Alumni event of Junior high school

I joined the class reunion of Sanwa Junior high school last Saturday. It was held at Mielparque Kumamoto. We got gather for the first time in a long time.

There were over one hundred Ex-students of Sanwa, and our teachers were invited. I talked various friends of mine. I chatted best friends, class mate, people whom I spoke to, and the like...

I was unbelievable that all girls became beautiful!! and all guys also have been changed. Some became like host, some became cool. So I did not recognize who was who by looking.

There were a lot of worker there, so it was surprised me. And then I respected them because they who have been worked send their parents some money every month. I felt kind of miserable because I did not have part-time job.

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about homework

about Masaharu Fukuyama

Do you know Masaharu Fukuyama? I guess that all of Japanese have heard his name once at least because he is very famous in Japan. But nowadays, he is also known over the sea, especially in Asia.

He is 42 years old (January. 10. 2012) and single. He is not only a singer-songwriter but also actor, photographer, guitarist and radio personality.

He was born as a second son in Nagasaki in Kyusyu in 1969. He graduated Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Technical High School. After that he got job, but he did not give up his dream which is becoming a singer. Therefore he leaved his job, and came up to Tokyo when he was 18 years old.

He passed Amuse company's auditioned and was accepted for the show, taking her first steps as a actor. His first works was "Honno-5g" and he came to the front, but he disliked that.

In 1994, 『It's only love』 hit the number one spot on pop charts in Japan. And then he became known as a singer and songwriter. Few years later,2000, sales of 『Sakurazaka』 have increased constantly and has became the first million-seller of his. It arranged tie ups with Television program of TBS.

In 2007, He appeared 『Galileo』 is a Japanese television drama based on『 Detective Galileo』 a novel by the famous mystery writer Keigo Higashino. It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases. 


Next year, 『YougisyaXnokenshin』(Suspect X)  is a 2008 Japanese mystery-thriller film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani. The film was a continuation of the popular Japanese serial drama Galileo and included the same cast. It topped Japan's box office for four consecutive weeks and was the third-highest grossing Japanese movie in 2008. The soundtrack was released on October 1, 2008. He made songs and wrote poem for the drama and film, and he sang them with Kou Shabasaki. The name of them 『KOH⁺』. 


Fukuyama Masaharu played the main character, Sakamoto Ryoma in Ryoma-den. The drama was not normal, because it was Taiga-drama. 『Ryomaden』 is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yataro and Sakamoto Ryoma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. 


Therefore he gain popularity with all of the world and all of generation. 

Manabu Yukawa, Galileo

Manabu Yukawa, Galileo

No Single Live in 2011

↓Masaharu Fukuyama's Official Web Site
http://www.fukuyamamasaharu.com/

↓Wikipedia about him
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%B1%B1%E9%9B%85%E6%B2%BB

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What I learn through posting

 Book review posts: I learned Speak English, colloquial expression and British English. I learned especially wording such like "Good for nothing".

Essay prep. & Essay posts: I could studied written language, and grammar because I found out some expression to tell somebody what I wanted to say.

Essay catchers: I learned how to compression as Eimi, Haruka and I wrote one document.

Presentation: I understood how to make presentation slides. I became to make it myself.

Comments on classmates' & peers' posts: I got reading skill and learned how to comment to classmates.

Routine weekly posts on topics of my choice: I could become writing(typing) over some words witch were decided.

I also learned luzl about write about dairy, what I am interested, about me and the like. This class was good for me!

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with my mother

Yesterday when is last day of winter vacation, I went to downtown with my mother for dress of alumni event. Because it has been schedule for next Saturday.

I will be able to meet someone whom I have not been keeping in touch with since graduation again at a class reunion. So I am looking forward to attending the class reunion. We who are on the mate of junior high school, are going to get together as an alumni event.

And than I went and collected my nail face tips to house of my mother's friend who is a manicurist and opened a store at traffic　intersection of Suidoucho.

Both of them face tips sooooooo cute! But, it is my first time to apply nail face tips, so I am going to practice once tomorrow!

I am torn between applying upper nail face tips and applying lower one... maybe I think that I will apply upper one tomorrow.

I am looking forward to applying them, but I have the first class of the morning tomorrow, so I am worry about weather I can get up early or not.

lower is the nail face tips which I ordered 

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End of the year party

Three days ago, 30th December, I met three friends of mine who had belonged Soft tennis club of Daiichi high school with me when we were high school students. In fact, there were eight, including me, but four member gathered. We held End of the party at Oasho out behind the Kumamoto city hall.

We were supposed to get together in front of Daiei which are along Shimo-tori street at 6:40. However, the day, a huge number of people were in there, so we could not find each other for some time. End of all, we could get together few minutes later, and then we went ahead the Izakaya.

