LIKE

This woman is my favorite model these days.

Her name is Kaho Seto. I watch her at twitter and instagram. She is beautiful woman and natural beauty. Not elaborate. However, she is not only beautiful. Her feelings and words are so couth. I like to watch her twitter. I am often surprised her sense. In addition, she is only one year older than I. But, she is so mature. I feel close to her about that.


I like her so much. She is my recent favorite. And I respect her.

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New Face

Last Friday, I went to docomo shop with my mother. The purpose is to buy new smart phone! Until then, I used a feature phone. I had been using it from high school. It was my first cell phone for me. I had spent a lot of time with it. Inside of the feature phone, there are many memories to me. So, I was very much attached to the feature phone. However, I said good bye at this time.


It took about 4 hours to finish changing to smart phone. It was very long and so tired. Although I wondered which I select Xperia or iPhone so much, at last, I chose Xperia. I named it "peria-san". I'd like to use this new face sparingly. I want to get used to smart phone soon.

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tricot

One of my favorite bands is tricot. The band is indies band. The fixed members are three women. Ikkyu Nakashima is guitar and vocal. Hiromi Hirohiro is base. And Mothifo Kida is lead guitar. About one year ago, there was drummer who is a man. His name is komaki. But he withdrew tricot. So, new drummer woman joined tricot.

Tricot's musical pieces are very aggressive, but they are delicate. In addition, almost of their musical pieces have irregular beats. A lot of people are attracted with their high ability. When they make a musical pieces, Mothifo Kida brings phrases of the guitar, they decide the composition of the musical piece doing session together and at last, Ikkyu Nakashima sing along with the melodies. Then, their individual musical pieces are made.

My recommend of their musical pieces is 99.974℃. The musical piece may be the most aggressive one of them. As they hold lives and play it, the audience's tention becomes so high. The musical piece can be exiting one.

I knew the band about 2 years ago and be fascinated soon. Last year, I went to Fukuoka to go their live with my friend. Their live performance was so cool. I became to like them deeply. I want to go their live again if they come to Kumamoto or Fukuoka. But they often hold lives at overseas. So, I wish they would hold lives in Japan before long.

If you are interested in tricot, please listen once!

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Starwars episode1

The other day, I watched Starwars episode 1. This time, I watched Starwars for the first time. When I was young, the movie is popular, I think. But, I don't like to watch if it is the vogue. So, I think I didn't watch it then. Today, the latest movie of Starwars is shown. That's why, I tried to watch the movie.

However, the contents of the movie is a little difficult. Moreover, it is very long. It took more than 2 hours to watch it. So, I want to try to watch next series someday.

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Meat and Potato Stew

The other day, I made meat and potato stew at night.

Meat and potato stew is one of traditional foods in Japan. It is how to cook it. You need potatoed, carrots, onions, beef, konnyaku (a gelatinous food made from devil's-tongue starch), soy sauce, sake, sugar and so on to make it.

At first, you cut vegetables (carrots, potatoes, onions). After that, you fry meat and onions. And then, you put carrots, potatoes, onions and meat into a pot and pour water into the pot. After that, you put sugar, soy sauce and sake into the pot. At last, you put konnnyaku into thee pot. If you do this all process, it is finish to cooking!!

I would like to cook meat and potato stew again and again, I want to cook without recipe someday.

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School Festival

In Novemver 1st to 3rd, a school festival was held at KGU. It is called "takumasai". At there, my club (rock music club) had been held lives for all three days. My turns were only the last day.

Also, takumasi is very important event for junior. The reason is junior retires after finishing takumasai. They have to hand over their post to next generation. So, takumasai is one of the big turning point in my club.

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Eating Out with My Club Members!

Last Wednesday, I went to a restaurant with women who are older than me and my friends. They belong to rock band club. I belong to it too. The restaurant's meals are all large but the price is cheap, so it is kind to students. I ate a set meal with grilled meat. I was very surprised when I saw the meal’s volume for the first time. I couldn’t eat all. However, women except me finished eating! If I go to the restaurant again, I want to try to eat the meal up myself. In addition, I enjoyed talking too. We talked about my club, music clubs, girl talk, study and so on. I am looking forward to eating out with other women who are older than me and be in my club too someday.

