Let's Talk With Me!

Hi everyone! What's up? I'm Hemian Zhang.I'm glad to see you! By the way,I'm afraid that you can't read my name.Do you know who am I?(^o^)/

I'm Chinese,but I was born in Osaka and brought up in Hirosaki. I love Hirosaki,but I did'nt go out frequenty,so I don't know about Hirosaki very much.I'm sorry everyone.Don't ask me "where is ○○?",please!(^^;)

I love talking.I want to talk with you! As you know,in my speech,I want to know as many ways of your thinking as possible.

I was to be in blass band club when I was in junior high school and high school. In junior high school I played a trombone and in high school I played a tuba.

If you want to know how to say in chinese, please ask me! Remember, I just can say daily conversation. I can't read and write. Thank you.

About my team

Hi;) Everybody,what's up?

In this post,I'll introduce my team,the Hirosaki University Volleyball Club.

As I mentioned in the last post,all of my teammates are very kind and funny!And everyone practices very hard to develop volleyball skill.Athough all members are very busy for studying,no one skives off practice.

We have very unique nicknames.One of my friends is Chai,one is Rasu,and me,,,John!When I heard my nickname for the first time(Our nicknames are made by older members.),I was very surprised or maybe shocked:D But now,I like this name very much.Every one calls me John with warmth and frendship.

Next month we'll have a big tournament,"the Hokuitai."Some of my teammates will retire from the team after this tournament.In order to win and play more games with the members who will retire,I'm practicing very hard.

What clubs do you belog?Please tell me.Thanx for reading!BYE.

pro wrestlimg

Hello, everyone. I'm Shunsuke Kubota.
What I'm interested in is pro wrestling. It's the most exciting sport in the world!
My favorite wrestler is Mitsuharu Misawa. His finishing moves are Emerald Flowsion and Tiger Driver. Both of them have terrible power.
Although he died last year unfortunately, but he is one of the greatest wrestlers in Japan.
If you are interested in pro wrestling, let's talk with me.
Thanks for reading.

Self Introduction

Hello,every one:)

I'm Ayako Kudo.Please call me Aya!Today,I'm going to introduce myself.My English is not very good,but I'll be glad if you read all of my sentenses.
I'm from Hachinohe.Hachinohe is famous for "the Sanshataisai festival."Have you ever seen this festival?It's very beautiful and exciting.I really want all of you to come to Hachinohe in summer and see this festival.
I play volleyball in the Hirosaki University Volleyball Club now.Volleyball is a very exciting sport,and all of my teammates are quite kind.I love this team very much!I'll try hard to be a nice volleyball player.
I like listening to music.Singing is also very interesting!My favorite artists are UVERworld,Kana Nishino,aiko,Kumi Koda,and so on.I usually listen to J-POP music.However,sometimes,I listen to foreign musics.For example,Avril Lavigne,Miley Cyrus,or Lady Gaga.

I'll try hard so that I can develop my English skills!And I'm looking forward to talking with you.Thanks for reading:>

International welcome party!

Hey you all!
How's it going everybody?I'm Hiroko and maybe I caught a cold coming on.(;_;)

Today I want to talk about International welcome party that was held last Friday night at Bunkyo campus. Probably there are several people in here who participated in the party, I think. I took part in it because I wanted to communiate with many foreign students and make friends.

At first, I was little nervous but gradually I was comfortable and talked to many foreingner's.Especially the most intersting thing is that I talked with a French student in French because now I'm stdying French in class so that I have wanted to tried to speak and confirm whether my french pronunciation is correct or not. French pronunciation is very difficult, don't you think so?Fortunatelly, he was very nice to me and praised my effort.(^^)

I like learnig other launguage very much!I had fun soooo much! (^^)

Would you join next party with me??

cafe cenbalo

Hi,everyone!
My name is Fumiko Abe.
My hobbys are taking a walk and having a rest at my favorite cafe in a relaxed mood.
I often go to cafe cenbalo near to the NAKASAN.Cenbalo is managed by a couple.Talking with them is lots of fun and their handmade foods are excellent!!! Of course,drip coffee they made politely is nice,too. I love cenbalo so much that I have had lunch and dinner there(*^U^*)
Please go to cafe cenbalo and tell me your impression!!
Oh,I forgot saying that it is closed on Wednesdays and my recommended menu is Cinnamon toast.
It is nice to meet you from now on!

what i'm interested in

Hello guys!
My name is Owada Hiroaki.
I'm interested in tennis.
I like playing sports a lot, but I haven't done tennis.
I've wanted to do something that I haven't done when I get into the university.
So I'm really happy, because it came to realize!
I wanna play tennis with YOU!!!

Thanx to read!

Self introduction

Hi, everyone!
My name is Hiroko Itoh.
Actually I had to write this theme by last week, but I didn't know how to do and I couldn't write blog by the deadline.
I like to play tennis, listen to music, learn English and watch movies.
Lat year, I went to Ne-yo's concert, do you know him?
He has a lot of talent and sweet voice. I couldn't help crying during his singing.
His lyrics are sometimes lonely and sometimes possitive!
Anyone who have never listened to him should listen to his songs definetely!(^^)

Let's talk about music with me if you have intersted in music!

Nice to meet you!

Snowboard

Hello , everyone. I'm Koko Shibutani.
I like winter sports very much.
I did a lot skiing as a child, and I am absorbed in watching figure skating recentry. I love Takahashi Disuke! Do you know him?
However, especially I love to play snowboar.
I start it when I was a elementary school student.
I would often practice it with my friends.
It is seven years since I started it.
If you want to snowboard, let's go snowboarding at Ajarayama.
(Ajarayama is skiing ground)

So long!

Baseball

Hi,everyone! I'm kenjiro.
I have been interested in baseball since I was five years old.
When I was a child, I played baseball very often. I wanted to be a baseball player.
I had an arm injury ,when I was high school student. So I can't play baseball but I can watch baseball games on TV. My favorite team is Hokkaido Nipponhamu Fighters. Their play style is tsunagu yakyu in English, small baseball. These days Fighters lose , lose, and lose games. If you like small baseball, you surely become a Fighters fan! Won't you cheer Fighters together?

Hi, everybody! Welcome to the new class!

Hello, students!

Welcome to the class blog! This week you should write a self introduction in English. Don't forget, this can be read by anyone on the Internet, so be careful what you say! You never know who's watching.

You can read more about me at my website, but since I expect you to write about your selves here I guess it's only fair I do the same.

