Book review 1-07

I read “The Railway Children”. The genre is Human Interest.

There is a family in London. One day, however, the father is taken by two men for an affair and the rest of family has to leave in London. They go to a country, in a little house near a railway line. A poor life begins then.
There are 3 children in the family, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. Peter goes to a station and takes some coal for their life, but a station porter captures him. Peter is admonished by him, but he gradually befriends him.
The children often go to a fence looked the railway line from there to see a train. When they wave their hands for the train’s passenger, an old gentleman waves back to them. Afterward, He helps the children when they call for help.
On watching the rail by the fence one day, other fence breaks and rocks fall over at it. They make red flags to stop a train and save from a terrible accident. After that, Roberta finds newspapers and the article surprises her. It says “A man captured for a spy.” She thinks he is her father.
On other day, they save a man in a red shirt who is in trouble in the tunnel. They become well-known. In addition, they meet again the old gentleman. Roberta asks him about the news.
As the time passed, Roberta has a strange feeling in her heart. She thinks something is going to happen. When she goes to the station alone, the three people get off the train. The first and second passengers are woman, but the third passenger is her father! He is not spy, and someone is a real spy. Therefore he comes to see his family. So this story ends happily.

I thought that the children were so brave and kind. Although the family became poor by the father’s problem, the hearts of gold were still inside them. Other people around the family, the station porter and the old gentleman, are also kind for them. Human beings can’t be alive alone. They sometime need other’s help. The result is the story’s happy ending and the good relationships between the family and friends. I learned the importance to help each other through this book.

May 26

Last Saturday, I attended a party of my circle for freshmen in the college. It started at six forty at “Nihon-Kaisyouen”. The members of present people are over 50. Therefore, it was the large party. The newcomers were very polite and good members. They made a round of courtesy calls. Some of them were a little nervous, however, I thought they gradually got calm as the time passed. I also had a wonderful time over talking with friends, and OB. Finishing the first party, we went to the next Japanese bar. It was “Yumeya”. Having been there twice, I was very relaxed at that time. As I can not drink any alcohol, I hope to drink one bit by bit. I don't still understand a good taste of a beer. After finished the party, I was glad to hear that the freshmen had a wonderful time. I expect them to do good activities from now on.

Essay 3 -My favorite animal-

My favorite animal is rabbit. The reason is very simple. I like rabbit very much. My animal symbol is also rabbit. About my house, I sometimes used to see it standing or running in my field when I was a child. However, I cannot see it at all because of a noise changing the environment, and many problems.
Rabbit has a pairs of long ears, strong legs. By the way, the leg of rabbit is a charm of luck in Europe and the U.S. It is the no-no to seize hold of the ears. They are very delicate. In addition, Rabbit is turf-conscious, and so it is desirable to have only one rabbit.
There are many superstitions. These are “Rabbit will die if it drinks water.”, “Rabbit does not sing”, and “Rabbit will die if it is alone.” The First is not true as rabbit takes water from vegetables and foods. However, it needs enough water at the childbearing. If you do not give it enough water then, it may sometimes eat and kill its baby. That’s terrible.
Speaking of rabbit, Peter Rabbit is a famous character. It has been loved for over one hundred year. The illustrations are very pretty and used as post card and calendar.
Although rabbit has good habits and bad habits, I like such rabbit very much.

May 23

I played "Typer Shark" in the Writing class as a training tool.

The sharks wearing words on their body are moving for the diver(the player). I must type to beat them as fast as I can. Blue shark is beaten with typing one word, but Black shark is beaten with 2 words, and Red shark is beaten with 3 word! It is hard for me to beat all of them.





the score: 411457

Level: 18 EASY

Time: 71:21

Words Per Minute: 41

Accuracy: 86%

Rank: Mud Sucker

My research theme for KGKS

I will survey about the differences of buildings and their circumstance, house and store, between Japan and England.

The purpose of my theme is to know the differences of the people’s life style through the differences. It is buildings that show them. In my opinion, these buildings are built differently in each country due to the differences of climate. In addition, building is one of the most important parts that explain the country’s history.

