Last month of this year

We have only thirty days in this year. I feel very fast that the days past. And I also have thirty days for my teens. I become twenty in January. I think it is happy and thank for my parents, grandmother and friends. But I think I want to stay as a teenager because it's shinning age for everyone. It's true that they have too many problems and I alos have that kinds of many problems. I fought with them with much of help handes. When I go to see about them, they were part of my history. I want to independ in live or money in twenty age. I wish I would be grow in this ages. It is up to my efforts in the twenty's. (130 words)

WEI answers

1. What is your usual writing/blogging schedule each week? Where do write/blog?
I write blog at school when I free time. I don’t write blog many times a week. It is once or twice a week.

2. Please look at your first post from Spring term and compare it with
what you are writing now. What improvements do you see with your
English and what do you think you should work on to improve?
I think the blog of spring are easy sentence and it’s shorter. I see improvements about words and content in recent blog. I write my daily blog and lists at my blog.

3. What are your opinions of doing movie reviews? Please talk about
the time it takes and the availability of the movies.
I think movie review is good to make some opportunity to listen real English. However, it takes a long time to do. And if the DVD at library rent when I want to see in the library, I have to wait or rent from the video shop. I think they are bad point and they should be improved.

4. Please give your suggestions for the class
I think we should part the time more tidy so it might be thicker and we could use the time not unless.

5. Please give some advice to the students who will take this class next year.
I think we should do the subject earlier, not the day before the deadline. It is important to write the blog at least three times a week so if it would be pile up once it is difficult to mend them. I think write the blog properly, it is not difficult to chievement the blog. (270 words)

my favorite magazines

-nadesiko
A job senior likes this magazine and she taught it is very interesting. There are many fashionable girls in this magazine so I learned the fashion from the magazine.
-jill
I bought it last month for first. When I see it, I decided to buy because there are many favorite style in the magazine. I want to see this magazine to many girls!!
-more
It is for more adult women than other magazine of my favorite magazine. There are many cute clothes. I long to wear them. I want to like the models because they wear clothes so nice.
(100 words) total:1014 words

It is rainy day

Today is rainy but I didn't briong an umbralla. I hope it will not rain in the after noon. If it will rain, I will be sopping wet. I like sunny because it is good to go out. We could go to anywere by bicycle. If it is rain, I should go out by bus. It takes many time and money. I hope it getting better in the after noon.(914 words) total:914 words

This Week

I feel this week past very fast. It was so busy week. However I think I didn't do enough my work. I was impatient about my study or so on. I couldn't do my best. I want to use my time effectivly.(44 words) total:568 words

Shichuu Parade

On Sep 4th we joined in the Parade of our school activity. It is "Shichuu Parade". The Parade;We walk the periphery of kumamoto city to advertise for "Takuma Festival" carring mikoshi men's shoulder and wearing various clothes for each clubs that is made by their hands. It was very nice activity so people at shimotouri or kamitouri were noticed us and some people took picturs, so I think they also saw the ad.
I belong to the tea ceremony club and the picture is my club member. Our theme for the costume of this year is "the mouse". We walked as we being the mouse. It was sunny day, we all sorry about sunburn because we sunburned very hard last year so we cared for sunburn this year.
It was successful in cooperation for everyone. It become a precious memory in my school days. I love my club!
(150 words) tatal:524 words

McDonald's

I went to MacDonald's after school. It is near my workplace. There were few people when I go there then. I have that I want to try a new flavor "Mac flury". It taste is caramel. It is a small bitter but so sweet! I think it is the dream collaboration to me because I like ice cream and caramel. When I saw the ad of this, I have wanted to try this. I think this flavor is the best in "Mac flury" for me. When you go to MacDonald's, try it. (94 words) total:374 words

My favorite color

-blue
I like blue because the sky and the sea is blue.

-green
I like green because I feel relaxed when I see green things.

