Delicious Cupcakes

 I ate delicious cupcakes in my holiday. They are called N.Y. cupcakes and sold at mister Donut. There are six kinds of cupcakes. Lemon, chocolate, blueberry, strawberry, green tea and white. My father bought almost all of them except for strawberry. It was because it was sold out.

 I ate green tea and white. The taste of the dough of green tea cupcake is plain and there is a green tea whipped cream on it. The dough of white one tastes chocolate and the whipped cream is on it. They were very delicious and I want to eat them again. I also want to eat strawberry one. The prices of cupcakes are little expensive but I think the tastes of them are worth them.

 

Shopping in Yokohama

 Last Friday, I went to Yokohama with my friend after class. I hadn’t been to Yokohama for a long time so I was excited.

 We went to Loft which was in Yokohama station. At first, I was surprised at the scale of it. It was very large. There were many corners so I thought it was impossible to look around all of them in a day. Also, I was excited to see many kinds of commodities. I didn’t buy them but I could enjoy seeing various goods.

 After that, we went to the food section because there was a shop which my friend recommended. It sold Obanyaki. Obanyaki is a Japanese cake which is made of soft dough and there is a bean paste in it. In that shop, there were two kinds of bean paste so we could choose from them. It was very delicious and I took a fancy to it.

 I could enjoy my shopping and I want to go to other shop in Yokohama.

Circle

Good morning everyone! It is little cold today. Hot coco makes warm me up such a day.

Let me write about the article, circle. I was very impressed by the article after I read it. Certainly, everything in this world are made of circle. Sun, moon, earth, stars... And human relationship is also a circle. It is said "WA" in Japanese. I think our lives are also circle. As Dr. Armstrong said, when people are born, someone takes care of them. And after they get old, they have to be looked after by someone. We start our life and we come back to the same place again. It is a little sad thing, but our lives are circle.

Dear Yuka,

Thank you, Yuka! Then, please come to my hometown during vacation!

There are several strawberry picking tours in Tochigi prefecture^^ In that tour, we can eat the fresh one after the picking.

When I joined one of the tours with my family, we really enjoyed that. I hope that you’ll visit.

Idea about the circle

In Japan, we think that the circle is the symbol of eternal. Just like the idea about the cycle of reincarnation in Buddhism, it is considered as an endless concept. This idea which is related to the Buddhism is spread not only in Japan but also in other Asian countries. In Buddhism, there is a concept that our spirits continue circulating forever. However, no matter how many times the spirits repeating, we cannot experience our lives again, I think. There is no second chance we can enjoy our lives, so I thought that we need to appreciate our lives with all our might.

Doryokuka

Good morning! This is from my train.

It's hard to make posts in a train, but I want to make good use of my commuting time!

Today, let me write about one of my favorite words.

One of my favorite Japanese words is doryokuka.

According to one Japanese dictionary, doryokuka means someone who continues training in order to realize his or her goal or someone who tries to improve his or her abilities or skills.
Doryokuka is a industrious person in English.

Why do I like this word?

This is probably because of my own experience.

For 19 years, I have enjoyed a lot of hobbies such as baseball, shogi, or studying English.
I firmly believe that I can do such things because I have made a lot of efforts, spending much time.
What I am now is nothing but piles of my efforts!
In addition, during my high school life, I encountered with many doryokuka students.
All of them looked very cool and nice.
I have wanted to be a person like them.

Circle

I've heard that Japanese thought about life is based on circle. In Japanese, the circle is called "rinne". Rinne is one of the word of Buddhism. It means that we'll be born to this world again and again by changing the shape, in other words, life is forever.  On th other hand, I've also heard from my friend who is a Christian that afterlife is forever and we are judged whitch is proper to us heaven or hell at first and we shoud obey the judgement forever. 
Since there are no proofs,  it is hard to believe it completely, but I think both of them possible because no one (at least who is living) knows about the afterlife. By the way, I think it is interesting that there are many method about circle and life.

