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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

hi,

Yesterday after school, I played bowling with circle members at Machida. We played total of 3 games. It was really fun. We were divided into 4 groups and competed the total group score against other groups. My group got 2nd highest scores and got prizes. Some members started going home after 9pm because they wanted to be ready for the soccer game. So we threw balls more times than our turns to fill up their scores. It was really great that I've got to know more about members. There was a guy who just came back from study abroad in the US. He had stayed closer to where I had lived so I was happy to hear and talk about the city. Plus I started to miss my life in there.

E-book

I write about E-book.e-book is very useful.
   First, it is so portable. If you download e-book in your cell phone or PC, wherever you are, you can read e-book.
   Second, e-book is cheaper than ordinary book. E-book is reasonable. It doesn't cost money because of not using paper and ink.
We should use e-book more.

E-books

Good evening.
Recently I'm very busy because I have five tests next week. Not only tests, but also book report! I have to study harder. I want to be a person who don't have to sleep much time..

E-books is very interesting system, I think. Everyone who uses e-book can read many books everywhere. Now, we have to bring heavy text books to college because we use them in classes. However if we use e-book, we have to bring only mobile phone. It's very convinient.
But, I don't agree with using e-books. I like to read paper books. Reading thick books has a sense of achievement. And e-books can make people's eyes have poor vision.
I think we should use this tool properly.


>>Mayu

I also watched last game! It was very exciting.
Every player were really good. I can't stop crying because I was really moved all players' brave figure.
I want to appalaud them:)

Hello

I'm writing my book report, but I haven't finished yet...
Yesterday, I watched a movie, "In Cold Blood", which was made in 1967 based on the book I chose for my book report. All scenes were monochrome and it made this film more horrible. As the original book, the film showed how horrible and weak human is and the words in this movie was impressing.

FIFA World Cup

Did you watch the soccer game, Japan versus Paraguay, yesterday?
It was so exciting and I felt nervous.
The Japan team lost a game so I was so regrettable but I think it is wonderful that the Japan team could advance to the finals and was accepted into best 16.

I hope that after 4 years, the Japan team advance to the finals again and become best 8.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

E-book

Hello! Today the game of Japan versus Paraguay will start at South Africa!!!
I really want to enjoy it.

By the way, I would like to talk about E-book.

Recently, technology is amazingly developing day by day in any kind of areas such as medicals, industrials and genetics. Because this speed of developing is too fast, we can not catch up completely. Even if you get accustomed to a new technology, when you can be accustomed to it, a newer one will be spreaded. It seems a rat race to me. Therefore I do not lloke it so much.

These development of technology sounds wonderful but I never think all people will use it because of the cost, influence on eyes and addiction on it.
Newer technological thing is always expensive. Moreover using these electorical instrument will lead to health problem such as eye disorder. Furthermore, user has tendency to use it all time and has less oppurtunity to communicate with others.

We should focus on these negative side of it.

E-book!

I forgot to write about this topic!
E-book is interesting! I really feel technology is developing endlessly.
However sometime I 'm be afraid of developing everything next to next.
To invent or develop something means to change the new one.
The old things are threw away and the new things are admired.
People tend to forget the attractions of old things after appearing the new things.

Maybe many devotees of books love paper books. I think paper book is easy to skip pages, mark something you want to write and better for eyes than E-books.
On the other hand, E-book is more cheap and light than paper books, kind to environmental and portable thing.
Both of book are great! Yes, we should use the each book cleverly at that time.

E-books

E-books – sounds interesting doesn't it?? Reading other peoples comment on the blogs, I think it is the time now to launch properly and promote the E-books throughout Japan and make the "microwave phenomenon" happen again!!
My dad works for Sony, and I knew about the gadget since long ago. The problem for Sony is… They've got the cool hardware but the software doesn't catch up with the product. PS3 is a typical one, its absolutely great and its limit is not only restricted to game use, there are several ways in which to maximise the use of it, such as access to the Internet, use it as a TV, the next generation piece of machine is a great product but there aren't enough “big names” in terms of the software. I think this applies to the E-book as well.
However, now publishers more aware of the new style books, I think within two or three years, E-books would probably be the main supply of books. If we could use the E-books instead of the heavy and ugly looking text books, not only would it would be good for the environment, but it'll look cool, and show it off to the public so there would be more students applying to Aogaku!

David Copperfield

Good morning everyone!! Summer vacation will start from 6 August. But before summer vacation, we have tests and before tests we have to finish book report. I already have read the book and I have watched the movie, so I'll start to write report.
Anyway, do you know the movie of David Copperfield? The main character who name is David Copperfield is played by Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel is famous actor because he played the main character in Harry potter series. He played David Copper field before he played Harry Potter. So, I can watch him when he is so young. He played very well since he was young. I was surprised. I think he born to be an actor. I recomend the movie. Anyway, I got to go. See you.

E-book

I think e-book is very convinient tool. Especially, it is appealing that we can go to school without many heavy textbooks. In addition, if we use e-book, we don't forget textbooks. Because every textbooks is in your e-book. So, e-book is very useful for students. However, this is just my personal opinion, but I don't like reading letter on screen. Because reading on screen ruin our eyes. So, I know that e-book is very useful tools, but I don't think that e-books become used everyone so easily.

World cup's misjudgement

Hello!
Now, FIFA World Cup has risen very much. However, it has also various problems. This tounament happens many misjudgements.
Because of the mis judgement, we can say that England team lost. It is unfortunately for them.
Today, Japan and Paraguay is going to be held. In the last game, Keisuke Honda took an active part. I want to do their best!!
Let's go to early morning practice "Lacrosse"!!

E-Book

Hello!!
I'd like to write about E-Book. E-book is a very useful and convenient tool. It is able to download some novels. If we have E-book, we can bring to carry some books. In my opinion, we will become easy to live a daily life by the E-book was put on the sale. If we have the E-book, we can read many books only the E-book. According to the survey, the E-book is going to be utilized in the class. In the future, everybody will have E-book. However, because of the E-book, I think that the book store will decrease. I’m interested in to be read book, so I’m very conscious of printed book’s outcome. This phenomenon will happen in Japan, because iPad released in Japan. I'd like to read printed book.

Book report

Hi, everyone!!

Did you finish your book reports??

I have not finished it yet.... I chose "Wuthering hights". It is so difficult for me.
It is very long story, and the relations between each character is so complicated!!

Even though I watched the movie of it, the content was very different from the book's.

But, i'll do my best because it is the last book report for me!!

>>yuzuru I'm really looking forward to watching soccer game tomorrow!! I do believe Japan will win!!

Japan vs Paraguay

Tomorrow, the world cup game of Japan and Paraguay is going to be held.
Japan played a great game against Denmark.
The nation of people is hoping for Japan's win.
Paraguay is a great team.
But I think Japan has a great spirit now.
I hope they play well and win.

E-books

We read about an article about E-books last week.
E-books are books that we can read on computers.
I think it is a very handy tool, but I like to read books by paper.
I rather like paper books because paper books are easy to read in train.
Another reason is that seeing a screen for long time makes my eyes tired.
Good evening, every one.
Now I’m gonna talk about e-books.
In our class, I understood how useful they are, but I don’t think it will be used by a lot of people. It is because, you know, it costs to buy the computer. I think it does much more than buying all paper books we need to prepare for our classes, don’t you think? And the biggest thing that makes me dislike it is that it hurts our eyes. I’m proud of my eyes that don’t need contact lenses, and I can’t imagine the world becoming dim. It is more important for us to take care of our health than convenience.

About e-books

Today, i wanna talk about the e-books.

If you have e-books, you do not need bring many heavy books all the time because e-books were insered in your mobile phone.

i think they are very convenient, however i do think they have also demerits. Relying on e-books would make your eye sights bad. Also, you would not be able to get the old smell of paper books!! i really like it.

i think the most proper way to use e-books is to use them sometimes but not to depend on them too much.

Sleeping Time

Recently I am always more sleepy than before.
Because I do homework and do other things every night, I don’t have many time of sleeping. In the bad case, I sleep only three hours or four hours. That I work part-time job three times a week makes it worse. As the result of it, I slept for many classes. Moreover there are some reports instead of final exam. Therefore my time will be lost more. I want full rests to sleep more!

E-Books

I want to talk about e-books.
I think that e-books are good thing for the current busy people.
It is very convenient. A paper book takes up space in bag, when we carry it. On the other hand, e-books are easy to carry and read by mobile phone. Now people who read a book decrease, so it would be good result if people who read increased by e-books.
However I prefer paper books to e-books because of liking to read a book, turning over paper. Therefore I don’t want that paper book disappears by spread of e-books.

Monday, June 28, 2010

0628

Today is the worst day for me in this months. I cannot say here, but I cannot do anymore.
I did my Media Report now, I did my best.
I want to write this blog completely, however, I cannnot write anymore.
I don't wanna think of everything.
I will sleep. I'm sorry for my short blog.
Good night.

E-books

I think E-books are very useful. We can read any books at anytime by just having an E-books. Able to download novels on E-books helps us to access to the book easily. If we have E-books, we don't need to go to the book store walking around to look for the book. The companies which produce books don't need to print on the papers so they may provide them at lower price. Also, if they use less papers, the less trees are cut. So it is good for the environment. For me, when I buy a book and finish reading it, it goes to a shelf and stays there forever. I feel it's wasting... same thing for magazine that people buy every month. I'm not a good cleaner so they are filling up the space in my room.

