The Christmas day

 How was your Christmas?

 Unfortunately, I didn't have anything to do on the day.  The special winter course of the cram school I work as part-time job started, and I worked for two days.  Then, on Christmas, there were no classes, so I was free.  I woke up over ten o'clock.  I had very good sleep.  And, I ate brunch, haha.  I thought I read books to kill my time, so I went to Tsutaya to buy novels.  I also had to do something for my bank account.

 After those, I went back home and went to a supermarket to buy ingredients for dinner.  Now, my mother have gone to trip, so I have to get dinner ready.  I would make a beef stew and a saute of spinach.  There were potatoes, carrots, and onion, so I bought beef, shimeji, and spinach.  I think I have done well.  I ate those with my father.  My father was fond of the saute of spinach. I enjoyed and felt a little lonely, but it was nice Christmas.  Maybe, haha.

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Much Ado Aboug Nothing

 This movie is about two loves between two women who are cousins, and two men who are the knights serving Don Pedro.  The women's names are Hero and Beatrice, and men's names are Claudio and Benedick.  Claudio fell in love with Hero when he saw her first.  Benedick and Beatrice thought love and romance are stupid things.  They swore that they would not be married.  Claudio and Hero were married very soon.  Don Pedro, Hero's father, Hero, Claudio, and other persons tried to trick Benedick and Beatrice to make them be married.  However, Don Pedro's brother, Don John, thought to destroy their happiness.

 One of my favorite scenes is when Don Pedro, Claudio, and Hero's father tried to trick Bnedick. They spoke loudly when they saw Benedick because they wanted Benedick to hear their talking.  The talking was that Beatrice fell in love to Benedick and that she annoyed very much because of the love.  Benedick hide himself from them and listened to their talking.  Then, he had chair but he wasn't able to show himself so he tried to sit down it.  The next moment, the chair broke down and he tumbled down.  It was very funny scene!

 The title, Much Ado About Nothing, means that the persons do much for something they think are big problems but the thing is nothing.  I didn't understand the relation between the title and the story at first.  In the story, some big problems happend and they aren't able to be said nothing.  They are very very big problems.  Don John caused the problems.  Why it the title "Much Ado About Nothing"?  It was my question, but I reconsidered about that.  At the end, Claudio and Hero could be married again.  This means that the love was recovered between Claudio and Hero.  And, Benedick and Claudio didn't have to fight a duel with each other.  Furthermore, Benedick and Beatrice could be married.  Those are not only recovered but also became better.  So, I thought these recoveries were the meaning of "Much Ado About Nothing". I could understand.

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March comes in like a lion

 Today, the volume eight of Sangatsu-no-lion said March comes in like a lion in English is published.  It is one of my favorite comics' title.  The story is about a young professional shogi player and his friends.  A young professional shogi player, named Rei, is a boy, and he is second person being a professional shogi player as a junior high school student.  He saw many persons, such as other professional shogi player, his neighboring persons, and more.  It makes him improve.
 The author is Chika Umino.  She also wrote Hachimitsu-to-Clover said Honey and Clover in English.  Her stories be able to give the readers warm feeling.  I haven't read the Honey and Clover yet but I want to read it.
 In the story of March comes in like a lion, many topics are included.  For example, bullying, hearing impairment, and friendship are done.  One of Rei's neighboring persons, named Hina, was bullied because of helping her friend bullied.  Rei wanted to help her or wanted to do something for her, and he listened her talk.  She was helped by it, but Rei didn't think he did something for her.  Listening was enough for her to help her.  Or, the best professional shogi player, named Soya, has hearing impairment.  Rei noticed that after he fought with Soya.
 Each story is like these.  After I read each volume, something to think comes up on me.  This comic give me a lot of things.  I'm moved by each volume.  I recommend that you read this comic!

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About comic

 I like comics.  I read a lot of comics and have some ones.  The comic I read first was Dragon Ball.  When I was a child, I used to read and to be very excited.  It was the just time to start to broadcast Dragon Ball's animation on TV.  I have all volumes of it.  I was interested in comics very much.  But, when I was a child, I didn't have enough money to buy comics.  So, for young me, to go to Book-Off and to read comics are very enjoyable things.  I also liked to go to library because there were a lot of comics about history.  Regardless of categories, I liked comics.  In high school, I was busy with the club activity but I read the Weekly Jump every week.  Now I became to be university student, and I am afford to buy comics.  I often buy a series of comic in a lump.  It is very enjoyable, but there are not spaces to put them in shelf.  I have to arrange them.

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My favorite bicycle

 My favorite bicycle is a black and small one.  In fact, I have another usual size one and I have used it for four years.  I used to go to high school on that bicycle for three years.  Then, I have been to Hiroshima for three years, so I didn't use that bicycle while being Hiroshima.  And I got back to Kumamoto and used it for about one year and a half.  However, in these days, I wanted to buy a new small one.  I looked for bicycles at some shop.  And I found some good ones, but they were too expensive, so I would give up to buy new one.  Then, I saw the black and small one at Mujirushi-Ryohin.  It was more reasonable than others that I looked.  It was sixteen thousand yen, but I had some gift certificates, which I got some years ago as Eco-points when I bought TV.  So, it actually costs twelve thousand yen to buy it.  Since the time when I got the bicycle, I feel that going out on the bicycle is enjoyable!
 Before then, I usually went out somewhere by city tram or on my foot, so the weather had nothing do with me.  Recently, I usually went out somewhere on the bicycle, so I tend to worry about the weather on next day.  On sunny day, I feel happy to go out with my favorite bicycle!

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My favorite comics

 One of my favorite comics is Vagabond.  The author is Takehiko Inoue who also describe Slam Dank which is very popular comic of basketball in Japan.  Its story is about the life of Musashi Miyamoto who is a sword man in later Edo Era and who is said that the first sword man used two sword first.  In the Edo Era, using two sword was not usual, but Musashi Miyamoto did.
 In the early story, he was young, fearless, and reckless.  He wanted to be the strongest person in the world.  He fought a lot of strong persons, and won them or sometimes lost.  Also, he saw a lot of person.  In the life, he came to change.  Young Musashi enjoyed to fight and to break his opponents.  Older Musashi enjoyed not to win but to move better.  "Better" means moving without vain one.
 Also, he came to wonder what strength is.  What is the strongest person?  If he can win all others, is he the strongest person?  Then, what is win?  If he kill others, does he win them?  And he concluded that "the strongest person" is just a word and he wanted to be more skillful and better sword man.  He came to seek how high he make his skill.
 The comic gives me a power and make me think something.  I thought a lot because of the comic and was gave some idea to be.

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My Weekly Jumps...

 On Saturday, it was very cold, so I tried to prepare the kotatsu in my room.  However, when I tried to do, I noticed that Weekly Jumps, which I had bought every week for two years and a half, was very obstructive to prepare the kotatsu.  I had to remove them to another place.  First, I gathered them.  They sprayed in some places in the floor.  I wondered how tall they were if I laid the magazines.  I started.  I put them under my desk and another room.  I moved them to my room and laid them.  You'll understand that how high they are if you look the pictures.  I put a wooden sword near the mountain to understand the size.  It came to my shoulders.  I gathered  to dump them but, after I did, I felt satisfactory and wondered if I ought to dump them....  So they were laid in the corner of my room.  Of course, I sleep in my room, so they are near my leg when I sleep.  I hope that it won't break down and scared when I sleep...

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Monsters, Inc

 This movie is about monsters that live in another world and a child who lives in our world.  The movie's title, Monsters, Inc, is the name of the company where the two main characters, Sully and Mike, work.  This movie is also about a friendship between monsters and a human child.

 I like the characters in this movie.  They are very funny.  For example, Mike was very happy to appear on TV even though the company's sign hides him and he can only be broadcast for a second.  When he watched it, he whispered "It must be wrong...."  He looked shocked because he was hidden by the company's sign, but he wasn't shocked and felt very happy.  Those were very funny scenes.

 Also, my favorite scenes are the scenes where Mike and Sully brought the child back to their room.  When Sully looked for the papers to help Mike, he found the door which was connected to the child and which was supposed to be returned.  Sully opened the door and checked in the door.  When he did, the child came into the monsters' world.  Sully was surprised by her!  Then, he thought Randall as bringing energy capsules to cheat on his score.  At the end, he took the girl to Mike and Celia, and the trouble happened.  After the trouble, they took the child to their room.  The child were crying and laughing.  It was supposed to be that crying was the source of energy in monsters' world.  But, at that time, laughing made more energy than crying.

