Book review#10 Magic Tree House#7 Sunset of the Sabertooth

This time they went to an ice age to find the "M" thing. When they went to the tree house, they found a book that calls "Life in the Ice Age". The view from the window was full of snow. Now the adventure began. First they went to a cave. This cave was full of animal bones. They got creepy and heard a big animal goar. Jack thought it might be an eight feet tall bear so they ran out from the cave. Then they found another cave. This cave didn't have animal bones but there're some painting on the wall. And also there was coats that made from the fur of the animals and flute made from the mammoth bones. And again, they heard an animal roar. They ran to the outside of the cave but there was a saber-tooth tiger in front of them. They ran back to the tree house but they fell into the hole. The tiger went away but now they have to get out from the hole. Then a men came and threw a rope into the Jack and Annie. They're saved. This man had a mammoth with him like a pet. This men was so kind that he took the kids back to the tree house. Then the saber tooth came again. They got panic even the mammoth did. Some how Annie told Jack to play the flute. Jack thought it was ridiculous but he did so. When the tiger heard it he went away. Annie brought this flute and got a mammoth bone that starts with the letter "M".

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Osborne, M.P. (1996). Magic Tree House#7 Sunset of the Sabertooth. New York: Random House.

Book review#9 Magic Tree House#6 Afternoon on the Amazon

This time I read the sixth story of this Magic Tree House series and the story continues. They went to Amazon. The story before this, htey went to ancient Japan and got a moonstone and again, there was a clue that starts with the letter "m".

When they got to the Amazon, they were at the top of the forest. They went on an adventure if there're any clues. But when they got to the ground they were chased by army ants. Army ants are one of the strongest animal in the jungle because it eats fresh by millions of ants at the same time. Then they got chased by jaguar, crocodile and piranhas. They were in panic but the monkeys saved them and became their freinds. At the end of the story, the monkey gaved them a mango and again they got something that do with "m".

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Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic Tree House#6 After noon on the amazon. New York: Random House, 1995.

Book review#8 Magic Tree House#5 Night of the Ninja

I read the fifth story of the Magic tree house series. This time they went to ancient japan and met ninja. There’re 3 stories before this book and according to the introduction, it says that this tree house belongs to a woman whose name is Morgan and she travels time and space to gather books. She was a magical librarian from the time of King Arthur. And it seems to be that the tree house won’t be there every time. It appears once in a few days.

This time they went to the tree house and saw a message. It said find 4 things. They didn’t know what it means but soon they realize that it was a message that Morgan was missing. They went to ancient japan to find Morgan. They saw two ninjas and when they were looking at them, they were caught. But the ninjas weren’t bad guys, they were nice. They said they are fighting against Samurai and that samurai have something do with the message.



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Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic Tree House#5 Night of the Ninja. New York: Random House, 1995.

Book Review#7 Magic Tree House#1 Dinosaurs Before Dawn

From now on I’m going to write about the Magic tree house series as the book reviews. First of all, this Magic Tree House is kind of Magic school bus series. It takes people to the different places and to the different era. The first book I read is the first story about this tree house.

The main character is Jack and Annie. There’re brother and sister and one day they found a tree house that they haven’t seen it before. They climbed up the ladder by curiosity. In the house there was full of books. He took a book on his hand and it was written about prehistoric animals. He wished he could go to that era. Then the tree house began to spin and they were gone to prehistoric era, 65 million years ago. They met a flying dinosaur called Pteranodon and named him Henry. The sister had a talent to talk to the dinosaur. They became friends. Then they also met Triceratops and Anatosauruses. They watched them very carefully but they saw a T-Rex coming. They ran to the tree house and tried to go back to the normal era but it was useless. This is because he forgot his books. He sneaked to get back the books from getting unknowed from T-Rex but the way back to the tree house he got founded. Soon the sister talked to Pteranodon to help his brother. This flying dinosaur flew straight forward to Jack and rescued him. Now they could get back to their own era.

I recommend this book because it’s very easy to read and not too long. I could read it in 20 minutes or so.





Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic Tree House#1 Dinosaurs Before Dawn. New York: Random House, 1992.


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Movie review~Camp Rock~

This is a movie review of the movie “Camp Rock”. The heroine of this story is a girl whose name is Mitchie. She’s young, maybe high school student and wants to be a professional singer. She’ll have summer vacation in the story and during that vacation, she wants to go to a music camp calls “Camp Rock”. This camp causes tuition and at first her parent couldn’t afford it. So her mother had some kind of personal connection and she’ll be the cook and Mitchie’s tuition will have discount. Instead she must help her mother at the kitchen.

In the camp there’s a special guest, a pop star “Shane”, a leader of a group “connection 3”. He was forced to make a duet song with the winner of the Final jam, a live that will be hold at the last of the camp and everyone will practice for it. During the camp, he was supposed to have dance lessons but he didn’t really want to do it. On the first day, he heard a beautiful song and the voice. He really loved the voice and wanted to make a song with the person who sang. He’ll look for the one who sang.

At the opening jam, she met many people who loves music just like her but soon realize that many peoples are rich and have popular person in their family. Mitchie got miserable that she could came to this camp by her mother’s job. So she told lies to the new friends like Caitlyn, Tess, Shane and everyone else. She told that her mother is a president of a TV company in China and have met many famous people. Tess, whose known that her mother is very famous and she acts like a queen. Tess invites Mitchie to become the back singer. She wanted to be popular so she hanged around with Tess. She tried hard to keep her secret to Tess and other friends but when Caitlyn and Tess had argument and Caitlyn had to help at the kitchen, Caitlyn realize that Mitchie is telling a lie about her mother. Now Caitlyn is upset and their friendship are gone.

Meanwhile Shane spread a word to everyone in the camp that he’s looking for the girl who was singing. He and Mitchie were having a good time talking and singing about music but Tess got jealous about these 2. When she knew the lyric and realize that the song who is singing was Mitchie and almost at the same time she knew about the lie Mitchie were telling. So she spread the truth in front of everybody and now everyone is upset. And also he somehow did a trick that the Mitchie and Caitlyn stole her bracelet. These 2 girls got punished that they couldn’t participate until the final jam is over.
The final jam began. Everyone did great on the stage and the final jam is over. So Mitchie and Caitlyn think hard somehow to perform. The punishment was not to sing until the final jam is over. So after the final singer sang their song, Mitchie sang. Shane realized that the voice is Mitchie and she also realize that she was been looking for. It totally matched.

