2008年12月11日木曜日

2008/12/10

Wednesday!
Today, I was planning to go to school to do IT!
I decided to finish it this year.
But there is still a lot to do.
I planed to wake up at 8:30 and reach school at 11:00.
I was plannin to do this!!
I tried to wake up!!
But....
I couldn't.
I woke up at 20:30.
It was already night.
I'll try next week!

2008年12月9日火曜日

Newspaper Article 2

Newspaper Article Discussion

“Junior high school admissions to be eased for non-Japanese kids.”
The Japan Times 29 June 2008


Written Summary:
Now, the number of non-Japanese children as foreigners is increasing to live much more long time in Japan. This made education ministry plan to allow non-Japanese children enter junior high school without graduating elementary school. The main point to let foreign children allow enter the Japanese junior high school is that, after admitted to Japanese junior high school children would be able to accustom to Japanese society more easily. However, ministry is thinking to allow foreign children to enter Japanese junior high school easily, they will not ease the admission qualifications for Japanese children.

Opinion Statements:
I think that the globalization are growing so it is very good idea to allow foreign children allow entering Japanese junior high school but, to let them enter school easier than Japanese children are not fare.

Discussion Questions:
1. What do you think of allowing foreign children enter Japanese school?
2. Do you think it is important to study English from early age?
3. What do you think is the main point of learning English?

Words:
・mandatory: 必須の
・pursing: 追跡する、追求する、続ける
・stipulate: 条件とする
・violator: 違反する、汚す
・provision: 供給、条項

2008/12/8


Mont-blanc!!
This is Mont-blanc of Angelina.
I bought it at Shinjyuku on my way home.
My friend told me that this Mont-blanc is very delicius so, I decided to buy it.
I ate it with coffee as usual.
It was very very delicious!!
If I can, I want to buy and eat it again.

2008/12/6


Lare Cheesecake!!
This is my favorite cheesecake of Shirotae.
It is famous.
My father bought back to my house yesterday night.
It was long since I ate this last.
I eat it with coffee.
It was sooooooo delicoius!!!!!!!!

2008/12/4





















I went to eat dinner with my family at famous Italian restaurant.
After school, I rashed to the station called Shinntomichou.
We walked for the restaurant.
After eating dinner, we walked to the Yuurakuchou station.
While walking, I found my favorite Starbuckes.
So I decided to buy coffee.
It was my first time to go to Ginza.
It was very interesting.



















2008/12/1

I went to eat dinner with my friend.
We ate a lot kind fo thing and at last, I ordered Yakionigiri.
I like yakionigiri!!
It was the flaver of ume&shiso.

After eating dinner, we went to eat ra-men.
We ate too much at the first restaurant so, we decided to share next.
We ordered tukemen and it was delicious too!!

At the time when we finished eating, it start raining.
But we both didn't had an unbrella.
So, we used Hotpepper for unbrella and ran to station.
I had a good time.

2008年12月1日月曜日

2008/11/29


I went to Gunmaken to do snowboardind with my friend!
It was my second time.


We meet at Shinjyuku station at 6:30 in the morning.
So, I needed to go out home at 5:30 and I had to wake up at 4:30.
Too early......


The bus left Shinjyuku station at 7:00 and reached the ski resort about 10:30.
Until 17:00, it is free time to snowboard.


We kept snowboarding until 14:00 and ate linch.
I ate currey rice.
It was 1000 yen.
Too expencive.

After lunch we snowboard until 16:00 again.
Rid on bus at 17:00 and reached Shinjyuku station abount 20:00.
We went to Kentucky for dinner and went home.
It was fun.

2008年11月27日木曜日

Writing

Should the Internet Be More Tightly Controlled?

Today, technology has dramatically progressed and it has become very easy for people to live. One of the main reasons is the Internet. It is very useful and everyone who has a computer can use it. On the other hand, the Internet is too open to everyone that there are some problems about it. To decrease these problems, it is necessary to make some rules to manage Internet users.
The Internet is a very useful thing. When you need some information, it is very easy to search. An article which I read few days ago told me that 67.2% of elementary school students, 51.0% of junior high school students and 48.5% of high school students are doing their homework by using the Internet. If there was no Internet, you would need to go to the library or a bookstore and search for books. It would take more time and make you very exhausting.
These days, globalization has succeeded, and this could be the result of the Internet.  The Internet is connected to the whole world, and it allows people to know what is happening on the other side of the world in real time. Letters would be sent by e‐mail via the Internet and it makes us easy to contact friends. The Internet is making the world very small.
However, there are some bad effects in the Internet too. For example, all information which is on the Internet is not necessarily correct. There may be some incorrect information or things that led people to wrong ways. Actually, it is in peoples mind that there is some information which is wrong, but somehow people believe the information on the Internet. Therefore, when you use the Internet to search for some information you need to think and judge by ourselves whether the information is correct or not.
Another bad thing is the websites. Of course, not all websites are bad, but there are some sites that should be abolished. For example, sites which lead people to suicide, or sites on which you write to speak evil of other people. There are a lot of websites which make people feel bad when you see it and it is not good for children’s education either. The Ministry of Education has discovered that there are about 38thousands of school’s ura-sites and this is twice the number of junior high school and high school which exist in Japan. School’s ura-site is a website which children made to exchange their information about own schools. Children use this website not only to exchange information but also write bad things which leads to bullying. To control these sites, it is maybe important to have some rules.
Taking these reasons under consideration, it is necessary to control the Internet more tightly. However, sever control will make it very inconvenient to use. Therefore, people who use the Internet should take more time to think about the problem seriously. If people do these actions, in the future, it will be more convenient and good environment for many of people to use the Internet.


