Time flies when I'm having fun!

♢笑いの神様♢

2009-09-15T21:44:00.003+09:00

バイト先の新人さんが、占いが趣味ということで、占いをしてもらいました。
　
　「何か、悩み事とか、問題はありますか？？」。。。と言われても、出てこなかったので、、、

　今の、私のテーマである

　「人間関係、人との付き合い方」 を選んでみました\(^^)ω(^^)/

○○最近は、人との輪を広げようとして、自分から進んでいくようにしているようですが、仕事に起因することで、何か良くないことが起こる可能性がある。○○

　確かに、友達１００人計画の元、ぶっといベクトルをびんびんに外に伸ばしてます(^^)/

　仕事って、どのバイトのことだろう。。。ありすぎて分からない。。。。

　○○私が誰かに対して執着するか、誰かに執着されるかしそうです。○○

　誰かに依存するのも、永遠のテーマだから、私的には良い結果かな(^^*)/

　「素のままの自分で人に接したいと思い、心理学やコミュニケーションを意識するようになったようです。迷わず、自分の気持ちに正直に選択するように。」

心理学とか大好きです（＾＾）♪

　一番興味深かったのは、、

　「私の一番身近に笑いの神様がいる」とのこと。

　笑いがあると、嫌なことも、良いことに変える力があるのだとか。　

　ぃゃ～何とも心強い。そして、幸せだゎ♡♡　

ありがと♪

2009-09-14T20:00:00.003+09:00

　今日は、小学校以来の友達と、語って来ました♪♪

　実は、彼女とは、彼女の引っ越しを通して、自然と音信不通になってしまって。。。

でも!何と!就活中に、とある会社の説明会で偶然遭遇☆☆

　慣れない東京で、見知らぬ就活生の中で、「かんちゃん！！」と懐かしい声で叫ばれました。

その後は、もう、プレゼンどころじゃなかったよね（笑）

何種もある業界の中で、

何社もある会社の中で

何日もある日程の中で

1日に何回もある説明会の中で、

1回の会で何グループもある中で、

　同じ日の同じ回の隣のグループだったっていう・・・これが奇跡ってやつだよね。

　　　　　　　　　かれこれ、6歳からのお付き合い( ^^)人(^^ )　

　これから、いろんな人に出会って、どんどん人脈や交流を広げていくことは可能だから、、、これからの時間を濃いものにしたいな。

　時間の逆戻りは不可能だから、、、校歌、帰り道、お稽古を共通した友達との時間を延ばしてつないでいきたいな。

　よくばりかな(^_^;)

　本当にありがとう(^^)♪

アロハ～( ♡^^)/

2009-07-10T23:14:00.006+09:00

Today, I joined a hula lesson organized by my uni's health center. It was for FREE~~ No choice but join でしょ!!

This was just the second time though ,I'm already a fan of hula coz hula is as if feelings and emotion become a dance straightly. I can read what each behavior in hula expresses like a book. （言い過ぎ?)

Maybe, 'graceful' will be a good word for hula though, hula isn't so easy as it seems to be.( at least for me)Actually, I sweat a lot o(^ω^：)☆ぃゃ～、良い汗をかきました～♪

"Aloha" cover s a lot of meanings like "Hello", "Good morning" even "I love you". Maybe, Hawaiian language would be nice as the next language for studying?!

Long time no see you^^( ^ω^)(^ω^ )

2009-07-08T02:20:00.004+09:00

北海道に住んでいる、留学生の友人が本土（東京）に上陸☆ということで、会いに行ってきました~☆☆6か月ぶり～～。今日も、授業に出てからの日帰り移動です\(ω< ;)三(: >ω)」

　集合場所は、原宿。
　なんだけど、、、電車の中で気づいたさぁ。。。

　携帯を携帯し忘れたっっって（＞＜；）

　ということで、平成のデジタル社会に逆行しながら、アナログで、探しました。プラットホームで、電車から降りてくる人を見続けること１５分。。。
　気づいたことは、「無謀」(><)!! っということで、原宿と言えば、竹下通り?!　そしたら、いたっ！！

　ラッキー☆☆　携帯がない時って、本当にどうやって、人と待ち合わせしてたんだろう。。

　原宿をぶらぶらしてたら、、、発見☆☆　「花畑牧場の生キャラメル」　☆☆原宿にあったんだ♪

　TVで、見てて、めっちゃ行きたかったんだよね(♡ω♡)♪

　「北海道でしか、食べられないんだよ!!!」って、北海道から来た留学生に説明してみても、貴重さゼロじゃんね。。。私の方がエンジョイしてました。

　その後、浅草へ。ここからは、City Boyこと、留学時代の先輩と合流。ここからは、私も旅行者。

右は浅草にある

キリンビールの本社。の隣の得体のしれない何か。

　通称（？）The Statue of う○ち（笑）

確かにそう見えるかも。本当は、何を目指して作られたんだろう。。謎。

　誰が、一番、コマーシャルに出させてもらえそうかな？？

夜は留学で知り合った、グループでお好み焼き屋さんに行きました。ほとんどの人が、７カ月ぶりの再会。Long time no see you~~

「初めまして」の人もいました。

こういう人脈や友情も、留学で得た、一つの大きな宝ものです。

「何で今日、東京にいるの、何か用事があったの？？」
「いや、ただ会いに来たんだよ♪」
「えっ？！わざわざ、それだけ？？」
こんな会話を、何回かしました。

　それだけだけど、、、なんだかんだ言っても、海って広いし、、、こういうチャンスは大切にしたいなって(^^)♪　ずっと、繋がっていたいなって。o(^^ )( ^^)o♪やっぱり行って良かった☆☆

みんな日本語が上達してて、びっくり(☆o☆)!!良いな、良いな。私もまた留学したいな。

( - -).。o O

2009-07-05T00:25:00.003+09:00

留学生は、良く飲みます。でも、、、私は基本、バイク行動なので、飲んでいる隣で、一人ちびちびウーロン茶みたいなね。。電車で帰っても、終電を意識しないといけないし。。

　だから、「何の心配もなく、思いっきり飲んで、酔いたいっ！！」っていうのが、最近の切実な私の夢でした。

　っで、今日は、ついにその夢を実現するための全ての環境が整いました～( >△)o"

　泊まる家確保！　介護者確保！　次の日は、フリー☆　よしっ！後は、飲むのみ～♪　お泊りグッツも完璧に用意して、友達とバーへ行きました♪

　今日は、☆初☆テキーラに挑戦。塩、テキーラ、レモン。これは、美味しくないけど、面白い（♡ω♡)♪

　　数杯色々飲んだ後・・・ほろ酔いになりかけた頃・・・

　介護をしてくれると言っていた友達が、酔って、寝ているのを発見。。。あれっ？？こういうパターン前にもあったような（’’？）...

　やっぱりこういう役回りなのかな（笑）バーを解散した後も、友達とオールで話してました。

　
　　その朝、鳥のさえずりが聞こえだした頃・・・バイト先から電話・・・
　　
　「今日、用事ある？」

　「特に用事はないですが。。。」

　「じゃぁ、バイト入ってくれる？」ということで、、、

まぁ、イケるかなと、その時はなぜか思ってしまい、、
　
　バイトで、婚礼一本入ってきました　朝は、妙に元気だったけど、いざ、バイトに入ると、、、睡魔が。( ~o)ゝzZZ
。
　
　告白します(- -)/ ミーティングで立ちながら寝ました。お客様をWaitingしながら寝ました。

　こんなに器用に、自分が寝られるなんて知らなかった（笑）

　今日も、やりきった感があるな。

７時間の使い方♪

2009-07-03T23:26:00.000+09:00

☆今日の一日☆
　13時～16時30分　　授業。
　17時　　　　　　　電車で夜の東京へ☆
　19時～21時30分　　ディナー
　22時　　　　　　　東京出発
　24時　　　　　　　家に到着。

　1日の24時間をここまで「使い切ったっ！！」って感じたのは初めてではないか?!というくらいパワフルな1日でした。寝てれば、あっ！と言う間の7時間も、使い方を変えれば、東京まで行って帰って来れちゃうもんなんだな、東京って以外に近いものなのね～と感じました。ん～、学んだ！

　ちなみに今日は、来年からお世話になる会社の先輩社員（私のフォロー担当）の方とのお食事♪基本的に、同じ県で「新卒＆先輩社員」のペアを作るのだけど、、、エリア外に住んでいる私のフォロー担当の方は、もちろん県外。今は、名古屋に住んでいらっしゃいます。

　そんな私たちのペアの中間集合は＝東京。「お互いに3~4時間の思いをかけたディナー」ということになります（笑）

　先輩と会うのはこれで３回目。フレンドリーで、壁を感じざせないような優しい先輩です。こんな人の下で一緒に働けたら幸せだな～と会うたびに感じます。

　働いている姿の想像と妄想が、だんだん色を帯びてきたかな。

一足お先に「七夕気分」

2009-07-02T01:40:00.000+09:00

今日は、七夕の笹の葉の飾り付けを大学の友達としました☆///　

　七夕＝御願い事を、短冊に書いて、笹の葉につるす。というのが、日本の常識（？）だと思うんだけど、実は、こんなことをするのは、日本だけらしいです(☆o☆)!!何て、都合の良い風習なんだろうと思いつつ、、、、

　まぁ、お願いするだけならタダなので、彦星と織り姫も「。。。(- -;)」的なお願いを、私も書いときました( ^ω^)/☆

「願いごと叶うと良いな～(>人<)~♪"

ちなみに、

　・・・・・・・七夕のお話とは・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

　昔々、あるところに、織り姫と彦星がおりました。機織の上手な働き者の織り姫と、牛使いの働き者の彦星は結婚をして、とても幸せに暮らしていました♡ところが、楽し過ぎて、仕事をしなくなったので、天帝（織り姫の父）は怒ってしまい、二人を天の川を隔てて引き離してしまいました。しかし、２人があまりにも悲しんだので、年に1度、7月7日だけ天帝は２人が会うことを許しました。(♡ ^^)八(^^ ♡)
（Wikipedia参照）
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っていう、素敵な話です☆☆
でも、7月7日に限って、なぜか良く雨が降るんだよね。7月7日に雨が降ると、織姫は川を渡れないので、２人は会うことが出来ないらしいです。。。で、この日に降る雨は、織姫と彦星が流す涙らしいです。
　
　「んっ？！」

２人が流す涙が、雨になるんだったら、泣きやめば、毎年会えるんじゃないかな(' ' )?!と、思うのは、私だけかな。。

夜は短し、歩けよ乙女　~~ ( / ＾＾）」

2009-07-01T22:47:00.008+09:00

　
　この季節になると、妙に歩きたくなるんだよね～。運動を兼ねた早歩きで（笑）ということで、最近、夜中の町を徘徊（笑）☆☆
田舎と言えども、最近は物騒らしく、一人で出歩くと親が良い顔しないので、、companyとして餌食になるのは、、６歳差の妹（笑）
　私の理由なき提案に、いつも「えっ(☆o☆)?!」と言いつつ、なんだかんだで相手をしてくれる、面倒見の良い妹です♪♪
　
　こういう機会がないと、なかなか時間作って話さないからね。。来年は家を出るし、こういうFamily Timeは大事にしようと思います( ^^)人(^^ )☆っと、良い風に言ってても、基本、餌食。。ごめんなさい(>ω<;)
　
　明日は、高校の合唱コンクールとのこと。１６歳と２１歳が６年のブランクを超えて、真剣２人合唱。ぃゃ～、以外に面白い☆（近所の方々、夜中に、すみませんでした(^_^;)）

「時の旅人」「大地讃賞」「ファンファーレ」etc...合唱曲って６年経っても不動なんだなぁって実感。

　せっかくなので、明日、妹の合唱を見に行って来たいと思います\(＾ω＾)ノ
妹からのオーダーは、「大学生らしい服装」

　妹の服を平気で着てちゃいけないってことだね。。。

ジャパニーズ　フェスティバル

2008-11-04T23:42:00.006+09:00

世間がMelbourne cup　day だった中、今日は、私にとっては、Opera house day~.Japan　festival(concert)を鑑賞してきました.　
琴。和太鼓。騒乱節。盆踊り。日本舞踊。童謡 with Piano。Quilt fashion show etcと内容てんこもり～にも関わらず、友達がFree ticketをGetしてくれたおかげで、正真正銘のFree。Opera houseにFree enterってだけでも、もう十分なのに、もうfree concertなんて、願ったり叶ったり～。”ただより怖いものはない”というけど、”ただより安いものはない”ってのも確かだよね、やっぱり(笑)☆ありがとう～～。

琴でのAustralian 国歌からStart.何か変（笑）

で、日本舞踊。基本、すり足＝歩いているっていうよりは、床の上を滑っている感じ。もし、人間が足がない動物で、linia moter carみたいに、空気の上を走ってるみたいに移動する動物だったら、日本の芸の美は本当の完結を見るんじゃないかなと思います。でも、まぁ、実際、そうじゃないから、美の探究、芸の追求が出来るわけだけど。

盆踊りを、ちゃんとしたの、よく考えたら、一回くらいしかないわ。。。→良いChanceだから、踊り方覚えようかな～と思ったら、以外に厄介。手の動き、足の動き。。ん～、盆踊りを踊れる日本人って結構少ないんじゃないかな、もう。いつか、なくなちゃう日本文化かもね。

そうらん節を直接見るのも初☆唯一見たのは、金八先生の最終回on TV。何組かのグループがいたけど、やっぱ、Memberみんなの動きが揃ってると、迫力が増すよね。ちっちゃい子（幼稚園生？）も中にはいて、Soooo Cute ~~ そこのBoy,あと、10歳ほど年を重ねててくれてたら、もう、 fall in love だったんだけどね（笑）～

というのは、Soccer やらBasketballやらをやってるBoysが人気list上位っていうのが、世間の常だけど、私的には、"道"が付くSportをやってる人の方に魅かれるから（まぁ、日本的なもの）。武道=Sport＋art=Soo hot~~だし、Old fashion と思われがちな"道"を敢えて選んで（他人にダサいと思われようが、）自分の確固たる信念に基づいてやってるんだろうな的なとこが、返ってCool~~~LOL

日本の芸文化を表すとすると、しなやかさ、優美さ、可憐さ、儚さetc...漢字一つで表すと、静っって感じじゃないかな。だから、極めれば極めるほど、日本文化らしくあればあるほど、、Aussieのための、Entertaiment性には欠くっていうのが、今日の私的observation。実際、私たちの後ろにいた、浴衣を来たAustralian boyは爆睡してたしね。。Too comfortable not to sleep.LOL

舞踊がつまらないとかいうわけでは決してなくて、反対に深すぎると言った方が正しいかな。まさしくEvery single movement には意味があるんだよね、きっと。で、その動きの意味を理解してる通（ツー）は鑑賞&解釈というWの楽しみ方があるわけで。たとえば、歌舞伎。どこで、拍手をするか、どこで、役者に声をかけるか、決まっているらしいです。見せる側のLevel追求は、もちろん最低条件で＋観客のLevelも求められる文化なんじゃないかなと思います。まぁ、私は、日本人でありながら、確実にそのLevelには付いて行けてないけど。。。
ただのObservationからだけでも、言えることは、しなやかで流れるような動作の中に、キレもあって、力強さも感じられて。でも、足音ひとつ立てない。まさに静。床1cm手前まで、力強く足を振り落とすけど、寸前でSoftに着地。足の指一本一本に神経張り巡らしてないと出来ない技だよね♪そこはさすが、Professional~~見せられる芸。魅了される芸。