 In the scenes, the funniest scenes are that Mike sprayed his own eye.  He sprayed to disinfect the track of child.  And, when she took Mike's CD, Mike was disappointed that the mountain of CD fall down but calmed down thinking that he child also calmed down.  Then the girl came to Mike and sneezed in Mike's eye.  Mike was surprised at that and sprayed his own eye.  It was very funny.

 I think that his movie is interesting because the monsters come to like the human child.  The opposite case is usual pattern, which the monsters came in the human world and human comes to like the monster.  However, this movie is not that case.  So, monsters are described not like monsters but like human.  They can speak and have their own personality.  Then, they like the child and named her Boo.  Those are the reason why I thought it was interesting.

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My favorite sweater

 My favorite sweater is camel one.  I bought it at a selected shop, named GRAPH, recently.  GRAPH is sister store of Orange County.  I didn't know the store recently.  The clerk of Orange County told me the store.  When I go to Orange County, I usually talk with the clerk.  Then, I heard.  I also didn't know where the shop is, so I looked for it and I found.  It is on the way to Orange County.  If I hadn't looked for carefully, I wouldn't have found it!
 Also, I found the sweater on online shop of Orange County.  Once I found it, I wanted it.  Going the shop, there was another color sweater too.  It was red one.  But I thought that I had red sweater, which was not it but the color was almost same, so I should buy the camel one.  And I tried the sweater on for size.  One of L size was fit me.  Another size, M, was also fit me but tight a little, so I bought L size and camel sweater.  I'm fond of this sweater.

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A day in my life

 This is a day not to have something special in my daily life, and I image that a little, you know.

 On that day, I got up nine a.m. and had breakfast.  I got ready to go out, washing myself, blushing my teeth, and changing my wear.  Then, I was ready, so I go to downtown on my foot.  I like walking, so I often go on my foot.  I went pass a tram-stop and up and down to downtown.  I walked through Shinshi-gai, Shimotori, and Kamitori.  I went to Namikizaka and to my favorite clothes shop.  I bought some at the shop and enjoyed talking with the clerk.  After I bought, I went to an Italian restaurant and had lunch.  There were three course menu, but each of them costed about one thousand.  Next, I went to a book store to buy something to read.  I also like reading but I couldn't do because of being busy.  I bought several books, and went to Starbucks Coffee to read them.  I was relaxed by good coffee and read books.  After all, I walked back home.  I walked along the River Tsuboi seeing the Castle Kumamoto in the evening.  Then, I went back home and had dinner.  Also, I took a bath and went to bed at eleven p.m.  I spent a very enjoyable day.  Good night.

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My favorite books

 One of my favorite books is Kashin written by Ryotaro Shiba.  The story is about a man, named Zoroku Murata, who was a wise doctor in a village in countryside.  He was very intelligent and studied at Tekijuku in Osaka where was held by Koan Ogata.  The story based on the end of the Edo Era, what is called Meiji-Ishin.  His prefectural office needed someone who could read and translated foreign languages.  He is the very man.   He was not kind, not talkative, and not good-looking.  But he was wise, had a skill to be needed, and understood what he should do.   He was like a machine to succeed Meiji-Ishin.
 He was not famous and is not famous.  In fact, I had never heard about him until when I read this book.  Some of other characters are very famous, for example, Takamori Saigo, Kogoro Katsura, and Kaishu Katsu.  The main character, what I mean him, is not famous.  However, this book says that Meiji-Ishin would not have succeeded if he hadn't been, or even if it had succeeded, it would have lost the Seinan War.
 The title, Kashin, means that the god to make plants bloom.  His life is like that.  He didn't appeal himself and stand out conspicuously.  In the deathbed, he left a message to get artillery guns for the Seinan War that he foresaw it would happen.
 I thought that he was very intelligence and the interesting person.  The point he is not famous is  also interesting.  It is nice to make not oneself but others stand out conspicuously like his life.

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My favorite jeans

 I have some jeans.  I am fond of all of them, but if I had to choose, one of my favorite jeans is Lot 504 by Levi Strauss.  I bought it at used clothes shop named 2nd Street.  In these days, I don't often go there, but I used to go there.  I found it in many clothes.  It cost about twenty hundred yen, I think.  It was very cheap, but the color was fresh.  Used clothes, especially used jeans, are often faded because it had been washed several times, but the jeans were not faded and its color was deep blue.  And I was fond of the shape of the jeans, so I bought it.  After I bought it, my friend said to me that it was rare to find Lot 504 by Levi's as a used cloth.  I don't know why, but I was lucky, I think.
 However, there was a problem about the jeans at first.  The problem was about a size.  The jeans was a size W:30 L:36.  Frankly speaking, my legs are not so long, I'm sorry.  So, I had the jeans altered for me by a tailor.  I trailed the bottoms of the jeans even if I wore the bottoms of the jeans rolled up, before I had it done.  Now it suits to me and it became one of my very favorite jeans.

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In my wallet,...

 Yesterday, the Weekly Jump was published because it was Monday and the Weekly Jump is published on every Monday.  I buy it every week, so I went to convenience store, Lawson, yesterday to buy the Weekly Jump.  I went there after university.  In university, I thought I had little money so I needed to draw money at the ATM, but, after the fifth period, I forgot it completely.  In other words, when I went to Lawson, I had one hundred ninety nine yen in my wallet...  The Weekly Jump costed two hundred fifty or two hundred forty.  In either case, I didn't have enough money to buy it.  Then, I went back my home sadly...

 However, I noticed that I was able to buy it then.  I have the point card of Lawson and I save over five hundred points.  If I had noticed it yesterday, I would have bought the Weekly Jump...

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Go to Mexican restaurant

 On Saturday, I spent a little busy day.  I got up at seven a.m. and ready to go to the cram school at which I work as a teacher as a part time job.  On that morning, I had a special class for  my students.  Their last exam of 2nd term will held soon, so the class is for it.  They studied hard from nine a.m. to eleven forty a.m.  Those why I got up early and went to the cram school in Saturday morning.

 Therefor, I have classes from a quarter after six o'clock to nine and half o'clock on usual Saturday.  But I didn't on the last Saturday because I have an appointment to go to Mexican restaurant with the members of Spanish class.  It was held by Mr. Okamura, our teacher of Spanish.  It would start from six o'clock, but some of us including me gathered at five o'clock because we planned to buy a cake for Mr. Okamura.  He will be fifty nine years old on the next Saturday, so we would surprise him to present him a birthday cake, though it was early a little.  And before six o'clock, we went to the restaurant and asked the waiter to serve the cake when we give a sign.  We knew where the restaurant is and we pretend to gather since then.  Mr. Okamura came there a little after.  Then the party started.  It was very fun, and the dishes were very good.  I didn't the names of the dishes.

 It seemed to be a set menu.  On the table, when we took seats, there were three dishes, pickles of carrot, radish, and red pepper.  First, I ate tacos chips with a dip made from avocado.  Second, I ate a salad of cured ham and lettuce.  Third, I ate the meat been barbecued wrapped in lettuce.  Forth, I did squids with Cuitlacoche sauce.  It seemed squids with the ink of cuttlefish, but Cuitlacoche is a mushroom lived in Mexico and it grows on corn.  It is black, so I think that the dish used the ink of cuttlefish.  Fifth, I ate shrimp and chili sauce.  Sixth, I ate tacos into cheese and lettuce.  Seventh, I ate a pasta with chili sauce.  There were many dishes and I had enough.  Some of dishes were very spicy but delicious.

 When the course was finished, one of us gave a sign to waiter and the waiter served the cake.  Our surprising birthday party for Mr. Okamura was success, we made it!  After that, we separated two group. One is to go to karaoke, I am in this group.  Another is go to drink.  At the Mexican restaurant, we didn't drink though the menu had some alcohol because Mr. Okamura ordered not to drink.  I went to karaoke and enjoyed it!

