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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Tohoku no Shingetsu
In English, Shingetsu means new moon. So I think the reason why the author used this term is that we have to think about not only the things we can see but also we can not see because Shingetsu is impossible to see. I don't know what the author really wanted to tell us and the answer, but I came to think and thank to what I can not see in my eyes.
Tohoku no Shingetsu
the reason why Linda Ohama chose Shingetsu as a title of her film is that she wanted to try to describe something
invisible in her film. The struggles people in Tohoku experienced in 2011 are something we never can understand and
see. Shingetsu is the struggles of the victims of earthquake in 2011.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Tohoku no shinggetsu
new stuff
Friday, November 25, 2016
Book report
My second book on the report is going to be "I, Robot". The biggest reason why I chose this book is that it has its movie version which Will Smith is acting a main rule in it. Probably I've watched it when I was about 10, I do not have any memory about its story. So this time, I would like to read the book and watch the movie again.
Tohoku no shingetsu
Snow
Birthday plan for my friend
Tohoku no Shingetsu
Shingetsu means new moon. we can't see the first day moon. However, it is actually on the sky. Why is the title Tohoku no Shingetsu? The reason is that people can't see hearts and minds of people. Although we can't see hearts directly, it's so important thing. I can feel warm heart of Tohoku people in that video.
Tohoku no Shingetsu
I think "shingetsu" is the symbol of the situation in Tohoku, which we don't n't see. "Shingetsu" is invisible moon. And there are a lot of things about the incident we don't know.
Tohoku no shingetsu
HUNGRY
Freezing!
Tohokunoshingetu
After the class finishes
Tohoku no Shingetsu
The area in which I suffered from the disaster greatly, but I was made to realize that that in Tohoku area was much more than ours and felt as if I were one of the victims by watching the screen.
I hope Tohoku area will be rebuilt as soon as possible, and I will take action for this area to be rebuilt.
Yusuke Habu: news article Learning Japanese from the news/ Support quake-hit Tottori by buying pears
Through this article, I think it is a very good idea to learn Japanese and English from newspapers because I believe this will be improvement for Japanese and English. I hope many newspaper companies and textbooks will do the same as this.
Yusuke Habu
dinner
Japanese Calligraphy
Tohoku no Shingetsu
In my opinion, Shingetsu symbolized the truth that could not be seen superficially. Shingetsu is a moon that cannot be seen after full moon. People living in Tohoku are trying to save their culture after the earthquake. They have a firm faith to do that and love for their hometown. However the faith and the anxiety of people cannot be seen, they are existent. I think that is similar to the Shingetsu.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
it's snowy!
Tohoku no Shingetsu
I think the meaning of "shingetsu" is the power of people. The new moon is invisible but that is the start of the road to the full moon. The people of Tohoku never gave up and tried to rebuild their lives. The revival of Tohoku is still going on and someday, I suppose she thinks they will definitely revive their hometown.
Snow
through this weather to arrive at university. As I imagined, train was delayed and I arrived late time.
Actually I like snow weather, but I hope it without school days.
Touhoku no Shingetsu
Shingetsu.This movie and her story makes me re-thinking about Touhoku earthquake. I found that
she is really thinking about this desaster and people who was suffered by it. This movie told us the
reality of the disaster area after happenning this disaster soon. I really impressed the feeling of the
people who was in the disaster area, and felt really sorry about that. This movie was great beacause it
tells us reality of this earthquake and makes thinking about that.
Tohoku no Shingetsu
moved me. I already know about the giant earthquake in Tohoku 2011. But I don't know specific cases. Again I thought I have to remember and remind about the disaster. It has past already 5 years since it has occurred, I thought it is not so long time but we started to forget. It was a good opportunity to remind it again.
Shingetsu is new moon in English. New moon cannot be seen from us, but it has great power. She just wanted to say Tohoku has great hidden power there. And I think the word "shingetsu" have an impression like God or something and beautiful for me. I really like this idea and I want to see this movie.