As I mentioned in class I was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and moved around a lot all my life. I got a Ph.D. in history at UCLA, where I met a Japanese exchange student also studying Africa. We moved to Japan where we had two children and teach in neighboring universities. I like playing chess, reading, watching movies and listening to music, especially American music, but also African music, European and Indian classical music, and other genres.

In this university I teach American Studies and African Studies, especially history, but I can teach many other things as well.

This class is about writing English, so let's do our best to practice writing English as much as we can!

I look forward to reading everyone else's self introduction.

The undergraduate library at UCLA:

You can see more of my photos on my website, or on facebook.

How do you expect to use English in the future??

I think I'll use English by daily life in the future. The conversation is too high ranking, so there are conversation on the net and one on which even a physical thesis was written in English again mainly, so I'd like also to use it for the translation.

The world is internationalized by development of the internet and development of the movement means now. The culture various ones talk with a national person, and which isn't only small culture in an own country, an other country, they seem able to enjoy themselves, it was. That has various ways, but they're youtube and my space that I like it. I talk much by the conversation for which English which wasn't English along grammar and was omitted and a slang were frequently used. Abbreviation quite is here and is fascinating on the internet.

Science and engineering is a major originally, so I don't find interest in the work which made the translatress and English a major, but I think I'll use it much by daily life.

How do you expect to use English in the future?

My dream is to become an English teacher of high school. So I expect that I teach English to high school students. In modern days, English teacher is required to have abilities to conduct a class in English.

First of all, I have to have basic English abilities such as grammar, pronunciation and so on. Without these abilities, I cannot become an English teacher. English teacher have to prepare for a class with such abilities, reading and writing. So I use English to prepare for a class.

Second, in order to conduct a class in English, I have to have speaking and listening abilities, such as conversation. I have ever taken a English class for some years. In that English class in junior high school and high school, teachers don't use English. However, modern English teachers are required to conduct a class in English. So I use English in conversation in class.

In conclusion, I will have opportunities not only reading and writing skill but also speaking and listening. English teachers have to have these four skills. However, I'm not good at English so much, now. I have to try to improve my English abilities more and more. I'll do my best.

How do you expect to use in the future

I am student of medicen, so I will become a doctor. In medicen, I heard that the U.S.A. is the most adovanced.So many new thesises is write in English.I have to use English when I become a doctor.I expect to use English two way.

At first, I want to read thesises writen by Englih like reading Jaoanese. Now I read shrot English tehsises in a class.I can read that English, but I can't understand what it say.It mean that I translte English into Japamese then I read Japanese and understand it.It take time a lot.
So I want read English as a my mother tongue.

Next, I want to speak and hear English, for I want to study abroad someday.It is because that I want to experience an advanced medical when I become a doctor. I have to speak and hear English somehow.This is also useful when I travel abroad.

In conclusion, I expect to use English like Japanese. I think it is difficult to use English like Japanese, so I will train English.

How do you expect to use English in the future

Today many foreigners live in Japan and the population of them are growing more and more. The elementary school children must learn to it when they are 5 or 6 grader in Japan.I was interested in foreign countries when I was six years old probably. Also, now I'm more do and I know about foreign countries. I want to be good at languages, English and Chinese, and to find a job which use languages in the future. Therefore I hope to study abroad and there are two main chance to think that.

I remember seeing foreigners for the first time clearly even today. I saw them when I went to Amorinebuta to see the sights.Then I was six years old, and I was surprised that they were there and spoke in English. Another I moved to Misawa city and I met many foreigners every day. So I become to be conscious of them and I know about the world.

I want to study abroad during spring or summer vacation. I often hear this: Hearing about something a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once. I'm very interested in foreign countries, and I have studied foreign countries, for instance, American, Chinese,New Zealand, Korean, Thailand, and so on histories and cultures since I started elementary school. But I have never visited these. I need to learn by experience and I want to go abroad to study. Also I hope to travel in English speaking world. If possible, I go to New Zealand to study or travel because I studied of New Zealand society and knew about attraction of these.

Thus I hope to go abroad to study because of two main experience by chance and my curiosity.
I need to polish my English and to more learn about the state of the foreign countries.

How do you expect to use English in the future

In Japan, learning English is as important as learning Japanese. Students in Japan usually start to study English when they enter a junior high school. Actually, the law concerning English teaching was revised several years ago. Today children who are the upper of elementary school have to study English. By the way, I still remember the day I first took my English class. Because I was unable to understand anything in the class. After that, I studied English seriously and I grew to like English. Now learning English has become a part of my life, so I want to get a job where I can use my English in the future. Therefore I will have to improve the ability to read, write and speak English to realize my dream.

First of all, I will need to enrich my vocabulary to acquire reading knowledge of English. When I read a text in English, I frequently come across words I do not understand. I usually look up the word in a dictionary so as to understand the content of the text. However, it is important for me to guess words I do not understand sometimes because dictionaries are not always useful. I will get an accurate understanding of a word after seeing it in a variety of contexts. If I have a large vocabulary of English words, I will be able to read Englirh books, English papers, or something written in English singly.

Knowing how to use a grounding in English grammar is an essential skill to write English sentences correctly. First, I will have to increase my vocabulary to write good English composition. A large vocabulary is useful not only to read a text in English but also to write English sentences. Second, to memorize a lot of English idioms is also important to learn a variety of expressions. Third, understanding of the rules of English grammar enables me to write an essay in English smoothly. Surely, it is difficult for me to acquire the ability to write English soon. However, these three things may play an important role to improve my writing skill.

If I want to speaking English fluently, I should take speaking and listening as a set. Because it is impossible to speak English fluently without learning correct pronunciation. Of course, the best way to learn correct pronunciation is talking to people who are good at speaking English, especially native speakers of English. Through conversation with he or she, I will be able to learn correct pronunciation and improve my speaking skill. I may also find differences between English and Japanese: how to express, unique phrases, etc. Thus conversation with people who speak English makes meaningful contributions to my speaking skill.

In conclusion, learning English enables me to communicate with people in a different country and to learn more about their culture. Therefore I hope to go abroad in the future in order to improve the ability to read, write and speak English.

How we can grow?

I take a class of "hitowohagukumuitonami". At the class I study "the role of toys". I think we all use many toys on our childhood. At that time, we may use those toys not thinking deep,but toys do three important roles.

First, toys urge growth of children.When children play with a toy,they can raise their five senses.For example when they use a drum of toy, they can train the sense of hearing.Thanks for toys,children can also play with friends.

Second, children can develop thier creative power.When they play with blocks, they can train the ability of structure.And the toy which children use when they play house train our ability of expression.Children express what they see or experience useing this toy.