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Twilight

 Before I watched this movie, Twilight, I heard a little about it.  Some said that this movie was good and he or she liked the movie.  Others said that it was bad and that he or she wasted their money to watch the movie at the cinema.  I wondered who I will be like...

 This movie is about the love between a vampire boy, Edward, and a normal girl, Bella.  The vampire boy has lived since 1918.  I said "a normal girl", but she was shy and a little weird.

 After I watched the movie, I understood what I heard.  Frankly speaking, I didn't like this movie.  The story is not unusual.  I thought that girls tend to like a story like this.  A special boy falls in love with a weird girl, he is very cool, and he said something to her to get her love.  The keyword may be "forbidden".  It's a forbidden love between a vampire and a human.  Also, I didn't think that the actors play their roles very well.  I didn't understand why they fall in love.  When Edward laid Bella down, he was not kind to her, I think.  It was natural for Edward to lay Bella down kindly if he loves her, but he didn't.  So, I thought actors didn't play well.  And, in the last scene, Bella danced with Edward while wearing dress, but she was also wearing sneakers.  I couldn't understand that.  These are reasons why I didn't like this movie.

 However, I think that a good point of this movie is describing a vampire not as a monster but like a human.  Vampires are imaginary monster, but, in this movie, Edward is not a monster but a living thing like a human.  So, he falls in love and he was worried about Bella and their relationship.  I didn't like this movie, but it was a nice aspect of this movie.

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My favorite color

One of my favorite colors is red.  So, I have a pair of red sneakers, red T-shirts, a red parka, and two red ties, my cellphone is red, and I am using a red pointing mouse now, haha!  Of course, there are a lot of kinds of red.  I liked light red, but recently, I also like dark red.  I wear only one red item when I used red into my coordinate of clothes because red is strong color and light red is conspicuous.  Dark red is not conspicuous.  I use dark red tie more than light red tie in these days.  When I try to put on a light red tie, I don't think that light red one fits the clothes.  I don't come to dislike light red, but I feel difference from my image when I used it.  So, now I like light red and dark red.

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Something special I did in summer

 In August, I have special summer course of my part time job and in September, I went to Universal Studio Japan and Kobe.  I worked harder than usual in this summer vacation.  I wanted to play more...  My part time job is a teacher of a cram school.  I worked hard and I could get along with some students in this summer.  I was tired but I could enjoy it.
 When I went to Kobe, I saw my cousin, aunt, and uncle and we went to Santa Premium Outlet!  I bought a shirt and a T-shirt at Levi's and a T-shirt at another shop.  There was very large, but I could find less clothes I wanted than I expected.  Of course, it was very enjoyable time.  I could enjoy the time when I looked for something to want and the time to have lunch.
 Also, I went to Universal Studio Japan.  I went there for 3 days and bought the ticket for a year.   Especially, I was impressed the night carnival.  On first day, I couldn't watch it to the end.   On second day, I could watch it to the end.  At the end, the characters on the carnival entered to the door...  The characters with a lot of lights were very beautiful!  The carnival will change to Halloween version in October.  I want to go there then!

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Good points and bad points about summer

I think that good points of summer are having a summer vacation and many events.  We can enjoy a lot of events and to going many places.  Events are, for example, summer festival, going to sea, firework festival.  Summer festival has some stands.  They sell foods, masks, or toys but higher than usual.  I like the atmosphere of summer festival.  Going to sea is enjoyable in only summer because going to sea in winter is very cold.  In other words, hot is a good point about summer because we can enjoy going to sea.    They are very fun!  Bad points of summer are too hot and mosquito.  Of course, it depends on where I live, but I have to be careful to my body because of too hot.  Hotness make me too sweaty, so I must drink but too drink is also bad.  Also, there are many mosquitoes in summer!  I am bitten a lot by mosquitoes in summer.  I feel pretty itchy...

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How I study English in summer vacation

 In summer vacation, I will have much time, so to watch animation, movie, or game in English and to listen to music in English are how I study English in summer.  Recently, I watch the movie of game, named Asura's Wrath, on YouTube.  It is a game translated to English.  There are not a lot of comments, but I think it is a way to study English.  I think studying English become easier with something interesting.  Also, each comments have sentences on each scenes.  I can understand the comments by sentences even if I can't listen to it.  However, if I listen to it twice, I would be able to understand better than once.  It is studying English.
 Also, I listen to music.  I like Michael Jackson, The beatles, Taylor Swift, and Stevie Wonder.  I listen to them on my Windows Media Player.  To understand and to study English, I read the lyrics listening to music.
 In summer vacation, there are a lot of time, so I won't waste my time.

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The classes I will take

I will take Writing IV class, the History of American Literature, the Introduce of the global society, Speaking, the History of English Literature, Spanish, the Introduce of English Language, the Chemical, ... and more.  I am looking forward to the History of American Literature, the History of English Literature, and Spanish because their teachers are very fun and the class is interesting.  I like the classes.  In class of the History of American Literature, we learned about American writer and watched movies retold from American literature in spring semester.  And we wrote report about the movie.  In class of the History of English Literature, we learned about English writer and English language.  In the era of Old English, there were nothing to say literature but there were something to become literature.  It was myth and poem.  It was transmitted by word of mouth.  The teacher, Mr. Hori, is interesting person.  I like the class.  In Spanish, I learned about daily conversation in Spanish.
 However, I am thinking whether I will take the Introduce of understanding other cultures because I don't like the class.  I am interested almost all classes I will take, of course, I am interested in that class, but I don't like only that class.  If I don't take it, I will take the theory of politics because I want to get forty eight cashes.

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My vacation plan

 I am a teacher at a cram school as a part time job.  At cram school, we have a special summer course, so I will work hard in August.  I will work for about twenty days.  In the days, I will have two or four classes, but it is shorter than others who work hard.  They will have seven classes in a day.  Seven classes are all classes in a day.  So, in August, I will spend working almost days.
 Then, I will go to Tokyo by local train.  I will do via Kobe.  In Kobe, I will stay may aunt's house.  Then, I will go to Tokyo, and return to Osaka to gather my aunt, cousin, sister, mother.  We will go to Universal Studio Japan.  In Tokyo, I'll see my friends.  I haven't seen them since last March.  I'm looking forward to seeing them!
 Also, I will post some dailies to this blog because I will have to do fifteen thousand words.  So, I want to post in summer vacation to reduce the number of posting words in 2nd term.

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Awesome PV

 This is an awesome promotion movie.  The sing sung by OK Go and the title is This Too Shall Pass.  The first scene is pushing down dominoes by mini car.  Then, dominoes fell down one after another.  This is not unusual, but the next, the scale is bigger and bigger.  Yes, it is big Rube Goldberg machine!  Of course, I listen to music, but also  I watch it in spite of myself.  It is very interesting movie.  I think that the most surprising point is that noises also make music.  The big Rube Goldberg machine makes some sounds, which is said rather noise than sound, but in this promotion movie, the noises are included in music sounds.  It is great!  Please watch it!

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Spanish restaurant

  We will have to make a restaurant.  My group think Spanish restaurant.  We decided the name of restaurant would be "A delante".  It means "Welcome." in Spanish, so I proposed it.  Then, we are going to make the menu of restaurant.  Spain is famous about sea food, and you must hear paella.  It is known as one of the most famous Spanish dishes.  So, I think paella can't be removed from our menu.  However, it is only dish in Spanish dishes I knew.  So, I researched on google, haha.  As a result of researching, I found gazpacho as a soup, marinade and salad of anchovy  as salad menu, and more.  Desserts are churros, cooking apple, and comport of a pear. Thinking about our restaurant is fun, but we will have to presentation...  It make me nervous...

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My favorite shoes

  One of my favorite shoes is the brown one of Vans.  It is a sneaker.  It has brown base and white lines.  I bought it at Tosu Premium Outlet.  In fact, I had the same one.  I bought that one when I graduated from high school.  When I was a high school student, I was in a club, so I went to high school almost everyday.  I didn't need many shoes.  I had two or three shoes then, but I needed to buy some shoes when I entered university and went to Hiroshima.  The shoes was one of them I bought then.  I liked it and had put on it many times.  I used it for about five years.  It became very old.  I walked a lot with the shoes.  When I needed to buy another shoes, I wanted the same one.  However, I could not find the one because it had not produced then.  When I went to Tosu Premium Outlet, I could find it fortunately.  I bought it by about fifteen hundred yen.  It was very reasonable!  I got it!  I was very happy.  Some might say that it is stupid to buy the same one.  But, it was natural for me because I liked the shoes.

