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Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Strokes

I'm going to be playing the drums at Sagamihara festival. Our band will cover some songs of The Strokes. It's an American indie rock band and one of my favourite songs is called "Reptelia" which we're gotta play. The practice is hard but you know it is said practice makes perfect. I' can't wait!

Lunch

I went to a cafe called "milk cafe" with my friend to have lunch . The cafe is at Omotesando and wasn't so far from school. I had outside and it looked beautiful and of course the taste was good. The cafe was cute and the staff who works there also looked beautiful!!! Every one who works there looked like a model. After we had lunch,we walked to Harajuku. Harajuku was so crowded and it started to rain so I got tired.

Oktapodi

What happened in the story: This story started with Two yellow and pink colored octopus which loved each other. One day, pink octopus was captured by a man. Yellow octopus noticed it and struggled to get it back.

3 characters in the story: Yellow octopus, Pink octopus, a man

What they want: yellow octopus wanted to save pink octopus. Pink octopus wanted to escape. A man wanted to carry pink octopus successfully.

Their problem: Two octopus had no enough power to resist a man. A man was not aware that octopus desperately tried to escape.

The ending and next: yellow octopus saved pink octopus however, yellow octopus was caught by a bird. Pink octopus tried to save it as it did.

Oktapodi

What happens- Two octopuses were in love but a man caught the pink octopus and they got apart. The other octopus chases the pink one and almost successes to run away but the man doesn't give up.

Characters- Male octopus, female octopus, man and a bird

What they want- The man wants the pink octopus. The male octopus wants to be with the female octopus so as the female octopus.

What happens after- I think the two octopuses will succeed to run away and live in the sea and live happy ever after!


Mont-Blanc

I love mont-blanc the best of all kinds of cakes. So I went to Jiyugaoka this weekend in order to visit "Mont-Blanc", which is the name of a cake shop. It is said that this shop was birthplace of mont-blanc in Japan. I had wanted to eat it for long time and finally the time was coming! The maron cream was not brown but yellow. It was so delicious and sweet. The atmosphere of this shop was very nice and luxurious. The other cakes also looked very delicious. When you go to Jiyugaoka, you should try them.

Yusuke Habu: I am Yusuke Habu, nice to meet you.

Good aftenoon, everyone. I am Yusuke Habu.
My hobby is to sing opera.

Oktapodi

What happens?  - An orange octopus and pink octopus were living together happily. Suddenly, a pink octopus was taken by a man, and orange octopus chased after the man to rescue her. After a fierce battle, an orange octopus succeeded to save her. However, a orange octopus was caught by a bird and for this time a pink octopus started to rescue an orange octopus.


Characters- Orange octopus, pink octopus, the man and the bird.

Want-The man wanted to get a pink octopus, a pink octopus wanted to escape from the man, and an orange octopus wanted to rescue a pink octopus.


The pink octopus will be able to rescue the orange octopus and they will live happily ever after.



favorite sports

 One of my favorite sports is tennis.
Though I've been playing tennis for almost 3 years, I'm not so good at playing it. So I want to improve my tennnis skill.
I also like skiing. I go to ski every winter with my family. I often go to Naeba( Niigata), GALA(Niigata), Tomamu(Hokkaido) and so on. But I can't do snowboard.

The sports I'm interested in now is rafting. It seems really thrilling, but I'm sure it must be so fun.

Just tell me If you know any good sports!!

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Summer vacation

This summer I went to Vancouver. It was my first time to leave Japan. Though the duration was too short to develop my English, it was really good experience!
I came to want to visit any other countries through this experience.
I'd like to visit many countries rather than stay a country long time.
In short, the trip to Vancouver effected me a lot.

cooking

Tonight, my mom stays with her mother and her sister. So I had to prepare dinner. Mom said she give me money to buy dinner at convenience store or something. But usually, I don't have a chance to cook, so I decided to cook by my self.  I cook vegetable pilaf thanks to Cook Pad. It was delicious :D I want to try another dishes and someday I'd like to cook for my family!

Yusuke Habu Oktapodi (assignment no.1)

What happens?
The fish department man took the pink octopus in his truck but the orange octopus wanted to save the pink octopus so she won't die. Eventually the orange octopus went into the truck and he fought with the fish department man and as a result, the orange octopus won the battle. After this, they thought they'll be safe but the bird took the orange octopus so the pink octopus started to try to save the orange octopus.

