Introduction of Hawaii

Hawaii is one of the states of the U.S and it located in the central Pacific Ocean. State of Hawaii has main 8 islands and there are crowded with tourists everyday because they have beautiful sea and nature and the culture is so attractive. One of the famous culture of Hawaii is Hula.

Topic: Hawaiian Music ~informations~

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Yahoo encyclopedia
http://100.yahoo.co.jp/detail/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD/

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Hawaii Language dictionary
http://kuuipo.org/

About "Hula"
http://www.goohkm.net/16hawai-fura.html

Essay2-04 : Well-Kept Secret of Kumamoto ~How to maintain the amusement park~

Hello, everyone. Today, I am going to tell you about a well-kept secret of Kumamoto. And the secret is "Asian Park" !! Do you know the amusement park? Actually, I didn't know that. This park is now discontinuing operation but it was a once flourishing in the bubble economy. This was in Arao in Kumamoto in from July 21,1993 to August, 2000 and it's near the MitsuiGreen Land. To my surprise, it cost 44 billion yen! There were many theme parks in the bubble economy. The one example is Tokyo Disney Land which is biggest theme park in Japan. Then I thought why amusement park goes to different ways. On the one hand succeed and the other hand sink in the world. That is why I chose this topic.

Asian Park has some attraction such as "Asia cruise"and you can look around the scenery of the small world riding a boat. And the park also has some miniature figures of remains and castle such as the Taj Mahal, Anghor Wat and The Great Wall of China. You can feel Asia in your body. The admission fee was only 600 yen, so it was popular then. There were 10 thousand visitors every month. I've never been there, so I should have been there once.


In conclusion, It was good opportunity t0 know more about Kumamoto. I didn't know about these things although I live in Kumamoto for many years. Actually I want Kumamoto to build more amusement park like Tokyo Disney Land but I think the good point of Kumamoto is grand beautiful nature, so amusement park is unsuitable. However, the Asian Park's idea is nice, so it need more interesting idea which people can enjoy more and feel at home. I think the most important point of prosperity of amusement park is to make frequent visitors.

Kumamoto has great culture, so it can become more interesting region which other prefectures' people visit many times.

I love KUMAMOTO!!!!!

This is the Link→http://www.tanken.com/asiapark.html

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Nomination of movie review

I nominated Chie's 'Mrs. Doubt fire' essay is the best of 1c class!
Her essay is easy to read and it contains her own opinion about divorce and love.

I think it's so good! Besides, she added the movie's photo, so I could remember the story easily.


I could know new ideas from her.
This is her essay's link→http://tiesroom.blogspot.com/2008/11/mrs-doubt-fire.html

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Essay 2-02: My Favorite Places in Nagasaki

I'll talk about my favorite places today. My favorite places are Nagasaki city and Sasebo city in Nagasaki prefecture. Have you ever been there? I think you've been Nagasaki city for your school trip before. I love these places because Nagasaki is my father's hometown and my relatives live there. I and my family go there twice a year, in summer and winter. I think that Nagasaki is my second hometown for me. Also Nagasaki city and Sasebo city have a lot of special points. That is why I love these places, so I'll explain three favorite points.

To begin with, Nagasaki city has many beautiful views. As you know, Nagasaki is a city of hills and there are many houses which are built on hills. The view is like a fairyland, so it's nice looking. I think people can't believe it that most people live in Nagasaki can't ride a bicycle because of hills. Actually, my father couldn't ride bicycle until he came to Kumamoto. Most people in Nagasaki walk the hills. I think that it's good exercise for people. When I go there, I walk the hills with my cousin for exercise. The night view is also beautiful. It called "The night of $1,000,000"! You can see it on Mt. Inasa. The view is romantic, so I think you'd better to go there once with your boyfriend or girlfriend. We can see beautiful sea near my relative's house and there are many ships lighted up. The sea smell is very nice, so I like this place.

Next, I think that Nagasaki has international culture. There are lots of foreigners in Sasebo city because there is US military base, so when I walk the city, I see foreigners many times. I always think "Is here abroad?". There are many foreign shops and restaurant in Nagasaki city because of Dutch village and China town. I sometimes go there and have a lunch with my relative.The Chinese foods and sea foods are very delicious!

