About myself

Hello,my name is Aya Yamada.

Let me introduce about myself. 

I belong to the equesterian club. 

It was very attractive for me to ride a horse. I really love horse.

 I also belong to the band club. I play drums and guitar.

 I love Japanese rock band very much.

I have one Shibainu. Her name is Mimi. 

Thank you for reading.

Singapore

 When I was in high school I moved to Singapore because of my father's work. First, I didn't wanted to go. I had many friends in Japan, so I didn't wanted to be apart with them. Although, my parents forced me to move.
 In Singapore, most of the people around me speaks Chinese. I thought that the main language was English, so I was surprised. I went to Japanese high school. First day of the school, I was very nervous, but almost everyone came to talk to me. This helped me a lot. I made many friend in Singapore. Now, I can tell from my heart. I love Singapore.

 

My hobby

 Hello, today, I would like to talk about my hobby. I have 2 hobbies. First hobby is to play sports. I have been playing baseball since I was 5 years old. Baseball is part of my life and I coach little kids every weekend. When you get older, there will be less chance to move your body, so I am glad that I could enjoy baseball and also get healthier.
 Second hobby is to watch T.V. My most relaxing time is when I sit on my couch and watch movies or T.V. programs. I like to watch commedy shows because I want to laugh a lot so that I can forget about all the bad things. I reccomend you guys to watch commedy shows whenever you felt bad.
 Thank you for reading!!

My Dream

When I entered college, I hadn’t decided my occupation yet. When I was little, I wanted to be a teacher because I liked children. I also wanted to be a drawer because I liked drawing. My dream changed a lot in my infant stage. However, as I entered middle school, I didn’t know what I want to do in my future. I couldn’t answer when my parents asked me what I want to become in the future. I thought a lot, but couldn’t find my answer. However, I have decided my dream now. I want to become a cabin attendant. The reason why I want to become a cabin attendant is because; I want to use my English skills in my job. Since I am a returnee student, I can speak English better than normal people. So I wanted to use my English skills in my job and improve a lot more. Also, I met many cabin attendants during my lifetime. Since I have been to many places with my family, I often took communications with the cabin attendants. They were always kind to customers and never showed their tiredness. They kept smiling during their works and treated us graciously. By looking many cabin attendants, I thought cabin attendant is not an easy work to do. However, I was fascinated with their work and thought I would like to become like them. I want to try my best to become a cabin attendant.

Do you guys have a dream??

Noryosen♪

 Last thirsday, September 24th, I took on noryosen with my companions of part time job at Dotor Cofee Shop.  Noryosen is a cruising ship around Tokyo Bay. We all wore yukata except me. I have 5th period so I had no much time to wear yukata. It was littele regretable for me.

 There were so many people in noryosen. The atomosphere was like a club. Everybody enjyoyed drinking, dancing, and talking with other unknown people. I talked with other people including foreigners. It was so interesting.
 I have been been open with my co-workers at Dotor. I was so fun!! The landscape from the ship was so beauiful. The ship ran under the rainbow bridge. I enjoyed last summer memory.

Part time job

Hi!! Today I'm going to talk about my part time job. I  work at Italin Restuarant in Shibuya. It is not a expensive Italian so many young people come here. The merit of this restuarant is an all-you-can-drink alcohol, unlimited. So, some customer comes early at noon and leaves at closing time. No matter how much you drink, it only costs 2500 yen. The food is really delicious and cheap too. I recommend pizza and steak there. It is the most popular food in the restuarant and in terms of steak, it always sold out.  However, there is things that I don't like in that restuarant. Since customer can drink alcohol unlimited they get sick and run into toilet. When the toilet got dirty with what you call a throw ups, we have to clean it up. Some restuarant take them cleaning charge to them but we don't do that. Some customer leave their friend sick and they star enjoying drinking again. Drinking is a merit but also a demerit too. However, it is a nice restuarant so I want you to come to were I work!!

Swimming Club

I'm in swimming club as a manager and I would like to talk about it.

There are more than 20 members and 6 of them are managers. We have a practice every morning except Sundays. It starts at 6:45 and ends at 10:30. We have a practice afternoon on Wednesday and Saturday. We mainly use the pool which is in junior high school but in summer we move to outdoor swimming pool in university. My work is mainly taking the time of the swimmers, giving a massage and stretching them. It was my first time to massage people so it was difficult to remember and learn how to do. I'm having fun being in the swimming club but because it starts at very early time it is difficult for me to wake up.