-white
I like white because white is pure and not dyed by the other colors.
I think it's the strong in color(52 words) total:280

late for the class

I was late for the writting class this morning! I got up late so I late for the class about 40 minutes. It's too bad, It's my bad habit for a long time. I know I must make effort to keep the time. It is hard now, but it is natural habit in socfiety. It is the good chance for me to kick a bad habit in the school days. I think I should sleep early.(78 words) total:228 words

My vacation

It's long time to write blog. I enjoyed my vacation, but I reflect that I have not to write the blog. I decided to write from now even a small things. I have a lot of things that I want to write,so I'll write about a movie which I watched today. I watched "Mother Teresa". I didn't know what she did before watch the movie. I just know her face and name. She was a sister, but she go out to the street and help people. she also helped orphans or the poor. she build the fund to help them.I felt that her spirit was strong. It has moved her to help people. I think I want to have a strong spirit and do my work in my life.I was moved by her activity. I want to know more about her spirit and work.
(150 words) total:150

presentation

2028 self introduction

I wish I would be marriage and a mother of four children in 2028. I think I would live out of Kumamoto, because I’m going to get a job out of my city. Then about five or six years later, I’m going to marry and retire from the job. I want to bear four children. I think my family would be cheerfully, so I would be busy everyday. My husband must like be like to play sports, so my family plays some sports once a week and sometimes go to watch baseball, soccer or any other games.

I would run a small restaurant next to my house. It would be calm and warm. People come to the restaurant to have lunch or dinner with their family or friends. They could also relax at the restaurant. The menu would change day by day through the materials. I would be very busy of house work and my work all the day. But I think I would be happy and enjoy my life.

I think in 2028 I couldn’t relax because that would be the hardest days in my life. I care about my family and my restaurant. I would have a dream then. It would be a big and hard in many phases. It’s to live in abroad after my children grow up, and open my restaurant there. Therefore I would study some cultures before to go to the over seas to make a good relation ship with the people there. And I would save money to make our house and my restaurant. I wish I would love the life of 2028.
(270 words)

Weekend

I went to my friend's house last Saturday. It was rainny day so I went to by bus. But I have mistaken the bus which I should take. I took off and walked to the bus stop. At that time, she called me to ask where I was. I said her that I took a wrong bus and I will late. And she said to me "I can pick you up. Where are you ? Where should I go?" I told her where I was. Then she came in a few minutes. I took on her car and said sorry to her. She said ok and it's glad to meet you! I thanked her and I had a fun moment to talk with her in the car.
After we arrived, we talked how we live in these weeks. It could feel the time has passed so fast, but time has come and I had to go. I had a wonderful time.
(162 words)

Miserable day

I had a bad stomachache on June 3rd.
I woke up early and I felt illness. I couldn't go to school so I was absent from school. I have been in bed much hours and I went to the hospital in the evening. I took some medicines. after back home, I ate a little of okayu. It was the first dish of the day. I felt it is happiness to eat the foods which we like. I think it is lucky that we can eat foods three times in a day. It was the bad day but I thanks for to give a chance to think of a small happiness. However I don't want to become ill such the day.
(122words)

My PC

I went to Yamada to buy a new PC with my parents. There were many people and they looked PCs or other electrical appliances. There were many PCs and that were new or stylish. In addition, they were also cheaper. The store discounted the prices of the PCs. I thought it was good for me because I would pay the PC from my savings. It might be a biggest shopping in my life!! I asked the setting, so the PC would come to my home on Wednesday. I was happy to buy my PC in cheap price. I will study hard on using the PC. I can't wait for the comming my PC .
(114 words)

My club practice

We have the practice at gakkan on Monday. I went that this week. We have a tea party celemony on May 28th. It is important for me because I will do otemae at the celemony, but I forgot how to do that. So I have to practice more. Next Monday, we will learn how to put on yukata from our teacher, because we will put on yukata at the celemony. Anyone could come to the celemony and have tea and wagashi . If you have time, please come to gakkan 3rd floor on 15:00~17:30.
(96 words)

Essay-4 A memorable day in my life

A memorable day in my life is the home stay in Australia. I went to there when I was 16 years old. It was a special program of my school. I was in the International course of my school. I wanted to join in this program when I entered the school. So I asked my parents to go Australia. They agreed with me, so I could go to Australia.