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My favorite sport to watch

 My favorite sport to watch is Judo.  I was in Judo club in high school, so I like it.  I wasn't interested in Judo in junior high school, but I started to Judo in high school, so I like to do it and to watch it.  I was not a good player, but I was able to enjoy practice.  Of course, I like to watch soccer or other sports, but I like to watch Judo better than other sports because I had played it.  I don't understand a person who said that he/she hadn't play it but like to watch.

 Incidentally, I watched a game of a champion ship in Japan.  At the final round of open weight division, the person who is lighter than 90kg won the person who is heavier than 100kg.  It was a fantastic game!  Almost all of champions of open weight category are heavier than 100kg.  Most people tend to think that the heavier is stronger than the lighter, but Judo is said that the lighter can win the heavier.  Of course, it is difficult... So, I was moved the game.  The winner was the lighter!  It was the very Judo that it was said.

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Drum line

 Drum line is about a boy named Devon, who graduated from high school and entered a college to join the drum line a marching band.  Yes, I can say that it's also about a marching band.

 My favorite scene is when Devon and the captain of drum line, whose name is Sean, were fighting.  Devon used to think that he was the best player and other members including Sean should follow him, so he often looked selfish.  One day, he started a fight with another college because of their provocation and he was given a warning and after that, it was found that Devon could not read music.  He played music by only listening to music.  That was great but was cheating because he pretended to read music, and all members thought he could.  He was depressed in his room.  While he was in his room, he received a package.  It was from his father, and there were some cassette tapes.  He wanted to listen to them, so he went to the practice room because there was a cassette tape player only in that room.  Then, he came across Sean. Sean told Devon that it wasn't his room, and they started to fight.  The fight was showing their skills at playing the drum.  At the end, Devon won and Sean was impressed that Devon was the winner, but Sean said him "Okay, then you can play alone."  The comment made Devon realize that, in marching band, all the members played music.

 However, the fight also gave Devon a person to recognize him.  In other words, after the fight, Sean and Devon recognized each other.  Devon knew that his way of thinking was wrong.  He was the best player but, in marching band, there were other players and all members including him played the SAME music.  Sean also thought that Devon's skill was great in spite of not being able to read music.  They started to make the music for the next competition and apologized to Dr. Lee, who is the leader of their marching band.

 Before the fight, Devon often pushed his lower lip out.  It may express his discomfort and his vanity.  He thought that he was a best player, but he also worried about being found out that he couldn't read music.  The vanity means that.  After the fight, Devon tended to laugh and he was on mind of another.

 I think that Devon was happy to be released from his secret and to find a person who recognized him.  And I can say that for not only Devon but also me.  When I have any secret or stress, I tend to express my discomfort.  But, if I can see a person who recognizes me, I can be happy and don't have steel myself so much.  So, I think that it is important to find someone who recognizes me.

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My favorite classes

I like all of classes I take, but if I had to choose, one of my favorite classes is the introduction of English language.  I am learned it by Masahiro Hori.  Mr. Hori speaks funny, and the class is interesting.  I learned about the history of English, the theory of pronunciation, the construction of sentences, and more.  All of knowledge are very interesting for me.  Of course, we take the class in Japanese, so I have chances to think about difference between English and Japanese, such as the rhythm, construction of sentences, the way to think by language.  Japanese don't have rhythm and all letter are pronounced equal strength of accent, but English is against.  Like this, Japanese and English are very different.  And Mr. Hori often give us such chances in class.  In these days, I learned about semantics, such as autonym, homonym, hyponym, and more.  It is also interesting.  Mr. Hori also speaks about his experience in foreign country, most of them are in Britain, in the class.  A story is like this; in an airport, he was spoken to someone and said that your shirt stained with something.  Mr. Hori knew that someone spoke to somewhere like airport, which was dangerous, so he paid no attention to it.  After that, his shirt stained with ketchup.  He didn't notice but there were another person nearby him and the person tried to steal his baggage if he paid attention his shirt and took his hands off baggage.  The story surprised me.  There are more other interesting stories I listened.  I like the class!

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Up!

 Up is a very fun story!  It is about Carl Fredricksen, who is an old man and has a dream that has never come true, and Russell, who is a boy and a Wilderness Explore.  They went to South America in a floating house and did an exciting adventure, such as seeing a big bird and meeting speaking dogs.

 My favorite scene is when Carl notice the photos in his wife's adventure book, which he think there are nothing in the next pages.  At the introduction of the movie, little Carl and his wife named Ellie promised to go to South America and to build their house on the cliff overlooking Paradise Fall.  Then they got married and earned money to make their dream come true, but it was hard.  And they became old.  Then Ellie became ill and died.  Carl couldn't carry out his promise.

 However, the movie showed that it was not true!  He carried out his promise!  Her life spent with Carl was her adventure!  There were a lot of pictures that showed Carl and Ellie, in which they were very happy.  Yes, Ellie was happy even if they didn't carry out their promise.  Then, at the end of pictures, there was a comment from Ellie to Carl.  It said "Thank you, Carl, for the best adventure.  Please make your own new adventure!  love, Ellie."  Of course, it is not a comment to criticize Carl but a comment to thank him and to encourage him.

 The comment made Carl to go on his adventure, which is to help the bird and Russell and to overcome his longing for exploring.  And, to do it, he threw out his old furniture.  They were memories of Carl and Ellie.  I think that it is no problem because he received the comment to encouraged him and his worries were solved.  So, he threw out his old memories but held those important words in his mind, and then, he went on his new adventure!

 I think I tend to keep my current life and to regret my past days.  However, I also think I should do something like an adventure, such as looking for something new and enjoying everything.  Not regretting the past days is the way to be better my life.  If I regret them, I should restart then, I think.

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My favorite place in Japan

 One of my favorite places in Japan is Uji in Kyoto.  I went there 2 years ago with my cousin and my sister.  I went there in winter and I spent the last days before new year.  Before I went to Uji, I went to Kyoto.  I hadn't been to Kyoto, and I imagined that Kyoto had a lot of old buildings and was a beautiful city in Japanese style.  However, the exact city was different from my image.  First, Kyoto Station was a big building and very new, and it was not in Japanese style.  Next, I heard that Kyoto is supposed that the buildings' height is ordered, but the buildings were taller than my image.  I was very disappointed.  When I arrived at Uji, I thought that this is the very place that I imagined!  There are not a lot of people, the buildings are not high, and there was a nice atmosphere in the city.
 In Uji, there are some temples, for example, Byo-doin Hohoh-do.  And there is the Uji river.  Both Byo-doin and Uji river are very beautiful.  Uji is famous about powdered green tea, named Uji-macha.  I ate an ice cream made from it and drunk the tea made by it.  Both of them were very delicious.  I love them.
 By the way, in winter, there are not many events in Kyoto.  Maybe, there are only two events, Christmas and New Year Day's Eve.  But I think cold temperature or snow make Uji be nice atmosphere.  So, I recommend that you go to Uji in winter.  If you like Uji powdered green tea, you will be able to enjoy more.

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My favorite clothes shops

 I like to go to cloth shops.  I introduce two of my favorite shops.
 One is named 'Natural'.  It is an used clothes shop.  It was in Kokai Shopping Arcade.  I got along with the owner.  He is a graduated student of Kumamoto Gakuen University.  I found the shop on the way to go back to my home from the university.  I bought some shirts, T-shirts, and pants at the shop.  On one occasion, he sold me a pant at a reduced price.  He is very kind.  But, in these days, the shop, Natural, have been closing, so I worried about it.
 Another is named 'Orange County'.  It is a select shop in the Namiki Street.  The shop is on second floor and the first floor is a cafe.  The shop's name is a city in USA.  The owner went to the city to buy the clothes and he liked the city.  When he opened the shop, he thought to name the shop the city's name, such as Memphis. In these days, Natural is closing, so I go to the shop more than before.  I bought a shirt, four T-shirts, and a pant.  In the shop, the clothes are not reasonable, so I don't often buy them.  All the clothes I bought at the shop are my favorite ones in my closet.