At the Izakaya, the main course was Nabe! It was maybe Mizutaki! It was very delicious, and wormed our blood. Another food were various Yaki-Tori, pettitoes, Konnayku-Doufu, Chicken-Nanban and the like.

We spend great time there because we met we had not seen about half a year and one of us have lived in Kyoto for university, so there were plenty to talk about.

After we went out there, we went to Karaoke, and we were until 4 a.m.! I sung a lot of songs, and was very enjoyed. And then we came back each home by Taxi. A driver of Taxi which I rode was very gently and funny man! I guess that his age is between 50 and 60 years old.

He talked me a variety of story while going to my house. What I remember best story is about fee of Taxi. Do you know, how is it charged? The Taxi fee is charged by running distance til few years ago. But now, it has been charged by time. It is because there are some people who let Taxi driver is waiting in the Taxi and they shop at convenience store and the like. Therefore it was changed mileage system to time charge.

In the end, I could go back home until 5a.m.. But I had very good time with my friends! And then all of the member of soft tennis club and I will meet the day of coming age, next time. Of cause with Kimono! I am looking forward to coming the day early.

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BR02-18 The Adventures of TOM SAWYER

" ' They are grave robbers, Tom! They are going to rob a grave! My father told me about it. The doctor wants a dead body, you see. He cut it up because he wants to learn about--' " (p. 12)

Tom Sawyer is rambunctious boy, and he does not like school instead he loves adventures. Tom Sawyer is climbing out of his bedroom window to meet his friends when other people are sleeping in their bed. Tom, Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn are best friend, have an exciting time every day.

It was first time to read the story for me, but it was exciting!

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Twain Mark. (2000) The Adventures of TOM SAWYER OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY: Oxford University Press

BR 02-17 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

" ' She's afraid of me, and she hates me too. She hates me because I am beautiful, and she is not; because I had three husbands, and she never married."(p. 2)

This story was not written by Mary Queen of Scots. The writer was Bess Curle who is a her chamberlain. There is story about Mary Queen of Scots in this book.

The Queen of Scots returned from France when she was young, then her husband was died. And unfortunately for her, England have ruled by Elizabeth I then. And then The Mary Queen of Scots
was confined in Fotheringhay Castle in England with her a chamberlain and some maids...

The story was written in plain English, so it is very easy for us to read and understand this contents. At first, I could not be interested in this book as the story is history of England and about the Mary Queen of Scots. But, it is reader-friendly version, font and text, that means it is reader-friendly pages, so I was gradually interested in the story.

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Vicary Tim. (2000). Mary Queen of Scots OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY: Oxford University Press

BR 02-16 Mystery Mansion

" Loud moans rang out from Mystery Mansion, deep in the marshes, and a glowing, yellow mist curled around its walls." (p.3)

Mystery Mansion is a place of dark secrets and terrifying nightmares. Harry the boot boy tries to ignore them all and get on with his job until he finds himself caught up in an adventure more scary than any nightmare.

The book contains 10 chapters and their after story. There were a lot of scary monsters, for example there were some living dead monsters (Zombies), skeleton bones, bats and big wolf. There were some pictures at intervals of one page. Therefore you can understand the stories very well.

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Sims Lesley. (2004) Mystery Mansion. USEBORNE YOUNG READING London; Usborne

Congratulations!

Emma Watoson was chosen one of the most beautiful 100 faces of this year, and she won first prize!

Do you know about her?

She was born between Briton father and France mother as the first girl in France in 15 April 1990, and now, she is 21 years old. Her parents devoted, and she has live with Her mother and younger brother in United Kingdom.

She debuted as actress in  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . In 2000 when was ten years old, Emma began filming for the first time with 11 years old Daniel Radcliffe and 12 years old Rupert Grint. She was extremely nervous. But, she had no reason to fear as, on its opening day, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone broke records all over the world and Emma won great critical acclaim for her performance as Hermione Granger.

In 2007 Emma accepted her first role outside of the Harry Potter films playing Pauline Fossil in BBC's drama Ballet Shoes. The drama was incredibly well received and was viewed by a staggering 5.2 million people. But, in my opinion, the drama's story is bit boring. However Emma was very cute in this drama, so I settled for less. The following year, Emma voiced her first animated character (playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver and Matthew Broderick) with the role of Prince Pea in Universal Pictures' The Tale of Despereaux. 


She uses Twitter, so if you also do it please follow her tweet.

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↓web site of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE IN 2011. CHECK IT.

http://www.tccandler.com/beautiful-faces/most-beautiful-2011/

BR 02-15 The Snow Queen

" 'Let's show it off to the angels.' " (p. 4)

Gerda and Kay are best friends, until Kay suddenly changes. Then he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and everyone thinks he is lost forever. But Gerda is determined to rescue him.