E-books

I think e-books has both advantages and disadvantages.
First, it is easy to carry many books. So, we can read them anytime anywhere.
Moreover, if all books we have are e-books, we don't need bookshelves.
If your room is small and has no space to keep books, you don't have to be worried about it!
You can keep books in your PC or iPad.
Isn't it amazing?
On the other hand, e-books has bad point.
For example, if e-books spread more, paper books will disappear. E-books is cheaper than paper books. So, almost all of people will buy only e-books. it will have great damage to book stores and publishing companies.
That is why I think that it is difficult to genetalize e-books soon.

>Yuri
I'm also going to watch a game, Japan vs Paraguay!!!
I'm so looking forward to watching it♪
To be honest, I haven't expect Japan advances to the final tournament.
But, now, I hope that Japan defeat Paraguay.

E-books

If syllabus, attendance and text are in iPhone,
it's very useful, because I have two reasons.
Firstly, I can always have many infomation
and I don't forget text in class. Secondly, it don't
need some paper, so it leads to eco. we can save
nature. I think our department also should use iPhone!

>Chinami
I have been to Los Angeles last summer!
There were many nature and people were very friendly!
I liked taking a walk around the sea in California.
Have a nice trip!

>Yuri
It's very important not to accumulate homework!
But it isn't easy. I always take care of my homework.
I'd like to talk with you about study abroad tomorrow.

>Haruka.K
Oh, really? I'm very surprised to hear it!
Let's talk about it tomorrow by all means!

E-books

I knew E-book first in the last class. I like reading books and paper book because we can write down what we think in the blank. Therefore, I preferred the paper book to E-book after reading about E-book. However, I knew E-book can write in some letters with ease after the research about it. And my anxiety has disappear. I think it very useful to use E-book instead of paper book because E-mail play the role as same paper book now. If the price of the digital book has been down and the variety of the book has increased, I would like to utilize E-book by all means.

music life

After enrollment to the university, I began electric guitar affected by some of my friends. Though I have few chance to play with someone because I don't belong to any circle, I got opportunity to team music band with some friends at last. This is because recently my tension has been increasing longing for performing live as a band member. We gathered to decide the tunes we will play and the band name the day before yesterday. Finally, we couldn't choose the name in spite of spending about three hours... And I have a problem. The problem is that everyone ask me English in tunes or band name because they know I' m majoring in English. Therefore, I must study English more harder!

My Hope For Tanabata

What's the day on 7 July?
The answer is... Tanabata no hi!!
In my dormitory our manager will held the big Tanabata festival.
Japanese usually prepare a bamboo grass and put the paper written their hope to its leaf.
I wrote my wish:
I wanna be nice body and beautiful lady with blond hair like British.
....ha! ha! ha!
Recently I often watch a lot of foreign movies, so the frequency of seeing blond hair girls is higher. Due to this effect, I am longing for a blond hair actually.

World Cup

Tomorrow! It's the big game!! The Japanese A-team are facing Paraguay. Paraguay is ranked the 30th team in the world by FIFA, whereas Japan is positioned 45th. They are strong, fast, individuals are highly skilled, and they work as a great team. However!! Seeing the game versus Denmark, there is always a possibility left for Japan to success! Although Korea lost in the knockout league, I hope Japan will record the best possible results, and if they win against Paraguay, we have the chance to compete Spain or Portugal in a serious national level football, the World Cup!! Everybody sleep well tonight and lets watch the big game tomorrow!

Oversleeping!

Hi, everyone!! Enjoy your life?
I told someone that I always take 3 hours to go school.
I get used to this life.
But, recently, Fifa has began, its so exited.
u know that it started from midnight.
So I must woke up untill 1a.m.
I know its not good, but i can't stop.
Anyway, i wait next Japan's game for pleasure!

About "E-Books"

Hi everyone. Recently, I consider I try to take TOEFL IBT. So, I bought a text yesterday. However, it is very very difficult for me, especially Listening. I'd like to study abroad in a university life. So, I try to do my best.
Anyway, I read the article about "E-Books". I think E-Books is milestone. Even if you don't have enough money to buy a book which you want, by using a E-books, you can easily read in your computer or cellphone. Japanese people, I think are unlikely to read books or novels. They might be reluctant to buy and spend money on them. But thanks to advent of E-books, a lot of people came to tend to be interested in these system. On the other hand, book industry suffer from selling books. If all people read E-books, it isn't necessary to exist.
But I think E-books is interesting and must contributing to our future.

Meiji Shrine

Good morning:)

I went to Meiji Shrine in Harajuku yesterday.
I guided some people from foreign countries. Man who I guided first is from Brazil, so we really enjoyed to talk about World Cup. Another man lived in Kanagawa for 4 years, and he is an English teacher in high school. So he gave me some advice about learning English.
I was very happy to guide them.


>>Ranko*

I'm also going to go Canada this summer!
I'm really looking forward to going there and studying abroad.
Which part of Canada will you go?
Let's talk about each other's plan♪

Tokyo is better than the countryside.

My hometown is north of Ibaraki.
There are beautiful sea, a few mountain and even river in my town.
How blessed I am! My hometown have many kind of natures and I can go by walk wherever I want although I was a child.
So I feel happy to born in my hometown and I love there. Therefore I really don't want to come to the university in Tokyo.
However I'm in here.
At first time I always said, Tokyo is good for sightseeing, I know, but not suitable for living!
Yet I am actually satisfied with my life. Tokyo is the center of Japan, and we can get a lot of choice to get jobs, find friends, go shopping, play with my friends. It's so convenient and stimulate a university students like me!
Now I really happy to experience the city life in my youth.

kinematograph

I write about the movie, Kinematograph.
The setting of this movie is 19 centry, because a color film was invented 20 centry.
The story is as follows; An old man try to invent a color movie. But, he can't invent a color movie. He repeats trial and error after another.However, one day , he comes up with the method of making a color movie thanks to his wife's advice. He starts making a color movie.But, he is absorbed in making it and he can't notice her illness. Though he succeeds in making a color movie, she die.
This story is very sad story. The author tell us we sacrifice something to get something.
This movie is so beautiful!!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

E-books

Good evening. Two days ago, as everyone knows, Japan won the World Cup game! I woke up at 3 a.m. and watched the game. I was sooooo exited! I'm looking forward to watching the next game on Tuesday.

Next, I will write about the article about E-books.
I have never read E-books, but I know them. I heard that we can read books with iPad. I think this is a good and convenient service because people don't need to carry books with them. However, if E-books increase more and more, paper books may not be sold at all. This is one problem. Book stores and used-book stores cannot continue running. In my opinion, it is better that we can read only some books on the Web.
Thank you for reading:) See you again.

E-books

I think E-books have a lot of merits. First, we don't have to carry heavy books anymore. E-books will enable us to carry thousands of books! Second, it doesn't have to be printed, so it needs no papers. It is so good for the environment and I think it will contribute for protecting limited resources.

New Family

On Friday night, I went to a drinking party with members of my ex-co-workers at my part-time job. There is two my seniors and one of them told me he was engaged:) It is very greatful things, but also I thought we were already an adult making new our family.Therefore, I was pleased with his success,but I felt saddness too.


To change the subject, I am going to go to watch a game, Japan vs Paraguay!!
I did not watch all of the game, Japan vs Denmark because it was too late to watch as a relay broadcasting on TV. However, the game will start p.m.11, so I can watch it. I am looking forward to watch the game:)

See you next time!!

I had run yesterday!!!!

Good evening! I'm sorry for not updating yesterday. Because I was very tired:(

The result was ordinary time for me. To my sadness, I was beaten my rival, but it was very good experience. There are a lot of problems to improve my running. Therefore I'll hang on harder than before.

E-Books

E-books give us a chance which we read books. The more E-books spread, the more we can read. Therefore I agree that E-books spread in Japan and the world.
For Japanese, it is so convenient because we have to carry many books about with us to use in class. Moreover stations are jammed with commuters in morning so by using E-books, we can read books in train.
I don't like reading books but I seem that E-books make me read books. That's why I think that I want to use E-books as much as possible.

twitter

Hello:) I will talk about Twitter.
I registered in Twitter last month because I needed to use it for the activity of the student organization which I have joined. I just registered and did nothing in Twitter still recently. However, I started to use it about two weeks ago. There are some friends who also use it and I can see their mumble. It is interesting to see them and mumble myself. I can communicate with my friends on the Internet. There are many sites called SNS such as mixi, facebook and of course Twitter. These sites are amazing but they are quite common for us now. I think people cannot live without technology.
Is there someone who uses Twitter?? If there is, please follow me♪

>Ranko
It is wonderful to go to Canada! I went there when I was in the second grade in high school. I studied at local high school and experienced homestay and people in Canada were all kind. That's why I like Canada very much:) Enjoy yourself in Canada! Please tell me details after you will come back to Japan.