The winner is Peggy whose the name of the singer. Her real name is Margaret. She was supposed to be the member of the group of Tess but they argued and performed individually. She won the right to had duet with Shane. Tess apologized to Mitchie and other friends to be mean and told Mitchie and Caitlyn weren’t the burglar.

At last, Mitchie, Caitlyn, Tess and her formal member went to Caitlyn’s “small” record studio and sang song. The end.





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Toying My Car

Today, I toyed my car. The part I toyed is the front bumper. There is two bars that the color is the same with the body. I didn't know that there was a thing like that. I realize that when I saw the same car with diffrent color. I thought it was coated but knew it wasn't. I was quite shocked because I didn't realize that since I bought it and it has been a year. I searched on the internet how to change the parts and where can I buy it. At the end, it says that its a part of the front bumper and I found it was sold in the internet. I bought it very cheap.

And yesterday, the part arrived. I took off the front bumper as it was said on the internet. This is what it looks likes when I took off the bumper.

Finally, I did it!! The picuter below is what it looks like before.

This is after what it looks like. Do you whats the diffrence? Well this is just a self-complacency.
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iPhone4S

Last sunday I changed my cell phone to the new iPhone4S!! It's the brand new iphone that is been sold. The "Softbank" said that the fee for the iPhone itself will be free, if I deal to use it for 2 years. My formal one costs about 7000 yen per month but if I change it to the iPhone, I only have to pay the basic fee only which costs aabout 5000 yen. So it would be cheaper if I change it.

The feedback of using iPhone is "Too high technology". My older one were high technology enough but iPhone is too high technology so I can't achieve mastery of using it.

Let me give you an example. There're 2 ways to send a mail. First one is the one that looks likethe normal way. You have to go to the mail and send it. But the there's another one that you can mail like a chat. Both of them could mail to both cell phone and "Smart phone"so I just want to whats the diffrence.

And most part that I can't understand is that the button which iPhone has. The buttoon that if you push it, it goes back but it for me, it goes too back. I just want to go back to a page back but it goes all the way back to the mail menu!!

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Trail Lesson

Today I did trail lesson to get the English teacher's certificate. I've been preparing for this assigment for a week. It would be my culmination of what I've been studying last few years. I had to do a class about "relative pronoun (Who)" and I have to do 40 minutes class. I've done trail lesson in 15 minutes and 20 minutes but this time, it was my first time to a 40 minutes class. Before I do the class, I was very anxious not nervous, because I still didn't remember when and what to say and what to do in which steps.

During the class, the time went by faster then I expected. I finished the class so I still had 10 minutes left. So, I taught what I did this morning.

This is what I did. This morning before I came to school, I went to a convienince store to print out the papers what I'll use in the class. The printer that cost 10 yens to print out one paper. I printed out 30 papers so I payed 500 yens to the machine and I was supposed to have 200 yens as a change but I forgot to take it!! I lost my 200 yens.

So I used this phrase in the class; A: Mr.Sakumoto is a man. B: He forgot to take his changes.

The students will answer "Mr.Sakumoto is a man who forgot to take his changes".

Everyone in the class were having fun and said it was easy to understand what I was teaching. Most people said my class has a power of healing and it was a fun class. I didn't knew I had the power of healing but I glad my class were fun and simple(in the positive way). Finally the class is over and my great weight off of my shoulders.

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Book Review#6 Magic school bus Inside a hurricane

This time they are learning about weather. Their field trips are so strange that when they study about human body, they go into the human body. So this time they will go into a hurricane. First the bus changed into a hot air balloon so that they could study about the hot air rises which concerns to the weather a lot. They have traveled five hundred miles and got to one of the world’s hurricane breeding place. They have gone all the way to the equator. The class flew into the hurricane and the balloon sprung a leak and began to fall so they jumped out from the ship. Now they’re like doing sky diving but the clouds surrounding them were full of bolts and lighting. They thought it would be all over but the plane appeared and now they’re all right except Arnold. This is the ridiculous part of this story that the teacher knew when Arnold couldn’t come back, Ms. Frizzle, marked his absent and said he would be all right. He fell all the way down and got saved by the fishing boat.

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The Second Day at The Deaf School

Today is the second day and also the final day in Deaf school. Like yesterday I woke up at 5:30... I'm too sleepy and tired. Anyway let me tell you what we did today.

I visited an English class. I couldn't imagine how will the teachers teach English to the deaf students. The answer is simple, they taught by sigh language! ha ha To tell the truth they were studying by using the Japanese sigh language, fingure language and English sigh language. They were using 3 kinds of sign language. I couldn't believe it. The teacher is terrific, the ALT is incredible and the students were fabulous.

I learned many things from this class beacuse the knowledge of "hearing" and "listening" skills are very important part studying of languges. If you can't hear, you can't pronounce the words correctly. But in this class some students could pronouce English well. I though she could pronounce better than the students who can hear in normal high school. She was a bit special, she could hear than the other students so she translated us to each other.

After lunch, I went to my charged students class. She's studying to become a hair dresser. I didn't wrote about this yesterday, but I visited her class and watched her getting perm to the dummy. She let me do it but it was so hard. I was too awkward.
So today she was studying to the exam which will be held this week. The assigment was "Can she shave well?" So everyone looked at me to be the guinea pig. I said "All right" and sat on the chair which looks like a massage chair and started to shave. You may knows if your men and had been shaved by a hair dresser before, they put a steamed towel on our face and it feels so great. I became so sleepy. Sleeping during the practical act is abominable act but the teacher said "If you can sleep you can. If you can suffer from shaving knife, you may.

I didn't sleep.

Maybe.

But she did great well, it didn't hurt at all. I wish she could pass the nation test for the hair dresser and could be the hair dresser.

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The first day in Deaf School

Today, We went to Deaf school to have practical trainings. It's an one of the step to get the teachers certificate. The Deaf school is at Kengun so its very far from my house. I had to get up at 5:30!! It's too early that it was still dark. So there was no car in the street.

