Foreign country

Actually I would like to visit all of the places which John posted on his blog.
I love visiting new places.But I love going to Hawaii.

Have you ever been there??
You may think choosing Hawaii is too boring because Hawaii is too familiar to Japanese.
I don't do anything special there except relaxing.( I am afraid of water,so I can't swim in a beach)
I love weathers,foods (like tropical fruits),and people....
Whenever I go there, we stay in Moana Surfrider Hotel which is our fab hotel(the picture above).
When i sleep,I always keep windows half open. It lets me hear wonderful sounds of waves.
In that way,I can sleep incredibly well.
I really recommend u to visit there if you haven't!! I can tell you my favorite stores if u want ;)haha

celebrities:)

I am not really into Hollywood celebrities.
I think they are pretty handsome and incredibly beautiful though.

Actually I am not the kind of person who is really interested in celebrities.
I used to like To-Ho-Shin-Ki,and Keisuke Koide.
For To-Ho-Shin-Ki, I love how they look,attitude toward funs ,and of course their songs.
Their music videos are so cool. You should check out!!
K-POPs are very popular among Japanese ppl now,but they are not to be compared with other K-POP idols that came out one after another.

Fall;)

I am not planning to go to see colored leaves. But the best colored leaves I've seen in my life are maple leafs I saw in Canada.
It was just amazing. The colors of leaves turn to yellows,and then gradually change to yellows to reds. I really loved the views which is decorated with those warm colored leaves.
I always want to go to see Japanese maple leaf to kyoto,but I heard there are too much ppl and it's so crowded.
So I am hesitate to go there. I better go to see at least once though. Since I'm Japanese.

Instead of going to Kyoto, I went to Tokyo to see my friends.
I went to Tokyo Tower for the first time!! Here is the picture~!
See? Isn't it beautiful? Unfortunately,it was raining,the view from the Tokyo Tower is not as clear as a fine day.
Still! it was a great view.I recommend u to go there once :) I think it cost you 1400yen to go to the top of the tower.


anyway, I had a great holiday during the festival:)

20years later

hmm 20years later from now...

By that time,I'll be married with the man I really love(hopefully...)and stay home doing housework,baking cookies while waiting for kids coming back from school or...I wanna own a cozy cafe at the 1st floor of my house.And wanna sell there homemade cakes and cookies with a nice cup of tea.This is one of my dream:)
In my free time,I will be going out for lunch with friends,if it is weekends,I would love to go to a picnic or a park with kids and hoseband.
As my wish,I wanna go dating only with hoseband once a month!(without kids)lol

These are just my ideal though♪ All I want is living peacefully with my family <3

Japanese Universities

First of all,

What does "perform badly" mean??


Many of Japanese university students think that all they have to do in University is passing courses and getting required credits.
so,many don't really care wheather what they learn in that course or how usuful subject is to them. All they care is how easily they can get credits.
So studnts are likely to choose the courses that teacher doesn't take atendance,and give us greade by handing in only one final report or taking a final exam.

I hate this kind of system.I don't wanna take classes that I am not interested in or is not useful to me no matter how easy that class is. So I don't like teacher who judges student's grade by only one final test/report marks.
It's totally my opinion,but getting bad marks doesn't mean 'perform badly'
For me,not attending class and wish for credits are much worse.
I don't think it's good idea.
Skipping classes sometimes are okay,of course I do,too! We all feel lasy to go to class. But,not attending all classes are a different story. If you don't go to class,what's the point of coming to University even though ur parents is paying lots of many for us?

However,I think teacher should check the prosess that the students take.
you know waht I'm trying to say??>_<
hmm.. anyway,the important thing is how much efforts that student puts in that class.
In order words,even how high mark you get on the test without attending a class,I would say he/she 'perform badly'
what do you think??

oh! Btw,since I am not a 'perfect student' I can't say much though..^^;;

scary stuff.

hmm...I started not to be scared of ghost or those stuff at sometime.

well,when I was little,I couldn't go wash room or up stair after watching scary TV program.I always asked my dad to come where ever I go,even to a wash room.haha

One day,my dad wasn't at home,but I watch some scary stuff on TV(accidentally..),so I asked my older brother to turn on all the lights in the house while I clime up stairs to the 2nd floor. But when I reached to the middle of stairs,he suddenly turned off all the lights!! Of course,ON PURPOSE!! I got really scared and yelled at this evil brother 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! TURN ON THE LIGHT PLZ PLZ PLZ!!' X<
He was laughing at me crying ;( How terrible he is.

But I know he was the one who couldn't sleep by him self!lol What a BOY!