Follow her, in this retelling of the classic tale by Hans Christian Anderson, as she sets out on a lonely, dangerous quest to the frozen north.

The Snow Queen is in series two of Usborne Young Reading, which combines good stories with easy reading text. Developed in consultaion with Alison Kelly, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey Roehampton, series two is for readers who are growing in confidence. For readers who have just started reading alone, try the exciting stories in series one.

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Anderson Hans. (2004). The Snow Queen. USEBORNE YOUNG READING: SERIES TWO London: Usborne

BR 02-14 Frog and Toad Together

" 'Because,' wailed Toad,  'running after my list is not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!'" (p. 14)

Have you ever read this series of "Frog and Toad"? They have been translated into Japanese. So I think that large segment of the population have had a chance to read them when they were kindergarten pupil or early elementary school student. This is because they have been very popular with young children all aver Japan.

Two frogs are featured in this volume. One of them, main character, is Toad who is red frog, short and yellow streak. And he like his friend very much. Frog is his friend's name. He is rain frog, taller than Toad and like Toad.  More than anything, unlike Toad, he is very brave. Therefore he always help and treats Toad with gentle patience.

There are five stories in this book. I especially like second story because Toad wanted to have own garden as he saw Frog, his best friend, has grown plants in his garden. And then he planted the flower seeds. He had thought that the flowers come up any second, so he walked up and down around his garden. Then Frog came and told him that "Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them." Therefore Toad do something for his flower. I felt it was very cute. I want you to do read it.

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Lobel Arnold. (1972). Frog and Toad Together. New York: Harper Collins

BR 02-13 New Zealand

"The Maori are famous for their woodcarving. When they arrived in New Zealand, they found large trees everywhere." (p. 11)

New Zealand is in the south Pacific Ocean, along way from anywhere. Australia is the closest country and that is two thousand kilometres away. New Zealand is isolated and this makes it special. This isolation changes everything. New Zealand's history, the weather, the way its people are and the trees, flowers and animals that you can see.

New Zealand is made up of two large islands - the North Island and the South Island, and a much smaller island, Stewart Island. It is about the same size as the United Kingdom, but it has only four million people. The United Kingdom has sixty-one million people. There are almost a million young people under fifteen in New Zealand.

I have been to New Zealand last spring vacation. I enjoyed home-stay in Auckland where locates in North Island for a month. And my friends and I went somewhere, for example we went to Hot Water Beach, Rotorua and so many. I recommend you going to Rotorua because there is Waimoto Carves. They are very brilliant!(the picture). It was great. It really got to me! You must go there to see them before you die!

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Johnson Margaret. (2009) Madrid; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

BR 02-12 MR BEAN

" 'Americaaaaaa!!' shouted Mr Bean at the airport. 'I am going to Americaaaaaa!!'" (p. 4)

Do you know "Mr Bean"? I think that all Mr Tomei's student of speaking class know it because professor Tomei showed the movie of Mr Bean.

It is comedy story  series which is very famous in the world, and it is British story. Therefore sometimes a lot of places appear in this film. Mr Bean is main character, and he hardly speaks in the movie, but he can tells fun of the story.

This book is written about one day at Grierson Art Gallery....

Nobody in the room liked Mr Bean. They all wanted him to leave the gallery, why? What was wrong with the man? He only had to sit in one of the rooms in the gallery all day and watch the paintings. He was not very good at his job. He usually fell asleep, but why did they all hate him?

I want you read this book without anybody else because I guess that you absolutely can't stop laughing. It was written by British English, so it is bit difficult to read, but it is good chance for you to touch British English.

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Curtis Richard and Driscoll Robin (2000) Harow: Person Education

BR 02-11 Night Museum

" 'He is drinking!' Larry cried. Water went through T-Rex's bones and onto the floor. 'I do not believe this. He can move! He is alive!' Larry ran. T-Rex followed." (p. 14)

Larry is main character of this story. He has no money, no car and no job. He wants a new job to meet his son, Nicky, and to pay for his flat. Nicky is Larry's son, and lives with his mother,Erica, and her new husband, Don who is rich and has a great job.

Larry always changes his flat because he has no money for it, so Erica thinks that "It is not good for Nicky"and she tells Larry that "You get a job, otherwise you do not see Nicky." He was very sad to hear that.

And then he get a new job, but he hear that the job is hated by somebody from Debbie who finds jobs for people. He did not understand what she wanted to tell him.

