My holiday

Yesterday, commemoration of the founding of our univversity so we had holiday. I went to Tenjin in Fukuoka to buy clothes. I have been to Fukuoka three times since I'm university student. Fukuoka is big city so there are many clothes shops which threre are not in Kumamoto so I was exciting!! I love fashion very much. I bought blue bag and iphone case. I wanted to buy clothes but I didn't find good one. While I was in the bus, I slept very well and I hit my head against the window. I like cafe so I went to cafe in Tenjin, of course. It was very nice and taste is so good. I want to go to another place next holiday. (122 words)

Foreign countries

I like foreign countries's languages and cultures. When I was eight, I learned American culture in elementary school's class。The class's teacher is from America. She talked me about many things, American culture, foods, and language. I 'm interested in foreign culture since then. I want to live in foreign country and feel different life. So I study foreign country's history and culture hard. I think that learning before going foreign country is very important. I want to make friends whose from foreign country and know many things more and more. (95 words)

BR 1-07: Beowulf

Across the moor, a foul monster crawled from a swamp.(p.10)

I knew "Beowulf" in history of English literature class. I'm interested in this story, so I looked for it in the library.The story of Beowulf was first written over a thousand years ago in an early form of English, called Old English. You can find out more about the story.
Everybody fears monsters. It is natural thing. In this book, there is brave man who fight big monsters. There are a lot of thrilling scenes in this story.
This book will make you encouraged. I want to try hard things someday, like Beowulf.Please read this book and be a brave man!

(103 words)

Jones, Rob, Lloyd. (2009). Beowulf. London, England :Usborne

Flea market

Last Saturday, I went to flea market. I really really looked forward to going to this flea market. As I expected, it was very wonderful!!!!! Clothes, misscellaneus goods, foods, drinks and so on was solded. It was made from Thailand and so pretty!!! I bought dress, camisole and jacket. Those clothes is little expensive. There was Thai massage. Some people tried it. It looks nice. I have my portrait drown. The completion is great!! The painter's occupation is making accessories but the man drew portrait very nice. I asked him, "Is it difficult to draw portrait for you making accessaries every day?" "Making accessaries and painting portrait is like same thing." he said. The words hit my heart. I think that everything's essence is like same. I don't know exactly what he means but his words have simple and deep meaning indeed. I talked many people, saw many wonderful things so I had a good time. (156 words)

BR 1-06: Hamlet

Prince Hamlet had been utterly miserable since his father died. (p.6)

I have ever heard "Hamlet by William Shakespeare" but I never read this book. Shakespeare is very famous for writing amazing stories so I'm interested in William Shakespeare's literary work.
This book tells us about dead cruelty, complex blood relationship and betrayal. Hamlet and Horatio's scene shows wonderful friendship. Horatio always supports Hamlet. His action moved me deeply. This scene reminds me my best friend. Ophelia and Laertes's scene shows brotherly love. Laertes worrys Ophelia about her insanity. This scene reminds me my younger brother.
This book is horrifying story but it shows important thing. I want you to read this book. William Shakespeare's literary work will change your view of the world.
(123 words)

Shakespeare, William. (2006) Hamlet. London, England: Usborne.

Dancing is my joy!

I like danicing very much. Since I was high school student, I dance almost everyday. After dinner, I dance at every night. Especially I dance to western music. My favorite songs are Feedback, Somebody, Sexyback, It's trickey and so on. Sexyback's dance is my choreography. I like to dance Sexyback than other songs because there is contemplation most. Sexyback's composition is that four thief run away from policemans. Our clothes is black jacket, yellow pants and black socks. Everyone who watched our show said very cool. I want to dance with this four member again. Anyway, I love dance! (102 words)

My other classes

I have many classes in a week. I like Speaking class because I want to speak English. I can speak English with my friends. Sometimes I can't understand what other people say in English but it is very meaningful class for me. I’m not good at environment class. I'm not interested in environment so I'm bored. I don't like science so I can't understand what is interesting about this class. I like reading class. (80 words)