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LIVE !

The other day, I went to Fukuoka by a highway express bus. I went to flumpool’s live. It was opening day of their 5^th tour. I went it with my friends who are friends since high school. After we arrived at a hall, we bought some live goods. Then, we changed into live T-shirts before the live starts. Unfortunately, our seats were far away from the stage. However, we were excited! After the concert, we took pictures a lot and we went karaoke. The next day, we strolled through Tenzin. Because I went to Tenzin for the first time, I was very surprised. There are a lot of stores. I want to go to there again and to take own time.

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Club Activities !!

I am a member of rock music club. We form bands with each other. A band has various parts, such as vocals, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. I play the guitar. I was a beginner when I joined the club. However, because about half of the members were beginner too at same grade to me, we were almost same starting line. At the club, freshmen have to form fixed band through a year. They have to remain same members which they formed fixed band a year. In addition, they can't form other bands except unless they are asked to form a band by older members to them. The members of sophomore and over can form bands freely. However, they become the merit system. The reason is that freshmen have to form fixed band, so they are certainly members of a band. The members of sophomore and over have to form bands or be asked to form a band someone if they want to appear on stages. Person who has get-up-and-go, make efforts or have a good command will be able to form a lot of bands and appear on the stages many times. In addition, the club gives one more concert every month. The club has more chance to play music in public than other music club. That is why I think the club has good environment. I can enjoy University life. One of the reasons is club activities I think. I want to get better like older members to me. Older members are really cool. I admire them. Furthermore, many freshmen joined the club, so I have to practice harder. Also, the club members are very kind people a lot. I always think it was good choice for me to join the club. I would like to continue to do it.

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Meat Party

The other day, I and friend held meat party at my friend home. At first, we went to the supermarket to buy foods. We were going to make grilled slices of meat. However, we decided to make yakitori too then. After we got home, we prepared for cooking. My friend made a fire because we were going to use shichirin. I cut vegetables and stuck pieces of meat on bamboo spits during the time. Then, we boiled it. Both grilled slices of meat and yakitori tasted good! I had never make yakitori and use shichirin. I enjoy the day very much. I want to cook it again.

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A Maiden in the service of a Shrine

From December 31st (2015) to January 3rd (2016), I had a part-time job of a maiden in the service of a shrine at Tamana. I went part-time job with my one of local friends. I had ever had one part-time job. It was also limited one. Because I don't have regular part-time job and I want to part-time job of a maiden in the service of a shrine, I decided to do it.

At December 31st, I went the temple at 8 at night. At there, I changed into hakama. And then, we took our place and be taught how to do the job. Around 12 o'clock, a lot of people gathered the temple to go to worship. From 12 to 2 o'clock, many people came. At 2 or 3, I finished my first work. After finishing, we ate buckwheat noodles eaten on New Year'd Eve together. Because I and my friend decided to stay the temple for 4 days, we slept at the temple.

The next day (January 1st), we got up at seven. We ate breakfast, dressed myself and changed into hakama. Before 9, we took our place and the work started at 9 o'clock. At the middle of the time, we had a lunch time. And started working again. It continued around 5. From January 1st to January 3rd, we did that.

As we take a breakfast and dinner, we ate it with the temple's Buddhist priests. We talked with them a lot. Their taking was enjoyable. So, we had a fun a lot.

The part-time job was not severe. But, it became good experience for me. If I have a chance to go to temple, I want to talk with the Buddhist priest.

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Mouse on the Keys

In October 11th, I went to a live at second sight in Kumamoto city with my friend. It was mouse on the keys' live. Mouse on the keys is a trio instrument band in Japan. The musical instruments which used in this band  are one drum and two keyboards. Sometimes, there are some wind instruments such as trumpet and sax. In this time, mouse on the keys' members and a sax player performed.

