Good Bye

 I learnd how to write a paragraph or essay in this class. I wrote many many sentences. At frist, writing English sentences was tough for me and I made many mistakes about English writing skills. However, I acquired ability to write better English sentences. I'm glad to see you and I think I have to make more effort to write a good English paragraph. Have a good summer vacation, thank you.

My Club

 I belong to Igo Club. I think go is the most interesting game and I have played go when I was a junior high school student., so I decided to join Igo Club in this university. Yesterday, go meeting was held in Mutsushinpo. I participated in the meeting for recording games. Some of my seniors played the tournament and one of them placed fourth. I want to say to him "Congratulations." His skill of go is top-class in my club and he is much stronger than me. Although I was busy studying for final exams, I was glad to take part in the meeting.

Amazing Grace

 Before the class, I knew this song but I didn't know that how this song was made and that this song was sung all over the world. Why is this song so famous? Is it because that this song is a hymn? I think that this song is readily-accepted for many people and taht the lyrics have something important significant for them through their own experience.

FEBRUARY ONE

 I watched four students' act with courage in this video. They learned thinking of Mahatma Gandhi or they protested against Jim Crow by non-violence. I was impressed by their courage. I thought that the black citizens were given civil rights and that the first black president was elected in the United States as the result of effort which brave people like them made.

The Sound Of Silence

 When I was a junior high school student, I heard this song for the first time. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel formed Simon & Garfunkel and they sang this song. This is the song of the beautiful sound. I hope you listen to this song.

Internet Penetration in North America

 Most of North American people use Internet as compared with the other people. According to Internet Penetration in North America Marth 31, 2011, 78.3 percent of North American people use Internet. The rate of World Average is 30.2 percent and the rate of Rest of the World is 27.7 percent. Both of rates are lower than the rate of North America. The rate of North America is about 50 percent higher than the rate of World Average (Internet World Stats).

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats14.htm

"Wherever You Will Go"

 I have English ⅢA class. The other day I knew a song in the class. The song is "Wherever You Will Go" sung dy The Calling. This song was released on July 10th, 2001. However, this song sold well in the fall of that year. Why do you think so? According to Mr.Murayama, who is my English ⅢA calss teacher, "The simultaneous terrorist attacks happened in the fall of the year. The words to the song was superimposed on the grief in the tragic accident." The song is sang, "If I could, then I would, I'll go wherever you will go." I think this song is powerful and makes listeners encouraging.

 If you want to listen to the music, you can listen in this site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAP9AF6DCu4

Summer plan

 I'll take a weather forcaster test in the summer vacation. I'm interested in weather, so I would like to try the test. It is very difficult test and pass rate for the test is only about 5 percent. A great majority of people who passed the test had failed the test many times. In other words, few people pass the test on ones' first attempt. This is my first attempt. I want to get the feel of the place which I take the test and to understand how difficult I pass the test. However, of course I'll do my best.

My major

 My major is global environment. I'm interested in weather, so I entered this university to study it. When I was a nursery school child I liked to see weather forecasts in the newspaper. I cut up the weather maps from the newspaper and I collected it. I came to be interested in weather as a result of it. Global environment is the one of the most remarkable problem, especially global warming. Global environment supports your life, so you shuold think more about this problem.

My favorite movie

I introduce the movie, "JUNO".  JUNO's theme is "A pregn oancy of student". This theme is very serious, but I felt positive when I finished watching this movie.
It was at ⅢA English class that I first watched JUNO. JUNO was used as a teaching material. I borrowed it for study, and watched throughout the story. After the class, I had bought JUNO.
It will advantage you to learn English. Would you watch JUNO?
I'm worrying about link. Is link to JUNO's Trailer movie done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=K0SKf0K3bxg

My favorite movie

 My favorite movie is Harry Potter series. I was hooked on this movie when I was a junior high school student. However, I don't watch all series and I don't read all stories. I stop watching "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I stop reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" before coming to the end. I don't have a chance to watch or read. My friends always say to me that I don't have to watch all series. Why? If I have a chance, I will watch the other series.

This is the first film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone" trailer.

My hobby

 I enjoy go as my hobby. It is also called igo. Go is a board game. The rule is very simple, but go itself is complex. However, I think it is very interesting, so I am hooked on go. I enjoy playing go in the club or on the Internet. Go is popular in East Asian countries such as Chine, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. I hope that the number of people who enjoy playing go increase further. It is said that go develops your creativity and playing go helps you make your life plan. Why don't you start playing go?