Nagasaki is the stricken area of atomic bomb, so there are atomic bomb archives and peace monument. Nagasaki think much of "peace" than any other prefectures. That's also why I like this city.

Finally, they have original culture. There are many interesting festivals. For example, Syouryounagashi which is launching a paper lantern or votive offering on a straw boat onto the water to see off the spirits of one's ancestors on the last day of the Bon festival. I go this festival every summer. The fire crackers are really noisy, but it's interesting. Also there is Okunchi festival and you can see the Dragon Dance. It's so wonderful festival, so I want to see again. I like Nagasaki dialect. My father and my relative talks in Nagasaki dialect. It's different from Kumamoto dialect and the intonation is also different. It's very interesting!

I suggest you to go Nagasaki city and Sasebo city at least once. Nagasaki is romantic and international place, so I think you'll become like them. I'm going to go there in this winter, so I'm looking forward to go there. I love Nagasaki city and Sasebo city!!

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Essay 2-01: Rewrite of WEB site review: Travel Memory is Treasure

Hi everyone. Long time no see! Did you enjoy your summer vacation? Did you go somewhere with your friends or family or boyfriend or girlfriend? I think some people went somewhere and made great memories. Some people took many beautiful pictures and talked about their memories with big smile. I think travel memory is treasure of your life because you can experience and see many things. If you stay only your home town, you can't see places which has great view.

Today, I would like to introduce my favorite web site. This is JTB travel web site. http://www.jtb.co.jp/kaigai/ I love travel and love to watch pictures of foreign places, so it's good site for me. Actually, I haven't booked these tours using this site, but I want to may be next time! My mother always booked by advertisement. It's one of way to book tours. However, booking by web site is more easier than calling, I think. Here is the another good point. The good point of this web site is that we can book a hotel or day in advance in the web site. You only click the button and decide the dates you want to start traveling. When I see the many beautiful pictures in this web site, I became to go to travel. If you want to travel, just click the button. It's easy to book if you have a time.

Also it has places and profitable tours recommended by JTB. If you don't know which package tour is the best, you click the button and compare the cost or special treatment. Besides, there are some theme "resort with picture", "theme park like Disney land", "travel for students" and "course in a foreign language in a country where it is spoken". They are also good point for traveler because there are many kinds of traveler. So we can choose one tour by our purpose.

If you don't know what should you bring for the travel and how to do a traveler's check or anything you don't know about the travel, the site tell you what to do. The site contains all about travel, so it's very useful for us. I'm planing my traveling now and I want to go Hawaii again with my younger sister because I have a time in my collage life. However, I don't have much money, so I need to make money. It'll be our first abroad travel on our own, so we have to learn how to get air plane and check places, shopping mall and so on using this site. I think I'll be very nervous but it is my now pleasure!

If you want to go somewhere, I reommend you to go Australia or Hawaii because there are lots of Japanese and cute shop! If you were lost, you'll be able to ask anyone. So I think there are good place to spend on your vacation! You're student now, so I think that you'd better to join the tour for student. You can travel more cheaper than adult. I think it' kind for student's wallet! Look at this page. http://www.jtb.co.jp/gakusei/

Make your own plan for traveling and have fun your precious traveling!! Good luck!!
http://www.jtb.co.jp/kaigai/

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Iron man==3

Hi, I'm sleepy recently... Yesterday I went to school after a long separation. I was glad to meet my friends and talk with them. They were all becoming beautiful girl!

Well, I watched "Iron man" on screen with my boyfriend the day before yesterday. It was so interesting and exciting movie!! I thought the iron man is so cool! I think boys like this movie because the hero waring hero suit like hero ranger. He can fly and use very strong weapon. The main character guy is very clever and record-breaking.The story is about the hero, but it has a touch of real life. It is new hero story that has not appeared before.

If you have time to movie, please watch this movie!
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Essay2-01: WEB site review ~Travel Memory is Treasure~

Hi everyone. Long time no see! Did you enjoy your summer vacation? Did you go somewhere with your friends or family or boyfriend or girlfriend? I think some people went somewhere and made great memories. Some people took many beautiful pictures and talked about their memories with big smile. I think travel memory is treasure of your life because you can experience and see many things. If you stay only your home town, you can't see places which has great view.