It was the first time to go abroad. I was so excited and I was a little anxiety before go to Australia. There were about fifteen students and our homeroom teacher who went there with me. We all stayed with the each host families. I stayed with a big family. There were seven people in the family; father, mother and five children. I cared about whether I could do well with them, but it wasn’t a problem. They came in friendly. We became a good friend. I went to their high school on the school days. I went to some places with my host family on holidays.

On the last holiday in the stay, I went to a farm with my host family. We stayed there for two days. There were my host family’s cousins and their parents. They raise cows in a large farm. I had never been to such a big farm. I felt Australia is very big country. In the early morning of the next day before sun rise, we went to the farm. It was cold and quiet. When the sun started to rise, we went to the top of the hill of the farm. The view was so beautiful. It was a touching sun rise. I couldn’t do forget the sight. It gives me courage even now.
(302words)

My lunch

I met my friends to have lunch at afternoon. We went to the Jolly Pasta in my home town. One of my friends ate cream pasta, the other ate pizza and I ate meat sauce pasta. My friend shared her pizza to us, so we shared our dishes to her. The pizza and pasta were so delicious. I talked with her a lot. I could have good afternoon!
(68 words)

blog spot

1. Is your sidebar organized and have your visited all of your classmates blogs at least once? If not, explain why, if so, give your impression.
Yes. My side bar is organized.
Yes, I have. I have impressed by their blogs, because they are individual and some has a lot of pictures.

2. Have you labeled all your book reviews and essays?
No, I haven't. I have. I have labled all my essays, but I haven't labled book reviews.

3. Does your blog include pictures and/or videos?
My blog include pictures, but don't include some videos.

4. What is your best post? Why? (please also link to it)
My best post is "The Mothers Day" because it's the first post that I pasted a picture.

5. What is your best book review? Why? (please link to it)
My best book review is "Mr. Putter&Tabby Walk the Dog" because It's story is intimate for us.

6. What are the good points and bad points about this writing class?
The good points of this class is we have a lot of opportunities to use English, and we can learn the way of typing and bloging for this class.
The bad points is we can't follow the explanations, because we don't have much knowledge of computer.

7. (2nd year students only) Have you done all your typing homework assignments? What do you
think of these assignments?
I haven't done all of my assignments. I think these assignments are good for training our typing skills.
(170 words)

Essay-3 My Favorite Animals

My favorite animal is a dog. I like them because they are very cute and smart. They can remember sit, down, wait so on. In addition, they are often friendly. The other reason that I like dogs is I have two dogs in my house. They are brown haired, mongrel dog. When I was a little girl, I had one of them. She was puppy too. However, she has grown up sooner than I, and about a year later, she had three babies. They were all girls. They were very naughty, so their mother dog was worry over her children. I played with them every day after school. I always play with my dogs and held them in my arms every time. I used to sit down and stroke them. I felt relaxed when I stroked them.
My dogs are very cute and friendly, and they can do a few of performances. It’s jump, sit and wait to eat. It’s general, but I think they are good girls.
On the other hand, I like cats too, because we have a cat in my house, but at fast she wasn’t one of our families. She was a stray cat at that time, but my younger sister found her and wanted to get her. She struggled to get her because the cat watched her. In the end, she caught the cat. At fast, I didn’t agree to have a cat, because we already had dogs, but my sister won’t listen to me. However, now I like the cat and agree with my sister. That’s why I like those animals.
(267 words)

