Test

Today I had a test for being an exchange student at KGU.
The form of this test is essay. I was poor to write a essay, but I tried to write my opinion. The theme of the essay is about own experiences with foreigner and in foreign countries. I had never been to foreign countries so I couldn't write experiences in foreign countries. It was difficult for me but I thought I could write my opinion.

My Favorite Book

These books are very sad and heartwarming story. I want many people to read these books so I won't write detail story.

Its story is love story and was written from true story.

I read these books last summer. After these books, I felt sadness and importance of life. If I were main character, Mika, I couldn't live like her.

I think there are many difficulties in our life, but we have to have strength to confront them. It was idea which I w by Mika who is author of these books.

This novel will be made into a movie in this November so I want to watch it.

Book Review 1-10

Oprah Winfrey





Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 and her name was given from the Bible. Her parents didn't marry. Her mother couldn't get a comfortable life for her so she had to live with her grandparents. She grew to be a clever and when she was six years old, she moved to Wisconsin for living with her mother and half-sister, Patricia, but she wanted Oprah to back to the farm. Oprah decided to ask her father to live with him and he accepted her asking. She had nice time with him and his wife, Zelma, but she started to live with her mother and her boyfriend and children. Her mother was very busy and she didn't enough time to spend with her so she wasn't happy. Also, she was unhappy at the school. She was a good student and other students don't like her. She maybe has stress and ran away from home. Her mother thought she should be in a home for problem girls but there wasn't enough room for her so her mother decided to give her over to her father. Then, her life with her father and his wife started.

In 1970, when she was seventeen, she went to Hollywood and wanted to be an actress. One day, she went to a radio station, was asked to read the news, and was very good. She got her first job in radio and was paid $100 a week. She thought this job was important so left college and took it. This time, no other woman or black person read the news on television in Nashville so the station paid her $15,000 a year. At the time, she was only nineteen years old.
She worked at WTVF-TV for three years but ideas between she and this company are different, so she quit.
In 1977, she started to do 'People Are Talking', which is a talk show. She did better and better, but she loved a man who had a wife, so she wanted to leave there.
She moved to Chicago because Debra DiMaio who worked for a TV station in Chicago wanted to meet her. She started doing the A.M. Chicago talk show in 1984. She had a new job and $200,000 a year. She was only twenty-nine years old.
She thought 'Television changes people's lives.', so she always would do her best and she thought reading was very important for her. She had been reading many books.
She is one of the richest woman in the world and she gives things to her friend and to people at work and uses her money for more serious things. In 1997, she started Angel Network. This builds houses for people and gives away money across the United States. Many people get money and help from her.
Oprah is now one of the most successful women in the world. Many people love her.

I hadn't known her before I read this book. I think she is very great. She affected many people all over the world. It is difficult to affect many people but it is important, I think.

One of my Hobbies

I like reading magazines and I often bought and read these magazines, Cancam. They are very interesting.
Yuri Ebihara who is model in this magazine is cute and famous. She's active in television too.
I like her but I like another models of Cancam. For example, I like Naoko Tokuzawa and Maki Nishiyama. I think they are nice models.
Reading magazines are interesting and I refer to fashions of models.

Book Review 1-9

Diana





This book is about Diana Spencer. She was born on 1st July, 1961. She have two old sisters and one younger brother. Their family was given the title of 'Earl'.

The Spencer family's home is called Althorp House which was built in 1508, but when she was born, her grandfather still lived at Althorp House so her family's home was Park House which was near one of the royal family's country homes.

When she was seven, her mother fell in love with another man and her parents divorced in 1969. She felt pain and unhappiness. She lived with her father and he became the new Earl Spencer in 1975 because her grandfather died. He and his children moved to Althorp House.

Diana married Prince Charles on 29th July, 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in London. She was twenty years old and twelve years younger than him. Later, they moved into Kensington Palace in London. She bore two boys, William Arthur Philip Louis and Henry Charles. She was very happy but troubled by mass media. Relationship between Diana and Carles was becoming bad and they divorced in August, 1996.

She believed that the press would now leave her alone but she was wrong. The public wanted to know if she had a new boyfriend. She felt stress because of the press by mass media. She and Dodi who was a son of Mohamed who was a very rich Egyptian businessman became very close.

She thought to use mass media for people having interest in terrible diseases. She went to official charity events and helped them to bring in money and she really cared about people. She changed people's ideas about AIDS. Some people had believed that they might catch by touching patients of AIDS so Diana held patients' hands. People were shocked by it but they could understand their ideas were wrong. She continued to help many people in many countries.

In the early morning of 31st August, 1997, Diana and Dodi had a terrible traffic accident and were killed by it. She was only thirty-six years old.

I had known her before reading this book, but I hadn't known her campaign for many kinds of people. I think she got over many difficulties and became attractive woman. I'm sorry that she cut off in her prime but many people will remember her forever.

Oh, no!

Today, I went to attend speaking class, but there aren't people in this class. I think why...
I told another listening class's students why there aren't people. They told me that today's my listening class was canceled. I hadn't attended this class last week so I didn't know. I didn't have anything I had to do so I went to computer room to check e-mail and did power words.