His new job is night guard, and there are three old night guards there, Cecil, Gus and Reg. Cecil is a head of them, and he took Larry to explanation about the museum and the job. After that he gave Larry a peace of paper and told him that "You must read it before your work." But he did not read it...

Suddenly he woke up. It was very late. He looked around him, then there was not T-Rex. "Where is T-Rex?" he thought and then cried because the T-Rex drunk water....

There is actually American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York. It is very near Central Park like in the films. It opened in 1869. The father of President Roosevelt and some other people started it. The filming of this story was shot there.

This story was very interesting for me. There are two or three movies today, but I have never watched them, so I wanted to watch during winter vacation.


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Goldman　Leslie. (2008) Night Museum Mary Glasgow Magazines London : Scholastic

Photos for the coming age ceremony in advance

November 3rd, I was taken the photos for the coming age ceremony in advance at Wedding box.

With my family

I had my hair set in like MAIKO by hairdresser in the morning. After that, I moved to Wedding box where is Shin-shigai so that I had wear my Kimono by dressing master.

And then my family and I went to Festa where is underground of STUTAYA for Print club stickers. It was second time we took the Print club stickers.

My ground father jointed us around six p. m. at 6th floor of Wedding box, and we went to Santamore for the dinner. We ate French food course there. It was very delicious, but I was constricted by Obi ,which is a sash for traditional Japanese dress, keikogi worn for Japanese martial arts, and part of kimono outfits, so I felt quite choking....

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BR 02- 10 Welcome to Narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

"As Lucy moved toward the back of the wardrobe, she felt a cold wind. 'What was going on?'" (p. 8)

There were four children in the Pevensie. Older sister was Susan, Peter, two brother; Edmund and younger sister was Lucy. The Pevensie family never dreamed that a magic wardrobe would change their lives...

One day, Lucy who is the youngest in the Pevensie find out the secret inside the wardrobe as the first Pevensie. She and her two brothers and a older sister were playing hide-and-seek at their house. Lucy dashed inside a wardrobe in an otherwise empty room. As Lucy moved toward the back of the wardrobe, she felt cold wind. Unbelievable, she came to the world of Narnia.

She went back her house, and told her brothers and sister about Narnia. But they did not believe in Narnia, but they would visit Narnia, too.

There are seven The Narnia stories. And this book is a first part of them. And they has also been made into some movies until now. As you can fun, please read or watch them.

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 Frantz Jennifer. (2005) Welcome to Narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe New York : HarperCollins, c2005

BR 2-09 William Shakespeare

" 'Mr Shakespeare, you are the best playwright in England. I enjoyed your play, and I thought that Sir John Falstaff was very funny. I have known like him. Will you write me another play?' said the Queen. " (p. 26)


Have you ever read or watched 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Phantom of the Opera' or 'Hamlet'? Shakespeare wrote them, and he was very famous playwright in England.


Nearly 400 years after William Shakespeare'e death, people are still enjoyed his plays and poetry. Year after year there are new books about his life and his works, the Royal Shakespeare Company performs the plays in theaters in Stratford, London, and around the country, and there are new versions on the radio, on television, and on film.


Shakespeare's plays are performed all over the world, and in many different ways. There are Italian operas and American musicals- West Side Story was based on Romeo and Juliet. There are many famous films, including a Russian Hamlet and a Japanese King Lear. A film in 1999, called Shakespeare in Love, gave us a picture of Shakespeare as a young man in London, writing Romeo and Juliet, falling in love, and living life to the full. The film was a great success. William Shakespeare has not been forgotten.




Bassett Jennifer (2000) William Shakespeare OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Essay 2-03b Draft essay posts: Who Am I?

I will introduce you about me. Where I was born?,  My family?, Personality?, What I like...

Please check it out!

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Presentation

Hi, everyone. I will introduce you about Kumamon.

His name is Kumamon, and the word Kumamon comes from Kumamotonomon. It is Kumamoto drection. Kumamon means the people who was born or live in Kumamoto.
He was born in march, 12th and he is 5 years old boy.

He has a job. It is public employee of Kumamoto prefecture. He has second important position in Kumamoto.

At first, he is limited time offer character of Kyusyu-shinkansen. But, he became one of the most popular character in Kumamoto, so I survived.

He has won the first prize at Yuri-kyara ground prix in Japan, so he became famous.

Kumamoto prefecture don't take the royalties. So if you want use Kumamon for some goods, you can do it.

Do you know Kumamon-taisou? It is likes radio gymnastics. If you did not know, please  look over it on Youtube.

He collaborated with some big companies, for example they are Kagome, Acecook and UHA!
UHA has been making Banpeiyu-Puccyo.

He is loved by everybody who live in Japan. Nowadays, he gain popularity with younger generation in over the world.

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