Before we went to Dead school, we learned about sigh language and the "fingure Japanese". I think most people know what sign languages are look like. On the other hand, "fingure Japanese " is also a kind of sigh language but they figures "a" "i" "u" "e" "o" in diffrent finger. Like the picture below. We figured out our names by using these sigh language. I memorised most of it but when I met the students at the school, I couldn't do it well.

During the classes, lunch time, lunch break and some other time, we mostly communicated by writting the words we want to talk about. It took time and had difficulty but I enjoyed it. They had hard to hear but without that handicap, they were like normal high school students.

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The Strongest Baseball Team

The Hawks won the 2011 title. It took eight years to get this title again. We have been waiting for this time a long time. Sugiuchi shutouted Dragons batter for seven inning and Falkenborg, Morifuku and Settsu had a perfect pitching. At the ninth inning, Settsu took the last out. I totally thought Mahara will throw the last out so I was suprised.



They defeated Dragons by 3-0 in the game 7. Kawasaki got their first point by the base-loaded walk in the third inning, Yamazaki's hit in the fourth inning and Uchikawa's hit in the seventh inning. I was watching the TV and still remember I was very excited.


Hawks won the every title through this season. They got the interleague title, the Pacific League pennant and P League Climax Series. They're storngest of the 12 baseball teams in Japan. So I hope they can prove they're the strogest baseball team in Asia Series.

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Doraemon

Do you know the Toyota's Doraemon CM that is knowed that the Nobita is Satoshi Tsumabuki and Jaian as Naoya Ogawa? Don't you think it very funny? I think Jaian's roll really hits.

Today, the next series of this CM has been shown. This time it has the Doraemon in it. Doraemon will be Jean Reno.

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W8 My favorite sport is baseball

My favorite sport is baseball. I like them watching and playing it by video games. I’m not so good at playing baseball but I do like to do catch and play with my friends. If I’m going to play a game and have a position, I will be the second baseman and I’ll be the ninth batter because I don’t like to hit. The ball comes very fast in front of my head, it’s too scary. When I’m on the defense, the ball won’t come so often and most of it will be grounder so it would be fun getting him out. But the liner comes and if I couldn’t catch, I’ll dodge it and say I’m sorry to my teammates. Even sometimes it’s scary and hurts, we can’t stop playing it. It’s very fun playing with many friends. Besides I don’t have to run so much like playing soccer.

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W7 My favorite movie

My favorite movie is “Transformer”. Especially I like the “Dark side moon”. There’re three movies and this “Dark side moon” is the third one. It has shown at the theater but maybe it’s already finished screening. The great part of this movie is the graphic and the 3D. It’s so beautiful so that I couldn’t believe that the robots were CG. When I watched the movie at the theater, it was so beautiful. I can’t wait until I can see at home. But there’s one thing that I don’t like. In the movie, the heroine is a different girlfriend. The heroine’s actress has changed from the first two movies. So I felt weird when I watching the movie. I think it would be better if the name of the heroine will be the same though the actress is a different person.

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W6 My favorite movie star

My favorite movie star is Jim Carrey. I've been is fan since I was a kid. I was shocked when I watched his comical performance. The first movie that I saw was "Ace Ventura" series. This movie is very funny from the beginning but his performance made it more funny. I became to like his films but this one didn't make me a fan. "The Mask" is the one which made me a true fan. The green paint on his face and the fancy direction, I liked it and it looks like a Grinch. So I send a fan letter to him. By the time I was forgetting about sending that letter, a reply mail came!! First I couldn't believe it but their was a signature in it. I liked it and it’s still displayed in the living room. Though it was printed.

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Movie Review Kung-Fu Panda

The main character is a giant panda Po who’s a very clumsy, dull, funny and fat　panda. He’s son of a noodle shop owner but he’s interested in kung Fu though he hasn’t　ever done it. This story is set in the ancient China, valley of peace. There’s a dojo of　kung Fu and there’re the furious five-the tiger, monkey, mantis, snake (viper) and crane　and their master Shifu.

On day an old tortoise, Oogway, who is Shifu’s master decided to choose the person to　receive the “Dragon scroll”. The person who can know the secret of scroll which can have　unlimited power. The recipient for the dragon　scroll was supposed to be chosen from the　furious five but Po was accidently chosen by Oogway. The furious five and their master　were very surprised about it and especially Po himself was surprised too. Shifu gave Po　few chances to give up but Po stayed at the gym to change himself.　Meanwhile Oogway, felt Tai Lung, an evil snow leopard which used to be Shifu’s　student will escape from the jail. Tai Lung is a master of Kung Fu but Oogway had a　vision that he had an evil heart so Oogway didn’t give him the dragon scroll. So he got　upset and destroyed the village. Shifu sent a messenger, Zen, a goose, to reinforce the　security of the jail. Though the director said that the security is perfect, one feather　dropped from Zen let Tai Lung escape.

When Shinfu and the furious five discovered what happened, they decided to give the　dragon scroll to Po. Oogway said to believe Po and there is no “accidently” in the world.　But there was nothing written in it. Everybody was disappointed and lost their hope to　defeat Tai Lung. So the furious five went to beat him all by themselves. But Tai Lung　was so strong that they were defeated. While the furious five was fighting, Po and　Shinfu were having their training. The normal way to train Kung Fu didn’t work on Po　so they train by getting foods.

After they finished their training, the furious five came back defeated. Now Tai Lung　is nearby. The furious five and Po were moving the persons who live in the village. Shifu　stayed at the gym to take his time but Shifu was also defeated. Tai Lung demanded the　dragon scroll but soon realized that the scroll is missing and Po had it. There was　supposed to have no winning chance but his result of the training, his luck, his idea and　his fat body, he could win. Now there’s peace in the village and Po became the master.

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Nippon Baseball Classsic

Hawks lost the first 2 games. I think most of the people thought the Hawks will win the first two games because the "2" ace(s) Wada and Sugiuchi will be the starting pitcher. But the Dragons were strong that we thought. Hawks lost the games. I think the reason why Hawks lost is the diffrence between the amount of the experience of the closing pitcher.