人気があったぽいのが、やっぱり和太鼓。見せる芸、引きつける芸代表かな。バチを箸を持つみたいに持ってて、力入れづらいだろうなぁ。簡単そうに見えるけど、実際は、腕の筋肉、相当いるよね。Mainの太鼓を3人で交代して叩いてて、その交換する瞬間の、めっちゃSmoothで、ほ～って感じでした。

民謡。なんと、Non Japさん発見。実を言うと、彼女が、日本人じゃないってことに、友達に言われるまで気付かなかったっていうね。(言われてみれば)髪の毛が、純黒ではないなぁ、鼻が高いかなぁ、と思って、日本人じゃないかもなって判断した私と違って、友達は、彼女の声（発音）から、non japだと判断。彼女の発音は一音一音明瞭すぎるとのこと。確かに、民謡ってvibrationかかりすぎて、聞きとりづらいものだよね。とらえ方の違いだね。

もうひとつ、面白かった捉え方の違い。Announcerの日本女性の話し方。彼女は、Tour guide とかFlight attendantに特有の、超Fluent Japaneseで、Jap訛りのないEnglish。でも、友達いわく、English を話てる時の彼女と、Japaneseを話してる彼女はまるで別人のようだとのこと。全然意識してなかったけど、、良く聞いてると、確かに、Englishの時の方が　One tone低い気がする。そういえば、昔、お母さんが’低い声で話すと、英語が上手いように聞こえる’って言ってたことあったけな。まぁ。Announcerは、実際に、本当に英語上手いんだけど（笑）低い方が、落ち着いてる＆自信があるImageがするのは確かかな。

FinaleはFashion show by Sanae hattori。これが、もう傑作。ツボでした。Quilt生地でPatternは,着物のような感じ。でも、Modelさんは、帯とかは一切してなくて、手を広げてWalking &Dancing.一見すると、物干しざおに干してある?的な印象(笑)私的に、もう着替え途中のようで、気持ち悪くてしょうがない。しかも、Back musicがWesten。絶妙の collaboration。。最後は、Quilt 着物でDisco化。爆笑でした。
でも、Patternを全部見せるためには、ああするしかないのかな。着物は折って着るものだけど、
Modelさん達は、まぁ、足が長いし＋High heelを履いてるし、見事に着こなしてたのも事実。模様は、Quiltと思えないほど、綺麗で繊細♢特に、Quilt着物とWedding dressが、綺麗でした。動きにも意味があるようで、光源氏を意識してるのかな的な個所も。It is the best fashion show I have ever seen (from my friend)~~うん、（色んな意味）確かに～♪

Backsideには、Japanese calligraphy byレンさん。有名らしいね。『和　日豪親善　美』　日豪親善は分かるにしても、何で、美、和なんだろう、と、まぁ、疑問にも思ってなくTroughしてたけど、、今、日記を書きながら、あぁ～と納得。美ね。和は和風みたいに日本を意味してるのか、それとも、cercle（団結力的なもの)を意味してるのか。。まぁ、どっちにしても、今日のConcertには、ぴったりの文字のSelectだったかなと思います。

Showの後は、Ticket numberで、抽選会。なんと、友達がしおりを当てました☆Freeでpresentまで、Getして、もう凄いね。でも、醤油が欲しかった~と駄々をこねてたところ、、、おっきい日本こけしを持ってる人を発見。『.... 』ん～、どんな使い道があるんだろう。。てことで、It's enough~ っていう、全員一致の結論に。Don't be too ambitious~

Australiaで日本文化体験っていうのも、変だけど、、芸者さんなんて、見たことないし、これからも見る機会があるかも分からないし、どんな日本文化が受け入れられるのか見てるだけでも、面白かったかな。
今日は本当に、Memorable day~~来年も日本から、参戦したいっ～～><

オバマ氏のFull name は、、、、バラック・オバマだった。。。

2008-10-30T20:27:00.002+09:00

って、Trivia 風に言ってみても、、実際は、Common sense なんだろうな。。

Today, in Kumon(my working place),one of students who studies Japanese came and asked me a question. The task was filling a blank of the following sentence.

正午に見られる太陽の方角は.....です。
The answer should be Minami(南）

Can you read this sentence?
Yes.
Did you already learn how to write each direction in Kanji?
Yes.
Do you remember how to write them?
Yes.
??? So, what is the problem?

つまり、,this is not a language problem, 強いて言えば、Science problemかな。

でも、人のこと言ってられるような立場じゃないんだよね。。
This Thursday, I had a class test in my phonology class.The task was basically translating sentences from English(ABC) to phonemic symbols.

One of questions was who I want to win in an American election(family name& first name)?
MMM?
The only person I could remember at that time was Obama氏.
しかし!!What is his given name?
I asked my teacher whether it was Ok to create a candidate's name as I like or not like 山田太郎さん。
The answer was ...No.

え～～。Isn't this class a phonology class??テストに、オバマ氏が絡んでくるとは、予想外。。。

再試験かなぁ。。

取るに足らないこと

2008-10-25T12:01:00.000+09:00

When I hung out the washing on the line today, suddenly I remembered the first day I did my laundry in Australia. At that time, full of ’ んっ!?’ occupied my mind The line was too high… I really had to look up it, because my height was barely enough to touch the line if I reach up as much as I can.

I am already used to the situation everything here is big and high. And actually, I nearly forget the fact I was surprised at such a small thing at the beginning of staying here.

The departure day is coming soon. So, this memory might come up to my mind suddenly. This made me realize that I am gradually keen to burn familiar places and things on my mind.

負け犬women のすすめ

2008-10-20T20:38:00.001+09:00

Today, in my class called contemporary Japan,　I learned gender problems and history in Japan. Then, I came across one new ツボword. When I heard the word and knew that meaning,’ what!?’ was out of my mouth before I could stop myself…Soo fanny.

The word is… Christmas cake which describes over 25-year-old women who didn’t marry yet. Christmas is 25^th of December. After 25^th a cake is gonna off. つまり、売れ残りthen,売り物にならにならない。 I bet the first person who used the word Christmas as this meaning must have good sense of humor.

In Japanese, an alternative word of the word, Christmas cake is probably,負け犬(make inu ). The phrase 負け犬の遠吠え(Makeinuno toboe) means grumbling of the loser.

The book titled 負け犬の遠吠えwas published 3 years ago or so and became a best-seller. Even though, literally, 負け犬means a underdog, in this book, 負け犬 expresses women in their 30’s who din’t get marry yet. 負け(lose) is used for these unmarried women, because they regard losers as women in terms of the fact they missed ideal and successful lives for women. The word’負け犬’ became a vogue-word（流行語）few years ago.

There are no specific words for men who miss chances of marrying. But, they doesn’t necessary bring negative image. If they don’t marry, others will think the following way:

They worked a lot→ They didn’t have time to go out with women.

Their less attraction is not a reason why they couldn’t marry.

On the other hand, in women case, it is a kind of vise vase.

They couldn’t get marry→they are involved in work so hard.

Generally (and perhaps instinctively) men want to get girl friends or wives who are shorter, younger ,weaker, earn lower payment, graduated from lower level universities(schools)

でも、、

It’s difficult for taller women to find taller men than them.

It’s difficult for clever women to find more clever men than them.

It’s difficult for strong women to find men who are stringer than them.

It’s difficult for women who get high payment to find men who make more money than them.

Conclusion

負け犬 women are too attractive for most men to be selected.

レポート形式、途中から、崩れてる。。

おまけtrivia

負け犬women　の見分け方。

Women dress up.

Women have bland bags, cloth or shoes.

Because they can spend time and money for themselves instead of spending time for husbands and children

本当に、どうでも良いこと書いてますが、、この日記読むことで、毎日、どんなこと考えてたか、後になっても、思いだせるように!ということで。

授業中考えてた、私的ジェンダー論。雅子様編、ジェンダー男の目線編も、機会があったら、書けたら良いなと思います。

墨尔本 Melbourne 1st day

2008-09-29T23:47:00.001+09:00

I broke up for the my holidays~~ So, 我，去了墨尔本with 中国人的女孩子和韩国人的男孩子. 我们都是 exchange students in　悉尼工科大学.
Why do I use Chinese ?Because I joined the Chinese tour to ~. It was a really fun trip fulled with precious experiences!!

The meeting time was supposed to be 6:55. and!the time I woke up was 6:30... namely, I overslept on that particular day. Oh my God.... I set about preparing for leaving my house just after I wake up. All I did was calling the taxi company, changing my cloth, calling my friend , chatting with the taxi driver, and arriving at the last bus stop 5 min before the bus came. I bet there was no one wrong move in that morning. Instead of the Central st( the second last bus stop), my tour started from Strathfield st which was the last pick up point (Or rather,maybe, my tour started from my house by taxi.lol ) 对不起。我来晚了。Anyway, I could make it in the end, so I was still lucky, wasn't I?That's for the lesson:have a go in any case!!

The first day's plan was ...heading to Melbourne by bus. In other word, staying on the bus for 12 h!! As somebody says 'getting there is half their fun', it was fun !!

For one thing, It was surprising(and a bit strange) for me to see the tour guide used two languages even though all of tourists(except us) had the same nationality, Chinese. Tour guide spoke in Mandarin and Cantonese( and English). Actually, I already know there are countless Chinese dialects,but,I realize knowing is different from seeing in real.

On the bus, we watched some movies. The first one was Mr bean. The second one was a Chinese movie..It was helpful to brush up my Chinese language more or less. The last one was a Korean movie with Chinese subtitle..Oh my God again..no idea..but, I dared try to read Chinese. I haven't the foggiest idea what they said. I tried a few more times, in vain..No less, languages make any sense at all.. So, my Chinese friend became a translator for me.The lesson I learned from this time is that language is important!!

On the way to Melbourne, I could see spectacular landscape from a window. There was nothing special. So boring? No, Quite the reverse. The thing which fascinated me so much was that huge land with nothing but green and sky. Pure beauty~~.I could feel the wonders of nature.Mmm,,,,I don't know what to say to express them. They can be said fabulous ,fascinating, amazing, fantastic,awesome or someting..Just i can say I'm sooooo in.
At night, we explored in Melbourne. It was great fun walking in new places. The first destination was Melbourne university. Each building had names of faculties on them,but most of them were out of my vocabulary..But!! both of my friends knew such unsurvival English words. How come they have capacity to remember these kinds of stuff. It was a really right decision I changed the battery of my electronic dictionary before this trip.

One word I could guess was 'zoology'. then we saw an adorable animal passing in right front of us. Where did it come from..?
It will be better not to dare guess in this time.lol

We found dormitories of Melbourne uni as well. And 20 min later, we also ound ourselves be locked in... It seemed we entered the closing gate luckily or unluckily after somebody entered with their stu card. It was an automatic gate even though we didn't have no such idea. Oh my God, again...We ended up in asking the student in there to open the gate for us..So embarrassing..

While we were taking a walk, I realized I didn't sneeze so much, even though I already got hey fever in Sydney. I guess even though summer is coming in Melbourne, it wasn't completely there yet contrary to Sydney where summer is right here. That made me realize again Australia is so big!!

( ~o)>zzZ ♪(^o^*)

2008-09-26T23:10:00.005+09:00

Good morning, Good morning, Good morning(^^)! My days always start with this greeting… Everyone replies me “Good morning!” with big smiles(^^)☆☆….

This is the beginning of my speech (language has power だったかな)in a speech contest when I was a junior high school student~ But, I have to confess that…my days didn’t start with “Good morning” at that days unlike my life expressed in my speech ..(>M<;) Actually, I didn’t greet neighborhood in Japan so much ,because my primary school teachers told me not to greet to strangers to avoid being involved in something bad things like kidnap…世知辛い世の中だこと。。

でも!! That speech’s situation came true in Australia. At my suburb, it seems to be a quite natural thing to greet strangers. And everybody replies “Hi!” to me without wondering why I greet them, even if we don’t know each other at all. Mmm, it was pretty surprising for me when I came here first.つまり、平和。

I know residents who live next door to me（お隣さん）, residents who live next door of next door（お隣のお隣さん）, residents who live opposite to mine(お向かいさん), residents who live diagonal to me(斜め向かいの方), the nearest train station’s & the nearest bus stop’s staff members. This is the exactly one of things which makes me keep to such an inconvenient place. I mean such a peaceful and kindly atmosphere of my place attracts me a lot.まさに、サザエさんのアニメ状態です。

“ May I help you?” From this word, even today, I enjoyed keep talking, talking ,talking with a lady who was struggled with a heavy bag. (She was just a passing stranger for me.) 一期一会。I like her smile^^

The town I live in now definitely will be my second ふるさと~

When shared, joy is doubled and sorrow halved.

2008-09-23T23:28:00.002+09:00

Since I stayed with my host family, I saw 5 housemates off. Out of five, the longest-stay and the last house mate was a Korean girl. We stayed together for about 5 months. From the first day, we chatted a lot. I still remember that the first word which we learned together was 'naughty' from the book, peter rabit. Nostalgia~~ From later on, most of every day, we had dinner together as chatting so that we knew each other’s schedule and friends nearly perfectly ,as if we are each others’ mother. Needless to say, she also knows how ugly my face is in the morning and how messy my room is~.lol

I often said I like her~~♡to my friends. I bet my friends are already sick of this phrase.. But, actually, I guess “respect” can express my feeling more precisely than “like”. She has more life experiences than me, so I was exposed to new idea. I could learn great deal from her for the last 5 months.

I wanted to share every single news with her, because I could tell she enjoyed vicarious pleasure though me whenever I shared my happy news with her. I miss her ‘Oh my god’ when I said sad news or my hard luck. I can’t measure how much I depended on her deliberate thinking and advice.

I found us talking really naturally in English. I could feel as comfortable as the time when I speak Japanese. Obviously, one of the biggest reasons for it is.. she got used to Japanese English though(><;)!!

Whenever I see the single teeth holder on the mirror where used to be two teeth holders next to each other...I miss her... I wish she were a man(*U-U*) haha Whenever she is in trouble, I’ll come running~

.....(; 　>▽)o".....

2008-08-09T09:17:00.000+09:00

One of the next steps I decided myself is getting a part-time job in Australia~

All of my friends who have working holiday visas have full-time jobs, part-time jobs or casual jobs even though they also go to language schools.

When I saw my friend working in Subway(a popular chain fast food shop) in city(busy place), I was well impressed by her strength.

Every time I hear about my housemate’s work in the nursing house, I can feel she is getting strong especially mentally. So, I can respect her~~

I think people who live by themselves independently in the term of financially and mentally are cool. I want to be such a person. So, my next step is making money by myself!!

と言うことで、お仕事探し。

(Especially I wanted to work at a coffee shop, because I am a big fan of coffee.)

Gloria Jean's

-They don’t need new staff members for the time being.

う～。。

The coffee shop at the next station

-The moment I saw the line of customers, I felt really scared by imagining I work there.ちょっと考えるの早すぎですが。。

For the next 30 min..

Think, think , think…

I come here because I want to work here, but I don’t know they need more staff members, so!? all I have to do is asking to them..But, I wonder how they feel if I ask so with my poor English. But, I want to try..But, I don’t need to put myself into pressure. Too much for me..? Or is it escaping from trying new things..?

I could already expect I would feel shy to submit my resume in the last minute, because I know myself well.. So, I already made my mind not to be shy! ,because I decided myself to get a job. Don’t be shy~~.

のはずだったんですが。。

Finally, I didn’t submit my resume. Too scary for me now.

I felt really sad my courage failed me. That is, I haven’t changed so much since I came here.

With heavy feeling

Coffee shop in city

-They already found new staff members..

う～。

With really heavy feeling,

I went to the Japanese restaurant in my town.

