What's my major?

I'd like to talk about my major:) My faculty is medicine and I major in nursing. So I want to be a nurse after graduation.

First, many specialize class start from first year in university in faculty of medicine. I think this is difference between other faculty. In addition, we are always very tired especially when we are first year because the building of medicine is a little far from main campus. So we couldn't eat lunch with relax. Anyway the university life of student in medicine at first year is really busy:-(  haha

Next, student in nursing has practice in hospital from second year. It's really important experience for people who want to work in hospital. But to take the practice, we have to pass some exam. So we need to study about medicine and nursing for taking  practice everyday.

I'm second year now, so I don't know everything about nurse. However I wanna work hard in my major and graduate nicely:D

How's your faculty?
Bye--

What I'm majoring

I'm in the facul ty of Education and major in English Education.
There are some typical classes in English department.

Firstly, we study various methods and approaches for teaching English. For example, communicative approach is the way to teach English through the communication, not writing down or reading. That approach is focusing on the sounds; Listening and Speaking.

Secondly, Literature and English Grammer.Former one is almost translating the literature and we study various English expressions and the meaningful words.Latter one, English grammar is analyzing the English structure.We focus on that structure and study why sentences made of these words orders.

What is/was your majors?
I hope to hear that!

My hometown

What is your characteristic of your hometown?
I'm gonna introduce my secondary hometown, Misawa in Aomori.
Misawa city is located in the east side of Aomori prefecture.
There is American Airforce Base in Misawa, and that's why, some events related to that base are popular.Let me tell you 2events.

First event is called American Day, held in May every years.There are a lot of shops that sell the famous product and foods of each states. Visiting the shops there will make you feel as if you were really visiting those states. I believe you can enjoy having the foods that we don't have ordinary.

Second event is Air show, held in September. The famous airplane, blueimpuls and thunder bird entertains many people got together from all over Japan. Air Base is specially opened to ordinary people, so you can walk around the base and enjoy it.

Those two events are the main characteristics in Misawa city.
If you have any chance, why don't you visit Misawa?

Self Introduction

Hi.

I'm Lay, studying English education in Hirosaki University.
Let me introduce myself.

I was born in the city located in the east side of Aomori prefecture, so I speak not Tsugaru-ben but Nambu-ben that has typical phrase, DASUKE in the end of the sentence, instead of DAHANDE spoken by people in Tsugaru area. Why don't you listen to Nambu people speaking when you have chance to visit there. You do realize that you are stepping into Nambu area. I hope you'll like it.

My favorites are Drums and Vehicles. It seems there is no relation between those two thing, but I think 1 common point there; Sounds. Drum has various kind of sounds, for example, brilliant sound of cymbals, heavy sound of bass drum, and so on. I think people can enjoy listening to those sound and won't be tired of doing so. Vehicle has its original sounds and characteristics,too and I like it very much.

That's all for my introduction today.
I hope some of you have similar thoughts.
Thank you.

My hometown

Hello guys! Now I want to share with you about my loving hometown. My hometown is Towada city which is famous for Lake Towada. There are many beautiful places to visit. The view has changed by 4 seasons. It is really beatiful. But it takes a hour from my house to Lake Towada. Actually I have just ones time visited there. When I was a child, I got on board a ship with my family. You can enjoy getting a ship if you want.


And also, resent years The modern art musium in Towada is popular. It is in center of the city and many people visit there. I visited there last summer with my friend. It was very attractive and interesting.

When you visit in Towada, I recommend you visitng these nice places. Please come and enjoy!

Thank you!

My loving town Itayanagi:)

My hometown is Itayanagi town. I have lived in Itayanagi since I was born. I love my hometown because this town has a lot of attractiveness.

Firstly, Itayanagi is very famous for apple producing place. Actually, my grand parents are apple farmer, so I can eat apple almost all the year around. As you look around Itayanagi,  you can see a lot of apple field. So people call Itayanagi, " Town of Apple s, Itayanagi". Because of this, Itayanagi has strange regulation called "Regulation of taking a bite out of apple". In Japanese, りんご丸かじり条例. This has started since 2002. I think it's really fanny, but this connects our "Health". Apples are good for our health and biting apples also can build our jaw up. So most of Itayanagi citizen love apples, of course me too. 

