Today's activities

When I was at home, I received a call by Riv.  She said "Let's go to a prefectural general gymnasium!"  I said "Yes, let's go!"  We had taken exercise for about two hours, such as running and training.  After that, Riv wanted to play badminton, but sky was darking.  We decided to cook dinner at Riv's house.  We bought chicken breasts, pork back ribs, shiitake mushroom, paper plates, and skewers.  Yes, we decided to make spit-roastings!  Pork back ribs was already cutted, so we cut chicken breasts and spit them.  We made sauce which was mixed cooking sake, soy sauce, and sugar.  We roasted them and ate.  It was very delicious.  We had had enough.  Then, Riv said to want to go to Karaoke.  It was already past ten o'clock.  We called Valle and invited to go to Karaoke.  He agreed with pleasure.  We waited Valle, and rode bycicle to Karaoke.  We had been for over six hours.  Valle and Riv were sleeping for a while, but I sang all niht.  At five o'clock in the morning, we went out Karaoke and went to MacDonald.  We had been there for about a hour.  Then, we go back Riv's home.  We wanted to sleep!  We were in Riv's house until eight o'clock and went back each home.  After I arrived my home, I took a bath and slept in a futon.  However, I had to go a part-time job, so I woke up three o'clock and prepare to go out.  My part-time job is a teacher of cram school.  When I taught students today, I was very sleepy, so I was sorry to my students.  Now, I came back my home and wrote this dialy.  I'm gonna sleep!  See you!

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Spring vacation started on Feburary 4th!  In the morning, I got up and got ready to go out with my mother.  We had to buy a present for my father.  My father's birthday was close.  While we looked for something for present, I was called by my friend, Linda.  She had nothing to do, so she was boring.  That' why she called me.  We made a promise to meet the station.  Then, I continued to look for present with my mother, and we decided to give Father a knitted hat.  After that, I separated my mother and got on a train.  At the station, I got off the train and waited her.  She came by bicycle.  At first, we wanted to have lunch, so we went to Sushi-ro.  However, before we arrived at Sushi-ro, there were XEBIO.  Linda wanted to look for something at the XEBIO.  Then, we got into XEBIO.  At XEBIO, we ran into Matsu.  I didn't notice, but he found us and said "Oh, hi geoooorge!"  He looked for the wear to do running, so I and Linda went to Sushi-ro and got him waiting.  We eaten Sushi as fast as we could.  After we finished eating, we linked up with Matsu.  He came to XEBIO by car.  Linda want to do playing ball.  We went to Matsu's house to get a soccer ball.  We started playing ball and called Gam to invited the game.  He would have come, but it started to rain while we did.  We went to pick up Gam.  When we met Gam, it rained harder.  We wasn't able to do playing ball, and it had been five o'clock.  We discussed and decided to cook a hot-pot.  We went to buy ingredients, pot, and cooking stove.  We cooked Kimch Hot-pot and Giblets Hot-pot at Linda's house.  We enjoyed it!  It was a good day!

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I took TOEIC examination in this morning.  It was not difficult but too long, and I had lost my concentration.  I felt that I should spend a lot of time to reading and to listen to English.  I should use English naturally and become not to need concentration.  After TOEIC, I and my friends went to the restaurant, Jolly Pasta, and we decided to go to batting cage together.  There were three members but I and one friend, Masaru, went there the other should go back.  We went there on our feet.  I'm not good at batting, but my batting skill improved today!  I hardly hit a ball at first.  Then, I hit more balls.  I became very happy.  While we had spent at the batting cage, we call another friend Jin, and we would go to AEON Mall by Jin's car.  We arranged to meet Jin at the TSUTAYA near Youme Town Hamasen, so we walked to there.  It took longer than our expection.  We kept Jin waiting for about half an hour.  We met him and drove to AEON Mall.  At AEON Mall, we enjoyed window shopping and eaten ice cream.  To finish driving, we were lent a soccer ball from Jin and call Yoshi.  I and Masaru invited him to do ball playing.  He said "Of course, yes!"  I was not good at ball playing too but I enjoyed it.  We did ball playing for about three hours.  After that, we go to Masaru's house and ordered two pizzas.  We eaten them, and it were very delicious!  Today is very fun day!