-They are looking for a new waitress. Oh, positive reply~ So, I'm waiting for their reply now. I don't know what they will reply to me yet.

At night, I explained about my day to my Korean housemate( she is a really good listener and adviser for me) like the following:

(Finally, I didn’t submit my resume. Too scary for me now.

I felt really sad my courage failed me. That is, I haven’t changed so much since I came here.)

And,

She said I was brave enough. Thank you for your kind answer~ Thank you very kamusa~

というような Up down　の激しい一日でした。I can understand it doesn’t mean they refuse me , just they don’t need more people now. But, anyway, I can't help being depressed when they say "no". Mmm, I have to be more tough to be my ideal person. いや～、疲れた(**;)

次は、何をしようかな☆

2008-08-07T23:06:00.005+09:00

Some people say studying abroad is great,while other say it is just for pleasure. Staying here is really ‘fun’, in fact. I can do anything I want to do, because I have a plenty of time. Paradise~. That is, it is really easy to be kind to myself. How spend my time and what I will do is really up to me.

I can feel my requirement to me is getting higher and higher since I came here.

Before I came here, my goal was getting the enough English score to come to Australia.

Just after I came here, my main concern was improving my English skill.

(because I wanted to express my feeling more.

I didn’t want to say I have studied English for 8 years and my major is a kind of ‘English’ with feeling embarrassed .

And I wanted to surpass the level some people might expect my English would achieve to)

I don’t feel nervous to speak in English any more.

I begin not to hesitate to speak to new people so much. ( maybe )

I ‘enjoy’ chatting with my friends.

I feel my English is getting the ’ color’ to show my characters (a bit) with my own words.

(of course, I have to study English more and more though)

I wanna do something as a plus α of English.

In fact, I can study English in Japan. So, Just studying English is not enough to say it is worth coming to Australia with spending one year and much money after studying English for 8 years.

Studying English is jsut "must"かなって。

So..What is Next?

I'm not sure what is the best way is spending time here for me..but, I decided to move on to the next step anyway to get close to the person I want to be.( matured person!!).

Sex and City

2008-07-18T09:52:00.001+09:00

面白い～～。って言いながら、１週間、毎夜、毎夜,　計８時間、見てました。いや～、面白かった。I like girls’ talk~. This DVD makes me miss my school days when I chatted for hours with my friends in a restaurant after classes or the part-time job when I was in Japan. I notice girls’ talk is global~ I will go to see this movie definitely!!

足踏み

2008-07-15T08:00:00.001+09:00

If I tried more, I could more, but at least, I am really satisfied with my life so far in Australia,
because I had the clear goal ,IELTS.
After the test, I could chill out with no pressure ~. But..
No goal( purpose) is really scary more or less...in a sense, being busy with pulling through difficulties is much better to avoid thinking , thinking , thinking something which don't have solutions or have too many solutions.

I just have another 3months before I come back to Japan. This year will be over before I know it, if I spend time with nothing special .

-------------------------------------------------
You can change your life- if you wanna....
If you change your mind ,well
, that's the way it goes...
You can say you're bored-if you wanna
You can act real tough-if you wanna
( from So yesterday)
-------------------------------------------------
たしかに（’’ ）!!

So,I wanna ...
try to do the thing I like and I want. 'Cause The varied life will be more fun, and bring the fruitful life .

というようなことを、一週間くらい悶々と飽きずに考えてました。そう思うなら、何かすればいいだけの話なんですが、、いったい、自分は、何をしたいのかなぁ～と考えてたら、”ん～”って、足踏み状態。。。

　同じ話を、嫌な顔をせず、会うたびに聞いてくれた友達に、もう本当に感謝ですm(_ _)m　とにかく何かしようかなと、思います。

A polysesemous word

2008-07-01T07:33:00.002+09:00

I am confused the grammar of the future tense( the present simple, will, be going to, the present continuous) So, I asked my mother to send one page of the text book which I used in Japan as a photo attachment of her e-mail.

I sent a message to her like the following way

Future tense がまとめてある、プリントを写メってメールでおくって。( Please send a message with an attachment of the print which deals with the future tense by taking a picture with your mobile phone)

And she replied that in the way that

緊張した未来がまとめてあるプリントってどれ？(What prints is the print written the future which is tensed up? )

？？？I was somewhat puzzled for an answer to this reply. What is she talking about?

And finally, I realized that she didn't know the word "tense" so, maybe, She tried to work out the meaning　of "the future tense " with a dictionary. Then, she tried to translate "the future tense" directly in Japanese(=緊張した未来）
Mmm, It can't be deny that it can be interpreted in different ways..lol I couldn't help laughing after I realized this.

なにはともあれ, ありがとう、おかあさん～(Thanks mother~)　Now, thanks for her, I have better understanding about the future tense m(_ _)m

実力以上☆

2008-06-21T02:23:00.001+09:00

In the beginning of the next month, I'm taking IELT again as the last test(. . ;)_So, actually, I needed to study for it.. But, some parts of me kindly helped me keep out of control over myself..

So..

I changed my mind wisely! I devoted most of my time of the last three days to reading the book because I realized it was the clever way rather than trying to keep away the book from me (o< )=3( the book distracted me a lot from studying for the upcomimg test..)

And ..finally,I did it~~My curiosity to know the following story pushed me to go through reading the whole story~

In a word,

I'll get down to studying for IELT from today <( '~';)..

The last time I took IELT and got the result which was not enough to my target, my mother said she hope I can streach my ability more than I have the next time..(実力以上の力が出せるといいね♪) ???The comon phrase is saying "hope you can come into my own"..(実力が発揮できると良いね♪） I realize that my mother is too optimistic or parhaps, too ambituois. Anyway,I hope there excists more than 100% things in this world!! And my cleverst moment comes when i hope( ><)☆

Lovely to meet... ME(->ω<) ♡（>ω<-)

2008-06-19T00:59:00.003+09:00

　Geisha again.. because I found my name in that book(☆o☆)!What a coincidence~~ Nice to meet Me~( ^^)(^^ )♪

　I have three names now, Kanako, Mun, Michelle.

Kanako~
Which name did I come across? Of course, Kanako~My real name! Kanako in this book is one of Gaisya's names~ But, she is a not good character..I was really desappointed in me..(><;)!! I sometimes explain my friends my whole name don't have any specific means together. Because ,for my parents, the sound of names and the number of strokes used to write them(there are luckily and unlucky strokes considering our family names)were matters rather than the meaning of each characters. But, if i force myself to make my name have some meanings..my name means a child who adds a pear..Does it make sense(' '?)

Sometimes, I find my name in some TV shows or comics. I don't know why, but Kanako are bad charasters in anywhere.. Poor me.. for me, every name has some image or impression thanks to my friends who I met in my life(-UωU-)☆For example..

Mai..an active girl
Miho..a trendy girl
Misaki.. a respectable girl
Ayaka..a fasionable girl
Chisato.. a sensitive girl
Rina..a lovable girl

How about Kanako..? I just hope Kanako don't bring my friends bad impression becuase of me(>人<;) Mun~ My one of nicknames is Mun which used since I was kindergartner. My first name is Murase. and if I read my first name from the end it is Se ra mu. and then, if I combine seramu and Mun, it becomes seramun. It seems like sailor moon(セーラームーン）. This is the title of the Japanese famous animation for girls. セーラームーン is famous in Australia as well. So I can feel like as if I am famous.lol

Update..
My host mother thought my name was Mon.. My friend thought my nick name was Moon...and our dog's nick name seems to be Mun.. It's a bit confusing.. Mmm, any name is OK as long as i can recognize I am called..

お疲れ様でしたm(_ _)m

2008-06-08T06:38:00.000+09:00

I finally finished the first semester at UTS. Time really seems to fly~.

How have I changed in the past 4 months? Nothing in particular, maybe. I am ..still me.

My main and big objective in Australia is.. to get passion!!

I mean busting a gut at least one time or expressing my emotion more clearly <(@@)/~

In this personal subject, maybe I failed .. And I seem to have to carry over this from this semester to the next semester...

Anyway, I'm well content with life here~ There are too many things made me inspired to write down here. So, I will write about such a kind of thing when the time is right.

Just I want to say thanks to everybody ~ありがとう☆

○公文は世界語○

2008-05-25T15:47:00.005+09:00

Kumon~~!! I found the advertizing of Kumon in a magazine here ~~!!

I was a student of Kumon when I was a junior high and high school student (for 6 years). After graduating from my high school, I came back to Kumon as an assistant for one year. That's why I was so excited when I found it.

I think Kumon is not so popular for high school students, because teaching materials of Kumon are not related directly to entrance exams for universities. So, (in my opinion) most students (parents?)prefer juku schools to get direct strategies to pass entrance examinations.

But, I am a fan of Kumon~~ , because the way of studying of Kumon really suited me. In Kumon, we can choose materials suit our own levels without concerning our grades in our schools. I was a really slow learner( and I am still a slow learner..) especially math...( Math is my enemy...) My teachers and my parents said so , so the fact I was a slow learner is the unshackable fact..(' ';) So, Kumon was good environment for me to study without pressure~~

By the way, Kumon was the first place I studied English. That's why I like English, probably~~

♡パジャマ♡はんてん♡ mother's dayにちなんで

2008-05-11T16:30:00.000+09:00

Before I came here, no one said that I would feel home sick in Australia. My host mother said that I am easy-going about one month after I lived with her. So, I know that I am regard as such a person by others. And probably, I am really such a sort of person. So, I totally had no idea that my mother would worry so much about me ... before I got the box from Japan..

Now, in Australia, winter is coming. So , I asked my mother to send me winter clothes. When I opened the box, I found hanten( which is worm out cloth on pajama). I didn't ask my mother to send such bulky stuff. I could easily pictured the scene my mother was concerned I might feel cold at night in Australia. This bulky hanten has my mother's full of kindness and love( I hope she didn't put the hunten just because there was room in the box.lol)

The time i got the box from my mother was a very good timing, because that time was just few days after I got pajamas from my host mother. Why my did host mother give me pajamas? There is a long(?) story.lol

The other day, my host sister asked me something about pajama and ...our conversation ended by making my host sister cry..because I couldn't understand what she asked me and she was confused a great deal... I am sorry...

And few days later, I got pajamas from my host mother who saw our conversation which looked like a quarrel. Thank you~~.
And ...few days later I got pajamas, I got the hanten. Thank you~~.
And now... I have a comfortable night thanks to my two mothers(-UωU-)♡ Thank you~~

Geisya

2008-05-08T23:31:00.005+09:00

　　Recently, I read a book named Geisha which I borrowed from my host mother . This book has 430pages ~It is thick enough to hit someone's heads...(>w<)! lol This is really challenging reading for me. But, I will try to be an active reader until I can finish reading up to the last page . This book is really intresting.

For example... Namely, Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a women's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a women's legs.This is why Geisha wear the collars of their kimono so low in the back that the first few bumps of the spine are visible. I suppose it's like a woman in Paris wearing a short skirt.

I'm not sure this is the real reason why gaisha wear collars of their Kimono low. But, at least, it is an intrestiing opinion~~.lol I like reading, because I can step back to the past, have a glance of the future and visit wonderful places in my imaginary worlds. Once I come across intresting books, I can't help being excited~~ And some books are intresting enough to make me forget to go to bathroom.lol Geisha is such a book.

...But the big problem of English books is ...that I am often left behind by the stories,because I can't flick through the pages like that when I read books in Japanese. How frustrating~~(><)

...Though frustrating, i can't help opening books to see new worlds and new words .lol

Excursion　in Australia

2008-05-01T22:55:00.004+09:00

Today, my host sister went to an excursion as a part of her kindergarten class. And , in this morning,my host mother showed me the document from my host sister's kindergarten . Immediately, I was grasped my attention by it. I couldn't help commenting something as reading this document~~.
This document said: The kindergarten classes will hold their Super Kid to a local park...
わぉ(☆o☆）!... Each student is asked to bring their own healthy picnic lunch...えっ。ヘルシー限定!?(' ':)...
Students must wear sun screen and a hat. ..Mmm...そっかぁ。ここ、オーストラリアだもんね。
I bet most of Japanese can understand why I thought this document deserves my attention.

My tummy is upset...

2008-04-24T01:02:00.003+09:00

というphraseを学びました。。なぜなら、、、まさにそういう状態だから。。。Australiaで初☆というより、、何年ぶり!?くらいの体調不良。。ん～（。。；）朝から、雲行きは怪しかったんだけど、、お腹の空き過ぎで痛いのかな？ということにして、めいいっぱいcerealを食べて、、気づいたことは、、空腹のせいじゃないということ。。あんだけcerealを食べといて"I have a stomachache..I will go to bed..'って言うのが、どんだけ気まずかったかっていうね。。
　お昼には、ちょっと回復!家で、お腹の調子とにらめっこし続けているよりは、外に出たほうが良いかな!っていう、楽天的なideaで、、友達にlunchの相手をしてもらい、classmatesに誘われるがままに、ホールケーキをたいらげ（yammy~）、、クラブ活動の一環で日本語を教えて、団子をもらい、、、電車で帰宅中、、また雲行き怪しくなってきた。。そりゃそうだよね。
うつされ、うつして、うつして、治ってのcycle○に、3月頃、家族全員が参加していた中で、一人、円の外にいて。。さすが皆勤賞!と油断していたのがいけないんですね。昨日、「次女→私」、ついにcycle に飛び入り参加です。。
I am OK, but I just have a stomachache。という朝の状態から、I am not so goodと言わざる負えない状態で帰宅。今日のDinnerのpastaおいしそうだったなぁ。。"Can you eat dinner?" "No ..Sorry." "Do you want to eat miso soup?" "..!?" 日本料理ってお腹に優しいんだなぁとちょっと感じつつ、’Take it easy'ってこういう時にも使えるんだ～と感動しつつ、早めの就寝。　
今日は、布団に入ってから、３０分以上意識があったという、人生何度目かの貴重な日でした。そして、バイブの音で12時に起床。知らないnumberだなぁ～と思いつつ、２回かかってきていたので、かけなおしてみたところ、、'Did you call me?' ! "No" うっそぉ。。いや、かけてますよ～。と主張するenergyとvocabularyとreasonsがなかったので"Wrong number"ってことで解決。体調が悪化してることに気づいてしまってから、、もう寝れなくなってしまって。しんどい～。。私のroomはdetached roomなので、 main house(?)に行くには一回、shoesをはいてbackyardにでなきゃいけなくて、、でも今日は、悲しいかなrainy dayで。。このdouble attacksは痛い。。う～。吐かないように、という考えから、これはいっそのこと吐いてしまったほうが、楽になるんじゃないかという考えにchangeして、、try。背中を擦ってくれる人がいない辛さをひしひしと感じただけだっだんですけど。。
　ルー大柴さんになりつつあります。ルー語+Englishならまだしも、悲しいかな、vice versa..　ところで、ルーさんは、芸能界からfade-outしそうな芸能人No1に、ある雑誌でなってた気がしたけど、,まだ、芸能界にいらっしゃるのでしょうか。。。。

Kitchen

2008-04-21T21:36:00.009+09:00

I have some blogs which I sometimes check in order to.. copy and paste ideas~lol(><)) One of blogs is the group brog named edc University students in Japan (Shizuoka to be exact) are creating one English blog for their study and fun. (At fast, I also started this blog from one group blog as a part of one English class in my home university with my English teacher's big, big help. )

I found one post appealed very much to me . One student wrote about Penguin Readers( books for learners who study English as not native language) She wrote about the book titiled "Women in Business"writrten about five women who made success in Business, and this book is the exact book I read in Japan. And her favorite section is Anita Roddick. Mee too~~. (Anita Roddick is the president of the world wide famous shop, The body shop~!!). As a big fan of penguin Readers, I think I have to leave comments or rather, I can't help saying something( >▽)o"

The Penguin book which I read recently is Frozen Pizza and other slices of life. This book has 8 stories. My favorite part is "Frozen Pizza" ,which is the story of one man who lives with a host family which has children like me. But, to be different from me, he ,immediately, found his host family strange..