Yusuke Habu: news article Colorful accents by the Japan News
Through this article, I rethought that color is important for us. Because color is the creation of variety. Without color, we have nothing to enjoy or feel so I hope color will be treated as an important thing.
In this case color means variety, personality or color itself, for example, red and blue etc.
Yusuke Habu
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Yusuke Habu: book report suggestion
I have two choices for my second book report. One is treasure island, and second is the scarlet letter.
Tohoku no Shingetsu
It was a way home from school. I soon came back to school and waited for the situation calm down.
But it was not just earthquale, nuclear power problem was also happen. It was difficult for most students to go home because of traffic confusion and aftershock.
I surprised that big earthquake happened after a long time yesterday. When I think about people in Tohoku, my heart aches a lot.
We should not forget this experience and learn from it. I thought that this movie is a good way
to let people know about eaethquake disaster "2011,3,11".
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
reading comic books
My cousin is living in Fukushima
the lost thing
Monday, November 21, 2016
Not a good thing to end the day
Lunch
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Good cafe
There were many kinds of cocoa flavor such as rose, banana, tiramisu. Also you can enjoy cocoa drink which came from ll over the world!!
The name of the store is "Grote Cocoa Winkel Sunnys". It's not so far from our school.
I wanna go there again :)
Friday, November 18, 2016
Disney sea
Chocoholic
I so addicted to chocolate and cannot live without it. If you know a good chocolate shop,please tell me!!!!!!
My dog
Books for book report
2. The Little Prince
These books are so famous, so there are a lot of information. Also, these story is so debatable.
books I want to read next
1. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger
these two books are my suggestion. I'm already excited about next book report!
Jazz piano
First of all, you have to memorize several forms of each chords. This is really complicated. When you use chords in actual playing, you must recall them and decide which code you use in a second because the song doesn't wait for you. Playing jazz piano is so difficult but fun! I wanna improve my playing more.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
shopping with father
Lost things
In the movie, people are busy and they think things are not imporatant and just discard them.
But actually we can't live without them, and this short movie tell us the importance of using things carefully and gratedull.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Raclette
Monday, November 14, 2016
Graduate Ceremony
I still can't believe that they graduated. All of them were really kind to me, so I want them to stay club. Every senior did great speech for us and I decided that I I'll perticipate in activities more activily!! I hope I could meet them before long.
outlet shopping centre
leaves are turning yellow
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Last Thursday
Friday, November 11, 2016
Have a great weekend
the play is coming up!
Christmas is coming.
Festival at Hosei university
Last Saturday and Sunday, I had dance stage. I really enjoyed it. A week before that, I had a dance stage at Aosai too. So I practiced dance a lot. But I have 3 dance stages next month. So I have to keep practicing hard.
Disney Sea
It was fifth times for me to go there after enter the university.
Though it was so crowded because it was Sunday, we could ride many attractions.
I have schedule to go Disney two more times during this year, so I looking forward lest of opportunity to go there!!
Quotes from the great Gatsby novel
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Presidential election
Birthday party
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Yusuke Habu: news aritcle Number of items lost by foreign tourists surge in Japan by Daily Yomiuri
Through this article, I realized the importance of trying not to lose items which belongs to me outside. I will be careful more than before from now on and make my life smoother as possible.
Yusuke Habu
Hakata station
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Yusuke Habu: news aritcle Yakushima life brings joy to ex-civil servant by Daily Yomiuri
I have heard the name Yakushima but when I saw the picture, it was beautiful.
Through this article, I hope many people will take care of these kinds of beautiful things.
Yusuke Habu
What happened to Hakata train station?
Monday, November 7, 2016
Yusuke Habu: news ariticle 100s of tsunami drills held
Today I would like to talk about tsunami drills. Through this article, I found out that drills are necessary for us to prevent damage as possible. I believe drills will save many things. I hope more drills will be held as many as possible.
Yusuke Habu
Waseda festival
Friday, November 4, 2016
Yusuke Habu: news article Govt fears infectious horse disease at Tokyo Games
When I saw this article, I was surprised but I believe what we can do is to check the virus and sometimes call off. I hope this situation will be better.