I'm attached to this band. I belong to rock music club now. When I was a freshman of this college, my friend told me this band. From then, I like this band. In addition, I played mouse on the keys' songs at the regular concert of my club before. At that time, I played piano. That's why,  the band is very special for me.

At the mouse on the keys' live (October 11th), their performance made me excited!! The time of their live was very good time. I'd like to play their songs again at the regular concert.

If you are attracted this band, please listen it once!

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BR 2-15: TITANIC


Titanic is famous for the movie all over the world. When I was young, I watched it some times. Nowadays, I remember the contents and scenes clearly. The movie was very impressive for me. So, I took this book in my hand at this time.
About one hundred years ago, the Titanic was one of the largest and luxurious steamship at that time. The unsinkable ship met with a tragic end. Also, the accident was the worst maritime accident at that time. Then, a lot of people died. Now, we think about the accident, it was horrifying bad news.


Reference

Anna Claybourne and Katie Daynes. (2006). TITANIC. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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BR 2-14: The Adventures of King Arthur

" 'Whoever pulls this sward from the stone is the true-born King of England.' said Merlin."

I have heard the name of King Arthur. His name is famous, I thought. But, I didn't know what he did, who he was.

This story is that. There was a legend that who could pull a sward out of a rock was able to become a king. Nobody could pull it. But, one day, a boy (his name is Arthur) tried to pull it and he could pull it easily. So, he became a king in Britain. After that, he could get a beautiful wife. He governed impartiality using a round table. So, he was called "knight of the round table". However, he was opposed to one of the comrades. King Aurthur was defeated. At the last time, he threw the sward to rerurn to the Holy Spirit of the lake. After that, a hand appeared, shaked the sward three times and it went away into the lake. 

The story is fantasy. It made me interested a lot.

Reference

 Angela Wilkes. (1981). The Adventures of King Arthur. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd. 

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BR 2-13: The Adventures of Sinbad the sailor

" 'Home again!' said Shinbad."

Shinbad comes from Arabian stories. It seems famous all over the world. But exactly, I didn't know this story before I read this book. I thought Shinbad is very clever man. Although he was left by his comrades, he could go home by using some way and got diamonds. The middle of the way, there were a lot of barriers. The barriers were so dangerous. But, he was able to clear them using his head. I was impressed with his bravery.

Reference

Katie Daynes. (2004). The Adventures of Shinbad the Sailor. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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BR 2-12: Chicken Licken

" 'The sky must be falling.' said Chicken Licken"

This story is about misunderstanding by a cowardly little chicken. He is very cowawrdly boy. Every day, some happenings made him scared. He wanted to run away from them. One day, a tiny acorn dropped from the tree and hit his head. It was the beginning of the chain of misunderstandings. He didn't see the corn. He felt sure that it was an act by the sky. The sky must be falling! Then, he told someone to someone. And, they believed him. But, they noticed his saying was not true, at last. They blamed him.

Reference

Russell Punter. (2007). Chicken Licken. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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BR 2-11: How Elephants lost their Wings

" 'Cock-a-doodle-do!' said the elephant"

Elephants have big body, so their crying are so noisy. For people, it is bad because elephants break their house and the trees. If elephants have wings and they can fly, it is not only cute but also fearful.  That's why, the gods took away their wings when they were sleeping. Though, it may fantastic only imagine. After finishing to read this book, I became to know the funny story is based on a folktale from India. I remembered the relation between India and elephants


Reference

Lesley Sims. (2007). How Elephants lost their Wings. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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Review4: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

This time, I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I had never watched this series (Indiana Jones). So, this time is the first time watching it for me. 