Today, I would like to introduce my favorite web site. This is JTB travel web site. I love travel and love to watch pictures of foreign places, so it good site for me. The good point of this web site is that we can book a hotel or day in advance in the web site. You only click the button and decide the dates you want to start traveling. When I see the many beautiful pictures in this web site, I became to go to travel. If you want to travel, just click the button. It's easy to book if you have a time.

Also it has places and profitable tours recommended by JTB. If you don't know which package tour is the best, you click the button and compare the cost or special treatment. Besides, there are some theme "resort with picture", "theme park like Disney land", "travel for students" and "course in a foreign language in a country where it is spoken". They are also good point for traveler because there are many kinds of traveler. So we can choose one tour by our purpose.

If you don't know what should you bring for the travel and how to do a traveler's check or anything you don't know about the travel, the site tell you what to do. The site contains all about travel, so it's very useful for us. I'm planing my traveling now and I want to go Hawaii again with my younger sister because I have a time in my collage life. However, I have to make a money and check the places and shopping mall. It is my now pleasure.

Make your own plan for traveling and have fun your precious traveling!! Good luck!!
http://www.jtb.co.jp/kaigai/

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Arrived at Auckland in NZ

We arrived at Auckland!! I was so tired and sleepy because I spend about 13 hours in the plane. Auckland is winter now, so it was cold and rainy whether. Most houses are small and they don't have upstairs. My teacher Mrs. Mukai told us that Auckland scenery is like Britain. We went to Unitec university first and waited host family meeting. I was so nervous because I didn't know how to talk and communicate with my host family.
Few minutes later, my host father, Nigel and my host brother, Benjamin came for me. After went back home, host father introduced the many rooms and let my own room. The room is separating from their house and has bathroom and toilet and kitchen, freezer and a washing machine. I thought it's really comfortable! Father and his daughter, Olivia and son, Ben showed me some magics and it was great! I was glad because they were kind and had amused me.

After that, I played table tennis with Ben and had fun. He was good at table tennis because he is belonging to the club. After the table tennis, we watched DVD " Mr. Bean" and laughed. My host mother, Penny came home and greeted. She is Malay and she is kind and her smile is good. I was really tired and sleepy, so I took a nap in my room. I couldn't eat dinner with host family because I was soooo sleepy!! And I wanted to back home.... I miss Japan. But I have to try harder here. Do my best!!!!

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Walking Process!!

Do you walk in a proper posture? Walking on in a bad posture makes your feet and back badly and cause many bad influences. If you master the walking in a proper posture, you’ll be able to walk smartly.
The merit isn’t only one. It reduces the stiff shoulders, lower-back pain and knees hurt. And relieve the constipation and your muscle and skin will be fine and you can sleep well. Waist down, baste up and hip up are also the merit.
Then, your feelings will be happy and get positive thinking. Walking makes your life happier. Here’s how.

First, you’ll change lightweight clothing. And it’s important to choice your shoes. The point is fit your feet and absorb damage. It needs room about 5 ㎜~1㎝ between shoes and toes.

Second, supplying the water is also important. You’ll prepare a mineral water or sports drink. The temperature of the water is about 10 degree.
Before walking, you drink one glass of water slowly before 30 to 60 seconds.
In a walking, you drink water regularly and slowly. You drink water per 15 to 20 seconds.

Now, I’ll teach the proper walking. You straighten your back and hold your hand lightly and bend your elbow lightly. You pull in your chin and gaze into the distance. And then, you straighten your knees and toes.
You should always land from the heel. Then, hill, middle, and pull the ground by your toe.

Next is the way of breathing. The beginning of the walking, you breathe in, in and out, out. And after you breathe in, in, in, in and out, out, out, out. Let’s take enough oxygen.
I recommend you the walking early in the morning because it’s not hot and you can refresh. After the training, your body and brain wakes up and you can eat delicious breakfast.
When you walk in the morning, you should check your health and you shouldn’t walk with an empty stomach. It’s good to have light food like a banana, yogurt and sports drink. Also you should stretch.