Characters?
The orange octopus (probably male), the pink octopus (probably female), the fish department man and
the bird.

What do the characters want?( Want?)
1. orange octopus:  He want to save the pink octopus and love her.
2. pink octopus:  She wanted to get out of the fish department man's truck.
3. the fish department man:  Probably he wanted the pink octopus to be the people's food.
4. bird:  Wanted to eat the orange octopus for food.

What is the problem? (What stops them?)
1. orange octopus: Difficult to fight back with the fish department man because he is strong.
2. pink octopus:Difficult to escape because he is a strong person.
3. the fish department man: Difficult to keep the pink octopus in the truck because the orange octopus
                                             is fighting.
4. bird: No problem. (If there is, that is when the pink octopus successfully flys to get the orange
                                 octopus from the bird.)

Ending? Next?
The pink octopus successfuly flys to get the orange octopus from the bird and they go back to the ocean and love each other. A very happy ending.




Oktapodi

What happens?-A orange octopus and pink one were living together and cuddling each other. Probably they are a couple, the orange one is a male and the pink one is a female. But one day, the female was captured as food by a man.

Characters- A couple and a man and a gull.

Want- The male want to help the female out of hand of the man. On the other, the man want to take the female to a market as soon as possible.

Problem/Ending/Next- The problem is that for the male octopus, the opponent is strong and also, for the man, the opponent is strong. After a harsh battle, the male was able to rescue the female from the man. But later on, the male was caught by a gull soon next time. It is likely that the female will help out the male vice versa and a former life will return.

Oktapodi

Main characters are orange octopus(male), pink octopus(female) and a man

What happens: Orange and pink octopuses were living together peacefully, but one day the man took the pink one out in order to ship.

Orange octopus wanted to get the pink one back, and the man wanted to accomplish shipping it

Conflict: Orange octopus and pink octopus versus the man

Ending: Orange octopus successfully rescued pink octopus from the man's car, but as the result, a sea mew held orange octopus and flew. So pink octopus became braver than orange octopus in order to rescue it

I think it was a great fight of life and death. However, It aroused mixed feeling in me because human-beings always have absolute advantages  in the real world.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Skrillex

Today skrillex tweeted that he is in Tokyo, so I and my friends decided to find him after classes.
After an hour searching, we finally met him in shibuya. He was kind and nice,and I was totally nervous.  I still can't believe that I met him.  Video that I filmed with him is on my instagram.

oktapodi

Three main characters in this short film would be the orange octopus, the pink octopus and the man who took the pink octopus.

The pink octopus was taken by a man, so the orange octopus chased after the man to get her back.

After an intense battle, the octopuses beat the man. However, a sea gull took the orange octopus at the end, and then it was pink ocopus' turn to run after the orange octopus.

The pink octopus will probably help the orange octopus immediately and they will live happily ever after:)

What the octopuses want is to stay together and the man wants to catch the pink ocopus so badly.





Monday, September 26, 2016

Hello

Hello, my name is Yuta Kobayashi.

I want to talk about myself just little bit. I was born in a town in Hchiouji Tokyo, and I'm still living in there with my family. I'm an only child, and I have my father and mother.
Hachioji is famous for Hachiouji ramen which has a tasty soy souce soop and topping is a chopped onion. It sounds simple but actually it's very tasty. If you come to Hachiouji, why you don't try this ramen! I recomend the ramen shop, that name is "Ichi". Let's try!

My hobby is going to Karaoke and reading books like noveles and mangas.
I like music such as American or the UK rock, and also J-pop. Recently my favourit group is Pentatonix which is amazing acapera band. If you are interested in it, plese listen!

Nice to meet you!

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Hello

Hi, I'm Natsuko Nemoto.
I'm late for contributing comments, so today I'll talk about myself.
Although I'm not good at exchanging on the net, I'll do my best.

My hobby is reading novels and playing Judo. I like to be alone, so I always read mystery novels when I have classes. You can guess that I have few friends. :-p
My favorite novelists are Kotaro Isaka, Natsuo Kirino, Tokuro Nukui and Syusuke Michio. I like not only reading books but creating cray arts. If you search "Michio Syusuke  key holder" in Japanese on the Internet, you can easily find my cray arts.