 
This story’s stage is Shanghai in 1935. At night club “Obi-Wan”, Willie Scott, who is a songstress, sang “Anything Goes”. There, Indiana who is an archeologist and adventurer had dealings with Lao Che who is a king of crimes in Shanghai. Indiana got a Buddhist mortuary tablet of Emperor Nurgaci who is an ancestor of Rao and exchanged with diamond. But Rao made him drink poison and tried to take back diamond. After their fighting over an antidote and the diamond and a riot of shooting, Indiana ran away with Willy and went to Shanghai Airport taking Short Round who is a Chinese boy. 

However, the airplane which was taken by them was Lao’s airplane. Two of pilots ran away by using parachutes when Indy and the others slept. Thanks that one of them noticed about that, they could get away from airplane and got onto a lifeboat. After that, they made an emergency landing. An old man saw that, the old man guided them to a village. At the village, villagers believed that they were saviors of legend . Fields at the village went to ruin. They heard that the people from Pancotto Palace took holy stones and children by force from the village’s elders. And he asked Indiana asked to take back the stone. At the next morning, they rode on elephants and went to Pancotto Palace. They got out of woods, entered the big palace and met prime minister.

 
At the palace, they met colonel of British army. The colonel said “Before first century, a group of believers of Kali were here.” The group entrapped the region into fear. At night, Indiana who came back to hisa bedroom was attacked by a professional killer. 
They found a secret passage at the back of a wall and entered it. In the passage, there were a lot of bugs and the bugs tried to pierce them. After that, they found a palace of the god of Kali.

The priest offered sacrifice. And then, many of believers prayed. After the formality, everyone was gone. After that, Indiana got closer to an altar, took three shining golden stones and put it into a bag. 
The priest said “There are five stones. Two of the stones were buried one hundred years ago. Now, children excavate the rest of the stones.” 

Indiana drank Kali’s blood and looked blank after that happened. Because of that, Shorty stimulated him by using a flame. Thanks to Shorty, Indiana could take back his sanity. Then, Indiana launched a counterattack. 

The movie was made about 30 years ago. I surprised about that! The movie made me so excited. I want to watch other series of Indiana Jones someday.

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Practice of Driving

These days, I often practice of driving. I don't have my car, so I always drive my father's car when I drive. My father's car is a large-size car. So, it is difficult a little to drive. In addition, I have to drive with my father as I drive now. The day I can drive is only holiday. Because of the reasons, I didn't try to drive after getting a driver's lisence. However, more than two years has passed from I got a driver's license. I had a sense of impending crisis and started practicing.


The other day, I went to TSUTAYA at Kikuyo. And yesterday, I went to Kikuchi shrine by my driving. After that, I went to the ground at my hometown to practice parking with my father. I'm not good at parking, so I thought I have to practice it at wide parking space. It took about an hour for the practice of parking at that time. Considering it was my first time practice, I think I did pretty well. If I would go to practice it a few times, I will be able to master parking.


I'd like to drive alone as soon as possible. And, I want to go driving with my friends by my driving someday!!

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Good-bye Party and Fireworks Festival

The other day, we University friends held farewell party for one. My friend Misaki will go abroad to study from the end of this month. That’s why, we held party at my friend’s home. It was very interesting, so time spent so fast. However, we could make good memory before she goes to Canada.


Also, I went to summer festival at Uto with my University friends. The summer festival is first festival in this summer to me. In addition, because I wanted to wear yukata in this year, I was glad to be sunny. I was satisfied to be able to see fireworks and wear yukata with my friends. I felt summer.

Next my enjoyment is summer camp of which club.

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Something special I did during summer vacation

Something special I did during summer vacation is that I wore yukata and went to a fireworks festival. I haven't worn yukata since elementary school! The yukata is my mothers'. After I and my friends planned to go to fireworks festival, I went to Obiya with my mother. We looked around the shop. There are many kinds of obi. I choose two different types obi but I could not decide one. My mother and saleswoman decided one which suited me. Its color is dark pink and brown and there are some flower design. I bought the obi and geta at the shop. In addition, at the day of the festival, I and my friend had saleswoman dress yukata at the shop. I was very happy I could wear yukata in this summer! I'd like to try again next summer.