Secondly, Itayanagi has beautiful  scenery. I'd like to introduce about apple flower. Most of people think apples are yammy  fruit, of course it's true. However apple flower is really beautiful and cute. I want many people to know apple flower's beauty. I think the beauty can be better than cherry blossom. I like seeing apple flower, but the flower drop soon. So I recommend strongly to see apple flower in Itayanagi on this  May!
Finally, I like people in this town. I think Itayanagi is great town that connection of people is really strong.

That's all:D
Thank you--

My sweet home town HIROSAKI

Hey guys, how have you been? I really feel like spring is coming!  That makes me so happy ;D  

 Today I would like to introduce my sweet home town “Hirosaki”, which is famous for the best place for Ohana-mi!

Ohana-mi (in English; cherry blossoms viewing) is a Japanese traditional event in spring, and many Japanese people go to parks to see beautiful cherry blossoms.

I would like to say you SHOULD go to Hirosaki park in spring! (especially during late April to early May.)It’s a must!;D You will be super surprised at the view of Hirosaki park!

This is a picture of Hirosaki park ;)

 

 

There are 2600 cherry blossom trees and you can see it everywhere in the park!

And you can see adorable “Mt. Iwaki”, which is called “Tsugaru-Fuji” in Aomori prefecture, with some cherry blossoms as well.

  In Hirosaki, not only spring but also other seasons you can enjoy some festivals such as Neputa-festival, Winter festival, and so on.

  Please come to Hirosaki and I hope you will enjoy so much!

 

Thank you,

 

 

Michiko Nara

 

 

 

 

 



My name is Michiko Nara ;))

Hey guys! How r u?

Really sorry for my late messages...! I had some troubles and I couldn`t upload this self introduction on this site. 

However, finalley I could make it thanks to Prof.Philips yesterday! So  I`d like to introduce myself ;D

 

My name is Michiko Nara and I`m senior in Hirosaki uni this year.

I was born in Hirosaki  and I`m native of Tsugaru direct<3

 

I went to study abroad to New Zealand last year, from Feb. to Dec. When I arrived there, I had no idea to understand what kiwi people were saying.(they spoke English pretty fast!!!! ) Even though it was really difficult for me to take a bus at first, gradually I got used to NZ life. New Zealand is famous for its variety of the countries of immigrants, therefore there were many people who were kind-hearted and hospitable. I could meet this kind of people a lot and I could understand how much I didn`t know even about my country, Japan. Need less to say, it was truly precious time in my entire life.

 

My hobbies are making sweets, cooking, listening to music (English songs, Korean songs, Chinese songs…), singing at karaoke, and eating sweets:))

I like riding motorbike as well, and I go to uni via it.

Recently, I prefer learning Chinese so far! I`m studying it hard now in order to communicate with my lovely Chinese friends who I met in NZ,  ;) It`s pretty difficult though, so interesting!

I really love English as well in terms of its pronunciation. It sounds me like music some time, and I want to speak it fluently.

I`m really looking forward to studying with you guys and learning how to write down good academic essays from Prof. Philips!

 

Thank you for your reading my introduction, see you all in the class on Friday:)

Cheers,

Michiko Nara

 

 

My introduction!!

Hi, guys! My name is Rena Tsushima. I'm second year at Hirosaki university now. I've been living in Aomori prefecture since I was born, so I'm a native speaker of TSUGARUBEN.

I'm studying nursing at the university. So I'd like to be a nurse after graduation. In addition, I've wanted to work in the poor contry like the Africa since I was in the junior high school. Because of this, my dream is to hep peoplle who can't take medical care.

My hobby is watching Korean TV programs and listening to Korean music. Because of this hobby, I can understand and speak little Korean language. Also I'm interested in languages. I had been studying Chinese for a year during my first year at the university. I like interacting with foreign students, too.