WEI 2

How many words
in Week 1: 0
in Week 2: 231
in Week 3: 441
in Week 4: 207
in Week 5: 330
in Week 6: 867
in Week 7: 174
in Week 8: 470
in Week 9: 599
in Week 10: 359
Total words up to this point: 3678

How many posts in Week 1: 0
in Week 2: 2
in Week 3: 4
in Week 4: 4
in Week 5: 4
in Week 6: 6
in Week 7: 2
in Week 8: 3
in Week 9: 5
in Week 10: 4
Total posts up to this point: 34

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a pictures in your self intro? Yes
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students’ blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? No
Do you have reviews on Amazon? No
Do you listmania lists on Amazon? No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions? No
Do you have advanced media? No

List to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 good
Review 1-02 fair
Review 1-03 good
Review 1-04 fair
Review 1-05 good
Review 1-06 fair
Review 1-08 fair

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 fair
Essay 02 good
Essay 03 good
Essay 04 good

How many postswith link(s): 24
with 1 picture/photo: 24
How many complex posts? 12

Comments:How many comments are there on your blog? 6
Have you made at least 8 comments? Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
Yes.
http://haruchanhaachan.blogspot.com/2007/05/happy_28.html
http://yuukarinoki.blogspot.com/
http://hiroko-ne-3.blogspot.com/
http://shining-harupi--ni.blogspot.com/
http://sho0822.blogspot.com/
http://yuukashappylife.blogspot.com/
http://case-of-hiramii.blogspot.com/
http://tsudayuu.blogspot.com/2007/05/gyo-za-day.html

Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post. Why do you think it is your best?
Movies I think it is my best because it has many links and photos and I want many people to see this bolg because watching movies is one of my hobbies.
Please link to your best comment on another blog. Why do you think it is best?
http://shining-harupi--ni.blogspot.com/2007/05/orlando-bloom.html
I think it is best because I was interested in this blog and I sympathized with her idea.

A Memorable Day

My memorable day is one day in last spring vacation. I went to Tokyo with my friend and met another friend who lives in Tokyo. We went to Tokyo Disney Sea. I had never been there, so I had been looking forward to going there.

We arrived there at about 8 o’clock. There were already many people, so we had to wait more than 10 minutes for entering there. We decided to take ‘Tower of Terror’, ‘Center of the Earth’, ‘Indiana Jones’, and ‘Raising Spirit’ but they are very famous, so we used FASTPASS and we could take them. I could enjoy taking them and they are very interesting.

Spring Carnival started after the day we went to Tokyo Disney Sea, so many people came there and many TV personalities came there. I saw Chutoriaru, Otoha, Ari to Kirigirisu, Moe Yamaguchi, Nakagawake, and Kumiko Mori. I rarely see TV personalities so this is very nice experience.

We ate so much. For example, we ate popcorn, which was seasoned with 2 different flavors, strawberry or cappuccino, hot dogs, and gyouza dogs. They are very good but popcorn seasoned with strawberry was strange taste.

We enjoyed Tokyo Disney Sea from opening time to closing time. Tokyo Disney Sea made me feel being in another world like fantasy and relaxed. I had very nice time, so I want to go there again.

With my friends

I went to downtown with Haruka and Hiroko.

We ate lunch at cafe which is good atmosphere and fashionable. I ate salad and rye bread and drank orange juice. They were very good but their quantities were very large so I was very full.
We met a teacher who has been a teacher at a high school, which we all went to. He teaches students art. I wasn't taught art by him but I pleased to meet him.
After eating lunch, we went shopping. We went to Hanshin and PARCO.
I could spend a good time with them.

Book Review 1-8

E.T.

This movie, which is Steven Spielberg's move (1982), is one of the most famous movies.

E.T. came to Earth with his friends on a spaceship one night. They had to leave quickly, but E.T. was too late. The spaceship went without him. E.T. liked Earth, but it was very dangerous place for him. He met an Earth boy, Elliott performed by Henry Thomas, and went to his home. Elliott loved E.T. and wanted to help him, but there were scientists in the streets of the little town. They were looking for E.T. but they hid from them and lived at Elliott's house together. They enjoyed living together and became very nice friends, however, a spaceship picked up E.T. They had to leave each other.

I like scene which is cover of this book the best. I think friendship between E.T. and Elliott is very nice.

Yesterday

I took TOEFL test in KGU yesterday. I didn't know whether result was good but I did my best.

After it, I went to downtown with Haruka. She bought presents for father's day and I bought a watch. I wanted shoes but I couldn't find shoes which I wanted.

We were in PARCO and we casually met our friend who lives in Fukuoka. She had come back to Kumamoto. We went to take Print Club. We must go to part-time jobs so we couldn't be together longer but I had nice time with them.

My Cram School

I go to a cram school for improving TOEFL score with Haruka. I have gone there for about one year. We always go there on Thursday. Our teacher is very funny and kind woman. She went to Nevada State University and Nevada State graduate school. I could improve TOEFL score because the teacher taught me grammar, reading, and listening skill of TOEFL.
If you want to improve TOEFL and TOEIC score, let's study in this cram school together!!

