Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Breakfast

This morning, I made a breakfast with my mother. I got up at seven and started to cook. My family usually eat miso soup and rice every morning. At first, we made miso soup. Today, we used Japanese white radish, frying oil and tofu for ingredients. Also, we usually use blended soybean paste in my family. This is the picture.
After cooking miso soup, we made side dish. First, I made an omelet. When you make an omelet well, it is a game with time. In my family, we put salt and sugar into beaten egg. After I mixed it, I poured it into frying pan. Then, it is hasty. Being careful about not becoming solid, I broiled it smoothly. This is the omelet I made. After that, I broiled Vienna sausages.

\\That’s all for this breakfast!! //
I want to be able to cook myself in the future, so I’d like to cook sometimes.


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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Hikari-no-Forest!!!

My third favorite place is Hikari-no-Mori. I often go shopping there because it is relatively near my home. Sometimes, I go there on my way home. Also, there are some my favorite shops.


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My favorite Drink

One of my favorite drink is Kouchakaden. I like it very much. It is milk tea. When I buy a plastic bottle drink, I almost buy it. I like Kouchakaden more than Gogo-no-koucha(afternoon tea). I can drink with every kind of meals and etc. I talk to my friends about it, they are all surprised! However, I like it very much how they criticize. I like cocoa too. I like both hot cocoa and ice cocoa. These days, Van Houten is popular among my club. It is sold at LAWSON of KGU, so many of my club members often drink it. Because I saw many of them enjoyed drinking it, I tried drinking it once some days ago. I thought it was a hit! I have taken to this cocoa.


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Chatmonchy

One of my favorite musician is chatmonchy. It is a Japanese band. The band is girls band. Vocal and guitar is Eriko Hashimoto, bass is Akiko Fukuoka and drums is Kumiko Takahashi. Fan of chatmonchy call them by nickname. Eriko Hasimoto is EcchanAkiko Fukuoka is Akkobin or Akko and Kumiko Takahashi is Kumikon. They and their songs are not only cute but also cool. Now, Kumikon left from the band and others have been active. However, I like the band when the bands were three members. I like their songs very much. Sometimes, their songs make me happy. Sometimes I sympathize their songs' words. Their songs' words are very good. These are expressed girl's feelings well. If you are interested in the band, please listen to their songs once.





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Three Peace Musketeers

The other day, I and my friend had a last practicing for the regular concert. After the practicing, we and another friend went to noodle shop. (We are members of same rock music club.) The noodle shop is Ippaku. The last time, we went to same shop and this time was revenge for us.


This time, I and a friend ordered froth curry noodle and another friend did parmigiano tomato cheese noodle.


Froth curry noodle was spicy a little. But, both noodles were good for us. After eating noodle, we ordered ice cream for free. We were saticfied very much!


We left the noodle shop and we went to cafe to drink coffee. The cafe is Hoshino coffee. We walked to there. At the middle of the way, we found a shop that sells cheap sweets! We were very interested in the shop, so we entered the shop. The shop owner was a old woman. It seems conventional. We bought some gums.


After that, we continued to walk and arrived Hoshino coffee. We ordered wiener kaffee and one cake.


We drunk it enjoying chatting. We haven't seen you for a long time, so we had a nice chat! We talked about various kind of contents. Because we forgot the time and enjoyed chatting, we were surprised that we talked for more than two hours!


I'm looking forward to coming together with this members again. We are three peace musketeers of our club!!


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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

swiss

The day before yesterday, I and my college friend walked from the University to the downtown of Kumamoto on impulse after the class. Because we wanted to eat rice very much, we looked for restaurant or cafe where we could eat rice. Then, we entered swiss at shimo- tori.

I ordered a beef stew and rice casserole and she ordered picnic plate. Picnic plate is s set of a beef stew and rice casserole and quiche. As it has been a day since I eat it last, it was very delicious to me. If you are Japanese people, it may be natural that you miss rice.
After we enjoyed chatting, we left the cafe. If I go to swiss again, I'd like to eat cake next time.