PAVAO

I went to cafe today. I like to cafe very much because I can relax. I like the atmosphere. Music which is played in the place is so pretty. I ate chocolate cake the other day, I ate chicken curry rice today, it was very delicious and spicy. I like spicy food so I liked it. The cafe staff told me next flea market day. She is very kind of me. The flea market, Thai miscellaneous goods, clothes and sweet food will be sold. I'm very looking forward to going to the flea market. I love handmade miscellaneous goods and homemade foods. I want to go to this cafe again.
(110 words)

Essay 1-02b: University life

KGU is located in Kumamoto. The building is very large and there are many people including students, teachers and staffs. There are also some foreign people. I'll tell you what you need to know about this university. I think that it is very useful for you to know.

One thing exchange students will need to know is KGU have many departments for example, the department of foreign language, social welfare, commercial science, and economics. The department of foreign language has two courses. One course is Britain and the United States, another is East Asia. You can study foreign language both of them. The department of social welfare has five courses. There are First social welfare, Second social welfare, child household welfare, life wellness. The department of commercial science has two courses. One is commercial science and the another is hospitality management. The department of economics has three courses, management, legal economics and internatational economics.You can choose any department whatever you want to study at this university.

The another is having large library. You can read various books, magazines and newspapers and see movies. You can also study whenever you want to even holidays. You can use computers in this library. If you have to do your homework using computers, you can do in this library without paying for using. You can also listen to music in this library. There are many musics for example, R&B, J-POP, reggae, house and so on. You can bollow books. There are many people in this library any time.

Having many places where you can eat lunch in the building. There is convenience store. The convenience store opens in from the morning to the evening so you can go whenever you need to go. There is a students' dining hall. If you want to eat, you have to buy a meal ticket whatever you like. There are many meals is solded for example, curry rice, a set meal, ramen, udon and so on. There is a bakery. Breads, rice balls, salads, pies, and drinks. Ice cream is solded there so there are many people who eating it in summer.

Moreover, there are convenience store and boolstore. You can go there whenever you need to go. This convenience store opens at eight a.m. and close at ten p.m. A lot of students go there to buy foods, magazines, drinks and so on. KGU's bookstore's name is Maruzen. This bookstore opens at ten a.m. and eight p.m. Books, magazines, breads, drinks and stationery is sold there. Many students buy stationery there. If you buy magazines at this bookstore, you get ten percent off. It is very profitable for students.

Lastly, KGU has many good points. There are many useful places. I want you to enjoy your university life. I wish you had a good time in this university. Please use KGU's many good points. (467 words)

New Country

My name is Shandi. I'm from Ghana in Africa. Ghana is famous for chocolatde. My job is pro sports player. I'm basketball player. My hobby is surfing. I like sea very much. I go to sea to surfing in my holiday. I dislike high place. I can't enjoy on the ferris wheel. (52 words)

My best friend

My best friend is Rimiko. We are best friend since we were junior high school student. When we were in elementary school, we are not close. But we were in basketball club together, we practiced everyday. Therefore we were gradually close. After club activities, we went to gym and practiced basketball together. I and she are never content so our game was always serious. Neither she nor I wanted to lose. But we were not fight, just played hard. She told me my bad point so I could implove every time and also, I told her bad point and she took my advice. We just wanted to be honest and tell the truth because we wanted to be strong. Such days continued, we had many games. Summer championship, she got MVP. I was very pleased with the result. And the next year, we had last championship. I got MVP but she wasn't pleased with the result because she was mortifying, I know. I and she were always together. We smile together, cry together and angry together. She always covered my mistakes. She is precious existence for me. She is in Aichi. I want to see her.
(199 words)

How I study English

I like English very much since I was seven. When I was child, I read dictionary and I talked with ALT teacher. This was how I studied English. But now, I read English books, watch English movie, write blog in English, try to speak English with foreign people, listen to English songs. It is very hard to use English in Japan but speaking English is best way I improve my English. And also, Memorizing vocabulary is way I study English. It is very important. (85 words)

BR 1-05: Games we play

Lots of Indigenous children play games, just like you and me. (p.3)

I like to play sports or something so I attracted this title. I'm interested in foreign country's sports and want to play sports which I don't know how to play. It looks very exciting. When I watch TV, foreign people play sports which I have never played. Playing sports is good for your health. After playing sports, I always feel happy. Playing sports makes people happy and fresh. So I love sports very much. In the world, there are many sports to play. Different people play different sports. It is very interesting.