At last ,Children can grow their abilty of exercise by playing with toys. They need large space where they can play freely.For example , they use a ball and play a soccer,they are running and kicking ball.They can train their legs by useing ball.There are many other toys which train children's ability of exercise.

To concled ,the toy has many important role for children.So when we become parent ,we have to give many toys for children's growth. And we never forget we have to watch them for their safety.This is important equal to give toys.

dead poets society

I saw this movie at a high school student. The newly-appointed English teacher who came to the noble family preparatory school for higher education of the whole dormitory system where this movie is rich in content in Vermont in 1959. Students make the lovers' society which says that the students who were being attracted were making the teacher who explains beauty of the poetry and wonderful of the life "meeting of the poet who can die" when he was a student formerly, restore by the hand through an unprecedented session. The landscape of the New England area from the early autumn which becomes a background of a drama to winter is also beautiful.This is a just story. It isn't such trivial thing that I aimed.The end is the case that one student who doesn't end and has that dies of a happy ending, and this talk ends. It's because why did my parents take his youth away too much too much when saying whether they died. I'll write that it can be learned from this movie.

First why do anyone as well as a parent intervene in others? Easy. It's because it's against to think one is right. By a movie, this, the place and his parents which offered that the student who committed suicide would like to participate in the musical at night for my parents," you're still a child.", and, they said somehow and opposed decisively.

When summarizing it, it's a paradox of parents' idea and child's idea. A child wanted to enjoy youth. On the other hand his parents seem to be a student and are serious and it's the idea that stay here.Now, I think the person who is hearing that a parent says seriously in school days and is studying is hardly here. Because it's because a child thinks the parents' way of thinking is wrong, too. It isn't possible to make them meet both opinions for a paradox to exist double here. The last thesis and antithesis.He'd like to play as expected as a child, too. That's ordinary. When not becoming more efficient at the place done seriously, it's insignificant. A child should also enjoy youth, and parents aren't supposed to take it away.

I'm certain that the author wanted one which is here simultaneously with importance of the youth. It's thorough argument, but isn't that importance of seeing a person objectively? This isn't that it was limited to my parents and a child. It's same even between the friends. Even though an idea is different, you don't have to intervene much. Because it's of no use because double paradoxes exist in the opinion described subjectively like an example above-mentioned.

What's your happiness?

Have you ever thought about happiness? Probably, many people have not thought about it. I started to think about it when I was elementary school because of a certain incident. According to a dictionary, Happiness describe feeling, showing or giving pleasure or satisfaction. These are truth without a doubt. However, I think happiness is deeper things. By the way, when do you feel that you are happy?

Surely, there are many answers. For example, you will feel happy when you are sleeping, eating, reading a book, doing your like things, being with your family, and so on. Happiness, including its way to feel and scale, is very different from people to people.

However, I think the reason why you can feel happy is that you are healthy. Do you agree with me? Both of small happiness and big happiness are based on your health. If you suffer from any disease or injury, you cannot feel happy. Also, If the around people such as your valued friend or family suffer from any disease or injury, you cannot feel happy.

When I was elementary school, my grandfather suffered from a infarction. The doctor at that time explained to my family that he is in peril of his life. I was so shocked to hear that and I couldn't eat anything. Due to his disease, he and our family cannot feel happy. Fortunately, he managed to escape death and live in ordinary now. When I looked back on the past, I have a feeling. That is, healthiness is very important in our lives.

Because of these, I think healthiness is the best in our lives. If you are not healthy, you cannot feel every happiness. I'd like to realize that you are happy.

Urban Legend

Have you ever heard "urban legend"? Probably, you have heard from your friends,TV, radio, and so on. This is spreed on mas media and Internet by ordinary people, for example, young people, the city dweller and the highly educated person. For a formal legend, this is a rare occurrence. According to the Jan Harold Brunvand, he made a concept of "urban legend" widely known, it belong to legend of lower-level and legend is the folk history or simulated history. "Urban legend" is not always stories about urban community and it called "urban legend" even if it is stories about rural community. Today, "urban legend" have reason for popular favor and there are genres of science and technology, small story.

First, regarding reason "why people are attractive to it?". There are main elements. People tell other people just like folktale and it was sometimes told that it was true certainly. They told seriously! Also, it don't stop as a rumor temporary and it tell about happening of an acquaintance. In other word, it is lively stories. "Urban legend" satisfy of our desire "I want to know about strange, terrible and dangerous stories."

Next, genre of science and technology have two famous rural legend. Some old woman heat hers cat in a microwave because hers cat got wet , it passed away and she raised matter with that things. Since then, the notes of microwave was added to this: Please don't heat animals in it. Moreover, "The Unix Macintosh operating system can communicate with the user and make out thought of user's." When someones Mac was malfunctioning and he mutter about disposing of Mac, suddenly Mac started again!

In addition, if a couple go to the a Shinto shrine of the Goddess, they break up.It is said that the Goddess is jealous. If they go to the big theme park, they do like that because they are distracted by other man or woman owing to long waiting time. If you eat "tyuppatyappusu" in 5 minute, you make happy!

Thus there are many many urban legends in society and it make you believe easily. People speak express themselves frankly whether it is true or not. The science and technology, small story and so on are told you because of reason for attractive factors.

Mahatma Gandhi

"My life is my message." These words were spoken by Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar. He is well-known as the Father of independence of India all over the world. As you know, India was once under the imperial control of the Britain. Gandhi started the movement of nonviolence and disobedience. His activity expanded through India and led India to independence. However, why did he start the movement? And how did the movement expand through India?


It was a shocking experience in South Africa that changed the course of his life. In 1893, he visited South Africa when he was 23 years old. As soon as he arrived in South Africa, he experienced a shocking happening. It was when he was in a train. The conductor orderd him to move to freight car from first-class car although he had a first-class ticket. Eventually, he was dropped off the train because he rejected the conductor's order. Then racial discrimination called apartheid was carried out in South Africa. Indian were treated unjustly because they were also targets of apartheid. After the shocking experience, he started the movement of nonviolence and disobedience. He have never had recourse to violence. And he have appealed for the importance of nonviolence.


After his return to India, he continued the movement of nonviolence and disobedience. His speech reached the hearts of the audience. As a result, many people joined in the movement for independence of India. The movement of nonviolence and disobedience has been running well. However, acts of violence by Indian happened when independence of India was close at hand. A British policeman picked a quarrel with demonstrators and the angry crowd attacked the police office. The news made Gandhi disappointed. He said that he didn't need independence with violence. After that, he traveled through India in order to change India from inside.