Japan has 4 clear seasons, and the max temperature is about 27~33 degrees in summer. The max temperature of England, however, is about 19~24 degrees. It’s too different!! But Japanese house has thermal materials and keeps humidity stable, thus Japanese can live comfortable in summer and winter. On the other hand, English house is built of brick. Brick house has heat hardiness, heat-retaining property, water resistance, and many good functions. Then, I think it is the structural difference that makes the people comfortable. Therefore, I have an eye on the difference of house.

For the reason, I want to survey about the differences of buildings, house, between Japan and England. I think it would give me an idea of the cross-cultural characteristic.

WEI

How many words
in Week 1: (233 words)
in Week 2: (897 words)
in Week 3: (740 words)
in Week 4: (473 words)
in Week 5: (341 words)
in Week 6: (1200 words)
Total words up to this point: (3884 words)

How many posts
in Week 1: (2 posts)
in Week 2: (6 posts)
in Week 3: (6 posts)
in Week 4: (3 posts)
in Week 5: (2 posts)
in Week 6: (6 posts)
Total posts up to this point: (25 posts)

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a picture in your self intro? Yes
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students' blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? Yes
Do you have reviews on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have listmania lists on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions (linked to from blog)? Yes
Do you have advanced media (Slideshare, Bubbleshare, etc.)? Yes

Link to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 (193, fair) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-1.html
Review 1-02 (202, good) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-24th-book-review-1-2.html
Review 1-03 (101, bad) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-revie-1-3.html
Review 1-04 (176, fair) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-4.html
Review 1-05 (221, good) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-5.html
Review 1-06 (406, good) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-6.html

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 (200, fair) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-1-self-introduction_21.html
Essay 02 (237, good) http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-2-japanese-culture.html

How many posts with link(s):with 1 picture/photo: 4
How many complex posts? (at least 2 links and 1 photo): 3

Comments
How many comments are there on your blog? 5 comments
Have you made at least 8 comments? Yes
Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourate-food.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/mah-jongg.html
http://tbb19801.blogspot.com/2007/05/english-service.html
http://kiluregrumbling.blogspot.com/2007/05/golden-week_05.html
http://aoi-rav4.blogspot.com/2007/05/typing-test.html
http://invincibleteamhawks.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-hometown.html
http://invincibleteamhawks.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-3th-baseballgame.html

I made 9 comments.

Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post. Why do you think it is your best?
My best review ia here.
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-6.html
Because I like this story and his character and mind.

Please link to your best comment on another blog. Why do you think it is best?
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html
I chose this. the reason is that I like this too. I played it over and over again, I do not make great progress. I want to play it like him.

Essay 1 Self introduction

Hello, My name is Minatuki. I'm 19-years-old now. I am a student at Kumamoto Gakuen University. My hobbies are reading books, watching TV or Movies, playing sports, and listening to Music. In reading, I like to read "Light novels". It is novels that are easy for everyone to read. I have over 50 light novels, and have finished almost all of them. The favorite works are "Kino's travel", "Out of the door", and "Death God's ballad".
In watching TV, I recommend "Salary man NEO". It's the comedy program. My father likes it very much. Of course, I do. It hits screen on every Tuesday at eleven to eleven thirty P.M. Please watch it!
Thank you!

Essay 2 Japanese culture

Japan has lots of culture. Many people without distinction love almost all of them.

One of the most famous cultural places is Kyoto. Kyoto has Japanese traditional culture and historic architecture like Kinkakuji, Kiyomizudera, and many places. Many sightseers go through this culture and are fascinated with their attractions. Some of them have the knowledge about Japanese ancient culture than that of Japanese. Kyoto has great attractions for everyone.

Other popular culture is Japanese animations and cartoons. Pokemon and Ghibli series, Mononoke-hime and Tonarino-Totoro, for example, are loved by most of the people. Dragon Ball also is very popular among boys in U.S.A. and Australia and many other counties. Many Japanese animations are televised in Europe, America, and Australia.

At last, Japanese foods are popular in many counties as a health food. They are introduced in the health TV program. But some of them have peculiar taste, so foreigners can’t eat them. Natto and green juice are the typical examples. In contrast to them, sushi is a common food in Europe and U.S.A. In France and America, the shapes and taste of sushi are different from the Japanese. I have ever heard that a chef at a restaurant put chocolate sauce on it. That’s amazing!