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What classes I will take next term

I am going to take some new classes in a new term. Continued from the spring term, I'm going to take required subjects and some subjects of teaching profession. In addition, I will begin to take introduction to western history, health science and guide to teaching children English and more in this term. In this term, my schedule seems hard because I take until 5 period every day except Wednesday. I am worried about it. However, I hope to be able to get all credit in this term! I want to try to not postpone some assignment of required subjects.

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Review5: Toy Story

This time, I watched Toy Story. When I was child, I probably watched it. But I don't remember it clearly. So, I selected Toy Story. 

This story’s main characters are toys. A lot of toys appear and they are Andy’s toys. They have a common secret. They are alive! They can move and talk like humans. But it is a secret. They pretend to be only toys in front of humans. Among them, Woody was the most favorite toy to Andy. Andy played with Woody every day. Both Woody and Andy liked each other. 

One day, Andy’s birthday had come. It was a happy day, but toys had a worry because they thought that if he gets new toys, they would be thrown away. They thought so. At that time, he entered his room carrying a big present box. Inside the box was Buzz Lightyear. It was the latest toy. Then, Buzz Lightyear became Andy’s most favorite toy. Woody’s state of mind was complicated because his position was lost to the new hero. And Woody was jealous of Buzz Lightyear. 

At that time, a problem was occurred. Andy’s family had to move! It was a big problem to the toys. They were worried again if they will be thrown away. In the middle that toys were worried and Woody was jealous, an incident was happened. Buzz Lightyear fell from the room’s window. It was an accident, but toys reproached Woody because they thought that Woody was criminal. The reason is that only Woody didn’t welcome Buzz Lightyear.  

When Andy went to a restaurant, he tried to bring Buzz Lightyear. But Buzz Lightyear disappeared. Andy felt down. He brought Woody instead of Buzz Lightyear. Because Buzz Lightyear saw the situation, he gripped the car and shadowed them. On the way to go to restaurant, Woody met Buzz Lightyear and they started fighting. Both of them were so absorbed that they lost sight of Andy’s family. So, they ran after Andy desperately. However, unfortunately, they were caught by a boy whose house is next door. The boy called the “killer of toys”. 

After arriving to the boy’s house, Woody and Buzz Lightyear were scared to see his room. There were a lot of toys which were remodeled by the boy. There, the boy tried to kill Buzz Lightyear. So, Woody and Buzz Lightyear co-operated with the toys and tried to run away from the fierce boy. Thanks to the toys, Woody and Buzz Lightyear could run away and get back to Andy’s house. However, they couldn’t be back in time for the departure of Andy’s family. They tried catching him several ways, and at last, they joined friends of toys and Andy. Andy could find his favorite Woody and Buzz Lightyear. He was able to smile again! 

This movie is short, because this movie is made for children, I think. It takes about 80 minutes to watch. So, it’s easy to watch. Woody is a good boy, but he is like a child a little. On the other hand, Buzz Lightyear is like an adult. Also, a lot of characters of toys appear at this movie. Because their interesting characters, this story is loved by a lot of people.

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BR 2-10: Penguins

When I was an elementary school student, I was interested in penguins very much. Also, my mother did. So, I often read books and movies about penguins. In addition, I went to a penguin aquarium in Nagasaki at that time. I learned a lot of kinds of penguins and how they live from them. As I read this book, my memories about penguins came back. Penguins are very cute but not only cute. They live among the severe environment. After reading this book, I felt that I' like to see penguins!!

Reference

Susanna Davidson. (2007). Penguins. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd. 

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Review6: Baymax ( ●ー● )

This time, I watched Baymax. Baymax is a care robot. This story's main themes are about friendship between Baymax and Hiro and brothers' love, I thought.