I went to New Zealand to study for a month. New Zealand was really beautiful country and I had quite good experience. However one month was really short time. If it's possible, I'd like to study abroad for a year, especially at my love country South Korea:-)

Thank you and nice to meet you:D 

Introduce about myself

  Hi. My name is Tsuzura Kikuchi. I would like to introduce about myself. I was born in Towada city which is beautiful city. It is quiet famous for Lake Towada. Most of people visit Lake Towada in season of colored leaves, because it is really beautiful.
   I am interested in foreign language and sports. I love learning interesting language especially Finnish. It is known that Finnish is difficult and not similar to other European language. However I gess it is easy to pronounce for Japanese. That why when japanese speak Finnish, we are praised by native people. If you are interesed in it, I recommend you! And also I love playing sports. I play basketball and soccer. I am a member of futsal circle in my university. Nowadays it is quiet popular that girls play soccer. I have played it for 4 years, I have started when I was a high school student. My favorite soccer player is Honda. Because he is stoic and strong.
  In conclusion, I have a thing which I want to try this year. It is I want to try a new language and a new sport which I have never tyied.


Thank you!

Free Topic

Hello,everyone!

I read many books last year.
So I talk about my favorite books.
I like Kotaro Isaka.
He is a novelist in japan.
Many of his works are made into a movie.
His stories have alot of characters.
Each person is involved each other gradually.
Therefore,critics say his stories are Sculptured group plays.
In his work,I like 「Accuracy of Death」,「Mariabeetle」,「a pleyer」.
If you have a chance,please, read them.

Free Topic: Differences between the U.S. & Japan

Hello, everyone! SORRY I'm late to post. Actually, I have to write many articles about movies, vacations etc.... But I have nothing to write about them :D

People often discuss the differences between the U.S. & Japan. They say that it is the food, languages or something. Surely, they are clear examples of differences. Both of them are totally different. However, how can we explain the characteristics of both nations' people? I think the differences are in the robots. We can know their characteristics by seeing their robots.

First, watch these video and compare them.


The first one is the "ASIMO" of Honda in Japan. He can walk around and avoid human (he recognize the difference between objects and human)! And it looks cute :) The second video shows the robots of Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics is famous for its "Big Dog." Its form is unrefined and machanical, however, they have great performances for transferring.

Considering both robots' concepts, I guess that Japaneses think the robots as the partners of human beings. The developers of Japan are seeking the dream in the robots. On the other hands, Americans think the practical use while they make the robots. In addition,I think that American developers think the practical use as the 1st priority in the field of not only robots but also other things. Take the Internet, for example, the U.S. tends to think the technology as a part of militarily technologies.

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Winter vacation Movie and Free topic

I watched a movie in my vacation. The movie is "Tales of Vesperia The First Strike".This is based on video game named Tales of Vesperia. The hero, Yuri retired knight in the first of the game.In the game, the reason doesn't know, but this movie reveals the reason.

Tales are role playing games. There are a lot of series. They have been 18 years since Tales have been sold.Good characters, good stories,and good systems, these are good points of Tales. But, words can't describe all good points. If you have a time and money, please try this games.Thank you.

Free topic (about rowing club)

Good evening everyone!

Did you finished all tests and reports?

I still have some of them.

So, my fight for the credits continues...

I talk about my rowing club life here.

I belonged to the rowing club when I was a high school student.


The sports is very very hard.

For the race, I trained everyday.

It is a normal one-day menu to go and down stairs ten times, to run the city about 8km and to row 5km with rowing machine in case of  field training.

In case of training on the river, I have rowed the boat many many round trips.


In game, The players must keep rowing some kilometers.

They can't relax even for a second while rowing , because a bit of miss stops their boat, it means they will lose.

This scene is rowing!!





You can look rival's boats if you see aside.

Very very very exciting!!
A win-lose situation made me feel thrilled!!





My rowing club's life is my treasure.

Thank you for your reading.

Good night.

Mathmatical Joke

   Hey guys. It`s Makoto.
   It is so crazy to make chaofan (fried rice) as a rice ball. It will collpse soon!
   There is a topic abput children solidiers in this blog. I wonder why children soludies are preblrem especially.
   Generalliy, mathmaticis is sereous. But it is not always true.
   Why the mathmaticians like national park?
That`s because there is natural log.

