Food and Drink

What is your favorite food or drink? What did you eat last night? Which do you like better race or pan? Do you often eat breakfast? I like wasabi recently. I like putting wasabi on the food. For example, I put wasabi on meat dumpling. I also like tomato ketchup. I like Japanese food. I like rice very much. So I often eat Sushi. What kind of toping do you like? I like Tuna. When I was child, I like cucumber rolled with rice. I like bream recently. It does not have smell so I recommend to the person who has never eaten sushi. I like Chinese food too. I often eat sweet and sour pork. I like Italian. I like spaghetti which my mother cooks. My mother is good at cooking so I want to be like her. I am not good at cooking. But my favorite dish to cook is meet dumpling. What dishes do you cook well? What did you cook in the home economics class? I cooked miso soup and rice ball. Why I remember that things, my father raved about my rice ball. It was glad for me because it is rare for me to be raved.

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Hometown

I am always in trouble when I have to speak about my hometown. I was born in Kumamoto and I live in Kumamoto now. So I have no special topic. I think that you know about Kumamoto more than me. I do not go out anytime. I do not know what is rare for you. Have you ever been to the Kumamoto castle? And have you ever gone to the op of castle? I had gone to there once. I think that the place is rare for us because the person who live in Kumamoto do not have chance to go there. I recommend for you to go to the top. You can watch Kumamoto city. And it is very fun for me to touch the history. In the castle, I can look for any historic things. Where is your inward hometown? Inward hometown is the word of my principal in elementary school.  

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Sports and outside of class activities

Which do you like better playing sports or watching sports? I like watching sports because I am not good at play any sports. I do not like physical education when I was high school. I do not like swimming so I remember that I feel sad in the class. I like soccer but I cannot understand how we play. I am afraid of attack to the ball. It is hard ball. If the ball hit me, I have in the pain.  What do you think of Tokyo Olympic? Do you want to be host country? Do you want to hold the Olympic in Japan? I think that the economy will pick up speed if we can hold it in Japan. And I want to see the sport beside. It is very excited for me.  Sports are able to connect many people.

What do you do out of class? I have to come home early because my parents are very strict. I do not join the club but I had the mass media class out of the class. In the class, I learn how the mass media have to be. It is interested for me to study about TV and newspaper.

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BR02-12 Frog and Toad Together

“And after that they spent a fine, long day together.” (p.64)

I like this book very much so I am very happy to find this book in the library. I think that it is very famous in Japan. I learned one of the stories when I was elementally school student. It is heartwarming story. I like “A List” is the best. Toad is cute and careless person. Frog is A man of strong character. I like the drawing. One day, Toad makes a list. He checks the list so he can remember what he has to do. But he lost the list. He is in trouble so he want to help to Frog. Finally, they could not find the list but he wrote and crossed out “Go to sleep” on the ground and go to sleep with Frog. Other stories are so fun. I want to read to take much time. I want to rent the book again.

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BR02-11 CALIFORNIA

“From the redwood forests in the north down to the deserts of the south; from the lakes and mountains in the east to the beaches in the west; there is something for everyone in California-America’s Golden State! “ (p.19)

 

Why I choose the book is very simple reason. Do you know the song which is called California king bed? It is sung by Rihanna. I like the song very much. When I went to Karaoke with Taylor who lived in my house two days as exchange student, I sang the song. It is very very interested for me. I have never forget to sing the song with Taylor. But the book has no mean as California king bed. The bed is very big and California is very big too. American call California ‘The Golden State’. There are gold and silver in the mountains. We can see the great cities, the big park, the beautiful desert in California. The pictures are so good. I want to go there. America made California an American state in 1850. America won the Mexican-America War. There are many earthquake. At 5.13 a.m. on April 18, 1960, there was terrible earthquake in San Francisco. I did not know the fact. The earthquake in San Francisco destroyed about 5000 buildings immediately.  

Do you know Yosemite National Park? It is very vast place. Yosemite is the place for climbing, walking, bicycling and camping. The picture is wonder. And side of picture is sunset with Lake Tahoe. I want to visit to there. California has the famous city which is Los Angeles. I had heard the name of city. The city is very cool. There are a lot of place own foreign countries. We can enjoy foreign living in the state. We can see the desert. There is the Aerial Tramway. When I read the book, I want to go to Colifornia.

John Escott.(2000). CALIFORNIA. Oxford. Oxford University Press.

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BR02-10 The Inch Prince

 

“They both knew that small things can be special too.” (p.47)

 

 

Do you know The Inch Prince? It is famous story in Japan. Once upon a time, there is husband and wife. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. Ping. They are very kind. So the fairy thinks that I will be kind to them. I had never known the existence of fairy in the story. I think that the story written by foreigner. So there is magic and cute fairy. They had a teeny weeny boy. They called him Issun boushi. It means one inch boy. He is very small until time is getting on. Many years later, it was time for Issun boushi leave the home. He wants to get a job in the city. His parents gave him three presents for him. It is famous things, the bowl for a boat and the chopsticks for oars and the needle for a sword. He is very teeny so he is in trouble to find his job. He becomes the Majesty of the princess. One day, a giant ogre crashed through the trees. He saves the princess from the giant ogre. And he grows up to use the magical hammer. Finally, the princess fell in love with issun boushi. It is happy story. It has little American taste so it is fun for me to read again.

Russell Punter. (2012). The Inch Prince. London. Usborne.

 

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From Up On Poppy Hill

I watched the movie which is called “Kokuriko zaka kara”. It is called From Up On Poppy Hill in English. Do you know it? It is one of the Studio Ghibli. I like Studio Ghibli very much. I wanted to watch the movie when it was released. But I could not watch it. I heard that it is difficult to understand. I did not know this movie inside out. If you have never watched this movie, you must not read the content.

The main character is Matsuzaki Umi. She is called ‘Meru’ by her family. She is student but she can cook and sawing. I think that I want to be like her. So she has her head screwed on the right way. I like her and I wanted to born same age. Her character is so nice I want to be her friend. Kazama Shun is fresh. He likes Umi. Umi likes him. I like this couple because they are pure. It is heartwarming story. I was surprised to hear that Umi is Shun’s sister. I heard it from commercial. If the person who I love is my brother, I was very sad. The movie was draw feathery. I like Mizunuma Sirou. He has a good head on his shoulders. He is intelligent and he wears the grasses. I think that there are many people who like him. He is very kind. I remember that he escorted Umi’s sister gently. I forget introducing Sora. Matsuzaki Sora is Umi’s sister. I think that she made the prompt to meet Shun and Umi. At first, Umi liked Shun but she felt her sister’s feeling so she gave up him. I think that she likes Sirou. I think that there are mamy acts which have mean in Studio Ghibli. I like it very much so It makes me kindly. In this spring vacation, I want to watch many movie of Studio Ghibli.

 

 

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