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Cosmo

I’m interested in cosmo very much. I like watching stars. Last year, I watched shooting stars four times. One of the chances was very rare. The shooting star is called “fire ball”. Its size is very big. One day, when I went to the station with my friends, we saw it by chance. We were very surprised! “Is it UFO!? It is very big!! Wow!!!” The next day, news programs on TV reported about it. I was glad such a valuable experience.

Also, my favorite design is cosmic design. If I find some goods of which cosmic design, I will be attracted soon. These days, the design is in fashion among the young. However, I'm interested in it before the fashion. Maybe since high school, I'm interested in it. Now, I have a backpack, bag, T-shirts and culottes. These are all cosmic design. The reason which I'm attracted the design is the colors are very complicated and beautiful. I think I will never lost interest of the design.


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Meat Sauce Spaghetti

One of my favorite foods is meat sauce spaghetti. I may like it the best of all kind of pasta. If I find the words "meat sauce spaghetti" or "bolognese"at cafe, restaurant and convenience store, against my better judgement, I often order it soon. I have a weakness for meat sauce and bolonese. Maybe, if I eat it every day, I don't have had enough of it. I want to eat it now because I write down this article and imagine the pasta.

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My Favorite Seat

I like driving. I like sitting passenger seat more than driver. I got a driver license freshman’s summer vacation, but I had driven a car about five times. One of the reason is I don’t have my car. I can drive my father’s car only, so I can’t drive the car every time when I want to drive. These days, more and more my friends are getting driver licenses. Many of them get their cars. They can go anytime anywhere. I’m jealous them! However, thanks to that, we can go faraway. That’s why, my opportunities to sit passenger seat of my friends have increased. When I sit passenger seat, I don’t really know why, but I have no end of topics to talk about. The time is very fun for me. Passenger seat has wonder space. I want to go drive with my friends from now on, but I want to sit passenger seat.



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On December 20th, we rock music club held a regular concert in winter at Django. At noon, we 3rd grade's girls went to KANBE to eat roast beef bowl.
The restaurant's concept is "To enjoy eating meat more casual, more reasonable price and more fashionable". The inside of the restaurant is a style of Western and fashionable. There are a lot kind of meat meals, such as steak, roast beef, uncured ham and so on. Maybe, you will be irresolute.

Roast beef bowl which we ordered stick out the beef from the bowl. It looks heavily, so I thought I would not be able to finish eating it first. However, when to try to eating, it was easy to eat. We could eat up all the food in no time.

If you are interested in it, let's go to KANBE! It is at opposite Sannenzaka tsutaya.


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\\ Surprising Party //

Last Saturday, as I said at this blog, I and my friend carried out a birthday surprising party for our common friend. We went COCORO cafe at Kikuyo at night. We instigators made a reservation and asked the cafe to prepare the cakes for surprising ahead of time and kept it a secret from the principal part's friend.

First, we enjoyed talking and eating pasta, chicken and rice casserole and pizza. When we ate enough, one of instigator (my friend) left the cafe once pretending to call someone. As she came back to the cafe, began to be played birthday song and a clerk brought a cute birthday plates. The principal part's friend seemed surprised! After that, we instigators gave her presents. These were a pair of earrings and a stole. She looked be pleased. We saw her reaction and felt quite relieved. We were glad to be able to success the surprising.

Then, we enjoyed chatting a lot and left the cafe with smiling. After that, we went Hikari-no-Mori and took some photo stickers. It had been one year and half since we took it last. Because it has been long time to us, it was very interesting!! We promised to take it again one year and half later.

I wish we are close friends in the future.


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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Christmas Nails

Last night, my friend came to my home. She likes doing her nails. She often change her nails each events. The other day, when I met her, she asked me to do my nails oh which Christmas version. Because I had never got my nails done, I asked her to do it.


