this year

I did many precious things in 2011.
Especially, i enjoyed my club activities.
I had many concerts and we went to many places to stay for a few days together.

At school, my friends had gone abroad so I made new friends.
that was very good opportunity for me.
but I think my grade for study is getting decreased...

this year, i have one more thing which is the biggest work for me on Tuesday.
I will have a new year's day with fresh feeling :)

next year, I want to do more club activities and I have to study more!!!
and i hope all of us will have a good job.
i really enjoyed English class so I will try to study English next year, too!!

Foreign countries

1. Which of these places would you most like to see?

I'd love to visit where the ocean view is very beautiful!!
and I also would like to see the great structures!!
Very big and old things always make me feel I am very tiny.
I really like that feeling.

2. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go, and what would you do there?

I would travel around the world if I can.
I would like to visit World Heritage Sites.
I dont know what to do there... maybe taking pictures??
I just want to see and feel it.
I like both artificial structures and nature.

3. What foreign news stories have you seen on TV or read about recently? What comment do you have about those stories?

Few months ago, there was a fighting between Korea and North Korea.
I just saw a movie, JSA, in Korean class.
that was about the soldiers from both countries and they became very good friends but the end of the story, they were separated.
It is very sad that the same race fight in the middle of these countries.
I can not imagine if Japanese would fought each other...
I will be so sad if it happened X(

Culture

I love Japanese culture and events.
I like Ohanami, which you see the cherry blossoms and have a party under them in spring.
I go to Ohanami every year.

I like winter, too.
In winter, we have Christmas and Osho-gatsu, New Year Day.
We can get money from our relatives on new year day in Japan!

I like go to Kyoto in Autumn.
We can see Autumn leaves turning to red, yellow and orange this time.
I prefer going to temples to see them.

I like going to fireworks festival with Yukata in Summer.
The streets were too busy but it is still so fun for me!

As you see, I love Japanese culture because it has 4 seasons clearly.
they all have their wonderful events in Japan.
Japan is a beautiful country, isnt it?

And now, there is an event which i want to go and join in the world.
It is CHRISTMAS in Australia!!!
I was in Australia from January to November so I did not have Christmas there.
Australia has an opposite season from Japan so I really want to see Santa Claus.
I heard that there is 波乗りサンタ "Waving Santa" in Australia.
I dont know if it is true though...

I have one more culture I want to experience.
It is VERY COLD WINTER.
we dont have much snow in Kansai area.
Even Hokkaido doesnt have such a cold weather.
So, I'm really looking forward to go to Canada in winter next year.
It has much snow and cold temperature.
It doesnt have many days with plus temperature.

School Festival!!!

We had a school festival for four days early in November.
I belong to A Cappella club and I had 5 bands to sing and I performed 6 times during the festival.
I enjoyed each of them!!
On the last day of festival, we performed in front of the library.
It sometimes rained on that day but we could do all the performances we planned.
After the last band finished, all club member, maybe more than 200 people, sang together and it was amazing!!
some members and audiences were even crying.
When all the performances finished, we went to Sannomiya to drink!!
I had very good time there with my club members.
I really like my club.

As an Autumn event, I went to Arashiyama, Kyoto, with my club members.
We went there at night to see the autumn leaves lit up but the leaves were still green.
It was still beautiful though.
we took foot bath, Ashiyu, in Kyoto and talked much there.
I really enjoy it.

And I started to go to school for driving license recently so this Autumn and Winter will be busy for me!

My future

I hope I will be married and have 2 children 20 years from now.
I am not sure what kind of job i will get but I really want to enjoy my job.
If i get a wonderful job, i do not want to quit it when i get married and after having children.
this is my dream.
but it could be different in reality.
I have no idea what job I am interested in or what i want to do in the future.
so I'm worried about Shukatsu next year.
if i cant find the certain job, I will quit it when I get married lol.
but i hope it is not gonna happen.
anyway, I cant say much about my future because I dont understand me right now.
everyday I am looking for something attracts me.

Japanese Universities

I totally hate the system of judging by the name of the universities.
I understand that the name is important because each uni has different grades of entrance exams.
what I really want to say is there are many types of entrance exams.
Like me, I didn't take any exams when i entered Kwangaku.
(I took the exam for entering my junior hight school though)
Many of my friends from Keimei (my junior and senior high school) did not study much while we were at Keimei.
So I want to suggest that students who did not take the entrance exam should be judged by how much study they did at universities.
we are all sure that students who took entrance exams have studied hard when they were high school so they basically can study.
but we are not sure that if we (students did not study for the exams) can study or not.
So what I've been trying is to show how much we, students from Keimei, can do while I study at Kwangaku.

horror things

I'm just ordinary person who are terrified with ghosts.
when i was a little kid, i couldnt even go upstairs by myself.
it was too scary for me in dark room without any noises.
i was scared of lightning, too.
every time it flashed, i put blanket and tried not to hear the big sound of it.

Now, i can go upstairs by myself and i am not afraid of lightning much though, I still avoid horror movies and haunted houses!!
i cant understand that people pay for them!!
when i watch them accidentally, i cant sleep alone for about 3days.

on the other hand, i love roller coasters or any other rides.
so i can still enjoy amusement parks!