The main character Hiro Hamada is a boy genius at robot engineering. He is only 14. He had been enthusiastic about robot fighting at first, but it was illegal. His older brother helped his younger brother Hiro. His name is Tadashi Hamada. He is the maker of Baymax too. He asked Hiro to enter his college. His college is a college of engineering. At the college, he made Baymax. Hiro met his brother's friends, saw lab and attracted attention a lot. So, he decided to enter the same college. But, everyone can't enter the college easily. If Professor Rovert Callaghan would accept him, he/she can enter the college. Rovert Callaghan is Tadashi's teacher and a recognized authority on robot engineering. For entering, he/she has to show an original presentation and impress the professor. So, Hiro invented a micro robot". A micro robot is very small but it is a big epoch-making invention. His presentation could success and accepted to enter the college from the professor. Hiro, Tadashi and their friends were pleased!

At the happiness night, a sad incident was happened. There was a fire of unknown origin at their college. Tadashi saw it and burst in the fire to rescue Professor Callaghan. Tadashi died in Hiro's presence. He was depressed because he lost two great persons, Tadashi and Professor Callaghan and his micro robot at once.

After the sad accident, Hiro had been shut himself in his room all day and day. So, his aunt and Tadashi's college friends were worried about that. They encouraged him. But his wound was so deepen. Everyone couldn't heal his wound. At such time, a big man appeared in front of Hiro. The man was Baymax! Surprisingly, Baymax was alive. Baymax tried to heal Hiro's pain. And Hiro started open his heart to Baymax. At that time, they found a micro robot at his room. They were counting on it and started to look for the rest of micro robots. Then, they arrived a warehouse. At the place, they found a lot of micro robots. However, at the same time, they encountered mystery man with a mask and followed there. Hiro and Baymax could run away from the man with great difficulty.

After that, Hiro guessed that the firing is not accident but intentional incident. In addition, the criminal may targeted the micro robot. He was so angry about that. He decided to confront the criminal.

He thought of a good idea. He made new suits for Baymax, Hiro and Tadashi's friends and version up themselves. And then, they entered the criminal's secret base. At there, they knew the some truth. At that time, the mystery man appeared again. They fought against the man. In the middle of the time, they saw the mystery man was Mr. Callaghan! He disappeared in front of them with a lot of micro robot. And then, they guessed why Mr. Callaghan brought about the incident. He had a daughter and she disappeared because the transporter equipment was broken although she was in.

Because they knew all the truth, Hiro and Tadashi's friends tried to stop Mr. Callaghan's revenge. In the middle of the fight against Mr. Callaghan, Baymax and Hiro entered the transporter equipment boldly to rescue Mr. Callaghan's daughter. In the equipment, they could find professor's daughter but they would not be able to back to the real world. So, Baymax decided to be sacrificed himself and let Hiro and her to go back to the real world.

The end could reach happy end excluding Hiro. He lost Baymax... At that time, he found a chip from wreck of Baymax. Based on the chip, he restored Baymax's life. He could meet the best partner Baymax again.

Before I watched this movie, I underestimated it. But I was very impressed at this heart warming story. I felt so grateful to kindness of Baymax. In addition, Baymax was very cute! I want to meet Baymax and hug him someday. I wish Baymax were this world and here.

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BR 2-09: The Three Little Pigs

" 'Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin.' said Pigs"

This story is a popular story for children all over the world. At the story, above sentence (Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin.) is written three times on the book. I could not understand the meaning when I saw the at first. It means "No!!" and kidding. It is used often in the English-speaking world. However, if you don't live in there, you will never understand of the meaning about the phrase. It is very funny.

Reference

Susanna Davidson. (2007). The Three Little Pigs. London, England. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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How I study during the vacation

Some of vacation at the University is very long. In addition, students don't have any homework! Although I am very glad about it, because of that, I don't to try to study in the vacation. If I don't to study during the vacation, I would forget something. It is bad for me. That' why, I want to watch movies with English subtitles and listen to the foreign music. I may exposure to English pleasantly. I would like to spend my free time efficiently. I want to become to be able to keep up schoolwork, hanging out and club activities.

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Santa Claus was Coming!

