this year

I did many precious things in 2011.
Especially, i enjoyed my club activities.
I had many concerts and we went to many places to stay for a few days together.

At school, my friends had gone abroad so I made new friends.
that was very good opportunity for me.
but I think my grade for study is getting decreased...

this year, i have one more thing which is the biggest work for me on Tuesday.
I will have a new year's day with fresh feeling :)

next year, I want to do more club activities and I have to study more!!!
and i hope all of us will have a good job.
i really enjoyed English class so I will try to study English next year, too!!

Foreign countries

1. Which of these places would you most like to see?

I'd love to visit where the ocean view is very beautiful!!
and I also would like to see the great structures!!
Very big and old things always make me feel I am very tiny.
I really like that feeling.

2. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go, and what would you do there?

I would travel around the world if I can.
I would like to visit World Heritage Sites.
I dont know what to do there... maybe taking pictures??
I just want to see and feel it.
I like both artificial structures and nature.

3. What foreign news stories have you seen on TV or read about recently? What comment do you have about those stories?

Few months ago, there was a fighting between Korea and North Korea.
I just saw a movie, JSA, in Korean class.
that was about the soldiers from both countries and they became very good friends but the end of the story, they were separated.
It is very sad that the same race fight in the middle of these countries.
I can not imagine if Japanese would fought each other...
I will be so sad if it happened X(

Culture

I love Japanese culture and events.
I like Ohanami, which you see the cherry blossoms and have a party under them in spring.
I go to Ohanami every year.

I like winter, too.
In winter, we have Christmas and Osho-gatsu, New Year Day.
We can get money from our relatives on new year day in Japan!

I like go to Kyoto in Autumn.
We can see Autumn leaves turning to red, yellow and orange this time.
I prefer going to temples to see them.

I like going to fireworks festival with Yukata in Summer.
The streets were too busy but it is still so fun for me!

As you see, I love Japanese culture because it has 4 seasons clearly.
they all have their wonderful events in Japan.
Japan is a beautiful country, isnt it?

And now, there is an event which i want to go and join in the world.
It is CHRISTMAS in Australia!!!
I was in Australia from January to November so I did not have Christmas there.
Australia has an opposite season from Japan so I really want to see Santa Claus.
I heard that there is 波乗りサンタ "Waving Santa" in Australia.
I dont know if it is true though...

I have one more culture I want to experience.
It is VERY COLD WINTER.
we dont have much snow in Kansai area.
Even Hokkaido doesnt have such a cold weather.
So, I'm really looking forward to go to Canada in winter next year.
It has much snow and cold temperature.
It doesnt have many days with plus temperature.

School Festival!!!

We had a school festival for four days early in November.
I belong to A Cappella club and I had 5 bands to sing and I performed 6 times during the festival.
I enjoyed each of them!!
On the last day of festival, we performed in front of the library.
It sometimes rained on that day but we could do all the performances we planned.
After the last band finished, all club member, maybe more than 200 people, sang together and it was amazing!!
some members and audiences were even crying.
When all the performances finished, we went to Sannomiya to drink!!
I had very good time there with my club members.
I really like my club.

As an Autumn event, I went to Arashiyama, Kyoto, with my club members.
We went there at night to see the autumn leaves lit up but the leaves were still green.
It was still beautiful though.
we took foot bath, Ashiyu, in Kyoto and talked much there.
I really enjoy it.

And I started to go to school for driving license recently so this Autumn and Winter will be busy for me!

My future

I hope I will be married and have 2 children 20 years from now.
I am not sure what kind of job i will get but I really want to enjoy my job.
If i get a wonderful job, i do not want to quit it when i get married and after having children.
this is my dream.
but it could be different in reality.
I have no idea what job I am interested in or what i want to do in the future.
so I'm worried about Shukatsu next year.
if i cant find the certain job, I will quit it when I get married lol.
but i hope it is not gonna happen.
anyway, I cant say much about my future because I dont understand me right now.
everyday I am looking for something attracts me.

