Essay 2-02b: My Grandmother's House

My favorite place is my grandmother’s house. The house is in Sasebo[,] in Nagasaki [Pref.]. The house is near a town. My family goes the house to meet my relatives in sumer and winter vacation, like summer vacation and winter vacation. I like there because I have some reasons. There are many comics in the house. Dishes my grandmother makes are delicious. My

grandfather has many books I want to read. Therefore, I like the my grandparent’s house.

We go there by driving my parent's car. It takes about three hours from my house to the house. It takes long time to go there, so we go to the house resting at a rest area. I have a driver’s license now, so I drive my parent’s car on a highway to my ground mother's house. That makes me nervous because I haven't driven a car many times, but it is a good practice for me.

There are many comics in the house. Every year, my cousins bring their comics to the house, so I can read a lot of kinds of comics for free. Almost all my cousins are men, so there are many boys comics. For example, there are Prince of Tennis, Yuugiou, and, so on. There are many comics of  girls comic in the house.

My mother bought them when she was a junior or high school student. I don’t have offensive kinds, so I have read almost  all comics in the house many times. It is exciting for me to read new comics.

Seond, dishes my ground mother makes are very delicious. Especially, I like the croquette she makes. The coating of them are very crisp. I can eat the croquettes only in my grandmother’s house because she readys to cook them before we go to the house. I'm looking forward to eating them when I go there. I like a miso soup she makes. I asked to her to tell me about the miso she uses, but she didn't tell me about it. She said to me I have to find the miso by myself. I tried eating some miso, but I haven't found it yet.

We meet relatives every year as I

wrote. I’m looking forward to seeing them. I am very happy when we meet them. I like playing video games. My cousins like playing, too. When we see in a summer or winter vacation, we play many games with all my cousin. We play Bomber Man, Monster Hunter, and Puyopuyo. I enjoy the time very much. Everyone is good at playing them, but I'm not god at playing them. One of my cousin is very good at playing, and he always helps us when we are in trouble in some games. He looks like a hero for us!

My grandfather has many books. He read mystery books, textbooks of  Japanese tests, and pictures of animals, and so on. I take his books to my house sometimes. His books are very useful to know trivia. I like the novels he has. When I’m interested in the books, I ask him to bring them to my house. If I take his books, he can’t read the books for about half of one year. However, he lends me them.

My grandfather grows many plants. There are many plants in the garden, for example, there are roses, aloes, oranges, and so on. Good smells come from the garden. Sometimes birds eat the oranges, but he dosen't care about that. Moreover, he made a nest of bird, and some birds live in the house. He is very kind person.

When we visit the house, we can eat many delicious dishes. I can eat croquettes my ground mother makes. I can eat pizzas in the house. In my house, I can't eat pizzas because pizza delivers can't come to my house. I can eat pizzas only in the house or some restaurants. My relatives take us to some restaurants.

We and my relatives meet in winter vacation. My relatives give me money as "otoshidama". Otoshidama is one of annual ceremony in the New Year. I can have many money. We eat "Zouni" with my relatives. Zouni is a soup which rice cakes are in soups.

The Zouni my relatives make is delicious. We make rice cake from glutinous rice in her house. That time is very interesting for me. Rice cakes we made in this year were more delicious than before.

There is a turtle as my ground parents' pet. The turtle is in a tub. It is happy for me to see the turtle when I visit there. In winter, he falls asleep so long, we call it hibernation. However, he comes out from the tub sometimes. We are worried about that whether he would die or not. He lives for more than ten years. I want to see him this winter :)

This year, I went there in this summer vacation, and I couldn’t my relatives in there. I was very sad, so I want to meet them in this winter vacation. When we go there, I will eat croquettes my ground mother makes. We will make rice cakes this year, too. Then, I will eat delicious zouni my grand mother makes.

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BR2-06: The Baobab Tree

"His head was in the ground." He couldn't open his mouth to talk."

This story is about baobab tree. He was made by three gods and he can talk. However, he is little chatty. Three gods are disgusted with him because he is very noisy. At least, they grabbed him and turned him upside down. This story tells us not to be noisy in a circumstance everyone is quiet. Also, you may be scold when you say many selfishness things. By the way, do you know baobab trees? I like figures of baobab standing on the ground in Africa. If you have a chance to go to Africa, I want you to watch baobab trees.

Louie Stowell, 2009, London, England, Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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My Waist.......