I found the following sentences in the book:

The house was surprisingly tidy for a family with children.

Mmm, it is surely strange situation as a house of families with children, because...the house should be messy, because children are too ingenious of making houses messy for parents to fix a mess.lol

They didn't meet up for dinner.

He had never thought much about food before. But, he realized how much the food was part of home life.

My host family usually eats dinner around 6o'clock. So, most weekdays, i can't join their dinner table. In such a day, I feel a kind of feeling that I miss some important part of a day..

Food is pretty important!! It is an essential part of my life~~ The kitchen is the center of the family( ^^)人(^^ ). Thanks to living in Australia, I made up my mind that I give my mind to family time more after I come back to Japan instead of being rush than I was in Japan

What is the habit of sayin' of Snow White..?

2008-04-16T10:48:00.001+09:00

Though I already came back to my house, my host family stilll camp~, so there are no persons in my house now(; ..) My house is too quite and big to live alone , poor me.. Meanwhile my host family enjoy camp at the beach, I did nothin' special except watchin' the movie" Snow White" three times at my house.. lol What a lazy person I am..( --)/(' ' ;) Maybe, I start to forget how to live without 'em. And I miss my host mother's favorite word "Oh dear". I 'm anxious to see my hostfamily~~. Saterday night!! Please come early for me~~( >人<)!
By the way, thanks to watchin' the movie with my full attention, I could get comprehensive understanding about Snow White( >▽)o" I am all ready to answer questions about Snow White~~.lol
On the first time, I was in for a shockin' surprise and the movie stuck me speechless for a while. And I began to wonder if Snow White is good for kids.. And while I watched the movie on the second time, slowly but surely, I was certain that Snow White ain't appropriate for kids ,especially in terms of kids education, unfortunately ...I could find the words such as: I will kill it dead , Druft will bury snow white alive.. Oh, My!
Apparently, Snow White is pure..But,But, But!? The first word she said when she found the cute house of dwarfs was that"Guess there're no one in the house" My goodness. I did't want to know that she is a sort of person who can enter other's home without permission.. I bet I have to check to lock the door carefully now not to let people like her enter my house. lol (Suprisingly, at the precise time when I was thinkin' about that one kitten came suddenly from nowhere into my backyard. Jiminy Criket~>< Perhaps, I have to check the fence as well when I leave home..)
Anyway, at the third time, I tried to all hear exactly what they said and I could find well-phrase in the movie. Snow White is probably fit for my English education! I think(I hope?)I could get a good takin'-note skill a little bit. Snow White might become my well-beloved movie.

The report about the camp( 家族編）

2008-04-15T09:57:00.000+09:00

お父さん:My host father, who is often cool, seemed to step back to his boyhood with other fathers during the camp. He became as eager and excited as a young boy. Fathers had a long talk especially about fishing and swimming.

子どもたち:Children can be good examples to other children. (Maybe, parents can be a good example to other parents as well. )My host family goes to camp at least once a year. So, children can take animals for granted like air we breathe. It's good for them~~.

お母さん:Interestingly, mothers' habits of saying look quite similar. My host mother's favorite word is lively. But, I noticed that other mothers often use lively as well. Indeed, their ways of bringing up their kids also similar. I heard the words " That's one" double or triple times . This is the my host parents' way of counting children's mischief and bad behaviors . If three comes, children have to go to room(at that time, they had to go to the tent.lol).

☆☆☆

2008-04-14T15:52:00.001+09:00

My whole of host family ( 1 year-old youngest sister also went to camp..) camped out at the Merry beach with other two families for a week and I joined camping during two days. I spent quite relaxed days there .But, just relaxed..? Certainly not! Everything was so precious ,wonderful and marvelous for me~.

In the morning, I was awakened by the sound of waves. After enjoying breakfast with a cup of rich smell coffee, I feed adorable lorikeets with kids。(lorikeets are very colorful Australian birds. ) All children's eyes were shining with excitement as holding feed in their two hands. I enjoyed no less than kids ( ><)! Lorikeets perched on my hand and munch through feed~~.Cute~~. I also took a walk as looking sideways at wild Kangaroos(In Australia, there is an island named Kangaroo island. I wanna let people who will go there know we can see kangaroos for one meter around me in NSW lol. ) I wouldn't dream of that I take such a close look at kangaroos without cages. In the afternoon, I swam(floated?) in the sea with my girlfriend, afterwards, I walked on the rocks as seeing magnificent sea view right ahead me~~ and sat down on the rock for a while with nothing special to do.. but!? of course, everything was special~~. It was a lovely sight and just like a postcard.
At night, I went to the possum hunting with kids who tried to find possums with anxious eyes. After the bedtime for kids, adults enjoyed drinking around a campfire. The weather turned very cold though, the place around us was happy sung ~~. Over our head,we could see stars which seemed to touch on the earth. Fantastic!! The one thing that I might remember more than anything else was the moon. Sometimes, the moon covered with cloud and the cloud around the moon turned pale purple. Just imagine that!! It was a magic moment, wasn't it?

こぶた、たぬき、きつね、ねこ～。

2008-04-13T00:18:00.000+09:00

My recent small hobby is Shiritori in English~~. My girlfriend often do Shiritori with me especially on the train. So, I guess other passengers will feel irritate with our overslow Shiritori or they will withhold their laughter .. Sorry~~.
In Japanese Shiritori, the person who say a word which finishs "N" lose. But, how about English Shiritori is...? At first, we draged Shiritori without thinking nothing special but, through practicing Shiritori several times, we gradually realized that "X" in English Shiritori eaquals to "N" in Japanese Shiritori. Besides, a word which finish "E" is effective words, because there are a lot of words which finish "E" in English. Unless we know many vocabrualy , it is difficult to find words quickly which starts "E" many times. Eager, Eagerly, Eagerness..If I can master wide variety of the adverb, the adjective, the noun, the verb etc.. I will be a proffesional of Shiritori!
But, doing Shiritori is a little bit anoying for us, because we can't do it unless we bring our electric dictionaries. Shiritori looks like an aural spelling test for us.lol
　最近、はまっているのが、英語しりとり。友達が、親切にも、ちょくちょく相手をしてくれます。特に、電車の中で。たぶん、他の乗客は超スローのしりとりにいらいらしてるか、または、笑いを堪えてるんじゃないかなと思います。。ごめんなさい..m(_ _)m
　日本語の場合、”ん”　で終わる言葉を言った人が負けなのですが、、じゃぁ、英語は、、？エンドレスじゃんね～と言いながら、始めは、だらだら続けていたのですが、、だんだん、コツをつかんで来るにつれて、"X"が、たぶん、"ん”の役割を果たすんじゃないかなということに気付きました!!さらに言うと、"Ｅ"終わる単語が、厄介。。"E"で終わる単語が、思った以上にわんさかあって。驚きです（。。；）eagar, eagarly, eagerness..これは、もう、とにかく、沢山の品詞を覚えたもん勝ちですねo('^' )
　でも、しりとりをするのは、やや、面倒臭いっていうね。。なぜなら、電子辞書が必須だから。。しりとりは、私にとって、今は、単語テストのような存在です。

Ambiguous words are useful.

2008-03-13T23:11:00.000+09:00

Every Thursday, we,new students, have a kind of party at our university. In this party, we chat to our friends as drinking a cup(glass) of drink for a discounted price, less than $1 . This is a good oppotunity for me to make new friends. In fact,thanks to this party, I got some charming friends. I like chatting! I love drinking coffee! I want to make friends! So, this party is soooo atractive for me:)
　Basically, this pary is held for meeting own buddy regularly(maybe..). My buddy is a Chinese experienced boy. Probably, our first convasation's topic was about homesick somehow.lol When we talked about the word ,"homesick ", he gave a difinition of this word as" a feeling of a kind of tiredness."I'm very pleased with this original difinition,because I think his difinition is quite right rather than a general difinition. Furthermore,I'm also intrested in his way of speaking which looks like that of Japanese. He often uses phrases," looks like~" or"seems to~". I am a person who tend to avoid to speak in an assertive tone as well. So, I like such a way of speaking(Japanese way of speaking?)
Above all, his most attractive points for me is... to have amasing ears to catch my poor Japanese accent. lol. Good( 　>▽)o"
Namely,my buddy is beyound prise. (It's a bit much.lol ?)So ,he draws everybody. In fact, he is often said that he is a buddy for everyone( ^^)(^^ )= I am good at finding attractive persons!?

　毎週木曜日に、New studentのために、ちょっとしたパーティみたいなものがあります。コーヒー等々をのみながら、友達とおしゃべりするという感じの会です。しかも、飲み物は全部＄１以下。安っ(☆o☆)!　このパーティーは、友達作りをするのに、本当に良い環境です。実際、この会を通して、本当に素敵な友達にたくさん出会いました。しゃべるの好きで、コーヒー好きで、友達100人出来るかな～♪な私には、本当に、本当に、素敵過ぎる会です( o>▽)o!!
　基本的なコンセプトは、Buddyに定期的に会うこと、たぶん。私のBuddyは、中国人の学生。その子の考え方(?)が、なかなか面白い!初っ端の会話のテーマが、確か、なぜか、"ホームシック"についてだったような。彼の定義によると、ホームシックは”ちょっと疲れちゃったかなぁ～って感じ"とのこと。お～。と感銘を受けました（笑）確かに!辞書的な意味より、言葉の芯を言い当ててる気がする!、、のは私だけかな(' ';)?
　さらに言うと、話し方も面白いな～と思います。"～な感じ"というような言い方を良くします。自分が、断定的な言い方を避けるタイプなので、この物言い、良いです。
　特に、私にとって助かるポイントは、日本人の英語（日本語英語？）を聞きとる力が相当長けてること。これは、もう、素晴らしい限り。
　という感じで、完璧と言っていんじゃないかな的なBuddyです。だから、みんなを引きつけ、実際、彼に対して、”みんなのBuddy”と言う言葉が出来つつあります。まぁ、つまり、私は、私の素敵な人たちを発見できる力を自慢して良いのかな（笑）

The busiest men find the most time

2008-03-10T07:16:00.001+09:00

Today, I ate lunch with my local friend whose major is law. As well as law study, he does karate, works part-time job and helps new students voluntalily. Busy..(。。　；)ノ!! When he asked me if I am busy now, of couse,i couldn't say yes. Everyday I have a lot of things i want to do though, but they are not things have to do. Actually, for last two months, I have enjoyed my slow life thanks to time and to spare(- - ).zzZ In Japan, I always had at least one part-time job. I pretty liked these part-time jobs though, part-time jobs also gave me a little bit tight schedule. So, Australia is paradise for me~~,lol Maybe, I have to try not to be lazy...
Anyway, since I come here, I met many respectable persons like him. For example, I met many students who can speak Japanese very well even though they have their own specific major. My major is English literature and I have studied English for so many years though, I can't speak English well. So,I feel ashemed to answer to the question how many years I have study English... Umm, I don't want to count(><) Many students have big motivation and dreams and manage their time well and set aside their time for us. Their attitudes that put as much effort in as they can to achieve dreams and goals inspire me a lot. The biggest purpose why I came here is,of course, to study English, but there are also many other things I want to learn from them. Many wonderful surprises already came to me so far and new surprises will await me from now. There is no time to lose~~, so, I open my eyes so that I assimilate many things!

My name is....

2008-03-09T23:10:00.000+09:00

ホストファザーは今週何をしていたかと言うと、、、旅行を満喫されてました（笑）。今年は、40歳というちょっとした節目ということで、学生時代の友達と西の方に 1週間ドライブ旅行。つまり、その間、うちは、女だらけ。女の園。そして、今日はこれでもか!ってくらい、女の人いっぱいいました、、ホストマザー、ホストシスターの３姉妹、一緒の家でホームステイしているお姉さん。ホストグランドマザー、そこでホームステイをしてるお姉さん。お隣さん。私の友達。そして、私。ん～、この状況を男臭いならぬ、女くさいと表現するのかな（笑）
　そして、夕食の時に、ホストグランマから、英語名をいただきました。ミッシェル。なぜ、この名前を選んでくれたのかは、、ホストグランマにしか分かりません。ちなみに、友達は、マチルダ。理由はやっぱり不明です。命名した瞬間から、かなりナチュラルにミシェル～,ミシェル～と呼んでくれるので、その適応力に付いていくのが一苦労。お礼に、私たちからも、日本名をプレゼント。ホストマザーは、幸子さん。ホストグランマは、、、何だっけ（笑）？お隣さんは恵子さん。ん～、ホストファザーには申し訳ないですが、、めっちゃ楽しかったです。
In this week, my host father went to his 40th birthday anniversary trip. That means, in my house, there are only female. Especially today, there were many girls and women,my host mother, my three host sisters,a Japanese girl who stay with the same host family as me,host grand mother, a Japanese girl who lives at host grand mother's house, my friend who lives next door,my friend's host mother and me. lol Too many girls!!
At dinner time, I got a English name from my host grand mother. My new name is Michel. I don't know why my name is Michel, unless I get a skill to see my host grand mother's brain. My friend also got a new name, Matilda. Once she gave us names, she called us our new names naturally. I have to get accustomed to my new name quickly!! In return, we also gave our host families their Japanese name. My host mother is Sachiko, friend's host mother is Keiko and my host grandmother is...something..even though I forgot.. I felt sorry for my host father because I was really enjoyed last few days without him.lol

Congraturations(祝^ー^)人(^ー^祝)

2008-03-08T15:49:00.000+09:00

I went to a birthday party of my friend who is my spanish classmate. In my class, all of them are Japanese except 4 students include him. That means he has to learn not only English but also Japanese.lol Actually, he already masterd "I love you" and " I'm hugury" in Japanese. Indeed, he is good at expressind surprising feeling in Japanese way, Oh~~. lol He held a party at a bar in our uni. We, Japanese students, gave him a rice bowl as a birthday present, i don't know he can find any oppotunities to use it though:P After that, we went to another bar restrant to eat dinner. But,unfortunately,I didn't bring my passport, so I didn't enter the restaurant... (><;)I was so sorry for him not to celebrate at the restaurant.. Anyway, I hope he could have a nice day .
I also joined another friend's birthday party the very next day. I met him at a club activity and he invited me to his 18th birthday party. 18 years old is an important age in Australia because this is the age which people are regarded as an adult and allowed to drink alcohol. I was pleased that I could celebrated such a special day.
Surpringly, my friend himself organized his own birthday party and entertained us. So, even though such a special day,he couldn't get drunk, in fact, he didn't drink so much, (he kindly tried to one bottle of Japanese Japanese beer,kirin, which I bought for him though). During this party, his friends were dancing,singing, chatting etc.. so cheerful!! it is very different from Japanese birthday parties, but I like this atmosphere~~. As a kick-on effect(?) of party atmosphere, his friends dived into a pool at his house. I had no idea that guests would swim in a pool at a birthday party. Is it common here..? Interesting!! He also entered into a pool, so his hair was wet in this picture. lol He not only invite me but also worried about I might feel lonely in his friends and suggested me to take my friend to his party. Furthermore,he already told his parents about that we would go to his party,so I didn't need to introduce myself to his parents and they welcomed us warmly. Mmm..I can't help suspecting this party is a really 18th birthday party. lol

I am big fun of Australia.