FIFA World Cup

Hello!!
Did you watch the soccer game, Japan versus Denmark, on TV?
Of course I watched it and so excited.
I was happy because Japan team led to best 16.
However It was a pity that Nakamura couldn't play.
That's why I hope he take part in a game next time.

On June 29, Japan face the Paraguay team in the finals. I want the Japan team to win.

Bananafish

Hello!!!
I did my homework in this weekend and reading report was a little difficult because I have a lot of opinion and want to mention many things, so now I am distressed how to make my reading report more brief and understand easily.
I agree with Ranko.It is not good to accumulate homework.

>Ranko
I also plan to study abroad during summer vacation!!
However, I still think about where to go. Now, I think Britain or Los Angels.

Useful Site!

On 25 June 2010, Japan beated Denmark 3-1.
I was so surprised!!!
Recently, during the class of IE writing, our teacher, Hardgrave teach us the useful site, fifa.com!
It's very useful because we can check the result and score and players.
I think that the media such as this site makes World Cup heat up more♪
I especially pay attention to Tulio(Tanaka Marcus Tulio).
Do you have any remarkable players?
Anyway, let's cheer Japan!!

Ranko>
I'm also going to go to LA this summer.
I don't know so much about Canada.
But I have a good image to Canada. (There is wonderful nature... )
After summer vacation, please tell me about your memory in Canada.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Study Abroad

I'm going to go to Canada to study abroad this
summer vacation! I'd like to go to Canada,
learn culture and sight seeing. So I study English
to improve English skills, because there will be a
placement test! I listen to radio, read books and watch
TV. I'm looking forward to going to Canada!!!!

Have you made any plans for summer vacation?
If you have, please tell me by all means.

>MIHO
I really know that.
Our department have a lot of things to do.
I believe that this effort will be useful in the future.

Good Evening

I did my homework all day long. I finished
book report, listening report and reading repot!
But I have a lot of things to do. For example,
really English and media report. But I'll try to do
my best. It's very bad things to accumulate homework.
So I reccomend everyone do homework as soon as possible!

>Haruka.K
I watched the game on TV!!
It was very interesting game, wasn't it?

0626

Good evening! I would like to talk about the Japanese TV drama, titled "14 sai no haha".
This title means that the young girl has a baby. The main character is a student of junior high shool, and she fell in love with a boy, who is 15 years old. They loved each other seriously, and when she realized the existence of baby she decided to give birth to a baby. The two family were oppose to it, but her decision was firm. The girl had a lot of heavy difficulties, even the boy aparted from her because of his mother's order. However, she could overcome all of them and had a fine baby. The story ended then, but their story is to be continued.

It is a very great TV drama, let's watch it at least once!

Friday, June 25, 2010

I'm very nervous now..........

Good evening! I'm very nervous now. Because I have a athelete meeting of track and field yesterday. Although I practiced very hard, I'm worried about a lot of thing, for example whether I can run in my established time or not, I can defeat my a rival or not and so on. However I don't waste my effort that I did hard by now, so I wanna try to do my best!!!!!!
I will update my blog to let you know my result yesterday.

i Phone4

On 23 June 2010, iPhone4 was on the sale in Japan.
The body is thinner than normal iPhone.
There are some specialities of new iPhone.
First it has the 5 million pixel camera with flash.
Next, the design of iPhone 4 is completely different from old one.(The body is made of glass and stainless steel.)
It has ability to make a longer phone call than old one.

I have been interested in iPhone, but I didn't know that iPhone4 has so many useful functions.
These days, some friends use iPhone and enjoy using it.
I envy them, but at the same time I'm a little worried about handling it well because I'm not good at using computer and I think downloading application seems to be difficult for me. So, I'd like to gather enough information before I buy iPhone4.
If you bought it, please tell me both advantaged and disadvantages.

World Cup

Good morning.
Did you watch the yesterday's game of soccer?
I came to Fuchinobe last night, and stayed at my friend's home to watch the game.
We really enjoyed it. Last game was so exciting! Japan won Denmark by 3-1.
All players were really cool. Especially, I like Kawashima. I think man who works hard to do something is very cool.
I'm looking forward to watching next game.

Have a nice day:)

Airplanes

Viva SAMOURAI BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Next time I want to go HUB or something to watch it.

Today I'd like to show my most favorite song lately.
The song is called "Airplanes" and this is by B.O.B featuring Hayley Williams.
The sound of piano is so beautiful and lyrics are also good.
Please check it out!
Hope you enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU&feature=fvst

The Kinematograph

This story is in nineteenth century in Europe and the old couple lived. The man was really struggling to invent the color on films in his small factory and the woman supported him but he didn't notice that so the relationship between the couple didn't go well. He completed his invention but at the same time the women fell tuberculosis and passed away. And finally he noticed the importance of his wife and really regretted. But she never came back.
The future of the story, I think, the invention will be famous and the woman also will prise as a co-worker because she really supported him.

it is sad story but I was really moved. From this movie I recognize the importance of family because they supported me even when I don't notice. I want to cherish my family more.

21th post Kinematograph

I will write about the film we saw last week.
I too think that the setting is based on the early 20 century because of the timeline where the old man makes his invention.
It's a real pity his wife becomes dead at the last scene...sometimes I think it isn't fair god doesn't reward us even after we pay a high price. I think for the old man his wife meant everything for him and I think he would have let his wife go to hospital and also have the money and would even give up all he had done, but because they spent too much time for their invention I think she missed that point.
After the movie I think the old man would lead a very sad life. Argh...reality is a pain.

CASH!!!

My parents finally sent me my monthly allowance two days ago! It was so hard having to live off 250 yen for a week...I can't believe I'm still alive! Today, I went shopping for groceries. The inside of my fridge looks spectacular with vegetables, meat, and drinks! My plan for tonight is to read my book for the book report until three o'clock because thats when the world cup game for Japan vs. Denmark starts! I'm so excited to watch the game and I hope our team plays well!

>hirokazu
How many students from foreign countries were there at JET?? I wish I was there, I miss talking to people in English! I love the fact that those people are willing to learn our culture and language, and becoming friends. Glad to hear you had fun :)

Kinematography

The short film, 'The Kinematograph' was set right after the beginning of 20th century when such thing as color was not invented on films. The main character was frustrated at the start of the story because he didn't want to publish his film without colors but he couldn't think of a way to add color. However he got really excited and commited to his work after his wife made a suggestion. He couldn't spend much time with her thus he didn't realize that his wife suffered from tuberculosis. Right after he completes his film with colors, his wife dies. His invention spread through the town, but he realizes that he had nothing left now that his loved one is gone for good. I think that in order to create an invention, people must sacrifice something. In this movie, for example, he sacrificed his time he could've spent with his beloved wife.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Good Evening

Hello. On Wednesday, I went to JET, the language of Japanese in Itabashi.
There are a lot of foreign people such as Chinese, Korean, Spanish and so on. I didn't go this kind of school so I was very nervous. However, once I went into the room, they welcomed to me very kindly. So, then my worry and scare went away. While I chatted with them, I noticed that the value of thought wasn't so difference than I thought. After the class, I and my Japanese friends went to eat lunch with these students. It was very very fun ! I was surprised they knew more than I about Japan. If I have a chance, I want to go there again.

kinematograph

Hi everyone!!
I would like to talk about the film we watched the other day.
I think the setting is around 19th century to 20th century.
The old man tries hard to put colors in his movie.
His wife supports him and acts cheerful in front of him even though she doesn't feel well.After all, when he finally acomplishes putting colors in his film and runs down to show her, he finds his wife lying on th floor. She died.
I was very moved by this film. As Mr.Armstrong said, the animation was beautiful.
Actually, I think the main character of this film is the wife. She cared so much about her husband and supported his dreeam despite her illness.I could tell that she loved him so much.I think his invention becomes famous all around the world, and I think that was what his wife's dream too.I thought it was very charming how the couple tries togther to acomplish a dream.

Football!!!

Hello!

I try to stay awake tonight because the football game Japan VS Denmark will start!!!!!!
I hope Japan win! I hope Matsui Daisuke and Honda Keisuke show us excellent performance.

I want to enjoy it!!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

hi,

I'm reading Animal Farm for my 2nd book report. It is interesting to read and easy to understand the each event in the story since it was written using animal characters. This novel is an allegory story of Russian Revolution so for my researches I need to know well about Russian Revolution. But since I never learned about it, it is difficult to understand the relationships of the leaders and contents of their each "-ism". When I'm done with reading it, I hope I can link the each event in the novel to the each event that actual happened in Russian Revolution.
kdoi>
I like both ways. I do read the book first then watch its movie. Or, I watch the movie first and if it is interesting, I read the book for more detail. I don't mind the order:)

Book report

I chose "In cold blood" for the next book report.
It was written by Truman Capote("Breakfast at Tiffany" was also written by him), and it is a non-ficton novel.
It is interesting to read, bacause most of this book is based on interviews he had with criminals.

The Kinematograph

Hi everyone.
Today, I'd like to talk about "The Kinematograph".

I guess the setting is about 19th century,in Europe.
The old man tries hard to put colors on his film, and also his wife tries hard to support her husband, though she dies bacause of tuberculosis.