Last Saturday, I went boring with my parents and young brother. I and my brother played. I won two games! I got one hundred sixty two points, but my brother got one hundred three points in two games. We played boring in Suizenji Boring. The boring place has steps. When we went home, my mother bought ice cream to me. I was very happy. Then, I walk down the stairs. However, I lost my footing. And, I slipped. I injured left side of my body because I had ice cream in my right hand. I think I would protect the ice cream. I couldn't walk soon since I lost my footing. I can walk and ride motor cycle now :D Please be careful walking up and down stairs!!

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Ahchoo!!

I have a cold from yesterday. I think I got a cold from my brother. The cold started with a sore throat. I didn't want to talk as much as I can. And, my mucus don't stop running from my nose. I want to have a box of tissues always. I took medicines. I wish the cold will cure soon.

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Wow! How interesting!

Please watch this!!  I was moved when I watched it for the first time! I thought I would introduce this on Haloween, but I couldn't wait to! I like this song:) If you have done like this illumination, please tell me. And, if you know about this music, please tell me>< I want you to enjoy Haloween this year, too!

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Hand Ache

I had hand ache on weekend. I felt the ache in night. I didn't know why I felt ache. Then, my mother said to me that I may have carpal tunnel syndrome. I searched about the syndrome. A site said that controlling computer caused my hand ache. I use my computer everyday, and I type many sentences in a day. I understood the reason why I had hand ache. I will be careful about using my computer. If you use your hand many times and too using, please be careful, or you will have carpal tunnel syndrome. If you have the syndrome, I recommend you apply a cold compress to your hand. I could cure my hands in one day.

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BR 2-05: MOUSE MAKES WORDS

When you read this book, you will notice the fun of English. For example, there is a word, "Hat". Then, if you change the "H" into "C", the word become "cat"! This book introduces playing with English letters. I thought the other example. There is a word, "Map". Then, if you change the "M" into "C", the word become "cap". It is very interesting for me to think about making words which are resemble rhyme each other. Not just the content of book, but also the way a mouse introduces words is fun. The illustrates are cute, so you may memorize English words if there are words you don't know in the book.

Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook, 2002, United States, Random House of Canada Limited

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BR 2-04: The Dragon Painter

"They flew higher and higher, until they disappeared into the clouds."

I read this book for the first time. I think this story is look like a story of a proverb, "Garyoutensei" in Japanese. This proverb came from China. The mean is the finishing strokes. Maybe, the book refers to the proverb. Main character in this book is Chang who is good at painting. I like a scene when two dragons which he painted flew away into cloud sky. I think he can put lives into his paints when he draw imaginary creatures. Therefore, he didn't draw eyes of dragons until last. He is a sad person because he can't draw imaginary creatures perfectly. If he draw perfectly, the imaginary creatures would start living.

Rosie Dickins, 2006, London, England, Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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Mind Map: My Favorite Place

This mind map explain what I wrote for essay 2-02, so you can understand easily what I wrote. If you can't understand my sentences, I recommend you watching this mind map.

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Essay 2-02a: My favorite Place

My favorite place is my ground mother’s house. The house is in Sasebo in Nagasaki. The house is near a town. My family goes there to meet my relatives in long vacation, like summer vacation and winter vacation. I like there because I have some reasons. I'll introduce about my favorite place.

There are reasons I chose the place. We go there by our car. It takes about 3 hours from my house to the house. It takes long time to go there, so we go resting. I have license now, so I drive parent’s car on highway. That makes me nervous, but it is a good practice for me.

First, there are many comics in the house. Every year, my cousins bring their comics to the house. Therefore, I can read a lot of kinds of comics for free. Almost my cousins are men, so there are many boys comics. For example, there are prince of tennis, yuugiou, and, etc. Also, there are many girls comic in the house. My mother bought them when she was junior or high school student. I don’t have dislike kinds, so I have read almost comics in the house many times. It is exciting for me to read new comics in a time.

Seond, dishes my ground mother makes are very delicious. Especially, I like croquette she makes. Outside of them are very crisp. I can eat the croquettes only in the house because she ready to cook them before we go to the house. I'm looking forward to eating them when I go there. Also, I like miso soup she makes.

We meet relatives every year as I wrote. I’m looking forward to seeing them. I am very happy in the time we meet them. I like playing video games. My cousins like playing, too. When we see in a long vacation, we play many games with all cousin. We play bomber man, monster hunter, and puyopuyo. I enjoy the time very much. 