Circle

Circle is special shape and symbolizes a lot of things. In my opinion, circle mainly represents endless. For example, a ball is rolling endlessly if there is no resistance of friction, air and gravity. The planet is circle a like a ball. It continues to rotating infinitely. The case of clock, the shape of circle is symbol fof endless time. Additionally, ancient Buddhists tried to escape from the transmigration of the souls which means endless life. Thus, the circle is used all around the world ina lot of ways.Especially ancient people is said that they respected circle because it was mysterious shape. Fromthese points, I think circle means endless.

The meaning of circle

Good morning! This time, I would like to write about the meaning of circle.

It is often said that circles are a symbol of "endless" or "forever," so everyone knows this.
I came up with two other meanings.
First, I think circles stand for connections with others or a sense of unity.
If some people are surrounded by a circle, they will probably come to be conscious about a relationship with the people.
As for this, dictionaries show that circle actually means "peer" or "group."
Next, circles give a sense of territory (also territoriality?).
I think circles have an ability to create a special area around us.
Moreover these areas can provide stronger and more unique sense than squares or something.

About circle

  In my experince, circle is very close to me. We always wear the watch which is oftenly circle and which have no end. the clock is most meaningful circle in the world, I think. It is because a watch represent a time and time has no end. If we can know the end of the time, we have no life after that. As a result, a hand will never stop and the watch will be running forever in theory. However, I don't thimk time is  circle. This moment will never happen and we can't make up something that we lose. Our feeling does't circule, so  circle does't always mean forever, I think.

My idea about circle

I think that “circle” has two meanings.
One is human relationship or connection. When we see the shape of circle, we can know that circle is totally seamless. Probably that represents firm human relationship which does not break easily. In the relationship, all people are connected to everyone and no one is and will be out of it. 
The other is that what we have done comes back to ourselves. For example, if we study hard, we can get high score in the test. Also, if we behave kindly to others, you can make good relationship with them. On the other hand, if we don’t study, we might fail the test, and if we are rude to others, we might lose their trust. In short, what you have done will determine our future.

AMAZING WEEKEND!!!

Last weekend, I went to Fukuoka by myself. This is because BIGBANG had a concert there! I looked forward to it all the time. I was waiting for the day all the time. First day, I met my friend from high school, who lives in Fukuoka now. We ate lunch at Hakata and went her house.

Next day, the day came at last! I got up early and went to Yahuoku Dome. I met my friends from high school there. We got in line to buy some goods. I enjoyed talking with my friends for the first time in a long time. We were waiting the live with our hearts beating. PM3:00, finally the show began! We screamed when they came on stage. They were so cool during singing, but they were cute while talking. Luckily, our seats were great. It was very near them. It was very exciting show! Definitely I have to go their concert again!

 

Circle

Hi.
I have thought about the meaning of "circle." I searched on the Internet for the meaning and it mentioned: wholeness, unity, initiation, perfection, infinity, completion. My meaning of circle is, connection. As for the shape, it's connected all the way. It's not separated. It's forever. When people get in circle, they can communicate with people so easily. They feel they are connected. I don't know how to explain but people feel like connected. I'm saying the same phrase but... It's connection!!!

USJ

I went to USJ last weekend with my friends. Ive never been there. It was first time for me.
Actually, there are too many people there so we have to line up to ride attractions.
Especially we waited for really long time for riding that of Harry Potter. but it was quite exciting!!
I love Harry Potter so I was happy so much lol
Anyway, the most fantastic thing for me in USJ were Projection Mapping and the X'mas tree.
it was sooooo beautiful!
amazing!
I could spend special time!

the meaning of circle in japan

In my last class, I was taught that the circle shows something "forever".
But I think there are many other meanings in Japan. When I consulted the dictionary, I saw an intereting meaning. It was that the circle means the connection or relationship between people and people. I agreed with this meaning very much especially in Japan. Many Japanese always think about how they are thought by other people. They care too much about other people. Although this character of Japanese made them hard to argue on something, this made the good connection or rrelationship that Japanese have. Not the relationship that people could connect with everyone. It's among family or friends or people near.