2008-03-07T01:11:00.001+09:00

Since I came to Australia,it past one month by today. So,today, I wrote a love letter to my host family to tell my big thanks (as teaching my (host) sister how to fold a heart shape with Origami)and I got a big hug from host mother.
By the way, what have I changed so far?? Mmm...I can say that,in the last one month, my hair grew enough to tie up in a ponytail, my skin got dark gradually and I could make some friends!!
How about my English skill?..Mmm,it is a difficult question..
From the day I came here forward, many people asked me if I like Australia. This is just a queation of.. Yes!! I like host family, I like school, I like friends!
今日で、オーストラリアに来て、１か月。ということで、長女にハートの折紙の折り方を教えつつ、感謝の気持ちを伝えるために、ホストファミリーにラブレターを書いてみました。そして、ホストマザーからBig hugをいただきました。
　この一か月で何が変わったことと言えば、、ポニテール出来るくらいに紙が伸びたこと、日に日に、肌が黒くなってきたこと、、、そして、友達ができたこと☆　英語力の方は、、不明です。上達してれば良いな(><)♪
　ここに来てからというもの、色んな人に、オーストラリア好き？と聞かれます。それは、もちろん!!としか言いようがない質問ですね。ホストファミリー大好きだし、学校大好きだし、友達大好きだし♪

If at first you don't succeed,try,try,again.

2008-03-06T23:43:00.000+09:00

Today, I took part in a kind of discussion for a survey to search international students' behaviors toward mass media for few hours. In this discussion, we, respondents, saw a couple of advertising,commercials and magazines. And then, we had to discuss how we felt about these advertisements etc. I joined this discussion as a behalf of Japanese girl. There were 6 members in this discussion and all of them were new students as well as me,but....their English level were obviously higher than mine. So, at first, I really felt upset because I realized that couldn't follow their discussions at all. Then, my buddy (he kindly followed and helped me) said me what I should do was only to tell an interviewer how I felt about materials and why I felt so. He also said that there was no need to interrupt their discussion. After I got this suggestion from him, I could feel relaxed more. Actually I think I should have participated in this discussion, if I could do so... But ,"trying something is better than nothing", thanks to his advice, I could change my mind to a better way.
Truthfully,even after I got this advice, I couldn't nearly say anything. And after this discussion, I felt so blue... Maybe some of participants could guess my situation(feeling?), so they encouraged me after this discussion with pleasant topics and ice cream.:) They are so,so, so kind.
Thanks to this experience, I could get motivation to study English more. And I also got some important thing which I have to think seriously for my future. So,today is good day!
　By the way, the next day, I totally could change my mind by a good sleep. And at that day, I got a message in Japanese with using the roman alphabet and it said: Are you OK? Don't cry. I am about to cry to joy:^
留学生のマスメディアに対する姿勢の調査のためのディスカッションに参加してきました。具体的な内容としては、広告やら、ＣＭやら、雑誌やらをみて、それらについての意見＆感想を討論するというもの。
私は、日本人女性という分類の代表ということで、参加。私を含めて、６人いて、全員New students。でも、まぁ、彼らの英語のレベルは、私とは比べものにならない粋。。。で、いや～、これは全く付いて行けないなぁ～と認識し、、ん～、、どうしましょ、、状態で、本当に、本当に、焦りました(。。；）そこで、Buddyから貰ったアドバイスが、頑張ってディスカッションに参加しようとせず、思ったこと＆その理由を言いなさいというもの。めちゃシンプル（笑）もちろん、出来るならば、討論に参加するに越したとはないんですが、、まぁ、出来ないものはしょうがないので、何もしないよりは、ちょっとでも自分の意見を言ったほうが良いですよね!?ということで。この方向チェンジのおかげで、相当気楽になりました。
　そうは言っても、実際のところ、アドバイスをもらった後も、自分の感じたことはほとんど言えなくて、終了後、相当落ち込みました。。たぶん、この私の状況を気にかけてくれて、調査の後に、何人かの学生が、楽しい話題とアイスで、元気づけてくれました。もう、本当に、優しい人達だらけです。
　今日の経験のおかげで、勉強しなきゃなという気が湧いてきました。そして、もうひとつ。ちょっと真剣に考えなきゃなという課題もいただきました。ん～、大切な日を過ごせたと思います。
ちなみに、寝たら、次の日は復活（笑）我ながら、相当撃たれ強いなと思います。そして、そんなときに、もらったメールが：Daizyoubu? Nakanaide. もう、本当に、泣きたくなるくらい、みんな優しい(-UωU-)

(♡^ω^♡)

2008-03-05T23:07:00.007+09:00

So far, I went shopping many times. Even though my town is countryside,there are some choices for me to go shopping here,because there are several shopping malls in near other cities and traffic is very convenient.
Maybe, some like buying clothes and some like buying CD. For me, cute stationeries make me feel happy. Once I find a stationary which suites my taste, I can't help feel happy♪　Especially, if I find a nice bookmaker, I will be overexcited. Maybe, one of my hobbies is collecting bookmakers. Actually, in my room in Japan, I have a lot of bookmakers. I can't explain why I like bookmaker so much, but I can say I really like bookmarks. So far, I bought a pen case, two mechanical pencils,a bookmaker,a file, a schedule book and a notebook in Australia. But, sadly, stationary is a little bit more expensive here than Japan. Even though I can buy a pen for $1 in Japan, it costs about $3 or$4 here. Furthermore, we can't find sharp pens. I prefer a sharp one to a thick one..Mmm..
Maybe, I can say my taste hasn't totally changed since I come here, because some of them I bought are made in Japan or China even though i didn't notice that when i bought them.. Anyway, I feel happy not only at house but also at a classroom.
By the way, I also bought a cover of i-pot. But, it doesn't fit. Mmm.. Why..?

私の住んでる町は、田舎なんですが、ちょっと動けば、ショッピングモールが何個かあって、さらに交通の便も、なかなか良い
あって、オーストラリアに来て以来、ちょこまか、買い物に繰り出してました。これまでに、ペンケース、シャーペン２本、ノート、ファイル、スケジュール帳、そして、しおりを購入。　
服買うのが好きな人もいれば、CD買うのが好きな人もいるように、（？）私は、文房具を買うのが大好きです。気に入った文房具を見つけると、もうテンションあがります。特に、好きなしおりを見つけたら、この上なく幸せを感じます。たぶん、しおり集めは、私の趣味の一つ。なんで好きなのかは、自分でも分かりませんが、とにかく好きです♪ちなみに、日本の自分の部屋には、しおりがかなりあります。でも、悲しいことに、なぜかオーストラリアの文房具は高い。日本では１００円くらいで買えるペンが、こっちでは、３００円したり４００円したりします。この前は、ペン一本６００円くらいするのを発見しました。私に対する嫌がらせ？そして、私の好きな先の細いペンはレアです。ほっっそいペンが好きなのになぁ。。
　私の、好みは全く変わっていません。知らず知らずのうちに、アーストラリアにいながら、日本製やら中国製やらのものを買ってます（笑）まぁ、とにかく、今は、家だけでなくて、教室でも幸せを感じずにはいられません。（＾＾）
　ところで、i-potのカバーを買ったのは良いんですが、なんか合ってないっていうね。。なんでだろう、、？

Good fences make good neighbors.

2008-03-04T19:29:00.002+09:00

My friend tried to find new host family, so,recently, I followed her to meet several host families . I already decided to stay longer with my current host family, so if I had come to Australia alone, I guess I would have had no such an opportunity. I want to say thanks to my friend to give me such a precious experience. Even though finding host family might be easier for Japanese especially Japanese girls rather than others, it does not mean that it is a piece of cake for my friend. I could see she spent a lot of time to find new family these days. She could do nothing except finding host family recently,because meeting people needs time,money and energy. I respect her becouse she handled with this big task by herself in this unfamiliar country. If I were her, I could not do same thing as her:( I bet she will be much stronger thanks to this experience. Interestingly, her impression of host families and mine were sometimes different even though we shared exactly the same time. It proves our point of views are different. Mmm, so interesting.
Finally my friend decided a family who lives next to me. her new host mother is my host mother's friend and sometimes comes and sees my host family. My friend already met this host mother at a sushi party which we held the other day at my house. Since I said to my host mother about my friend's situation, my host mother really worried about my friend and tried to find a person who can accept my friend. My host grandmother also worried about my friend and proposed my friend to live with her in case my friend can't find good host family. I touched a lot of heartfelt kindness through finding new host family. Thanks to this experience, I became a best fan of my host family,now.
Anyway, I hope my friend enjoy new life as my neighbor!!
友達が、新しいホストファミリーを探すということで、ひっついて、私もファミリー候補に会って来ました。私は既に、今の家に、このまま住まわせてもらうつもりなので、一人でオーストラリアに来てたら体験できなかっただろうな～的な経験。友達に感謝です。たぶん、日本人、特に女の子なら、ステイ先を見つけるのは、他の人に比べて有利だとは思うんですが、まぁ、だからと言って、ステイ先が”ぱっ”と見つかと言えば、もちろんそんなわけはないわけで。。。このところ、ステイ先探し以外何も出来てなかったんじゃないかなと思います。人に会うのは、会うってだけで時間とお金と労力がいるもんね。。そんな大変なことを、こんな慣れない土地で、なんとか、どうにか、こなそうとしてて、すごいな～と思います。私だったら、出来なかっただろうな。。本当に。きっと、この経験がバネになって、彼女は、ますますたくましくなるんだろうなと思います。
　ところで、全く同じ時間を過ごしたのに、受けた印象は、お互い違うから驚き。価値観の違いとか、物の見方の違いが出たのかな。ん～、本当に面白い!
　最終的に、私のお隣さんの家にステイすることになりました。新しいホストマザーは、私のホストマザーのお友達。ちょくちょく、うちに遊びに来る仲です。友達は、この新ホストマザーに、この前の寿司パーティーで会ってるので、すでにお互い顔見知り。友達の状況を、私のホストマザーに話して以来、マザーは、かなり心配してくれて、一生懸命ホストファミリーを友達のために探してくれて、そして、お隣さんを紹介してくれました。わたしのホストグランドマザーも心配してくれて、探せなかったら、見つかるまで、自分と一緒に住めば良いと言ってくれました。この経験を通して、本当に、本当に、沢山の優しさに触れました。そして、もう、ホストファミリーの大ファンになりました。いや～、大好き過ぎてどうしましょ状態です（笑）☆
　友達も、ご近所さんとして、楽しく過ごしてくれたら良いなと思います♪

プチ culture shock

2008-03-03T00:02:00.001+09:00

No news is good news～便りがないのは良い知らせ～

2008-03-02T00:59:00.000+09:00

Today, I got a call from my mother from Japan to Australia, my cell phone to be exact.
Mother: ...
Me: Hi!
Mother: ...
Me: Hi?
Mother: ...Kanako?
Me: ...!?
I really felt ashamed that I spoke to English to my mother....
But, I hope my mother could understand I am fine:)
　オーストラリアに来て一回しか電話をせず、メールも途切れ途切れだったので、相当心配してくれてたようで。。日本では、かなり放任主義な親だったので、"便りがないのは良い知らせ"くらいに思ってるかな～と思いきや、そうでもなかったようで。ん～、嬉しびっくり（？）な出来事でした。

Variety is the spice of life

2008-03-01T17:28:00.000+09:00

I went to Mardi Gras with my friends.This parade is known as Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. I had no idea about this parade even though this festival seemed to be pretty famous. So, I asked about this parade to a few persons.
According to my host father:
one time is enough to go.
According to my host mother:
too sexy for children(In her opinion, this parade is for over 18 .)
According to my teacher:
Great! Don't miss it!
Mmm...what should I do? Of couse, my solution was... to go! Becouse this time is the first time and will be the last time for me.
The place was so jammed...but, party(parade?) atmosphere let me smile and, made me overexcited o(^-^o )=(o ^-^)o .It also gave me gave me a chance to think impotant thing in our lives.
Mardi Gras make me realize what a small thing which I stick at was. I think such a festival is very effective to change people's image rather than surface lows or formal meetings.
I already know there are many kinds of persons in the world. When it becomes my own theory, I can be a real multicultural person.

マリグラ、別名、ゲイ＆レズビアンパレードというものに行って来ました。かなり、有名らしいのですが、全く知識０、、、ということで、何人か、知り合いから情報収集しました。
ホストファザーによると：
一回で充分とのこと。
ホストマザーによると：
子供には刺激が強すぎる（ホストマザー的には、１８歳以上が適齢らしいです）
先生によると：
見のがせない!!
ん～、つまり、、行くべきということですね!なぜなら、このチャンスは、最初の機会であり、かつラストチャンスだから☆
　人がわんさかいましたが、、自然ににこにこ、知らぬ間にわくわく状態でした♪♪このフェスティバルで、楽しい時間をもらったのはもちろん、大切なことももらった気がします。自分がこだわってたことって、そんなに大したことじゃないんだなぁ～というような感覚をもらいました。かちっとした法律よりも何よりも、マリグラみたいな機会の方が、人の考えを変えるのに大きな力を発揮するような気がします。
　世界には、いろんな人がいて、いろんな考えを持った人がいて、分かってはいるつもりなんだけど、まだ、今一、自分のものに出来ていない感があります。。ん～、本当に、心から色んなものを受け入れられた時、きっとmulticultural personになれるのだと思います♪

　

( ’　’　?