In 1930, Gandhi made a protest march against monopolization of salt by the Britain government. He marched about 400km from Ahmadabad to Dandi and refined salt at the seaside. Many people joined this demonstration in the middle of the march. This demonstration raised consciousness of Indian and performed an important role in the movement of nonviolence and disobedience. Thus the movement has been expanded through India more and more.


At last, India gained independence from Britain in 1947. On the other hand, the battle between Hindu and Muslim has been raged day by day. They fought and killed each other. Gandhi was terribly shocked to hear that, so he declared to fast until the fight would be over. When he was in danger of his life, the miracle came up. The fight between Hindu and Muslim was over. This amazing story are called "The Miracle of Calcutta". Unfortunately, Gandhi was assassinated by extremist of Hindu on January 30 in 1948. Many people mourned over his death and admired very much what he did. It has been more than 60 years since he died, however, he is still loved by many people all over the world because of his great accomplishment.

Dr Faust

This movie is difficult for me to understand, but I know that this movie is favorite movie.I was not able to understand this movie all.So I want to see this movie again.But it is not now, I want to see this movie in many time.

Dr. faust

I thought the impressions from which a movie was judged were unskillful talk. Because I can foresee the future talk. I think the fact that the last development of talk can be read in particular is unskillful. A true story didn't worry about development particularly, but the fascinating end was expected because it was a fiction.

A fascinating place is abundance of the unrealistic imagination. Heaven, hell, hierarchy, devil ,god. I think the setting of a theme was very good.

Dr.Faust

Through this movie, I felt again it is so terrifying to lose his or her presence of mind and can't see anything.

Certainly, almost all people can't believe his action from the third person's point of view. However, why did he make such a action? I think it is because he lose his presence of mind and can't see anything. If he had been calm, he couldn't have made such a action and fallen into a hell.

Losing his or her presence of mind and can't see anything led to fall into a hell...
I think we should take care about it.

Dr.Faust

I could not understand why Dr.Faust behaved like that. However, it was obvious that he drew ruin on himself because of his greed. As you know, greed is one of the seven deadly sins. Greed sometimes makes persons blind. If Dr.Faust could goven his greed, he would not have fallen into the pits of hell.

Dr.Faust

I didn't understand Dr.Faust's action.
If he were smart, he could select wise means. Conversely, it was not easy for him to select right judgment because he was too smart.

I was sad that he got high position, wealth, and so on for a short term instead of that he decided to give a devil his soul and admitted the torment of hell for a long term.

what I did on vacation

I was in Tokyo on vacation.I met my friend and be drinking with them at the end of the year.I was not able to sleep enough,so I cought a cold. I was not able to do what I want to do.

what I did on vacation

During this vacation, I could have good time!!

On December 26, a year-end party of the seikyo was held, and many people, such as the staffs of seikyo, professors and students, took part in the party. Surely, I also attended it.
I enjoy delicious dishes with watching many different entertainments put on.
In a game of bingo, I could get a prize. This party warmed up and many people enjoyed it!!

vacation

During a holiday, I'm doing nothing in particular. A great deal of homework of physics was being done.

Only that, I have no memory. I'm sorry.

English homework is done today.

What I did on vacation

This time, I was glad because I met many people.

I returned home, met my family and took a trip in Tokyo and Chiba.Therefore we were not living at home in year-end and New year. We were very tired from wandering around here and there.But it was a memorable trip.

Also, I could met good friends and went bowling in Hachinohe. We couldn't concentrated on doing bowling because we do is chat.

I occasionally read a book "A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens".This book was written by English. I'm going to make time and read it because I haven't finished reading it yet.

What I did on vacation

On New Year's Day, I went out for a New year's sale with my sister. When we arrived at the department store, many people lined in front of the store though it was snowing. We bought clothes and convenience goods cheap at the sale. However, we were very tired because we set out early in the morning. In the evening of the day, I and my family visited my grandparents' house. We had excellent dinner and had a good time. Of course, I received some New Year's gifts. Did you get some New Year's gifts?



Do you know that THIS IS IT(Michael Jackson's film) is going to show again from January 9 at WARNER MYCAL CINEMAS in Hirosaki? I'm looking forward to seeing Michael Jackson on the screen again.

my Christmas/New Year vacation plans

In Japan Christmas is a holiday for friends to get together, while the New Year is a family holiday, when people go to shrines and temples. In the US Christmas is a family holiday, when many people go to church even if they only go twice a year, and families get together for a Christmas dinner and exchange presents. In my family we usually have a Japanese New Year's Day but an American Christmas.

This year, though, I'll be in Japan for Christmas, but in the US for New Years'. I'll have an American Christmas, with a Christmas cake and our annual lamb family dinner, in Japan, but I won't be able to have a Japanese New Year's in the States. I'll be getting ready for the American Historical Association's annual conference, trying to get over jet lag and see a few friends (and do some research in the UCLA Research Library).



Anyway, that's why I won't be there for the next class on January 8th. I am looking forward to reading your reactions to "Faust" (or "Much Ado about Nothing" if the Faust video doesn't play correctly) here on the blog, though. I'll be checking in every once in a while to see how you are doing. Don't forget to post about what you are doing during the break, and don't forget your writing assignments. I forgot to mention that we won't have class on the 15th because of the Center Test that weekend, but I'll see you all on the 22nd for sure.

Have a nice vacation, and keep studying English.

Vacation Plan

This winter vacation, I'm going to take part in a year-end party of seikyo.
Many people who have somethig to do with seikyo will attend and many entertainments are going to be put on. I'm looking forward to it!!

Also, I'm going to go home and meet my friends. I can have relaxing time there.

However, I have a lot of homework (^^;) Probably, I can't relax enough (^^;)

my vacation plan

I want to do something in this vacation,but this vacation is only two weeks,so I can not do everythings.So I want to do two things in this vacation.

One thing is going to Tokyou and see friends of high school and carmming school.Some friends of carmming school is still in carmming school and study hard,so I want to buy lucky charms and give its to them.

The other thing is winter sport.I bought a snowboard last Wedenesday,so I want to go Ajigasawa and snowboard.I'm in a snowcountry, I want to enjoy winter sport.

Vacation plan

My vacation plan is to spend time on a hobby. Even though it's a long vacation, it isn't done in particular. So time is spent on a hobby.

It has become cold, so street basketball is resting. I'm listening to many songs at a house instead of it. Later is practice of a dance.

There isn't a girl friend, either and a local friend returns to localness and doesn't come and it would be leisure every day every day.

Several songs of fitting song is introduced in winter.


Art Of Noise - Moments In Love(original)



Ludacris - One More Drink ft. T-Pain




M.J.P - Last Day (rmx)


All music are nice sense flow.

vacation plans

I worked out two main plans for this vacation.That plans will carry out when I return home.

