My Hometown

My hometown is Odate. This city is famous for the place where The Hachi was born. It is well-known as a faithful dog, and its story was made into a Hollywood movie. So its bronze statue is put up at the station.

And there is an interesting festival in February. It is called “Amekko ichi”. Amekko means candies. This festival comes from old histories and now it has a tradition which eating candies in this season make us healthy.

Odate is too small and rural, but there are kindly people and much nature, so I like there.

Paris

My hometown is the capital of France, Paris. I was born there, so I can tell this is the most wonderful city in the world. The architecture of some areas is unchanged since the Haussmann’s work in the middle late 19^th century; this is when the government decided that the capital of France should stop looking like a big garbage. The streets became cleaner, the buildings more convenient to live in and of course more beautiful. Apart from the buildings, Paris is full of historical monuments and museums, so Paris is never boring. Plus the public transport are so convenient you can never be lost in Paris, everywhere you go you can find the subway or a bus which can take you everywhere you want in Paris in 30 minutes at most. The reason is Paris is a small city. Contrary to London or New York Paris has kept its size unchanged since the Haussmann’s work; the suburbs around Paris are bigger that Paris itself, so it is even possible to just walk around while visiting Paris and see everything that there is to see. So I can only encourage you to go to Paris but be prepared because everything there is really expensive, but probably not more expensive than Japan.

I would like to introduce my hometown called Wörlitz. Wörlitz is a small village in the middle of Germany in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt. The closest bigger city is Dessau, which is famous for its Bauhaus-architecture. Together both towns make up the "Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz" which is a popular place for tourism. The main attraction of Wörlitz is the "Wörlitzer Park" which was added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 2000. The park was laid out in the second half of the 18th century and has become famous ever since. It's purpose was to enable people of every social class to find some relaxation and eduction. In general, Wörlitz's foundation was around 1000 years ago. Nowadays, there live around 1500 people in Wörlitz, whose main source of income is the tourism branch. Though it is a small town, it is really worthwhile vistiting.

Welcome to English IIIB class!

We have a lot of new students this semester. Welcome to the blog and make it yours. Please introduce yourself, and remember, anyone on the Internet can read what you say here. Not that they will, but they might. (~_^)

I'm a professor here at Hirosaki, and one of my hobbies is computing, so I experimented one semester with having students write a blog together. It worked, so here we are.

This is a picture I took of my self on the computer, and then edited, when I was fooling around to see what I could do.

Please introduce yourself and show us a picture of yourself if you feel like it.

I forgot we have another class!

Sorry about that. I knew it was our last Friday, but I forgot that next Wednesday is a Friday as far as classes go.

Rest assured I will have something to do during class. You can write your weekly homework about anything you want.

Since someone asked about why people got angry when he played Soul Music, the answer is that Soul Music took several stylistic features of Gospel Music. Gospel Music was originated in the 1930s by Reverend Thomas Dorsey. Many people felt that Soul Music was sinful because they felt that Gospel Music should be used only in church to praise the Lord, and that using the Gospel "sound" for secular purposes was blasphemous. What they didn't know is that Reverend Dorsey was simply using techniques that he had used in his previous career as a secular musician when he wrote Hokum Blues.

Here's what Wikipedia says about Ray Charles and the origin of Soul Music:

Ray Charles is often cited as inventing the soul genre with his string of hits starting with 1954's "I Got a Woman". Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style.

Here's a YouTube video about Reverend Thomas Dorsey, "The Father of Gospel Music."

The movie "Ray"

Ray played the piano and sing a music very well . I can't do either.So I think he is great because he is very well enough to do in front of the people.
The movie has a lot of music.I don't know its name but I think it's very good.Next time I will finish watching the movie.I'm looking forward to watching it.

about the movie "Ray"

I did’nt know about Ray Charles at all until I watched this movie last week. I think his music is very great and makes us fun, but it was not good that he got lovers except for his wife! I worry whether he could separate from his lovers and quit a drug or not. By the way, I could not understand why people got angry when Ray played gospel music. I want to listen to his music more, so I’m looking forward to watching the movie tomorrow.

About the Ray Charles

Ray Charles was born in 1930. When he was seven , he became vison-impaired, but he maked up soul music in 1950s. One of his masterpieces, "Georgia On My Mind" was accepted Georgia's song.