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2011/11/11 11:11:11

Today is November 11th. There're so many 11. And at 11:11, I wanted to eat Pocky because today is a day for Pocky. I don't who said it but at that time I was watching the movie "Into the wild", and realize the time, it was already noon. I lost a big anniversary. There's nothing special to get or lose but I felt a bit sad. I have to wait one more year though it would be 2012 and we'll lose one "1".

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Pepsi Pink

Today, I drink pepsi cola "pink". I bought it from the convience store just out of curiosity. I had drank most of the intereting flavor that the pepsi had sold. So I wondered how it tastes. When I opened the bottle, I smelled the strong smell of the strawberry. Then I swallowed a mouthful of this weird juice. The first taste was sweet. Just sweet. It says "strawberry and milk flavor" but I didn't feel so milkly though the taste was like strawberry au lait with soda or you dissolve the strawberry candy to the soda. But it's ok to drink if you compare from the shiso or azuki.

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Selling games

I sold my video games that I used to play. It takes place just keeping it and besides I won't play it so I decided to sell them. These games were sold maybe 2 or 3 years ago so I thought it wouldn't make much money. Though when I saw the receipt , it said ten thousand yen!! I didn't expected that so I was very happy.

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Book review #5 The magic school bus Explore the Senses

I read the magic school bus again and again. This time we're going to the senses of the people. I think it really looks like the one that I read before. Well, this is what this book says.

First of all, the main character I think, won't drive the school bus and the assistant priciple will drive it. They'll go after the car that the main charcter drives. And while they were chasing, the assistant principle pushed a button and then the bus began to shrink.

Then the bus swallowed into an officers eye. They went through the nerves and to the brain and came back from the other eyeball. After they adventured the offiicers head, they jumped to a boy's ear. Again, they adventured into the inner ear and the auditory nerve and again to the head. Then they jumped into a dog's nose. Discusting!! I can't believe it!! As they came, they went through the smell nerve and jumped into a water glass that Ms. Frizzle will drink.

Well, as you may think, they were eated by there own teacher. They adventured her tough and went through the nerve and to the brain again.

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W5 My favorite shopping center

My favorite shopping center is Costco in Fukuoka. There’re many shopping center in
Kumamoto but I got so used to it so I won’t go there so often. So if I would go shopping, I’ll
go to Costco instead but only few times in a year. Besides, the things that I want only sold
in Costco. This way, it’s more fun shopping. We’ll buy many things especially Dr. Pepper,
beef jerky and pizza and so on. We buy so many things that we had to go there by a
big car. We went there with my friends an everybody will buy the wholesale products so
we had to rent a big car. It was a big car but we bought so many things that the people who sits
in the third row, they had to keep the pizza on his knee.

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Book review #4 Magic school bus; lost in the solar system

I read the magic school bus series again. I think I'll read all of the seires that our library has.

At this story they're going to the planetarium as a trip day. But when they get there, it was closed. On the way back, the bus tilted back and the they heard the engine roaring. They were going through the atmosphere. The earth was getting smaller and smaller. First they stopped at the moon and played around. Then they went to the sun. They said that the sun was hot. I think everybody knows that. Next they went to Mercury. This planet was dead. It was sun baked planet. Then they got pulled to the Venus. This planet was covered with yellowish cloudwhich is called sulfuric acid. Under the cloud it was like a desert and hot. As they came close to the Mars, In this planet, its so big that the canyon is long as United States and the volcano is three times tall as earth. Next they went to Jupiter and Saturn but jupiter is made of gas so there is no land. saturn is one of the most beautiful plant and it is famous for the ring. This ring is made from rock, ice and dust. And finally then went through Uranus and Pluto and came back to earth.

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Book review #3 Magic school bus inside the body

I read the magic school bus series again. This time, we’ll go inside the human body.

At the beginning of the story the class room teacher propose to study about “ourselves”. They tried to go to a museum for the trip. Though they took their lunch at the park. And they were time to go and everybody got in the bus Arnold, one of the student were daydreaming and was eating a snack. At once, the bus started to shrink and was going down a dark tunnel. They were going under esophagus. Soon they dropped to the stomach. Ms. Frizzle drove the bus to the bottom of the stomach and then they got absorbed to intestine. At the intestine, it was covered with villi. In the villi, they are tiny blood vessels. They went through this blood vessel to the heart, lung, brain, spinal bone and to the muscle. During the drive, they were attacked by Arnold’s white blood cell. When they were running they got to a huge open space. They were in Arnold’s nose. Suddenly they heard a deafening sound like “Ah-aa-aa-ah!!” Then they heard “Choooo!!” They blast from his nose as a sneeze.

They got back from Arnold’s body and met again. They said “Where were you!?” at the first moment.

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Costco

Today, we went to Costco with my friends. We gathered around 9:30, got on the high way with Vellfire. We borrowed Voxy at first but the people who used before me had an accident or something so the rent-car-shop rent me Vellfire. The fee was the same so I think it was very lucky, though it was too big.

First we went to Hakata station to go to Krispie Kream. It's a doughnut shop and its very sweet. Everybody will buy doughnut in a box so I bought it 2 box. One box has dozen in it.

Then we went to Costco. We had to go back to Kumamoto earlier so we had shopping very fast. One of my friend was the first time he been here so everything looked fresh. We bought pizza that looks like Zabuton and Dr.Pepper 4 boxs. The meat that was sold in costco tasted so good that we want to have a yakiniku party one day.

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School of Rock

The summary of the movie, School of rock

The main character is Dewey Finn. He’s a rock singer and plays guitar but he lives with no special plans. He‘ll dive into the audience from the beginning of the song, he lives without paying the rent. He lives in his own apartment with Ned Schneebly who is a substitute teacher but Dewey won’t pay anything. But one day he got fired from his own band. So he wanted to have his own band and money. Then he intercepted a call to Ned saying they need a teacher as soon as possible. Dewey pretended he is Ned and became a fake Mr. Schneebly (Mr.S).

The school he’ll work at is a private school and everyone studies a lot. But Mr.S only taught rock as a school project. He divided the kids so the right person has the right job like a player, singer and for the background. They had many problems keeping this project secret. They set a camera to keep it secret from the principle, they soundproof their class room and did other things. When the principle came. Mr.S did the class very noncommittal. They went on a short school trip without letting anyone know. At the theater they tried to play this as a last memory. They pretend they’ve blood disease and don’t have so much more life. But on the other hand Dewey was getting confidence and trust from other teachers especially from the principal.