About my twin sister

I have to sisters. They are 25 years old and they are twins. They are identical twins but they don't look like each other. Today I'm going to talk about them. My oldest sister is called Aoi.  She speaks calmly and she is really pure. She  got married this year and  is pregnent now. The doctor said that the baby boy would be born on November, so I am really excited! I will be an aunt in this age!!
Next, I'll tell you about my second oldest sister. Her name is Akane. She is big and rough and scary but sometimes nice. She is not marride yet but she is in love with someone.
Maybe you have already realized. "Realize what?" You may think. About their name. Aoi means blue and Akane means red in English and me..... Wakana. Wakana means young green in English so it is like a traffic light!!  Isn't it funny??
If  I get married and got a child, I might name them Hikari or something because in Japanese,  Hikari means light and it is the image of yellow.
 

Last Weekend

I watched a movie "Any Day Now" last Saturday at my house. Its name in Japanese is "Chocolate Donuts". Do you know it? My favorite actress recommended this movie so I watched it. The movie took a lot of prizes. The story was about a couple of homosexual who want to get and bring up a child of down's syndrome. There were many prejudice and problems for them. The story based on a true story. I moved very much and thought many things. If you have a chance, I recommend this movie for you.  Thank you for reading.

A dream while sleeping

Usually I don't have dreams while sleeping, but had a terrible one this morning.
My father had passed away in a car crash, and me and other family members and my friends were talking about it over dinner.
while listening to their talk I felt tears started shedding from my eyes so, I stood up, left the dinner table and went upstairs.
I was so regretful not having done much to my father despite what big thing he had done to me. And also thought of life starting from now.
Just seconds before I opened my eyes I recognized it was a dream.
It's actually a bit embarrassing to post something like this but I will surely keep the dream in mind and will never forget how I felt in the dream.

The foods in season

I love eating and I always eat a lot.
However, I really want to eat many things especially in fall!
My favorite food in fall is chestnuts :-)
I am very happy because many snacks collaborate with chestnut in this season.
I also like baked sweet potato, so I always buy snacks, for example chocolates, I always buy it even when I`m broke.
I want to go chesnuts-gathering this year:)
Do you like food of fall too?

LIGHTNING

 Hi people! This is my first blog and I am a little nervous but I 'll try my best on it. 

This time I would like to tell about my club. I belong to the american football club. the team name is LIGHTNING. I play the LineBacker. 

 Many people ask me why I joined the club so I would like to tell about that first. I was born in the united states and I was raised there form most of my childhood until I was 10. Then I moved to Thailand until I was 15 and I entered Aogaku from high school. American Football is a very popular sports in the states, but I have never played it because I was actually scared of injuries. However I loved watching NFL and college football so I was interested in Football. This April as I entered the university, there were many freshman welcome parties from many student circles. I went to some of them, however I felt nothing from it. I always wanted to play football so I encouraged myself and joined the American Football club LIGHTNING.

 My position is the LineBacker I am in the defense team and my job is to tackle the ball career and to intercept the ball as possible. It is a difficult position but it is deep and fun at the same time.

 LIGHTNING plays in the 2nd division leagus of the Kantou Student American Football Association. Our teams goal is to raise to the 1st division. This year Our season has already started. We practiced everyday except Mondays through summer and we had hell week for 11 days at Chiba. We were all prepared for the season and we thought that we can fight enough against other universities.

Recently our season this year  has started and we played 2games already against Seikei University ZELKOVAS and Orbelin University THREE NAILS CROWNS. both games we lost in such a close points. But we still have 5 games left this season and we still have a chance to go up to the 1st division ao dwe will try our best to fight throughout the season.  

Happy News

Good evening.

 I have a happy news. Sho Narita, who is a ace pitcher of Akita mercantile high school, hands in an application of hoping to be a professional baseball player.
　I'm from Akita, so I was happy to hear the news. His high school participated in 2015 summer Koshien tournament, and won to best 8. His pitching was very good and his name was spread from Koshien studium. After summer Koshien tournament, he was elected representative player of world high school baseball tournament. His height is 168cm and weight is 68kg. He is not as big as general proffesional pitcher, but he throws max 144km/h straight and very sharp vartical slider. I hope that he show us his wonderful pitching in the professional world.
 