At the Christmas Eve, I went to Nagasaki with my boyfriend. At the day, because I had a class in the afternoon, we left Kumamoto after the class. We went by his car and enjoyed chatting a lot. When we went to Nagasaki, we used superhighway because we want to arrive huistenbosch until seven. It was a little raining on the way to go to Nagasaki, so we were worried. However, stopped raining as we arrived at Nagasaki and we could see moon.


When we went to the hotel which we made a reservation, the road was crowded. So, he decided to advanced different way which his smartphone said. The decision causes an interesting happening.

We advanced the way, lost our way and wandered into a strange place. I said "try to make a U-turn!" to him. But it was straight road and we couldn't make a U-turn. So, we continued to advance slowly. Then, we found a person who seemed worker of the place. My boyfriend opened the window to speak to him. Look closely, he was a foreigner!! We were very surprised! He spoke to my boyfriend "Hello". We were frightened a little, but my boyfriend told him we want to U-turn. He said "only once." After that, he took Japanese man. The man said "Here was U.S. military base. If you wanted to make U-turn, you needed to show me some identification and write down your name." At the time, we knew we lost our way and wandered into U.S. military way! We followed his instructions and we could make U-turn. After the happening, we had a good laugh at it. It became first happening for us.

Then, we were able to arrive at the hotel. When we arrived, a hotel man walked up and spoke to us. It was second happening. He asked us to change hotel because his hotel's boilers were broken and the repair would take after midnight. We consented, but it was unexpected. It was good the new hotel was close to the hotel which we would stay. After we could arrive at the new hotel, we took a rest a little. After that, we started to go to huistenbosch again.

Soon after we left the hotel, he noticed he didn't have his wallet! That was third happening.  He parked his car at the convenience store and we looked for his wallet. Fortunately, he could find his wallet inside the car. We felt quite relieved and started driving again.


After that, we could arrive at huistenbosch smoothly. There were so many people at huistenbosch. So, we entered it exciting! At huistenbodch, a lot of illuminations were shining. The whole world around us was covered with lights! We had been moved.

But, the time was over seven and we were hungry. So, we looked for restaurant firstly.


I wanted to eat lemon steak, so we looked for it together. But, huistenbosch was large and its map was not easy to look. We walked and walked. We found it with great difficulty.

The lemon steak is this!

It is famous food in Sasebo. The meat is thin and easy to eat. We had taken to this. We ate working on plans we would go next at huistenbosch.


Next, we went to game museum. Because he likes game very much and game is his one of the hobbies. There were many kind of games. We could play them for free. His eyes seemed shining at there. After enjoying, we moved next spot. The next was seeing projection mapping! There were 4 types of big projection mappings at huistenbosch and we saw "The Revival of the Dragon". There were so many people in front of the place. It seemed popular attraction. We were able to enjoy it with music. It lasted for seven minutes. The show was short but people were attracted attention before finish. Many people took pictures.


At last, we visited the spot of Farris wheel. It seemed very popular spot. There were a lot of people in a row in front of the Farris wheel. Before we rode on it, a man who worked at huistenbosch took a picture of us. Then, we rode on it and enjoyed view and chatting.

This picture is the view from the Farris wheel!

The view was very beautiful. Premises of huistenbosch ware so shining. Time flied when we were having fun. Meanwhile, the time which huistenbosch was closed down was drawing near. We walked around the souvenir shop a little and went to hotel.

At the hotel, I planed to give him Christmas present. I bought him gloves a few days before. But, I thought that he would give me nothing. I just wanted to give him a present because I'm dependent on him and thank him. However, surprisingly, he took out a bag and gave me it! I was very impressed!! Inside of the bag was an apron. Then, I gave him my present. He seemed glad too. So, I was very happy. I promised him to cook from now on. I usually don't cook at home. Because he gave me an apron, I want to start to practice cooking. And I want him to eat my cooking near future.

In the next morning, we went to home by way. Although it took for about three to four hours, it was fun!

We were satisfied with first trip for us very much! I'm looking forward to making trip next time. This Christmas became the most memorial Christmas for me.