Japanese Universities

I totally hate the system of judging by the name of the universities.
I understand that the name is important because each uni has different grades of entrance exams.
what I really want to say is there are many types of entrance exams.
Like me, I didn't take any exams when i entered Kwangaku.
(I took the exam for entering my junior hight school though)
Many of my friends from Keimei (my junior and senior high school) did not study much while we were at Keimei.
So I want to suggest that students who did not take the entrance exam should be judged by how much study they did at universities.
we are all sure that students who took entrance exams have studied hard when they were high school so they basically can study.
but we are not sure that if we (students did not study for the exams) can study or not.
So what I've been trying is to show how much we, students from Keimei, can do while I study at Kwangaku.

horror things

I'm just ordinary person who are terrified with ghosts.
when i was a little kid, i couldnt even go upstairs by myself.
it was too scary for me in dark room without any noises.
i was scared of lightning, too.
every time it flashed, i put blanket and tried not to hear the big sound of it.

Now, i can go upstairs by myself and i am not afraid of lightning much though, I still avoid horror movies and haunted houses!!
i cant understand that people pay for them!!
when i watch them accidentally, i cant sleep alone for about 3days.

on the other hand, i love roller coasters or any other rides.
so i can still enjoy amusement parks!

Culture shock!!

this is the story when I went to Australia.
they don't eat cup-noodle with soup!
they put powder in the cup, pour hot water, wait, and then pour out the water.
It doesnt have taste lol
and they eat it like pasta because they dont like the sound of eating noodle.
when i was eating cup-noodle like all Japanese do, they were so surprised and didnt like it.

this is the story when my family hosted Chinese girl for 3 days.
We had a Chinese girl from my school's exchange program.
when I met her at the first time, I was a little nervous but she took my hand and pulled me to herself.
she introduced herself with very smiley face so I was very surprised but very happy at the same time.
Japanese are shier than Chinese, I thought.

this is the story when I went to Korea.
we stayed at our friend's house for 2 days.
his mother cooked Korean food for us.
there was a bowl of soup in the center of us and all Korean put their spoons into the bowl and drink it.
they have soup from one bowl!
I had never seen Japanese had done such things so I was very surprised.

every time I meet foreigners and stay with them, I find many gaps between us.
sometimes I can't understand or stand them.
But this makes the world very interesting and wonderful place.
to try to accept them is the best way to be a good friend of them, isnt it?

My favorite subject

my favorite subject was English, of course!
I started learning English when I was in elementary school.
My friend's mother was my teacher of my English class so I really enjoyed it with my friends.
After I entered to junior high school, I met wonderful English teacher.
I loved her so much because she was the best teacher I had ever met.
She thinks about her students deeply and she taught English very well.
she sometimes scolded us when we were naughty.
we could feel how much she thinks about us.
So I really liked English classes with her for 6 years.
I studied abroad when I was 16.
when i was in Australia, she sometimes sent me e-mails and cheered me up.
I really appreciate her.

I also like P.E.
I specially liked sports which use balls.
but unfortunately, I am not good at tennis...
I sill enjoyed it though lol.

on the other hand, I hated math...
I didnt like teacher either lol.
now I am a teacher of cram school and teach my junior high school students math.
it is very tiring X(

Summer!

Most of my summer's memories are something about my acappella club!
I really enjoyed acappella events during this summer vacation.
We went to summer camp in Kagawa the middle of August for 5 days.
There were many events there..we went to beach, played some games in the hotel and outside, we did Kimodameshi in the hotel, and we had a live on the last day.
we practiced for the live.
I really like my group!!!
there were only 1st and 2nd grade students in my group.
I hope we can sing with the same member again!
We also had a live which was held by Kangaku and Kandai.
I sang there, too but I couldn't sing well...so we will try to sing the same song next live on 4th October!
We had other live yesterday in Tarumi!!!
I was the member of this committee so we prepared many things for this live since begining of August.
So I was very happy to see club members enjoyed the live.

Apart from the club events, I went to many places with club members.
I went to USJ, Spa World, Kagawa, and we drank a lot <3
I didn't paticipate the club much last year with some reasons so I regret it now...
I really love to be with them.

I have 1 thing to say!!
We will have live during school festival!!!
I may sing with 5 groups in 4days so if you have free time, please come to see me X)

men

i sometimes feel like "I wanna be a man" lol.

i think man-to-man relationship is more simple than woman-to-woman relationship.
when they have a trouble between men, they just fight and that's it.
when we have a trouble between women, we don't fight but our relationship cant be fixed for a long time.

sometimes their behaviours are crazy for woman.
for example, when boys drink with their boy friends, they are just like kids!
they drink a lot, shout and sleep on the floor at last.
but that is what I want to do! lol

Crime!!

