The Last Day in Spring Semester

Today, it is the last day in spring semester in my university, so I took the examination of An Introduction of English Linguistics.　I hope that I get the course credit!
Next week, I will go to England (Kaigaikensyu), so I'm looking forward to seeing my hostfamily and to having a homestay at Leicester!

Final WEI

How many words
in Week 1: (40)
in Week 2: (107)
in Week 3: (147)
in Week 4: (405)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (1520)
in Week 7: (236)
in Week 8: (677)
in Week 9: (40)
in Week 10: (457)
in Week 11: (761)
in Week 12: (44)
in Week 13: (1128)
in Week 14: (376)

Total words up to this point: (2219 + 1410 + 2309= 5938)

How many posts
in Week 1: (1)
in Week 2: (2)
in Week 3: (2)
in Week 4: (2)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (13)
in Week 7: (1)
in Week 8: (4)
in Week 9: (1)
in Week 10: (3)
in Week 11: (4)
in Week 12: (1)
in Week 13: (5)
in Week 14: (4)

Total posts up to this point: (20 + 9 + 14 = 43)

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a picture in your self intro? No
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students' blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? Yes
Do you have reviews on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have listmania lists on Amazon (linked to from blog)?No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions (linked to from blog)? Yes
Do you have advanced media (Slideshare, Bubbleshare, etc.)? Yes
Link to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 (142, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/04/book-review-1-1.html
Review 1-02 (297, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-2.html
Review 1-03 (293, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
Review 1-04 (151, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-04.html
Review 1-05 (341, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-05.html
Review 1-06 (271, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-07.html
Review 1-07 (184, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-07_26.html
Review 1-08 (321, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-08.html
Review 1-09 (318, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review-1-09.html
Review 1-10 (231, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review1-10.html
Review 1-11 (177, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review-1-11.html

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 (245, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
Essay 02 (191, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay2-description-of-object.html
Essay 03 (236, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay3-my-favorite-animal.html
Essay 04 (202, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay4-my-memorable-day.html
Essay 05 (211, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay5-worst-day-in-my-life.html
Essay 06 (480, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/essay-6-my-favorite-movie.html

How many postswith link(s): 4 + 3 + 5 = 12
with 1 picture/photo: 10 + 7 + 7 = 24
How many complex posts? (at least 2 links and 1 photo): 2 + 3 + 1 = 6

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 8Have you made at least 8 comments? Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-19.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-23th.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/golden-week-holiday.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-1-self-introduction_21.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-20.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/finiiiiiiiish.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html

Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post.
Why do you think it is your best?
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
I like this story very much.
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
I think this essay is written well.

Please link to your best comment on another blog.
Why do you think it is best?
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
I like ‘BUMP OF CHICKEN", too.

Book Review 1-11

Today, I read "MEN IN BLACK", which is one of famous movies with Tommy Lee Jones as 'Kay', Will Smith as 'Jay' and Linda Fiorentino as the beautiful Dr Laurel Weaver. Have you watched this movie? If you have not watched it, please check it out.

Kay and Jay are "Men in Black(MIB)". They have a very important job. They have to find and watch all the aliens in the world, but now there is a Bug in New York.

Kay and Jay have to find the Bug before the bug finds the Third Galaxy. The Bug wants to use the Third Galaxy to start the fighting between the Baltians and the Arquillians again. That will be very dangerous for everybody. In the end, they can clean up the Bug and Laurel becomes the member of Men In Black, so she is called "Elle".

In this story, there are a lot of technologies in the near future which can erase memories and which are various special guns. I like them so I think this story is interesting.

This is a wiki page.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF_%28%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%29

3 TESTS

I took 3 tests today. These are tests of A Brief History of American Literature class, Reading, and Intercultural communication but I was so busy to do my home works and I prepared "kaigaikenshu", so I can't study well. Maybe, I think I fail to these classes. (T_T)

I bought an iPod!

Finally, I bought an "iPod" yesterday! I have wanted it for a long time because I love music, so I wanted to listen to music until I went to my university by the train. It takes about 90 minutes, so I am very bored in the train every day. I can listen to a lot of music after today. That is why I looking forward to using the "iPod".

Drinking Party!!

I went to "Jyuttokuya" with my friends, famous guests and Jeff!! We took "Survival English Conversation" class and it was the last class in summer semester, so we have a drinking party after the class. I was really enjoyed this party!
Thank you, my friends! I am happy to become friends with you!
Thank you, Jeff! I learned many things about English conversation and cultures. I will continue taking this class in fall semester, too. I'm looking forward to seeing you again!

Book Review1-10

My tenth book review is "ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN". We students who take A Brief History of American Literature class second periods on Monday knew this story because we watched the movie in the class, so I also know most of this story.
That is why I talk about the plot.