Finally the payday came. But the $20,000 went to Ned and thanks to his girlfriend, the school realized that he’s fake. Now everybody is upset. He became perverse but the kids came to pick him up to go to the “Battle of the bands”. The school is in a panic because the children are missing though soon the parents and the teacher realize that they went to play rock ‘n’ roll. When the play begins everyone was impressed how well they played. They couldn’t win the prize but the audience, especially the parents and the teachers, were very proud of it. While the credits were showing they sang as an after school activity and looked very happy.

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Very Cold

This morning was very cold. I'm surprised that I woke up and attend to the first class. I think Ohzu, where I live was colder than Kumamoto so I think I want to praise myself. I had to wear a coat, but when I coming to school, I saw elementary school kids walking to school with short sleeves and short pants. I wonder why they could go outside with that light cloth.

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Planning to go to COSTCO

We're planning to go to COSTCO this weekend. Costco is like a supermarket but it’s a wholesale supermarket. And the thing that it sells is from abroad. There're some products from Japan but everything is big. Let me give you an example, like potato chips: Consommé flavor will weight a kilogram and costs ten thousand yen. It’s cheaper than buying many potato chips in Hirose or other convenience store or else.

I'll recommend if you go there you should but a beef jerky. The amount will be maybe four or five times bigger but the its also then thousand yen.

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W4 My favorite drink is Coca-Cola

My favorite soda is Coka-Cola. It is because it really relaxes me when I drink. I usually drink when I’m exhausted. So the sugar and the caffeine will make me revive. I think everyone who likes to drink coke will put it in a cup of a glass, add some ice and drink it. I like this way but in my way, I’ll squeeze a lemon in side. This way the coke will get more refreshing. I heard in United States, there’re some vanilla Coke, cherry coke and also a lemon coke!! So my idea has already adopted even I didn’t know. Maybe I can rapport with coka-cola company. And beside coke is a good medicine for the one who has headache, especially migraine. The sugar and the caffeine will prevent them.

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Books

I have to read many many books in this few weeks. All of the books will be written in Japanese so I can't write it as a book review. The book is about human rights and the other one is about the truth of the enviornment problem.

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5-5 Natume Yu-jinntyou

Do you know an anime that calls "Natume Yu-jinntyou"? Well, I don't know!! This anime's stage is in Hitoyoshi so we when to some places that have relation to this anime. First we went to a old bridge. I don't think anything is special for me but for the one who saw this anime, this bridge appears during the story. They look very exciting but I didn't feek anything. It was so rural. Then we when to a shrine. This one also appears during the opening movie. This shrine is so small so that we couldn't realize where it was. But this shrine is like a shrine for the people who like this anime. All of the votive picture was concern about this anime.

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5-4 At Hitoyoshi

At Hitoyoshi, first we when to Hitoyoshi station. We went there because we thought we would be lucky if we see the SL Hotoyoshi. And there was!! It has just arrived from Kumamoto and the train was in the turntable. I was nice if we came by train but there's only one train in a hour so it's very inconvenience. And also it's seem to be like a mechanic clock is famous in Hitoyoshi. So we waited for maybe about 15 minutes. It was about one o'clock. Then a very showy, loud, old lady came out. The she started to explain the detail of the clock. She talks very loud when is the best place to see during the clock is working.

Next we went to "Aoi Aso Jinjya". We didn't have an exact propose but we there was a festival so we went to see what was happening. That day was a Health sport day so there were Sumo and Kendo tournament games. And also there was a Japanese archery and old people was "shooting".

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Essay:Toy story

Taiichi Sakumoto
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The main characters are Woody and Buzz. Woody is like the leader of the toys from the
beginning. On the other hand Buzz came to Andy’s house as a birthday present. Andy is the master of the Woody, Buzz and other toys. Woody is a sheriff doll and Buzz is a space ranger. First when Buzz came to Andy’s house he persisted in thinking that he was a space ranger, not a toy. He says he can shoot by a laser but it’s only a light bulb and he also says that he can fly.

Woody and Buzz can’t be friends because of the difference of the way they think. So
Woody tries to eliminate Buzz from Andy’s house. He thought to use other toy to drop Buzz from the window and it worked. Woody really meant to but as a result he eliminated Buzz. Now the friends of the original toys are in revolt against Woody. Soon, Andy came to the room and took Woody to Pizza Planet. Meanwhile, Buzz shadowed Woody. They met in the car but of course they start to fight. While they were fighting, they got separated from Andy. Woody followed where Buzz wenta, but in the “UFO catcher”, a kid name Sid who destroys toys, they were “kidnapped”. At Sid’s home, Sid thought to explode Buzz with rocket firework. Buzz was depressed about he couldn’t escape by flying. Then Woody encouraged Buzz to go back to Andy’s and be Andy’s toy again. Finally these two toys cooperate to escape. They made friends at Sid’s home who also cooperate and punished Sid by acting in front of Sid. Woody said to Sid that “We toys can see everything. So play nice”. From now on Sid is afraid of toys. They said good bye to Sid’s toy and began to go after the moving truck. First they ran after the truck. although Sid’s stupid dog came after the truck. This dog bit Buzz and he fell from the truck. So Woody opened the truck and put out a toy “RC” and drove to help Buzz. But the other toys were still angry to Woody. They throw Woody off the truck. Now it looks like despair but they have a secret weapon; the rocket firework. They put the fire on and flew. They first dropped RC to the truck and then they flew straight up to the sky. Soon the rocket exploded. Buzz looks like he was flying but he says he is falling with style. They soon fell into the Andy’s car and went to their new home. Then it was Christmas and the present was a puppy.
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5-3 Driving to Hitoyoshi

Today, we're going to Hitoyoshi by the car I rent. I woke up quite early to pick up the guys. We promised to meet at 10am but I got more than 30 minutes early. So I went to Yuki's house and drank coffee and talked for a while. When it was around 10, we went to pick up the other guys and went to the highway. Driving a big car was very exciting. 5 people were in the car but I didn't feel any stress while I was driving. On the way, we were talking about many stupid things and so on. But the time we went near Hitoyoshi, I went through Hitoyoshi!! I forgot that I will get off at Hitoyoshi!! So we went to Ebino Miyazaki. Soon as we get off the highway, we went to seven-eleven and had a few minutes break, get on the high way again and finally, we could get to Hitoyoshi. So I had to go through Higo tunnel and Kakutoto tunnel at least 3 times which the lengh of the tunnel is 6km!!