Debate tournament to Kyoto

Hi! It's Natsuki. Yesterday, I came back to Tokyo from two days trip to Kyoto. The purpose is of course, debate. Two weeks ago, very very luckily, me and my senior won the Kanto tournament and got a ticket to the Zenkoku tournament. It was such a great experience for me. Because I could have a chance to do a game with my respected people at other universities. Of course. Most of recipients ware more seniors than me, so at first, peas terribly nervous about having games with such a great debaters but gradually I begun to think that it will be the most wonderful memories in this year for me and it's a great hornar to have a game with such people. As a result, my team could not win and proceed semi finals. However, thanks to this experience, I could draw a clear goal to achieve and have a courage to debating. So I want to express my gratitude for my partner Tomoki Senpai, and ESS club mates who support me a lot.

Wonderful concert

Yesterday I went to the regular concert of Rikkyo University Shomin Brass Band.

I was invited by my friend with whom I had lunch last Wednesday. Recently I hadn't listened to the brass band music in the concert hall. So I was looking forward to this day. 

The concert fantastic. Each tune was really good. In particular, in the last tune before encore, my friend, who is a saxophone player, played a solo! It was awesome! All in all, I was moved by their performance. When I was a junior high school and high school student, I belonged to the brass band and I was a tuba player, but I don't play the tuba now because of my part-time job. This concert made me feel like playing it again. I have heard that the brass band of Aoyama Gakuin is looking for tuba players. So if I can, I want to join the band next year!

12

December is my favorite month.
Why?
Because, it's my birth month!!!
... Of course, not only that. I like the town's atmosphere of this season very much.
The whole city is covered with warm lights and it's so romantic. It makes me feel happy.
I don't know why but everyone looks having a smile below the illuminations, in spite of the cold.
Also, december is the last month of a year.
It is a good chance to look back on and appreciate this year.
To have the year without any incidents maybe a normal thing to us, but I think that ordinary life is the most precious thing.
I like the word "While there is life there is hope." I think that is true and I want to not forget the gratitude as long as I live. That is my resolutions for next year! ... It's early but lol 

Lastly, I went to see many illuminations, so I will show you and let me finish this entry.

Circle

Today is a beautiful day. Brilliant blue sky! I'm sure that Dr.Armstrong must be thinking tha same.
This time I'll write about my concept of circle.
When I read the paper about it in last class I was very impressed about the description of man's life as circle. It was completely new perspective for me.

I used to think there is start and end, so if something starts that means someday it will end. But so far, I experienced the thing that I had thought ended starts again. For example, I met friends of elementary school after a long long time by chance. To tell the truth I thought I would never seen that friends when I graduated. Since then I've been getting in touch with them. Now I think that maybe just we decide start and end, everything have been circle in the past, now and in the future.

Cooking

Good evening!
Today was surprisingly cold. I can't believe that it's early December.

I worked till early evening at my part-time job and after coming back to home, somehow I felt like cooking.

I'm a person who carry out my words! 
This is tea flavored pound cake.
But actually I chose easy recipe so this took less than an hour. If you have pancake mix in your home, you can cook many kinds of cakes or cookies because there are various recipes which use that mixture.
Of course I also used it. 

Unfortunately I didn't have wheat flour, the number of recipes I could cook was limited. 

Though I have many ideas for sweets I want to cook, price of butter is now getting expensive.  

The general idea of the circle

Frankly, I have no ideas on Japanese traditional concept of the circle. I’ve never been conscious of a general idea of the circle, and I’ve never heard about it, too. I did some researches on the Internet, but in all the articles I found, the idea of the circle is related to Buddhism and a bit difficult to both neatly understand and explain. But I can tell you that it seems to be expressing something related to our lives or the universe. If I need to know it more specifically, I have to do more and more researches.

Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

Good evening!

 I joined Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at Aoyama campus last Friday. It was different from the Christmas events I have joined. In fact, I expected to be excited in such events. But there were holy atmosphere and I was relaxed by the hymn. I felt the Christianity. Recently Japanese enjoy the Christmas season as another culture. I think it is not bad, but we should learn the origin of the Christmas. I learned that Christmas is important ceremony which makes all people happy through this lighting event. I want Japanese to know it and think about the mean of the Christmas more deeply.

Varmints

This short movie's theme is importance of nature and plants, I think. 

The main character liked to live slowly and relax under the tree. But the industrialization started. He was upset and picked up branch of the tree. The world changed completely. He began new life which became industry. But he grew up the branch with clean water. Then, he was carried to the natural world.

