Next Class.......

Recently, I'm very tired. Because I must be apresent classes after school !! It's very hard......

I want to learn about "Relative Clauses" in chapter13. I don't understand these well...So I am sometimes confused about the way to use relative clauses. In paragraph, we must write without omission. Therefore,I think it is important to know them well. But other chapters are also important. After English ⅢB classes finish, I will read and learn this text by myself.

Next class...

The topic on this week is ...
"Which chapter in the textbook should we do next?" isn't it??

I think the CHAPTER5 is best for us.
Reasons are almost same as opinions written by other classmates.
In CHAPTER4,we learned about Logical Order.
And through the CHAPTER5,we can practice using them.

Also I think it is better for us to do the page 51 to 53 again
at the beggining of class.
We would finished these pages as a home study...but
I think that look back about Logical Order before we study
the CHAPTER5 is more effective!

My bad! m(__)m

I didn't realize classes were cancelled on Friday for the entance exam Saturday and Sunday.

I went to a Union party tonight and got drunk. They told me there are no classes tomorrow. (I had wondered why there was a party on Thursday.) So there is no class tomorrow. I will have to figure out a blog assignment for this coming week. I can't give you a regular writing assignment for next week. But I can give you a blog assignment. But not now. I'm drunk, and I have to go home. My doctor has already told me I'm drinking too much, but that's Japan, there are all these 'nomikai' to go to.

(@_@) WATCH THIS SPACE!

(as they say in America) and you will find the blog assignment when I sober up.

(Tomorrow when I am sober I will try to come up wiht another blog assignment for you.)

next lesson

The article of this blog in this week is "which chapter in the textbook should we do next".

I think we should study in order. In a textbook, it is being explained to turn that it is important.
If we study next chapter , we will have to use the previous skill we have learned.

So we should study along the textbook. This helps us get new English skill or technics in writing reports.

I think we should learn chapter5. It's my idea.

Should do next...

My opinion about "which chapter in the textbook should we do next" is easy, we simply do Chapter 5 Kinds of Logical Order that the next chapter.
"Why do you think so?"
It is simply, too! Because, most textbooks are constituted as we do from the first page.
Therefore, I think we should do chapter 5.

Let's go on in order

I think we sould advance CHAPTER 5 , because I find to proceed in order is better. If we do other chapters, we may lose textbook's content. Such as "~in CHAPTER 7, you have done the~" no, we haven't done(^^; Although we acquired some English skills, so we can manage any chapter, but methodical learning is important, I feel.

And I have a question. When is the next English ⅢB class? Next Friday, thare is going to held The National Center Test for universities, in our school. So many classes are canceled(not every classes). How about English ⅢB? If we don't have class on next Friday, I am relax...because I don't have to write paragraph hurriedly...

There are too many examinations in short term(>_<)!

Class started!

I left Ibaraki on December 7th and I returned safe to Hirosaki.
Before I left,I was really worried about the weather in Hirosaki.
Especially about storms and snows!
But the weather in Hirosaki was not so bad.
Of course,it is much colder than my hometown...('-';)
I glad we have a mild winter this year(^~^)/

So,the vacation ended and classes started.
How are things with you?
I really really have to do a lot of homeworks...
And I need to study hard because I have examinations near at hand!

I will do my best!(^^)

I'm addicted to making cakes★

　　　　　　　I have never made any cakes or confectionery so far.
In my parent's home, there isn't oven and microwave oven, because it is said that food which use microwave oven is not good our health before. So I don't know how to use microwave oven when I started live alone. Therefore I really worried whether I could use it safely without breaking it when I used it first(^^;
As I become accustomed to use it , I wanted to make cakes for the first time. So at Christmas day , last year, I made a cake. It was verry fun!! I became like making cakes. During winter vacation, I made some kinds of cakes three times.
I'm busy recently, so I can't make cakes. In spring vacation, I want to make them.

one day

From Tuesday, we start classes. Oh, our winter weekend ended.It's so sad.

But we have only one month to study classes include this English class.
We have to take the endof term test and pass them.
The first grade in the university becomes an end in three more months.

Let's enjoy the rest of the day!

Start classes(-_-

We started classes since this week.
I spent an irregular life in this winter vacation, so I am bad condition now(^^;
The bad condition is... sleeping, having a thick head, etc.
However, I gradually return to the good condition.
I try many studies this year, too!

Happy New Year

I returned to my hometown for ten days.I saw my old friend and played with them.We went to shopping and Karaoke.We enjoyed our holidays very much.Of course I spend many time with my family.Since new year's dsy,I often went to shopping with them.I bought many things what I wanted.For example,a jacket,shoes,and books.
I think that I had nice holidays!

A Happy New Year♪

Long time no see.
First,I'm sorry that I couldn't write about my life.
In winter vacation,I went to my hometown.It's Makubetsu in Hokkaido.It was so cold.The minimum temparture is 13 degrees freezing. But there weren't snow.
I ate a lot of delicious food.For example,New year's special dishes,zoni,light meal of soba tradisionally eaten on New Year's Eve...etc.
And I went to New Year's sale.I bought many clothes.I enjoyed shopping.
I relaxed in my home.I could get the most out of a holiday.
See you next class.