(103 words)

LInda, Bruce. (2004). Games we play. London, England: Cengage Learning

BR 1-04: How animals came to Australia

Long before people or animals lived in Australia, birds were the only animals that visited. (p.3)

Reason why I chose the book is that I like animals and I want to go to Australia to see them. So I attracted. Especially, I like snikes very much but everyone hate. I don't know why everyone hate snakes. And I want to have a pet, cat or dog. I live alone now, I want to have them. Australia is the best place where animals live. My friends went to Australia in last summer. They said Australia is very beautiful place and there were many animals. So I think that Australia is very comfortable for animals to live. I think that animals live with helping each other.
(123 words)

Hilvert-Bruce, Aurora. (2004). How animals came to Australia. London, England: Cengage Learning

Lionguin

This is combi of lion znd penguin. Name is Lionguin. This animal's good point is that they can live either in water or land. Bad point is that they are not strong like lion and if they swim in the water, their far will wet. (46 words)

Surprise

Yesterday, my circle's active day. We decided to congratulate our president of circle. While boys played baseball, girls prepared cakes, crackers and present. Finishing play baseball, we appeared from hiding place. And we set off crackers, shot him with water pistol, and brought cake for him. The cake is very pretty. It was designed his face and circle's mark. The present was corkboad which is filled with our pictures. He looked very surprised and happy. We were happy too. Happy birthday, our leader! (83 wods)

About speaking

Recently, I practiced speaking English by English Central. I'm not good at speaking English so it is hard for me to do it. But I want to speak English fluently so I try to do English Central program as I can. I think that the best way we improve our English is speaking foreign people. I will try to talk with people whose language is English. (67 words)

BR 1-03: Hunting with dingoes

One hunter, Munna, wanted to catch a dingo puppy to help him track and hunt.

This is hunting story. It is written about that how dingoes and people learned to track and hunt together. Dingoes are kind of Australia's stray dogs. I thought that Munna is very brave man who done such a thing that most of the people thought a dangerous idea. When I try new things, I afraid of mistakes. But, after reading this book, I think that not afraid is very important thing. It is very meaningful to try new things than afraid of making mistakes. When I face difficult thing, I want to try harder like Munna!!

(112 words)


,Elether, Bruce. (2004). Hunting with dingoes. London, England:  Cengage Learning

BR 1-02: How fish were made

Long ago, there were no fish in the sea.

This book is written about how fish were made. But it is also written about many birds.I didn't know Turkey was so lazy he wouldn't even fly. I was shocked. Turkey burned other birds because of his grumpiness but other birds ran away and changed their body fish. They were helped by luck. I think that lazy man will be paid for the habit of being lazy. I don't want to be such a man. When you do bad things, you will pay for it. Parents, school teachers and family always say so. You should do good thing for everyone.

(110 words)

Elether, Bruce. (2004). How fish were made. London, England: Cengage Learning

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Foods

I like foods especially, sweet foods. I like chocolate, ice cream and cakes. I also like to cooking. I live alone in Kumamoto so I cook everyday. I was not good at cooking but now, I'm good at cooking. My favorite food is fish so I often cook fish's dish for example, Misoni, Yakizakana and so on. I also like pasta. I often cook cream pasta and meat pasta. (71 words)