I think that the industrial world in the movie represents our own world. Our world has forgotten the importance of nature. We should remember it. 

Vermint

This short film  focused on the nature, specially, plants. The hero is an observer of the plant there. He love the nature. However, suddenly  many buildings were constructed by another creatures. There was no green.

He tryed to keep the nature, but he couldn't. He had to adjust the urban style.Bad environment brought them serious death.

Finally, the huge creatures which were brought  up by hero destroyed the city,and hero was helped by this creatures.

This film said that importance of nature. Only what I felt strange is that after he was helped by the creatures, the place which he lived has destroyed. As a result, athe small part of green was recoverd, but not all.

This situation is as same as the real world. We  saved only what we can see now.

Varmints

Good afternoon. Today, I’m going to write about Varmints.

The main character loved the slow life in the nature. He knows the power of the nature to heal his mind and always cares the plants. But most varmints forgot the importance of the nature because they were too busy with their poor life for the efficiency and lost their healthy mind. They got sick physically and mentally.

It was exactly like our real society. Many people tend to forget think only about their work in their office and forget relaxing in the nature. The nature is essential not only to keep good environment but also heal us. Humankind cannot live without nature as varmints. 
Now, we have to notice this fact and think about it carefully through watching this movie.

Vermints

This short movie named Vermints was extremely interesting and became good chance to rethink about relationship between human and nature.

The main character tried to protect nature from the attack of concrete. It symbolized that human activities such as industry, deforestation and hunting animals and nature was destroyed because of this I guess. I also think that there is a hint that we have to do in this movie. It is a scene that main character brought a branch up preciously. I guess it means the importance of preservation. After watching this one, I changed my mind for nature.

Lunch with my mother

Last weekend, I ate out at the Italian restaurant with my mother in Futako-Tamagawa. One of my friends has worked for the restaurant, and she invited both me and my mother to the lunch. Kindly, she reserved our table in advance and gave a little discount for our meals. The cost of meals were not so cheap, but we enjoyed delicious foods and had a good time.

There were many kinds of dessert at the Italian restaurant, and surprisingly, all of them were cooked from the very beginning by well-skilled chef. The desserts change for the new one per month, so whenever I go there, I always can taste the sweets that I haven’t checked yet.

If you’d like to eat Italian food, I recommend you to go there and check this out! 

Varmints

First of all, I was amazed its beautiful pictures of Varmints. The scene which was full of nature at the beginning was beyond my expression. Also, there were no dialogue and no conversation through the film, I could felt various emotional wave from the character because it was rich in the expressional technique. All of characters in that film was animal, but I put into my personal feeling as if they were human like us. They behaved just like human, so I thought that the person who created this film was a man of insight.

The message that the creators wanted to tell us was that we shouldn’t make light of the great nature, I guessed. In addition to this, we need to keep pure mind which has a capability to state positively what you perceive.

Varmints

Today, I would like to write about the short animation, Varmints.
First of all, it’s clear that this film is a satire on urbanization. Mysterious creatures break into natural environment without consideration and destroyed it. As a result, they suffer from pollution caused by the lack of nature and too rapid industrialization. Then, the creatures that intruded into nature are, I think, symbol of human beings. At the second time of watching this film, I found that they never looked up into the sky in contrast to the main unnamed character. It is because why they didn’t notice the change of air and the suspicious white objects. I felt like that this film reflects not only the present but also our past mistake and future.

Honestly, I cannot understand what the ending means because I don’t know the white subjects. However, something are clear. One is that nature is necessary for all creatures. Second one is that nature is irreversible. In addition, I also think this describe human’s foolishness. We should take care each actions before we take.

Chofu

around Chofu Station from the 12th floor

Good evening!  This is Shinnosuke.

Let me write about Chofu City, where I live.

As some of you already know, I live in Chofu, which is located on around the center of Tokyo and has a population of about 230,000.

Chofu Station plays an important role as the center of Chofu and is used by more than 110,000 people a day.

In 2012, new Chofu Station was completed underground.

Now, a plan of development of Chofu Station area is ongoing, so new condominiums are being constracted.

Many people think that I should rent an apartment much nearer Aogaku because I lead a single life, and I think it's natural.

However, I have one important reason why I want to live in Chofu.