Works Cited:
ITmedia News <http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0707/10/news100.html>
Yahoo News

Book Report

Book Report


1) MLA CITATION
Author: Wilkie Collins
Book Title: The woman in White
City of Publication: England
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 1993 Number of Pages: 100

2) RESPONDING TO THE PLOT
If I were a character in the story, I would not have told the way to London to the woman who is strangely in all white. I would say “I don’t know” when I was asked. I don’t want to be in trouble afterward. If I were the author of this story, I would change

“To be in love with my sister, Mr. Hartright, will only hurt you.” Page9
This is said to Walter Hartright from Marian Halcobe. Marian Halcobe told Walter Hartright that her sister, Laura Fairlie, who he love has a fiancé and going to marry quite soon. And this was the first time for Walter Hartright to hear about this shocking fact.

3) ANALYZING 7 LITERARY TERMS
Setting: This story took place in London.

Point of view: This story is told by the minds and emotions of some characters. Therefore, the point of view of this story is omniscient.

Conflict: The conflict in this story is Walter Hartright versus himself that he could not keep himself from loving Laura Fairlie who marries Sir Parcival Glyde.

Climax: I think the climax of this story is that Walter Hartright and Marian Halcombe, Laura’s half-sister, expose the plot of Sir Parcival Glyde.
Symbol: The symbol of this story is money. This is a story about succession to property, and if there were no big money, such an event would not happen.

Irony: The irony in this story is Walter Hartright that he did not ask anything to Anne Catherick, who is in all white, when he met her first.

Theme: This story tells us that money changes people. Money is a very important thing and it is impossible to live without. However, too big money sometimes changes people to evil.

4) REFLECTING ON THE STORY
The appearance of the woman, who is all in white, attracts my attention to read the story. Compared with my life, the character’s life is too different. In the story, there are some positions like baronet, but here in Japan such a thing does not exist now. If the book has been made into a film, I think I would check how the woman in white appears mysteriously.

I think the encounter with his friend, Charles Dickens, might have inspired him to write the book. I agree with the author’s view of people and life, because it is little extravagance, but the problem about the succession to property may happen in my life too. What I learned from this story is how difficult problem the succession to property is. I did not changed my ideas about anything after reading this book but, it made me realize that people argue over same kinds of things in any age. I thought that at last Walter Hartright will marry Laura Fairlie and it really happened.

Newspaper Article

Newspaper Article Discussion

“Pinprick found in China bean pack.”
The Japan Times 18 October 2008

Written Summary:
A woman who lives in the suburb of Hachioji, Tokyo has bought a frozen green beans package which has a hole 1mm in diameter. It was imported from China, and after she ate beans, she became sick. Therefore, police has investigated whether the hole is related to the contaminated vegetable which made the woman sick. After discovering, police found that vegetable were contaminated with the insecticide dichlorvos. Police have recovered 57 other package of green beans from the shop which the woman became sick has bought, and checking it carefully. Besides the Hachioji woman, 25 people have claimed health problem after eating green beans but, no traces of dichlorvos have so far been found. Japanese investigators said that the dichlorvos which is contaminated to the package seems to be included by deliberate, rather than accidental during the production process.
Opinion Statements:
I think this kind of thing cannot be happen anymore. I want the Japanese investigators to find out the reason why this kind of thing happened and, bring back the reliance on food which is imported from foreign country as soon as possible.
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you often buy or eat frozen vegetable?
2. Can you believe things which are made in China?
3. Do you want to buy things which has imported from China?

Words:
・pinprick: 針のひと刺し、小さな傷
・insecticide: 殺虫剤
・tainted: 汚染された
・nausea: 吐き気、むかつき
・deliberate: 故意に

2008/11/26

I went to Harajuku to have my hair cut!
I reservrd at 14 o'clock so, I was planning to wake up at 11:30.
However, the time I woke up was 12 o'clock!
I rushed to the station and I was able to be on time.
After hair cut, I went to Rafore and went to Shinjyuku.
At tshinjyuku, I drunk my favorite Jyabachip frappechino.
After drinking it, I went back to Tudanuma and went to Parco.
I walked around a while and went home.

2008年11月22日土曜日

2008/11/22

I'm going to snow boarding today.
It is my first time.
I have to wake up at 4 o'clock.
So I'm going to sleep .
ByeBye.