Japanese culture is very popular and changed those shapes or contains by many people’s hands or devices. Japanese culture has been existed as the international ones all over the world.

Dear home stay family -KGKS Self introduction-

Hello. I’m Minatuki. I’m a student at Kumamoto Gakuen University. I’m very happy that I visit you for a home stay. I’m 20 years old in next my birthday. I belong to a volunteer circle. It’s Asunarou. “Asu” means “tomorrow”, and “narou” means “will become”. So Asunarou means “We will become --- tomorrow”. --- may be a big tree. There are 6 people in my family. It’s my parents, my grandparents, younger brother, and me. My hobbies are reading books, watching TV program and movie, playing sports, and listening to music. Are you interested in Manga, Japanese POP, and Japanese movie? If you want to know about that, I’ll tell you. My major is English. My current purposes are to advance my English skill, and to know a lot of cultures in your country. My future dream is to be an English teacher, so I would like to learn your country’s culture to teach students. As I have never been to foreign country, I feel nervous. Therefore, I want to adjust myself to the new atmosphere. I also want to know about British culture a lot. I am interesting in British historic buildings. As my English is poor, so I may use some strange grammar or intonation, please teach me if I make such a mistake.
I will make an effort to make my first experience end up as a happy memory. I’m looking forward to my stay.

Minatuki

May 20

Today was my little brother’s birthday. And so, I went to “Sinsen Itiba” to eat Sushi with my younger brother and father. There are many families. We waited for 30 minutes by any seats was empty. I like salmon very much. I did not eat any fish except salmon!! It’s just joke. But I ate lots of Sushi, true sardine, shrimp, and conger. Many people say that tuna is very delicious, but I do not think so because I hate tuna. After all, my younger brother ate 11 plates(Left), my father did 10 plates(Right), and I did 9 plates(Center). After that, I went to book store and game arcade. I enjoyed myself playing many things.

May 19

I did a volunteer work today. I woke up at five fifteen a.m. and left my house at five forty-five. I took the first train with my friend and arrived at school at seven. There are about twenty people joined this work. We went to Park Doom by a courtesy bus. “Kagayaki Taikai” was held there, and over 15 groups took part in this athletic meeting for the disabled. We helped the members and sometime got in some competitive athletics with the member. I was very tired, but I had the great time. I want to join it again next year!!

Book review 1-6

I read “Robinson Crusoe”. The genre is adventure. The reason why I want to read this book is that this work is famous all over the world and I did not know the story exactly.

Robinson is born in York in England. He wants adventure and an exciting life. Then he says that he wants to be a sailor and go to sea, but his parents do not agree to his suggestion. However, one day a friend of him invites him a voyage. He is pleased at that time, but he goes through the terrible voyage because of a strong wind and many dangerous events. As the months passed, he goes to sea again with his friends in 1659. However, it is the most dangerous voyage. The terrible storm is around his ship, and they are all fallen in the water. Robinson wake up and finds that he is alone in a desert island. Then he decides to live in the island until a ship comes about. He makes his house, bag, clothes, and many things which are useful in his life. One day, He watches lights at the sea shore. There are wild men and they are singing and shouting over eating or drinking. He is afraid of their behaviors. Then, he finds human bones in their pan and a man sitting near a tree. He helps him and calls “Man Friday”. Their new life begins and ends in 1686. A great ship is near the island. The seamen take the captain of the ship. The seamen are mutineers! They make him sit down under the tree and prepare killing and eating him. As soon as Robinson and Friday helped him, they prepare fighting against them. Robinson’s team could beat them. The captain takes Robinson and Friday to York. He comes back to his home town and marries. He goes to sea again, and has many more adventures.

After finish reading this work, I thought that Robinson was tough man. He had lived in the desert island for twenty-seven years. It was very tiring and boring for me. If somebody drifted there and found he/she was alone, he/she would become mad or suicide. However, Robinson never lost his wish. In addition, he made many essential goods and made his living. In the result, he could come back to England again. I think it is very important for us to have fortitude and sliver of life.

May 16 -Big Hayashi-rice-

I ate a Hayashi-rice in the cafeteria at Kumamoto Gakuen University a long ago. The name is Asomori Hayashi. I ordered the large portion of one. Look at the left picture. I put the big monster on left side, and my pass case on right side. The length is twice as large as the pass case is. It comes near about 3 servings of the normal size!!! We call it Morimori Hayashi!! It took about 20~30 minutes to finish eating. After doing, I suffered from terrible stomach ache and head ache. You should be careful not to eat too much.