It's true that I spent almost all my life in Niigata and grew up there, but my birthplace is, to tell the truth, Hachioji, and in addition, I spent the first early months in Chofu.

My memory doesn't include the fact, so my parents told me that.

When I heard that, I was filled with feelings that can't be expressed by any words.

I decided to enter a college in Tokyo and live in Chofu.

I love Chofu so much that Chofu is one of my choices of future living places!

My Birthday

Last Sunday, I became 19. Before the day, I was took to Tokyo Disney Land by my friends. Since what I had told was only the meeting time, I was very surprise when they told me that we would go there. I was very moved because they remembered my wish and, moreover, realized it.
The weather was not so good at first, and we caught  heavy rain during 10:00~14:00. However, it was not problem for me since I wa ssatisfied with the situation that I was in my favorite place with my lovely best friends. Fortunately, after we rode 'space mountain', the weather became fine. Then we could have a precious time. The whole time, I felt happy and was filled with gratitude to them.
This memory and the neckless they gave me are tresures to me.

On my birthday, unexpectedly, I received a lot of birthday messages. Regardless of the length, I was grateful for all of them. At the dinner, I ate syabusyabu with my family and received birthday presents from my parents.(Very cute white bag, electronic dictionary and a letter!) Since my younger brother is a high school student studying hard for entrance exam,recently it was difficult for us to have meal all together. Then, at the night, I felt just the warmth of my family. I could enjoy relaxed family time.

llluminations

I went to Tokyo station to see illuminations with Mizuki. It was really beautiful. Id never seen such a beautiful illumination before. I want to go to another place during the season!

Varmints

Good evening, it's Miyui. Let me write about the short film, Varmints.

After I watched this film, I felt a little fear. Someday, the era like this film might come. Over urbanization may happen to our world.

These days, urbanization are progressing rapidly. Because of this, nature has been disappearing from our world. I lived in country side until 8 months before. Sometimes, I miss fresh air in my hometown just like the character in the film. I think the author tries to tell us that we can't live without nature. And the author want us to think about how the nature and human can live together. This film made me remember the importance and preciousness of the nature.

varmints

Im writing about varmints.

Fast of all, the scene at the very beginning of the movie  reminded me of the opening ceremony of the London Olympic; the scene of the industrial revolution. Lots and lots of labors build dirty gray buildings and factories, and beautiful nature was completely destroyed. I thought the same thing was depicted in the movie. Anyway, the creator might want to say that we have to stop destroying. I think it was about destruction leaded by human's selfish endless exploitation. However, something (looked like jerry fish) that save us was also depicted in the movie. It was created by the main character. He tried to keep fragment of the beautiful nature of the past (branch) and finally it brought them back to bright place like the past. I thought the creator also want to tell that each of us must not take this terrible sad trend for granted and obey (to destroy of our own accord was the worst...), but must do something to bring the beautiful nature back and we can do it. 

Varmints

I'd like to write about Varmints. This movie describes an urbanized world. In this world, a lot of buildings are standing and animals are suffering from contaminated air. Apparently this situation shows our real world. These days we are hoping to make our life more comfortable and carrying on urbanization. As a result, our life may actually became more comfortable than before. However, it had an utterly bad effect on nature, too. For example, deforestation and air pollution, which were described in this movie, are actual problem in the world today. When we do urbanization, we sometimes don't care the damage to the environment or other creatures, but the important thing is that humans are living in nature. So if we damage nature by urbanization, that will lead to the damage to ourselves. I thought this movie told us we shouldn't forget the earth is not only ours and we are living with nature.

varmints

Good evening.
This time I would like to write about the short film "Varmints". Simply speaking, this film is regarding to the urbanization. This movie focused on one town but this is actually not showing the problem of just a small scale but expressing how serious it is in the whole world. In the film, the creatures that are probably reflecting not only people but also animals, plants and any other living things are walking on the street as if they are going to die and actually some them fell down on the street. This is a bit exaggerated but definitely implying how serious the problem is.
Some white bubble kind of things appear during the film. At first, I was confused at these mysterious things but now I think these show the peaceful places like Tokyo. The place that most people who live in got used to the peace. Although the bubble is a good place to live in, the place that are not a bubble is increasing now and  the place where we could live are decreasing. Moreover, I think most people who live in the bubble aren't aware of this fact.