Losing My Weight

I have got to lose my weight immediately!
Since I love eating, this is very difficult. When I was in high school, I was in tennis club, and I was able to eat whatever I want.  But now, I don't get exercise that much, so I have to reduce my meal.
I once felt that I really have to lose weight, and didn't eat, but my friends told me you`ll soon rebound if you don't eat in good balance, so I gave up.
Recently, I really feel that Japanese girls are very skinny. There is some kind of mind control by media and models that the thinner you are, the better you look. I really hate this rule, but I can't ignore this mind control.
I sometimes wonder that is I was in America, I might not have cared about my weight.I think this thinner the better rule is particular to Japan.

Teachers wanted!!

Hi I'll write about a part time job.
Recently, two people has left the job. They could teach maths and science, so we are in trouble as most of the workers include me are not good at them. The season of the entrance examination is coming, if you were good at both or either of them when you were in junior high or high school, please come to the cram school I work at and help us!

October!!!

Hi!

It`s October already and it is getting colder and colder.

Right now I have a bad cold and I don`t really feel well.

One of the following reasons might be my lack of sleep. I always sleep around 25:00 and wake up before 6:00 in the morning.

Until I get better I would keep in mind to sleep as early as possible.

 

October

Hi
How are you?
These days I feel Autmn has come. It's October from today! It's only 3 months more to go in 2015.
Time goes so fast.
I like autmn very much. Not too hot and not too cold. I really like the smell of  Kinmokusei, but unfortunately in Aogaku it amells really bad because of the gingko nut...
The other thing I like in autumn in Japan is that there are so many delicious things, such as pumpkins, sweet potatoes and chess nuts. There are manythings I want to eat. If you have tried any of these sweets or something special in autmn and it was worth eating please let me know!

Another thing that reminds me this season is October Fest in Germany. I have lived in Munich  and that is where October Fest is held. It is a beer festival and it is very famous . Many people visit Germany in this time of the year. The beer is huge!! Not only beer is good but also children can enjoy. They have fun thing slike amusement park. They have many things to eat.
I'll show you some pictures! If you are interested, you should go and visit some day!

I had an ice cream today

I had a Mont Blanc flavored ice cream today at kobai. As soon as I saw the sign, I knew I had to eat it. It was very good. If you like Mont Blanc, it's worth eating.

My best friend's birthday!

Today was my best friend's birthday.  So we did surprise party to her! She looked very surprised. 

Yesterday, I made a very very big mistake. I was choosing her birthday present at the shop, and I happened to sent photos of them to her!!! I thought she noticed, but she wasn't. That was close. 

One of my friend brought the cake which looks like a ramen. It looks like actual ramen, and my best friend was thinking that it is actually a ramen. 

I was very happy to see her happy face. She was about to cry.  

I wish she will have a great year!

About TED

Hello.
I want to write about TED.

As you know, TED is a very good website because TED gives us new ideas which we have never thought before.
I watched TED for the first time when I was a high school student. In modern society class, the teacher showed us the TED video. That TED video is TED for Japan, so also the presenter is a Japanese. The presenter is a woman and she talked about economic.
Her idea is that Japanese people should decrease working time. She claimed that working a lot caused a vicious circle. In the end, she suggested that Japanese company should employ new members to reduce the burdens per person.

When I watched her TED video, I was amazed and I agreed with her.
Her TED video made me think about my future. TED is the place that everyone all over the world can share the ideas. I think TED is essential to get world better.
If you want to watch her TED video, please search like below on YouTube.

“Life balance: Yoshie Komuro at TEDxTokyo”

I hope everyone watch it.

Drawbacks of Aoyamagakuin university

I like my university,Aoyamagakuin very much. I love its beautiful campus. Every time I walk around the campus, it always reminds me that I am a student of Akyamagakuin. There are many good points of Aoyama but there are some drawbacks too. The biggest one is that a ginkgo nut smells!! Since autumn arrived, the Main Street smells so bad and I hate walking along it. Next, Aoyama is too crowded with so many students. I can't find an open seat in the cafeteria. When the class ends, so many students come out of the classroom and it is so hard to ride on an escalator or an elevator.
But overall, I like my university very much and am proud of being a student of Aoyamagakuin.