And on every Tuesdays, I train Judo in a training hole in Ogikubo. My friends often treat me as a gentle person, but in fact I like combative sports and I'm hot-blooded. However, please don't worry about my provoking a fight :-D  Well, I'm sleepy, see you later.

Oktapodi

Orange octopus and pink one wre together, but suddenly pink octopus was selected by a man to sell as food somewhere. Then orange octopus chased a car which he was driving and finally he  was able to get back pink octopus. However orange octopus was taken by a gull, and pink octopus followed the gull.

-character: Orange octopus, maybe male. Pink octopus, mybe female. A man.

-want: Orange octopus wanted to get her back. Pink octopus wanted to escape from the car. A man wanted to take her somewhere.

-problem: It was too hard for orange to chase the car outside the water.

-ending: Orange octopus ws taken by a gull, and pink octopus followed the gull.

-next: They managed to escape, and fell into the sea. However they would be aimed by something living in the sea again. I think the next is going to be like that.


Finally

Finally I can now start blogging in our class blog because I havent signed up until now. Its my part time job today from 12 noon until 10pm, and I know its going to be exhausting(sigh). I hope everybody is having an awesome day!

Friday, September 23, 2016

octapodi (HW)


What happens? - Pink octopus was going to be kidnapped by the man. So orange octopus tried to
                help her.



Character? - Orange octopus (maybe man) Pink octopus (maybe female) Man (driver)



Want? - Orange octopus: wants to help pink octopus
        Pink octopus: wants to escape from the man
        Man: wants to kidnap pink octopus



Problem? - Man never gave up to kidnap pink octopus, though he got some disadvantages.



Ending? - Orange octopus could help pink octopus but he was also going to be taken away by sea
          gull.



Next? - Pink octopus will try to help orange octopus. Perhaps man will come to kidnap pink
        octopus again. But I think they can beat him.


Sleepover

Today, I have a sleepover at my friend's house. We have known since we were high school students. We meet at least once a month. I'm so proud of having nice friends!

Describing animation of IE3 home work

 The story is about a octopus. There was a couple of octopuses in a water tank, and they were living happily. But suddenly, one guy caught the female octopus and took her with car to make her food. The male octopus tried catching up with the car to save her.
 There were three main characters. First is the orange male octopus, second is the pink female octopus and the third is the driver to take the female octopus.
 The driver want to carry octopuses because he want to make them hood. In opposit, the couple of octopuses want to try escape because they don't want to be a dish and just want to live safely.
 This story's confrict was happened between the people and octopus. It was described as chasing of them. People want to eat octopuses and octopuses don't want to be eaten.
 In the end of the story, the male octopus could save the female octopus. The driver and his car was went down to a sea during the chasing accidently. That looked happy end but suddenly, one bird caught the male  octopus to eat him. In this turn, the female octopus tried to save him from the bird, and the story was end. I expect if the story continues, they are repeating the same situation that another predeters come to try eating them but the couple save eachother again and again on the earth. Finaly  they will go to the moon to escape from the creature of an other planet and after escaping, they start to live on the moon, and they have family. Their progeny will evolve on the moon, and they are coming to the earth to eat creatures on there.

How do you do?

Hello, I'm Keisuke Watanabe. This is the 2nd time I take IE3 because I failed to pass it last semester. I'm not good at English especially speaking, but I'll do my best to pass this class. Nice to meet you!

Lunch

I had lunch with Mayu today. We had the same class in 2nd period.  It was the first time that we had lunch together.  We enjoyed lunch time :)

About summer vacation

I had really good time in this summer vacation. I went many places for trip, Fukuoka, Kuala Lumpool, Hong Kong and Hokkaido. Each is great memory for me. The most happiest thing for me is that I could go trip with my best friends. I want introduce its detail after this blog.

My part-time job

Today, I want to introduce about my part-time job.
I'm a waitress of a Japanese dining at Shibuya Hikarie. Our restraunt have many delicious food and many kinds of Japanese Sake. It is a Japanese restraunt, but we only have tables and chairs, and BGM is always Jazz. So the atmosphere is casual, but almost all guest is adult. Many foreigners visit us, also. Sometimes I feel difficult to do good service for them, but it is fun. Every staffs are kind, so I could have continue this job almost 2 years.