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Rent-a-car 5-2

Since we decided to guide John to Hitoyoshi, we need a car to go there. First we thought we should go by train because that would be more easy, more comfortable and more cheaper. But checking the final destination, it was far from Hitoyoshi station. So we borrowed a car. We're going by 5 people so we need a large and has more power so I can drive the high way smoothly and comfortable. My car can only ride 4 people so we can't go by my car.

At 18:00 I went to the rent-a-car shop to get the car. I wonder what kind of the car I could drive. And when I get to the shop I saw LegacyB4!! I didn't wonder I could drive such a nice car so I was very happy. And also the equipment was amazing!! This car had cruise control which the car runs without stepping on the accelerator. If I set 100km per hour, the car will runs at that speed. And also it has "Padle switch" which you can shift up or down from the streeling while. I would be very exciting drive.

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Guide John about Kumamoto 5-1

First of all, let me introduce John to you. He's a host family of my friend Yuki. Yuki stayed with John in Minnesota last year. It was the short stay during the summer vacation. He likes Japan and had came to Japan few times especially in Nagasaki. I heard Nagasaki and his town are sister city.

I've been met him before last February. At that time, I thought it was the first time he has came to Kumamoto, but he wasn't. He has already came to Kumamoto few time and had been to Aso, Kumamoto castle and other places so I had nowhere to guide.

But this time we're going to Hitoyoshi. Actually, we already went to Hitoyoshi but I'll write it later.

Before he came to Kumamoto, he stayed in Nagasaki and watched "Nagasaki Kunchi". He has been to places where I've never went before; including Akihabara. He also went to "Maid Cafe" there. I not so interested in Akihabara but if someone will take me there I would go!

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Changing my car's muffler

Yesterday, I changed my car's muffler to a different one. I bought from Honda and the mechanic worker changed it intead of me. Honda didn't ask me about the wages so I was very happy.


The photo below is the picture before we work on. The color of the car is diffrent but it was kind like this.





After we changed it, now it looks like this. I think I like it!!


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W3 My favorite animal

My favorite animal is a dog. I like dogs because most of them are very obedient and a good boy. I heard that the “dogs are the men best friends”. I think that word suits the relationship between dogs and human. Though I haven’t had a dog before. My younger brother and I always say that we want a dog but my mother hate the smell of the dog so we never kept it. But the neighbor has a dog so we sometimes go to meet that dogs. Some dogs are very cute but others are stupid but funny. This stupid dog thinks his the boss of the family but he’s so old that he can’t walk back to home by himself.

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Earthquake!!

I had a big earthquake last night. The center of the earthquake is Kikuchi where its near my home. Our seismic intesity was 4 and shaked a lot. First, the impact came from underneath and few second later the house shacked to the right and left. Maybe 20 seconds; I felt very long time shacking.

After the earthquake ends, the nation wide news said "Ohzu" and "Nishihara" had especially Kumamoto and Kikuchi and so on so I felt very strange.

But there's one thing that I'm still wondering. I heard many planes and chopper flying all night. When I look out side the window, I saw so many planes and chooper, it was very bright in the sky. I wonder who and why they were flying.

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BR ②Majic school bus and the Electric Field trip

I read The Majic school bus series again. And this time, the books sub title is "The electric field trip". Let me tell you about it.

At the beginng pf the story, Ms. Fizzle's niece visited class. Ms. Fizzle is the main character and the teacher and the driver of the school bus. And then, they started to explain about the electricity. First of all everything in the world are made from atom. And these tiny parts of the atom are called "electron". Then, when the electron travel to another electron, we call it electricity and you get power.

In this story, they will became a electricity. They will study how electricity will be made and how they will come to our outlet. First, they went to a fuel buring plant and shrinked into coal chute. After they burn the coal, they went to the steam pipe. They traveled very fast becaused of the high pressure. Then they flew through the turbine's blade and to the generator. Now they are 24,000 volts and travel through the electric wire and to the houses. By the time they got to the peoples houses, they got into 220 volts. They traveled to many many electric product and came back to school by been electricity.

I think this book was interesting too. It wrote about what you should do at the lighting storm. From the book, it says DON'T stay outside. DON'T use the telephone. DON'T use electric appliance. And finally, DON'T go near the water.

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A persimmon

I went to harvest persimmons with my family. The trees grows near a construction company so we went through the company's premises. I felt a bit sorry. Though I have to climb up to the tree and cut down them. I climbed maybe about 5m and then sat on a branch and used a long scissor.

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Changing my cars room lamp

Today I changed my car's indoor lamp. The color of the brand name lamp looks like orange so I changed it to a white LED lamp. It looks very elegant and so I like it. It's not so bright and absolutely I can pass the automobile inspection.

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W2 My favorite Manga

My favorite manga is "One Piece". I've been reading this story since I was high school student. First I wasn't reading this manga but my some of my friends recommended to me. Soon, I became the fan of it and still reading every week until now. In these days reading "One Piece" at the concvenience store is the most pleasure time in a week. So after I read "One Piece", I feel that I lost my favorite things to do in that week.

The reason why I like One Piece is the amount of the things that the readers don't know. There're so many things that the reader wants to know so I kept reading. And also I can't imagine what will happen next.

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BR ①The magic school bus:inside a beehive

I read the book call "The magic school bus; inside a beehive". This majic school series is very interesting and you can know many thing. The contents may be difficult but its written in easy english.

This school bus is very intereting. It can transform to a space ship, plane and submarine. And can also shrink so tiny so this bus can go inside the human body or can even go to space or undersea. In this book this school bus transformed to a bee and went to a beehive. They transform and go everywhere like a school excursion.