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part-time job

 I have two part-time jobs now.

 The one is a teacher at Yotsuya gakuin (a juku for high school students, junior high students, and elementary school students) in Yokohama. I studied there when I was a 3rd garade high school student because I had an entering examination of universities. The reason why I choose this job is that I want to be good at teaching something to others. I teach English to a girl who is a first-year student at high school. I'm so struggling to let her understand English clearly....

(the logo of Yotsuya Gakuin)

 The other is a waitress at a Japanese food pub at Yokohama station. Its name is En. Do you know or Have you been to En? If you don't, you should come to eat. Dishes are very creative and nice, and we have a lot of kinds of drinks! It is very hard work but I like this workplace.

( the appearance of En at Yokohama JOINUS)

(all dishes are so nice<3)

 Having two jobs while having a club activity is very hard, but they are worthwhile. I want never to give up all of them.

My hometown

         Where do you think I lived until this April? If you think I lived in Kanto area, the answer is not correct. I lived in Yamagata. What images do you have about Yamagata? The most popular foods are Sakurambo and Imoni. To tell the truth, I lived in neither a city or a town. Maybe to your surprise, I lived in a village.
         The village I lived in is surrounded by the most popular river in Yamagata, Mogami river. The river crosses Yamagata. In my hometown, Mogami river is a sightseeing spot. At the river, We can enjoy going downstream in a boat. In summer, the color of the trees is so beautiful. The most exiting activities for children is going downstream in Rafts. Children can experience to make rafts. In winter, as my hometown in Tohoku area, we have a lot of snow. So, mountains are covered with snow. In a boat, we can enjoy snow scene.

         My hometown has a good term with Korea. So, many Korean women come to my hometown and marry Japanese men. In addition, some women come from Philippine and China. Although my village is so small and remote, there are a lot of cosmopolitans:)

Viewing moon!

Hello! Today, I would like to talk about yesterday's  viewing moon.
On September 28th , I went to viewing moon with my friends. We ate Oden, steamed bun, and dumplings!
It was Super moon, and the moon looked much larger, more beautiful. I had never seen moon with my friends at night. so it was very nice to have such an experience this time.
It was very wonderful if I could watch it from my house or friends's house, but we couldn't. So we just walked around Yoyogi and watched it.
We can see that super moon on 2033, which is super long time later. I will be 37 at that time! I can't imagine it.
Any way, I had fun very much! I loved it.
Thank you for reading my blog!

About my high school.

Today I would like to talk about my high school.

I went to a school called Narita Kokusai High School where there were the international course and the general course. Since my favorite subject was English and wanted to improve my English skills, I decided to go to the international course.

One of my English teacher was really enthusiastic in teaching us English.

Although I had some tough time following him, he always helped me whenever I had problem in classes.

In my school there were many practical classes like presentation, debating and discussion so I had many chances to use my English and improve it.

 Also I love my friends who I met in high school. Everyone was studying English with enthusiasm and they always stimulated me a lot whenever I was losing my motivation to study hard.

 

I would like to say a huge thank you to my high school because the three years which I spent has made what I am today.

 

I still miss my high school days but I hope I can have lots of good experiences here in Aogaku like I did in my high school.

                      
         (This is one of my favorite photoes which was taken in the the housetop.)

my high school

I was in a high school called Tokyo Jogakukan, which is located in Shibuya. It is a girl’s school and I spent 6 years there. There are 6 classes in total and I was in a class called International class. International class is a class that half of the students are returnee students and homeroom teacher is an English teacher. Also, International class had no class shuffle for 6 years. So everyone in my class were on the best of terms. When it comes to intramural match, my class was the best since we had the bond of solidarity.

I thought spending 6 years in a girl’s school would going to be a tough thing, but contrary to my expectations it was really fun! That is because I didn’t have to care about boy’s eyes. However, one thing that I didn’t like about my school was that there were many strict school regulations. I could not stop off somewhere on my way home and put my school uniform photo on the SNS. I thought that is too strict for high school students. Did anyone have these strict rules at your high school?

