My favorite food

 One of my favorite food is the spring roll sold at LAWSON.  A spring roll also called an egg roll.  It's a food that minced vegetable and meats wrapped in a pancake and fried.  The first time that I bought it at LAWSON is about three months ago.  I go to a convenience store to buy Weekly Jump almost every week.  When I bought the spring roll for the first time, I went to LAWSON to buy Weekly Jump.  But, I didn't find Weekly Jump in the store of LAWSON then, but I was sorry not to buy anything, so I look for something cheap and to eat.  Then, I found the spring roll.  Its price is fifty eight yen.  The price is very cheap and looks delicious.  I decided to buy it.  I ate it and found that it was very delicious.  The fried pancake was crisped, and vegetables and meats were very good taste.  I thought it was perfect!  I recommend that you eat the spring roll sold at LAWSON!
 But, you know, I am not a person employed by LAWSON, or work as a prt time job, haha.

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My favorite foreign drama

 My favorite foreign drama is Prison Break.  I watch it on DVD in these days.  I borrowed it from my friend because I had to watch something drama and to review for an assignment.  The assignment is the review of the first episode of something foreign drama.  Yes, it's an assignment of my Writing Class.  I had already finished it, collected, and post it on this blog.  Before I watched the drama, I was bothered with the assignment because I didn't decide what drama I would watch.  Then, my friend recommended Prison Break.  When I finished watching the first episode of the drama, it inclined me to watch more.  It was a very exciting and thrilling drama.
 It is about man who landed in jail on purpose and tried to save his innocent brother.  I haven't finished watching the series of the drama yet, but every episode is exciting and thrilling, so I wanted to watch more every time to finish watching each episode.  I also have classes at my university, so I feel difficulty to stop to watch more episodes every day.  The article about the first episode of Prison Break is posted on this blog, titled Prison Break and tagged Movie Review, so, if you want to read about the first episode of the drama, read it, please.  Anyway, Prison Break is my favorite foreign drama.

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My favorite vacation memory

 One of my favorite vacation memories is to have visited Tokyo by local train.  I went there in the last spring vacation.  I bought a special ticket for local train.  Using the ticket, I could get on local train or rapid train freely in a day, and it can be used five times.  On first day, I went to Kobe from Kumamoto for 14 hours by local train.  I stayed my aunt's home for 2 days.  I had a good time there.
 Then, on third day, I went to Tokyo from there for 10 hours by using ticket second time.  In Tokyo, I stayed at net-cafe, hotel, and my friend's house.  I was in Tokyo for 5 days.  I saw some friends and visited some place, such as Akihabara, Harajuku, Shimokitazawa, the Emperor's garden, and the Ueno-Onshi Park.  I went to Akihabara and Ueno-Onshi Park on my foot with my friend.  He proposed me that he would guide me to walk Tokyo.  In fact, we walked for about 8 hours.  We had dinner at the Babba Gump Shrimps in Korakuen.  I had a very nice time there.
 Next, I went back to Kobe.  This is third time to use ticket.  I stayed my aunt's home again.  I was relaxed and took rest.
 And then, I went to Hiroshima to see my friend in my former university.  This is the fourth times to use the ticket.  We ate Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima style.  I have eaten it several times, and I like it.  I stayed at my friend's house.  We talked a lot.
 Also, I went to Kurume to see my senor friend in my high school.  He is very interesting person.  He came to the Kurume Station with his friend.  I didn't know the person, but we stayed at my friend's house together.  It was interesting time.
 Finally, I returned to Kumamoto, but I got all the use out of the ticket.  So, I bought a usual ticket and went to Kumamoto.  In the way to Kumamoto, I got off the train at the Tamana Station to see my grand mother.  I brought a handkerchief I bought at the Emperor's garden as a present to her.  In same time, my mother came to Tamana, so I went back home on car.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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