The film ends when the man successes in putting colors on his film.
I guess, then, the man also goes to heaven and lives with his wife forever.
It is kind of sad story, but I think it is beautiful and full of love.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Museum Of Boston

Last saturday I went to Roppongi
to see Eoropean masterpieces from the museum of fine arts, Boston.
There were many people than I expected.
I waited to enter the museam for twenty minutes.
These painting drew by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jean-Francois Millet, Auguste Renoir, El Greco, Edgar Degas and so on.
These were beautiful! amazing! wonderful!
It was greatly worth looking them.

My future

I am also worried about my future like MIHO...

Maybe I will major in English Literature because I like these novels like the book written by Oscar Wild, Jane Austen, T.S. Elliot and other famous authors.
And also, I am interested in the criticism since I learned it in the class by Prof. Tomiyama.
Recently I study it.

However I can not think about my future because there are a lot of things which attract me.

As a first step, I decide to make effort for my major.

Amazing!

Hello! Still hot day....

Yesterday, I watched a soccer game Portugal VS North Korea.
The score was 7-0, Portugal won.
I have never warched such high score game in soccer. I was really amazed with it.

Until the World Cup finished, I will be still short of sleep.

Half way through

Hello everyone, is everyone good?? How’s the second book going?? I've read half of it and the books getting really exciting so I’d probably finish reading it within few days.
It is always said, read the book first then watch the movie. Does everyone agree to this point? Books are always better than movies, it’s the original, and the story’s got more depth. Is it so?? I've seen the movie perfume and it’s just so attractive! It’s thrilling, stimulating, full of human ego, as well as it being ironic, a definitely deep piece of story. Absolutely amazing!! Yes, if I knew if it was such a great story, I would have wanted to read the book first, but anyway. If the movie was so outstanding, the book must be even better!! I’m so looking forward to reading the rest of the book.
I missed last Fridays IE3, did I miss anything important?? People around me are all sick! I've still got a sore throat, and I feel dull. The weathers making it even worse… Well anyway, let’s work hard till we finish the second book report! Because then, comes the… NOMIKAI!! Yeah?

Homework

I finishd my homework.

I got tired......

In our department, we have to do lots of homework. It is really hard, but I believe someday my hard work will lead to my future!!

Now I am thinking of my major and future. In our department, there are 4 majors. I really loves british literature, but I also wanna learn about the cross culture.

How about everyone? Do you decide your major? i wanna know your ideas!!

20th post

Our first term nears to a end...It's almost 3 months I came into this school. Time passes so fast that my last year as a teenager seems like nothing.
What should I do this summer?

Today

Today, I had a soccer match in my soccer circle.
I had not played soccer for a while so it was pretty hard to keep up.
But it was very fun.
Everybody had very high motivation because of the World Cup.
I think I am going to suffer in a muscular pain tomorrow.

Japan vs Netherland

Last Saturday, I went to Shinjuku to see Japan vs Netherland at a bar.
It was a very exciting game.
Japan lost 0-1.
But if they win or draw the next match, they will be able to go to the next round.
So I am cheering for Japan.

The second Book Report

Hello!!
I'd like to write about the next book report.
I think that the next book report is "I Robot".
I'm interested in this book, because my friend introduced me this book which is so good.
Also, This story was released the movie. The main cast is Will Smith.
The last book report is A Christmas Carol. This report is so bad.
I couldn't write very well, so I want to write very well.
I'll do my best!!

Monday, June 21, 2010

Book report

I decide to read David Copperfield for second book report!!! David Copperfield is written by

Charles Dickens. He is very famous writer because Christmas carrol, Oliver Twist and Hard

Times are his works. Last year, I learned David Copperfield is Dickens' own favourite story. So,

I'll try to search her life. I saw the movie of David Copperfield when I was a junior high school

student. However, I forgot the story so I`ll watch the movie again. I have a lot of things to do for

second book report but it is the last book report in IE, so I'll do my best.

World Cup !!!

Hello, everyone.
World Cup is held in South Africa now.
Did you see the game, Japan vs Netherlands?
It's so regrettable game, because Japan could win.
I think that an athlete who made a spectacular showing this game is Daisuke Matsui.
He has splendid dribble, so he can overtake the opponent. He made many chances.
I want to expect him the next game too.
Today, Portugal versus North Korea is sensational game. This game's score is 7-0. Portugal is good statement, so they will win the next opponent, Brazil.

0621.2

Hey! Today I just heard great news about Harry Potter. The amusement park of it opened in Florida. It reappeared the world of Harry Potter, which is such fascinated novel that I read several times and collect. Every time I read them I imagine if I entered the miracle world. I wanna fly and go through crowds!

If you can use magic, what do you do?

Basketball game!

Good evening.

Yesterday, I had a game of basketball in Aoyama Gakuin. I belong to a basketball club activity, so I took part in it with my teammates in the club, and a girl whom I met for the first time because one of teammates couldn't come in time. I'm really shy so I got nervous so much, but she was kind enough to talk with me. Although we lost, we could have a good time.

What makes me like basketball is that it gives me a chance to make friends with people. Through playing it I always can feel extremely happy.

French Movie

Good evening!!
Today, I watched a french movie in a french speaking class.
The main character is rich man. He hold a dinner party every Wednesday.
A purpose of this dinner party is concealed because he choose the most foolish man as a champion in the party of invited guest. There is no doubt guests can not realized the purpose of this dinner party. He always look down on a guest in his mind.
One day, he was introduced a strange foolish man by his friend, and he met a man, then he thought he is the most foolish man in the world. However, his wife did not like his scornful act.Therefore, she runnning away from home. Afterward, he was made a fool of the guest he looked down on. Finally, he realized that he was the most foolish man, and then he apologized to the guest.

Firstly, I thought the main character was a brute, so he stewed in his own juice.
It was amazed the guest realized he was looked down on, but he helped the rich man.
It was sure that the guest was little strange person, but he has a kind heart.
I think this movie is funny but also heartwarming story.

Thank you for reading.
See you next time.

STUDIO GHIBLI

I like Studio Ghibli’s works very much. Ghibli is managed by Hayao Miyazaki. Until now, he produced many works which are very interesting and attractive. Therefore his works are popular around the world.
I like the work, “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. ” It was produced on the basis of manga by Hayao Miyazaki. It is very good story and music, so I cannot help crying whenever I watch it. The figure of Nausicaa, who fought against enemy to protect her important people and place, tells us the important things for us such as kindness. Like this, Ghibli’s works always tell us important things.

On 17 July this year, The Borrower Arrietty will be released. I want to watch it soon!

About "the kinematograph"

Hi! I watched the movie about the kinematograph. So, let me write the comment on the blog.
I think the setting in this movie was 19-20 century in one town in Europe.
The old man was the protagonist. He tried to invent a great projector for the first time in history. He had a wife. But she was infected in tuberculosis. In addition, she wouldn't tell her husband about it.
During chatting with each other, the old man hit upon the idea how to create a color.Therefore, he succeeded in taking the movie in color. However, after that, his wife fell down and died when he found her. He was disappointed with this accident and obsessed with it even if he became a successful man. I think the next story is he would continue to take movies after losing his wife. He became a famous inventor to create a tremendous movie projector. But he tried not to make a modern movie such as 3D, but made a rather old movie just as the one he took about his wife. So, I'm sure he never forget her and she will remain in his mind forever.

0621

Hello! Today, I would like to talk about technical terms of hotel world, for I collected news materials for Aoyama newspaper a few days ago. Firstly, "Sweet Room" is wrong word. The correct word is "Suite Room", means a room which is connected one more room. Next is "Skipper". Skipper is the persons who got lost before check out, in other words, staying overnight and walking out without paying. They become to be regarded as "UG", Undesirable Guest.
Moreover, there are a lot of interesting words in the hotel world, such as "Walk in", "Concierge", "No Show" and so on.
If you got interested in these words, check it out now!

The all Japan's tournament

Hi, everyone!!

Yesterday, we had the all Japan's tournement of discussion.
This is very big tournament, and only six people who elected in each Kanasai and Kanto area can participate in this tournament.

Paticipants discussed criminal issue, especiously the death penalty in Japan.
From my university, two candidates could join this meeing.
They did very well and they got the 2nd and 3rd prize!!

I really love discussion because we can make strong relationship with many people through exchanging our values.

Next year, i wanna paticipate in this tournament, so i'll keep practicing very hard!!

>> Ranko The tournament was reall exciting!! Ireally proud of them!!

>>Mayu I chose "Alice in Wonderland". It is very interesting and very different from the Disney video.

Kinematograph

The main character is an old man who is a film projector. The setting is 19th or 20th century, so all movies were still monochrome. He was so absorbed in thinking how to color in films that his wife was of secondary importance. One day, he finally succeeded in inventing color films, but he didn't know that his wife was suffering from tubercular at that time. This story ends with the scene that he is watching color film his wife is talking about how to make a pie. He regrets that he didn't care her, but I don't think his passion for movies won't change. I think he will introduce color films to everyone and contribute to the movie world.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Good Evening

Good evening! Today, I had a very big meeting in which
throughout Japan's university participated at Sophia
university. person who were chosen could took part in the
meeting. In Aoyama Gakuin University, two persons were
chosen as participants.So we went to a person's aid!!