The story begins in a perfect spring day. They were studying about insects and decide to observe about honey bee. They shrink to a bee and worn a costume like a bee. They pretend to be a bee and hike to this bee hive. This book also tells about many various thing that concern with bees. For example, bees communicate by dance and smells.

Its very intersting and you can know many thing and I like this series.
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W1 My favorite singer

My favorite singer is backstreet boys. I’ve been listening to their songs since when I became their fan. I only listen to them when I’m driving a car. I don’t listen to their songs everywhere, every time and whenever I what. Because my earphone is BROKEN!!
So I can only listen to them in car.

The most favorite song is “I want it that way”. I heard this song many many years ago and I liked it. Though I didn’t know the artist called backstreet boys were singing. I knew this group but I thought I was a kind of noisy music group because of the word “backstreet”. But anyway I after I know their songs, I bought the CDs and put it into my Walkman.
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New car

My younger brother brought a car. A NEW car. Can you believe it? He got his driving license only 2 or 3 weeks ago and still didn't have drove yet. After you took your licesne I think you should drive the older car so you can change or disused the car after you get into accidents or rub to the block or something. But he got his car bought from granpa. Well, grandpa also bought a new car from for me a year ago but I got it bought after I drove a very old car than has enginge stalls even its AT.



I don't know what car they will buy. So I'll write it after I get some any imformation.
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Something I did during the vacation

The special thing that I did dur ing thisvacation is that I went to social welfar einstitution to appr entice. I went ther e for5 days. It looks ver y har d but it was ver yinter esting for me. I lear ned many thingsfr om them. It har d to put in wor ds butif I say It’s the way how to under standwhat people think who can’t have anycommunication. I think I can say thesame thing to the teacher s and when youcommunicate who don’t have any pr oblemto communicate. I thought it will be one ofthe most impor tant skill to be the memberof the society.
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Good and bad points about this vacation

The good point of this vacation is that I havea plenty of time. I can study and I can go fora shor t tr avel. When I study, I can r eviewthe classes that I studied and I could alsopr epar e for the classes that I will take. ButI can’t study ever yday ever y time so I’ll gofor a shor t tr ip to somewher e else. We’ll goto COSTCO in few weeks. The bad point ofthis vacation is that I get ir r egular lifestyle.If I didn’t have any schedule at one day, I’llsleep until maybe 10 and if I didn’t haveanything special to do, I’ll be staying uplate.
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How I study during the vacation

Dur ing this vacation I’m studying English by reading books that I lend from the library. And I’m also studying to becomea public officer . I think it will be useful topass the teacher s examination next year .I have to study ver y wide especially themath, science and histor y. I’m not goodat these subjects so I’m r eviewing the textbooks when I used in high school. It’s beenafter long time since I’ve been studyingthese subjects so I’m studying ver y har d.Especially I’m having tr ouble studyingchemical for mula. I r emember “O” is oxygen and other symbols but the next step “reaction for mula” makes me angry.
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What class I will take

In next ter m I will take lots of classes thanother students. I don’t know why but Ihave to study ver y har d. The class that I’mlooking for war d to take is Inter nationallawII . In this class of cour se we studyabout the inter national laws. For examplewe studied about the United Nation Char ter .It’s inter esting for me because I like tostudy about the geogr aphy and other socialstudies. I studied geogr aphy ver y har d athigh school so most par t of the class waskind of r eview. Though I haven’t r egister edyet to the univer sity so I have to do it onSept 12.
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Vacation plans

The main vacation plan for this vacationis to go to appr entice to a social welfar einstitution. It’s a one of the step to get theteacher s cer tificate. I had to go ther e for fivedays. The place I been was an institutionfor mental defective. Dur ing my appr enticeI assisted them to do their jobs. Their jobar e ver y simple but its cor r espond to theirown ability. Other thing that I did is to go toa shor t tr ip with the kids who came to thisinstitution. We went to Aso milk far m with 3buses. At this far m, I took char ge of 3 kids.It was difficult to under stand what theywer e thinking.
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Too spicy curry

I went to CoCoiti yesterday. You can select how spicy the will curry be. There're 10 levels and the level 10 is the hottest. And I selected the level 5. If you just see the level, it's in the middle and feels the spice will be medium. But when I ate the curry, it was too spicy enough. While you're eating, I didn't feel so spicy but when you stop or rest eating it hurts. And also the rice is hot so that heat make you feel more spicy. Finally, my ear started to hurt. I don't know if it relates to the curry but it's sure that it started to hurt after I started eating. It took 30 minutes to eat just a curry. I ate level 5 yesterday so I wonder how spicy is the level 10 is.

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BR 2-12: The story of flying

I read a book that calls "The story of flying". It tells about the history of planes. People wanted to fly thousands of years ago. The first plane was drewed in 1487 in Italy. Leonard da Vinci wrote it but never had been built. Until the Wright brothers invent the plane, many many people tried to fly. Some people made a wing like a bird and tried to flap. As the technology progress some inventor had a steam engine on it but never flyed. Finally on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew. They challenged and crashed many times. I believe they should be very happy when they could flyed. Soon many people started building planes. In 1909, the first air show has been held in France. 38 planes took part of the show but only 23 of them could take off. In those day they had competition to see who can fly the highest, longest and fastest. The first prize for the non-stop flying was 180km. He flewed for 3 hours. The fastest plane flew 45km per hour. In those days it was very incredible.

In this book, it is also wrote about helicopters. The first helicopter only waas in the air for 20 second and didnIt even rised as high as a man. In 1940 the first helicopter called "R4" and used by U.S. navy in world war 2. Now, helicopters are used in armies, police and used to trasport sick person to the hospital. The biggest helicopter is called "Skycrane". It's half helicopter and the other half is a crane. It's strong enough to lift trains or truck and strong enough to lift a house.

Today, people had been gone to space and walk at the moon. And there're people living in the space. The technology has been improved in a century. It is still expensive to go to space. But some day, we may go to space as a luxury trip.

I recommend this book because it tells about plane's history in easy english. If you like planes, you may like it. It is a little long book but it's not so hard to read. As reading this story the most suprising part is the part of the skycrane. I don't think the skycrane is in somewhere in Kumamoto or in Japan but if I have a chance, I want to see it. But possible, I want to see it carrying house.

