BR 2-02: East of the sun, West of the moon

''For you are the girl who went to the ends of the earth for love.'' (Davidson, 2009, p.63)

This story is Norwegian folk tale. The story was amassed by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jorgen Moe, was included in ''Norwegian Folktales''.


First, a white bear said that I want to take a most beautiful girl instead I pay you much money. She arrived magic castle. She lived there with the white bear. She noticed that a human sleep nearby her during she is sleeping. 

And then, she met her family. She was said that she lights a candle to look a sleepy human's face. She knew that the bear is a beautiful boy. He said that he is cast a spell by witch and he has to married with her daughter, witch. Next day, magic castle was disappeared and he was taken by witch. She leaved there to find him, the girl rode a white bear, the king, they escaped from the castle.

I don't like this story because the story is too smooth. The story is gone like nothing happened. And I thought that witches what happened. It doesn't sit well with me.

Susanna Davidson, (2009). East of the sun, West of the moon. London: Usborn

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BR 2-01: Hamlet

''The rest is silence.'' (Shakespeare, 2009, p.63)

This is William Shakespeare's famous story, Hamlet. It is one of the his four tragedy and it it very sad story.

First, I thought that this story is fear or heartless when I saw the cover. I don't like a story like that, but I read it because it was written by William Shakespeare.

It was good things to Hamlet could meet his father even he is a ghost because Hamlet was miserable since his father dead. The new king is stupid. If he has married with Hamlet's mother just one month after the king was dead, the new king must have to be distrusted. What the new king did made everyone unhappy. If he didn't do that things, everyone were saved from misery. He finally killed 5 persons.

I'm sad to Hamlet was dead. He could revenge the new king but people around him were dead, even his mother. What Hamlet's friend, Horatio could be alive is only good things. I thought that revenge can not make anything. The rest is silence, as Shakespeare said.

William Shakespeare (2009), Hamlet. London: Usborn.

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Typing HW 6: My favorite drink

My favorite drink is water. I always only water. Sometime, I drink coffee, milk and others. I don't like soft drink, especially coca-cola. It is too sweet. When I eat something, I don't drink something without water because I can not feel taste of dishes. Soft drink can mask taste of dishes. So I can not believe people that drink juice during eat something. But when I eat sweets like cakes and cookies, I prefer to drink coffer or milk tea. Recently, soy milk and yogurt juice is my boom. I always drink soy milk, it is healthy. I like smoothie too. When I was high school student, I often went Tapiking to drink smoothie with my friends. Now, I go Starbucks to drink smoothie because it is in near my house. My favorite smoothie of Starbucks is matcha.

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Typing HW 5: My favorite season

My favorite season is winter. Winter is very cold, but it may be snow. I like snow very much. When I was child, I made a snow man and small balls. I threw it to my brother, it was very enjoying. But recently it is not snow in Kumamoto, I am very sad. I want to play to use snow with my sister and my brother again. In winter I can’t get out from my bed because it is very cold if I get out. But it is very comfortable in my bed. I hate hot temperature and sun shine. I can realize to my skin return like before I got sunburn. Every year, I look forward to see my skin color. 

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Typing HW 4: My favorite sports

My favorite sport is soccer. It is very exited to watch but I can't play it. I began to watch soccer game on TV because my father likes soccer very much. When there was soccer game on TV, my father didn't change channel of TV. Now, I like to watch it than my father does. My father and I shout when someone get point. I especially like Shinji Kagawa, Atsuto Uchida and Keisuke Honda. Kagawa is like a God and I respect him. He is too good at playing soccer, I want him to move other more high level club. Uchida is too cool, he is my type. I want to marry him very much. But I don't know why, I feel like Japan win the game when Honda come in it.

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Essay 2-02a: My favorite place

My favorite place is my room in my house. It have been used by me for 19 years. My room's main attractions are it is spread, there are some my collections. Also I can be relax there and I can decorate my room by myself. So there is my world.

First, I will explain about above detail from now. My room is spread, and I don't like small place. Windows and doors are big, it is very open. I don't like put many furniture in my room, so there are no much furniture there. There are only desk, bed, shelf and small desk. And closet is inside in the wall. It makes the room more spread. 

I like to collect something. I have some collections which are manicures, manga, DVDs and candles. And I can display them in my room and I can enjoy them. I feel so happy that there are my favorites in my room. My room is like a toy box filled with my favorites.

Also, I can make my room like I want to do. I can decide my room's wall, ceiling and floor colors. I have posters of my favorite person or character. I use it and photos for wall decorations. I can become surrounded by my favorites.

And then, what's more, I can relax very well in my room. I don't have to think about something else. My room is very homey. . That's a my world. I especially like a bed the best all of things in my room. I like to read a book and watching DVDs during lying on the bed. Because my bed is so comfortable, I tend to sleep before I knew it sometimes even I have no mind to sleep. My room's floor is tatami, so I can sleep there in summer. It is feel like good.

I don't finished my room yet. I have many things for my room. Because I have western furniture, I want to change tatami to flooring.. And I want to paint wall green or blue. I want a dresser, more sundry articles and etc. I like to think about my room like that. I enjoyed it very much.

My opinion about room, I think that rooms betray mind condition of people whose have that room. So room's decoration is very important. Also, rooms has influence to people. Depending on room, people's condition can change. Actually when I stayed my host family's house, I feel like very good. I waked up easily in the morning. then and I was happy everyday. That my room is very cute and fancy. And the wall is dark green. There is an indirect lighting. It was so comfortable. Maybe that's why is color of wall. Green has power which relax people. I try decorate to my ideal.