May 13

Today is Mother's Day. As my mother said that she wanted time to have a break, my family did not do anything special. But, my mother had to go shopping with my grand father in the morning because my father is a little waywardness. I spent watching TV, reading books, and playing video games. Because of many assignments, I was terribly tired. (I had finished almost all of them.) Therefore, I could have a peaceful time. In the evening, my family went to Arao and ate ramen. After that, we went to Passca World (Game Arcade). My mother got a Jackpot and her coin box was full of coins!! It was the present from the angles to her, I thought.

Book review 1-5

I read the book, “Who, sir? Me, sir?” It’s a vernal story. Sam Sylvester who is a teacher at Hawkwood School wants his class have ambition, and to do wonderful thing in life. Then he decides to enter tetrathlon sports competition and beat Greycoats School’s students. The athletic events are swimming, shooting, and riding.
Mr. Sylvester chooses the team member in his class. They are Hoomey, Jazz, Bean, and Gary. But, some of them are not good at doing swimming or riding or shooting. Then the teacher and other instructors help them.
The sports competition finally starts. The judges of Hawkwood in swimming and shooting are inferior to that of Greycoats, but Greycoats students cheated at the tournaments. In addition, Hawkwood students also cheated at the final tournament, riding. Finally, there are no winners and losers. The showdown will be decided next year.
When I have finished this book, I was impressed the passion of the students. If someone jest you, most of them get angry and want to argue the person into silence. Then I will make an effort to complete it. I think that the younger people are, the more sense of rivalry they have. This work is expressive of the emotion and behavior well. But I think that cheating is unfair. The fighting or competition should be fair.

May 5

I helped my family’s business to make 140 rice seed beds with a machine. I put rice seeds in them, and covered them with earth. It was difficult to regulate the amount of rice seeds to put in a seed bed. As a result of trial and error, I managed to finish this job in the morning.

By the way, a weather forecast said that it was rainy in the evening. After finishing the job, I looked at the sky. What a fine it was! The latest weather forecast is vagabond.

Book review 1-4

I read Justice. It’s a thought-provoking book.
Suddenly, terrorists blow up the Queen’s coach outside Parliament. It did not succeed, but five people are killed. Jane’s father lost his leg. And Jane is kidnapped by the terrorists. Then, as one of them, Anne, has something to do with Jane’s father, they plot how to escape successfully for their country by using her father. At last, however, the Jane’s action makes their plot fail. Then, she and her father meet again.
The most impressive thing is that Jane was killed the terrorists on quelling their plot. Murder is guilty, but she must have done it, or she might have been killed by the terrorists. Human beings have the right to be alive. If someone will try to oust the right, what should you do? Jane was killed the terrorists, but I think she had a sense of sin. If I were to be in the same situation, I will try to do my best to forgive my sin.
What is the “Justice”? This book tells us that.

May 2

I had a Survival English Conversation class. The teacher is Mr. Morrow.
The beginning of the class, everyone chatted each other about the Golden week holiday. I also talked about that. I helped my family business on last Saturday. Our family made 140 rice seed beds in the morning. I put soils in all of them equally in the time. Making these is the first step to make rice. That was very tight job. When I told this event to Mr. Morrow, he was very surprised.

I studied about an arrangement in the class.

A person asks the other about an arrangement.

A: “Hi, Mr. B. I’d like to discuss the important contract.”
B: “Yes, of course. When can you come and see me?”
A: “Is four o’clock on Monday OK?”
B: “Four o’clock on Monday... No, I’m sorry. I’m visiting my uncle’s house.”
A: “Well, could I come at twelve o’clock on Sunday.”
B: “Yes, that’ll be fine. I’ll see you then.”

Such conversation is useful to make an arrangement on business, holiday, meeting and so on.

After listening to the teacher’s advice, I practiced this conversation with my friends. As I sometime could not say the next word smoothly, I’ll practice more and more.

