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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
My favorite Japanese actor
Also, I like Erika Sawahiri. She is the most beautiful actress I have ever seen. In the past, she was hated by the press because her attitude towards them was horrible. And after she got married she kept away from the screen but recently she has come back. She came back as a wonderful and nice actress and I like her very much. She was a trouble maker but now she has grown and fascinated people.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Information skills.
At the first semester, I always went straight back home but at this semester, after my class finish,
I`m going to go to the computer room to do my information skills.
Since I`m not good at using the computer, it isn`t easy for me to acquire computer skills but I want to
earn my information skills credit as soon as possible.
Good Night.
Ramen Museum
It was my first time visiting Ramen Museum. There were so many ramen shops inside the museum so it was hard deciding which to eat. I chose miso ramen and it was delicious.
I also liked the atmosphere of old townscape. It made me feel like I was in a different time.
I had so much fun and it was great visiting there!
Oktapodi
Characters: Two octopuses, a man
Conflict: Octopus vs. Human
Climax: The man's truck crushed into the sea and two octopuses were safe.
Irony: Two octopuses got away from the man, but another enemy comes and takes the orange octopus away.
Symbol: Octopus represents the criticial feeling of an animal that gets eaten by human.
Theme: Always be greatful for what we eat.
Oktapodi
Theme: The food chain. All living things try hard to survive but the relationship between each of them is just "to eat" or "be eaten". It sounds a bit merciless, while it shows dynamic vitality.
Oktapodi
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a female actopus
a man who drives a car
Setting : in somewhere in Europe ( I guess it from scenery)
in 21st century
Conflict : two octopi and a man
Climax : whem they finally fled from a man
Symbols: their big eyes represent how big their love are
Irony : They were able to flee from a man but a seagull took one of them away.
Theme : Human should not be selfish.
Love will be stronger through overcoing difficulties.
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Characters: A male and a female octopus, and a man.
Conflict: The two octopuses vs the man.
Climax: The octopuses could run away from the man, and the man fell into the sea.
Symbol: The two octopuses represents the natural feeling when animals are killed by human.
Irony: After they escaped from the man, the male octopus was caught by the bird.
Theme: It is really important for us to always be grateful for what we eat.
Oktapodi
Character: a couple of octopuses and a man
Conflict: two octopuses and one person
Climax: A men fell into the sea
Irony: When two octopuses could ran away from a man, one of the octopuses was caught by a bird
Theme: It is important to make efforts to get out of a problem.
Symbol: Two octopuses represents a human who makes efforts to settle a problem
Oktapodi
Character: two octopuses, a man
Setting: maybe in Greece, in summer
Conflict: two octopuses vs from a man trying to get them
climax: two octopuses run away from the man and he finally falls into the sea
symble: octopuses are the symble of fighting between animals and humans
Irony: octopuses thought they sucseeded from being killed but then another enemy arrives.
Theme: One misfortune followed close on the heels of another.
Celeste and Jesse Forever
It is an American movie from 2012. The story is about married best friends, Celeste and Jesse, who are now going through a divorce. Although, they are still a best friends. They both start going out with different person but can't stop thinking about each other.
I really liked the movie! It's worth watching it. I want to marry someone I can have a friendship like Celeste and Jesse's. Though, I don't like the ending. It is not a bad ending but not my kind of ending either.
Oktapodi
Characters: the Orange Octopus, the Pink Octopus, and the Human
The Orange Octopus and the Pink Octopus are in love with each other. The Human is a predator. He wants to cook the octopus.
Conflict: The octopuses want to be together, but the human separates them. He takes the Pink one to cook.
Climax: two octopuses survive from being cooked and eaten. The human falls into the sea.
Symbols: Octopus; symbol of food, bravery
Irony: Two octopuses survive but when they think they can finally be together, a seagull take the Orange one away.
Theme: Be grateful for food. I think this film wants to tell us that food also has feeling and to be thankful for being able to eat pretty much anything we want. That is why the ungrateful human falls into the sea.
Oktapodi
Setting: a town in maybe Greece in a summer.
Conflict: two octopuses vs. one person.
Climax: They escaped from the man, and he felt down the sea.
Symbol: A bird represents an accident.
Irony: When the two octopuses thought they got freedom, the female one was captured by a bird.