Yusuke Habu
The lost thing
Sunday Morning
Maybe you have listened this melody because it was music of one of the commercial in Japan, I suppose. Maroon 5 is also good band. If you are interested in, please check it.
Aoyama festival
The lost thing
people except the main character and his family didn't notice the existence of the creatures. This is because they were paying attention only to their own things and jobs. The busyness can make people blind. The main character became the blind person at the end, it's an irony.
The Lost Thing
11/3
The lost thing
I think the theme of this story is that pay more attention to our close things. We often take our situation for granted and forget appropriating to them. In this story, almost all the characters forget the existence around them and went selfish. So we have to be aware of existence around us and appropriate them for their supports.
The lost thing
Seasonal frappuccino
The Lost Thing
School festival
My father's birthday
the lost thing
I'm exited...
with my members of club activity. Whenever I think about it, I get so exited that I cannot sleep well!
School festival
The Lost Thing
This is because no one cared about the lost thing except the boy.I thought this describes how much people don't care about the world around us.
The lost thing
The lost thing
Though main character cared about thing which he picked up, people around him didn't care about it and owner of the thing didn't appear.
It seems that main character couldn't find the owner,but the things finally found the place where it can stay.
It also describe the friendship.
Snowboard
The lost thing
Part time job
The lost thing
Setting: in the world which has a lot of machines anywhere and it may be future than our cognitive world.
Conflict: the main character, boy against the society.
Symbol: men like police symbolize the negative aspect of social power. The boy and one machine showed strong relationship.
Irony: the boy looked at the machine and they cooperated each other,however a lot of machines was supposed to dangerous, so they didn't have to be together.
Climax: the machine had gone to himself world, so the boy and machine had separate forever.
Theme: there are people who they think what it seems to dangerous and strange by society is important and as treasure. We need to think about minority.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Halloween
Concert
Yesterday I went to Yokohama arena with a friend of mine to enjoy a concert held by f(x). f(x) is a group from korea that consists of 4 females. They are so multiple group. One is Korean, another is Chinese, another is Korean American and the other is Taiwanese American.
Not only the concert, but also I really enjoyed meeting my friend. So I am really glad.
My favorite soccer team
the lost thing
Setting is somewhere in a developed city. A restrained man found a strange creature.
I think the theme of this movie is related with suitable places for every thing.
Although the strange, doglike creature looks inappropriate for the man's city and is treated as a foreign body, the man took it to its bright, comfortable place for the lost thing.
I think it means that everything has an suitable place and role, even if you cannot be suited to your community or society. When the lost thing found the place, the room was filled with great vigor. But in fact, we usually have a hard time trying to find the most suitable place, just like the eccentric man who couldn't make full use of his talent.
November
Finally, November started. These days it's very cold and temperatures difference is intense afternoon and night. So it's hard to choose my clothes in every morning. I wanna buy some sweaters and outerwear.
Yusuke Habu: assignment#7 the lost thing
conflict: The main character(the boy) vs society
climax: The main character (the boy) brought the moving machine home.
symbol: The main character symbolizes himself but the other characters symbolize people who do not care about machines and other things. In other words, probably, expressing the majority of people.
irony: At the end, eventually the main character( the boy) and the machine got separate and they said goodbye to each other.
theme: I think we are dividing everything into "useful for us" or "not useful for us" in our daily lives.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Halloween
I was relieved to hear that they were well-mannerd about the issue of trash or noise.
Frankly speaking, I think that Japanese people are good at introducing foreign customs to Japan. It makes Japanese custom more original because they completely adapt foreign events, and then adopt it as a whole original one like Japanese Halloween.
School festival
Halloween wiz agu girls
I went to restaurant with my friends to do halloween party and celebrate my friend's birthday.
My friends and me disguised devil, black cat, rabit and so on.
We also went to Shibuya to see people who come to there to celebrate halloween.
It was so crowded and crazy!!
After that we went to friend's house to do sleep over. Though we were tired we enjoyed chatting.
Someday I want to experience real halloween day!