April 30

I played with an old friend of mine. He and I have been friends for about 12 years. He is a university student and lives in Fukuoka alone. Yesterday, he came to see me at 16:00. Then, we had promised to play together. So, we went to a game arcade in Arao city. As both of us can play “DrumMania” and “GuitarFreaks”, I played the drums he played the guitar. In addition, we played a quiz game, “Quiz Magic Academy Ⅳ”, with him. The players battle with others on the online. There are about 8 classes in the game and I was in the third class from the top. The opponents were so wise that I almost lost. Finally, I got second in the tournament. I recommend it when you play with your friends, but it costs one hundred yen at one time. We had a great time. I want to play with him again!!

April 29

Do you eat rice to the last piece? Rice cropping is very hard work for people who haven’t done in many times. Our family made rice seed beds. The amounts of them were 140!! We put soil in the box equally. Today’s work was that all, but it took about 90 minutes to finish making. After that, I ate a lunch and went to a field to burn withered weeds. It took about 70 minutes. I was very tired, so I could not eat dinner well because of the terrible exhaustion. After having taken a bath, I went to bet at once. That was a tough day.

April 28

The Golden Week has started. Some people can have happy holidays by May 6. Do you have any plans for this big vacation?
In my case, I have jobs to help my family’s business. It’s to make rice seed bets. On April 29, I have to make them. On May 5, I have to sow seeds on the bed. So I may be not able to have enough time to do something fun. But, this family business is important thing for my family to make a living. I’ll do my best to help it.

April 26

This is my favorite novel. The name is “Kino-no-Tabi” in Japanese, and “Kino’s travel” in English. The author is Keiiti Shigusawa. Although this is a kind of novel, I called such novel “Light Novel”. It’s easier to read than ordinary one.
The reason why I love it is the content.
If there is a country which all the people can know other’s minds...
If there is a country which all the people always tell a lie for a foreigner...
If there is a country which the people always decide a thing by majority rule...
Of course, these countries don’t exist on the earth. But if they do, what does it happen? The main character, Kino, experiences the happening and we readers are surprised and impressed by the result.

If you get information more, click here.
http://www.kinonotabi.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino

In addition, the new movie of Kino's travel will be screen in this summer. I want to watch it very much. I put the promotion video below. Please look at it!!

Book review 1-3

I read “The Piano”.
This is a story of “Human Interest”. The main character is Tony. He is interested in the piano. But He is poor, and one day, her mother takes him to a farm and he works at there. Then, he meets the old piano in an old building. He carries it to a school classroom and practices and practices. Thanks to helps of his friends and teachers, he gets a first price at a big contest and gets happy.
In my opinion, it’s just a simple story.
That’s all. It is easy to read, but not entirely satisfactory.

April 25

I had a survival conversation class at 6 p.m. I learned about simple greetings and responses to talk to someone who meet the first time, and American money.
“Breaking the ice” is an important part to get an atmosphere calm and make friendly each other on talking with.
“How are you?” ---”I’m fine, thank you. And you?”
”Please call me ____” ---”O.K. ____.”, and so on.

American money has 4 types of coins, and 6 types of bills.
Coins: a cent---about 1 yen, a nickel---about 5 yen, a dine---about 10 yen, a quarter---about 25 yen.
Bills: 1$, 5$, 10$, 20$, 50$, 100$.

I think the kinds of the amount of American money are similar to the Japanese.

Book review 1-2

I read “SHERLOCK HOLMES –SHORT STORIES-”.
He is made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective of them all, I think. I like his looks, behavior, and acute deductive powers very much. I had read his story when I was a student at an elementary school. But my favorite character is John Watson. He is the partner of Holmes. The reason why I like him is that he is like me. Generally, reader thinks the trick of the case or the motive of the murder. He does the same things as reader does. So they can read as if they were him. After all, we surprise Holmes’ quick deductive power. Perhaps, reader may solve the case earlier than him. In my case, being a tiny detective, I can’t beat him.
In the first episode, “The speckled band”, one of the keys to solve the case is that a poison of the snake does not detect easily in a dead body. Not having such knowledge, I could not notice the trick, but I knew the strange phenomenon.
As above, this work tells us a strange phenomenon and an unexpected thing.
I think it’s the big attraction of this.

Holmes's web page

Arthur Conan Doyle's web page

April 23

I played cards with my friends after school.
We played UNO and the millionaire with cards.