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Journal F

 I enjoyed this year's Writing class.  Not only in this class but in other classes, I learned that doing something on my own is important.  In Japan, I don't need to read English, to speak in English, and to listen to English very much, but I should do them to learn English, so I have to do on my own.  That' why I say it is important to do something on my own.  I like the Dominion card game!  It was not class activities, but it was my favorite activities.  Journals are good challenges for me.  Each journals are hard and interesting.  Journal D which was supposed to write about an invention is especially hard, and Journal E which was supposed to write a fable is very interesting.  Also, all paragraphs are very useful for me.  I learned how to write a paragraph, but writing 80-100 words is difficult for me.  When I didn' come up with any idea, it was hard to write 80 words, or when I came up with many ideas, it was hard not to write more 100 words.  I think you should change to "Write more 80 words" from "Write 80-100 words".  All class activities were enjoyable, but I was sorry for taking some naps for lack of sleep.  Thank you for your enjoyable class, Mr. Waterman!

Journal E

Long, long ago, in a village, there is a shepherdess.  She is a very lucky and modest person.  She sometime picked up much money, but she had never received.  She looked for someone who lost it.  She was satisfied with her life, which was surrounded by sheep and took care of them.  One day, she picked up a golden axe.  She looked for the owner of the axe, but she didn’t find.  Several days later, she heard that there is the owner in a kingdom.  She asked a person in the village to take care of her sheep for a period of time, and she went to the kingdom to return the axe.  After arriving at the kingdom, she didn’t find the owner.  Some days later, the prince of the kingdom came to her and said “I heard you had a golden axe.  I lost it before.  If it is mine, please return to me.”  Of course, she showed it and returned it.  She came to the kingdom to return it to the owner, so she succeeded in doing.  She wanted to go back her village, but the prince thanked her very much and he got to love her.  He wanted her to get married to him.  However she wanted to come back her village and to live with her sheep.  She loved her village’s life, so she asked him to come with her.  It was difficult for him to choose that choice, but he decided to go with her.  She was really lucky person and they spent a long and happy time.

Chosen words : shepherdess, lucky, kingdom, axe

JournalC

I respect three presons, Ryotaro Shiba, Ryu Murakami, and Tsuyoshi Mori.   Ryotaro Shiba is a writer.  He wrote some famous novel, such as "Kouu and Ryuho", "Ryoma goes", and " the cloud at the top of a hill".   I want to read them but I haven't.  I read some of his novel. 
My first novel which was wrote by him is "A man of the Plough".  It is the story of a sword man who established a school of kendo. His kendo was named Hokushin-ittoryu.  The life of him moved my mind.  He broke the old customs and made new theory of kendo.  I read "Kashin", "Shinsengumi keppuroku", "The last shogun", and others.
Ryotaro Shiba studied it as hard as possible when he wrote about anything, and he wrote a novel with improvements.  His novel's story, theme, and character are very exciting.  Also, when I read his novel, I thought very much.  Those are why I respect Ryotaro Shiba.
Ryu Murakami is also writer.  I read his novel, such as "Go out of the peninsula", "Hyuga virus", "Exsodus of a hopeful country", and others.  His novel is stimulating and his essay makes me think.  He insists that Japanese forgot a sence of danger but it isu't justified.   A sence of danger is sometimes used in Ryotaro Shiba's novel.  I think it is important so I respect Ryu Murakami.
Tsuyoshi Mori is a mathmatician.  He had alrady dead.  I first read his essay in junior high school.  His essay is written for young people.  His message is very tender and thoughtful.  I like him and his essay.

Journal A

I like cooking but I seldom cook.  I'm good at cooking oyakodon. So, I tell you how to cook oyakodon. First, prepare ingredients for a person : a half onion, a half chicken, two eggs, 100cc sweet sake, 50cc soy sauce, a half tablespoon of sugar, 50cc water and soup base.  Then you can start to cook.  Cut chicken and onion.  Next, boil sweet sake and add sugar, soy sauce, water, and soup base to boiling sweet sake. After boil them, add chicken and onion to them.  Then, cook them on a medium flame.  During that, break eggs and beat eggs.  After that, turn up the fire and add the eggs.  Remember not to mix then.  After finish cooking, put them on rice.