The results of the meeting were second place and third place.
I'm very pleasant to see this and this was a big memory for us.

>Mayu
I'm going to read "The Notebook" as the second book report.
Today, I took a examination at Aoyama University.
The exam was very difficult so I thought I had to study more harder. But I did my best!!

By the way, did you determine the next book?
I didn't find any book but I think to choose the more famous book.
What book will you read?

the Kinematograph

About the Kinematograph:
The setting is around the end of 19th century to the beginning of 20th century. An old man and his wife are living in a village somewhere in European country. The old man is inventing a color cinema projector at home. He only cares about the projector that he doesn't notice his wife has tuberculosis which is a serious disease that may cause her death. When he is succeeded with making a projector he took a short movie of his wife describing how to make a pie. After the success of making a color film, he finds his wife fall down on the floor dead. He sees a film of his wife in a color film and the story ends. I think after his wife's death, he takes his invention to a cinema company to introduce what he has made. If there is no hint from his wife, it is impossible for him to make a color cinema projector so he should thank his wife and give out his invention to all over the world. I think at that time, there are only black and white images on screen so making the screen in colors is a new creation in their society. His wife would be happy to see people watching color films too.

World Cup

Now FIFA World Cup is hold in South Africa.
Many countries constitute each other and remarkable players play hardly to win through hard games. The world just gets exciting by World Cup.
Japan won by 1 to 0 in a match against Cameroon recently. at the time, I felt pleasant. However, yesterday, the match, Japan vs Holland was played and Japan lost. I was surprised and felt regrettable. However, I felt that there was some good play in the match, so wanted Japanese team not to give up.
Keep fighting, Japan!

The Circle Activity

Good mornig!!
Yesterday, I went to Takizawa campground as a circle activity.
We enjoyed doing a tournament with a water-pistol making a 6 group near a river in the morning. Afterward, we divided into groups and made a curry and fried noodles with sauce.
I have not been a campground for ages, so I enjoyed playing in the nature.
In the evening, we enjoyed doing fireworks around a campfire:)

I did not stay overnight because I have a plan today, but I was very excited even it was day trip.
For the next time, I'd like to stay over night at a camping facilities, and talk with friends till late at night.

Thank you for reading.
See you next time!!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

The possibilitiy of danger on the Internet

Nowadays, many people use Internet as one of the media.
But, there are possibilities of danger on the Internet!
Recently, I got a computer virus during the class of IE writing!!omg
I was very surprised and got in trouble.
So, I think we should pay attention to virus when we use Internet.
Then, I'd like to tell you how to protect our PC.

1. Buy antivirus software and update it minutely.
2. Don't open unknown mail.
3. Backup the data.

Besides, there are some pro of computer in Fuchinobe campus.
If you have computer troubles, you should ask them!
Hello! It is very hot today. When it's as hot as this, I feel listless.

By the way, what do you think to marry a person of a different nationality?
My group will give a presentation about an international marriage.
Nowadays, I think that we hope that the Japanese will become more internationally-minded.
So,this is a good topic, I think.

What can we do for the environment?

Nowadays, global warming is getting worse at an amazing speed.
If it keeps going on, many bad effects will arise on an international scale.
For instance, the sea level will rise and some countries will sink into the sea.
On 28 March 2008, an environmental event, Earth Hour was carried out. It is an event that people around the world turn off the light for an hour all together.
I didn't know the event, but I'd like to participate in this event next time.
I hope that more and more people come to be interested in environment.
We will do the presentation about environment in IE class.
So, I want to research on events to protect our environment more.

If you are interested in Earth Hour, please watch the video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FclcMfzjwug

changed my mind

I'm gonna read "Number The Stars" for the book report ^^
It's written by Louise Lawry.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Target

Hi!!!!

These days I am busier than before, so I couldn't do many things:( Therefore I'll have to do a lot of thing from now on:(

First I have to finish homework of IE core, listening and writing, for example media report, Really English, and so on. I am always ocuppied with finishing the work:(

Second, I have to finish IT skills. If I don't finjsh that, I 'll have to go back to finish IT skills. I'm poor at computer so someone please tell me how to use computer well:(

This Weekend

Good afternoon! What will you do this weekend?

I 'm going to have part time job this night, after that my friend will come to stay at my home. On Saturday, my friend and I are going to go to cheer up our teammates's athletic meet. I wish it were sunny on Saturday. On Sunday, I 'm going to go to Enoshima with my friend. I'm looking foraword to going there, because it has been a long time since I last went out to a far-distant town. We have a plane to go to "shin enoshima aquarium". Ilike aquarium, especially seals:) They are so cute that I always become calm when I just watch them.

Although I hate working, I'll hang on:)

★The Most Hottest Event ★

Last sunday our student medicine suppoting organization NGO, GRAPHIS, held the event in the club camelot, shibuya.

All of the profits of this event were appropriated for building new GRAPHIS hospital, buying an ambulance, working expenditures and ruuning cost in Cambodia.

GRAPHIS hold it like this event twice a year. In the past we have invited Tubaki Masiwaka, Elli Rose or Ayana Tubaki as gorgeous gests. This time we also invited Umeshan who is a famous fashion model among the young man in shibuta. About 600 university students came to our event. Our purpose of this event is letting people know Cambodia, so we also gave a speech, quiz and fashion show about Cambodia ,not only dance show or Mr. and Ms. contest,
In summer vacation we will go to Cambodia in order to visit our GRAPHIS school which was made by the past profit of our event, HIV home for orphans and so on.

media

We cannot live without technology these day. It is everywhere around us: TV, internet, cellphones... They are convenient and essential to our life, but there are negative aspects to them too. Today, we have a lot of communication sites like mixi, twitter, and facebook. I use them, and it is very fun communicating and watching pictures etc. But there are the problems with the privacy. Anyone can see your profile and what you are doing, so there are controversy going on today about it. It is even said that some companies check their workers facebook to see if there are not reglecting their duties, and so on. Is this right? I think privacy should be protected correctly.

mirage

setting: in the future, somewhere on Earth
conflict: a robot is struggling to find water for his body
symbol: water is a symbol of life, robot is a symbol of high technology.
theme: you have to sacrifice something to get what you want.

Watching this, I kind of got scared, because the picture was so realistic, and it certainly was not a happy story. I think this shows what will happen in the future: no trees just buildings. At the same time, the fish showed there still is life on the planet, and the importance of its life. I was very interested at what the director wanted to show.

sorry day

Australian government apologizes to aboriginal people, which is good.
Australian people forced aborigine to speak English and live like Australian.
Aborigine are discriminated.
In Japan, Japan government destroyed Ainu culture and insisted Japan is the racially homogeneous nation. And, during war, Japan forced Korean and Chinese to adjust Japanese culture.
In America, American people discriminate black.
Japan government and American government should apologize to many people and mustn't do
the same thing again.

Homeworks

Hello. It was very hot yesterday!
I can't wait for summer vacation.
During summer vacation, I'm going to go Vancouver in Canada to study English. I'm really looking forward to going there. I hope I can enjoy my staying.
How about you? What is your plan in summer vacation?

This weekend, our club will hold big speech contest, Ohki Cup.
The participants came Aoyama Camps from faw away like Kansai.
I want to enjoy this contest.

(^ω^)!!!!!!!

Hello!

Yesterday I watched the soccer game, Argentina versus Korea. Argentina is very team!!
I never expected such high score game.

Tomorrow, there is the game, Japan versus Netherlands.
I expect much about Honda Keisuke and Matsui Daisuke.

You should watch it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Book Report

For the next book report, I'm going to read a book called "The door into summer".
It's a book written by Robert Anson Heinlein.
I'll try to enjoy reading the book. But I don't have enough time!!

about media

I write about media. I am surprised at the develop of media.
I use the Internet everyday. The Internet is very useful.
On the Internet, I enjoy shopping, reading blogs, watching movie...and so on.
Nowadays, I use mixi. In mixi, you can find friends of your school and make friends who have the same hobby as yours. But, some people use mixi as dating site. Dating site means so called Deaikei Site in Japanese. And, the profile can be fake. So, in some points, mixi is dangerous. Mixi is not always safety. We should pay attention to use mixi not to be deceived.
The Internet is useful. but, at the same time, it is also dangerous.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

About last week

I was totally no touch on last week writing! I'm not really used to the Internet or computer so it's hard time writing in X-P
Well, I should write about last week theme first, I guess.
About transgender
I thought that it is good that people to be more flexible about the every type of the people in the world. I don't have any objection about them and I'm not so picky about peoples' fashion or looks. The people in the video wear what they think right for themselves. I thought this was wonderful.
About I'm sorry day
Most time, it is really hard to admit that we are wrong. In every country, there are people that discriminated by the people. If we say I'm sorry to them, I don't think every people accept our feelings. However, I think that it is better to say I'm sorry and try to sacrifice more than to ignore and say nothing about the discrimination.
About Vermints
This short film was wonderful but I can't really think about the theme. The animal,(it looked like a rabbit? maybe) was living in the place that was very beautiful. One day, many people came and ruined the nature and made a city. There are no natural things in the city. Animal tries to take care the plants. However he couldn't make the plants healthy but one day the big white lighted jellyfish came out from the light of the plants and eat all the animals to protect them. Inside the jellyfish, there were many nature. To restart the nature, they sprinkled the seeds on the city.
This was very hard to figure out, but I thought that main theme is that "If we ruin the nature, nature will try to restart it in the way that living things cannot stop it." Maybe, I'm not really sure, but.
Next I have to write about the Mirage, but first I have to wash my dishes! Thank you for reading!

mirage

I write about the movie, "Mirage".
In Mirage, main character is an android. He can pool water in his body.
his energy is got by water. if he loses water, he may die.
He always needs water. he looks for water. But, he has trouble in getting water.
In the end of story, he finds fruit containing much water. A fish live in the fruit.
He get water from the fruit and feed the fish in his body.
He dreams that he swim in water.
The symbol of this story is water. In my opinion,the android means human being and the fish means animals except for human beings. I assume the author tell us that water is important ,human beings should use water carefully and share water with animals.

hello---

Hi! everyone. It is very hot day!! I'm writing it with too much sweat in my room because my air conditioner was broken. I was very sad and now I'm little irritated this temperature. But I try to think it is cool.
Anyway, as you know I like cooking. However, recently I think I repeat to cook same menu. So, it doesn't seem recipes are added. Please tell me what is your favorite cuisine or what is your recommendation?
Then I'll try to cook them!!