My ground father had many books. He read mystery books, workbooks of tests, and pictures of animals, etc. I took his books to my house sometimes. His book is very useful to know trivia. Especially, I like novels he has. When I interested in the books, I ask him to bring them to my house. If I take his books, he can’t read the books for about half years. However, he lend me them.

This year, I went there on this summer vacation. We will go there in this winter vacation. In this summer vacation, I couldn’t my relatives in there. I was very sad. I want to meet them in this winter vacation. When we go there, I will eat croquette my ground mother makes.

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My Favorite Place

My favorite place is my ground mother’s house. There are reasons I chose the place. The house is in Sasebo in Nagasaki. First, the house is near a city. I can  go to the city on my foot, so I don’t need to take a bus or train, and not have to ride bicycle. I go to the house with my family every year to meet my relatives. We go there in summer vacation and winter vacation. Second, many foreigners are living in Sasebo. When I walk in a city, I see many foreigners. If I have a chance, I want to work in Sasebo using English. When I work there, I will live in the ground mother’s house. Nobody live in the house, so I can spend time free there. Third, sea is near the house. I live in Nishihara village now, so there are many mountains, rivers, and forests. However, I haven’t gone to sea more than three times, maybe. I want to go to a sea, but it costs me expensive money to go to sea, so I can’t go to a sea many times. Also, I don’t have time to go because I have homework. My father likes fishing, but he can’t do fishing many times because of the distance. I like mounytains, but I like seas more than them. If I live there, I can go to sea whenever. We meet relatives every year as I wrote. I’m looking forward to seeing them because I can go outside to go to reataurant, and they buy and give someyhings  to me. I am very happy in the time. I like playing video games. My cousins like playing, too. When we see in a long vacation, we play many games with all cousing. We play bomber man, moster hunter, and puyopuyo. I enjoy the time very much. My ground father had many books. He read mystery books, workbooks of tests, and pictures of animals, etc. I took his books to my house sometimes.

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BR 2-03: There Was A Crooked Man

The book use a word many times. The word is "crooked". I think this book tells us ways we use the word, "crooked". It is easy to read this book because individual sentences are very short, but all sentences have a word "crooked". Even if you don't use a dictionary, you may understand the mean of "crooked". The pictures in the book are very fun. The pictures look like animation in America, so it is easy to understand the content of the story. Everything in this book is crooked. For example, a man, a mile, and a house are crooked. That world is strange.

Ressell Punter, 2009, London, England, Usborne Publishing Ltd.
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BR 2-02: The Magic Pear Tree

The story is very interesting. When I read this book first time, I couldn’t understand the content of the book. However, I could understand about the story when I read few times. I thought that the story tells us not to be selfish, or you would get nothing. I wonder why a beggar chopped down the pear tree. If the beggar didn’t chopped the tree, the tree grew many pear people eat by free. But if the tree of pear wasn’t chopped, many people would fight to get more many pears, I thought. Therefore, the beggar chopped the tree. I have a question about the beggar. He can use magic, but he is poor. That is a riddle for me.

Rosie Dickens, 2009, London, England, Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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Diary of My Nightmare

Recently, I've been having nightmares.

For example, I was killed foreigners in my dream. I was in a military base, but I don't know why I was in there. I had a party with the soldiers of foreigners. Suddenly, I made a person of soldier angry. Then, I was chased by the man. I tried to run away from the man, but I don't have enough energy to run away! Finally, I was caught. Then, the man put a insecticide in my mouth. That is very hard for me... Of course, I was dead in my dream. This dream is first nightmare for me.
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Essay 2-01b: My History of Languages

I have learned three languages. The languages are Japanese, English, and German. It is hard for me to study and learn languages. However, I have been trying to make my language skills well. I introduce about my history of languages. And, I write about English mainly in this essay.

 I started to go to a school of English conversation, when I was an elementary school student. Because my friend was going to the school. I was interested in the school when I heard about the school. I asked my mother to let me go to the school. Then, I started go to the school because my mother allowed me to go. First, I learned the alphabet. Next, I learned pronunciation and grammar. I didn't know the fun of English before I go to school. However, I could know the fun because of the school. Also, I could learn with my friends, so I didn't give up learning English.