Walking process are these things. First, you check your health and eat light food and stretch; Next, you drink water slowly before 30 to 60 seconds; Then you walk in the proper posture; And finally, you drink water per 15 seconds.

I’ve also walked last summer and I felt so refreshing. The point of continuing is one, you have purpose; two, you make your own rules; third, you look for your favorite places.
Changing course is good and take some picture is also good idea.

You can do it! You make your walking style and have fun! Walking life makes you beautiful and healthy and makes your life happier! Let’s try it!

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Self intro presentaion: All about Me

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Do you have beautiful skin?

Good evening, everyone! Today, I’ll introduce the new product of special cosmetics.
Skin, this is very important part of human beings, especially women always worry about rough dry skin and hope to keep their beautiful skin forever, I think. This is a fact of all over the world commonness.
Are you the person who always say, “Oh, gosh! My skin is dirty and terrible! … Ouch! I popped a pimple again. This is why I don’t have a boyfriend for twenty years.”
Don’t worry! It helps you! If you try it, you can say good-bye to your terrible skin and then, you can get healthy, moist and beautiful skin.
So I’ll introduce the specifics of new product. This product is ‘eterrite’ lotion and red color is so cool and charming, isn’t it? ‘Eterrite’ is a word of French and this contained two meanings. ‘Eternite’, this means ‘eternity’ and ‘qualite’, this means ‘good quality’. And this supports your energy of your skin care that keeps your skin healthy. It was developed in order to adapt to the decrease of female hormone go with aging, and a bad influence of environmental stress. This lotion’s concept is that “make your skin complete freshly” and make your moisture balance complete after you wash your face.
The point is it containing the plant extract. It makes your horny layer softly and keeps smooth skin.
And then, it’s different from former lotions to containing the ingredients that are Flavosteron and Bioseract. Flavosteron is a soya extract and it containing isoflavone that working like female hormone. It prevents rough dry skin and keep your skin moist. And Bioseract is an aloe-bera extract. Aloe-bera have been used as a remedy of burn or wound since B.C. Other lotions are not containing them, so it’s a special point.
If you go to travel and you feel inconvenient to carry it, there is a compact lotion here. This is compact, so it’s convenient to carry.
When you feel luck of moisture, you give the moisture of lotion to your skin.
Then, two weeks later…” Hey! Who are you? Your skin is beautiful. Oh, this is me?!...Wow! There are so many love letters! Unbelievable! Thank you ‘eterrite’ lotion!!”
This is her Cinderella story but it will happen to you. I hope you to keep your high quality skin with high quality skincare and keep your skin freshly and beautifully forever.
Good luck!

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Essay1-05: My Language Learning History ~ Learning Languages make my world broaden!"~

I will talk about my language learning history. I speak Japanese because my mother country is Japan, you know. I began to speak language when I was a baby of 10 month of age and sung a Japanese tulip song " 咲いた咲いた" when I was one year old. My parent said "You started to speak language early." I was not interested in English or another language when I was a elementary school student. A English teacher who taught me English when I was a first-year student in junior high school changed my mind and then I became to be interested in English. This is the beginning of my language learning history!

The class was so interesting and we sung many English songs such a Beatles' song, Carpenters' song, "country road" and so on. I like the class and the English teacher because it made my world broaden. The teacher went abroad to teach Japanese to other country's student, so I was so sad and said good-bye to the teacher. In my second-year, it changed my history big. There was a chance to go abroad!

My junior high school has a program to home stay in Australia. I had no brave to go abroad then, so I was not going to run for the program. And yet, my best friend asked me to run for the system together. I wrestle with the choice whether go or not. I consulted with my parent and my parent said " It is a good chance for you! You should apply for the home stay program!! Encouraged by the parent's words, I decided to apply for the program and wrote an essay and was interviewed in English and Japanese. Then I was elected by Kikuyo town and was dispatched. First, I couldn't speak English well with my host family or students in class because I was nervous and I can only speak English such as "Hello! My name is Nozomi. I am a junior high school student and I can play the piano". A week passed, I became I want to talk more with my host sister but I didn't know how to speak English more. I was so vexed with I couldn't speak English well, so I thought I should study English more and I want to be a person who can speak English well and talk more with other country's people. This is one of my reason that I study English. And it was a very precious experience for me!