19th post: mirage

I don't want to do my job at haste...it only makes a mess. But things that have to be done must be done. Whatever the process is.

As many of the members of the class said. This video was a tough one to understand. I can't even think were the setting is... it seems underwater but there is no water in sight. It also doesn't seem
like a future setting expect for the robot kid so I think this is about another world or planet.
I think the moral of the story is that we humans keep too much of natural resources by ourselves and we keep forgetting that generally it belonged to the creatures who lived there.

18th post

Shoot!...I relaxed too much at a time and I forgot to put a entry this week!
Well Akane. I think both limewire and youtube are illegal. Both are quite the same. But I think if we see at the point of the people who make products there will be a difference.
Limewire is thought to be bad than youtube. The answer is quite simple. It's because limewire is a P2P download software. That means you could get the genuine data without giving any credit to the makers.
On Youtube you can't simply download . And because of the problems of encoding, the video uploaded tends to be deterioted so it is not quite as genuine as limewire. So the video turns into a sort of advertisement.

Well...that's my thoughts it isn't quite reliable but I think it would help you.

Mirage

Mirage is about a creature and the nature. The creature is running out of water so he goes on a trip for some more. He finally finds a plant-looking object, and he figures that he could get some water from it. He does, but in exchange, he kills a fish which lived in the object. He immediately places the fish into his own tank and that's when the fish and he starts to glow. He passes out and when he wakes up he is swimming with the fish in the ocean. I think that what the director was trying to send is the messege that nature co-exists with us living creatures.

Media

Media has become a large part of modern people's lives. I am going to write about the media online. An illegal file-sharing website such as LimeWire is causing copyright problems. These technologies have become so useful yet people are taking advantage of them in a bad way. However, while we hear the word 'illegal' when we talk about LimeWire, Youtube are considered okay. We use them in class, at home, etc. I also make great use of this website, but I was wondering what the differences between LimeWire and Youtube are. We pretty much use them for the same reasons; Watch movies, listen to music, watch the news and so on. What do you think are the differences?

media

Hi:) I am in the library at the college. I will talk about media today. First of all, there are many high-technology items in the world these days. For example, iPad, 3D TV and so on. I got interested in iPad. I think it is very useful, but it seems difficult for me to use perfectly. In addition, I think iPad is a little hard for have, because it is very thin so I may drop on the floor. More and more high-technology items will come out in near future, i guess!

>Yuzuru
World cup is very fun, isn't it?:)
I like the Japanese player Keisuke Honda.
Which Japanese player do you like the best?

transgender

In tailand, to support gay, transgender people change constitution.
In tailand, transsexusual operations are developing. so, many people come to tailand to undergo transsexual operations. Many people accept transgender people. But, some don't accept them.
There are discrimination against them. I hope people all over the people understand them and accept them. They only do what they want to do. They have rights.
In japan, new half stars ,what is called Oneikei are popular now. Taransgender people are accepted more than they used to be. In the future, I hope they live more easily.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Mirage

To tell the truth, this short film was the most difficult one to understand.
It was very interesting, but it was very hard to figure out what the film was trying to tell us.
As Kousuke said, I think the setting of the film is the future. Well, the future which we are heading for. It was pretty dark in the film and the robot didn't seem happy. These days, because of new technologies, we are harming the environment. We know that we have to take action to protect the nature, but we keep on inventing new useful things to satisfy our wants. I think the film wants to tell us that if we keep on living like this, we will come to an end of living happily.
The robot tries hard to find water to survive. We use plenty of water and we think that the environment doesn't have to do much with our lives. Though the film tells us that we need natural sources to live, and nature doesn't exist infinitely, so if human beings keep on destroying them, we human are going to have a hard time to live.

This film makes us think about the preciousness of nature, and tells us how important it is to protect them.

Hello

This Monday, I had a part time job at AGU. The job is attending an experiment of psychology. It's easy, because I had only to answer easy questions. Students who attend the experiments get at least 1000 yen. It's nice job, because I can get money by answering easy questions.

hi,

Last night, I had a badminton practice. It was raining.. I've never had a practice on a sunny day. Which makes me think that all club members were born into rain bringers.

For soccor game, I'm happy that Japan won! It was so unexpected o.o I just went to sleep after Japan scored the first goal because it was so scared to see how the game will be in the second half game. I've heard that in the past, Japan often lost their chances of winning by letting the opponent get more scores after Japan had goals. But this time, it wasn't happened! I'm sure they will do great against Netherlands.
Mirage is an illusion of water. It’s an imaginary place, you can see it there, but that something, or somewhere does not exist.
The short movie Mirage started out inside the water. The scene was captured from inside the ocean looking above, outside the water. However the next moment, it reaches the bottom of the ocean, and somehow the ocean isn't filled with water. The setting I think is in the future, it did look developed but everywhere seemed to be dark. The symbol-like character is looking for water which is stored inside the flowers. Water is his fuel, as he did look like a computer as well as he did look like a human being as well.
Water is a big symbol for Mirage. The robot-looking character needs water to survive, he goes searching for it, and it also represents thirst. Other symbols are the tree, fish, light, stairs.
When you are searching for something, when you are trying to develop an unknown area, it destroys some facts that where there originally. In other words without destroying, you cannot gain what you want. I personally think this is proved by our history. For example the clip we saw the week before, the “sorry day” was about apologizing, because they destroyed the lives of the natives who used to belong there. If one wants to survive, one needs to be sacrificed. The important part is, learn from our past mistakes, and, let’s make the future a bright and nice one!!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Mirage

Setting: In the bottom of the sea

Point of view: The first person who is a robot-like boy

Conflicts: The protagonist vs. the gravity. He tries to save the water in his body, but when he leans too forward, it all drops and leaves nothing in him.

Climax: The boy sticks something with a pipe, which looks like a heart. Out of the heart, a gold fish falls down on the floor. He picks up the fish and brings it in his empty body. Then, when he looks down, a sea of water fills them around.

Symbol: Water or the sea must be something that represents how desperately he wants a friend. At the last scene where the the boy and the fish seem to be comfortable in the sea , the sea shows how satisfied the boy feels with a partner.

Irony: There is nothing to stem the water and save it up in his body. No matter how many times he tries to get the water in, it all falls down in vain.

Theme: This teaches me how important a friend can be. A hearty friend can fill you with a secure feeling like floating in the sea.

Reform myself

I have a lot of things to do now. For example, homeworks
and club activities. I teach freshmen how to discuss now,
because the structure of discussion is very difficult.
When I was a freshman, it was very hard for me to learn
it. So I always think the best way which freshmen can learn
it easily. Moreover I also think about my discussion style.
I care about atmosphere especially, because it's easy for
everyone to speak own opinion. The club activities is very
busy now, besides having a lot of homeworks. I did a homework
at midnight. So I'm sometimes late for school. But I think it's
very bad thing, because I go to university to study. I'd like
to learn many things which I don't know or I want to study
deeply. So I change my mind and lifestyle! I decided that
I'm not late for school and I'll do a homework in the time
which I don't have the class. To be a grown-up, I learn how
to do time management.

>Yuki.Y
I really know your feeling. I'm not good at doing time management.
But I'd like to overcome this problem.

The great World Cup

Looks like everybody was watching the game last night!! I had my part time job till half past eleven, so when I got home I only had the chance to watch the second half of the game but anyway, great start isn't it!!
Where do you think will win the world cup?? Brazil is playing tonight, England drew against America, and Argentina just managed to win, it seems hard to guess which team is going to be successful! I think there is a possibility where the Asian and the African nationals have the chance to maybe win the title! Whoever wins, I’m pretty sure the World Cup is going to be a great success!!

Human observation

Since I was an elementary school student, I have been observed human around me.
I realized this fact in these days.
Why am I watching human behavior every time? I considered about myself.
Then I guess the reason that I’m an only child. That means I grew up among many adult without children. No one was child including relationship except me.
I was anxious to reach manhood because I didn’t like to be treated like a baby by adult. Then I came to watch many people and thought what people are thinking.As you know I’m not a little child, but can’t stop doing human observation still now.