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International Cocktail Party

 Hi, my name is Marco.  I'm from Madrid, in Spain.  Maybe, you know, Madrid is capital city of Spain.  The population is about 3 million.  The transportation is convenient.  There is the airport of Madrid-Barajas and subways can take you there.  In Spain, there are a lot of plazas, and Madrid has three big plazas, Plaza Mayor, Plaza Oriente, and Plaza Spain.  Plaza is an important place in Spain.  I like plaza.  I often go there and be relaxed.  My job is fashion designer.  I design shirts and suits for men, but sometimes design for women.  I like shirts.  If you wear a shirt and denim, or chino pant, you look fashionable.  I want to design such shirts.  I wish as many people as possible wear my shirts.  But, of course, I need rests.  One of my hobby is mountain climbing.  I went to climb when I want to forget my jobs and reflesh.  Mountain climbing is a little dangerous, but it is very good.  I can feel fulfillment when I reach the top of mountain.  I like it, while, I dislike typhoons.  In Spain, I am hardly suffered by it.  I had been to Japan for my job, and then, I came up to it.  It was very dangerous, I didn't go back Spain on time because of the typhoon.  I hate it.  I don't get married and I don't have a girlfriend.  That is because I am busy and enjoy my job now.  I don't need such thing.

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My favorite foreign musicians

 I like to listening to music.  My favorite foreign musicians are Michael Jackson, the Beatles, the Back Street Boys, Taylor Swift, Oasis, and more.  In fact, I like almost all musician, haha.  I was not interested in Michael Jackson first.  I came to listen to his songs because of my mother.  My mother like Michael Jackson, and she is fever to his songs.  She always listened to his songs, so I heard his songs whether I wanted to listen to it or not.  So, I gradually remembered his songs and I came to listened his songs at the end.  Now, I love his songs.  I like almost all his songs, but, if I had to chose the bests, I like 'They don't really care about us', 'Human Nature', 'History', and 'Who is it?'  His songs are very powerful and very various.  However, they are difficult for me to understand the lyrics.
 While, the Beatles' songs are very easy to listen.  The English lyrics are very easy to understand, and the songs are not long.  Almost songs finish about 3 minutes.  And I like 'Everybody' by Back street boys.  I don't know about Back Street boys much.  'Everybody' is my friend's favorite song, and he recommended me it.  So, I knew this song.  Now it comes to be one of my favorite song.
 I also like Taylor Swift.  Her songs was recommended by someone, too.  I recommended an album, Fearless, so I have only it.  In the album, there are many good songs, such as 'Hey Stephan' and 'The Best Day'.  I like her songs.
 The first time I heard Oasis' song is about three years ago.  I heard it on the animation.  In those days, I watched an anime, and Oasis's song, Falling down, was the opening song of it.  Then, I looked for their songs on YouTube and listened.  I bought an album, Heathen Chemistry, at used shop.
 There are more my favorite musicians, but, if I talked about them, it will not come to "favorite" musicians.

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Universal Studio Japan

 The special summer course finished, so I made some free days and went to Universal Studio Japan for 3days!  In first day, it was on September 6, I went to Osaka by Shinkansen withe my mother and sister.  We will see my cousin, uncle, and aunt.  When we arrived at Shinosaka Station, we put our baggage to the locker in the station and we went to USJ at once.  We had tickets from Kumamoto Station to "in Osaka city", so we don't have to buy a new ticket.  It was a weekday, but there were a lot of people!  I was surprised!  Some of them looked high school student.  I thought they came there by school trip.  When I was a high school student, I went to Kyoto and Nagano to see sightseeing and to ski.  Of course, my school trip was enjoyable, but I was envious of their school trip a little.  They were there until over 20 o'clock!  When I was a high school student, I had to go my room in that time!  In Universal Studio Japan, there were a lot of attractions, such as roller coasters, some shows, some movies named "4D movie", and more.  However, the thing I was impressed the best is night carnival!  It was very beautiful!  Some big characters covered a lot of light and some people like characters walked along the road.  We could see them standing or sitting along a road.  It held for about a hour.  After we saw it, we went to hotel and check in.  The hotel was very cheap because my cousin is lucky.  The room were larger than usual, so we enjoyed and was comfortable.

 Second day, we went to USJ at 11 o'clock.  On that day, we enjoyed some shows, such as the Water Land, horror musical, and some.  Also, we enjoyed Spiderman's attraction.  I was very enjoyable, but I was very tired...  I was rest at the cafe and took a nap.  Of course, on that day, we saw the night parade.  While we saw it, I noticed that the characters were less than the day before by one.  A character I had seen the day before didn't take part in the parade.  I think maybe it was out of order...  However, on that day, we could see the finish of the parade!  The characters entered into a big door.  During the parade, the other lights were turned off.  When the parade finished, they were turned on again.  It was about time USJ was close, but staffs were very kind and they never said it was about time USJ would be close.  It was incredible!
I was moved by it!

 Third day, I had to go to a part-time job at 17 o'clock and buy presents to my coworkers.  So, I went to USJ at 10 o'clock with uncle.  It was Saturday, and there were a lot of people as many lines.  I was surprised!  10 o'clock is about time to open USJ! I bought some presents and a T shirt, then, we gathered to my mother, sister, and cousin.  We had lunch, and I left at 14 o'clock.  I went to Shinosaka Station on local train and then went to Kumamoto Station on super express. I asked my father to pick up me at Kumamoto Station.  I came to home and changed my wear to go to part time job.  On that day, I was very tired but very enjoyable!  Those were very nice days.

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Finished Special Summer course

 In this blog, I sometimes said this, but I'll say again.  I am a teacher of a cram school as a part-time job.  In August, there was a special summer course at the cram school, so I had to work almost everyday.  A special summer course had 20 days.  I worked for 18 days.  However, I worked from 17 o'clock to 22 o'clock each day.  Some of teachers worked all day, so I was not harder than them.  I usually taught high school students but, in those days, I also taught many junior high school students.  I was glad to teach many students.  They are young and I enjoyed to teach them.  My students call me Joji.  Some of teachers don't like to be called first name, but I don't mind that.  They are very friendly and I am relaxed when I teach them.  In the special summer course, I became to speak many students and, of course, got some money!
 I am enjoying my part time job!

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Bon-vacation

 I went to Kobe from August 12th to 14th to see my cousins and my aunt.  On 13th, Seisei high school had a game on Koshien, but I didn't watch it.  I left Kumamoto to Kobe at seven o'clock on August 12th.  I got on Shinkansen.  Shinkansen was very fast!  It took about 3 hours to reach the Shinkobe Station.  At the Shinkobe Station, I got off the Shinkansen and saw my cousin.  I had never seen my cousins and my aunt since the spring vacation.  I checked in the hotel where my mother, sister, cousins, aunt, and uncle stayed and talked for a while.  Then, we would have a lunch, so we went out and looked for a restaurant.  Looking for a restaurant, we decided Shabu-sen which was a restaurant provided Shabushabu.  We enjoyed the lunch, and I was satisfy that. After lunch, we went back the hotel and one of cousins started to be ready to go back home.  She would work in 13th.  Until the time when she go back, we talked some.  After she went back, we went to have a dinner at a restaurant in Shinkobe Station and went to a supermarket to buy beer and snacks.  At the hotel, we gathered to one room to talk, to eat, and to drink.  I spent a much fun time!  Then I went back my room and turned on TV.  Anime was broadcast on that time, so I watched it for a while and took shower.  I went to a bed.

 On August 13th, I would go to Santa Premium Outlet with my cousin, sister, and uncle.  We would drive there, so we left the hotel at nine o'clock and drove for a half and one hour.  In the morning, we looked for something we wanted to buy and we started to buy after we had a lunch. I bought two T-shirts and a shirt.  In fact, I would buy more things when I arrived there, but I also thought there are more reasonable things, so I bought only those.  Until sixteen o'clock, we enjoyed our shopping and then we went back to the hotel.  On the way to hotel, we had a dinner at Sushi restaurant and bought something to drink and to eat at a supermarket.  We gathered to a room on that evening too.  I enjoyed it.