2008-02-29T01:08:00.000+09:00

　Needless to say, in Japan, trains are very punctual. Maybe, we can adjust our clocks by the time trains arrive and leave. On the other hand...trains here are not so punctual. Surprisingly, everybody already expect(accept?) trains will be delayed,especially the peak period.
I wondered why trains here are not so punctual. And,I found one suggestion to this question in the news paper. The news said that many people squeeze into the set of doors,especially the closest doors to stairs. So, rail staff are reduced to open the doors for idiots. And, the article was rounded off that "Train passengers:When you notice your train being delayed,don't blame rail staff,just take a look at your fellow passengers. These are real reasons why trains are often delayed."
Well..it makes my ears burn....I commuted to my high school by train for three years. And I can't calculate how many times I drove into closing doors. Even though I had never been late to school thanks to train staff's kindness. If I can say I am a behalf of Japanese, we can see passengers' selfishness both countries. Now, I have to wonder why trains in japan are so punctual...
　日本の電車は時刻ぴったりにやってきて、去っていく。。っていうのは、かなり有名なんじゃないかなと思います。一方、こっちでは、遅れてくることもしばしば。みんな、”まぁ、遅れるだろう”と、予想済み。納得済み。諦めぎみな感じです。
　なんで、電車が遅れるのかなぁ（’ ’？と、ぼんやり考えてたところ、新聞記事を発見しました。新聞によると、沢山の人が、押し合いへし合いしてて、車掌さんが、閉められなくて→遅れる。だから、遅れたら車掌さんに文句を言うのではなく周りの乗客をガン見しなさいというような内容でした。多分。。
　ん～。辛口。耳が痛い限りです。高校時代に、電車通学を３年間してましたが、まぁ、何回、すべりこませてもらったことか、どんだけ車掌さんの温情に助けられたことか、という、、ね。私を、日本人にカウントして良いなら、日本でも同じ状況あると言えるんじゃないかなと思います。ということで、今は、”じゃぁ、なんで、日本の電車は、こんなにも律儀にやってくるんだろう”、、と、ぼんやり考える番です。
　

Ignorance is bliss.　「知らぬが仏」

2008-02-26T23:03:00.004+09:00

　There was a tamdem party to find the buddy (like a kind of tutor) This party very impressed me,because the tutor for international students in my home university are already arranged by university. That is, there are no choices for international students, poor soul.. I was a tutor of one exchanged student who came from U.K. I feel sorry for him not to be able to give a chance to choose a tutor... I don't know I could help him.
I guess what I did for him were only to make difficult Kangi name with using substitute characters and to advice to use Ore instead of watashi to express I in Japanese. I can say he is a kind student . In fact, he kindly gave me a handmade CD when I left Japan. I hope he have a great time in Japan now as me in Australia.
To bring the talk around to the party, I joined this party and find buddy. My buddy is Chinese boy who can speak Chinese, English and Japanese. I will give a detailed account of him next time.
Today, I went to movie,for the first time in Australia, with that my buddy and his friends . The movie I watched today is "Sweeney Tot". There are no ways not to watch it for me!! Because the combination of director, Tim Burton,and main actor,Johnny Depp,is exactly as same as that of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" which is one of favorite movies. Furthermore,this movie was made based on the musical. It is huge bonus points for me, because I like movies filmed from a play such as Chicago and hairspray. It is not too much to say that this movie was made for me. Of course(?), I couldn't understand the detail without subtitle, but I could still enjoy watching this movie.
But, one big problem lay in front of me. That is, this movie has some scary scenes which makes me feel not to go to barbershop and makes me not to eat pie, fortunately I realized that problem after watching this movie.lol.
この前、UTSで、タンデムパーティーというものがありました。このパーティーは、Buddyを決めるためのもの。いろんな人と話をしながら、自分に合ってるなという感じの人を見つけて、パートナーになってもらうという、私にとっては、新鮮この上ない仕組み。なぜなら、日本では、チューターは、勝手に学校が決めるから。留学生に、決定権はありません。。私も、イギリスから来た交換留学生（日本名：寛武さん）のチューターをやらせてもらってもらってましたが、、、ん～、今になって、申し訳なかった気がしてきた。。やったことと言えば、難しい当て字を考えたのと、”私”より、”俺”のほうが、自然だよとアドバイス（要求？）したことくらいだったような。寛武さんは、オーストラリアに来る時に、手作りのCDをくれるというような、めっちゃ優しい人でした。元気に楽しく、日本を満喫してくれてたら良いなと思います。
　話は戻って、私は、中国人の子にBuddyになってもらいました。チャイ語、英語、日本語を操るという、素敵な学生です。Buddyについては、また今度語るとして、、、
　今日は、そのBuddyとその友達とSweeny Totを見に行きました♪初☆映画☆見るっきゃない映画です。なぜなら、監督とメインキャストのコンビが、私の大好きな"Chocolate Factory"と、一緒だから。さらに、ミュージカルを映画化したという、私にとっては、おっきなボーナス付き。見ろ!と言ってるようなもの（笑）もちろん、字幕なしで内容が理解できるわけがないんですが、、楽しかったです♪
　ただ、問題が１つ。。それは、こわいシーンがちらほらあるということ。まぁ、それに気付いたのは、見た後だったので問題ないんですけど（笑）この映画を見た後は、床屋さん行けなくなるかなと。。パイを食べる気が起こらないかなと。。

There's nothing like home

2008-02-25T00:10:00.003+09:00

I decided to stay longer with my current host family, because I am a big fan of all family members. Before I came here, I couldn't imagine that I can feel so relax with new family.
I want to introduce my room here! In my room, I have a bed with two pillows, a sofa,a TV, a closet, a drawer and a mirror. Maybe, everybody will say my room is big when they see my room. Actually,this room is bigger than my room in Japan:)
Pink is the prevailing color in my room ,because my blanket cover is pink. As all of my friends already heard enough from me, I like pink. I feel really happy when I am surrounded with the stuff I like. Namely,there are no way I can't feel happy in my room. lol
After I came here, my room has changed a little. For example, I got a screen door. My host father fixed it for me, after I replied that I tried to change the air in my room to his advice that it was better to close the door not to allow mosquito to enter in my room. My host father worried about me to be biten by mosquito because my room is in the backyard.( my room is a detached room). They seemed to take the trouble to order this screen door for me. I can't think of any ways to express my lots of thanks feeling to them.
My favorite point of my room is a sofa. My sofa can be a bed!! Fantastic!! One of my friend already have slept on this bed once.

ここのステイ先に、 10か月ステイさせてもらうことになりました。ということで、私の部屋紹介。日本の自分の部屋より広いです。テレビがあって、ソファーがあって、鏡があって、クローゼットがあって、もう、いたれりつくせり状態。ふとんカバーがピンクなので、全体的に、ピンくなイメージの部屋です。私好み（笑）もう、女の子受け入れるの前提の部屋になってます。
入居（？）２日目、ドア全開にして、散歩に出かけたところ、ホストファザーに、蚊が入るから閉めた方が良いょとアドバイスを受けました。空気の入れ替えをしたかったと言ったところ、数日後、なんと、網戸登場!!わざわざ、オーダーしてくれたみたいです。もう、本当に申し訳ない限りです。
お気に入りは、ソファー。なんと、ベッドになるという優れもの。いや～、素晴らしい!!すでに、私の友達は、このベッドで熟睡してました。

( ^ω^)(^ω^ )

2008-02-23T05:51:00.002+09:00

UTSには、アニメーションクラブというものがあります。今日は、そのFirst meetingなるものにお邪魔してきました。本当にInternational なクラブ。最近、思うのはforeignerという単語が、こっちでは役に立たないということ。ほとんどの子のbackgroundには、どこかしらの国が絡んでます。留学生に見えても、local studentだったり、日本でいう"foreigner"のように見える子が、Austrarilan だったりします。本当に、オーストラリアは、multiculture という言葉が、ぴったりの国です。
　で、first meeting=picnicは、どうだったのかと言うと、楽しかったです♪♪♪シンプルに、食べて＆しゃべってで、5時間くらい色んな子と話してました。なぜなら、このクラブでは、日本人は重宝される=色んな子が話しかけてきてくれるから。ひゃ～、みんな優しい。彼らは、”日本が好き”と、ピンポイントで言ってきてくれて、彼らからは、日本好き好きオーラ♡が、ひしひしと伝わってきます。あんなにちっこい島なのに、なんか、いっちょ前に、ちゃんと文化があるんだなぁ～と、日本人の私が日本を彼らから学んだような気がします(笑)
でも、友達をつくるのに、"日本"にずっと頼るのは、、ちょっとね。やるせない。。"私"を表現できるくらい、深い話が出来るように早くなりたいなと思う今日この頃です。
　ここで、プチレッスン。ある女の子から、可愛いについての定義を教えてもらいました。
sexy ...倖田來未
cute...堀北まき
pritty...大塚愛
cute とprittyの違いは、難しい。。
ちなみに、その子は、私をcuteの部類に入いれてくれました（笑）。いや～、みんな、お世辞がうまい>o< でもな～、もっとhot な感じを目指してみたいです。　
I joined the first meeting(picnic) of the animation club, today. We can say this club is international. Recently, I begin to realise that the word"foreigner" is not useful in Australia. It is impossible to tell the deference between local students and international students, because some local students look like international students. In fact,even though they are local students,most of them have different background. I easily agree that the word"multiculture" is exactly best word to express Australia.
To bring the talk back, the picnic is really interesting!! The conversation had got lively for about 5hours. Many members kindly spoke to me,give ears and full interest to me,because I am Japanese. Most of them are interested in "Japanese"animation very much. I can feel hard their favorable feeling to Japan. They are good teachers to let me realize that such a small country,Japan, has such a fine culture.
But...I should start to make friends on a more normal level instead of depending on novelty value. I want to really join in them someday. So, I have to step up many stages to improve English.
By the way, I got a good lesson from one of members about definitions of Kawaii. There are three words to express "Kawaii",sexy,cute and pretty.
The excellent example for sexy girl is Kauda Kumi. And a behalf of cute girl is Horikita Maki. And we can pick up Othuka Ai as an example of pretty girl. This club member kindly categolized me into cute.lol I bet she was good at honeying. >o< lol If possible , i wanna be a hot girl.

There's many true words spoken in jest.

2008-02-22T23:43:00.001+09:00

良く、夢を見ます。この前見た夢では、男の子になっていました。そして、仲間外れにされるという悲しい設定。。そして、次の日は、のだめになってました。なぜ・・（笑）？数回しか見たことないけど、確か、永遠片思い的な、ストーリーだったような・・？つまり、これも悲しい設定。。私にとって、夢は、かなり真実を言い当てる存在です。たとえば、受験シーズンは、毎日、鬼ごっこで追っかけられる夢を見てました。引越しの前日の夢では、歩道橋の反対側に友達が立っていて、”こっちには来れないよ”と言われてました。人生で、一番怖かった夢は、ひょこりひょうたん島の仲間たちが、レストランのソファーから、ナイフを持って飛び出してきて、転んで、家族に置いてかれるという夢(笑)
　ということで、今回の夢から考察できる仮説は、自分で気付かないうちに、ホームシック突入してるのかなと。。気づかないホームシックってありなのかなぁ('' )?まぁ、気づけたら、早めの処置ということで!!
　こっちにくる前に、ある人からお願いされたのが、"夢が英語になったら教えてくれ"ということ。。悲しいかな、のだめは、達者な日本語を使ってた気がします( .. ;)ん～、まだまだですね。これを、英語に出来ないので、日本語オンリーで。。

A man's paradise is his good nature. My paradise is..Sea!

2008-02-21T22:31:00.001+09:00

海です。早々、来ちゃいました。浮いて来ました。今日、行ったのは、ボンダイビーチ。大体、２時間もあれば、行けます。なんて幸せなロケーションに住んでるんだろうと、すべてに感謝したい気持でいっぱいです。日本で、海なし県って確か、５県だけだったような。。大阪、山梨と海なし県、２県制覇してるとあって、もう、否応なしに、テンション急上昇です。太陽はあったかいのね～。海は青いのね～。水はしょっぱいのね～。と、自己突っ込み入れたくなるほど、当たり前のことに感動です。人生で、水着着て、こんなに海と真剣に向き合ったの何て初ですし♪♪ひゃ～、予想以上に楽しかった(^^)日本では、日の目を見ることはなかっただろう母の水着も、お目見えして海デビュー。この前は、近くのプールまでお供してもらったので、今日で二回目の大活躍です。秋に、もうちょっと待っててもらえるようにお願いしとかなきゃ、かな（笑）
As early as today,I went to sea with my friend. The name of the beach is Bondai beach. We can go this lovely place only within 2 hours. I was really happy to live in such a good location now. In Japan, I have lived in Osaka and Yamanashi. Both of prefectures have no sea. So, I miss ....water! So, I can't help being overexcited once I saw huge sea. I surprised that water is salty, sunlight is warm and that sea is blue. I was really surprised such a little usual things.
Today is the first time to wear swim suit in the sea. I brought this swimming suit from Japan. This is a mother's one which she used when she was young. I guess there is no opportunities to wear it in Japan. But, in Australia, this is great help to me. I want to ask Autumn to be late. lol

In wine there is truth.

2008-02-20T16:19:00.000+09:00

Today, I went 2 the Cocktail Party 4 new International students @ uni :) Before the cocktail party started, I had hopes and fear. I really worried whether I could make friends, coz I am shy and I had slightest idea I could speak to others:-x But, I realized that there was no need for such a heavy heart.:-P Students here are kind, outgoing ,sociable and talkative:-D Yep, they are tremendous talkers!! Maybe, I chatted with at least 15 students in 2 hours;) U know,with such a mix of people who have diffrent backgrounds, we can always have a maverous(crazy?) time. And I bet u can easily guess the Cocktail party was very noisy:-[ We had to shout to comunicate:O I want to know how I can master the way of shouting...
One of biggest surprises was that there were much more students who are intrested in Japan and Japanese than I expected;-D And I could make friends with them. Sometimes,I exchange e-mail with my new friendsB-) And I get a new hobby%->My new hobby is- as u already c it-short words (abbreviayion)
3Q very much 4 yr attention on my blog. C ya!

留学生のための、Welcome partyである、カクテルパーティーに行ってきました｛｛｛＝( ^^)ノ□　最初は、どうなることやら・・と思っていたけど、、心配損（'' ). 。o0O*何とな~くな感じで、何とかなりました（　＾＾）人（＾＾　）☆ なぜならば、みんな、もう、本当に、本当に、優しくて、社交的で、気さくで、おしゃべり好きだから。マシンガントーク炸裂です（^o^)~♪♪♪♪　2時間で、ざっと15人くらいの子と、話してました。いや～凄い(☆o☆)!!ここまで、多様な学生が集まったら、まぁ、普通に、収拾がつかないよね。。ということで、カクテルパーティーは、かなり、うるさかったです（ｘｘ；）半径１m以内で、叫ばなきゃって、一体...(　－－)/( ^∑^ 　)...　叫び方、教えてもらわなきゃですね。
　かなり、驚きだったのは、日本に興味もってくれてる学生が、めっちゃいたこと。日本人にしてみれば、ありがたい環境です。友達も、できました。そして、メールもちょいちょい、してます( 6^^)~(^^9)そして、新たな趣味の発掘です!

Thousands of choices mean thousands of additional choices for error.

2008-02-19T22:57:00.005+09:00

Not to mention, Tim Tam is pritty famous chocolate in Australia. Even though we can say "there is no accounting for tastes", I try to rank the flavor of Tim Tam by my arbitrary decisions and bias.

1
Original
-is in an impregnable in my rank. Simple is best :>

Latte
Not so sweet not so bitter.

3
Nocha Hazelnut
This crispy taste makes me get hooked. One problem is that this Tim Tam is a bit smaller than normal one. This size of Tim Tam is not satisfactory to me..

4
Honeycomb
I want to eat this TimTam with a cup of black coffee.

5
Chewy Caramel
Soo sweet. To eat this Tim Tam once a month or so is enough for me.

How many flavors there are?

--- The quick answer is.... too much to count..

( 　>▽)o"

2008-02-18T23:02:00.004+09:00

Who is he...?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 +

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You know, he is one kind of crocodiles. And he is one of foods in Australia...

　

もしもし、亀、亀さんよ～世界のうちでお前ほど～、歩みののろいものはない～、、、、はずなんですけど、、
　It took me almost 20 min to take this picture, because the turtle 's swiming speed is too fast to follow to grasp a perfect moment for a good shot. ..→
←On the other hand, I could take picture of him within few seconds!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

What a magical picture it is !!

　

He is one of staff members. He kindly guided me inside the aquarium. I learned many fish names such as pinokio fish, banana fish, chocolate fish and so on. Some of them are real names. Some of them are maybe made by him! Thanks to abusing his privileges, I could go trough one-way route from oposite side and I could cut corners by using staff only door.
Kindly, he told me the time of feeding to seals. And I took a picture.

He usually keep a straight face.

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but..　→Sometimes,he remembers wild sense.

Welcome to a small Japan world!

