Wednesday, April 30, 2014

audiences and titles

I'm going to introduce my favorite singer's CD. He's Usher, an American R&B singer. He released an album called "8701" 13 years ago.  That title is derived from his singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and an the album's release date of 2001.
When I saw the title for the first time, I couldn't think about why he decided the title because there were no songs called "8701". He was born in 1978, so I think it means that he has been singing since he was only 9 years old.
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Speaking homework: Don't cross me! (p5)

I crossed some kinds of vegetables and fruits with partners.
First, I crossed cabbage and cucumber and named it cabber. The good point is that it's so useful because it's like a salad and there're aren't any bad points.
Second, It's called tomalime, and so it's the combination of tomato and lime. I think it's yummy, so we can eat it a lot. However, if you aren't good at something sour to eat, I can't recommend it.
Finally, I introduce graflower. It's the combination of grape and califlower. There aren't any good point while the bad point is that the texture is bad.

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Friday, April 25, 2014

My bedroom







My kitchen

Japan is famous for miso soup. This utensil is used
 when you cook miso soup. After you make soup
 stock and boil some ingredients, you have to use it.
 First, you put some miso in it and then you strain miso. 

                                                                   
 This is the electric rice cooker. If you want to cook rice, first you wash it to remove the rice bran and pour some water as you soak rice enough. Next, you put in the bowl and push the button. Then, you wait for less than an hour and the nice rice comes out!


I found a dish that my mother cooked it last night on the stove! It looks yummy.









This is soy sauce especially for raw fish called Sashimi in Japanese.



They are chopsticks. Japanese people use ones almost everyday.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

My Start-up Labels

books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, fiction, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, non-fiction, outlines, quickposts, reviews, revisions, typing, websites
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BR 1-03: Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp(Dean,2000)

 ’Let us drink from one cup, Abanazar,' she said, and smiled at him.

This is one of the old and famous stories. A poor boy called Aladdin got a lamp and became rich. He got married with a beautiful princess called Badr-al-Budur but she was snatched from him by a bad magician, Abanazar. This is the scene that Aladdin and Badr-al-Budur revenge on Abanazar. It was really interesting.

Reference

Judith, Dean. (2000). Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, England : Oxford University Press.
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Friday, April 18, 2014

singing at karaoke

This is me and my friend. We went to karaoke to sing a song with microphone. I was really excited!
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Come into my room!


Here's the entrance of my house! It's really old, so you 
need to slide the door aside when you come in. Don't push
the door to open it like the modern style!

 There're a lot of small shoes next to the entrance. I had put on all of them when I was a child. My mother keeps them even now because they're cute!


















Here's my room. I have a double-deck bed on the left side
and there's a desk under the bed.
When I was a high school student, I belonged to the Japanese traditional drums club. I received these pictures from my friend when I retired the club. It's one of the good memories:D












This is my favorite bag. It looks like a shoe!

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the old pic

This is the picture my grandma took. I was about 2 years old and my mother took me to the theme park. I still display it on my CD player.
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With my great grandma

She is my great grandma, Satomi and I was a third-year student of high school. When I was a small child, I used to go for a walk and go shopping with her. She is always kind to me.
This year, at last, she become 100 years old!! Though we don't live in the same place and can't see each other so often  now, I'd like to congratulate on her 100th birthday to the extent and say "Thank you". 
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My mother and I

I think I took the pic 4 years ago, when I was a high school student. We put on my high school uniforms. I wore the winter one and my mother wore the summer one. For me, it wasn't a special thing, however, my mother looked so excited because she was taken with my school uniform.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

BR 1-02: The Wizard Of Oz (Baum, 1998)




"There is no place like home."

This is the story that a girl and her dog are lost my a big cyclone and search for a good wizard to go home. It was really interesting because completely different animals or stuffs become nice friends. The line above is said by Dorthy, an heroine. She gets home at last and I think she has a joyous look on her face.




Reference
Baum, Frank, L. (1998). The Wizard Of Oz. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press.

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Monday, April 14, 2014

My mother, Miho

  This is my mother, Miho. I took the picture before she went to the office today. She is an office worker of an oil company. I live with her and I don't have any members of  my family living with me. We don't chat so often recently because of our schedule, but she understands well about me.
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I was almost late!

