Essays 1-02b: University Life

Students go to a library to study often. They have a large and beautiful one in KGU. There are not only books but  many teaching materials which are really helpful to study. Needless to say, they should be quiet in there, but if they need to talk about something, they can use a single room. All of these rooms are clean and large, and  perfect to study with their friends. Moreover, every student can enjoy movie collections. It’s good to refresh themselves and kill time.

KGU has a facility whose name is e-campus center. There are many computers in e-campus center. Students use the computers to do their homework, and they use them to hand in their homework to the post-office box in KGU. The atmosphere is very quiet, so they can concentrate on their homework or what they should do. Also, students can borrow notebook comuputer from e-campus center. If they don’t  have computer or notebook computer in their house, they can’t do their homework in their house. Therefore, they borrow notebook computers from e-campus center.

Every student has required subjects. Except for basic ones, students of English department have also “International society and Japan” class. If students are not interested in both international or Japanese politics, this class must be really difficult. However, knowing about politics is important to be a cosmopolitan. In writing class, they post book reviews on their blogs as a part of homework. Usually, they are required to do twice a week. What kind of books they choose is up to them. Some students choose fairy tale ones, some students choose information ones about animals,nature, and something.

They will have finals before summer vacation. A few classes have even midterm exams. Students are looking forward to summer vacation, but they must think about finals before think summer vacation plans. Some are open-book exams, but some are not. Even if they are open-book ones, students need to note down what they understand in classes surely. Students try to study hard to enjoy summer vacation.

After school, they can choose what are they going to do. There are various clubs in KGU. Students who belong to clubs, they do their own club activities. They can make friends with other departments students through club activities, having fun, driking, traveling. it seems very fun. Also, students like to spend time in a bakery. After fifth piriod, many students go there with their friends. The bakery has big windows, and looks lively. They can do whatever they want to -study, hang out and take breath.

Students come to KGU on weekdays. They come to by bus, bicycle, motorcycle, car, train, and on their foot. There are many ways they come to KGU. Maybe, almost students come to KGU by bicycle because there are many bicycles which are parked in an area for parking bicycles in KGU. Students who live near KGU take about 10 minutes to come to KGU. Students live near Aso or Yatsushiro take about an hour or more to come to KGU. Students who live near KGU use their bicycles or on their foot to come to KGU. Students who live far from KGU take train, Bus, or car. It may be hard  for them to come to KGU.

Students eat lunch at KGU. They eat bread, lunchboxes, dishes which made in KGU ,and so on. Students eat them with their friends in the school. It is very fun time to talk with friends and eat lunch. They eat lunch in a class room, a stundents’ dinig room, or bakery. Sometimes, they study what they should study with their friends. That is helpful to motivate them. Also, they can know some new information from their friends. Friendship is important to spend time in their school.

Students can go abroad with a program which is supported by KGU. However, not everyone can go. They have to get a four hundred fifty points of TOEFL. It is hard to get the points, so students who want to study abroad study hard. Moreover, they study hard to take a good score of TOEIC test. They aim to get more than six hundred or seven hundred points. That is not easy to get such score. When they can get high score, they can get closer to their dream or their job which they want to work.
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I Will Have Examinations Next Week.

I will have examinations next week. I will have busy schedule next week because I have to hand in three reports, and I have to take two examinations. That schedule is very hard for me. I don’t know I can spend time with enough time, but I will do my best for the schedule in next week.

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I Have to Improve My Lifestyle!

I will introduce you my lifestyle. I wake up about six thirty. Then, I go to KGU from my house on seven thirty when I have a first class. After I take all classes, I go home on six or seven o’clock. When I arrive at my house, I turn on my computer, and I do my homework. Recently, I don’t have a mind to do them, so I do my homework slowly. Finally, I sleep at one or two o’clock a.m. I know I have to motivate me to study many things, but I can’t motivate. I think there are many things which are enjoyable around me in my house. Therefore, I decide to study or do my homework in library of KGU after school. I want to finish my homework as soon as possible. I sleep in midnight, so I am not good at waking up in morning. Also, I am tired every day, and I sleep in classes. I think I have to improve my lifestyle.

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Pigeons Make Their Nests on The Roof of My House

Recently, pigeons make their nests on the roof of my house. We make solar energy with solar panels which are on the roof. Pigeons make their nests under the solar panels. It may be a comfortable place for pigeons, but that is trouble for us. If there are nests on there, under the solar panels is stopped up with dead leaves. We ask neighbor who is a carpenter to remove the nests. I feel sorry for pigeons to remove their house. However, if we don't  do this, we will be in trouble.
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Extended outline on Uni. Life

BR 1-08: The Statue of Liberty

“Today, more than one hundred years later, the Statue of Liberty still welcomes people to America.”