2008/11/19


Today I went to Tokyo Disney Land!!!!!
I met my friend at Tudanuma station where I live at 16:30.
We decided to eat dinner and went to the pasta restaurant.
After talkeing for a while, somehow we started to talk about Disney Land.
And we decided to go there by after 6!!
The time when we decided to go was already 17 o'clock so we rashed to Maihama station.
It only takes about 30 minutes from Tudanuma station to Maihama station.

When we rached at Disney land, it was only 18 o'clock and there was 4 hours for us to play.
We ride Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain.
It was very fun!!!

2008年11月10日月曜日

2008/11/8

I went to Shinjyuku with my friend.
We had no plan to do so, we decided to eat lunch first.
We walked Kabukichou and decided to eat Ra-men.

After eating lunch, we walked around Kabukichou.
It made us tired so we decided to go shopping.
We went back to the station and looked around Rumine.
Walking a lot made us hungry again.
So, we decided to eat dinner.

The dinner we decided to eat is SUSHI!!
It was tabehoudai in 3000 yen.
Rich Rich Rich!!
We ate sushi as much as possible.

Finished eating sushi, we were very full.
So, considering our helth, we decided to take a wal again.
We walked around Shinjyuku about 1 hour.
The illumination around the Shinjyuku station was very beautiful!!
Walking for long time made us tired so we wnt to cafe for break.
We took a short break and went home.

2008/11/1~3

School Festival!!

Our circul sold Kebub look sandwich.
Grill meat and put it and onion between bread.
Sauce was ketchup and mayonnaise.
We sold it for 400 yen first, but we soon reduced the price to 300 yen.
Then it soon became soldout.

My part was shop girl, and the first grade student was told to wear high school uniform for costum.
So I needed to wear it.
It was fun but it was cold.

I'm looking forward for next years school festival.

2008/10/31

Halloween!!

This day, I went to my friends house who live in Omiya,Saitama.
She is in the same circle and she was helping the preparation for the School festival so,
I went to Aoyama campus to meet her.
We ate lunch at Italian restaurant and I ate pasta.
It was delicious.

Then we went to Kichijyouji to pick up pur circle t-shirt and went to Omiya.
While waiting for another friend come to Omiya, we bought cake for the small Halloween party.
After joining another friend, we went to public bath.
It was very fun.

After taking bath, we drunk coffee milk.
When we reached to my friends house, another friend came and we did Halloween party.

That night, we didn't sleep and talked overnight.
It made us next day very sleepy.

2008/10/28

I went to Yakitori with my friends.
The Yakitori shop where we went is located in Fuchinobe.
It is tabehoudai in 980 yen!!
It's very cheap and it was very delicious.
By the way home, I happend to meet my friend of high school in the train.
It was long since I mwt her so, we talked a lot.
We kept talking until near our house.
It was very fun.

2008年10月21日火曜日

2008/10/20

I wnt to karaoke with my friend from junior high school.
Before going to karaoke, we went to Starbucks Cafe.
I love Starbucks!!
I often go there and if it is possible, I like to go there everyday.
Yesterday I drunk Jyabachipp frappechino.
I'm tihnking to go to Starbucks today either.

2008年10月14日火曜日

snowboardind 2

Yesterday, I went to Ochanomizu to buy my snowboard.
I went with my friend and she had know a good shop.
We met at Ochanomizu station at 1:30 and start walking.
Yesterday was hot.
So, we went in to cafe and bought coffee.
After buying coffee and when we start walking, we found a Taiyaki shop.
There were many people buying Taiyaki so, we decided to buy it too.
After finish eating we finally get to the snowboarding shop.
I bought alot so things for snowboarding!
Now I'm ready to go to the mountain.

After finishing buying things we had nothing to do.
But, the time was still 14:30 and it was still early to go home.
So, we decided to wailk to Shinjyuku to kill time.

It took a long time to get to Shinjyuku from Ochanomizu.
By train, it takes only about 20 mintes.
But by walking with friend talking, it took about 2 hours.
It made us so tired.

After reaching to Shinjyuku, we were too tired that we decided to go in to the cafe again.
At cafe, we ate very delicious cake and drunk coffee.

At about 19:00, my another friend came to Shinjyuku and told what we had done the day.
Then she said "you guys are crazy!" by laughing.
After that we ate dinner and went home to house.

Yesterday was very fun!!
It was very busy day.

2008年10月13日月曜日

snowboarding!!

Last Friday, I went to Gotannda to buy snowboarding wear.
I'm in the snowboarding club and I'll start snowbarding from this year so, I needs to buy goods.
After schools class, me and my friends ate Katudonn at cafeteria and went to Gotannda.
It took about one and half hour to get there from school.
Tomorrow I will go to Ochanomizu to buy board.
I'm looking foard to buy it.

seeyou

2008年9月30日火曜日

HELLO

Hi!
It's first time to write a blog and, I have nothing to write in.
Now, it's already 12:25 and I want to go out and eat lunch!
I'm hungry.
Today is raining and cold.
I don't like these weather.
I don't feel going outside.

byebye