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My favorite place map

My favorite place

My favorite place is my room. I have used it from when I was child. It is about for 19 years. When I was child, the room was used by my sister, my brother and me. We used it for only sleeping. From my brother grown up, he moved to another room. My sister and me have used it yet at that time. And then, my sister moverd to another room, we had ourselves room. My room is not small because it has used by three children. My room is the biggest of all our rooms. I was glad it, but my room is used tatami. I want to change it flooring. When I am in my room, I can be relax very much. I have not to worry about other people there. There is my world. In summer, I can sleep on tatami. It is very comfortable. But there is bed in my room. So I often don’t use tatami, I almost use bed. My room is spread, in addition to closet is in wall. So my room can keep room in which there are no funiture. I like my room because I don’t like what there are many things and funiture in room. My room’s funiture are western and my room is tatami. It is very strange. I like tatami but I change it and I finished my room for western. I like to collect something, I collecrt maniqure now. I can desplay them in my room.

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Parade

October 6, I walked on street to parade. It is advertisement of college festival. Many club make costumes and  member wear it to parade. Costume of my club is devil and angle. It is very cute. We were late to make costumes, We made it about for 3 weeks. So I was really upset. I had to come back home 11p.m. And I could not sleep to make costume in pre parade day. I hate over night very much. I didn't want to go parade. Parade have  will attend in October 5, but it was rainy. In last year, it was heavy rainy too, but parade was opened. It was very crazy. In this year, I could walk sunny day, sun shine was too strong. Everyone were sunburned. And I could not drink something for 6 hours. I thought I may die. I was not enjoyed parade, but my club's older cried that she was very enjoyed parade and she was satisfied costume. I was glad to see that. I didn't know it even after parade finished. I thought that it is important to say directory. Or, there are many people who don't know people's mind like me. I was given gift of LUSH. I was very exited!

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Typing HW 3 my favorite music

I like music very much, especially I like Western music which are Nicki Minaj, Pitbull, KE$HA and etc. Next month, KE$HA will come Japan for live and I want to go her live. But I forgot to get ticket. I regretted very much I like Far East Movement the best. They are group of 4 mans. They sing  English songs but they are Asian-American. One of them is of Japanese blood. I like music like I feel so high, I don't like slowly music. I sometime dance during listening music alone, it is very enjoying. I sometime go karaoke. I go there with my sister because I am not good at singing and I don't want to go with my friends.

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Essay 2-01b: My learned languages

I write my learned languages now. I have ever learned Japanese, English. I studied Germany too. Japanese is my first language, English and Germany are my learned languages.  Here, I will write how to learn my languages, now my ability of that and what I think  about these languages. 

First,  I write about Japanese. I have spoken  it from when I was child. When I was a child, I had words board machine of Anpanman. But I don't remember how to understand Japanese because I am Japanese, maybe I had understood by communication, watching TV when I was a child. I learned hiragana and katakana first, next is kanji. I studied it to read and to write much. But Hiragana and katakana are easy, kanji is difficult. Kanji I learned was gradually going to be difficult. I am not good at kanji, There are many kanji I can't read and write even now. I studied proverb and a four character idiom too. I have a lack of knowledge of that. If I was not Japanese, I could not speak Japanese even I study it. So, I think it is very good things what I am Japanese.

Next, I write about English. I began to learn English when I was elementary school student. I learned romaji, pronunciation of that and I studied English to Read and to listen there. When I was junior high school student, I began to study grammar and I leaned a lot of words. English which I studied in junior high school is very different from that of what I  learned in elementary school. When I was elementary school student, I used English to speak or communication. But from junior high school it is important to read sentence, do grammar and memorize English words. So I didn't like English class like that, but I enjoyed English class of foreign teacher. It was difficult for me. 

When I was high school student, I studied English words, reading, grammar and listening. But it was more difficult to memorize many things in high school than in junior high school.  And sentences were longer, words were more increase.  I studied grammar with English workbook. I did a lot of pattern work. I understood grammar. But I didn't listen English much, so I am not good at listening English. 

And then, my mayor is English. So I use English everyday. Reason why I study English is I chose humanity course when I was high school student and I thought that English is the coolest all of humanity course. I study reading, writing, listening and speaking. I type English every week. I speak English to use English Central. Sometime, I read English newspaper by my class. I and English are inseparable. But my English is not good. I have to study more. I think English is easier than Japanese. So I want to try hard English.

Finally, I write about Germany. I studied Germany in my class a year ago.  I could had to choose one of some languages which are Germany, French, Spanish and Russian, and I was said my sister to Germany is most easy of these languages. So I chose Germany. I didn't have knowledge of Germany. So it was very difficult for me. I studied Germany with textbook. In textbook, there are some  example. I had a book of two type. One is grammar book and the other is conversation book. I studied grammar to do workbook of some pattern. So I had understood grammar then, but I forgot it now. About conversation of that, I don't memorize some conversation. I know only a few conversation. I listened Germany and I spoke it every week. I did it all what I could do. Patiently, I studied it and I memorized it. But I can't speak Germany very much now.

I have studied some languages. I like English the best. But I can speak and write Japanese, I think Japanese has many what we have to memorize. Because I hate messy things, it is very difficult that I study languages. But I want to become woman who can speak some languages, so I continue study English. If I have room to breath, I want to study Spanish.

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