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Good and bad points about summer

One of the summer's good points which I think is summer is cheerful season. In summer, a lot of events are held. For example, fireworks festivals are held in summer, so many people go there wearing yukata (unlined cotton kimono). The sight is tasteful! We can feel Japanese tradition. Not only fireworks festival, but also rock fes are held. These are filled with a festival spirit. Summer season is bustling with activity. On the other hands, summer's bad point is that the season is so hot and the weather get worse soon. It is difficult to read the weather in summer.

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My Favorite Season

My favorite season is summer. I like summer the best of all seasons. In summer, a lot of fun events are held such as fireworks festival. People’s feelings become so high. I like the atmosphere. On the other hand, I don’t like winter. The reason is when winter comes, I feel sad with cold temperature. In summer, I don’t feel so. In addition, koshien is held in summer. Many high school baseball players practice very hard and they dream of appearing on the stage of koshien’s ground. They give a lot of Japanese people deep impression. They have many dramas each other. These are showed by a TV program. I like to watch it in summer. It is my favorite of summer too.

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My Favorite Hairstyle

My favorite hairstyle is short hair. I like short hair better than long hair. Short hair is very cute! I like short, short bob and very short. I have to let my hair grow for a coming-of-age celebration, but I want to lop off my hair after the celebration! However, shape of the face may be shown up in case of short hair. I want to lose my weight! However, I think long hair has some merit too. If you are long hair, you can do a lot of hair arrangement. I like bun hairstyle too. It looks feminine. The shape is cute! The hairstyle suit summer season, I think. The hairstyle is possible if you are medium or long hair.

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2nd Peteto Party!!

The other day, I went to Nina with my high school friend. I can't see her very often because she lives in Tamana now. I met her long time no see! Although we went there before, the cafe was crowded then, so we went to other cafe. We tried to go Nina again yesterday!

We arrived the cafe and checked menu list. We found the cafe's menu were a little different from previous one. There were pancakes and french fries. Pancakes were 2 types, berry pancake and chocolate & banana pacake. In addition, french fries were many types! We could french fries' shape and sauce. My friend likes french fries very much, so she was glad!!

I ordered berry pancake and she did chocolate & banana pancake. We ordered a plate of french fries together. French fries were good. Pancake were good too but it was too much food for me! I couldn't finish eating. My friend finished eating but she looked stern.

After eating and chatting, we went shopping! We could buy autumn clothes each other. It was a fine day:)

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New Year's Card

I write New Year's card every year. But these days, the number of postcards I write and send is getting few. This year, I write it for my local friends, University's friends, some teachers and some relatives.

This is this year's design. The feature of my New Year's card is my message is long.

I like the Japanese culture that people send New Year's card each other. It makes me warm feeling. Also, I can tell the messages which I'm usually not able to say directly such as feeling of thanks by words.

Although the great culture of New Year's card will be steadily declining, I continue to write and send it every year.

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One of the Events at the end of the Year

To my family, pounding steamed rice into the dough used for rice cakes is one the event at the end of the year. We go to grandmother's house every year to do it together.

This year, my mother and I went to grandmother's house in December 28th. At the morning, my grandmother prepared for it before we arrived. She always uses a machine for pounding steamed rice into the dough used for rice cake. So, our work is tearing off rice cake and rounding it. After we arrived, we started it soon. My grandmother was a role tearing off the rice cake. My mother and I were roles rounding it. Speed is important to both works. If you do these works slowly, the surface of rice cakes would be hard and become bad appearance. So, we rounded it quickly as possible. Also, we made some bean paste rice cakes together.  A rice cake put in front of the household Shinto altar, some of it put on the desk and car and some of it are eaten. 

These are the progress of the works!

After we finished and saw the rice cakes, I had a soft spot in my heart for it. The brand-new rice cakes were soft and delicious. I like rice cakes very much, so I ate it a lot. One of my friends likes rice cakes too, so I brought it to her house at the day. For the time being, our lunch will be rice cakes.

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