Rainy Day☔️


It's heavy rain out side today. Such bad wether totally makes me feel like doing nothing at all!! But there are some favorite  ways to survive these bad weather days.

One is watching movies at home. I would recommend you to chose serial drama on rainy day because  you have nothing to do and would have much free time. It's a good chance to complete your favorite drama in a day! I've done it before, it was little bit tired though, I do not regret that because I was really satisfied when I finished all episodes.

Another way is go wall-ball. I play lacrosse in college team, and l often do wall-ball. It doesn't matter how bad the weather is because my wall has its roof so that I can do wall-ball in comfortable environment.

These are my favorite ways to spend rainy days! I recommend the way I wrote at first for you!

oversleep

I overslept this morning. I was supposed to get up at 7:30 but I woke up 8:20. I didn't have time to have breakfast but I managed to get to the class room in time.

dinner

I will have a dinner with my senior tonight. I'm a little bit tired but I can't wait. See you later.

Food

These days I try to eat Nattou every day because I heard Nattou is very healthful to our body. Since I had started to live alone I haven't been eaten foods regularity. Oh, I have just noticed that I have to go university now, so see you guys later!

Clothes

These days,it getting cold suddenly and the weather is unstable. It is difficult to decide what to wear. I haven't changed clothes for fall and winter yet and I don't have trendy clothes. So I will go shopping with my friend tomorrow. I hope I can find cool clothes.

Shake Shack

 I work at Shake Shack. It's hamburger restaurant which is not so far from Aoyama Gakuin univ.
I work at there three times a week since June. The members in Shake Shack are so kind and nice, so I really enjoy my part time job time.
Last day,our  new event "Shacktober Fest" started.  We sell some limited item.
If you have a time, please visit Shake Shack!!

Suicide squad

Today, no yesterday, I had a holiday. So I watched a movie `Suicide squad`. Because I had interested in it.
I originally like MARVEL. Because they are so cool and very fun. So if there are somebody who like them, let's talk about them.
And there is only one that I want to say by watching `Suicide squad`. It is `Harley Quinn is sooooooooooo cute.` I want you to watch her very much.

Nice to meet you

Nice to meet you.
Hello, I am Tomoya Oka. I think you don't know about me. Because I was not in your IE class. This time, I became to take IE3 again because I was lazy in this spring. So I have a few friends in this class. And I really want more friends. I am not good at using English so much. So I want you to teach me English gently.  
And I am doing a little too much homework of mine at 04:00 on Friday. I am a person who can't do my homework until the day before the deadline. Maybe some people can agree. 
So I want to enjoy our class. And I want to pass it!!

The first contribution


  Actually, I was looking forward to this class blog because this is the first time I was told to write
a blog in a class. Moreover, I have done it in Japanese several times, but never done it in English.
So, I wanted to try to do it! I'll do my best to look for many topics so that I can contribute. See you
tomorrow.

Practice dance

I practiced dance from midnight to morning. After I came back home in the morning, I did my homework and practiced again. So i'm tired now but it was so enjoyable. Good night.

My summer vacation


I went to Oxford in this summer.
I joined the program to study abroad in AGU, I had stayed for a month.
It's really fun for me!
Firstly, there were a lot of beautiful building and I could feel deep history in the city.
I had the English class Monday to Friday and I was in free time on weekends. In my class, I studied about British history, customs, and so on. It was most interesting for me to study about the difference between US and UK. In my free time, I enjoyed the small trip example of London.
However, the meal was terrible for me. So I really missed Japanese food during staying there.
I couldn't forget this summer vacation. I hope that my English skill was brushed up!

Movie day

 I went to the theater to watch the Japanese movie "Ikari" today.
It was mystery movie. I was very impressed the content of the movie. Acter and actress were good at expressing their feelings. I really like to this movie. I'd like to recommend!

My part time job

I am going to talk about my part time job. I work at Doutor Coffee Shop in Nerima. I have been working there since when I was in high school. Although there are so many things I have to memorize, I like to work there because my co workers are so nice and I like working with them. I usually work once in a after school and Sunday.

