Shopping and eating

I went to shopping with my friend Wakana. We have known each other when we were high school students. So, we are good friends.
She really likes shopping, so we went shopping that day, too!


First, we entered PARCO to find some clothes which we like. But I went to Fukuoka to buy some clothes with my family, and then I bought a lot of them. Unfortunately, I do not have enough money to shop any more… So I helped her when she was irresolute to buy something. When we went to certain shop, she seems to find nice clothe. It was really lovely dress!! But she also does not have enough money, so she was irresolute very much. Then, I said 'I think that you should try the dress on before you are irresolute. I do not want you to regret about it.' After she tried it on, she seems to decide to buy it after all! She could good shopping.



Then, we had dinner at the restaurant J café in the Shimo Street. J café has many kinds of dishes, drinks, deserts. In addition, J café has dinner set. We have not had it before, so we tried it. The contents of it are a salad, a cup of soup, pasta or rice dish, drink and small parfait. As you can see from some pictures, these are really good dishes. I loved all of them, but, especially, I loved pasta very much. The source was mixed tomato source and cream source. I have not had like it before, so I was really looking forward to have it before I eat. To my surprise, it was more delicious than I thought. I was really satisfied with it. If there are some friends who have never eaten it before, I want to recommend it enthusiastically.


To tell the truth, we will enjoy the BBQ party at the garden of my friend’s house with my club members. But it began to rain after we decided. So we disappointed at calling the BBQ party off. However Wakana and I could enjoy shopping and eating instead of the BBQ party. I had a great time with Wakana. (364 words)

If i were not me...

I imagined if I have a different national in the speaking class. I decided some conditions to think it. These are some conditions.

I am Jessica. I live in Ottawa in Canada with my wife and 2 children. My wife is Marry and we have been marrying for 5 years.

My family has a history. My grand parents migrated to Canada from England for a long time ago. And then, my father; British man engaged to Canadian woman. So I am a British-Canadian.

My job is an instructor of skydive for beginners. I have been working for about 10 years. When the beginners want to do it, I usually skydive with them. I am able to get some pleasures from their smile when I work every time.

In addition, I have many hobbies. For example, taking pictures, fishing, skiing, cooking and so on. But especially, I love taking photos. I sometimes go to the beautiful places and take some pictures. To my surprise, I was prized 1^st place at the big photo contest. The picture was run in the famous photo magazine. I nearly wept for joy about it. (187 words)

Portfolio for Writing IV (2009-10)

Student ID: 13108148

Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1A OR 1C

(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. OVERVIEW

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. ESSAYS

(See: Note 3, below.)


Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links to blog posts	Dates yyyy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
2-01a (2009.10.07)	Essay 1a: Favorite place/ Essay	Wednesday, October 14, 2009		340	9	0	0	0
2-01b (2009.10.21)	essay2-01b: My favorite place	Thursday, October 22, 2009		433	2	0	0	0
(2-01c)
2-02a (2009.11.04)	web review	Wednesday, October 28, 2009		317	2	0	0	0
2-02b (2009.11.18)	J.K. Rowlling's success story	Monday, November 16, 2009		377	1	0	0	0
(2-02c)
2-03a (2009.12.02)	essay 2-03a: My language learning history	Wednesday, December 2, 2009		527	4	0	0	0
2-03b (2009.12.18/22)	Essay 2-03b: My Language History	Thursday, December 17, 2009		532	0	0	0	0
(2-03c)
Totals	---	---		2526	18	0	0	0

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics

M: number of other media included in post

1.2. Most Improved Essay

(See: Note 4, below.)


Selection and Assessment: Which of the three essays that you've written and revised this semester shows the most improvement? What did you do to improve it? Remember that complete answers are better than short answers, focus on your writing (accuracy, appropriacy, content and organization, rather than graphics or other media), and explain at least two major improvements.

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets, then identify your most improved essay, and explain ways that you improved it here.]