First, I'm going to meet my friends and seniors are high school club members.They are important to me and I like them very much! Probably, we will eat out, chat, and so on.

On the other hand, I'm going to take a trip with my family for 4 days. This trip will be the nicest my family have ever taken.
We have taken a trip a few times so far and there were a little trouble then. My brothers, sometimes I, often quarreled with each other at the tourist spots because we were too young to enjoy taking a trip.
Now, I think, we grower up than several years ago and have good sense.Therefore, I expect that this trip will give us some very happy memories later on.

I'm looking forward to executing my plans. I want to return home as soon as I can.

vacation plans

This winter, I am planning to have a party with my old friends on the evening of Christmas Day. We are going to cook sukiyaki and have a chat over dinner. After dinner, we are going to exchange gifts each other and enjoy playing bingo. At the end of the party, we are going to have a Christmas cake and sing a song. I wish that we will have a wonderful time.

Also, on New Year's Day, I and my family will visit grandparents's house. My cousin's family will come there, too. And we will have excellent dinner such as sushi, turkey, etc. After that, children will get otoshidama(New Year's gift) from adults and they will become happy. I'm looking forward to seeing my grandparents and my cousins.

By the way, have you already seen PUBLIC ENEMIES(the movie starring Johnny Depp)? I'm planning to go to the movie during winter vacation.

blog - dj oasis

I looked for a blog of the artist in which I take my interest.The artist in which I take my interest is dj oasis. When a drug is used in the past, and sees, he's a bad person.

But wonderfully, the interest to his society comes to the song for which society was criticized by the interest wonderfully. Such he's gentle, doesn't kill each other like a gangster and is the person who makes the human relations important conversely. I respect such him.

Ms. Kon who hears black music may be fascinating. It's a by-talk, but because it's discrimination terminology, black music isn't a good word so much. But I think it isn't minded to use it only between the Japanese. It's because we respect black music.

Check it out.

Blog

Do you know SCHOP@WEB?

On this site, activities of the student committee of the hirosaki university co-op are introduced.

Also, not only activities but also different planning are introduced in advance.

There are some interesting plans for you! Please check it out (^^)/

blog

I search blogs which write about cinema.These days, Hirosaki is so cold and I don't want to go out. So I'm in my house and read books ,comics, and see Tv and play TV games and so on. I want to use this spare time effectively, I think it is good to see a movies. I see a blog about movies. I want to introduce "cinema blog".

blog

COOL JAPANESE SCENE, on this blog, you can see and enjoy Japanese scene and culture. For example, beutiful scenes such as autumn colors and mountains, traditional culture such as Ukiyoe(Japanese art culture) and Kimono, tourist attractions such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese food, the temples in Kyoto, and so on. It may be fresh for you to read articles written in English about Japanese culture. I hope that you will be able to rediscover the goodness of Japan.

Blog

I wanted to find about blog of the travel, cook, winter sports, and so on when I thought that this week's assignment. Last week, I found the website of recipe, and I was more interested in the travel than winter sports.
Therefore, this time, I found blog of regarding the travel.
I introduce Photographer's Travel Diary.

This blog in English and Japanese. It load about photographs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and so on. I was made to want to visit there because that photographs were very beautiful !

By the way, I have never visited to oversea. I want to visit to Thailand because I knew that a lot of appeals of Thailand last month.
Have you ever visited to oversea? If you anser is Yes, where have you visited to ? If you anser is No, where you want to visit to?

Find a blog

This week I'd like everyone to find a blog about a topic they're interested in.

Since I'm interested in African history, I thought I should start out with that.

I googled "Africa" "history" and "blog" and found a blogged linked from the American Historical Association website. The name of the blog was "Africa Past and Present." The blog includes a podcast, or maybe it is a podcast blog.

I'm glad I thought of this assignment. I will add this blog to my bookmarks and its podcast to my iTunes podcasts.

Website

This assignment is really difficult for me ,I don't use PC and see website. But I search website which fits this assigment.

I was head from my English teacher at high school that the best way of studying english is to read english everyday. Eor example, to read a english news paper,a english book.

I want propose a site of The Asahi Shimbun. If we can see this website, we can study english and know what happen in the world.

website

My favorite website →veryfunnyads.com
A commercial fascinating to you is offered to this website.

I think we don't go down a commercial, and there are a lot of things which aren't seen, but there is a fascinating message that the one which dressed itself up was hidden much for a recent commercial. The website where such commercials were collected. Please have by all means by waste of time.

Website

I recommend Great-Quotes to you. On this site, many famous quotes, sayings, proverbs and movie quotes are introduced. Great persons left many wise sayings behind them and we can learn a lot of things from them. Also, sayings and proverbs teach us many useful lessons in short sentence.

Actually, it is movie quotes that I'm much interested in on this site. I think that movies give us human nature and many different feelings in various forms. If you interested in movie quotes, why don't you try to check them?

Website

It is difficult for me to find website, too, but I found interesting one!

It's "Famous people". On this website, you can learn about 10 famous people in history in a story.

Do you like history? If you don't like it, you may enjoy this website.
Speaking of history, you might have stereotype that history is difficult such that learn only his or her achievement.
However, you can learn not only his or her achievement but also general life in those days.
Also, this website is tales and is written in simple English so you can enjoy surely.

Maybe....this website is too headed for children (^^;)

Website

It was difficult for me to find suitable website.
I managed to find it probablly.

ENGLISH recipe(while cooking and studying) is a recipe information website.
You can know about recipes of elaborate dishes, simple dishes and so on.
This website are translated by mostly Japanese, but the recipes are written by English.
It is benefical for you to study English.

I'd like to cook as I can while I live alone. Therefore I willing to use that website.

Assignment

For this week's assignment I'd like everyone to find a website in English that interests them, and introduce us to the rest of us. I have some English websites listed by the side of the blog, under "Links" but I think you should be able to find others that interest you. Let me introduce the sites that I thought were important enough to link to this blog.

Google News can keep you abreast of the major news stories around the world. I check it first thing almost every morning to keep up with what's happening almost everywhere. You can customize it to report whatever you find interesting.

Japan Today is a news and information website. It's a little bit tabloidy at times, but it does cover the important news about Japan in English. If you're interested in news about Japan in English I would recommend both it and the Japan Times, which is also a newspaper. It's major stories are carried both in the online and print editions.

Brad Blackstone is a friend who used to teach English at Minnesota State University in Akita. Now he teaches at the National University of Singapore. He's much better than I am at both blogging and teaching English, and he uses blogs a lot in his classes. I hope you enjoy his blog.