Greetings from Atlanta!

I'm here at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. I'm seeing a lot of old friends and meeting a lot of new ones. Unfortunately I'm not giving a paper myself, but I did find out I'll be giving a paper in Britain this year. In the meantime Atlanta is beautiful. I wish I had more time to explore the city and see some of the historical sites. But I have to be back for classes next week.

I dropped my computer going through airport security and cracked the screen. That was a good excuse to replace my laptop, which was already about 5 years old, and get a new one with wireless and a camera. So I've taken my own picture, used the hotel wireless to get online, and uploaded the photo to this blogpost.

SEE YOU ALL FRIDAY!!! (^_^)/~~~~

***Happy New Year!***

Hello everyone. How did you spend your New Year's Day?

I went shopping and spent a quarter of my New Year's gift...

I know that I was foolish, but money is the thing which should be used!!(>o<;)


Our school begin soon, so I have to do my homework.

And this month, I think we will have some exams.(--;)

I hope we will pass!!

***Before New Year***

I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you about my life Before New Year.
I didn't have a computer which can use the Internet.

I worked at a cram school (juku) as a teacher.

I teached English to some students.

And all of them are junior high school students.

One student asked me every classes that "how much do you get?"

Of course I couldn't tell him truth, so I said to him "I earn one hundred million yen."

He was very surprised and said laughing "really? It's so high!!"

He was very funny student.(~~;)

Happy new year!!

Finally the year 2007 is coming!
I wonder the time passes fast.
We have few classes but let`s enjoy it (^^)

I relaxedly stayed at home during my winter vacation.
It was nice days because I could clean out my room and helｐ my mother in preparing meals.
Of course I went out,too♪
Oh, I heard if you spend money on New Year`s Day as beginning of a year,
　　　　　　　　　　　you will lose fortune of money at the year.
Did you know it??
I believed it,didn`t buy anything.
I think it`s a only superstition...(＾＾；)
What else supertitions do you know ?

I came back to Hirosaki

I spend New Year's Day in my parens' home. Our family celebrate from Desember 31, so I had eaten a lot of delicious food. Of course, I ate soba for seeing the old year out and the New Year in. During shougatsu , I repeated eating and sleeping. I mean, I spend this year's shougatsu sleeping.......So, I really worry whether I can get up early when university begins(^^;

I came back to Hirosaki today. Now I listening to music as I write this. Maybe , in this night I'll watch movies*＊*＊*This winter have not very much snow. It is unnusual but I'm glad it's easy to walk.

I wanted to travel somewhere...

I am still in my parents' home(^ ^;

Ah... everyone, A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! But, it is January 4th today(;^^A

Now, I went to Sapporo city in Hokkaido last week and took some pictures.

This is a clock tower and is one of famous landmarks.

This city has a festival that is called "white illumination" now.
The following pictures are in this festival.





How do you like these pictures? These are beautiful, aren't these?

This year it snows little in Hokkaido.
Is this the effect on global warming?
Hmm... I don't know. That's all!

Though it is a New Year holiday...

Though it is a New Year holiday,
I went to the University today.
I take the English phonetics class in the pedagogy
and this winter vacation's assigments are lisning to English and practice reading with a cassette tape.
This morning, I tried to listen to it.
However, a cassette tape didn't say anything...
"What's happening!?"
I opened the audio player's cover and found the tape had snapped!!!
"Oh...I must get a new one."
I send E-mail Mr.Noro right away and went to the University.



I got a new one a littele while ago☆
By the way, my personal computer remain breaking,
and I'm writing this in Kamidote square because the university's library is a New Year holiday★
Umm...I'm tired today..

Come back!!

Happy new year!

Do you think it is too late to say that word?

But new year has come and start. We have to change our minds and make new goals.


I also write to Ikumi's topic.

I often use NHK radio program. In the program, there are more than 5 grades; Lowest class, intermediate class, higher class, for the practice, listening class and more.

We listen at them from AM6:00 to AM 6:45 and from AM11:30 to PM 00:00 and from PM6:20 to PM7:35.

We need chance to listening to spoken English.

This is my idea.

We have only 3 days for holiday. Let's enjoy the rest days.

Happy new year!! :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

How are you doing?
First,I'm sorry I haven't contribute to this blog for a long time(;_;)
I return my hometown on December 27th and I staying Ibaraki still now.
Ibaraki is really really warm:)
So I'll be frozen if I go back to Hirosaki...

The left picture above is my sweet cat.
Her name is Myah.It is very simple,isn't it?(^-^;)
Next one is the pacific ocean.
I paid a visit to a shrine yesterday.And this shrine is near the ocean.

Oh,yes,I'll reply to Ikumi's topic.
While I studying English,often I can't understand and pronounce the phonetic sign well.
In that sort of case,THIS SITE is very helpful for us.
If you have such a difficulty,please check it! :)

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!