When I was a junior high school student, I started to take English classes in a junior high school. I was good at writing and reading English at that time because I learned English before I entered the junior high school. I liked English, so I talked to ALT. Then, I could understand what he said. I was very happy. I tried to talk to him as much as I can. Talking to ALT made my speaking skill better than before. However, I felt that English was little difficult when I was second grade in junior high school student because English grammar became more difficult than first grade in junior high school. Then, I didn't like English. However, English is my best subject to get good score in tests, so I felt I like English. I couldn't get 100 points in English tests, but I could enjoy studying English in the school.

Also, I could exchange letters with the ALT when I was a junior high school student. I wrote many letters to the ALT, The figure of the ALT's letters which were sent by him were cute, so it is pleasure to write letters in English. Especially, the letters which were sent on Halloween and Christmas were more cute. It is interesting for me to write and read English sentences.

When I was a high school student, I was belonged to English club. The club wasn't active, but we did few things which made our English skills well. We did some games that we use English. Also, I exchanged letters with a girl who was second grade in junior high school and living in America when I was third grade in high school. She wrote English sentences in longhand, so it is hard to read them. That was good experience for me.

I like watching movies. I have some patterns to watch movies. First, I watch a movie in Japanese with no subtitle. Next, I watch the movie in English with Japanese subtitle. Then finally, I watch the movie in English with no subtitle. Therefore, I can understand what they say, and I can know new words. It takes long time, but I like this way to study English. If you have enough free time, I recommend you this way.

Sometimes, I read books in English. I read a book which is related to Michael Jackson in English. I like him, so I don't get tired of reading. I can't read them fast, so I read slowly. When I find words I don't know, I use a dictionary. The contents of the book are long, so it is hard to read all. I can know words I didn't know from the book. Reading books in English is a chance to know many words. If I have free time, I want to read more books in English. If you have your favorite books, please tell me the title of books.

Also, I watch a Yahoo website which is American version. I can know about circumstances of America. There is interesting news in there. There are many words I don't know, and I can't understand the means of the word sometimes even if I use a dictionary. Therefore, I have to guess the mean. It is difficult, but it is interesting. Many interesting news are in the websites, and the kinds of news are different from Japanese Yahoo. I recommend you this not just to study English.

I learned German in KGU. It was first time I learned another new language. Grammar of German is like English. I know nothing about German, so I tried to find laws of German. Of course, I learned many things about German from a teacher. I enjoyed learning German, so I wonder if I take German class next year.

 I think every language is difficult to understand and use perfectly. But I want to be able to use and speak the three languages. Also, I try to get better TOEIC score than before. There are many things I have to remember, so I study harder not to regret. Please tell me if you have your favorite way you study languages :)
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What classes I take this term

I will absolutely take compulsory subjects. For example, I will take Speaking, Writing, Reading, and Listening. There was no Reading class in Spring term, but there are the classes in in next term. Therefore, I feel it will be hard to make preparation for the reading class. The time schedule in next term is not so different for a time schedule in spring term, so I don’t feel worry about new time schedule. However, I have to take listening class in 5^th class on every Wednesday. Therefore, I can’t go home in noon on Wednesday. My aim in next term is finishing my home work as soon as possible.

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My vacations plans/ preparation in summer vacation

I started a part time job whose place is in schoolchild. I will do that job until this summer vacation finish. If I have enough free time after this summer vacation finish, I will keep doing the job. I went to Sasebo in order to my grandmother’s house which my mother lived in August 13^th. I went to a city in night. That was very fan for me. Next day, I went to Kurume in order to go to another my grandmother’s house which my father lived in. The dishes my grandmother made were very delicious. By the way, I will get fifty thousand points in English Central in this summer vacation.

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BR2-01: Elephants

As you read the title of the book, you can know about elephants. When I read it, There were many facts I didn't know. For example, there are a lot of elephants in anywhere. Also, there are elephants in Asia. There are some differences between African elephants and Asian elephants. I was moved about elephants' love. They have their love like humans. Especially, mother's love to care their children is wonderful. Also, you can know how they use their body. Do you know the reason why they use their ears? They don't use their ears to just listen. If you are interested in elephants, I recommend you reading the book.

I like eyes of elephants. Their eyes are very kind, I think. They are so big animal. When I saw them first time, I was very surprised with their size. Adult elephants are so big, but their babies are little small. They are cute. Especially, I like trunks of elephant babies.

Kate Davies, 2009, London, England, Usborne Publishing Ltd.
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