｃｏｌｄ　ｙｅｓｔｅｒｄａｙ．Ｓｏ　Ｉ　ｍｕｓｔ　ｂｅ　ａｂｓｅｎｔ　ｆｒｏｍ　ｇｏｌｆ　ｃｌｕｂ．
I`m sorry not to participate in this club. So I want to cure my cold. And I hope to take part in practice of golf eagerly tomorrow.