Vermints

Hello! I would like to write about Vermints.
The main character is an animal like a rabbit.

Setting: It happens the glassland in the future and imagination world.
point of view: first person
Conflict: the main character versus the environment
Symbol: The symbol is the nature and the jerryfish.
Climax: I think they were saved by jerryfish.
Irony: The world that we live a life is so small, because it was saved jellyfish.
Theme: The short movie says that our world is harmful, because of the destruction of destruction.

It was so difficult to understand, but I was thought by this short movie.
And, I'm sorry for late to write.

Congratulation!!!!!!Japan!!!!!!!!!!

Gooood Morning!! I watched the soccer game. Japan team did fine. The next opposition is Holland. I don't know well about soccer, but Holland is formidable team for Japan. I want to cheer the next game, too.
Mmmmm...., everyone is worrying about second book report. Me, too. I have to chose soon and start to read. Today I have classes in second and third period, so I'll go book store after school! Ciao!!

World Cup

Good morning.
Did you watch last night's game? The last game was so exciting! Japanese player showed us good game. Of course Honda was really good, but Kawaguchi(GK) did also nice play! I think GK is very important position:)
What is next game? Which countries? I want to watch the play of Spain. Because one of the my friend really like Spain and recommend me. I'm looking forward to watching them.

By the way, I can't decide the book for 2nd book report. I have "DADDY-LONG=LEGS", but I don't know this book is interesting or not. Is this book for children? I'm going to look for other books.
Have a nice day!

Second Book Report

I haven't decided a book for the second book report.
I read "The Catcher in the Rye" for the first book report. It was written in 1951.
So I want to read the book that is order than the first book.
please tell me if you know a good book.

Mirage

Good evening.
It' 3 o'clock, but I forgot to write about "Mirage," so I'll talk about it.

The main character is a robbot looking like a human, and he cannot live without water. He wandered for water and he finally got water. He could survive, but a fish died because he robbed the fish of water.

I think water is a symbol of nature and the fish is a symbol of natural living things. The creater tried to tell us that we human beings mustn't have nature all to ourselves. It's theme.

Mirage

Hello!! Now, I want to talk about "Mirage" we watched in the last class. The main character is the little robot like a human. He was looking for water, he need to live a life the water.
Finally, he could get the water, instead of his action, the fish died. Therefore, he took in the fish for his stomach not to die.
I think that his selection was good. This story's most important point is the "water". I think that the editor want to say the importance of nature.
I was so excited after this short movie finished to see.

About My Book report

>> yuki Japan won the game!! I'm really looking forward the next game!!

As my next book report, I decided to chose "the Animal Farm".

This book was written by Geouge Orwell. He is very famous for his novel, "1984".

My grand father recommended me to read it. He was the professsor of British literature department at Chuo University.

I really love British literature. I was really happy to get many opportunities to read lots of british books.

Japan vs Cameroon

Hello! Today, Japan won Cameroon 1-0 in its openng game of the World Cup.
Keisuke Honda did the best performance. Recently, Japan had lost the game, so I was very surprised. Japan is going to match the Netherlands in Durban on Saturday. If the next game win, Japan team can pass the group stage. I expect them. We should support Japan!!

Mirage

Good evening!!

Now, I'll talk about the movie "Mirage".

In this movie, a boy like a robbot looked for water because he lived by only water.

At the one scene, he took water even though there was a fish in it. A fish died because of his
action.

I think a boy is a symbol of the present human. And a fish represents the preset environment. Now, humans destroy the environment to gain what they want.

I tihnk the author wanted to tell us we should not to be selfish and greedy but to be kind to others.

>yuri I think the Bridged Jones's Diary is really good to read!! I watched this movie. It was reaaaaally gooood!! I recommend you to watch the movie, too.

0614.2

I cannot finish doing all works by tomorrow... Ah... I wanna be die...
Then, I talk about the movie Mirage. It was very scarce and I didn't grasp the meaning of it.
The main boy couldn't live without keeping his heart pocket water, and he was trying to get water. Finlly, he succeeded in having enough water, and then he had a lot of water and swum in it. This point is the most frightening for me. From my sight, he became a little crazy and had delusions because of craving for water. The movie make me unhappy, for I was confirmed that human race can do everything in order to achieve their desire.

Now, I will take a bath. By the way, Japanese first game is a win! Congratulation!

Mirage

Good evening!
Now I'll talk about the movie Mirage we watched in last class.

The main character in that movie was a robot worked by water. He tried to find water to make his stomach be full of, so he walked around. Finally, he noticed the water falling from the rooftop of one building and went up the flight of stairs. There is something red which contained the water. He stuck and got water from it. Then a fish came out from it and became dying because of lack of water. He decided to let it be in his stomach and live with.

I thought that the robot represents human beings. We human beings use everything around us to live without thinking how it will have effects the environment. The theme of this movie is that human beings are selfish.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Bridget Jones' Diary



I think I will choose a book Bridget Jones' Diary for second book report.

The main character Brigdet was 32 years old, and she still unmarried, so she decided to look for a suitable man for her.Therefore, she made her mind up not to smoke and try to go on a diet and some more..

It is written in British English, so I want to try to read this book:)
See you tomorrow!!

0614

Helloooooo! I was very upset because I forgot to write two articles again! I dislike me now.
The reason may be my works for the newspaper club. It is too hard for me to do with doing other homeworks. To make matters worse, I have two more reports to do by tomorrow. One is the Media Report, and the other is a scientific report. I have almost no knowledge on science, so I must make efforts to complete the report. I'm in a depressed mood and I hope tomorrow strougly!

Probably I stay up tonight, and access this blog again.

Oh! it will soon be the time for Japanese first game on the World Cup! VS Cameroon!

Mirage

I would like to write about Mirage.
The main character of this film is a boy looking robot.
He contained water in his stomach and as he walk, the water decreased.
So he starts looking for water.
He found a round ball, and water was in it.
He tries to get the water in himself, but the ball also contained a fish in it.
The fish was dying because he put the water into him, and the fish didn't have enough water.
Finally he put the fish into his stomach where te water is full.

Symbol is water and it is symbol for a pure heart of people.
We should be polite to anybody and should not be greedy.

FIFA World Cup

The World Cup of soccer has started on June 11.
The opening game was South Africa vs. Mexico.
Result of the game was 1-1, but it was a very exciting game.
I hope to see many exciting games in this tournament.
I think I will be insufficient sleep for a month.

Varmints

I would like to write about Varmints.
Setting is a planet other than the Earth.
Point of View is omnicient.
Conflict is the vermint versus the environment.
Climax is where a big jellyfish appears and the world become peaceful.
Symbol is the jellyfish and it is a symbol for the world.
Irony is that the world become peaceful but the varmint is already dead.
Theme is that the Earth will be like this if we live as we are living right now.

Mirage

The character is a robot kike a human. His source of energy is water in his stomach. When he walking around, he dropped his water by mistake and therefore cannot help looking for new water. Though he had a difficult time finding new water, he found a water in the ball like a heart. He hesitated to take water from the ball because there were a fish in the water. However, he finally broke the ball and got water to his stomach. The fish was dying because of lack of water. He took in the fish for his stomach not to die and lived closed together.

I think the theme in this story is the "water". We tend to get what we need from the nature one-sidedly and therefore the nature has gotten weak increasingly. But like the robot in this story, we must not only exploit but also cooperate with the nature. The editor, I think, might try to represent how important we think the nature seriously.

1984!

I finished reading "1984" written by George Orwell just now. I'm wondering whether I choose this book for book report or not. The publication of "1Q84" written by Haruki Murakami was the trigger for reading this book. Let me introduce this story a little bit. This novel describes the awful world which is governed by totalitarianism in the future. In this world, our all right such as thought, life style or language are controled by the government completely and the government tries to destroy our own identity thoroughly. The only thing what we can do is to be the faithful slave towards the government and if we were not loyal to the doctrine in the country, we would train to be suitable for the society... After reading this novel, I first felt the terror because we cannot deny the situations like this novel in the future and was very surprised that George Orwell wrote this novel in 1949.

MIRAGE

I want to talk about "mirage."

The little robot boy was walking and looking for water. Because he always had to keep water in his stomach to live. When he run out his water, he found out water at the top of building. He climbed that building. At the top of building, there were small bag filled with water.
He was happy! He could keep on living! But, in fact, there was a fish in the small bag. Instead of his getting water, the fish almost died. He decide to save fish. He take the fish into his stomach filled with water.
Then, they lived together. I think finally they could find water place and lived safely.

The theme of this story is "Don't be deceived in mirage." We need water to live, but others' lives is more important. All living things have to cooporate to live together. Never be selfish.


These videos related in environment are very interesting. I'm surprised at imaginations of creator. More people think about environment seriously, I think.

Rainy Day

Good morning.
The rainy season has set in today. The moisture makes my hair roll! So, to resist this moisture, I had my forelock permed straight. The hairdresser was really kind. I could enjoy talking to him.

I forgetted to write about VARMINT! So I'm going to write about "varmint."