Cultural difference

Since I've studied abroad for 3 years I must have experienced lots of cultural differences...but,hmm.. can't really think of it X(

I remember one thing. About aniverseries.
In Japan, couples are usually celeblate their aniversaries once a month(I mean they have aniverseries per one month.)But I heard from one of my korean friend,she said that in Korea,they celeblate each 100days.(per 100days?)so first aniversary is gonna be hold on 100th day since they started going out.
It's different system as Japan. Many of Japanese couples celebrate on each months.Also how they celeblate is much more romantic I thought.
Are they influenced by romantic korean dramas??

My favorite subjects

hmm...
Basically,I am not good at subjects like just sitting on the chair and study.
You know what I mean?? I like subjects that use hands and creativity.

When I was in a high school,I loved Art class and baking class.
Do you know what baking class is??
Baking class is like a cooking class but we only make cakes and breads.
In that class, teacher gives each of us a recipe and we have to work individually.
I've made cheese cakes,cookies,muffins,Cinnamon rolls,and so on.
Teacher just watch us making and sometimes give us advises.
Half of the products that we made are sold in school cafeteria at cheap price and we can take the other half of it to home.

I think studying Math,English or these kind of subjects are very important,but subjects that let us gain creativity and a particular skill are also pretty useful to live in real life.

By the way this cake is what I made in the baking class:)

SUMMER

After a long looooong summer vacation,it's pretty hard to bring myself back to school work.
I cannot read English sentence now as fast as I could before.

Actually, I deserve it since I didn't study at all during the summer.haha
It's gonna take little more time to get used to English-environment again.:P


As I told in class,I enjoyed traveling during summer vacation.
First of all, I went to Nagano with my dad,my bro's wife,and her daughter(2yeas old). Nagano is my dad's home town.
I go there almost every summer to see my grandma and grandpa.I love visiting there.
Whenever we go there,they welcome us warmly with delicious food.
Dishes that my grandma make are really yummy and are also so healthy.
Full of veggys:) So I always ask her for recipes and learn how to cook.(I love cooking~!I think I can be a good wife in future♪ lol XD )
anyway,
I really recommend Nagano as the place to stay in summer.
Weather is much better than Osaka,and many place to sight see such as Karuizawa.

Also I went Vietnam and Korea.But I've already talked about these trip so I won't talk about it here^^

It seems that each classmates had great summer:)
And now the season is sifting to Fall.Yay!
My favorite season of the year is coming.
Let's enjoy together;)

Summer vacation is right there!!

How are u guys doing with final tests and report??
Having hard time??

but don't be so depressed!
Summer vacation is comming soon;D

any plants for this summer?
I guess many of you are excited for going abroad.

For me,I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna do.
there are many things that I wanna do during the summer vacation.

First of all,I wanna change my part-time-job. haha
Where I'm working now is too busy although it wage is low. X(
The works are very tough.
second,I wanna travel somewhere in Asia.
I might go to Malaysia with my mom.I really hope I can go there.
Third,I wanna hang out with friend!!
my friend asked me to go camping with her:)

anyways,I hope my summer vacation will be much wonderful one than I'm expecting now!!
Of course yours,too ;)

and I will miss this ENG7 for sure>_<

Recent daysX(

Now,I am on the most stressful period in a year.
There are tons　work to do! Essays,reports,and tests....
I really want to get these works done ASAP and go shopping or dining with my friends.
I'm looking 4ward to going out with ENG7 member on 25th.
It's gonna be real fun FOR SURE :)
We're planning to go to Karaoke and eat dinner together.
I must take lots of photos of us since most of them are going to study abroad soon.
We gotta make unforgettable memory on thins say don't we?!;P

I'm bit worry who am I with in ENG class in next semester.
KANAKO~!! you are the only one who would stay with me!
so...plz Yoroshikune♪lol

Illeagal music download

Do you often listening to musics?
If you do,where do you get your musics from?

Since MP3 player has become popular among us,we got more opportunity to listen to musics than before.
However, the fact is that sales of CDs are decreasing compared to a decade ago.

why??

The one of biggest cause for this contradiction is "Illegal music downloading"
We can get any musics for free.All you need are a computer and file-sharing software in it. But downloading musics and movies trough this software is illegal !!
This software is not made for this purpose.But int fact, some people use this to get musics for no charge. This is why sales of CDs are decreasing and is big damage for music industry.

Of course,I know we have to pay money to download music,but I sometime think paying 1000yen to single CD is like throwing money. Especially,I'm the person who can get sick of listening one song easily.