  Today I went to the driving school to practice driving in the morning and withdrew some money from the bank. Then I bought sockes and T-shirts downtown at noon. I was deluded into thinking that the class I took started at 2:40, that is, from 4th period and I'd arrive at school in good time. However, it started from 3rd period at 1 o'clock and that it was the first lesson in this semester. When I was in Namiki-zaka Street, it was 12:45!  I really felt rushed and went to KGU by bike in a hurry.
  I managed to come to school in time but I should control my schedule more accurately to prevent accidents.
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Friday, April 11, 2014

change my plan

I planned to go out at in the evening on March 26. However, I couldn't do it, for my friend's schedule. In March, because I didn't have enough money, I stopped joining the club, but I joined it because I wanted to do something in stead of the first plan. We went to Oe elementary school to play volleyball.                                                 
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a day off


I worked part-time in the final week of the spring vacation almost everyday, so I got a day off in the week to go out for dinner. I went to the English conversation school in the morning and I was looking forward to it. After that, I hung out by myself in the afternoon
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Strawberries Fair


In March, two of my friends got together on Twitter and planned to go to Kuyoan in Hotel Castle. The reason is that it held "Strawberries Fair", which guests could eat many kinds of strawberry sweets without a time limit. We went there on March 20. At first, we were really surprised because we had to wait about one and a half hour.
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driving



On March 18, I planned to have a part-time job, but I didn't need to go there because there were few guests that day. Then my friend asked me, "Why don't you go for a drive with me?" Of course, I said yes.

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start a job


I started to work at a dining restaurant as a cook from February. The reason why I became a cook is that I've worked at some restaurants as a waitress while I haven't worked as a cook and when I worked at restaurants and served dishes, I wondered if I could have cook tasty dishes like those.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Essay 1-01a: Letter to My Host Family

Dear host family,
Hi there! I'm going to take part in the homestay program in Toronto and spend this summer with you, so I'm looking forward to seeing you. I receive your profile from a Kumamoto Study Abroad Company.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Ruka. I'm a 1st-year student at KGU and majoring in English. I'm 19 years old and I'm from Kumamoto, Japan. I can speak Japanese and simple English but I started to learn basic French when I came to university. I like to play basketball, play the Japanese traditional drums, and go to some fashionable cafes or restaurants. I also love listening to foreign songs and singing them at karaoke. I don't know, whether there is any karaoke in Canada, but it's where we sing a popular song while a karaoke machine plays the music to the song without the words. I often sing Ke$ha, Rihanna and Maroon5' s songs. I work part-time as a waitress at a steak restaurant and as a cook at a dining restaurant. Although the cuisine is expensive, it's so yummy. I really enjoy working! I live with my mother and I have my grandparents and my great grandmother. All of them always helps me as much as they can.

I have a few questions for you. I know there are five members  in your family: Ann is the grandmother, Sara is the mother, Adam is the father, Patty is the daughter and Reed is the son. When I first saw your pictures, I felt relieved because all of you looked so kind. I'd like to know what your hobbies are, can you share them with me? What is it like where you live? What's your favorite food and what do you often eat at home? Where do you go in your holidays? What image do you have of Japan? What do you do? If you have any questions about me, please feel free to ask.

When I was a high school student, there was an exchange student from Canada. At first, she didn't know anything about Japan and she went through many hardships to get along with Japanese students. However, she told us about a variety of Canadian cultural information and she also studied Japanese hard to fit in with us. I was really impressed by her modest attitude and thus I wondered if I go to Canada. About a half year later, I found a scholarship to go to Prince Edward Island in Canada to study English. I wrote an essay in English to get it. Although it was really hard because anybody in Japan had a qualification for joining the program, I won it. It was a nice place and people were very kind. Have you ever been there? After coming back to Japan, I felt I'd like to go to Canada again, and now, my dream will come true soon. I can't wait to go and meet you.
I'd like you to write back to me if you have time. I'm looking forward to my stay.

Sincerely,
Ruka
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Driving school

Today, I started to go to Terrabal Driving School to get the automatic drivers license. I think I will be busy this year because I have 2 part-time jobs, go to an English school, join the club activity and study a lot like this while going to the driving school. However, I worked really hard in the first year of university to make money for it and finally, I entered the school by myself now. That's why, I'd like to practice driving hard to get the license earlier!
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