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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