Essay-1

Hello, My name is Mariko N. Please call me Mariko. I'm 19 years old. I go to KGU. I'm in first grade of the university. I study language, especially English. I've been studying English for about seven years, but I want to learn more about English. For example, speaking or writing. In addition, I study Chinese and Germany. Do you study some languages? Are you interested in Japanese?
Bt the way, how many people are in your family? I have six people in my family, my father, my mother, a younger brother and two younger sisters. There are two dogs and some gold fish. They are very cute. I love animals. I can have a relaxed time when I play with my pets. I work in a bakery, so I like bread very much. Do you like bread?
Then, I like sports. I belonged to a volley ball club and a tennis club, but I belong to a tea celemoney club now. It's one of the Japanese traditions. We have to sit up straight during practice, and my legs feels asleep every time. It has a lot of regulations but I must remember everything to do tea celamoney. Doing tea celemoney and practice is hard, but I like my club members. I have made many friends in m club.
I hope you could understand about myself. Maybe my introduction is not enough for you. I'm looking foward to meeting you. I think it's a good opportunity to learn English and other things. I want to make friends and talk with them. I hope I could enjoy my stay.
See you.
(270 words)

Book Review 1-1

The auther of this book is Cynthia Rylant. The pictures were illustrated by Arthur Howard. I think the picyures of this book is cute!! So I chose this book.
Mr.Putter is a old man who lives with his cat,Tabby. They lived next door to Mrs.Teaberry and her small dog,Zeke. Oneday, she hurt her foot. Her foot needed a rest. She couldn't take a work her dog. Mr.Putter decided that he would take him for a work for a week. He thought Zeke was a good dog, but it's wrong. He tugged Mr. Putter, Wrapped them and chased big dogs. They were tired when got home. However, Zeke was a smart dog. The fifth day, Zeke didn't tug, wrap and chase. Zekw was a reallygreat dog.
I think it was a funny book. Please read it someday!
136words

The Mothers Day

Yesterday was The Mothers Day. These years, I haven't sent anything, so I think I would send a present to my mother. However, I didn't know what she want. I wandered what should I send. And I decided to send some cakes to her. I worried about whether she would please at my present. I passed the present with composure, but I felt embarrassed to send the present. This is the cakes!!! (74 words)

On Holiday

Hello!
I went to HIKARINOMORI with my friend on Sunday. We went there by bus. We walked a little, then we went to take some PURIKURA. We took best one. After that, we went to have lunch. My friend asked me,"What do you want to eat??" I answered, "I want to eat some Italian food." so we went to Itarian restaurant. My friend ate cream pasta and I ate Japanese style pasta. It was very good. I love Italian food!! After lunch, we went to a book store. I bought two books, so I'll read them when I was free. I could enjoy my holiday with her. I think friends are necessary to my life.

Tea ceremony

I belong to the Tea ceremony club at KGU. Tea ceramony is one of the Japanese culture. It seems like just do together hot water and powdered green tea,but it's not just like that. There are meanings in the way of doing that. It trains sprit and teaches a low of etiquette. We have practices once a week. Two teachers teach us many things. I want to progress my abilities not only tea ceremony but the etiquettes. I need more effort!
(83 words)

Yesterday!

I went to the library yesterday, and I rent two English books. One of the book is for small children and another book looked difficult, but I want try to read without using dictionary!! If you want to know about these books, waiting for book reviews.
(46 words)

Sleepy!

I'm so sleepy.
I worked part-time from 5-10.
After back, I felt strangely dull, but I have a thing to do.
I slept not enough yesterday!
I want to go to sleep.
(35 words)

new school

I went to school this afternoon to see my new class.
I met my friends, we went to the library to talk about classes.
There were many students. The tables were full of them.
Today is very hot. It 's like summer but it's still spring.
I think the summer will come sooner than these years.
(57 words)

Surprised

I went a little place to have lunch at afternoon.
That is a eating space.
I went to there with my friend.
There are many menues, and they all cheap!
The dishes were good.
My friend and I were satisfied with them.
(44 words)

spring sunny!

Hello!

Today is sunny,but so windey.

I went to out by bicycle. it was so hard to ride!!

I went to a park with my friends to play soccer.

At first, we did streching and warming. We played lifting as warming.

It's more difficult than I expected.

After that, we started to short game. It's 10 minutes game.

We run and run whole the game, but it was 0-0! then,we continued the game.

Finally, we played about 20 minutes.

It was so exciting game! I love soccer!!!
(92words)