I think almost people in this world know the Statue of Liberty. However, I didn’t know the history of it. This book tells you how the Statue of Liberty was made. I could learn many things, and I was surprised about the Statue of Liberty. You can’t climb the Statue of Liberty now, but you could climb it in the old days. I don’t know you can enter in the Statue of Liberty, but you can see the look of her inside in this book.

Lucille Recht Penner, 1995, United States, Random House Children’s Book
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BR 1-07: WAKE UP, SUN!

“After all, they knew she was the only one who could wake up the sun!”

You can learn the cries of animals from this book. Do you know how pigs cry in English? I was surprised to know the cry of pigs. Cries of animals in English are different from cries of animals in Japanese. For example, chickens cry “Kokekokko!” in Japanese, but chickens cry “Cluck! Cluck!” in English in this book. Also, illustrations in this book are cute. Especially, I like illustrations of owl in this book. This story and illustrations will make your heart warm.

David L. Harrison, 1986, United States, Random House Children’s Books 
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Sweet Melon

Today, I ate this melon. That was very sweet. My neighbor gave us the melon, so I appreciate her. That melon had much fruit juice, so I drank the fruit juice at the end. That was very delicious and sweet. I want to eat them again.
 

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I Had a Examination on Thursday.

On Thursday, I had a examination. I have two classes on Thursday. Last week, I thought I had to take two examinations on Thursday. I have Listening class and Outline of English. I thought I can solve the listening examination, so I studied about outline of English. I studied the outline of English for three days. I could understand the outline of English history. I studied listening a day ago when I took the listening examination. The outline of English is first class on Thursday. I was little nervous whether I can do my best for the test or not. The teacher started class, and examination didn't started. I was wondering. Then, I asked my friend. The friend said there is no test on the day. I was very sad. Also, there was a test in listening class. I could answer almost questions, but I am worry the answers are correct. Next week, there is a test of outline of English. I will do my best for the test. I have to make sure of my schedule.
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My Dog's Ears Stink.

I have a dog. The kind of dog is miniature Dachshund. I don't know why her ears stink. The smell is like nattou which is famous Japanese food. Nattou is stinking. She feels itchy in her ear, so she picks her ear. When she picks her ear, stink smells are coming to us. That is very stink! I will take her to animals hospital when I have free time on weekend.
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About Kalinda

I had stomachache

Recently, I have a good appetite. I ate two bowls of rice in morning on last Wednesday.  When I was taking a train, I had stomachache suddenly. The first time I had stomachache, I did not know why I had stomachache. After I finished first class, I noticed that I ate two bowls of rice. Maybe, that was the cause of the stomachache. I decided not to eat foods greedily.
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We had BBQ.

Last day, I and my family had BBQ. It is warm these days, so my father decided to have BBQ with us. However, I do not like grilled slices of meat recently, so I ate six meats and vegetables. Especially, onions were delicious. My young brother ate many meats. My mother bought meats about 1.5 kilograms, but my young brother ate half of them! I want him to limit the amount of foods because he is very fat. Also, he is not good at losing weight. After we finished eating, I had stomachache. I always have stomachache when I eat grilled meats. Therefore, I do not like eating grilled meats.
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I was selected as a honor student.

I am very happy because I was selected as a honor student. When my mother read the notice, she was pleased. I will try to get good scores in this year, and I want to make her happy next year. This incident motivated me to study harder. I still don't tell my father because he is very busy with his job. I want to tell him this incident. I hope that my father would be happy to hear this.
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Essays 1-02a: University Life

This year, I am busier than last year because there is a lot of homework. I had many free times between a class and a class in last year, but I have free time only third class on Monday. Therefore, I can’t concentrate on my home work because there are many temptations in my house. I can concentrate in library in KGU, so I always study in the library. I want to finish my homework as soon as possible, so sometimes I do my homework after school in the library. Also, I and my friend do our homework in there after school on Tues day. That is a good chance for us to motivate us doing our homework. My favorite place in the library is the place of writing desk. Sometimes, I watch movies on second floor in the library. I watched “Harry Potter” and “Omen”. It is fun to watch movies with my friend. I want to watch more movies with my friend, but we don’t have free time in same time.

Also, I go to bakery in KGU. My favorite bread is bread of curry. I ordinary like curry, so I am happy when I buy the bread of curry. I buy donuts in the bakery. They are about eighty yen. I think they are inexpensive, so I buy about six donuts.

This year, I have twenty seven classes. I will get forty six units. Last year, I got forty eight units. The number of units in last year is larger than the number of units in this tear, but I feel it is hard to get units in this year. However, I will do my best.

My favorite class is listening because I like watching movies. The listening class uses a movie, so I like the class. It is fun to listen to the movie carefully. I am interested in the movie, so I borrowed the DVD from DVD shop.

It takes an hour to go to KGU from my house. Sometimes, I feel it is hard, but I have to go. I go to a station by motor cycle. Next, I go to another station by train. When I arrive the station, I go to KGU on my foot.