So,I was thinking what is gonna be good solution for this problem...
may be they should sell CDs at cheaper price or attach special gifts/goods to it.
And let people download musics for free if they don't want those goods.

Do you guys have any idea??

Would you like a cup of coffee? :)

It's been already 2 months Since second year of University has started.
Time goes by so fast. Don't you think so?
I feel like summer vacation is just right there.
Before I think about summer vacation,we have tons of stuff to get over :(

by the way,

how am I doing recently??

hmm...I enjoy circle activity:D
I belong to the circle which is called 'Cafee'
What we do is just going to cafe once a month with circle members and try new cafes.
We sometimes go to cafe for dinner,sometimes just for tea and cakes.
we used to be a really small circle.As I can remember,only 10~15ppl in 'cafee'.
But now,it's expanded into about 50 or 60ppl.
so we have to divide members into several groups and, each group goes to different cafes that we had chosen.

anyway,I'm sure I'll be busy working on so many school stuff soon...
I gotta hang out with my friends before it!!

Ideal marriage

hmm...

ideal marriage?

I've never though about marriage.
before thinking about marriage,I gotta make a boyfriend first.haha

I want my husband to be...kind,handsome,taller than me,and so on...
It's just my 'IDEAL' I want ask him a lot for my 'ACTUAL' husband.

anyways,as long as I can live peacefully with 2or3 kids and a nice husband,I'll be happy!

oh yeah! and I want my house to be not too big but not small.If there is a big garden,it's gonna be perfect.

Walking Fast a Sign of Longer Life

The article says the American Medical Assosiation reveals the latest study resolt that elder people who walk faster(one meter per second or higher) will live longer than others who walk slowly.The Because a speed of walking has big connection with their helth conditions. To be able to walk fast, your heart,lungs,muscles,and all these body parts has to be healthy. In other words,elders who walk slowly might has some medical problem at one of their body parts.

I totally agree with what they've found from this study.
Actually,my grandma is very fast-walker. she is always as if chasing someone.
But she is very healthy compared to people in her age. She is near 80,but she walk at a snappy pace.So, I thought what this article says is true and also, this research result can be one of the easy way to enable elders to know their health condition.

OMG, LOL, FYI Now in Oxford English Dictionary

OMG,LOL,and FYI are now oft ten used in Twitter and SMS texts among teenagers. These online abbreviations are officially approved as NEW WORD in the Offord English Dictionary(OED). In the latest edition of the OED,new words such as "ego-surfing" and "five-second rule"

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When I was in Canada, many of my friends was using words above,especially,OMG and LOL in text messages and MSN(online chatting). I had no idea what these word mean for the first time. But now,I'm using them a lot to save time and spaces to type.
Now,I remember I also used to use "brb" and "ttyl"as well.(Guess what they mean;) )
I think these abbreviation are pretty useful when chatting and texting,but those of you who are not really familiar with English do not need to "abuse" them.It is always important to use proper words in a proper occasion:) Same thing can be said to Japanese.

JAPAN

Japan is known for delitious foods!!

Dou you like Japanese food?

I was not a big fun of Japanese food before,but after I came back from study abroad,I came to love Japanese food.

I used to hate Natto and Japanese sweets,Wagashi especially Anko.
but somehow, I missed Natto,Wagashi,all these typical japanese foods soooo much.
When I came back to Japan,I tried them if I can eat or not.

Guess what happened??
I COULD EAT THEM ;D It actually tasted good!! I asked myself why I've hated such a yummy thing. lol

I think I was really sick of eating oily and salty foods and miss japanese food. X)

now,I prefar eating these japanese food than any American foods or Europian foods.

Many of you may know my name.
I'm Mio:) Nice to meet you guys at this class,English 7.

I'm from Enlish 13 which was very small class.There are only 2 boys and 3 girls in my class.So now,I'm bit nervous being in this class.(well...I know this class is relatively small comparing to other English class tho.)
Please feel free to talk to me:)

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By the way,

How is the sesond year of school life in KGU??
I think so far so good.
my timetable is much better than last year.I said GOOD BYE to Period 5!!lol
How wonderful it is to go home when outside is still bright!!
I'm enjoying after-school-life ;P
The thing IS that I gotta wake up soooooooooo early.5 o'clock??
Even the sun is still sleeping at the time.haha
Why do I wake up so early?
one reason is my house is very far from school.
Another reason is...I take so long to get ready.I need 2 hours to get ready...

anyways i'm having good start as 2nd year student in Kokusai-Gakubu!
Let's make ENG 7 fun together!!