2008-02-17T22:42:00.002+09:00

日々、本当に、本当に、良くしてもらっているので、感謝の気持ちを伝えるために、今日は、寿司パーティ☆★日本から、持参した、ちらし寿司の素、もう出番です（笑）!!　巻きずし、ちらし寿司、味噌汁、ポテトサラダを若干10人分作りました。所要時間４時間。。料理心（？）０だから、しょうがない。
驚くことに、我が家には、巻き簾や箸が、わんさかあります。なぜなら、今までに、日本人を何人か受け入れていて、彼らが置いて行ったから。そして、私のホストファミリーが、日本食のおいしさを解しているから。お酢と醤油だって常備。おばあちゃんは、大の味噌汁ファン。おばあちゃんの家には、味噌常備です。
料理の評価はと言うと、、好評でした♪さすがに素を使って、まずくなることは、ないですよね!?良かった、良かった。巻きずしの材料は、キュウリ、卵、サーモン、ツナ、サバ、蟹缶、そして、そして、アボカド。アボカド寿司、”予想を裏切って”、なかなかです♪お酢がこれでもか!?ってくらいにあるので、また、ジャパニーズパーティ開きたいです。自分のためにも♡

Today, I held a sushi party in my house to tell my thanks feeling to them. I used the sushi pack I brought from Japan. I was a bit surprised that I already had a chance to use it. This sushi pack includes main ingredients and it is already seasoned. That means all I have to do is only to boil the rice in a rice-cooker and mix. How easy it is!! lol I made sushi rolls, chirashi sushi, miso soup, potato salad with my friends for 10 portions of sushi. It took us about 4hours… because I am very very poor at cooking…

Surprisingly, there are a lot of chopsticks and makisu and a rice-cooker in my house, because they have accepted some Japanese before me and these Japanese left such kinds of Japanese goods. Moreover, my host family members like Japanese food. There are always soy sauce and vinegar in my house. My host grandmother really likes miso soup. So, she tries to keep miso about. I can feel small Japan at the house in Australia.

As to the evaluation for our cooking, all of them kindly said “yummy”. You see, there’re no possibilities to be yucky because we had a strong supporter, the sushi pack though, I was happy to hear that may host family members like our cooking (><)! We used cucumbers, tuna, salmons, eggs, crab sticks, mackerels and avocados. Sushi rolls with avocados are yummy contrary to my exceptions!

★★★★★

2008-02-16T21:01:00.003+09:00

「チョコレート工場の秘密」が、テレビでやってました。もう、私のために、流れているとしか思えない!!何を隠そう、日本から唯一持参した、本が、”Charlie and the Chocorate Factory" ♪♪そして、卒論のテーマを、作者のロアルト・ダールしようとしてるくらいですから～。ダール大好きです(><)♪彼の本は、児童書でありながら、ちょっと、皮肉混じりなとこが、スパイス効いてる感じで、ぐっときます。だから、大人のファンも多いんでしょうね。まぁ、全く、英語は聴き取れませんが・・問題ありません。
ウーパー・ルーパー。会いたいです。ガラスのエレベーター。乗りたいです。チョコレート。食べたいです。ダールファン。増やしたいです。→http://ameblo.jp/lm002974/entry-10042685664.html

"Charlie and the Chocorate Factory" was brodcasted on TV today. It is not too much to say that this Movie program was televised for me. "Charlie and the Chocorate Factory"is just an only book that I brought from Japan. I really like the author of this book, Roald Dahl . In fact, I plan to write my final report about his books to garduate from my home university when I become 4 grade student. Though most of his books are for children, there are not only funtasy world but also elements of sarcasm in his books. So,I think, there are many adult fans.
Even though I couldn't catch English...it is no problem!!
I eagar to see . I eagar to ride in the glasses lift. I eagar to eat chocorates.

うちの"ネイサン"凄いです(☆o☆)!!

2008-02-15T20:36:00.003+09:00

I want to write about my host father.

Standing in the house:
He is only man in this house.
I pity for him that he surrounded by 6 women (girls?) now…
But, in this house, I can hear “Daddy” as almost same times as “Mummy”

Character: He has a good sense of humor.

Favorite food: sushi roll, Chinese nodle

The habit of saying: “no more” when the middle daughter says” one more”.

The special talent:
Making guitars.
Making beer.
Doing imitation of his one-year-old daughter. She often roars.
Arranging cups and plates neatly in a washing machine.

{{{三( ^^)/

2008-02-14T21:14:00.004+09:00

　What I did at daytime was going to Darling harbor at Sydney. There is zoo(museum?) named Wild Wide World.
I went there with my friends.

The grasshopper played hide-and-seek. Can you find it?

One of animals which have a great spirit of service is the snake. i could comunicate it face to face(hand to hand?)

On the other hand, an animal which have no spirit of service is koala…

Really...?

Needless to say, one of famous animals is the kangaroo. This kangaroo rested its gaze on my camera.

　

My favorite animal is ウォンバット.( I don't know how I can spell it..) I adore its sorrowful eyes.

　　　　　　　

He got a real butterfly ribbon. lol

♡♡♡♡

2008-02-14T21:01:00.000+09:00

～今朝の会話～
ホストマザー：あなたの部屋、掃除機をかけても良いかしら？
私：負担にならない？
ホストマザー：他の部屋もかけるから、変わらないわよ。
私：でも、掃除機なら、自分でかけられるよ。
ホストマザー：他の人に、部屋に入られるの嫌なら、やらないけど。あなた次第よ。
私：わたしは、気にしないけど。。
部屋、汚かったかなぁ。頼り過ぎかなぁ。部屋に入るなって意味に捉えちゃったかなぁ。等々、ちょっと気にしつつ。。帰ってきたら。。

　枕もとに一輪のバラが。そうです。今日は、バレンタインデー。
　ほんわかした日でした。

~The part of conversations between my host mother and me in this morning~
Mother: can I vacuum the carpet in your room today?
Me: Aren’t you weighted down with that?
Mother: I don’t mind. I will vacuum all rooms, so it’s not different for me.
Me: But..I can do by myself.
Mother: If you mind, I won’t enter your room, it’s up to you.
Me: I don’t mind…
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　After that, I worried that she felt my room is messy, that I depend on her too much and that she felt I didn’t want others to enter my room… Then, I came back home, I realized her real intention. Today is St. Valentine’s Day!! Today was special day for me.

♪(><)人(><)♪

2008-02-13T20:01:00.000+09:00

Today, the prime minister apologized for aborigines about stolen generation. Stolen generation means the historical event that aborigines were robbed their children in the past and they have had hard time. According to my host parents, it is the first attempt to apologize to aborigines formally. My host parents told me that today was such a historic day and they also taught me the news web site to search the detail. News.com.au. ( Saying sorry is only human. Poplic backs national apology.)As far as I read the article, most of people in Australia support this apology, but some of them don’t support it. I can’t find information why some don’t want to apologize from news. If I have some opportunities, I want to ask my host parents. By the way, I came across useful words and expressions in the article. For example, I can pick up the word “address” as the excellent example. I don’t know that I can use this word as not only noun but also verb. It means discussing the particular problem. Furthermore, I know, for the first time, I can use the word “human” as adjective. One of useful expression is “Loving family” If I can use this expression freely, I don’t need to use the sentence such as that my family has big love for me. My most favorite word in the article is” adore” We can use this word in such a sentence: I adore going to the cinema. Dictionary says that this is girl’s word. I try to use this word in conversations instead of like or love. If we pause, readers might understand why some words are thick and this sentence is little strange, implicitly. lol

今日は、総理大臣（？）が、アボリジニの人たちに、初めて、正式に&公式に謝るという、オーストラリアでは、ちょっとした歴史的な日でした。この情報＆ニュースサイトを、ホストファミリーから教えてもらいました。そして、ニュース熟読。昔、アボリジニの人たちは、子供を連れさらわれ、そのことを、Stolen Generation と呼んでいるようです。ほとんどの人が、この謝罪を支持しているらしいのですが、その一方で、反対している人もいるとのこと。反対の理由は、私が見つけたニュースを読む限り、分かりません。。機会があったら、ホストファミリーに聞いてみようと思います!! 話は変わって、びびっと来る表現や言葉が、記事の中にちらほら。たとえば、address。住所という名詞以外に、なんと、動詞の用法はあったんですね～。「演説する」という意味になるそうです。他の例としては、”human”。形容詞で、「人間らしい」という意味。The human touchで「人情味」あと、見つけた、表現が”loving family”　これをマスターすれば、「私の家族は、私に対して愛情が満ちあふれています!!」なんていうような、変な文を言わなくても良いわけです♪お気に入りの言葉は、”adore”。女の子が良く使う言葉らしいです。Likeの代わりに使えたら、会話がカラフルになるのでは!?と思います。ちょっと、ポーズを置いたら、何で、部分的に太文字なのか、何でこの文章が無理やりな感じなのか、暗黙の了解で、分かると思います（笑）

We use eyes to see♪

2008-02-12T20:28:00.001+09:00

I seriously watched a TV show for kids named “Wriggle”. This is the only show I can laugh at the same time as native speakers. We learn Dog, Cat, and Snake as new words. Even though these words are too easy for me, I can’t make light of this program, because the explanations for these words are more complicated than words themselves. I suppose children already know these words if they can understand these explanations. This program contains the program to introduce the international greetings. To be surprised, Japanese was introduced first. But the intonation of an actor is really awful. In this show, we can find the song: “We use eyes to see～, we use nose to smell～, hands to touch and tongue to taste♪” I can’t help pointing out that this song is too,too,too　simple, but I will watch this show tomorrow too. lol

今日は、子供向け番組”Wriggle”に見入ってました。ネイティブと同じタイミングで笑える唯一の番組です。今日のNew words は、Dog, Cat, Snake. あぁ～、なんだ、こんな単語か～と、侮ることなかれ、、その単語の説明の方が厄介!!!　説明が聞き取れるなら、この単語は既に知ってるんじゃないかなと・・思ってしまったり。。。　世界の言葉で、Hello！を言おうというコーナーでは、何と!「こんにちは」が、一番に登場。日本人多いもんね～。でも、日本でいう”歌のお兄さん”の発音が、こんにちは。絶妙(>w<;).. 　“We use eyes to see～, we use nose to smell～, hands to touch and tongue to taste♪”そのままやんっ”( >o)/( -ω-;)”と突っ込み入れつつ、多分、明日も見入ります(笑

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(><)

2008-02-11T09:15:00.000+09:00

・・母からのメール・・
「お姉ちゃんがドーナッツを５つ買ってきました」私の存在は忘れていなかったようですが、私が日本にいないということは忘れていたようです（笑）ところ変わって、オーストラリア。昨日、覚えた単語は、ブランコ、ミミズ等々。ホストファミリー色が出ますね。あと、かなりショックだったのは、棒、スプーンが聞き取れなかったこと。中学の必須単語なのに。。ひゃ～、ひどい(><)… この家族は、夜に本の読み聞かせをしています。読める？と言われて、まぁ、読めませんでしたね。最後は、一緒に本に出てくる星の数を数えて、、本の内容完全無視でした。生きていくためには、speakingだと良く言うけれど、子供達と触れ合うためにはreadingだって必須なんです ( >▽)o”頑張ります。夜は、ホストファザーお手製のビールをちびちび飲みながら、ホストマザー絶賛のＴＶ番組“brothers & sisters”を鑑賞。ひとつ、新たな目標ができました。１年で、この番組の内容についていけるようにすること。TOEFLのスコアよりも、何よりも、私の目標のなかで、一番高いハードルになると思います。。。

I got an e-mail from my mother. In this mail, she said that my sister bought five doughnuts for my family. I was happy to know that she didn’t forget my existence, but I realized that she forgot that I am not in Japan now. Yesterday, I learn new words such as earthworm and swing. The words I learn here are very affected by structure of host family, I think. That I couldn’t catch easy words such as spoon and stick gave me a turn… My host parents try to read books for their kids every night. Kids asked me to read books yesterday and I tried to read, but it was a little difficult for me to read smoothly. I hope I could read books fluently in near future. At night, I watched American TV show named “sisters& brother” with my host mother with drinking bear made by my host father. I could find a new aim in Australia after I watched this TV show. The aim is that to understand the outline of this TV show within a year!! This aim will be the most difficult aim to achieve for me..

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

2008-02-09T20:19:00.000+09:00

Today is the second day in Australia!!
I guessed I would face many difficulties in Australia, especially in the beginning of home stay. But, there is nothing special which makes me bothered so far. My home stay family is accustomed to accept international guests. In fact, I heard there were three Chinese kids in this house recently, even though my host parents have their own three young kids. Now, there is another Japanese girl except for me. It seems that they accept international students during most of the year I think they are very tough and open-minded. I have never seen parents stop moving since I came to this house. I guess it is better to describe that ‘I mixed well in this house like an air’ than describing that 'I could adapt myself to the atmosphere in this house'. I really feel their welcome atmosphere. What a great start to the day in Australia!
Oh, I can remember one problem here. I brought my alarm clock to Australia from Japan. This clock can sense a kind of signal from a satellite and can adjust time automatically. Sadly, I realized that the signal can’t reach here… I will wake up at 8 o’clock tomorrow, so I have to set the alarm clock for 6 (><)!
I've got to go to bed now.

かなり、私ごとですが。。。

2008-01-27T17:38:00.000+09:00

めちゃめちゃ嬉しいことがありました。私のことを必要だと、真剣に＆めいいっぱい言ってくれる友達がいました。学校でこれを書いてますが・・・冗談じゃなく、怪しい人になりそう＝泣きそうです。って言うより泣きたいです。。。人に必要とされるのってこんなに嬉しいものなのね。安心するものなのね。自信になるものなのね。
　でも、好き好きオーラを沢山注いでもらったのに、、私は不安で返していたみたいで。。ひとりで、自由奔放な行動してたもんね。ごめんね。人になかなかお願い（?）出来ない私が、トイレ一緒に行こう～と、連れショ○を覚えたのは、かなりの進歩なんです。かなりの依存なんです。でも、依存する分、寂しさを感じることが増えますね。だから、このままいったら、一人で行動できなくなっちゃいそうな気さえします。これは、後退と呼ぶのかな。
　ん～。人に甘えられること。私にとっては、紛れもない進歩です。人に甘えることは、人に頼られることより、何倍も私にとっては、勇気がいることで難しいことです。それは、どんなに甘えても、自分のことを嫌いにならないでいてくれるだろうな～って分かってなきゃ出来ないことだから。甘えられる友達がいて、幸せ者だと思います。
　
　　　人といるのが楽しいと思える自分が好きです。彼女といる時の自分が好きです。

　心理学の性格判断グラフは、正反対だったし、かなり性格の違う２人なんでしょうね。グラフ見なくても、性格が正反対なのは自分でも感じますが。だからこそ、私にないものを、数え切れないくらい持ってて、良いな♪良いな♪と思わされます。
　留学出発まで、２週間を切りました。慌しくて、本人が一番、全然実感なくて、気づけば今に至ってます。”私がいないと学校来ない”、、喜ぶべき言葉じゃないんですけど、、とても嬉しかったです。一緒の授業を取ろうとしてくれたこと、、嬉しかったです。私はこの言葉を励みに頑張れる気がします。

　最近の授業で、明るいのには、なんとなく気づいてしまってました。そして、なんとなく、私が寂しくなってました。何と言えば、彼女は頑張れるのかな。何と言えば、私からの好き好きオーラが伝わるのかな。

　ひとつ言えることは、私は彼女のことがめっちゃ好きです。だから、彼女といる時の自分が好きです。

There is no royal road to learning.