The real people in the movie

Of course Ray Charles was real, but many of the other people in the movie are famous, too. For instance David "Fathead" Newman: But Quincy Jones is even more famous: According to Wikipedia he is

an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations,[2] 27 Grammys,[2] including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide,[3] and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.

It's hard for me to think of Quincy Jones not being old enough to get into clubs, but everyone is young once. Only the lucky ones get to be old. Here he is on the Colbert Report:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Quincy Jones
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

Ahmet Ertegun was a real person, too, and did a lot to promote American music, not just Ray Charles:

I think I should say something about Jazz, Gospel, Soul Music and Hokum Blues, but maybe I'll do that after you've seen the rest of the movie.

My high school

My high school is Tsukidate high school. It is famous for hockey club.They participate in a national convention.I once watched their game at regional competition.They were very strong.I heard they practice almost every day.I don't know they are now participate in a national convention.I hope they do.

My High School

I graduated from Aomori Minami Senior High School. There are foreign language course and comprehensive course. I belonged to foreign language course, and we learned not only English but also Russian. In my course, I went to New York, Boston and Pittsfield. It was very exciting experience. I think my school life was very important to me.
Thank you!

about my high school

I have a lot of memories of my high school and I’m telling you two biggest memories here. First, my high school’s baseball club was very strong. It won the south Hokkaido championship and went to the Koshien Stadium when I was in the third grade. I also went to Koshien because I was a member of the brass band club. I will never forget cheering our team in that stadium. Second, I went to Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Okinawa on a school trip. I enjoyed seeing some beautiful tourist sites and talking with my good friends. In my hometown, it was uncommon to go to Okinawa on a school trip because another high school students go to Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima. But I really enjoyed in Okinawa so I’m proud of my school trip. I have so many memories of my high school and cannot tell everything. Even having studied hard to enter this university is a fond memory now.

My highschool

My highschool is Ichinoseki-daiichi highschool.This has plactice of cheer song.It is done by cadre of cheering group who wear "bankara"."Bankara" is clothes which is school uniform that is claped out advisedly. I felt very fear when I saw cadre of cheering group who wear "bankara",but I am proud to continue this custom.

My Dream

As mentioned before, I love Hanshin Tigers. I have two dreams about this team.
One is to lend a hand for the Tigers to win the pennent. What the Tigers win the pennent makes us happy and smile.
The other is to work for the good of Hanshin Tigers; for example, a female announcer, a salesclerk, or a ground keeper.
In conclusion, I want to work for the Tigers.

My summer vacation

I went to Hokkaido this summer and climbed Mt.Asahidake.I belong to hiking club so I went to there and climbed it. It was sunny that day so I enjoyed climbing but the weather turned bad as I climbing.The view at the top is bad because of fag.I think it was unfortunate but I was happy to climb safety.

my favorite music

Recently, I’m heavily into jazz music. Especially I love "The Girl From Ipanema", "My Funny Valentine", "Waltz For Debby", and so on. My mother also likes jazz and she recommended me to listen to them, so I began to listen. I borrowed some jazz CDs from my mother. It is interesting for me to hold hobby in common with her. When I was in high school, I played the clarinet. Although I don’t have it now, I want to play jazz with the clarinet if I get it.

My summer vacation

I went home in Iwate becouse of the Bon holidays. I met frends for the first time in four years. I was very surprised that they hadn't change a bit. We talked about the future, so I think that I should be tenacious. I'm looking forward to seeing them again.

a recipe for miso soup

ingredients: tofu―100g, seaweed―10g, miso―20~24g
how to make: 1. Remove the salt from seaweed by in water and cut them.
2. Cut tofu into small cubes.
3. Boil water and put broth into a pot.
4. Put seaweed and tofu into a pot.
5. Stir miso into a pot.
6. Arrange soup on a bowl.

Ingredients(a portion for one person): Okra(one)
Natto(one)
Cherry tomato(two)
Chiken(20gram)
Udon(100gram)
Noodle broth(your choice)

How to make: 1, Boil noodles so they are soft(about 8minutes)
2, Boil okura (about 30second) and chiken (about a minute).
3, When noodles are boiled, you remove this sliminess by water.
4, Arrange food decoratively on a plate

This menu is very easy and can make quickly. I think that this menu is perfect for hot day.

July 18th ,Japan won in the World Cup.This news gave us hope to rebuild after a big earthquake.
I felt emotion becouse of latent energy of Japan.
Japan has never won to America until now,but she did't give up to the last.This lead the victory.I was interested in Women's Soccer.