 

Summer Trip

Hello!
Today, I will talk about a trip I took during my summer vacation.
I went to Taiwan with my family to visit my dad in Taipei. My dad is currently woirking in Taiwan so we went there to see him. We spent a week at my dad's place and he showed us around to many places. Where I enjoyed the most was Jiufen. Jiufen is said to be the place which gave strong hint as the stage for "Sento Chihiro no Kamikakushi". There were many lanterns at night and it was very beautiful.
Also, foods in Taiwan was great. I especially liked Xiaolongbao! It was the most delicious xiaolongbao I had ever eaten. There were so many delicious food there.

I really enjoyed my stay in Taiwan so  I  want to visit again!

My favorite actor

Hello.
In this blog, I want to write about my favorite actor.

My favorite actor is Eddie Redmayne. Do you know him?
He is a British actor,and he won the academy award last year.
He played the role of Stephen Hawking who is ALS. His performance was praised highly by all over the world. The title of this movie is “ The theory of everything.” If you have never watched this movie, you should watch it. Of course, the performances are splendid, but also the music of this movie is very beautiful. If you have time, please watch it.

His another famous movie is “Les Misérables.” In this movie, he performed his beautiful singing voice. I think this movie made him famous. If you hear his singing voice, you must fall in love. However,actually I fell in love in his face.
The new movie which star in Eddie will be released in 2016. The title is “Danish Girl.” I am looking forward to seeing it!

september 9, 2015

                  At the end of my summer vacation, I went rafting in Tama river. It was a last day for my vacation. The reason why I enjoyed rafting such a right before my vacation would be over was I studied English in Australia for three weeks and came back to Japan in September 12; five days before my university classes would start. I couldn’t hang out with my Japanese friends in this summer. Therefore, I asked one of my friends to plan to go rafting with my circle members and went to the river. I spent amazing time even though it was my first time to play rafting.                
                  Rafting is a sport which people enjoy in the river. We get on the raft with five or six people and go down the river. Each guy has to have a paddle and they must cooperate with each other in order to decide a course and avoid hitting big rocks. It’s very interesting and also exciting. If you have never done it, I recommend you to play rafting!

My Club Activity

Do you know lacrosse? Lacrosse is a kind of field sports and almost like basketball except for using a stick.  I belong to the lacrosse club in this university. We usually practice early morning and 5days in a week. I often use a first train for going to the practice. It is very hard and difficult for me to play lacrosse well, but I enjoy it.
We have almost 100 members in this club!!! and 43 poeple are same period as me!!!!

                                (it was taken after the practice in May, and almost all members are here)

(they are sooooooo noisy and crazy but nice and passionate XD)

 

 

I always appreciate that there are many great members, seniors, coach, and parents who support me very much.

 

We have an extremely important game on Oct.10. If you like, please come to watch and cheer up us!!!!! Although I can't play in this game, you will be deeply impressed our wonderful play, and you surely come to like LACROSSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 

 

My favorite artist

Hi! Today I want write about my favorite artist. They are called BIG BANG. They are Korean artist. I love them so much. The reason why I love them is that every one of them sing song wonderfully and their songs are soooo good!!! What is more, they are handsome. My favorite member is called G-Dragon. He is super at rap. I love his solo songs too. And he is very handsome. I like his Smily face. But there is one thing that has been troubling BIG BANG fans. It is that they have to serve in the army. They are Korean men and have not been served in the army. This means that they have to stop being an artist for two years. It is so sad. But of course we BIG BANG fans will wait until they come back. But there is still time before they go, so I want to enjoy their new coming songs. Also I am going to their world tour in Tokyo in November!!! I am sosososo exited!!

About My Name

Hello, everyone.

Have you ever asked your parents about your name?

My name is Natsumi, and it comes from I was born in July, the midsummer.
Maybe the number of strokes was not good, my parents did not choose the kanji "Natsu" meaning summer. When I was a junior high school student, my name is often remembered wrong. I belonged to the calligraphy club at that time. A teacher who was in charge of this club, thought my name is Natsuko. And as he wrote my model of calligraphy, he wrote Natsuko at the left side. I don't know why he remembered my name in such a wrong way.

My name has a lot of strokes; I rarely encounter the person who has the same kanji.
Sometimes I feel hard to write my name throughout in kanji though, I like its visual appeal:)

All parents consider their baby's name deliberately and give many good meanings to the name. I want to cherish it.