Theme: Loves are inevitable suddenly accidents.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
My guitar
I have five guitars.
Let me introduce one of them.
It is called ”white falcon”.
I think this guitar is one of the most beautiful guitar in the world.
The body is white and gold.
This is my white falcon.
I always clean up this guitar after playing it.
I really love to play this guitar.
Thank you for reading.
Oktapodi.
Main Characters: Two octopuses and one man.
Setting: European countries like Italy because the town is near the ocean.
Conflict: The two octopuses vs human
Climax: When the two octopuses finally escaped from the man and then he goes down to the ocean.
Symbol: the bird represents the obstacle in our human life.
the man represents just human think and the octopus presents the feeling which is hidden
inside animals.
Irony: After the man feels to the ocean and the two octopuses had a narrow escape from danger,
the bird came to take the female octopus.
Theme: We eat food unconsiouslly but this movie tells us that animals have feeling just like we
human do. We must realize the value of eating food like octopus. Also we must no waste
food.
Oktapodi
Setting: Some town in Greece, in a hot day.
Characters: male octopus, female octopus, and one man
Conflict: two octopus vs one man
Climax: When man jumped into ocean and two octopus were safe.
Symbol: water
Water symbolize difference of variety. For octopus, water is where they live in, but for human, under water is where we can't breathe and live.
Irony: Where sea bird took away an octopus.
Theme: Life won't work the way you want.
Oktapodi
I've never been to Greece but it looked like the photos I see of Greece. The houses are white and blue coloured, and they have stairs in the town. It seemed hot.
Characters: 1. male octopus 2. female octopus 3. a man
Conflict: the two octopus against the man
Octopus trying not to be killed, and the man trying to get it cooked.
Climax: when the two octopus escaped from the man and the man fell into the sea.
Symbol: The man represents us human. The octopus represents relationship.
Irony: When the bird comes and take the male octopus after escaping from the man.
Theme: To think of others. How human are egoists. To help each other.
Oktapodi
Most atractive city
Okutapodi
Conflict: I think it is mainly the two octopus against the man. At first the male octopus fight to help the female octopus from the man. Towards the end I can indicate that it will change to female against the bird.
Climax: The climax was when two octopus escaped from the truck.
Symbols: two octopus which represents true love.
Irony: Two octopus can't be together so easily.
Theme: You can overcome difficulties with love.
Riding
I started riding when I was in elementary school. It is very interesting for me.
Last week, I went to Nagano to practice riding with our club members. Captain of the cavalry taught us how to ride more nicely.
About my childhood.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Tokyo Disney Sea with one of my friends :)
My summer vacation
My grandfather
My favorite bird!
Hi!! Do you like animals? Today, I would like to talk about my favorite bird.
Although, I had no interest in animals until recently, one image on the Internet changed my attitude toward them.

This is the picture. It is so cute, isn't it? This bird is Shimaenaga. Shimaenaga is a white and tiny bird. It lives in Hokkaido and is called "fairy of snow". I've been fascinated by Shimaenaga since I found the picture. If you want to see more images, please let me know! I have many cute pictures of Shimaenaga.
Hometown
I think my hometown is Chofu, Tokyo. The reason why I am not sure where my hometown is, is because I’ve moved to many places in an early age. After I was born in Tokyo, I moved to Hong Kong, and then Kobe, Yokohama, America, and finally came back to Chofu, Tokyo. So, I think my hometown is Chofu. I think most people don’t know where Chofu is. It is close to Kichijoji and Mitaka. Chofu is famous for soba and Gegegenokitarou. There are many delicious sobaya in Chofu. Many famous people come to Chofu to eat soba too.
Chofu is not a fashionable place, but it is very calm and people are friendly. It is true that there is nothing to do except to eat soba, but I think everyone should come to Chofu once and try soba.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Saying thank you.
I can say thank you to my friends naturally.
On the other hand, although I always feel a sense of gratitude especially to my mother and father, it is not easy to say it to them directly because it a little bit shy to do so.
About myself
Singapore
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
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
Noryosen♪
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
Swimming Club
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
A dream while sleeping
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.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
The foods in season
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
Happy News
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!!
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!!!
October
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!