 On August 14th, I would go back home and see friends in Kumamoto.  We were spent time to relax and checked out the hotel.  And we had a lunch near the station.  After lunch, we talked for a while, and I went to the station to left from Kobe to Kumamoto.  My mother and sister didn't leave with me.  I got on shinkansen and mailed my father to pick up at the Kumamoto Station.  I would get off the train and go to downtown directly.  I and my friends appointed at seven o'crock, but they were earlier than that one.  In the end, we saw at twenty minutes before seven.  We went to a restaurant.  We talked much, and I enjoyed it.  After eating, we went to Karaoke and stayed up all night at 'the internet-cafe'.  When I went to my house, it was on August 15th morning.

 I had spent much fun time for those four days.

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Beowulf

I read The Old English epic Beowulf, which is a bilingual edition.  I have to read it for homework of the History of English Literature.  The Old English is hard to read.  It is next to impossible for me to read it, but I can sometimes find words that I can understand.  The example is 'oft'.  It is mean 'often'.  'oft' is near 'often', so I understand it.  Beowulf is interesting.  It was originally a epic sung by minstrels, so it was not written.  It was sung, so it has many rhyme.  It is written as a bilingual edition but translated word for word, so it is difficult to understand Japanese sentence.  When I read it, I adjust sentences to understand easily.  The setting of the story is laid in Denmark, and it is said that its composition is dated between the 8th and the 11th century.  There are the sentences about Cain and Abel.  They are the persons in the Bible, so I am surprised.  In the era when the people in Britain spoke the Old English, there were Christians.  Of course, I know that Jesus Christ was born in the Christian Era, but I can't image that Christ spoke the Old English.  It is interesting!

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Nintendo Game!

 I bought a game!  It is Pocket-Monster-Black2.  I was recommended my students, who I teach on a cram school as a part time job.  Also, my friend recommended it to me.  So, I decided to buy it.  I bought it on last Friday.  On my way to home, I went to Tsutaya in downtown.  There were two kind of the newest Pocket-Monster game.  They are Black2 and White2.  I couldn't decide which I bought Black2 or White2, but finally, I decided to buy Black2. 
 When I play game, I often look the website that is written how to conquest the game.  However, I decided to play this game without looking it.  It is very fun!
 But... I thought that I made one mistake.  It is that it's about time to have to start to study, because some classes have final exams!  I have the final exam of the History of American Literature today.  Other's will come soon!  I should buy the game after I finished it...

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Watching SPEC

On Saturday and Sunday, I didn't have a part-time job, so I was free!  I hadn't had free Saturday and Sunday for a month.  I watched the TV drama named SPEC, which was borrowing by my friend as a Blueray Disk.  It was very interesting and exciting!  The story is about police and criminal.  It listens like normal story, but the criminals are not normal.  They have special ability, such as "stopping time", "giving ills", "changing someone's memory", and any more.  They called "SPEC holder" in this drama.  Main characteres are very unique.  Toma Saya has very high intelligence, and eats much.  Sebumi Takeru is not smart but strong.  The two persons are principal characters in this story.  Also, others are unique.  They are very attractive.  I recommend you watch this drama!

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Michael Jackson-HISTORY

 I think this song is one of best songs by Michael Jackson.  I like it, but I have never think about back speaking.  Of course, I noticed.  I wouldn't think about it.  However, I think about it because I do the English Central in these days.  On the English Central, I chose the speech course, which include Martin Luther King's speech.  I have never listened to this song, and I listened today.  I noticed that back speaking included Martin Luther King's speaking.  Maybe it included Franklin Roosevelt's and Abraham Lincoln's, I thought.  If I don't do the English Central, I will never notice it.  It is very interesting!  This encouraged me!

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Vacation Plan

In summer vacation, I want to travel to Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and more if I could.  However, in summer, my part time job will be busy.  I'm a cram school teacher as part time job.  My cram school will have special study program in summer.  It will be very hard.  Some of us will teach 7 periods everyday.  I won't be able to do!... So, I will be very busy in summer.  However, our students' vacation will be in August, so I won't be busy so much in September.  I will travel in the month.  In August and September, there is a special ticket for JR, which named Seichun-18-ticket.  It is very useful because I can be free to get on JR all the day if I use it and I can use it 5 times.  I will use it!  If I paid more 500yen, I will be able to get on a night train, so I want to try it in this summer.  Also, I want to go to sea.  I want to get a tan because my skin is too fair.  Sometimes, I am asked which suntan cream you use, in spite of not using it!

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Future self introducaction

  I'm Joji in 2032.  I had been to abroad and visited a lot of countries, the US, Acanada, Britain, Spain, India, Africa, and China.  To go to the US was one of my dreams, and I looked a lot of different people living in same place in the US.  I, who was raised in Japan, didn't believe it.  In Japan, I knew that there are many different kinds of people, all over the world, but I couldin't feel it.  Of course, in other countries, I felt it.  In the US, I was invited to be converted to Christianity.  Itwas a problem for me there.  In Canada, I wasn't invited to do so, so I felt relieved.  The people in Canada were very kind.  Canada is good place, I thought.  I was looking forward to going to Britain because I majored in English and studied English and English literature in university.  So I was happy in Britain.  The foods in Britain are interesting but I didn't like them so much.  However, I enjoyed Britain very much.  In Spain, it was enjoyable.  I also studied Spanish in university.  I communicate with people in Spain.  It made me happy.  I felt that I was lucky to study it.  I bought some shirts there.  Other countries were very exciting and interesting, too.

 While I was traveling, I felt that I like to talk with friends and wanted to tell what I felt in those experiences, so I became a teacher after I came back to Japan.  Not only those experiences, but also my university life iswhat I want to tell people about.  That is what I did when I finished university.   I went to two university.  When I was in before university, I was not interested in the study and didn't have a dream.  I only thought I must study, I must work, and I must do...  It was not enjoyable.  I wanted to tell my students to enjoy.  What I must do is not enjoyable, and maybe tired.  If I have what Iwant to do, I will do and enjoy.

 Of course, now I enjoy my life.  If I said something to me in 2012, enjoy yourself!

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Part time job!

 I am a teacher of a cram school as a part time job.  Today, I had it.  Every Sunday, I don't have part time job, but today was special.  The students in the cram school will have final test of first semester, so today, they came to study.  I went there and taught them if they had questions.  Today, there were high school students and junior high school students.  They studied very hard. We open cram school from 10:00 to 18:00.  So, I woke up at 08:00 and left home at 09:00.  Also, I was there until 18:00.  I felt a little tired but it was fun.  The students were cute.  I could enjoy myself.
 After I came back home, I slept a little.  Then I had dinner and took a bath.  I had to prepare my presentation of speaking class, so I did it listening to music, such as time after time and Every Breath You Take, which I heard in speaking class.
 I feel sleepy now, but I have to prepare little more.  Today, I will have good sleep.

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Presentation

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About blogging

I have two blog and have four SNS account.  One blog is this, and another is about online game.  Another one don't update in these days.  one of four SNS account have a web dialy.  Blogging was interesting and fun in the early days.  I could recive interesting comments and feel that "We are friends!"  However, I think that the balance is important.  I saw my friends on Twitter in spring vacation.  On Twitter, maybe, we are friends, but we are friends truely after we saw.  I can know about him or her by watching blog and communicate by sending comments, but I cannot know about him or her truely.  I think that we shouldn't depend blogging too.

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About my keitai

I have had a cell-phone since when I was a high school student.  I was in Judo club, and, in second grade, I needed to have a cell-phone to get in touch with other members.  My friends had a cell-phone before I had it.  They enjoyed to send e-mails, and it looks interesting.  However, It is to get in touch with other members why I had a cell-phone.  I didn't send many e-mails and make a lot of calls.  For me, the cell-phone is not the communication tool.  Of course, it is convenient, but it is a mean to get in touch with otheres for me.  If I receive many e-mails or calls, I will be tired.

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The best day of my life

 One of the best days of my lufe is the day that I got my black belt in Judo.  To get a black belt, I had to pass the promotion test twice.  In the first promotion test, I have to fight 4 persons in a round robin event, and win at least twice.  I took the test once, but I couldn't pass it then.  It is easy for me to suffer from tension, and I was under tension then, too.  I was very vexed because I took the test with my friends, and friends passed.  I was the only one who couldn't pass it, only me!