I love my part-time job!

I work at Abercrombie & Fitch Ginza as a stock associate. I used to work as a brand representative but I switched. 
The best part working there is that I can make many friends! Associates are so close to each other. One day, I went to Disney Sea with friends from Abercrombie. The other day, I  had dinner with associates only born in 1996. We hang out on weekends, after work, and even on days off. 
I've had some part time jobs before, but I think this is the best part time job so far! I want to keep working there while I am in college.

My part-time job

         Do you work part-time job??? If you work, what kind of part-time job do you do? Today, let me introduce my part-time job:)
         Since this July, I have been work in Korean BBQ restaurant. Our restaurant isn't big enough to accommodate a lot of people. In addition, each customer spending is little expensive. The average spending is about from 6,000 yen to 10,000 yen each. The reason why I work there is that one of my friends introduce me to the owner. As I had never done part-time job until I started to work there, I worried a lot at first. But now, my coworkers are so kind to me that I enjoy working.
         We serve authentic Korean BBQ. Therefore, there are three Korean cooks and two Korean waiters. Of course, they all can fluently speak Japanese to some extent. But in kitchen, the air is filled with Korean. Sometimes, they isolate me by using Korean. If that happens, I also try to speak to them in Korean, "I can't understand what you are talking about in Korean!!" As I wan to take part in their conversation, I always search Korean words on the Internet or ask them to teach me Korean. Two Korean waiters go to Japanese school. Instead of being taught Korean, I teach them English. So, now I study four languages, which are Japanese, English, French and Korean!!
        There are a lot of what I should learn in my workplace. As I'm not planning to quit this part-time job, I want to experience more!    

About this weekend

Good evening, everyone!
I want to write about this weekend.

There was an autumn festival this weekend near my house. This autumn
festival was held for worshiping God. This festival is sponsored by
neighbor around the shrine. Traditionally they came in front of my
house carrying Mikoshi which is the small house of God to pray my
family’s health. It was very an honor thing. Through this festival, I
could talk many neighbors. I think it is important thing to get along
with neighbors because we can help each other soon if something wrong
happen. My neighbors were very friendly, so I could spend fun time! I
want to join this festival next year too. 

Dr Pepper

     Have you ever drunk Dr Pepper? I bought it for the first time yesterday.  I had a bad image of Dr Pepper because some of my friends said "It is terrible!!" so I wanted to know how its taste was like.

     I looked for the vending machine which sold Dr Pepper. I finally found it and paid 130 yen for the beverage.Then, I took it up and opened the can.

    The taste was not so bad as I had expected. But it wasn't worth paying 130 yen. I will buy another drink next time...

About my exciting weekends.

Hi. I would like to talk about my weekends.

On Saturday, I met my four friends from high school.

First of all we met at 21:00 in the station called Tsudanuma to go to Karaoke.
One of my friends` birthday was on that day so I suggested the rest of my friends to celebrate her as a surprise. While she was out of the Karaoke room, we quickly decollated the room and prepared the birthday cake and some presents. The moment she opened the room, we pulled the party popper and sung the birthday song.
It was a pleasure to see her being pleased with our surprise.

 

 The next day, we joined the event called “The Bubble Run”.

This is an event where are covered with bubbles and run about three kilometers.
When we arrived at the place, the weather was not so good so I was a little bit anxious whether it would start raining. However as we were running, the clouds cleared up.After we reached the goal we enjoyed the music festival and eating a lot.

I really enjoyed The Bubble Run and the two days which I spent with them was so exciting. Although we all go to different universities, I hope to see them soon again.

 

 

 

 

Three plans

It was  a wonderful day for me yesterday.
In the morning, I went to the cinema to see a movie with my sister.
She and I are twins. We are very close and we often go to see movies together.
We saw "Disqualification as a Heroine" . I am a fan of an actor who plays an important roll in this film. I think that this film was very funny :-)

After that, I went to the stadium to watch a baseball game.
One of my friends were waiting for me there.
We had reserved two tickets for bleachers and enjoyed the game!
We were happy because our team  won!
There will be no day when we can go there in this season but I am going to watch games frequently.

In the evening, I met two of my friends at the restaurant in my hometown.
We are members of the same club when we were high school students.
(There were only three in our grade.)
I talked a lot with them about memories in high school days and the life in AGU.
I would like to be friends with them forever.