my whole body hurts

This week I had a very tight schedule.
First, on Sunday, I had a practice of my club team in the midnight. Monday and Tuesday was actually a day of rest and I spend my whole day doing my assignments. On Wednesday, I did a practice game with the other unversity team. We losed the game and this game left me many pains on my body. I often get some bruise on my body when I join a game but the pain disappears when I sleep in the night. However, this time the pain still continue and my waist really hurts now.
In spite of that, I am going to join the practice from now on. It was a very hard week, actually it's not finished yet, but I thought that I really like playing icehockey.

Vermints

Hi it's Saki. I would like to write about the short film "Vermints" we watched last week.
I felt a strong message from it. One thing is that people are building so many buildings. People are destroying beautiful nature that human beings need. Without them, people cannot live. This was clearly illustrated in the film. It was when the main character started coughing.
Second thing is that people are working too much. They seemed not enjoying their life. They walked with their face facing the ground.
I think it illustrated well of today's world.

VARMINTS

Good evening.
One year will end in a few weeks, its too fast!!!

I want to write my impression of the short film I saw, "Varmints."
At first, the peaceful grasslands and the twitter of birds was so beautiful and made my feelings gentle. It was like no where in this planet. When the land was suddenly invaded by the urbanization, I felt somewhat uneasy and got pain. I was wondering what I will feel when my ordinary lives were taken away all at once. The haggard creatures and the devastated city described the excessive urbanization very clearly. Visual effect of the dull screens also emphasized it. Though it was a happy ending for the varmints, the city below them was still damaged.
Urbanization may be necessary in this age, because the world is developing day by day and there are no few peole who will be rescued by it. However, it is not good to urbanize everything by ruining their own style of living. Urbanization has to be the way to make the life better, so if it is making the city worse, we don't need to do it forcibly.

Grandparents' house

I went to my grandparents' house last Monday. I stayed there for five hours because I have only 5th class on Monday. I had been looking forward to seeing them. I like talking with them and dishes which are made by my grandmother. So I wanted to eat lunch there, talking with them. They bought me a piece of cake and gave me my favorite sweet, Choco pie of Lotte. I showed recent photos to them because they had said that they wanted to see them. They said that it is good for me to have many experiences. So I wanted to try anything. They taught a lot of things which are helpful for me. I thank them. I'm going to go there in New Year's holiday with my family. I will see my uncle, aunt and cousins. I'm looking forward to seeing them. 

Vermints

I watched this short movie for the first time. At first there was beautiful nature and small creature looked feel comfortable, but soon it was destroyed by urbanization.
The scene that small creature treasured the last branch of the tree was so moving for me.
I thought that varmints mean that small creature or big jelly fish shaped creature but now I don't think so.

Also I think this movie is microcosm of our world. In fact Rapid modernization and industrialization caused global warming and it keeps to continue. I was scared when I watched the ending of the movie but if people don't try to improve this environmental problem, we follow the same as the movie.

Lunch in Rikkyo University

Yesterday I went to Rikkyo University because I was invited by one of my friends in the university. I had a lunch with him.
When I entered the cafeteria, I was very surprised.

The cafeteria was fantastic. It reminded me of the movie "Harry Potter."

This time I ate the pork cultet on rice. It was good. Perhaps it was more delicious than one in Aoyama Gakuin. I very satisfied, but he said to me, "there are a lot of menus reccomended by chef, but you chose the pork cutlet on rice instead of them! Why? I didn't think you would choose it!"
So Next time I will eat recommended menu.

When I leave Rikkyo University after lunch, I took this picture.

The ginkgo in the university was very beautiful.

All in all, I could have a good time in Rikkyo University. I thank him very much.