UNO is the major card game in Japan. American-Page-One is the origin of UNO, but Some Japanese do not know the name.
All of them are so strong that almost all of games had not been decided.
On playing the millionaire, as Revolution often happened, I had to have a cleverer piece of tactics. Revolution is the action that change the power of all cards. So poor card becomes strong one and strong card becomes poor. It needs the proper timing to do Revolution. It's depend on your shrewd instincts or skill.
It was very interesting and I was excited all the time.

If you do not know how to play American-Page-One, click this.

American-Page-One

April 20

Today, I introduce myself.

My birthday is June 10, and my blood type is O. There are 6 people in my family.


I live in Nankan town in Kumamoto. I usually take about 100 minutes to go to university by my motor bicycle, train and walking. That’s too long distance. Although I sometime want to live in an apartment, it is economical to go to university by the usual way.

My hobbies are reading books, watching TV and movie, playing sports and video game, and listening to music.

My favorite food is Mentaiko-spaghetti, and drink is something sour: lemon juice, Ume juice. They contain a citric acid.

I ate Annin-Tofu between meals today. It was very creamy and delicious. The Annin-Tofu is sold in Lawson at Kumamoto gakuen university. I recommend it.

April 19 -On this Wednesday-

I learned the different of a taxi between Japan and America yesterday in Survival English Conversation.
A Japanese taxi has comfortable points. It’s opening the door automatically and clean. Mr. Morrow had a good impression at the first time when he watched the door opening automatically. On the other hand, the American taxi’s charge is much cheaper than that of Japanese one, but we give the driver tips in America. It is about 20 percents of the charge.
I had a good time in the class. I want to take it next week.

Book review 1-1

Have you ever read “The Wizard of Oz”? It’s so famous story that all almost people read or know this, I think.
Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. Dorothy meet the Scarecrow, the tin man, and the Cowardly lion, and makes friends with them. But, she must go home to Kansas. Then, she hear a news that only one person can help her. The name is Oz, who is very famous in the country. Dorothy and her party go for Oz’s house to have their wish granted by his power. After all, her friends have their wishes granted by him, and Dorothy goes home to Kansas without accident.

After reading this story, I thought that the real main character is not Oz but Dorothy. Amazingly, Oz is not a witch but a middle-aged man. I was shocked for the fact. In the end, he and his balloon went to the air because of an accident. I am anxious about him.

I can recommend this book in that its contents and expression are interesting and it’s easy to read.

April 18

It's rainy today.(-o-;
Today, Mr.Tomei introduced my favorite book. It's Sherlock Holmes. I'm sure I like him. He is loved by all of the world people. His detective power is wonderful, and I respect his ability. My favorite character is John Watson who is the partner of Holmes because he is similar to me. All cases are difficult for us except Mr. Holmes to solve them. But he solves each case easily. That's fantastic!!

By the way, speaking of detective, there are great characters in Japan. Kogoro Akechi and Kosuke Kindaichi are the representative people. The character that you know well is “Detective Conan”. I love it. Although I think over and over about the trick of a case, I cannot resolve it. However, you may have a great time watching the comic books and TV animation whether you can understand the trick or not.

Detective Conan's web page
Other mystery writer in Japan

April 17

I was surprised to hear the news that the worst case with guns happened in Virginia technical college. The murderer killed 32 students. The murderer killed himself and he may be a Korean student in the U.S. I don’t know why he did so. I am still disappointed now.

Moreover, a gangster attacked Ittyo Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki. A news program says his functioning of the heart and the lungs does not work.

There are many cruel murder cases these days. We have to protect ourselves from this sort of problem.

April 15

Hello, this is my second post.

Today was so fine that I couldn't wake up early. After all, I got up at 9 o'clock.
In this morning, I watched a movie. It was "UDON"!! As my friend recommended it to me, I rented it from a video shop. The main characters are Yusuke Santamaria, and Manami Konishi.
This movie is comical and includes something serious. I learned the power of the Media. The more popular a traditional food is, the more the sale picks up. On the other hand, the more much popular the food is, the lower the quality becomes. The media has good effect and bad effect. But we make good use of the power to live. I can guarantee that this movie will be great fun.
I want to eat UDON. So, I'm sure to eat UDON tomorrow!! m9(^o^)