Huckleberry Finn who called "Huck" by his friends lived with the Widow Douglas in St. Petersburg, Missouri. His best friends are Tom Sawyer and the Widow's black slave, Jim. (In the movie, Tom didn't come on the story.) Huck and Jim traveled down the Mississippi river from St. Petersburg to Cairo in which it was free. On the river, they have a lot of adventures and met a lot of interesting characters.
Huck and Jim often traveled at night because Jim was a runaway slave. Around the time, they were caught if they ran away, so Huck and Jim have to be careful.
Tom Sawyer also loved adventures. Huck liked Tom because he was very smart and he always had a lot of good ideas, but these ideas usually got the boys into trouble.
In this story, Huck thought what real justice is. He wrestled with his conscience over again and again.

I was impressed Jim's lines. He said that not justice everyone believed was real justice. I agreed his opinion. In this world, things I believed are actually untruth.

Here is a wiki page.

Heavy Rain makes river!!!!

It rained heavily four days ago and issue warning a heavy rain and local flooding all in Kumamoto Prefecture, so the road near Suizenji station became a river and the drain made whirl! Thus, I couldn't go to my university in that day.

Mt. Aso

Two weeks ago, I went to Mt. Aso with my family.
I took this picture near the mountain summit. Unfortunately, however, it was cloudy. After that, we ate roasted corn. It's very good! I think it is more delicious for me to eat it because I breathed fresh air there. I want to go there again!

Book review 1-09

The book which I chose was "ALICE'S ADVENTURES in WONDERLAND" because this story is very famous and I knew the plot of the story but I forgot most of it, so I want to know this story and I want to read this book. I think most of people know this story, but anyway, I talk about the outline.

A girl named Alice was bored while on a picnic with her older sister, who was reading a book which had no pictures or conversations in it. Alice was interest in a passing white rabbit that was dressed in a waistcoat and he said he would be too late. She followed the rabbit down a rabbit hole, then she found herself that she fail down into a dreamlike world. As she continued to try to follow the rabbit, she had several adventures. She grew to great big size and then got smaller. She met a group of small animals swimming in a sea of her own tears, and got stuck in the rabbit's house when she enlarged herself again. After meeting the Duchess, she carried away a baby which changed into a pig, and then met the Cheshire cat, which disappears, leaving only its smile behind. She joined the Mad Hatter and the March Hare at a never-ending tea party. Then, she went to the seashore and met a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle. Finally she attended the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who has been accused of stealing tarts. Just as Alice refused the Queen of the hearts. Eventually, the dream ended and Alice woke up at the picnic with her sister.

I think "ALICE'S ADVENTURES in WONDERLAND" is a masterpiece of fantasy and full of dreams. Moreover, this story is a famous fantasy story as above, so this story has an impact on various works such as literature, paintings, comic books, animations, movies, TV, and music.

Here is a wiki page.

Essay 6 My Favorite Movie

I will talk about my favorite movie. What is my favorite movie? I have watched a lot of movies, so it is difficult for me to select the best movie but I would venture to say that the best movie is “The Lord of the Rings”, which is my favorite movie.

“The Lord of the Rings” is famous as an epic high fantasy novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien, which is also the origin of the movie. The story can be divided into three parts, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, and “The Return of the King”. Therefore, I leave out all these plots because it is too long to talk about them, so I will talk about the prologue and characters of these stories at first.

These stories concern humanoid people known as Hobbits, Elves, Men, Dwarves, Wizards, and Orcs. In addition, there is the Dark Lord, Sauron, who made Ring of Power and person who has the ring can control Middle-earth, the world of these stories. The nine braves fight with the forces of evil over the ring. The nine braves consist of various races as above so the members are Frodo who is main character, Sam, Pippin, Merry, who are Hobbits, Gandalf who is a Wizard, Aragorn, Boromir who are Men, Legolas who is a Elf, and Gimuli who is a Dwarf. Each of them has them own features. Hobbits have a kind heart, love for nature, and especially, they are short. Wizards have a special power but they become good or evil depending on using the power. Elves are noble and elegant, and what’s more, they have magical charm. They have basically immortal life. Dwarves have a keen sense of justice. Men only satisfy own desire, so they are described as feeble human in these stories.

Next, I will talk about my memorable scenes because a lot of scenes impressed me. One of the scenes was that Sam said to moribund Frodo that he can’t bear the ring’s burden but he can shoulder him. Saying so, Sam shouldered Frodo and took one step at a time. I think there was nobody but was moved to tears watching this scene, so this scene is my most memorable scene. In addition, I was impressed that there was “Elvish languages”. The language was made by J. R. R. Tolkien and came from Old Celtic. There are two characteristics in the language. First, it sounds a song for men so most of men can’t understand their language. Second, their words including dull sound were used in a bad sense. Therefore, the author, Tolkien creates an origin language. It is wonderful for me that he originates new language.

That is why I like the movie, “The Lord of the Rings”. I never get tired of watching this movie and I learn a lot of things watching this movie.

Here is a wiki page.

I can't go back home!!!!

The heavy rain make me stay at my university just now because my train go out of service by the rain, so I can't go back home......(T-T)
Only please stop raining! If it doesn't stop raining, I can't go back home! Please stop raining!!!!