 I practiced harder than before.  The next test would be held three months later.  When I took the test the second time, I could pass it!  I was very happy.  But I hadn't gotten my black belt yet.  I have to pass the second promotion test.  My friends, who passed the first promotion test before me, passed it and already got black belt.  I wanted to get it.

 The second promotion test would be held in January.  It was after three months.  I practiced hard again.  In the second promotion test, I have to do Judo forms.  I had to practice it.  On the day of the test, one member in my judo club had to come with me because I wanted to practice before the test.  My friend came.  I passed round robin event somehow.  Next, I did Judo forms, and passed it!  It was held in the morning.  My friend said "Today's lunch is delicious, isn't it?  Ha-ha."  Of course, I said "Yes!  It is very delicious!"

 It was a very niceday.  This is the story about one of the best days of my life.

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Inter-high school championships

 On Saturday, I had a supplementary lesson of The History of English Literature in the first period. So, I woke up at 7 o'clock like weekday.  I was sleepy, but the class was interesting.  The teacher of the class is Mr. Hori.  He is also the teacher of The Introduction of English Language Study, which I took.  He is very interesting.
 On Friday, I have an e-mail from my high school friend.  It said that "Shall we go to an Inter-high school championship of Judo?"  I returned to it, "Yes, let's go.", so after the class, my friend came to my university by car and pick up me.  The Inter-high would hold at the sports center in Yamaga.    On the way to Yamaga, traffic was a little congested.
 We arrived there before the final match.  When we arrived, semifinals held.  I don't like watching the match, but I concentrated to watch the match then.  Watching it was interesting, maybe it changed how I watch the match.
 We would greet the teacher of our club in high school, but he seated the chair of chief referee, which on the stage.  We couldn't go there and greet the teacher.  After the final match, we went out and came back.  We had a late lunch on our way to Kumamoto.  There was a restaurant named Katsu-zen in Ueki.  It was a pork cutlet restaurant and my friend's friend worked there as a part-time job worker.  I ordered a pork cutlet set, which had rice, pork cutlet, miso-soup, and Japanese pickles.  The friend served us a soft drink.  Every menus is a lot.  We were full, and I was sleepy.  After we separated, and I went back home,  I slept.
 Also, I had a part-time job on the day.  I woke up at 16:30 and prepared to go...

 I was very tired on the day but had a fulfilling day!

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The horror kindergarden dazo

 This is a story of Kureyon-Shinchan, which is a Japanese popular and famous animation.  I think that it is made for children, but it is very interesting even if adults watch it.  This story is made like a horror story.  I was scared about this story.  Maybe, it broadcasted on TV on Friday night.  I was lucky because I didn't watch it in my childhood.  After I watched it, I thought if there were someone on my back...
 If you don't like horror sotries, you don't have to watch this.  However, this story is not sary very much.  You will enjoy this.  Watch this, he!he!

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My favorite movies

  My favorite movies are Rush Hour, Time Travelling Girl, Mononoke-hime, Hancock, and I, Robot.  I love action movie, so I watch a lot, such as M: I, Die Hard, The Matrix, and Last SAMURAI.  But, especially, I love Rush Hour, Hancock, and I, Robot.  Rush Hour is a comedy and action movie.  It is about two detectives that one is from China and another is from Los Angels.  I laughed at the movie and was excited at it.
   In Hancock and I, Robot, Will Smith was.  I like him because he is cool!  Hancock and I, Robot are action movie, too.  Hancock is about a hero who is unpopular.  He will change and be popular.  It is interesting.  I, Robot is about a fight between human and robot in the future.  The hero is a cyborg, which is not robot and not human.  It is interesting story, but I didn't understand the last.  Action scenes were very exciting.
  Mononoke-hime and Time Travelling Girl are Japanese animation.  Mononoke-hime has impressive story, and Time Travelling Girl has moving story!  Mononoke-hime is about a problem between human and nature.  There is a story named Epic of Gilgamesh, which is similar to Mononoke-hime.  It is very interesting, and this story made me think about a lot of things.  Time Travelling Girl is about a girl who becomes to be able to travel the time.  It is a love story.  I recommend that you watch them!

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Using the computer

Using computer is one of my hobbies.  I do that almost every day.  When I use the computer, I do my homework, Google+'s games, Facebook, mixi, twitter, online games, YouTube, NicoNico-doug,a and Windows Media Player.  I often go to SNS sites, and do their games.  Recently, I use computer more than before because I have to do a lot of homework.  It is good because we are needed to use computer as a common skill in these days.  We have to use computer to do our job in many scenes.  However, I think that we must be careful not to use computer too much.  Computer is useful and interesting, but using it too much is bad.  Maybe, we could forget letters and characters.
We have to think how to use the computer.

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Foreign Country

I would like to go to foreign countries, because I want to see abroad.  In Japan, it is natural that almost people are Japanese, but in foreign country, there are a lot of races in same place.  It is very interesting!  If we are in Japan, we tend to think that there are one race in one country.  I want to change my way of thinking, which is important and very exciting.  I want to go to America, China, Indea, and some African countries.  I think, in these countries, it does not understand my way of thinking in Japan.  However, I haven't had any plan to go abroad.  Now I have a lot of things to do and to want to do in Japan.  I'm thinking...

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Judo

   I had done Judo in high school, and I didn't play any sports in the university.  However, from first Friday in May, I go to The Prefectual University of Kumamoto to do Judo.  That's because I want to do something sport, and there are my friends in the university.  I go to do it every Friday, so I have done it only twice.  I will go on this Friday.
   Judo is exciting, but it is dengerous.  I was injured on last Friday.  I was thrown, and my forhead chased on a mat.  And my neck were under the pressure.  Now, I had injued forhead and a little pain in the neck.  The wound scabbed.  The scab cause a pain when I yawn, so, in every morning, I yawn and grimace with pain, haha.
   There are not only the wound's pain but also musle pain.  I haven't played any sports for a long time.  Sometimes I played, but which was not regular exercise.  I'm very tired.  However, doing Judo relieved the stress.

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The combination animals

 I introduce you "girartle".  It is a combination of giraffe and turtle.  It has a long neck like giraffes and a hard shell like turtles.  It lives in ocean, and sometimes it get out ocean to land.  Maybe, you can't believe, but girartle can fold its neck into its shell.  It is unbelievable but real!  It eats marine plants and leaves of trees.  Its long neck is useful to eat marine plants swimming in ocean.  Its bad point is also its long neck, because the long neck is not suit to swim.  It swims a little slowly.

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Introduce my new profile

 My name is Pedro Gonzalez.  I'm from Quito, in Ecuador.  Quito is the capital city of Ecuador.  It is on the halfway up of Mt. Andes.  My job is secret.  I'm not married, so I live alone.  One of my hobbies is listening to music.  I like music, especially classic music.  My favorite music is Bolero which is a one movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel.  It is a simple but beautiful music.  I love it.  However, I dislike noise.  I hate it, especially, I hear it when I listen to music.  So, I'm often said that I am sensitive, but I think it is natural to dislike noise.  Also, I can't give you a detailed explanation of my job, but I need to be sensitive for my job.  If I quit my job, I live in the riverside house near the forest.  It is one of my dream.

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How I study English

I think that it is important to know words, but only I study words, which is boring.  So, I read English book, paragraph, and other what to read to study words.  I think that it is better way to study English at the point of words.  At the point of listening, listening to foreign music and speaking foreigner is better way to study listening.  Speaking foreigner is difficult, but it improves my English skills.  Of course, speaking skill is improved.  At the point of writing, I only have to write, write, and write.  Now, I have a lot of assignments.  When I do them, I feel that they improve my English.

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Food/Eating habits

 I like eating!  My favorite foods are curry rice, ra-men, udon, sushi, meat, and sweets!  I have go to ra-men restaurants with my friends several times.  We often go to it, and alomost every time we go to different restaurant, such as Kokuryuko, Niboraya, Ichiran, Tengaiten, and Daikinton.  Also, I often go to udon restaurants.  I recommend Machikara Udon, which is nearby Daie.  Sushi restaurants which I went are Kura-zushi and Sushi-ro.  However, recently, I take care of my healthy.  I don't eat any foods after it becomes eight o'clock.  If I have a part-time job, I eat a lot before I go to it.  I don't eat many sweets.