It was started from deciding design. She brought a lot of color and parts. It was too many for me to decide soon. Because I couldn't decide only colors, she decided total designs. She did my nails with a practiced hand. It took about 2 hours until finishing nails. It was a well-made!! It's cute! I take a fancy to my nails. I often look at my nails whenever I notice. Thanks to her kindness! I want to get my nails done again.

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Kanmi-Dokoro

Amamiya is my favorite. It is a cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets. My first visit to there was spring in this year. After that, I went there two times.

I like its calm atmosphere very much. There are private rooms with kotatsu built into the floor and tables. In addition, there are not only many kinds of Japanese-style sweets, but also some kinds of meals. My favorite point is the menu is written elaborate illustration! It is very cute!! I think girls like it.

I want to go there again!


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Kira kira


These days, I often see some illuminations somewhere. Today, I want to show you an illumination at the down town of Kumamoto. I found the big Christmas tree tonight. The tree is near the New-s at kami-tori. It attracted the passersby' eyes, so many people took some pictures there.



Christmas is just around the corner. These days, I often think how spend this year's Christmas! I'm looking forward to coming Christmas!!

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Essay 2-03b: It is depend on how to use computers!!

Computers are very comfortable tool in various situations. People use computers not only for searching something but also for learning. 

In the case of college students, they use computers very often. They use computers in classes and at their home too. They use computers in many classes.

In writing class, they mainly use Blogger of Google and do blogging. They look their friends’ blogs and comment. After they look comments they received, they reply to it. Also, they do blogging at home too. They post typing homework, essays and book reviews in their blog. In this class, they seem to face the screen of computers the most.

In speaking class, they sometimes use PowerPoint for presentation. They make slides of PowerPoint and share with their teacher. After that, they give presentations using iPad. In addition, they make movies in the class. These are modern activities to use iPad in class. Also, they use EnglishCentral at home. There are many kinds of topics in EnglishCentral such as famous speech, movies and conversations. They watch these and pronounce, so computers score to it. It is a fine tool.

In listening class, they watch DVDs of news programs using computers. They catch the words and write down on their textbook. After that, they make pairs and pronounce it or listen their classmates’ pronounce using microphones. It is active.

These are example in class activities. However, there are the others’ convenience tools too. Computers are outstanding for searching. They can search something in a very short time. Also, Gmail is a convenience tool on the internet.

In this way, people use many kinds of computer tools for learning. There are a lot of comfortable tools in computers, people can use effectively depend on how to use it.



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Unusual

These days, trees became to turn red. At the university, today, maples and ginkgo trees are beautiful. But now, it's December and winter! It is very strange for me. Especially, this year!! I'm worried about the future of the earth.


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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Lunch Time

Last Friday, I went lunch with my friend after the class. We went to Nanpo small kitchen. The cafe is at the back street of Kami-tori. It is cozy, so it seems hiding place. The cafe is Asian dishes' cafe. My friend recommended the cafe to me.

There are some dishes I have never heard at the cafe. So, I ordered her recommend dish. My choice is nasi goreng and her choice is pho. Nasi goreng is a fried rice dishes in Indonesia and Malaysia. "Nasi" means rice and "goreng" means frying in these countries. The taste is spicy a little. On the other hand, pho is a famous Vietnamese dish. It is flat rice noodles' dish. The color of the noodles is clear and difficult to catch up using chop sticks. The taste is light. So, it is easy to eat. Both dishes were delicious.

In addition, we ordered sweets set menu too. The sweets were coconut's ice cream and waffle. We were impressed with the ice cream! The coconut's flavor was so rich. I want to eat it again!!

We satisfied with the dishes, deserts and the price. Almost of the menu are cheap. The popular prices are kind to students! I'd like to go the cafe again. And I will try pho next time.


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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Irish latte

The other day, I drunk this.


This is Irish latte at Tully's coffee. The taste is not so sweet and bitter and good. It's easy to drink. This latte is limited on winter. My recommend.