Varmints

I saw this short story for the first time last week.
At first, I thought the story was very happy because very beautiful and comfortable nature appeared in the beginning of the story.
However, soon after that, suddenly, the story became very dark and many high buildings were seen.
When seeing that, I found the story was not happy at all.
Due to the rapid urbanization, the air around that area and people there were polluted.
Finally, they became sick.
I've got two themes from that story.
First, extreme industrialization and urbanization have had bad effects on human and nature.
In the story, people got sick and nature was lost.
Second, the creater of the story gives us warning about our future.
If we continue today's convenient life, a similar situation can occur in reality, so the creater wants us to reconsider about our life.

virmints

Firstly, when I watched this short story, I felt something scareing. That's because in the beggining, we could see beautiful nature, but suddenly dark cloud spread and the world turned very dark. There were almost no space to see the sky because  of too many buildings and the air was very dusty. A strange main character which looks like dog or panda got a part of tree in his house. And it seemed the only hope to see the world that he have spent. I think the main theme of this short movie is people's anxiety for future. We, the humanbeings generates a lot of technologies which enables us to spend more and more confortable lives. However, at the same times, we hurt original nature on the earth. So this movie shows us a kind of fear against our future lives and gives us a message that it is the very time we should seriously consider about protecting our lives on the earth.

My youngest brother's birthday

Hi, it's Shinnosuke.
I have a looot of things to do this week, next week, forever. lol
Today, I would like to write about my youngest brother's birthday.


December 18 is my youngest brother's birthday (I have two little brothers).
Long time ago, I deciced to buy PASMO for his birthday.
PASMO is IC card mainly for taking trains, everyone knows, and you can put your name on PASMO if you like.
He has already had Suica on which his name is put, but he wants to have PASMO, too.
Do you want to know why?
That is because he and I have one hobby in common: trains
He wants to collect such cards because I have many such cards.
It's not difficult to get one, so I will buy one a few days later and send it to him.
He must be happy!

Carry Udon

These days, I'm really into eating Udon especially carry udon! My favorite udon restaurant is in the Omotesandou near the station called Senkichi. This time, I went to this restaurant with my seniors!! I was the only freshman! So I was really impressed with eating carry udon with my greatest seniors.

And of course, the taste of carry udon was really good. I recommend you to eat it!

Debate Tournament

Hi! It's Natsuki. Today, I'm going to write about my  resent daily life. Recently, I participated in a tournament called NAFAT. It's a one of the most hard tournament in this seasons.  So it was not a tournament that freshman can easily join. That means, I was really lucky. My partner is senior of my ESS club so I was really nervous about making mistakes but my Senpai leads me kindly and thought me a lot. Therefore I did as much as I could. Then, fortunately we got three wins and got a ticket to the next tournament in Kansai!!! That was such a great presure I have never experienced before! So I'm making a lot of efforts to win the next games at Kansai in this weekend.

With Tomoki Senpai who leads me to the good direction to win the game!

May your wishes come true.

Last week, I went to Tokyo Disneyland on a bad weather about the same level as typhoon(>o<`)
Because of it, the park was not so crouded and we were able to ride six attractions from after 6 o'clock. Though the splash mountain through a severe cold was quite like a hell, the christmas specification decorations were beautiful and above all, I was very satisfied with the projection mapping of the Cinderella castle, "Once Upon A Time."

The dreamy time still continues while looking for a present.
My brother is now a third year junior high school student and will take an entrance exams for high school next year. I wanted to courage him, so I bought a charm and socks as a gift. Inside the charm, I can write a message and wrote that he will succeed in his exams. Not the same one, but I had also gave him a similar charm on his junior high scool exams and has succeeded.

I think you're having a difficult time studying, but I'm always rooting for you!!!

I'm hungry!

Sorry the title isn't related to content.

Last Sunday I went to Tokyo Disney Sea with one of my best friends.

We watched Christmas special show called "colorful holiday greeting"
Mickey and his friends come to land by ship, dance and greet us with classic Christmas music.

That day was not too cold and beautiful shiny day so we could wait for the show without getting tired of feeling hard.

In Tokyo Disney Sea there are some restaurants or lounge where we can enjoy some alcohol. Since I'm not adult in law, not allowed to drink at there but I love those places' atmosphere. So I want to to be 20 as early as possible though I know there isn't any way.


I'll write about varmints later! 
Good night.

Cleaning my room

Today I spent almost all day cleaning my room. Recently I hadn't done it so much. So today I did it very hard. As a result, my room became much better than before. Also, I was able to refresh. It was a good change of pace. A new week will start from tomorrow and I have a lot of things to do. I want to deal with them positively.