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Summary
Sims, L. (2004). The story of flying. London: Usborne Young Reading.

essay 2-03b My university life

In this essay I want to write about my university life. I’m a student of Kumamoto Gakuen University. I’m a second grade student and study English at this university. Every day I have to go to school by car or train. And it takes an hour so if I miss the train I’ll be late even the class starts an hour later.

As I wrote in the first paragraph, I belong to the department studying English. In this department we usually study English and try to develop our own English skills. There’re many facilities to study English. For example, there’s an “English Lounge” where you can’t speak Japanese at all in that room. You can improve your speaking skills and listening skills. However I haven’t been there before. And if you take an exam like TOEIC, you can take the exam much cheaper than taking the exam outside of the university. I’m very satisfied with that but I don’t like the way they draw the prize money to high grader student.

In class we study the 4 skills of English like reading, writing, speaking and listening. In the first grade we studied the grammar. It was like review of the high school English. Sometimes we also study about American and England literature. I like the way how American story ends, the main character will always have been killed or suicide at the last. But I’m not so interested in literature. I can’t remember who wrote what and the masterpiece of that writer.

I also study how to become an English teacher. In this curriculum, we study many things. For example, we study the constitution of Japanese education. We read the constitution and understand what it shows. It tells very simple so you have to read very hard. We also study about the guideline of education. We have to remember what it is and what is written about. Finally we also learn how to study English. This is the most important thing. It’s very difficult to teach English to junior high school student easier. There’s many ways just to teach one word. You can say the same thing to other skills. I did some micro teaching in this curriculum. I got very nervous and I thought I was going to die.

Now I want to write about clubs and circles. I Don’t belong to any clubs or circles. Because I heard that every week we have to drink and use a lot of money to many things. I didn’t think I have enough money and first of all I can’t drink much as everyone else can. So I can use that time and money to other things like the assignments. I have a lot of homework to do so if I belong to a club or circles. I think I won’t have enough time to do it.

Finally I don’t have part-time job now. I used to have one but the company was very company. They don’t treat the customer as a “god”. I’m the one who is going to be complained from the customer. So I quit. I want it but I’m too busy in last few weeks so I don’t need it. Although I want some money.

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I can' be happy

I don't have my forth period's class. I want to get happy but I can't. I still have a class on the fifth period. I don't have a class so I have a plenty of free time. I wanted to do the book reviews but I returned all the books to the library so I don't have a book to read! I shouldn't have returned the books.
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CS

I can see CS in my TV. I wonder why I can. Because I haven't contract with them. Usually you must pay the fee but I don't remember paying anything. And also the free trial period is already over so really wonder why. Although I fell very lucky. You can see many channel like the channel that bradcasts music all the time. You can see the PV all time. If you see "Animax" you can watch anime all day long. I like to see "Gintama". Like today, it showed "Gintama" for eleven hours. I didn't watch all the story but you can't see it on the any normal TV so I was happy and suprised.

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BR 2-11:Animal Legend

This book is very funny. First I thought this book will tell us the truth. But it's full of joke. In this book, it tells about why cats chases rats and why monkeys live in trees. It also tells about rabbit and crocodile but this part, you read it.

First I want to write about why cats chases rats. It's very famous that cats chases rats. As you can see in the anime "Tom and Jerry". Everybody knows that it's just a food chain. But in this book it tells such a ridculous thing. It tells that long long time ago, cats and rats used to be a best friends. Did you know that!? According to this book, it says cat and rat lived happily together on an island. The island had all they needed. There were birds for the cats to chase. And plenty of juicy plants for rat to nibble with her sharp front teeth. There was only one problem. There wasn't much else to do. Most days they were bored. Then one moring, the rat had an idea to look for somewhere else to live. The cat agreed to the idea. They had an idea to make a boat from the trunk of a tree. The rat gnawed at a tree until the tree can timber. Then the cat scratched inside of the trunk so they could sit. They rowed and rowed for a long time. The cat felt tired so the he fell asleep. The rat felt hungry and realised that she forgot to bring some foods. While the cat was sleeping, the rat ate the side of the boat. Soon the water started to slosh up through the hole and started to sink. After the boat sant they had to swim back to the island. As you can see cats doesn't like to get wet. So the cat get very angry and splutted to eat the rat. After the rat get to the shore, she digged a hole and ran into it. The cat will sit in front of the hole until the rat appears.

The expression that impressed me was "That is why, today, a cat will sit for hour upon hour , waiting to prounce on a rat".(P.15 L5~L8) It's the scene you can see in the anime "Tom and Jerry". I could imagine this scene every easily . Even though I haven't seen it in my life. So if I have a chance I want see it.

Finally I want to write why monkeys live in trees. Many years ago king of the jungle was gorilla. This gorilla had a daughter and all of the animal wanted to marry her. But she couldn't choose who to marry. Then gorilla found a barrel with a water tastes fire. He had an idea to test the other animal if they could drink the whole barrel. If the animal could drink the whole barrel of fire water, the gorrila would let him marry her. First, the elephant came challenged. He sucked up the fire water and sneezed and sprayed water everywhere. Secondly, the hippo came and took a big mouthful of fire water and chocked. Next the warthog and leopard challenged but either of them failed. Finally a tiny monkey appeared and challenged. All the animal wondered how can this tiny monkey could drink all the barrel of fire water. First the monkey gulped a large mouthful of fire water and an into the bushes. After a few moment the monkey came back and gulp of fire water and again ran into the bushes. They had a secret behind the bushes. Benhind the bushes, a whole tribe were finding and each monkey will drink the fire water in turns. By the end of the day, the monkey drank the all of the fire water. Finally the monkey was allowed to marry but suddenly the giraffe shouted. "The monkey cheated!!" "His friend helped him!!" The monkeys ran off to the trees. Monkeys have been living upon the trees ever since.

The expression that I was impressed is "The barrel was full of greasy water. Naresh(The name of the gorrila) took a sip. It tasted of fire. Fire water? he said, That might be useful".(P19 L5~L8) I wonder what is in the barrel and how does it tastes.
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New year's resolutions

This year I want to take all the credit that I studied and find a new part time job. I’ll be the third grade in the university and it will be one of the important era in the university life. I heard some of the student will start finding there job.

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