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Preparation for Surprising Party

The other day, I went to shopping to AEON moll with my friend. The purpose is to buy birthday presents for our common friend. We bought earring and stole. Moreover, we bought alike earring and stole together.

At the next time, we will hold a surprising party for her and made it looks like Christmas party at cafe. I hope to success the surprising. I'm looking forward to it very much!!

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Good Thing and Bad News

Last Saturday, I went to a beauty salon in haste. I ordered my beautician to cut my hair short and straight perm. The beauty salon is my favorite salon. I began to go after a coming-of-age celebration.  My hair is strong natural perm, so when I decide beauty salon, I'm so cautious. My beautician at the salon is very good for me. Because of that, I'd like to continue going to the salon.

When I had her have a shampoo, she said "I have a news to you." Although I had both expectation and worry to hear her news, I asked her to tell me the news. Her news is to quit her job until this year. The news made me very sad. But it was good to be able to meet her at last and say good-bye.

Her sense is excellent the day too. My new short hair style is my favorite the most! I want to meet her again someday.


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Friday, December 4, 2015

Today, I met my friend for a long time. Her schedules are so different from me and all of her schedules aren't match with my schedule. So I don't meet her once a week. When I met her today, her hair became short. I have been wanting to cut my hair a few weeks ago. So my desire to cut my hair became strongly today! I want to cut shorter than present. But it becomes colder these days. So I can hardly take action. I wish it becomes hotter...


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Neco

These day, my favorite smartphone application game is nekoatume. I play this game and be healed. Checking whether cats come to my garden is my recently routine.

This game is very easy to play. You supply cats' food and put some playthings. And you observe cats. If you take care of cats, sometimes they give you a present. They are very cute. I'm attached to cats.

If you become to be interested in this game, let's try it!!



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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Family Day

The other day, I went to Hamakatsu with my family. Hamakatsu is a fried pork cutlet restaurant. At this restaurant, if you order set menu, you can choose some. For example, dark miso soup or white miso soup, thinly shredded cabbage or diced cabbage and polished rice or cereals rice. Also, cabbage, miso soup, rice and pickles vegetables refills are free. In addition, this restaurant's fried pork cutlets are tender and so crispy. So, my mother often says "why the fried pork cutlets at restaurants are so tender and crispy? Why ...". After we went to this restaurant, we always eat too much. But this restaurant is our favorite.




After eating, my mother suddenly proposed to go to karaoke. So, I went to karaoke with my family. Going karaoke with my family is so rare. It has been quite a long time since I last sang with family. Although I was shy to sing in front of family at first, we enjoyed very much! Sometimes, it is not so bad such a day.



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Moomin Goods

My mother likes moomin. She collects moomin goods such as mugs. I like moomin too.

The other day, Kentucky Fried Chicken started to sell goods which are collaborated with moomin. These goods are mugs. There are four types of mugs. These mugs are different designs and one of these mugs is a special design. Before, KFC sold same collaborated goods. Then, the goods had been sold out soon. So, my mother said to me "we must go to KFC early to get moomin mugs!".


Last Sunday, we went to KFC. We bought 3 set menu with moomin soup mugs. We couldn't choose design, so we went home expecting! And, I opened the boxes. The results are two same green mugs and one blue mug. Unfortunately, we couldn't get special designed mug. But we were satisfied with the results. These mugs are all cute! After that, we ate fried chicken and hot cocoa which poured into mugs that we got at the day.


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Saturday, November 28, 2015

RING Ring ring ...

I like calling. But only who know each other well, such as friends. When I call my friends, I often ended up a long call. Even if we are far apart, I can hear her or his voice and feel her or his feeling directly by calling. In spite of LINE, I can see only letters and stamps. I can't imagine their real feeling. But the best way is to meet and talk to her or his face.


