BR3:＊The Little Giraffe＊

I read ' The Little Giraffe'. The main characters are a little giraffe and rhinoceros, Rhino. A little giraffe is the first giraffe in the world. The difference between now and long time ago is the length of giraffe's neck. Giraffe in this story is really shorter than now. Giraffe and Rhino are really good friends and live in East Africa. It is really hard to get their food for them. So they asked the wise man to get some advises. He said 'Please come here again tomorrow and I will give some advises to you.' Then, a little giraffe went there again but only him. The wise man prepared a magic drink for them. But Rhino did not come there, so a little giraffe drink it all. To him great surprise, his neck became soooo long!!! So, he can eat upper leaves that he could not reach before. Finally, Rhino could not drink a magic drink, so he is still angry now.

I heard that the giraffes's neck were short. But I did not know this story. This story is really cute and interesting. (185 words)

Good party^^*

I had a farewell party for my friend. She is a member of my club. And also, we are both went to same high school Kumamoto Daiichi high school. We have been friends for about 5 years. The reason of holding this party was she is planning to go abroad to study for about a year. She has to register absence from school for a year from next semester. So we hold this party to encourage her. We reserved the Italian restaurant and clerks gave us a whole cake for surprise. We were really surprised at it, but in fact, a friend of us asked them to prepare the cake! She is really smart person!! We had a super time with my club member. (124 words)

My pretty friend

I will introduce my pretty friend. Her name is Hana. She is only 1 year old and 2 months. Everyone call her 'Hana-chan.' My English conversation school's teachers are her parents, Barry and Misa. Hana's father is from London and mother is Japanese, so she is a child of mixed parentage of British and Japanese. She has really cute face and voice.

She is only child for Barry and Misa, so she is really good at playing her self. And then, she can walk just two or three paces now. It is like a pretty zombie walking!! lol In addition, she can understand means of saying, and she sometimes react for them. When we say ' How old are you, Hana-chan?' in Japanese, she understood the meaning and rise her forefinger. It is soooooooo cute!! Then, we said ' Hana-chan is genious!!' We and Hana-chan do it over and over. lol (151 words)

the christmas lights

I went to Saisyunkan to see the Christmas lights with my club members. This activity was last one in this year. Four people of my club drive their car and another people rode on their car. The way of going there was really smooth, but in front of the entrance was really crowded and we had to wait to enter for about 30 minutes. While we waited, we enjoyed even bored time for example, talking, singing and so on! The Christmas lights were really beautiful and amazing!!! I saw them last year, but I think this year's is more beautiful than last one. There were dolphins, a cute house, stars, a big pink tunnel and so on! We were really exited and enjoyed them very much. After took off cars, we took the pictures with the Christmas lights. I had a super time with my club member. I am looking forward to enjoy the next activity last year!! (158 words)

Essay 2-03b: My Language History

We can learn a lot of languages in our life. The main reason of studying languages for me is to live a full life. Because I think talk with people who speak other language is able to know a lot of opinions. In addition, I can go through some experiences to go abroad. So I want to learn many languages which I am interested in. I have been interested in English till now. In addition, I started learn Spanish from when I enter this university. So I am studying three languages included in my mother tongue Japanese. First, I will talk about my future plan of my language.

My dream is to become a Japanese teacher overseas and I want to teach people there about Japanese culture, history, habits and so on. So, to my dream come true, I have to improve my English skill than now. For example, speaking, writing, and listening skills. And then, to improve my English skills, I want to talk with people who speak English as a mother tongue, of course, I think to talk with good English　speaker is also good for me. In addition, I am planning to go abroad and study some languages until I am a college student as an exchange student. That experience will be good experience for me. Next, I will write about my past history of language.

I started to learn English at the cram school when I was 12 years old. I began to study English from the beginning, for example, greetings and alphabet and so on. After I entered junior high school, I study English standard. My junior high school English teacher was great person. His teaching English was always easy to understand. I think that is the very reason which I love English even now.

In addition, I started to study Spanish when I entered KGU. We have to choose second language apart from English. I was really irresolute about my choice of the second language. Finally, I decided to learn Spanish because people who speak Spanish is the second most in the world. When I heard it, I was really surprised. So I think Spanish is the most useful language when I travel the foreign countries.

But learning Spanish has some troubles. For example, Spanish words have gender. That point is different between Spanish and English. So I was at a loss which learning that type language is first time for me. I think learning new language became good stimulus for me. However, I have been studying Spanish for 2 years, so I can understand the Spanish grammar a little now. My aim of study Spanish is to study more natural Spanish and travel to Spain.


Then, I am studying two languages now. In most of the classes, my teachers give us some homework every class. Of course I do it every time, but I do not study English and Spanish in the other time. So I need to study languages to improve my language skill out of the class. Through studying languages out of the class, I think my skill is improver than now. In my opinion, it is really good point to study languages. (532 words)

Thanks for leaving comments!!

Yuriboooh said….
I didn’t know you study Spanish. Is it difficult to learn grammar Spanish?

☆Thank you for leaving comments! Yes, I am studying Spanish for 2 years. Spanish wards have gender, so that is a different point between English and Spanish. That is difficult to study Spanish for me.


Panda said….
Hi Hanae! Which language do you want to learn?

☆ Hi Manami^^ I want to learn Korean. Because I think that it is really useful language while we live in Japan. I work at the Kumamoto castle and many visitors from overseas especially Korea there. Some people can not speak Japanese or English. So if I could speak Korean, I can feel a sense of fulfillment in my work time.


Sayaka said….
Hi, Hanae! Which country will you go if you become a Japanese teacher?

☆ Hi, Sayaka!! If I become a Japanese teacher, I want to teach Japanese in Australia. I went there once when I was a high school student to home stay. Then, Australia is one of a favorite place for me!!


Saki said….
I didn’t know that you want to be a Japanese teacher. Do you like Japanese the best?

☆ Hello, Saki! I want to bea Japanese teacher very much! But my Japanese skill is not enough to teach people in the foreign countries. So, I have to study more details of Japanese!! (231 words)

Questions of the way to throw away rubbish

I made some questions to ask students with my presentation member in the speaking class. Now I want to write these questions.

(1)Do you throw away rubbish at the appointed place?
Yes/No
(2a)If you say yes, what do you think about person who can't separate rubbish according to type?
a. They have to do that!
b. It doesn't matter.
c. It makes me angry.
d. Other.
(2b) If you say no, why can't you separate rubbish according to type?
a. It's too much trouble.
b. Somebody should do that instead of me.
c. I don't know where to throw it away.
d. Other.
(3) Have you ever thrown away rubbish in this University?
Yes/No
(3a) Can you throw away rubbish regardless of people?
Yes/No
(4) What do you do when there is no trash box close to you?
a. Look for a trash box and throw away.
b. Throw away at your house.
c. Throw it away there.
d. Other.
(5) What do you think about separating rubbish in great detail?
a. Troublesome.
b. Good for environment.
c. Do that, but think it has no meaning.
d. Other.
(6) Do you think there are enough trash boxes at this University?
Yes/No
(6a) At which places you want to the University to set up new trash boxes?
(7) What should we do to decrease throwing away? (225 words)