SUMMARY
The varmint and his friends with black long ears lived happily. However, other creature destroyed nature to develop thier society. Many buildings were built and nature was gone. The environment became worse and worse.

CLIMAX
Some strange creatures take all varmint into them to help varmints because the world was broken. The creature cleaned the world.

SYMBOLS
The seed is the symbol of new hope. In addition, jellyfish creatures is the symbol of nature, varmint is the sybol of human.

IRONY
The irony of this story is that vamints wanted to develop, but they break the environment. The world is cleaned by nature, not varmint. The thing varmint could do is only destroying nature.

THEME
Don't destroy the nature. Of course development is important, but narure is more important. If you ignore it, your world is broken.

Next time, I'm going to write abour "MIRAGE."

Mirage

A robot who has water in his stomach was tired to walk.
At last he flop down the road because he was lack of water.
He climebd the pipe to look for water. When he arrived at the top of pipe, he found the red boll which was contained full of water. He really wanted the water and cracked that ball with a shap stick. He made the water put his stomach. Then a fish fell down the graund from that ball. Finally he pick up the fish and put in his own water.

When human pursue their greed, they came not to see their surroundling, only themselves.
There is a lot of creatures on the earth, not only human. We shoud live close together.


>Saki
How was the Recording diet?
I'm interested in it. Although I want to try it, I don't know how calorie are contained into each foods. How dou you know this?

Mirage

Summary: The little robbot boy is the main character and he looks like a human.

He was walking but soon he couldn't move anymore. Because his enegy(=water) is decreased.

He began to seek water. He finally found the water but it is in the big tank.

He broke the tank and got some water but it was fish's tank of water.

Fish almost died. He felt sorry for fish, so he put a fish into his stomach and live together.


Theme: Water is necessary for every creature, so we have to share it and live together.

environment

It is said that the beginning of the rainy season is late in this year compared with the past. I think the weather these days is strange, because it had been very cold even in April. We felt little spring in this year. Some environmental accidents may happen. If this is the fact, we have to think this problem deeply. I thought I would examine about this problem on the Internet.

Mirage

I'll write about a short movie " Mirage".
A main character was robot like a human boy. He had water in his stomach, and then the water was decreasing as he move and walk to look for more water. He had to get more water to live until he can move. When he was looking for water, he found a light and run to a way.
Then, he reached his destination, he found a sparkling ball containing enough water.Firstly,he hesitated to rob of water from the ball , but his energy inside his stomach of water was decreasing gradually. Therefore, he made up his minds to broke it and poured water into his stomach. However, in the ball of water, there was a fish, and the fish was dying without water, so he also put the fish into his stomach and save a fish.

I think this story is a little strange and weirdness, but it has possibility in the future like this story, and we too often forget to be thanksful to our envirnment, so this movie wanted to tell us about that.
Thank you for reading:)

Mirage

I want to tell about the short movie “Mirage.”
In this story, a robot who had a human face and behavior like human was a main character. His energy to live was water. One day because a drop dripped on his face, he went up a ladder and tried to get water. However water spilled from his body. Frantically scooping, he found a fruit of water which was beautiful. He was spellbound, but made a hole and got water. Although he was content, a fish came out it. The fish was dying. He saw the sight, feeling at a loss. At last, he put it into his stomach to help.

I think the robot is the symbol of human and fish is the symbol of life which human takes. This story asks us whether taking other’s life to help oneself is right. It is inevitable to take life to live, but we should not think that it is ordinary, and appreciate life.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

mirage

I'll write about the video mirage.
In the video, the main character is a robot like a boy. He has water in his stomach and the water is decreasing as he walks. So, he can't live without water. He climbs a ladder to get water which is on the top of the ladder. However, when he reaches the top and he starts walking, he falls down and the water spills. He feels shock. Then, he finds the shining ball in front of him. He tries to poke it and the water comes out of it. His stomach is filled with the water. But, there was a goldfish in the ball, so it can't live because there is no water in the ball. That's why he put it into his stomach, and finally he lives with a goldfish.

I think the theme of this video is we should be able to stand on our own feet. If we face with any emergencies, we have to live for ourselves.
Thank you for reading.

Mirage

I watched a short movie "mirage".
A robot like human beings stored water in his stomach. He ran around looking for water.And finally, he found a thing like a ball containing water and took water. However, a fish were dying by being taken water. So he put a fish in his stomach and saved a fish.

I think a robot represents human beings. Human beings take things which they want by force and this movie warns that many creature have suffering from our arrogant act. So we should think of the environment.

Hi

I'll write about aboriginal I'm sorrry day and transgender people.
I was surprised that the Australian government apologized to aborigines for having treated them badly. Some people were angry, because it's too late, but I think it's good start to compensate for it.When I went to Australia, I watched traditional dance and arts of aborigine. I hope the government protect such cultures not to extinct.
After I watched a video about transgender people, I thought the woman's action was courageous and it would save people who have similar experiences.

Mirage

The creature like a robot appeared in this video.
He had water in his stomach because he can't live without water. He climbed the pipe to try to find water. But, he stumbled over and spilled water inside his body. He was at a loss, then, he found the ball like balloon which is filled with water. He picked at it with pipe and he poured water into his body. The ball shrank and a fish fell down from it. He put it in his body and made it live.

I think the video tells us not to be egocentric. In fact, he could monopolize water inside the ball. However, he spared water the fish by taking it into his stomach. He saved the fish! We must not be greedy. We should also care for the lives of others or other living things.

mirage

It is about Mirage we watched on last Friday. The main character needs water to live so he takes a drop of water from the flowers. When his stomach is empty, he finds out that there is water on the top of the building so he starts to climb. At the top, he finds a red fruit looks like a balloon with water inside. He uses a pipe to take water inside of his stomach. And there is a fish falls on the ground so he takes it in his stomach to let it in the water.
1. The setting is at the bottom of the ocean where pipes are around.
2. The main character which is a robot with human face is looking for water because water works as a buttery to make him alive.
3. Symbols - Flower and tree represent the nature, fish represents animals, and the main character represents humans.
4. Theme - I think this movie tells us the importance of water for all living things on the Earth that we cannot live without water.

Alice in Wonderland

Good evening.
I watched the movie, “Alice in Wonderland” at night on this Tuesday. I had wanted to watch it long since and like “Alice in Wonderland”, so I was very happy to be able to do.
This was very nice movie! A view of the world was good. Overall atmosphere was unique as it might be produced by Tim Burton. And then, characters were very nice. Not only Alice but also Red Queen, White Queen and Mad Hatter were eccentric and fun to see. Especially White Queen was very bright and her behavior was pretty.
It is worth watching, so would have you enjoyed. Please watch it when DVD released.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

★Mirage★

I watched "Mirage" in my class. This story
concerned a robot who could live by drinking
water and a fish. One day, robot walked with a
full of water in his stomach. He tripped over a water
pipe and fell on his face, because he didn't take
care of under. So his water over flowed his stomach.
He sought a water to live. What a lucky! There was
a bud which was filled with water. He decided to get
water. He stabbed bud with stick and got water at last.
But there was a fish in torn bad. The fish struggled to seek
water. Robot picked up the fish and put it in his stomach.
The fish took a swim cheery. Then, They started walking
together.

I think robot and fish are symbol of nature.
Robot sought water and discovered bud happily.
He robbed of bud's life to live. I think that means a food
chain. Like that, creature can live.

> Chinami
What a nice eco bag! I also want to buy it.
It's very important to do something thinking about environment
of the earth.

> Haruka.K
I'm going to go Tokyo Disney Sea in this summer vacation!
I want to hear your story by all means.

Eco bag


Do you use eco bags?

I have some eco bags and I often use them.

These days, there are many fashionable eco bags in shops.

Please look at the picture♪

It is my favorite eco bag.

It is the bag of the famous brand, cher.

I think using eco bags is good for environment.

Besides, using eco bags has another advantage.

When we buy something in supermarkets, usually we get shopping bags.

But, some shops reduce 2 yen if we have eco bags.

Don't you think it is profitable?

We can contribute to our environment in easy way.

If you don't have your eco bag, I recommend you to get it soon!!

I'm on a Diet.

Good morning! These days it is getting hotter:)

By the way, I'm on a diet now. Because I grew fatter than before. Do you know "Recording Diet"? I'm trying it. Recording Diet is that you write down everything you eat a day. I open my record to some friends on mixi everyday. They give me advice and encourge me. I have lost one kilogramand half in the past eleven days. So I wanna hang on from now on:)

The Varmint

In this short film, there is a rabbit looking characters which possibly stands for human. For the time being, they were living peace in a beautiful grassland, but soon, a wave of anteater pulling city swallows up the grass land, and it becomes a devastated city. In this city, there is no nature, so many creatures die of sickness.
Then, here comes the jellyfish, which eats? creatures, and those creatures stands on beautiful land inside the jellyfish body. Well, I don't think that jellyfish saved creatures just because in the ending, they were standing on beautiful land inside the jellyfish. It was just an accident. The creatures were just lucky to be eaten by jellyfish and stand on beautiful land inside their body
I think this film was trying to tell us how much nature is essential to us. If there was completely none nature around us, we get sick, just like the creatures in the movie. Or maybe the film was predicting the future of our lives!?!?