"Yakitorinplc"

In this weekend, a city next to my town held "Yakitorinplic." It was an event collected national famous yaki-tori. The reason it was held in the city is yaki-tori is a supeciality of the city. Usually it's made of chicken, but in the city, it's made of pork and it's ate with spicy miso sauce. The most famous shop is in front of a station, so surrounding of the station is often nice smell. I've eaten it some times, and I like the miso sauce very much! I can't go the event in this weekend, but my father and sister went there yesterday. They bought yaki-tori made of Yonezawa beef. It cost 1,000 yen per one! It was very yummy. I became to eat more famous yaki-tori :)

My Summer Vacation

Hello!

     Today, I'll talk about my summer vacation. I think almost all of you enjoyed your summer time. But I spent most of the summer vacation in studying English to take TOEIC test.

     First, I want to tell you why I decided to take TOEIC. TOEIC is a good opportunity to improve English skills and will be a big advantage when I start looking for jobs in the future. But these are minor reasons. The main reason is that it was a reasonable excuse to quit my part-time job.  I had worked at restaurant until August. But it was too busy and I thought I couldn't work any more. So I told the manager that I would quit the job in order to get a qualification.

     I used mock exams to prepare for the actual test.  At first, my score was not so good. It is hard to answer all questions because TOEIC requires speed and accuracy. But I reviewed over and over, my score was gradually better. At the last practice exam, my score was over 850 (full score is 990 ).

    However, I couldn't do my best in the actual test... Although the time was running out, I didin't answer some questions. I makred some answers randomly in the end :(

    Official score certificate will arrive in next month. I'm looking for it.

My high school

Good afternoon, everyone.

Today, I went to my high school`s school festival. It was lot of fun.
I met many friends, teachers, and juniors. They remind me of good old days.
I went to a girls high school which is in Kamakura. Its near the Yuigahama beach. I went to there for 6 years. I chose this only because the school uniform is pretty.
When I was in middle school, I hated school because the teachers and school rules were so strict, but after I became high school student, I realized how kind teachers were.
I still love and respect my homeroom teacher. She was such a educated woman. She was always concerned about students and thinks of us for the first priority. I first hated her because she was so strict to me. But I stared to realize that she is strict because she thinks of me very much. I feel very happy that she was my homeroom teacher for 5 years! I think, without her, I would never be the one that I am now.

I also the the friends that I met there. We are now all going to different school and going to different ways, so I miss them so much. But I believe that we could still keep in touch even if we became grandma!

I love my high school!  I wish to visit there again soon!

about myself

Hi my name is Rikako Yamamoto. Let me introduce about myself.

I was born in Tokyo and went to International school for 6 years and learned English there. I have a brother who is 2 years younger than me. I have a pet dog named Vanilla. She is a miniature Schnauzer and she is 9 years old.
I was in Kendo club when I was a junior high school and continued until I graduated high school. In Aogaku I am in swimming club as a manager. I have a practice every morning so it is tough for me to wake up and jobs are very difficult but I am having fun being with the members.

Thank you for reading my blog.

My new part-time job

I have two part-time jobs now. One is a clam school teacher, and the another is a cafeteria staff. Today, I'll talk about a cafeteria staff.

I started this part-time job recently. The shop is in Ikebukuro station, so it's always crowded. The job is very hard... Yesterday, I made a cash register strike for the first time. I was impatience, so I bothered to serious. Though I understood steps in my head, it was very difficult to do in fact.  I'll do my best to be accustomed to work calmly! If you work at a cafe, please give me advice.

My summer vacation has been like this.

Hello, everybody! Thank you for reading this blog.

This time, I would like to talk about my summer vacation. 

I worked in the event in Shiodome "Shiodome Street Festival" in this summer 1st to 16th of August. It was very hot. But it was fun and wonderful experience.

I went back Kochi to take photo of my coming age of ceremony. I was very happy to wear gorgeous kimono. 

I met my friend from Kochi at the end of August in Tokyo. We are friends since we were 1st grade of junior high school.  We went to Shimokitazawa and Shibuya. We had very good time in Tokyo. My friends are big fun of The Boy and the Beast. So we went to the exhibition.  They were so excited and I was very happy to see their happy faces. 