   

Free Topic

Good evening, everyone.
Today, I'll talk about my high school.

I graduated from Hirosaki Minami high school last March.
It was 50 years anniversary of the school last year.
I spent all of my high school life there.
It was very comfortable because the school building is new and beautiful.
Please look at these pictures.

 

 

Thease pictures are in my school.
One is a corridor and the other is stairs.
I walked there countless times.

My high school days are really enjoyable.
They are full of memories in the classroom, music room, and even in the toilet!
I had a lot of important encounters there.
I won't forget the precious memories forever.

Finally,this is a picture of  my brass band club members.
Can you find me?

Thank you for reading.
See you tomorrow:-)

Erika

Free topic

 Good afternoon!
My name is Youichi Maeda.
I'm very sleepy now because I didn't sleep at all yesterday.
 Today, I talk about AKB48. AKB48 is an idle group. They sing their song and dance.
There are many cute girls of them. I recommend Yuki Kasiwagi. I love her.
She is very very cute. Her songs are very good and beautiful.
Her songs also make me happy,so I listen to her song all the time when I feel sad.
 AKB48 produce the hit saler song every year.
I like KOISURI FORTUNE COKKIE the best of all their songs.It is very funny for me.
I want to go AKB comcert some day. I want to shake hands with Yuki Kasiwagi and hagwith her.
Thank you.

free topic

Good evening, everyone.
I have finished almost tests!!! But I still have to do two tests and one report...
How is your tests or reports?
I hope all of you get all "Tanni".


Well, I want to write about my dormitory where I've lived since last March.
                          


It's "Hokumei-ryo".
This photo is too much nice. It seemed like a ruin of school when I saw at first time.
But "Once you live in a place, it grows on you", I think.
There are some events and wonderful boarding students in Hokumei-ryo.
Welcome party for new students, dormitory festival, farewell party for graduating students and so on.
Because all residents are male, I cannot place pictures of all events....
You cannot understand why? Then ask other residents, if you really want to know the reasons...


Many people say they don't want to live there.
But I have known a lot of goodness of Hokumei-ryo.
So Iwant to say to them "Why don't try it?"

I am here now, of course.


Good night.
yuya terui

Free Topic

Good evening everyone.

I'll talk about "Yosakoi"
Yosakoi is a folk of Kochi prefecture using "naruko" and the word "yosarikoi" changed it.

There are many Yosakoi teams in Japan.
In Hirosaki University,there is one team  called "Hirodai Enbujin" and I belong to it.
I'm the tenth generation of it and take charge of choreography.

Now,I can dance about 9 pieces.

This is the picture which we danced in Maeda arena on December 1 last year.
We dance this piece of music the most in various events.
The name is "Gouka Saijin"(煌華祭陣).
I like it the best.

This team is "Soutenhiryu" ,which is in Aomori city.
I like the dance of this team very much.
It is very cool and wonderful.
I think this team is the most strong team in Aomori.


Yosakoi is impressed with the heart of many people.
This year,we'll take part in some events.
For example,on the Star Festival and the School Festival.
So if you have free time,please come and watch our dance!

Thank you and good night.

Free topic

Hey guys <3
How is your exam, is it good?
For me, next week is gonna be BLACK WEEK..nooooo.
I am gonna have to take tests everydayyy...
Honesty, I cannot wait two weeks from now.

Anyway, free topic.
Hmm.... I am still wondering what should I write about.
OK, I will write on movie that I wanna watch because recent topic was "MOVIE".

First, I wanna watch again " The Great Dictator".
The reason is because the actors spoke English little bit faster than the present cinema, I cannot hear their talking clearly some parts. Also,  the last speech in the movie was so amazing. His talking made all people change at least me, I thought.

Second, it is "Invisible children".
Most of you might not know this movie, I think.
This is on child soldiers documentary movie which was created by 3 young Americans.
Because I wrote thiesis on child soldiers in Uganda when I was third-year-high school student, this movie attract me so much.



Good luck your examm ~