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My home town

This is the Iseri River which is near a flood.

 I had moved four times, so, strictly speaking, I don't have a hometown.  However, if I have to choose my hometown, it is Shimasaki where I live now.  I have lived in Shimasaki for six years, and went to university, I have lived there for three years.  There is Kumamoto Castle, many hospitals, Mt. Kinpo,  the Kamikumamoto Station, city tram's stations, bus stations, and the Iseri River nearby Shimasaki.

 Shimasaki is between the Kamikumamoto Station and the Kumamoto Station.  The nearest city tram's station is Daniyama.  If you use a city bus or city tram, you can get downtown in about twenty minutes, so Shimasaki is convenient.  However, Shimasaki's area is very large.  From around Daniyama Station to around Mt. Kinpo, it is all Shimasaki, so the Shimasaki area which is near Mt. Kinpo isn't very convenient.  I live near the Iseri River.  The Iseri River is clean, but it happens to be near a flood if it rains much.  Sometimes it is dangerous.

 There are two big hospitals in Shimasaki.  The two big hospitals are Seijino Hospital and Jikei Hospital.  Jikei Hospital was reported as the hospital that started a baby hatch.  I saw the news in Hiroshima, so I was surprised at it.  I never thought that my hometown would be in the news.

 In 2007, Kumamoto castle had a large-scale renovation of the Lord's Inner Palace.  Its material is the same as the original material used when it built.  I have been to Osaka Castle, I was disappointed at it because it had an elevator and an air-conditioner.  Kumamoto Castle doesn't have them, so we get tired to go up it.  However, we can feel the old era, and it looks cool!

 I hope Shimasaki will be more a little more convenient to public transportation, but I love my hometown!

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Golden Week Plan

My cousins and aunt will come to Kumamoto in Golden Week, and we will go to Aso. In Aso, we are going to do BBQ. Also, we will stay log house. We are going to stay there from May third to May fifth. I am looking forward to going Aso and seeing my cousins. Therefore, I will go to drink with my friends in Golden Week. I haven't see him for a long time. Of course, I'm looking forward to him. I hope I will spend a good GW.

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My hobbies

   My hobbies are listening to music, reading novels and comics, walking, doing computer, playing Nintendo DS and video games, drawing, going Karaoke, traveling, eating, and sleeping.  About listening to music, you can show on "Music I like" in this blog.  I listen to a lot of kind music.  I don't read a lot in these days.  My favorite novels are Kashin written by Ryotaro Shiba, ShinobinoKuni written by Ryu Wada, The Singing Whale written by Ryu Murakami, The Angel's Egg written by Yuka Murayama, and Harry Potter written by J.K.Rolling.  Also, I like these authors, so I read othe books written by them. 

   I like reading comics, too.  I buy The Weekly Jump every week.  My favorite comics in it are One Peace, Naruto, and Hunter×Hunter.  I often read girl's comics.  In these days, my favorites are Kimini-todoke, Aoharaido, and Liar×Liar.  Of course, I recommend these books, but especially I recommend Fruit Basket.  It is an impressed story!  I was moved by it.

   I often walk alone.  I walk to any places for a lot of hours.  Of course, only when I 'm free, I can walk.  The longest time I walked is about six hours and at least, if I started to walk, I have walked for three hours.  Walking is refresh me.

And more... but main hobbies are these.

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Music I like

   I like listening to music!  J-pop music, rock music, country music, and any other kind music, I like!  When I go to Karaoke, I often sing the songs of Masaharu Fukuyama and Spitz.  However, in my home, I listen to Every Little Thing, aiko, YUKI, YUI, Michael Jacson, Steavie Wonder, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and more.  Also, I look for musics on Nico-nico-douga and You-Tube.  Of course, I listen to the famous songs, but also I listen to the miner songs which is recommended by someone.  On Nico-nico-douga, there are a lot of music called Sagyouyou-douga which means that you listen to it while you do something.

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My treasure

   My treasure is a picture which was given from my friend in elementary school. It is a painting of Sherlock Holmes was painted in it. Maybe, my friend used brush and net. First, he drew what he wanted to draw on a piece of paper. Next, he cut the paper as he drew. After that, the cut paper was put on the thin paper. Then, he applied paints to a brush. Next, he brushed a net by it above the thin paper. The colors were painted on the papers. Finally, the cut paper put off from the thin paper. I think that is the way he painted it.

   When I was at the end of fourth grade in elementary school, I moved to Takahira.  We were in the same class in Takahira elementary school,  and from fifth grade to sixth grade, we didn’t have a class change, so we had been in same class for two years. He did Shorinji Kenpo and was an assistant instructor at that time. I didn’t understand it then, but now I understand it was great thing. Also, both of us like to draw illustrations. That’s the reason we got along with each other. We used to go to draw together in the holiday.

   However, I moved again and went to Shimasaki where I live now, so we went to different junior high school. We had written to each other several times but we didn’t have a cell phone and we haven’t done anything together for a long time. In junior high school, I still wrote to him for a few times. In high school, I never wrote to him. I was busy to study and going to club practice.

   When we were in the second grade in junior high school, I ran across him once. We didn’t talk a lot and didn’t have cell phone, then too. I want to see him again. I’ll write to him. This is the story about my treasure and why the picture is my treasure.

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My other classes

 I have fifteen classes in this spring semester.   Every class is interesting, but if I have to choice, my favorite classes are The History of American Literature, Spanish, and The History of English Literature.  Yes, I like reading book, so I take The History of American Literature and The History of English Literature.  In The History of American Literature, we have to write report and watch the movie of a famous American literature.  It is very exciting!  In The History of English Literature, we have to read ten books which is recommended by the teacher.  I study about not only English literature, but also British history and history of English.  I learn a lot of things in the class.  In Spanish class, there are fourteen members from all departments.  In these days, we go over first year's lesson.  Also, we exercise to speak in Spanish.  We learn new phrases.

 I'm enjoying my classes.

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My Golden Week

 In GW, my cousins came to Kumamoto.  Cousins, my aunt, my grandmother, my mother, my sister, and I went to Aso.  We had a barbecue and stayed loge house.  On first day, we stayed a hotel in Kumamoto.  Next day, we went to supermarket and bought some foods and drink, and we went to Aso.  Arriving at Aso, we started a barbecue.  The view was very nice!  We enjoyed it very much!

 On the evening, we arrived at the loge house.  It was run by a family, which there were four children, father, mother, and grandfather.  They looked friendly and were kind.  However, it didn't have enough equipment, so we were tired.  We didn't take a bath there, but we went to a hot spring nearby it on the next morning.  Also, we had a barbecue in the day.  We were able to be relax because we had it for two straight days.

 After the barbecue, we went back to the loge house again.  On the night, we cooked our dinner and slept very much.

 And today, we came back to Kumamoto.  My cousins go back their home.  I felt a little lonely because of the four members went back.  I came back to my daily life, and GW is finishing...

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Awesome music video!

 I recommend that you watch this video!

 Of course, the music is beautiful, so listen!  However, I want you to watch!  This movie made by using web camera, and a lot of people work together for making this.  All of them look enjoyable.    Maybe there are people in many countries.  They are different races.  They have each religion.  However, they look no relation to the races, countries, and religions and they only make this music video and enjoy.   This is really awesome!  If this is not music video, do they work together?  I don't know, but I feel power of music.

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Combination fruits and vegitable

I will introduce a banalon.  It is a combination of a banana and a melon.  It looks like a light green and masked banana.  It tasts sweet.  Its good point is that it is easy to eat, you only have to peel.  Unfortunately, the parts you can eat are small, because banalon has seeds in it.

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Introduce myself

My name is geooooge. I'm a student of Kumamoto Gakuen University.  I study English.  I like music, comics, novel, traveling, playing video games, and playing computer.  I am a teacher of a cram school as a part time job.  I am twenty two years old.  I love comics, especially Jump comics.  For
example, they are Onepeace, Naruto, and Dragon ball.  Also, my favorite authers of novels are Ryotaro Shiba, Ryu Murakami, and Tsuyoshi Mori.

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First Classes

I took classes which I was interested in. On writing class, I have to do a lot of things, but I think it improve my English skill.  The History of American Literature looks difficult but sounds interesting. I decided that I improve my English skill and do things which I want to do.

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