Another blog for English classes that I happened along one day is the ALEA blog. It calls itself "A meeting point for all the students and staff who are, or have been, studying or teaching English at Yethreb School, Ben Ashur, Tripoli, Libya." It may be interesting for you to read what other students are doing in the way of learning English as a second language.

I also have links to the TOEFL and TOEIC sites for those of you who may be interested in taking either of those tests. TOEIC tests only passive skills, but is used by many businesses in Japan for appointment and promotion purposes. There is a TOEIC preparation class in this school. I also try to prepare my students for TOEFL if I can, and in fact your in-class writing exercises are intended to be preparation for TOEFL's Test of Written English (TWE) section.

Finally, I linked the class blog I created for a more advanced English class. This was originally Level 4, but we keep changing the system. I don't know if we'll be able to continue the advanced, intensive English classes much longer.

my favorite movies

As I explained in class, I didn't want to post to the blog about movies until I knew what kind of films you liked. Now I don't know what to say because you have some very diverse tastes in film. Well, so do I.

My favorite director of all time is definitely Akira Kurosawa, who directed Ran, The Seven Samurai and many other classic films. He was a big influence on such famous Hollywood directors as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He and John Ford were also fans of each other. If you haven't seen any of his films I hope you will watch some. It's not widely known, but he was also an editor, and edited his own films. He originally trained to be a painter, and thus his mise en scène is very well composed.

My favorite Hollywood director is (or was until he died recently) Robert Altman. Altman was famous for directing films in which the characters didn't read formal lines, but had to improvise a lot of the dialogue. Many famous actors looked forward to working with him for the freedom his style gave them, and I think it would have been a nightmare to write subtitles for his films because the conversations are always moving in and out of microphone range. His most famous film is probably MASH (which was made into a TV show) but his film 3 Women is ranked higher at the Internet Movie Database. That's kind of a quirky, director's indulgence film, but its being higher rated only highlights his being, like Kurosawa, a film-maker's film-maker.

Altman had a love affair with American music, which I share, and made many films in which great music is important, for example Nashville (country music), Kansas City (Jazz), and A Prairie Home Companion (Folk). In The Long Goodbye the title song, written especially for the film, is played over and over again in a variety of musical genres, from Jazz to Folk to Mexican Mariachi music.

Both those directors are dead, and while I like old movies (if they are good), especially classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane, I also like more recent films. I enjoy the films of the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, very much, especially O Brother, Where Art Thou? (which also has great music). It's based on Homer's Odyssey, which it sets in Depression Era Mississippi. I also like Roman Polanski's films (no Polanski jokes please - I know he's in the news a lot these days) such as Chinatown, Frantic, and Rosemary's Baby. I think his version of Shakespeare's Macbeth is the best ever filmed.

I do promise we'll watch a film in this class, but I don't know what film it will be. There's no obvious choice that would appeal to everyone in the class together. Do any of you have suggestions?

movie

I really like this movie "COACH CARTER".This movie is based on real story.
This movie is about high school basketball team.At first, this team is very weak,and everyone is so fool that they cann't graduate from high school.
Then Carter is invited only to make this team strong.But Carter also demand players to study.At first ,they don't follow what Carter says,but they gradually trust him and follow.
At last,the team become strong ,and they graduate school .

movie

I like a movie of discrimination against blacks, a regional conflict and a thick love romance.One good work is introduced from the inside.

The title of the movie is hotel Rwanda.

The impressed drama which drew the courage and conscience of the real hotelman who rescued people from a crisis of an enormous volume slaughter by an internal trouble in Rwanda in Africa. A star is a habitue of Stephen and Soderbergh director work and Don Cheadle. "Of father's prayer" etc., Terry George who plays an active part as a playwright deals with a scenario, supervision and making and figures a valiant figure of the man who holds the life of 1200 people heroically. Japanese opening to the public was doubted, the work in topics a campaign to collect signatures on the Internet by young people was effective, and opening to the public achieved.

We live peacefully, but an unrealistic thing has ordinarily occurred at a foreign country. Such actuality, a known work. Please see.

Movies

I like science fiction movies. Especially, I like "Harry Potter".

It is very famous movies, so all of you know this movies probably.

There are seven series from "the Philosopher's Stone" to "the Deathly Hallows", but what I have watched perfectly is "the Philosopher's Stone ", "the Chamber of Secrets " and "the Prisoner of Azkaban ".

My favorite one is "the Prisoner of Azkaban ". This movie has a scene that Harry and Hermione go back into past time and save their friends from death penalty. It's exciting and impressing for me, so I like this scene.

Do you have any scene you can feel excited or impressed in "Harry Potter" ?

My favorite movies

I especially like action movies. For example, 007 series, Jason Bourne series, etc.

First, with regard to 007 series, I like GOLDENEYE and DIE ANOTHER DAY. And I like Pierce Brosnan the best of successive James Bond.

Next, regarding Jason Bourne series, Jason Bourne is a fomer CIA agent and Matt Damon act the part of Jason Bourne. I think that Jason Bourne is very attractive because he is so cool and strong.

Actually, I also like suspense movies. For example, PRIMAL FEAR, HANNIBAL series, etc.

PRIMAL FEAR is a court drama starring Richard Gere. The highlight of the movie is Edward Norton's acting. Edward Norton act the part of a man with a double character and his acting is marvelous anyway. I think that it is worth seeing the film for once.

HNNIBAL series are phychological thriller films based on the novels written by Thomas Harris. Anthony Hopkins gave an excellent performance as Dr. Hannibal Lecter and received Academy Awards in 1991.

Movie

I'm afraid that I don't care too much for the action movie including violent scene.
But I don't hate it. I like SF action movie toward comedy.
For instance, MEN IN BLACK and Back to the future.

The story of the former is that argents are energenic to watch alien. In this movie, many star-studded cast acted. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smisth, and so on.In the second series,played by Micheal Jackson as Argent M.

In the later movie's main character are an unusual expert and a general high school student. He went to the past and saw his parents were young.


You have may seen either of them,haven't it? You prpbably would enjoy watching these movie.

Autumn

In my image, the autumn is like the spring. The reason why I think so is difficult to explaon. Infact, I don't know the reason clearly. One of the reason may be likeness of both season's wehter. Both season is proper temperature to live for me. So I like the spring ,but I don't like the autumn. Indeed, there are many delicious fruit such as apresimmon and a pear in the autumn, and colored leaves are beutiful. I don't like coldness,and the autumn's next season is the wintera,so I have to live to be frightened in the autumn when the cold winter comes.