2.0. COMMENTS

Showcase	Short titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yyyy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	"Social Media and Social Networking Explained"	Wed Oct 14	49	I wrote about good point of SNS and also a point of we have to be careful.
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*	Essay (2-03a): Learning languages stories	12.01.2009	12	Thing that i did not know about her. And I gave her a question.
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*	essay 2-03a: My language learning history	Wednesday, December 2, 2009	13	Question
2.4. Most comments on:	Short titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yyyy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*	essay 2-03a: My language learning history	December 9, 2009	12	She gave me a question about which country I want to go when I become a Japanese teacher.
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	Thursday, December 17, 2009	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	231	I answered each questions each other on my blog post.
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*	essay2-01b: My favorite place	October 23, 2009	19	Impressions
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	January 14, 2010	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	20	I respond her comment in the comment box.

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes comments good.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

• Yes, it does. I set up my blog display recent comments in top of a sidebar, because that place is the easiest to find the comments from blog visitors when I want to see it.
  

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

●　I have to respond the comments from visiters.

●　I should leave more comments than now.

3.0. BOOK REVIEWS

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates: yyyy.mm.dd	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
BR 2-01	BR1:＊The Magic cooking Pot＊	Monday, September 28, 2009	239	0
BR 2-02	BR2:＊How Elephants lost their wings＊	Monday, October 5, 2009	152	2
BR 2-03	BR3:＊The Little Giraffe＊	Tuesday, December 22, 2009	185	1
BR 2-04	BD4:＊The Baby Day＊	Saturday, January 2, 2010	211	0
BR 2-05	BR5:＊Shark!＊	Sunday, January 10, 2010	211	0
BR 2-06	BR6:＊I WiSH＊	Tuesday, January 12, 2010	319	0
BR 2-07	BR7:＊The Storm＊	Tuesday, January 12, 2010	239	0
BR 2-08	BR8:＊The Wedding＊	Tuesday, January 12, 2010	137	0
BR 2-09	BR9:＊The Flying Elephant＊	Tuesday, January 12, 2010	137	0
BR 2-10	BR10:＊Poor Old Mum!＊	Thursday, January 14, 2010	199	0
BR 2-11	BR11:＊The Camcorder＊	Thursday, January 14, 2010	188	0
BR 2-12	BR12:＊The Scarf＊	Thursday, January 14, 2010	147	0
BR 2-13
BR 2-14
BR 2-15
BR 2-16
BR 2-17
BR 2-18
---	---	Totals:	2364	3

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• I think 'BR6:1*I Wish* is the best book review of all because the story is about getting too much freedom. It makes people greedy. In the end, people are disgusted with too much freedom and people want to go back to usual life. I could reconfirm the good point of normal life. In addition, I could write my opinion about freedom and the word count is best of all. So, I select this of all book reviews.
  

4.0. BLOG LAYOUT, LABELING, LINKING, and MEDIA

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?	○
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	○
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?	○
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?	○
4.2. Does your blog display a cloud or list of labels in the sidebar?	○
4.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	○
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	○
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	○
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)	○
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)	○
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")	○
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? _10_ other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. ● books (24) daily (8) essay prep (4) essays (11) favorites (3) links (3) movies (3) reviews (27) speaking (4) websites (3)	---	---
4.3. Links and media	---	---
4.3.1. Do your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics?	○
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?	○
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? _21__ posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?	○
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? _3__ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?		○
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? 0 posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yyyy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation and readability of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. I put on some photos on each blogs.
2. I changed the layout of my blog. Recent comment moved to the top of the blog.
3. I increased links more than last semester.

5.0. ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS ON YOUR BLOG AND YOUR WRITING FOR IT

Please feel free to include reflections on both class work and homework, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, selections, and reflections).