Drug is very serious problem among young people.
Everybody knows using drug is illegal.
But they may reach drugs with their curiosity.
it is very big problem all over the world.
we cant stop all of them.
they have to be awared by theirselves.
sometimes their surrounding let them reach drugs.
so, families, friends and teachers are important for them.
we have to watch our frineds carefully.
If they need your help, you have to help them from drug.
I hope the world which we live peacefully will come.

recent life

I belong to a cappella circle, Crescent Party.
It has passed more than a year since I became a member of this circle.
I didnt paticipate so much until October.
In October, we had a live and I had a band which was very fun for me.
From then, I started to join the circle events more.
And we have a live for freshmen and we all have a band including freshmen for it.
we are practicing for the live now.
I really enjoy singing without any instruments.
In a cappella, there are human voice percussion and human bass.
when you get a chance, please check it out :)

Wedding

Do I want to marry someday?
Of course!!
one of my dreams is having nice family.
I wanna live with a man who I love the most in the world, and beautiful kids.
I wanna have two children.
boy and girl.
and I also want to have pets.
I dont like to be alone and that's why I want my family.
I cant live without family.
but i also know that family sometimes annoys me.
we cant get along with eachother all the time.
but I'm sure that we can understand eachother if we love eachother.
So, I really wanna marry ;)

Nissan won the "Taxi of Tomorrow"

Summary
Nissan's yellow minivan has won the Taxi of Tomorrow in New York.
It means from 2014, all of taxis in New York will be Nissan's car model.
there are some points why it has been chosen.
first, there are enough room for 4 passengers and their luggage.
second, the glass of window are clear so that passengers can enjoy New York's view.
the most important point is car's fuel economy.
the car is moved by electricity.
that will help proving pollution problems in New York.

Comment
I heard this news few weeks ago, and I was pleased because they believe that Japanese cars are worth. or Japanese skill is high.
TOYOTA made mistakes and it was abused few years ago.
but this election proves that American doesn't think our cars are dangerous.
there are still remained problems like radiation between Japan and USA.
i hope we can understand and help each other like this news.

Sony's key man

Norio Ohga who was the father of compact disc(CD) died when he was 81.
he was a president and chairman of Sony. He is credited with pioneering the use of the CD. Sony sold the first CD in the world. Mr.Ohga made CD 12cm so that it can contains Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Ohga rose the comopany and became an excutive by his 30s.
Sony's current chairman, Sir Howard Stringer commented that " Ohga-san succeeded where other Japanese companies failed."

I love Japan

I really love Japan.
Especially, Japanese cultures.
they are beautiful, aren't they?
I like to have 4 seasons clearly in Japan.
In spring, we have cherry blossoms all around.
In summer, we have a lot of Matsuri and fire works.
In autumn, we have nice colored Momiji.
In winter, we don't move much in Kotatsu eating heaps of Mikan lol.
I just like them so much.
I also like to go abroad.
but just for a trip.
I stayed in Australia for a year and I found something comfortable and uncomfortable.
the slow life was actually so nice.
but I couldn't fit the OZ life much.
I think as my English proves, my life in abroad will get better.
That's why I'm writing this ;)

spring vacation

February
I went to Shiga as a circle event.
my circle is A Capella circle named Crescent Party.
we stayed there for 3 days and had wonderful time there.

March
I went to Saipan with my class mates and professor.
our professor has a lot of friends from all over the world so he prepared an original tour for us.
we studied about Saipan at the time of WW2.
it was a valuable experience.
of course we enjoyed beautiful sea!

I had a family trip in the middle of March.
We went to Tottori and Shimane.
we went to some famous places but I don't remember any of those names...
but we had relaxed time there.

I went to English camp as a leader at the last.
my junior high school has English camp for year1 every year and my teachers invited me as their instructor.
I met my teachers and friends whom I havent seen a long time so I was happy to be there.

I had more things to do on the vacation but I cant write all about it.
It was the best vacation I ever had!!