When saying autumn, it's a fruit, isn't it? I like an orange very much. A book is being read and a netsurfing is being done while eating an orange.

I did that, and also spent autumn of this year.

A book read a novel called "fake". It was the novel about which it lie in a lie and was a very deep book.

A book called" history in an American slum" is being read now. I'm interested in old society, so when having a fascinating book, please inform me about old society.

Autumn

Speaking of autumn, I remember the best season for reading.

However, I don't read books so much (^^;)

The reason why I chose this topic is, I'd like to have a custom of readind book.

A professor of this university said, "It is decided in your university student whether you have a custom of reading."

Therefore, I have decided to start reading something at the best season for reading.

However, what kind of books should I read? Do you have anything you recommend?

If you'd like to have custom of reading, too, you should miss an opporyunity, the best season for reading.

Apples

Talking of autumnal fruits, we find persimmons, grapes, pears, apples and so on. I like apples the best of all autumnal fruits because apples have some advantages as compared with the other fruit. First, apples are beneficial to your health. As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Second, you can use apples all kinds of food. For example, put a slice of an apple into a salad, grate and put a piece of an apple into a curry and so on. Third, you can process apples such as apple butter, hard cider, cider, apple cider vinegar etc. Therefore I think that an apple is not only delicious fruit but also useful one. Do you agree with me? And what is your favorit autumnal fruit? Please tell me.

Autumn

Autumn have a lot of appeal. It is said that the autumun, when people have a good appetite, the best season for reading or sport, and so on in Japan.
Also, you can see a beautiful scene in autumn. For instance, you may feast yours eyes on the colored leaves of autumn or autumn flowers.

This time I tell topic of regarding autumn flowers.

This is a picture of common cosmos . A common cosmos indicates the universe and means "beautiful decoration" in Greek. Some of them smells chocolate！

This is . It symbolize sternal youth and immortality in china.

In Japan, the festival of chrysanthemum hold. That festivals in every place in Japan are the special feature of autumn season.

The Japanese plum grass are seen frequentiy. Some people use it to "ikebana" and enjoy the moonlight.

Thus, there are many autumn flowers.You may feel the advent of autumn when these flowers.

Autumn (fall)

Autumn, or fall, is an interesting season. As with Spring, the weather is changing, but in fall it is getting cooler, not warmer. The days are getting shorter, not longer, and in fact they are now shorter than the nights. Much of the world is now going to sleep for the winter, and things in general slow down. Everyone is getting ready for winter.

One of the nicest things about Autumn is the fall leaves. There are only a few areas of the world where the climate and the soil are such that leaves in general turn bright colors, especially yellow, orange and red. One is the Tohoku region of Japan, where acid soils and temperate climate combine to produce these fall colors. Another is the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, where similar climates and soil also produce similar effects with the leaves. Pennsylvania attracts many tourists with the largest such forests in easy reach of people from other parts of the country, but New England, with especially poor soils and rugged countryside, is even more famous for its leaves. Canada is so proud of its fall leaves that they have made the red maple leaf a national symbol and even put it on their flag.



Autumn is also the season of the harvest. Food is abundant and harvest festivals and thanksgiving holidays are common. Americans celebrate their Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November, while the Japanese holiday of Labor Thanksgiving Day is also in late November. Fresh fruit is abundant, and there is plenty of other food available, too. While most people prefer Spring or Summer, there are many good points to Fall as well, and many people enjoy this season like any other.

I miss the cider we used to get in Pennsylvania in the Fall, sold in gallon jugs. It would turn hard in a few days, and you had to drink it before it went bad. The flavor was really good.

free topic

Do you know Kankurou Kudou?
He is a scriptwriter and an actor. He is called by the nickname of "Kudokan".

I like his dramas and movies. I think he is one of the best scriptwriter in Japan.

I knew him for the first tme when I saw the drama "Kisarazukyattuai" .

I had not see such an amusing drama like this.

I think his most popular movie is "Pinpon" . This movie is about table tennis and the original story is comics.This movie replicates theworld of comics.Of course, this movie entertain people who do not know orginal story.

My free topic

What sport do you like ?
What kind of sport did you play ?

I belonged to Japanese archery club when I was high school student.
I think that you have little chance to watch the Japanese archery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPQx-B0OCQ
That link is the tournament of Japanese archery 2008.

For my club members, this sport was a battle with the self.
That practice was very hard for us, but we was able to cultivate us patience.

You can enjoy taking part in or wacthig a sport, or whenever.
It won't be lomg before the winter season set in.
I would like to go skating this winter.

MAROON5

Do you like music?I like it very much!So,today I want to recommend my favorite rock band MAROON5 to you.MAROON5 is a Grammy Award-winning rock band from Los Angeles,California.Their debut album Songs About Jane was released in 2002 and made a great hit all over the world.Of course,they are very popular among young people in Japan:gave two performances in 2004 and 2008,appeared on television and performed in 2007 and some of their songs are used in a TV commercial.

MAROON5's songs are so cool that I want you to try to listen to their songs for once.I'm sure you will like their songs.

My free topic

I thought a lot about what I wanted to post here for my own free topic. I finally decided on a musician I like a lot, but you probably haven't heard of. I heard of him through the international media and on the Internet, but I couldn't get his music until buying music on the Internet became possible. He's just not that popular in Japan - at least yet. My daughter, who likes J-Pop, thinks he's just too weird.

"Dad, that music is so weird!" She told me.

"Hey, I love Jazz and I love Bluegrass. How could I not love this?" I responded.

Béla Fleck plays music that is an intricate mix of Bluegrass and Jazz, both very indigenous American musical genres that combine African and European instruments and traditions. Music sites like iTunes don't know what genre to put him in, and sometimes his different albums are in different categories. Needless to say, he doesn't get much air play. He's too country for the Jazz stations, but too jazzy for the Country stations. But I do run into other people who like his music.

Japan has both Jazz and Bluegrass musicians. In fact, even before I met my wife and thought of moving here, I had an album of Japanese Bluegrass music that I used to play for friends. And of course everyone who knows anything about Jazz has at least heard of Sadao Watanabe, probably the most famous Japanese Jazz musician ever.

Here's a Béla Fleck clip from YouTube for you to enjoy:

My free topic

I like playing and watching figure skate!!

I think figure skate has become more popular recently. Are you interested in figure skate?

My favorite figure skater is Brian Joubert!

This picture is Brian Joubert.

He is from France and He has participated in the Olympic Games twice. In 2007, he got a gold medal in a world champinonship.

His motto is perform a quadruple jamp.

A quadruple jamp is to spin four times in the air.

It is the hardest jamp in figure skate.