At the end of the summer vacation, I went to Disney land with my friends. I am from the south, so I had no chance to go there so often. I’ve been there once before on the school trip.  It was typhoon, and not so many people was there. We were able to ride many attractions. 

It was such a nice summer vacation. 

Introduce Myself

Hello, everyone!
My name is Natsumi Uchida. It's my first blog posting so I'm going to introduce myself.

First, about my hometown. I was born in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. Have you ever been to Ibaraki? I guess some of you’ve been there for ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL at summer. It's held in Hitachinaka, the north part of Ibaraki. But I live in south. You know, Ibaraki is famous for Natto. I really like Natto, I can eat 2 or 3 packs at one meal. Also sweet potato and lotus root are local specialties.

Second I'm talking about my hobby. I like listening to music. My favorite singers are YUI and Spitz. YUI is my best favorite singer but I'm sorry that she stopped solo work. I have almost every CD album of hers. The tone of her songs are nice.

Third, the reason why I chose English department. I've been interested in language since I was in high school. And English is the most familiar second language. Now I'm very happy to be able to learn English every day. I want to deepen my knowledge about language and cultural things.

Thank you for reading.

HELLO~!!:-)

Thanks for reading my first blog!!!
I'm going to introduce myself to you.
My name is Sakura Kitahara and I'm 18 years old girl. I'm from Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. I've lived there since I was born! The reason why I choose this university and major is that just I liked English and wanted to improve my English for my future dream. I'm not good at speaking English and can't have confident of my English at all. So, I want to study hard in this class and be a great English speaker! At first, I have to overcome extreme sleepiness oppressing me every day......

My brothers

 Do you have siblings? I have three great brothers and today I will write about them.

 The oldest brother is four years older than me and studying in university. His one of the future dreams is to be a pilot, so he studies very hard. Because I haven't lived with him since I was 9, I don't know about him a lot but our relationship is good. We went to the UK this March together for a trip which was fun.

 Younger brother who is 16 is surely my best friend. We send LINE nearly every day.  He is tall and very nice. We both like rap music and our favorite song is usually the same though I don't know why.

 He is good at playing badminton, singing and thinking cool outfits. He also likes cycling.

 We spent such a good time when he visited me this summer. I want him to come to Tokyo after he graduates high school so that we can live together!

 The youngest brother has just entered junior high school this April. He is good at studying and seems to be enjoying school.

He learns boxing and is going to take part in a boxing match next year. Although I'm a little bit worried about him as boxing can be dangerous but I hope he'll enjoy it.

 I am very proud of having the best brothers in the world. I love them so much!

My home town

Hello!

Today i'm goingt to talk about my hometown. Before i came to Tokyo  I lived in Shizuoka. Shizuoka prefecture, Shizuoka city, so i was living in the middle of Shizuoka. What i like about Shizuoka is the air and the people. There are mountains and rivers and seas around Shiuzuoka and what's mnore, we can see Mt. Fuji everyday. I can even see it from the window at my room. The people there are heart warmed and they are willing to help others everytime. When I was small, I got lost in the middle of the city. I didn't have my cell phone that time so I counldn't call my parent for help. After 10 minutes or so, one woman came up to me and asked my what happened and when I told everything that i was lost, she lent me her cell phone and i was able to call my family, I thanked her so much and the next day, my mother asked her adr3ess and sent her some gift. There are more stories about the Shisuzoka people but for today, I will finish it here. Thank you for reading my blog!

About my summer memory

Hellow.
 I have a so great memory during summer vacation. It is my trip to Kansai. I have stayed there for about 4 days. The 6days made me so fun!
 First day and second day, I visited Hiroshima. My friends of Aogaku visited with me. We visited Genbaku dome, Miyajima, and Hiroshima castle. I saw for the first time and was so moved. First day's night, we went to Matsuda studium to watch baseball game, Hiroshima vs Hanshin. I regret to say that my favorite team Tigers lost, but we enjoyed watching in the beautiful and big studium.
 Three day and last day, my friends turn back to them hometown, so I tralelled alone.I visited Osaka.
In Osaka, I enjoyed eating!! Okonomiyaki, kushikatsu, and manjyu. food was so good!!
I want to go to Kansai again.

Where did you trip to during this summer vacation??