My summer vacation

Today, I'm going to talk what I did during summer vacation.  First, I went Justin Biber's concert with my friend, Mayu. I had so much fun with her because it was my first time going to Justin's concert. 
Then few days later, I went to Malaysia with my family as a trip. Things were very cheap there so I did a lot of shopping with my mom. I bought some clothes, bags, souvenirs for my friends, and so on.    I also found amazing drink called "Teh Tarik" This is milk tea with some sweet milk and it's famous in some Asian countries. I bought tea bags of Teh Tarik for souvenirs and also for myself. 
I had an amazing summer vacation and I can't wait to spend summer next year!

 

Movies

I like to watch movies. When I was in junior high school, I like Japanese movies or Disney movies. When I was a high school student, I like foreign movies, because I have been interested in English since then. I often watch foreign movies with English subtitles. But now, I like especially Korean movies or Korean dramas. I have some Korean friends, so I try to study Korean by watching movies. Actually, I don't know it helps me study Korean, because I just read subtitles. Anyway, I watched "My Sassy Girl." This movie is almost funny, but sometimes romantic. The last scene is so good. You must be touched. I wanna recommend you this one!

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Swedish film festival

Swedish film festival is held in Euro Space in Shibuya. I went there and enjoyed watching the film called, " The Here After." it was really fun!

my friends

From last Friday, I had busy days. So I completely forgot to join this IE3 blog. But my friends talked about the blog in our line group, then I remember that I didn't accept invitation! Firstly, I failed to join so I was getting panic. But I remembered Dr. Armstrong's word"Don't panic", and I asked my friends for help. Soon, my friends replied me. Then I could solve the problem and eventually I achieved joining blog! I appreciate dear my friends! Thank you :)

Hello

Hi! I'm Momo Oya. This is my first blog at this IE3, so let me write about myself this time.

I've been living in Tokyo all up until now and I feel really comfortable to live at this city. I have some reasons that I love this city, the biggest thing  is that Tokyo has some various faces. There are some traditional places like Meiji-Jingu, Asakusa, and Tsukiji-Market. On the other hand, there are lots of places to chill out like shopping malls, movie theaters, coffee shops... and so on!

You've probably got to understand how I love this city, I also have my future plan to move to some different countries. I haven't decided where to live or what to do for living yet, I do want to do my job that I can have much opportunities to visit various places.

So, what I have to do for my future is improving  my language skill at this university.

my dog

I took a walk with my dog and my mother today. My dog is a black Labrador retriever and her name is Ramu. We walked after all this time, so she looked so happy and her steps were rhythmical.
She is already 10 years old, so she moved more slowly than before and her hair of chin changed to white. Though her power is still strong because she is a kind of large dogs. During walking, it began to rain,so we went home earlier than we had thought. But it was very fun. I hope that it will be sunny next time.

Yesterday

Yesterday, I went to yukimi mochi-mochi cafe with my friends. I ate yukimi warabimochi. It was delicious. There is the cafe near AGU. So I recommend you to go there!

Part time job

Today is a day off from school but since I had nothing to do, I will talk about my part time job.
I work at Excelsior Caffe in Takadanobaba. I have been working there since June. Because there are so many things I have to remember, I thought I will never manage to do the work by myself at first. However, I'm finally getting used to it!
I have part time job before going to school tomorrow. I hate getting up early to go to part time job:(

Reunion

Last night, I reunited with my friends from primary school for the first time in many years. It felt nothing like we have not met each other for a long time. We talked about our memories of when we were primary school kids, our UNI lives and some random things. Although I felt quite nervous meeting them, there was nothing to worry about. I had so much fun and I am glad I have gone to the gathering!

Lazy

Althogh second term has just begun, I feel like it's still in vacation mode. When I had nothing to do in vacation I almost spent lazy summer afternoon. I woke out of sleep mid-afternoon, so it's too hard for me to wake up early morning these days. I think it will take a lot of days to get used to early morning.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Rainy

It has been raining for few days. It seems that the summer has end.  I miss summer so much, and already looking forward for next summer...
Today I have my dance lesson at midnight. But before that I have classes and my part time job. It's going to be a tuff day.