I aim to take seven hundred points in TOEIC test. I am not good at reading English sentences, so I want to improve reading skills. I want to read books in English. It is difficult to achieve the score, but I want to get the score someday.
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A big mushroom

When I stayed my grand mother's house, my aunt found this big mushroom. This big mushroom is called "Sarunokoshikake" in Japan. This tree is in garden of my grand mother's house. We were able to eat the big mushroom, but we didn't eat it because we want to see how big the mush room will be. When I eat it, I will write an article to this blog.
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spaghetti

I and my friend went to a Italian restaurant because I wanted to eat Italian dishes. Especially, I wanted to eat pizza, but every shops we went were closed! Therefore, we were hard to find a Italian restaurant. Finally, we find a Italian restaurant which was open! It was thirty minutes after three. I was very hungry. I ate tomato spaghetti and salad, and drink ginger ale. They were very delicious. I wanted to eat them again. After few minutes late, we said goodbye and went home. When I arrived my house, my mother asked me how many spaghetti I eat. I was surprised. I couldn't say that I ate spaghetti to my mother. Finally, I ate spaghetti.
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I Went to the Zoo.

I went to a zoo on May 3 with my friend. I met my friend after long time. It was very hot. There were many people. Almost people were families with their children. We couldn't watch animals smoothly, and we couldn't take some pictures because there are many people in front of us. When I went to a white bear, I was shocked. The white bear was died few months ago. I met the white bear first time when I was a junior high school student. The white bear swam beautifully. I couldn't forget the figure. Also, there were some street stalls. I thought the products were little expensive for us to buy. I was happy to see capybara in the zoo. I like capybara very much! They are so cute. I have body pillow of capybara. I enjoyed the zoo with my friend !
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BR 1-06: Party Fun

I gave my friends some party treats. My friends said, “Goodbye!”

 We can know what American party is from this book. I image that American eat BBQ in party. Also, I image that they eat colorful cakes. However something wrong with my images. This book introduces birthday party in America. Maybe, you will be surprised on the cake in this book. It looks delicious, but some sweets like toys are on the cake. Kids in this book are cute. If you are interested in abroad party, I recommend you reading this book.

Copyright© 2003 Dorling Kindersley Limited, London, Published in Great Britain
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BR 1-05: Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit!

He is looking at his news paper again. Watch your step, Mr. Rabbit!

 This book doesn't have many sentences, so it is easy to read it. You can learn about the way you use the word, "watch your step". This phrase means being careful about their feet. Also, you can learn about the way you use the word, "out". For example, you can see "push one out" and "pull one out" in this book. I am not good at using the word, "out". When I read this book, I could understand how to use "out".
Richard Scarry, 1991, Printed in the United States of America
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About my college life

When I entered KGU, I didn't have many friends. I'm shy person, so I couldn't talk to any people. However, when I took some classes, around people talked to me, so I could have friends. I thought I should talk to someone, but I couldn't. I have to have courage to talk to someone I meet first time. When I have free time, I am in the library in KGU, and I do my homework to finish them as soon as possible. However, my time schedule in this year doesn't have enough free time to do my homework, so I should do them in my house. I can concentrate on my homework in library, but I cant concentrate on them in my house because I have many things I want to do in my house. I and my friends decided to study together after school of Tues day. That motivate us to do our homework. Last year, I had 5th classes except Tues day. That was very hard for me, but I have a 5th class on only Tues day in this year! Therefore, I feel comfortable to spend time in KGU. It takes an hour to go to the college. I wake up on 6 o' clock every day. If I wake up on 7 o' clock, I will be late for first classes. I am not good at waking up early, so I have to try to sleep earlier.
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BR 1- 03: Robots

Squeaky clunked with delight, the crowd cheered and Tanktop blew a fuse.

This book has three stories about three robots. First robot is cleaning robot. Second robot is digging and drilling robot. Third robot is cleaning robot. Third robot is different from first robot. If you would do things with sly tricks, you would have a terrible experience. This book tells us that. Doing it easily is not same with doing it with sly tricks. Pictures in this book are like comic, so it is fun to read this book. Also, this story is not difficult to read. Sometimes, words you may don't know are in the book, but I recommend you reading this.

                                                                                                                   

First published in America in 2004 by Usborne Publishing Ltd., printed by Multivista Global Ltd.

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BR 1-04: I can SWIM!

"I can swim!" shouted George. Mum cheered and clapped.

I don't like swimming. This book tells us the way children swim, so you can teach how to swim for your children. If you are not good at swimming, why don't you try this way in this book? I want to try swimming again when I finish reading this. Moreover, a kid, George in this book is very cute! There are pictures of George trying to swim, and there are pictures of George and his dad smiling. The pictures make us happy:)

Published in Great Briton by Dorling Kindersley Limited 80, Copyright © 2004 Dorling Kindersley Limited
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