I participated in English recitation contest, so I practiced English pronunciation everyday. My English teacher always teach me pronunciation zealously, so I and my partner took second place in Kikuchi county and we speeched on the stage in front of the whole student body. I was so nervous then, but I tried to do my best. It gave me a confidence of speak English. I think having confidence is one of the important skills for me. I studied English more in my high school days, and I became I like learning English more and more.

In my university life, I encountered new languages, Spanish and Korean. It was difficult to learn because I've learned only English until then, so I needed to change my thinking for grammar or pronunciation or words. However, I like to learn them because if I can speak them, I can make friends more in other countries and then my new view of the world opens up. Now I want to learn them more and encounter other languages such as Chinese or French or something like that. I participated English speech contest and I really sometimes joined the English lounge. I took a TOEFL and TOEIC course in after school or spring vacation to master English skills.
How I study English is I take a radio English conversation program, I watch movies in English and I study English to get high score in TOEIC.

In conclusion, to learn English or other languages make my world broaden because I can communicate with different country's people and know other culture and thinking. To know other country is to know my country because I can find the differences between Japan and other. I would like to find a job using English or contact with abroad. I'll go abroad more and make friends with all over the world. In my future, I'll travel the world and get knowledge. In order to communicate with other smoothly, I'll try to study English and other languages more harder!!

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How I study English

Recently, I don't study English but only homework like writing and reading. I take a radio English conversation program everyday if I have a time. In this course, I play the role and listen to the conversation and dectate some short English writings. It is really fun to do and the canversation is short, so it is easy for me. I'm going to go New Zealand in this summer, so I want to study English conversation. If I have more time, I want to study TOEIC.

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Happy Birthday To Me~~~♪

Hi. Today(May 12th) is my birthday!! Yhaaaaay!!! I became 20 years old woman. It's not a "girl" but "beautiful woman". Oops, " beautiful " was needless word. When I was a little girl, I imagined that I'll mature more and be great woman, but I think I wasn't change now. I hope my twenties will be more special and fun and happy life. I will strive to obtain the happy life.

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"What a Wonderful World"

Hi, everyone. How are you today? I'm fine... but I felt a little bit hot today. Now, I'll introduce my favorite music!

I love this music because I listen the music, I feel happy.
I think the words are very positive and make me happy feeling. Recently, I was very tired because of working of part-time job and some home works and study. It's important to have a positive thinking. When I am tired, I have a only negative thinking and I can't feel happy, so I'll change my mind. If I have a negative thinking, I'll try to think of a positive thing and not say negative words. It's very difficult for me because I'm tired now, but I have to change my mind to have a happy mind everyday. First, I'll try to smile if I'm tired of anything. Just happy smile is always makes people happy, so it's very important for us.

Anyway, please have fun and relax in this music video.

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More About Me

Hello! My name is Nozomi A., and I live in Kumamoto, Japan. I am very happy that I will be visiting you for a home stay starting in the summer. Thanks very much for agreeing to be agreeing to be my hosts.

First of all I'd like to introduce myself and my family. I'm nineteen years old and a KGU student. My major is British and American English. In addition to this, I study Spanish and Korean and cross-cultural communication. I like to communicate with people.

My hobby is playing the piano, watching movies, listening o music and shopping. I do part-time job in a soba restaurant four times a week.

There are four in my family. My father is a public servant, my mother has a sales agent and sales underwear, cosmetics, towel and so on. my younger sister is a high school student. My family likes watching movies, so almost every Sunday morning, we watch movies while having breakfast. It's a happy time for me! What do you usually do on weekends? Are there any rules in your family?

I really wish to visit your country and share the same time experiences with you in English. I'll tell you about Japanese culture and custom and I'll play Japanese music on the piano if you like! If there's anything in particular you would like from Japan, feel free to ask. I'd like to help your housework, so if you there's anything I can do, don't hesitate to ask me.

I'm very excited, and I can hardly wait to meet you all. But I'm afraid I can't communicate with well in English. I'll do my best anyway to learn through staying wit you.

I'm looking forward to seeing you then.
Sincerely
Your new family member Nozomi A.

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