 You can know about go in this site.
http://www.usgo.org/

My favorite season

 My favorite season is autumn. I have some reasons. First, autumn is the best season about climate. It is not too hot and not too cold, so it is very comfortable. Spring is similar to autumn in terms of climate but I'm sensitive to spring pollen. Second, I think autumn is the best season for doing various things. As is often said, autumn is the best season for reading or sports. I'm not good at reading but I'm willing to do sports in this season. Third, you can eat various fruits in autumn. I like peaches, pears, apples, grapes, persimmons, chestnuts, and so on. They ripens in autumn, so I am looking forward to eat them in autumn. Therefore, I like autumn.

Music.com

I would like to introduce this website. It's "music.com". This website is a Engilsh music information website. We can listen to some musics on this site free. Music is essential to our lives to relax!  Let's search your favorite song or singer and listen to it!

This is music.com' URL: http://music.com/

FFFFOUND!

Today, I'll intoroduce a web site in English. It is " FFFFOUND! " that show us many interesting images on other different web sites. You can look at the pictures, and if you clicked it, you will　be recommended same kind of the picture. So the images link to source sites, simply you can see and enjoy it. if you are interested in art, the web site is good for you.

FFFFOUND! : URL http://ffffound.com/

Real-time Earthquake Map

 I'll introduce Real-time Earthquake Map. It is a website, which provides information of the earthquake happened all over the world. You can know the place, magnitude, time and depth of hypocenter of the recent earthquakes. USGS have the website running. USGS is United States Geological Survey and it is a scientific agency of the United States government. Scientists of the USGS study biology, geological science, geography and hydrology. They also observe volcanos.

 This is Real-time Earthquake Map.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Beautiful flower in Hirosaki

Hirosaki city is famous for its cherry blossoms. Every year, many people visit it to see them.
The cerry blossoms in Hirosaki may be the most beautiful around the end of April till the begin of May.

If you didn't go to Hirosaki Parkthis year, you should visit it next year!

I took a picture of the cerry blossoms at night in Hirosaki park last week.

A foreign species

This spring ,I joined a Field science club.In the club,We capture insects or frogs, crabs...some small animals, and we often make a specimen.So I have a chance of thinking about living things.

Foreign species bring many serious problems to us and animals. For example, in Okinawa and Amamiooshima, mongooses from South-West Asia are affecting rare animals in the island such as an Okinawa rail. In Guam, Brown tree snake from Australia ate endemic birds, and 8 of 11 species died out. Foreign species damige not only animals but also us. Raccoons from North America and Coypu from South America spoil crop. Foreign Grasses are one of the causes for our hay fever. Thus, foreign animals have bad influences, and I think we should be careful about living things when we travel abload.

Communication of alcohol

Do you know the word "Nominication"?
This is the coinage meaning communication using alcohol.

It is used at a company too.  If people enter the company, maybe there are some events, for example, the sociable, year-end party or new year party.  These parties are used the way of communication.
Surprisingly, the cost of these are gave the part of grant (at partial company).

I think this system is good for adapting to life of company.  It appear the important aspect that the human relations is very important fopr society.

But at university, is "Nominication" important for university student?  Of course, alcohol is one way of communication for student too.  However is become problem causing the acute alcoholic poisoning like May 7th at the university of Hokkaido.  So if we use alcohol for communication, we have to know the risk of alcohol, not only good point.

Minami Fujieda 

Earthquake, on 11th March, 2011

 The day I went to Aomori Airport by plane with my mother during the morning, and we got to Hirosaki Station and joined my father. After having lunch, we went to Hirosaki University for formalities of Hirosaki University Coop. While we were in Bunkyoushokudou for it, the earthquake had occurred and caused power failure. However, we continued the formalities because the earthquake vibrations were long but weren't strong. We went to the hotel by cab after the formalities. Traffic lights didn't turn on because of power failure. After we had supper in the dark room, we spent the whole night around the cold hotel lobby. The next day, I was surprised at the suffering caused by the earthquake to watch TV in the cellphpne shop. We went to Aomori Airport by bus in the afternoon and we could get home in Osaka at night. I had an uneasy, unusual and once-in-a-lifetime experience.