• I did all homework.
• I wrote some blog posts with photos.
• 
  

6.0. ADVICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR YOURSELF, YOUR PEERS, AND YOUR SUCCESSORS

• I should respond comments from visitors as soon as possible.
• It was really late that beginning my work. So, I have to do it as soon as possible.
• I had to post more blogs.
  

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from Writing Studio Blog templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc (2007-08), Writing III, §§1a & 1c, Writing IV: Portfolio, §§1a & 1c (2008-09), and the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III.
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 2nd (fall) semester PPF first.
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
   
4. The essay selection and explanation item (§1.2, above) differs from that in the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III. Please read the new item carefully before making a selection.

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Great time with my family

This is my grand father of my mother side. He lives in Takahira by himself now, because his wife is sick in bed at the hospital. January 2nd, my father, my mother and me went to his house in Takahira and had a New Year party with our relatives. The members were my grand father, my parents, and the parents of my 2 cousins. In addition, my grand mother went back her house only 1 day without a stay. I sometimes visit the hospital to meet her with my mother, but I have not seen her in her house. And I think that it was a big present for us!!!

We had really luxurious dishes and talked a lot about the things of we had experienced last year each other.

I do not have much time to meet my grand mother at the hospital. So, when she eats dished, I tried to help her to eat them as I can possible. I think that she had a great time with family. (171 words)

My New Year party at grand parent’s house

I went to my grand parent’s house of my father side with my family. We always spend time every January 1st with our relative at parent’s house.

We have a habit what kids can get some お年玉 from adults in Japan. I also have been getting them every year, but now, I am 20 years old. So I did not think that I can get some お年玉 this year. However, to my surprise, my relatives gave me them, of course my parents, too!! I was really surprised at it and I was appreciated it very much!!!! As I do not have enough money for to do a lot of things, I really thank them to give me them. When I have to give my younger relatives some お年玉, I will give them お年玉 when they work and get money by themselves.

Then, I want to introduce the lovely dog. His master is my woman cousin. And his name is Marble, because he has a black spot on the top of his head. And then my cousin named Marble. He is only 1 years old now, but he weight 8 kilograms. So he has really heavy power and he runs soooooo lively. When we eat some foods at the table, he always stands up using his hind legs to be given them by us. But we do not give them to him.
When he has children, I want to breed a baby of them!!! I LOVE DOGS!!!!! (255 words)

Super Christmas party

I went to a Christmas party with my friends Mai, Tomoko, Mayu, Misato, Midori and Chisako. We had the party in the restaurant named Covent Garden in the downtown. The dishes were really good and tasty for us. And the restaurant was really crowded by many people, so it is a little bit noisy.

In addition, we exchange the presents what we bought ourselves less than 500 yen. I bought the Haramaki for it. I think that getting cold the belly is really bad thing for all girls. So I decided to present it to a friend of seven friends. Then we started to hand over to next to person with singing Christmas song. After we finished singing, we got the present each other from a friend. I got a lovely ring from Misato. I really love it!!

I had a precious time there with my friends^^! (147 words)

BD4:＊The Baby Day＊

I read ‘The Baby Day’. Main characters are Billy has a baby sister, his sister Jasmine and Clare. Clare seems clever and different. All of her classmates admire her very much. And then, she always thinks her old school and teacher were best in the world. She throws her weight about among her classmates about her past. So I think classmates were overpowered by her attitude.

Then their teacher asked Billy to study about baby with his classmates. He really puzzled about it. But when he asked about it his mother, in his surprised, she agreed about it really gladly!! So The Baby Day was held at his school.

In the class, everyone is going to measure Billy’s baby, to paint her and so on. But Jasmine played herself here and there. So the plans came to nothing at all. Finally, she began to play with the paintbrush and toddled around the room. Even the clever girl Clare was thrown into confusion and laughed very much.
Finally, all of the classmates warm up to each other.

In my opinion, she wanted to warm up to other classmates but she is not obedient. So she could not express her feelings well. Then, Billy’s younger sister Jasmine became a good clue for Clare. (211 words)