My GW

How about your Golden Week? I was very enjoyed it! March 2, I went home in Kagoshima. I was very looking forward to seeing my family so I can't sleep for three hours in the bus. I listened to the music and read the books. When I arrived at the bus stop, my mother and my younger brother was there. We talkedeach other about school life, my friends, and daily life. When we got to our home, my father waited me so we had dinner together. March 3, We went out. We went to shopping. I bought my hair pin. My younger brother bought basketball. My mother bought foods for our dinner. We ate ice cream together in the car. We played western music for example, Nelly, Rihanna, The Black Eyed Peas, Far East Movement, Pitbull, Chris Brown and so on. Getting to our home, my mother began to prepare our dinner. I and my younger brother played basketball together in front of our house. I played basketball in junior high school and my younger brother plays in high school now. We enjoyed playing basketball. My mother told us she prepared dinner so we went home. The dinner is Kurogewagyu's sukiyaki!! My father got it from his office man. It was very delicious! Having dinner, we played Wii together. I'm good at playing tennis, my youger brother is good at playing baseball in Wii sports. March 4, I met friends We have been best friends since high school. We went to the Kagoshima city and talked each other about our school life, friends and our high school memory. It was very fun! When we were high school student, we laughed, cried, studied together. We were always together so they are very precious for me. We had dinner together in the night and other friends joined us. We enjoyed driving. March 5, I went home in Kumamoto. I felt lonely but I can go home in Kagoshima three months later. When I came home in Kumamoto, I went to my part time job. I enjoyed my Golden Week very much! Here is my Golden Week. Thanks for reading. (360 words)

My Golden Week Plans

My golden week plan is playing basketball with my younger brother. My younger brother plays basketball in high school now so I want to see my younger brother playing. I and my younger like basketball very much. My golden week plan is also dancing with my friends. I was danced in high school everyday. I want to dance with teammates.(6０words)

MY HOBBIES

My hobby is dancing. I was a member of dance club in high school and went to dance studio in Kagoshima. I like dancing since I was eight year old. I often danced with my friends after school. My genre is hiphop. I want to try other genre. For example, house, girls hiphop, rocking. My hobby is playing basketball, too. I played basketball in junior high school. My position is forward. I got MVP at last game in summer in Kagoshima. Another hobby is reading.(60 words)

Essay 1-02a: University life

KGU is located in Kumamoto. The building is very large and there are many people including students, teachers and staffs. There are also some foreign people. I'll tell you what you need to know about this university. I think that it is very useful for you to know.

One thing exchange students will need to know is KGU have many departments for example, the department of foreign language, social welfare, commercial science, and economics. The department of foreign language has two courses. One course is Britain and the United States, another is East Asia. You can study foreign language both of them. The department of social welfare has five courses. There are First social welfare, Second social welfare, child household welfare, life wellness. The department of commercial science has two courses. One is commercial science and the another is hospitality management. The department of economics has three courses, management, legal economics and internatational economics.You can choose any department whatever you want to study at this university.

The another is having large library. You can read various books, magazines and newspapers and see movies. You can also study whenever you want to even holidays. You can use computers in this library. If you have to do your homework using computers, you can do in this library without paying for using. You can also listen to music in this library. There are many musics for example, R&B, J-POP, reggae, house and so on. You can bollow books. There are many people in this library any time.

Having many places where you can eat lunch in the building. There is convenience store. The convenience store opens in from the morning to the evening so you can go whenever you need to go. There is a students' dining hall. If you want to eat, you have to buy a meal ticket whatever you like. There are many meals is solded for example, curry rice, a set meal, ramen, udon and so on. There is a bakery. Breads, rice balls, salads, pies, and drinks. Ice cream is solded there so there are many people who eating it in summer.

Lastly, KGU has many good points. There are many useful places. I want you to enjoy your university life. I wish you had a good time in this university. Please use KGU's many good points. (381 words)

My new hair style

I have my hair cut as a salon model. I like very short hair style so I have my hair cut very short. Whenever I cut my hair, I want to go out soon. Having my hair cut, I feel the world around me is different so I often change my hair style. I want to feel new feeling. I like my new hair style. I want to enjoy this hair style. (72 words)