Rainy Season

Rainy season came to Japan.
I don't like rainy season because atmosphere become soggy and it isn't comfortable to live, however, I think it is very important that grain grow. Recently, the amount of rain is fickle because of global warming.

Chat!!

I chatted with Kumamoto Prefectural University student. She asked me about Kumamoto Gakuen University, my high school, my lunchbox, dormitory of KGU, my dream in my future, and so on. We started chatting at 6 p.m. and finished at 9 p.m. We had a long time for chatting, but I enjoyed chatting with her.

Yukata

Yukata is one of Japanese clothes.
Recently, Japanese wear it at festival in summer.
Some people wear it as nightclothes at Japanese-style hotel.
It is comfortable to wear.
We wear it with Japanese wooden clogs.
I think when I wearing it, it is hard to move for me but I like wear them because they make me happy and excited.

Book Review 1-7

BABE-PIG IN THE CITY-

I like Babe of movie so I would read this book.

Babe is a sheep-pig and very clever. Babe lived in Hoggett's farm but Mr.Hoggett needed money for paying the bank and he and his wife decided to take Babe in place of money. Babe and Mrs Hoggett went to the city and Babe strayed from her. Babe met many people and animals and experienced various things and Mrs. Hoggett had many experiences and noticed to how important Babe was for them. Last, she could get a lot of money and pay the bank so Babe could return to Hoggett's farm. They felt very happy.

I thought Babe and other animals were very cute. This story made me happy and warm.

Kumamoto

I think Basashi, Karashi Renkon, and Ikinari Dango are famous foods in Kumamoto.
Basashi is raw horsemeat. Japanese eat it with soy sauce and ginger. It is very delicious. I think it is better you eat it with beer.
Karashi Renkon is that mustard mixed into soybean paste is crammed into holes of lotus root and it is fried. Its taste is fiery. I'm poor fiery foods so I remove a little mustard mixed into soybean when I eat it.
Ikinari Dango is made from sweet potato and bean jam. I think people who like sweet potato like it. I like it very much. It's very delicious and sweet.

My Favorite Animals

I like most of animals but especially, I like dogs and dolphins.

Dogs are very cute and friendly. Their figure makes me relaxed and happy. They can’t speak our words but I think they can understand our words. I often speak to them and they respond to me. For example, when I take my dog for a walk, I often say that I want him to walk more slowly and he watch me and start to walk more slowly. Also, I often say “come on” and he comes to me. He can understand my words. I think humans can communicate with dogs and humans and dogs can become best friends because of their understanding humans’ words. The relationship between dogs and I is like friends so dogs are important for me and I like them very much.

Dolphins are attractive to me. I have seen directly them only a few times but I have seen them on pictures and TV many times. They on pictures and TV are very cute and friendly. I like their smile and it cheer me. They have many skills that I don’t have. For example, they can swim fast and go wherever they like in the sea. It is attractive to me. If I were a dolphin, I would go to many places which I like and feel refreshing. I want to swim with dolphins someday.

Both dogs and dolphins are very cute and they have lovable face so I like seeing them and can become relaxed.

Ouch!!

I had a part-time job last Staurday and after it I talked with members of this job. We got at a dog, which has lived in the house next to my boss's house. I like dogs so I would stroke him and approximated my hand to him, but he was surprised and bit my finger!! Blood streamed from the wound. This wound was ache but not terrible, so I thought it was OK, however, after a few hours, I had pimples on my face and they increased. I worried about it and went to the hospital. The doctor said it was allergy. I'll be careful not to be bit by dogs again or react badly with allergy. It is shock for me because I like dogs very much.

Book Review 1-6

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston was born in Brussels on May 4, 1929. When she was a child, she wanted to be a world-famous ballet dancer, but she was talked "You'll never be a famous dancer because you are too tall" in the most important ballet school. She was very sad, but it changed her life. She became a actress. She appeared at many movies such as Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady and she became a famous actress.

In her private life, she married Mel Ferrer in Switzweland on September 25, 1954 and had a baby boy, Sean, in January 1960 but they divorced. She married an Italian doctor, Andrea Dotti in 1969 and had a baby boy, Luca, in 1970 but Dotti made new girlfriend so she was very angry and left Dotti in 1979.

When she became older, she wanted to do something more important with her life. She wanted to help poor and hungry children. She started to work for the United Nations. She stayed in small towns with no water and visited sick children in dirty old hospitals.

In 1992 she traveled to Africa for the last time. When she came back, she was very sick. On January 20, 1993, she died. She was sixty-four.

I think she is very beautiful and a hard worker. I've known her at Roman Holiday but I could know more about her from this book. I respect her action to poor and hungry children.

PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN

I went to watch PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN -world end- at the theater with Haruka.

I had watched PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN -the curse of the black pearl- and -dead mans chest-, so I had been looking forward to watching this movie.

There were three main characters. They were Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. All main characters were individual so I could enjoy watching it. I thought ending of this story was sad but story was powerfull and magnificent scale.

Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom were very cool and handsome.