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BR 2-08: Romeo & Juliet



Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. This story is known for all over the world. Rome and Juliet are falling love, but their families have been strongly opposed for a long time. So, their love isn't accept. Because loving with someone is free, not accepting their loving and marriage is adult's selfish. However, they continue to love. At last, cause of misunderstanding, Romeo and Juliet die. By death of them, families of Romeo and Juliet can be reconciled. The story of their love is a tragedy.


 
Reference

William Shakespeare. (2006). Romeo & Juliet. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.
 

 
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Friday, November 27, 2015

BR 2-07: Christmas around the world




At the Christmas day, people all over the world celebrate by some kind of ways. Such as presents, enormous dinner, bright decoration and so on. At the day, everyone is buoyant and cheerful. Adults are as well. I like the atmosphere of the day. The beginning of the day is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. So, people have been enjoying Christmas for over 2,000 years! It's so long! The celebration is very big traditional event around the world. Christmas is coming soon. I'm looking forward to it.



Reference

Lesley Sims. (2005). Christmas around the world. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.



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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Triangular Chocolate Pie


This is a triangular chocolate pie. Every winter, this pies are on sale for a limited time at McDonald's. This pies are covered with a piecrust tasted cocoa and hot chocolate cream inside. This pie and hot coffee may be good combination.

I have been looking forward to eating it for some days. Yesterday, I could eat it! I want to eat it again in this winter!


 
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Sweet Caramel

Last Wednesday, I went to Starbucks with my friend. Our purpose is to drink Crunchy Caramel Toffee! There are two types, frappuccino and latte. These are new drinks at Starbucks.


I ordered frappuccino. The taste was sweet as a whole.  Caramel's sweet and almond's fragrant were mixed. The balance of the taste was good to me. I like it. If you are interested in it and sweet tooth, I recommend you to try to drink!


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Unique Noodle shop

The other day, I went to a noodle shop with my band members after finishing the band practice. The noodle shop is on my way from the studio. It is at street of Hakuzan. Its name is Ippaku.

We all visited the shop for the first time. When enter the shop, we were surprised because the shop was so fashionable! I can't think it is a noodle shop. Also, the menu is unique a little. There are common noodle too, such as laver noodle. But, some unique noodles attracted attention. For example, "milk noodle" and "tomato and cheese noodle". Especially, milk noodle is limited in winter. So, we all ordered milk noodles.
 

The taste looks like carbonara pasta. It was a new sensation to me. We promise to visit there together again. And I want to try to eat the other noodle next time.



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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

BR 2-06: The Musician of Bremen

" 'Let's run away! We can go to Bremen and join the town band.' said the four friends"



I didn't know about the story well. I knew only the characters(animals), an ass, a dog, a cat and a chicken.  I thought the animals become musicians before I read this book. However, they never become musicians at last. I was surprised they decided to join the town band to stop their owner's mean action. Each of them were cruelly treated by different mean actions. So their backgrounds looked like. Because of that, they may be able to be in unison.


Reference

The Brothers Grimm. (2007). The Musicians of Bremen. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.



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Foods in Winter

When winter comes, I often feel I want to drink corn potage. Especially late at night, I miss hot and sweet corn potage.

Also, speaking of winter, nabe is popular for Japanese people. There are a lot kind of nabe. Especially, I like kimchi nabe, oden and sukiyaki. In winter, my grandmother often cooks oden. She cooks it before a day and stew it very very long time. So, my grandmother's oden is delicious. I always feel her warmth when I eat it. I like her oden very much!

In this winter, I want to hold nabe party with my friends. It seems very fun!!


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Sunday, November 15, 2015

BR 2-05: The Gingerbread Man

" 'Run, run, as fast as you can You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!'said the gingerbread man "
 


The illustration is cute. So, as I began to read, I thought it may heartwarming story. But it is not. This story seems look like the RUNAWAY PANCAKE. These are eaten by animals nothing to do with the two sweets at last. I wish they didn't run away. But if foods are alive such as this story,  all the foods may run away because they don't want to be eaten.


Reference

Mairi Mackinnon. (2006). The Gingerbread Man. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.


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