He says,"If you are real figure skater, you must perform a quadruple jamp!"

He is so deeply attached to quadruple jamp. I think the strong faith of his led to his achievement.
I looked up to him!! What do you think of him?

poppin'

I'm dancing. The genre is called "poppin'". Sound is expressed to play muscle of a body literally. It's better to see an animation more than the explanation is heard." poppin'" is the break dance loved from the past. Yourself's, sound can be expressed as you prefer, so as you have your individuality, it would be able to be a fascinating dancer more. If you interested, lets talk.





The person who put on striped clothes is the dancer I like very much. He's Korean, a handle name, "poppin' ds". His expressive power is free and the tedious dance on the textbook street isn't made fascinating. His home page is put.

his HP:poppin' ds!


I'm also playing other street basketball. Street basketball is the basketball which removed a rule from basketball. The work one considered is used, so the individuality is also asked this about. When this is also interested in you, I and talk, oh, I shoulder.





cool!!!!:D!!!!!!

My hometown Nakadomari

I will introduce my hometown Nakadomari!

There are some famous tourist spots.

This is one of the famous tourist spots which is called "Nanatsudaki."

Some tourists come here every year and drink its water. I have drunk the water before.
It is very fresh and cool. Some of them put some water into a bottle and bring back.

This is famous for its beautiful sea. Many peolpe go swimming and go camping in summer.

Also, beach soccer tournament is held here every year. Many people take part in it.

I usually enjoy swimming in summer (^^)

My hometown, Misawa

I'm from Misawa City in Aomori Prefecture.

It is located the Pacific of Japan in Aomori.

This is the picture of a science museum , "Misawa koukuu kagakukann".

We can see many models of plane and thre are displays, facilitiies, and so on.

The Hotoke swamp was registered the Ramsar Convention in 2006, this is picture of bard, "oosekka".

This is "Ogawara lake". It is the eleventh largest lake in Japan.

There are camping facilities, I can recommend that families go there.

Some other place in Misawa have joyful facilities and beautifl nature.

Moreover, a lot of events hold every year. For instance, the flying festival and Halloween festival. Many people can take part in these events.

If you finds an oppotunity, I want to visit to Misawa. (^-^)/

my home town Tokyou

I want to show you two things about Tokyo.

First thing is the Tokyo Tower.
This picture is the Tokyo Tower.This tower is 333 meters in hight.We can climb up this tower on stairs.This tower is illuminated very well, so this plase is popular for a date spot.

Second thing is a bronze statue of Hatikou.
This place is known as place where people meet with.

I think this place is not good for waiting people,so many people use this place for waiting people that we take a trouble to meet wiht people.

my hometown Gosyogawara

My home town Gosho

gawara is quite famous area in Aomori. When I say on the map, it's in the location like the top.

The station is such feeling. It's the very small station compared with Hirosaki, but everyone is gentle and the station employee is kind. There is a shopping area where I'm degrading around the station. It was very conspicuous before, but a shopping area was just obsolete by establishment in a supermarket.

But there is also something which doesn't change from the past. That's a traditional entertainment in an area and local specialties. Local specialties are introduced this time. There is a lot of one which used apple mainly, but local specialties are also doing pottery making as the one which dried and dried rice cake as rice cake and "tugaru kaneyamayaki". " The tugaru kaneyamayaki" is very beautiful, and there is elegance very much. I have wine, jam and juice in local specialties of apple. My grandfather is growing apple and is making juice and jam. The depth different from an over-the-counter one and the sweetness can be tasted. I think the place where I play is a place good for a little but elegant person in the country.

My home town,Kuroishi

Various traditional events and festivals are held during the season in my hometown Kuroishi.

The cherry blossom festival is held in spring and many street stalls are opend there.We enjoy beautiful cherry blossoms with eating and drinking.

In summer,Neputa festival which one of traditional events take pleace.There are from 60 to 70 Neputas parade the street at night and entertain spectaors from children t0 adult.

Also,the autumn colors are beautiful.Many people visit Nakano maple hill which famous for maple viewing.It is illuminated at night anda the view is getting still more beautiful.

We have a sale which is called Makkoichi in February.All sorts of goods are sold at a bargain price in addition people who buy a thing on the day can get a free gift.

Thus there are many enjoyable entertainment in my hometown,how about coming to Kuroishi for once?

My hometown, Grand Rapids, Michigan

I don't know if you know it or not, but both Professor Carpenter and I were born in Michigan in the United States. I was born in Grand Rapids, a small town in the southwest of the state. I moved away when I was young, before I started school in fact, and I've lived a lot of places (they say Americans are always on the go), Los Angeles mostly, but my birth is still registered in the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids.



Grand Rapids is a very religious town. In fact, Wikipedia has a whole category about religion in Grand Rapids, rather than just a single page about it. When I was born my father taught at Aquinas College, a Catholic college in town run by the Dominicans, one of the three great intellectual orders of the Catholic Church.



Of course Grand Rapids is very modern now, and has changed a lot since I was born there, but there is still a lot of traditional Americana there.

blog vol.3

Turning fall, we can saw red leaves when we go outside. I like fall season very much.Of course, they said that some people feel sentiment(? or sad?) in fall, I feel it, too, but we can have a good time to eat tasty food in fall.

There are many fall's vegetables and fruits at super market. Especially, my favorite food is pampkins. I ate a Halloween lunch with my friend at Hirosaki university's restaurant today! We were very pleased because we could ate two slices of punpkin and a cup of punpkin's soup. And I want to cook with my friends by using punpkins until this year.


So I'd like to ask you to your favorite fall's foods. What fall's foods do you like?

blog vol.3

All sorts of things happen to us as long as we live. Of course, life is not all beer and skittles. Everyone has a bad day sometimes. Everyone makes mistakes now and then.

"When you feel low about failing, what would you do?"

As for as I'm concerned, it is better for you to dismiss the problem from your mind because you can't win them all. We dread failure, however, we can learn a lot of things from bitter experience. As the saying goes, failure teaches success.

blog vol.3

This homework couldn't be understood a little. Does some free topics be proposed and an exchange of views be done each other by a student? If I make a mistake in understanding, I'm sorry.

Entertainers are collected from the prefecture where a club in Hirosaki is various this week for my topic, and there is an event to which a dance and a song are announced.
One is dancing, too, I'm here, so it's very pleasant that people's various dances can be seen.
An event name is "unity gate". The "denega" in the back of the "tohoku jyosi tannki universuty" from eight o'clock Saturday, this week, so, I think if it's leisure, you should come to play.
The new-style flu is popular, everyone, please be careful. c ya(^^)/