I'm as busy as a bee

These days, I have a lot of homeworks such as doing lesson plans, making note for a speech, writning book reviews and reports, and more!
I'm tired within the first week in this term.

Book Review 2-01

I decided to read this, The Secret Garden, as the first book in Autumn semester.
The Secret Garden is famous as a novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and is considered a classic of children's literature now.

Mary Lennox was a sickly, sour-faced little girl who was born in India to wealthy British parents, who was father who was very busy with work and didn’t come home, and was mother, who was very beautiful, spent all her time going to parties, so an Indian woman, Kamala, was paid to take care of the little girl. She was always giving orders to Kamala, who had to obey. She never thought of other people, but only of herself. In fact, she was a very selfish, disagreeable, bad tempered little girl, who was lonely.

One very hot morning, something strange was happening when Mary woke up. In that day, cholera epidemic made her an orphan, that is, her parents passed away suddenly and Indian servants ran off, so no one was in her house and thought of Mary. She hid in her bedroom an sometimes cried and sometimes slept. When she woke up the next day, the house was silent. Then, men were in her room and they were very sad about this tragedy. After that, they found Mary. At first, she was taken to an English family who had known her parents but she hated their untidy house and noisy children, and preferred playing by herself in the garden. One day, she was sent to an isolated country house which her uncle lived in in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her uncle, Mr. Archibald craven, was also bad tempered, had no friends, got a crook back, and was horrid.

While Mary lived a lonely life in Mr. Craven's house, she found out that it is happy to play in the garden and to relate bards. In the garden, she found another garden surrounded wall. Another garden was closed by Mr. Craven because an incident happened. Moreover, her deceased aunt, Mrs. Craven loved another garden. Mary searched about the entrance of the garden because she cared about trees and flowers in the garden. Then, she finally found the key of the entrance and entered there. She felt the garden was like alive. She met Dickon and decided to revive the garden as of old with him secretly. They found being happy to do that. Also she met Colin, who was her cousin. He was sickly in his bones, so he had never been to outside and he didn't have his parent's love like her.

In the end, Mary, Dickon, and Colin seized back childlike emotion

I think this book is cheerful for readers when we feel some anxiety such as living and loving.

9th DVD "How do you like Wednessday?"

Today, I bought a new DVD, "How do you like Wednesday?(Suiyou doudesyo)"!!
I like this TV program very much, I think there is no quite interesting TV programs than this!
Yo Oizumi appear on this TV and he is familiar to TV viewer now, I think Also he is on TV drama, "AVARENBOW MAMA".
Anyway, it's very interesting to me! I can go on my life when I watch "Suiyou Doudesyo", so I want everyone to know this. I'd strongly encourage people to try this TV program.

"the pillows" LIVE!!!!!!

On September 22th, I went to watch live of my favorite band "the pillows" in Fukuoka with my friends, which was named "Wake up! Tour", because the live consisted of thier tunes which were included in thier new album, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

Of course, we were so excited especially when they performed thier old tunes which we loves.

They are awesome! If you become interested in them, please check thier homepage.

http://www.pillows.jp/

Thier wiki page is here. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pillows

Last, I intoduced one of thier songs, "Sweet Baggy Days".

Visit to International Dome

I went to International Dome last Friday to see exchange students and to ask their schedules.
I am a member of "English Lounge", so I needed to know and to tell their schedules to Mr. Okamura who is our an adviser.
After that, Mr. Waterman, economic teacher, invited us to playing games and to dinner, so I went to Mr. waterman's house with my friends. When we got to his house, his wife greeted us at the door. We went straight to play the train game, which is a board game. While we played the game, Mrs. Waterman treated us to pizza which was great. We played the game again after dinner, so one of my friends won the game.

Kaigaikensyu1 -Week 1-

I went to Leicester, England in this summer as an overseas training (kaigaikenshu), so I write about my experiences through the overseas training. Then, I write about week one, from 23rd July to 28th July, at first.


Monday, 23rd July

We was supposed to get together at our university at 6 a.m. and went to Fukuoka International Airport by bus. In the airport we went through embarkation procedure and then took the 10:30 flight for Incheon International Airport in Korea. we arrived at the airport at 11:55 a.m. it took about 90 minutes. Then, we left the airport for Heathrow Airport in England. It was about 13 hours to take in the flight! I was so tired and bored. I talked with my friend, played cards and games, watched movies, listening to music, and slept while abroad an airplane but it was too long to kill time because it was almost half a day.

After getting to Heathrow Airport, we went to De Montfort University, which we went to by bus in weekday, and then we met our own host family and went to their house. When I got to their house, I called my parents and I slept at 1 a.m.


Tuesday, 24th July

I woke up at 8 a.m. and ate two pieces of toast which melt cheese on and salad. In the day, we went sightseeing in Leicester city from 1 p.m. Leicester is a multiracial and multicultural city, so I could see many kinds of people, such as Westerner, Asian, Arab, and so on.

I was surprised that my host family had other international students. One of of them is from Spain and the other is from Turkey. Both are cheerful and friendly. In my case, my host family has a child who is 17 years old, so I could make friends with him.


Wednesday, 25th July

The day was the first day that we took classes. Our teachers were Emma and Sarah who were very kind and always smiled for us, so we enjoyed the classes.


Thursday, 26th July

I have got a minor development in the day. I was lost with my friend when we went back our host family's house, so we wandered near the houses for 1 hour. Eventually, we were able to get back the houses but we were so nervous and tired.

Friday, 27th July

In the morning, I took classes, Listening and Reading, and from afternoon we did sightseeing in Leicester by "Open Top Bus".

Saturday, 28th July

The day was all day excursion to London. I had to get on the first bus, so I had to wake up at6 but I overslept. However, I could barely catch the bus. At 8 a.m. we went to London by coach, and arrived there about 2 hours later. At first, I saw “Big Ben” when I took a boat trip on the Thames River because “Big Ben” is beside the Thames River, so I took some pictures of it. We went to Piccadilly Circus. where is is a famous road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in a central location at the heart of the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting point and a tourist attraction in its own right after we had a lunch in the street Then, we got on "Tube" which subway is called in England. I was surprised that tube came every 5 minutes so we didn't have to wait. After that, we went to "Harrowds" which is well known all over the world but I bought nothing because it was so expensive in London. In spite of that, I went to a souvenir shop and bought souvenirs for my family and my friends. We came back home at 9 or 10.

QUESTIONNAIRE in England

QUESTIONNAIRE ENGLISH HOUSES

Q1. Which do you like old houses or new houses?
A) old houses B) new houses

Q2. What kind of houses do you live in?
A) detached house B) semi-detached house
C) cottage D) terraced house
E) bungalow F) flat

Q3. Is your house built of brick? If no, what is your house built of?
Yes
No( )

Q4. Do you have a fireplace and a chimney in your house? If yes, do you use them?
Yes, and use them.
Yes, but don’t use them.
No

Q5. How many rooms are in your house? If possible, please tell me the detail, for example, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, study, and so on.
A) 3~5 ( )
B) 6~8 ( )
C) more than 9( )

Q6. What kind of heating do you have in your house?
A) radiators B) gas heating
C) floor heating D) other( )

Q7. Do you take off your shoes when you go in your house?
Yes No

Q8. Do you have both a front garden and a backyard? If yes, what purpose do you use them?