2008-01-20T21:43:00.000+09:00

　母校で模試監督してきました。これもバイト。高校は、もはや異世界。場違いなとこにきてしまった感覚です。３歳差がこんなに大きいとゎ。。。そうそう、半ズボンの体育着のことハーパンって言ってたゎ。土日は教科書持ち帰んきゃなんだよね。そうだ、一番手前のトイレのドア、閉まりづらいんだった。等々、懐かし過ぎる！トイレで見つけたポスターも手書きの可愛らしいものでした。大学のは、パソコンの無機質な文字で、“トイレットペーパーは持ち帰らないで下さい。”だったような。夢がないですよね。夢が。このバイトは、お昼付き。これが、ゴージャスなのです。なんと、真昼間にも関わらず（？）お寿司出てきました。遠慮なく、ごちにならせてもらいます～～（笑）
　国語の第一問目。つむぐ。。。どう書くんだっけ？？名前書き忘れるミスをしていた子もちらほら。基本だよ！？と言える・・・立場にはありません。。マークミスして、数学で７点取った人ですから。ちなみに、７点取ると偏差値は、３０くらいになります。マークずらして、自己再と３０点以上ずらした人ですから。裏の問題解き忘れた人ですから。ミスというミスは、全部網羅した気がします。この記録は、まだ、誰にも破られていないとのこと。
　ちなみに、解答時間中は、私の読書タイム。２冊も読破してしまいました。割りが良すぎて、日給言えません。。もう、バイトに来たにも関わらず、いたれりつくせりで、、感謝です♪
　I went to my home high school to work. I helped teachers as a supervision. Most of Japanese high school take place practice examinations in weekend. That means not only students but also teachers have to come to school to oversee students. Some teachers play the family-centered person in weekend. So, if there is any understaffed day in practice examination day, I go to help to occupy the lack. This job includes lunch and that lunch is pretty good for normal university student like me. Today, I was treated to sushi!! 　I was fortunate in having such a good lunch!!
　Many things reminded me of my good high school days. I strongly realized how long two years are. I found quite a handwriting poster in a washroom. There are also posters in university, but they typed by computer and said "Don't take toilet paper home." ...
Test itself recalled bitter experiences to me. I am absent-minded. At one time, I made mistakes the mark to black out at a computer-graded test and got 7 points. I also made many mistakes through my high school days..But,for now, these experiences also precious memories for me.

Love is blind.

2008-01-19T21:08:00.000+09:00

おいしいコーヒーの入れ方　シリーズ ★★★☆☆
THE恋愛小説(笑)ストーリーの９０％が恋愛で占められています。にも関わらず、恋愛一本で→ここまで冊数が増えちゃうのは、歩みが相当のろいストーリー展開のおかげ（笑）１冊飛ばしても気づかないんじゃないか的な勢いです。ピュア，キザ、喫茶店。私的、恋愛小説３要素、揃ってますね。読者が期待する恋愛小説の型に、気持ちがよいほど、ぴたっとはまってくれる連載です。女の作者さんが、男の子の立場に立って書くと、女々しい感じになるので、私、個人的には、あまり好きではない、、、と言いつつ、あれよあれよという間に、シリーズ読破。なんででしょ…? ほぼすべてのキャラクターが、愛し、愛され、振り、振られ、何かしらの恋愛に絡んでます。主人公、勝利（かつとし）の思考の中で、彼の思い人、かれん以外の脇役達の登場回数は、同情に値しますが。それでも、こってこての恋愛のオンパレード。胃もたれ覚悟（笑）コーヒー片手に、ゆっくり、じっくり、どっぷり恋愛小説に浸かりたい気分の人、必読です。
　そして、コーヒー繋がりの余談。喫茶でバイトをしていただけのことはあって、コーヒー大好きです。特に、豆を挽いた時の香ばしい香りは、幸せ気分を運びますよね～(^^*)うちの母も、負けず劣らず、コーヒーファン。バイト先からの、コーヒー豆のお裾分けは、私の親孝行でした！家には、インスタントながらもコーヒーが常備です。そして、最近、仲間入りしたらしいキャラメル・ナッツ・バリは、村瀬家一押し！！特に、ナッツは、もう、「ひゃ～(><)」です。幸せにならずにはいられない～。幸せのハードルの低い人生は、お得です。　
The way how to make tasty coffee
This set of books series are what we just call the romances. Most part of books are accounted for love affairs. The development of stories is so slow... So, this story becomes the series. Most of the characters in books have involved in love affair in some way. This story will lie heavy on our hearts as well as meat lies on our stomach. I want to recommend person who want to be immersed in love story to read this series.
By the way, I like coffee very much. Especially I love smell of coffee when I grind coffee. This smell bring me happy feeling. In my home, there are always coffee even though it is instant coffee.. Recently, three new taste coffee add to my home selections, caramel taste, nut taste and Bari. These tastes get stamps of approval from my family members immediately. My favorite one is nut taste. Whenever I drink it, I can't help feeling happy!!

Is wine there is truth.

2008-01-17T13:41:00.000+09:00

　山梨は、悲しいかな、自他公認の田舎県。田舎だからこその魅力ももちろんあるんですが、そんな田舎臭い山梨が好きだったりするんですが。。。もうちょっと、元気をプラスしても良いかな？東京から程よく近かったり、自然豊か、特に、富士山があったり、あと、あと!聞くところによると、大阪発ー東京着という回り方が、外国人観光客にとっては、黄金ルートなのだそうで、、山梨はその途中でひょいと立ち寄れる位置にあるし、、っと、なかなか磨けば光る県なんですょ、きっと、、、多分、、。それで、どの部分を磨こうかとしているかと言うと、外国人の観光客に対する魅力の部分。山梨って以外に、外国人の人数多いんです。ブラジルとか中国とか。だから、県主催で、どうやったら山梨に外国からの観光客がやってくるのかという内容の講義を社会人向けにやってます。生徒さんは、観光業に携わるもろもろの人。今日は、そのプログラムのお手伝いに行ってきました。自分が興味のある分野の話や、その分野に実際携わっている講師の方のお話を直に、ちゃっかり、聞けるという収穫があるにも関わらず、バイト料がでる美味しいお仕事です♪♪
今日の会場は、学院大学。学食にもお邪魔してきました。学生多いから、侵入してもあんまり目立ちません。学院スイーツは、結構、手の込んだのありました。学校によって、学食の雰囲気が、面白いくらい違いますよね。面食らっってしまうね。学食はその学校の雰囲気を掴む、一番手っ取り早い手段と言っても過言ではないのではないでしょうか？
　Yamanashi is known as one of country prefectures. I like peaceful, pastoral atmosphere of Yamanashi, but I want my home prefecture becomes little bit more active. I think Yamanashi is an attractive prefecture. It has Mt.Fuji which is one of famous Japanese sightseeing destinations.Furthermore, its location is also good. Yamanashi is placed not so far but not so near from Tokyo. It is fine location to take a day trip from Tokyo. As I heard, the route from Osaka to Tokyo is gold (popular) route to sightseeing around famous spots in Japan for foreign visitors. Yamanashi is between Tokyo and Osaka. It is easy for foreigner visitors to drop by Yamanashi. So, recently, Yamanashi prefectural government tries to advertise prefecture's hidden charms for visitors especially for foreigners. Indeed, there are a lot of foreigners in Yamanashi. So,I guess people in Yamanashi are beginning to have welcome atmosphere. The prefectural government hosts new program for members of society in Yamanashi who are interested in or already go in for international jobs for about two months. In this program, every time, one or two business persons are invited as speakers. I sometimes help this program as a student staff members. It is good experience for me to improve myself to meet persons who involved in international jobs. Besides, it is good oppotunity to make money. To help this program is a kind of part-time job for me.
Today, I went to Gakuin university which take places this program in. Since I had free time before this program, I went to a cafeteria in this university. Atmosphere is fairly different from atmosphere in my university. I think it is not too much to say that a cafeteria atmosphere can reflect university atmosphere.

( . . ;).....

2008-01-16T13:34:00.000+09:00

＠ベイビーメール ★☆☆☆☆
読まないで下さい。
理由怖い。気持ち悪い。夢に出てきそう。背後が気になりだす。携帯の画面が見れなくなる。
以上のことにより、日常生活に支障をきたすおそれがあるので、お勧めできません。。。

@ Baby Mail
Don’t read this book!
Because…there are possibilities that: you will dream of this book, you will suspect someone behind you, you will not be able to see the screen of the cell phone.
For above reasons, I can not recommend you to read this book….

When shared, joy is doubled and sorrow halved

2008-01-14T18:19:00.000+09:00

☆☆☆成人式☆☆☆
　起床は４a.m. →着付け＆メイクに約２時間です。美容師さんは、朝の数時間でざっと６or７人さばいてました。なんと貫徹とのことで....お疲れ様です。総額は....O万２０００円なり。男の子は、男の子というだけで、もはや親孝行だと思います。でも、でも!?着物着た思い出は、プライスレス(笑)ちなみに、着物は赤。帯は、巾着結び。自分では、見えなかったけど、袋みたいになってたらしいです。前撮りの時は、髪はアップだったので、今回は横にふわふわ(?)こじゃれた感じにしてもらいました。魔法のパウダーとやらの力で髪の毛は、キラッキラ(笑)☆面白い!!!
　父の車で、会場へ。父は１日、私のアッシーになって頂きました。お父さん、お母さん金銭的に時間的に、もう～、もろもろ、すみません＆ありがとう。成人とは思えない甘えっぷりの１日でしたね。式自体は、わずか、３０分。短っ!でも、お楽しみは、友達に会うことだよね～♪中学校の友達、高校の友達、懐かしい顔のオンパレード♪みんな可愛い～、綺麗～♪いや～、私がどきどきしてしまう。みんながみんな艶やかすぎて、ちょっとやそっとのことじゃ目立たないもんね。髪の毛、真っ赤にするくらいの気合がないと。
　そして、そして、クラス会。クラス合同で飲み会でした。だいたい50人くらい集まってたのかな。いや～、あの子がタバコ吸ってるょ!?この子がこんなにおっきくなっちゃってるょ!?という感じで、みんな劇・的・変・貌。目の保養になりました。
　成人式、行っても行かなくても、どっちでも良いかな的なスタンスだったけど、行って良かった!!テンション上がりまくりの1日でした。とうことで、日記もカラフルにしてみました。

Today, it was held the coming of age ceremony. I woke up at 4a.m. and went to a beauty salon. Beauty salons open at early morning only today for girls who take part in the coming of age ceremony. I made up my face, put up my hair and wore Furisode(Kimono). Interestingly, it is often said Kimono suits woman whose waist measurement is almost same as her hip . So, I wound a towel around my waist to approximated to the fine proportion. It took about 2hours to dress up. It cost oooooyen.. I felt so sorry for my parents. I think boys are good to their parents because what they have to buy is only suit and what only they have to do for the coming of age ceremony is... to wear the suit. But! the experience wearing Kimono is priceless!!!
The ceremony took only 30minutes. But, the ceremony itself is not so important for us. To meet old friends is the most pleasure. I met many friends who seldom meet. The coming of age ceremony is held in each city. We join the ceremony in our home town. So, friends who go to other prefectures come to our home town. The coming of age ceremony is one of precious chances to catch up with old friends. I feel sorry that I can't find any ways to tell how the ceremony place is buzzing.
After the coming of age ceremony, I went to a drinking party as a class reunion . We held it beyond classes, so almost 50people joined this party. I reminisced about the good old days with my friends.
Today is a colorfulday for me.

My another family!!

2008-01-13T00:07:00.000+09:00

I received the information about my host family. There are five members in my host family. All children are girls. We are also a family of five. Indeed, I am the second daughter of three sisters. Namely, My host family structure is the same as my family structure. My Host family's oldest sister, second sister and youngest sister is 1 years old ,3years old and5 years old respectively. The youngest sister was born in just last year!!!! How young they are. I guess I have to get over not only culture shocks but also generation gaps. Besides, there is a dog. It is the first time for me to live with dog because I lived a condominium where pets are not allowed for a long time. I can easily imagine my younger sister envies me.
My senior went to Australia the year before last. Surprisingly, my host family is exactly the same as my senior's host family. What a curious coincidence!! I have read her report about her experience in Australia. Her excitement communicates itself to me by reading her report. Thanks to her report, I can grasp a feeling of hospitality of my host family. At no distant date, I will talk with her face to face. I can't help imagining of my new life as an oldest sister.

ついに、ホストファミリー決まりました!!!!!!!!ステイ先は、5人家族( ^^)Y☆Y(^^ )我が家と一緒だ~。しかも3姉妹。また、また、うちと一緒~。子供達は1&3&5歳の女の子達。つまり、1番小さい子は昨年生まれたばかりヽ(｀ロ´;)ノめちゃ、ちっこい(*>ω<*)日本で言えば、平成生まれの3姉妹。カルチャーショック＋ジェネレーションギャップも乗り越えなければφ(.. )ぃゃ～、可愛いんだろうな。つい、ニヤケてしまうのを、どうにもこうにも止められません(＞ｗ＜)♪
+α 犬。人生初ペット♪♪　仲良くしてくれるかなぁ。
そして、そして、なんと、なんと!!?私のホストファミリーは、前に留学してた私の学科の先輩のホストファミリーだったそうな。山梨だけじゃなくて、世界も狭いのね!!と言うことで、その先輩にお茶につきあってもらうことになりました☆
やっと、現実味湧いてきました。出発が近づくと言うことは、うちの家族といる時間も減っているということ。家には寝に帰ってるような生活してたけど…今のうちに、しゃべり溜めしとかなきゃかな。

（。　。；）

2008-01-12T23:32:00.000+09:00

歯茎が痛い...と思いきや何と、何と!?親知らずが生えてきた!!!!!えっ、えっ~~~。嘘ですよね??本当ですか??って言うか、タイミングは今ですか??今、YOU、生えて来ちゃうの!? 留学中、歯医者のみは保険使えないんですけど…、ご存じでσ(^-^;)??
ぃゃ～、久々にテンション上がっちゃいました(笑)歯医者をこの前、卒業したばっかなのに…υまた、出戻り決定かな(￣~￣；)骨密度良いけどさ、牛乳好きだけどさ。ん～、親の心子知らずとは良く言ったものだゎ(笑)
　Little did I know that I cut my wisdom tooth. I was reeeeeeeally surprised at cutting my wisdom after I come of age. How bad timing is(> .< ;) Because I just finished having my teeth treated. Indeed, I already entered health insurance for studying abroad. I can take advantage of this insurance in any case except .....dentist!! I can say only "Awful". Now, my wisdom teeth grows a little bit , so I can't pull it yet = There are nothing I can do...
By the way, I didn't know that third molar is expressed wisdom tooth. To cut one's wisdom teeth has another meaning according to the dictionary. This also means that men(women) begin to be discreet men (women) . I hope my wisdom tooth is cut to report my maturity to me and to guarantee not to make funny mistakes!

( ^^)(^^ )

2008-01-09T21:08:00.000+09:00

　今日、インタビューを受けました( ^^)(^^)オーストラリアから来ている留学生の子の期末レポートのお手伝い♪♪テーマは、"パラサイトシングル"についてどう思うか。中学か高校の授業で習った気がするな～程度の認識しかなかったのだけれども、乏しいながらも精一杯の知識をフル活用して、答えました!!ちょっとでも、役に立ってくれたら良いな～と思います。インタビューは、録音するとのことで、しかも英語ということで緊張しました（＞＜）どもりまくりで、申し訳ないですっ。。。でも、彼女がとっても優しい!!そして、ちっちゃくて可愛い～☆特に’uhm~’という時の、しぐさがぐっと来ます（笑）質問を丁寧に説明してくれたし、"good～"って何度も褒めてくれました。オーストラリアでも彼女には会えるので、嬉しいです。
　Today, was interviewed by one of international students who come from Australia. She research about the phenomenon of increasing of parasite single in Japan". I know the word of parasite single because I heard this word in the high school's or junior high school's class. I don't know the detail, but I tried to answer by using my full of knowledge of the parasite single. I hope my answer can help her report. She recorded our conversation to be able to review after. We used English through interview. I felt little nervous and stammered many times... But her kind attitude made me relaxed. She explained all questions carefully before we started interview. And she encouraged me with kind words many times. I like her atomosphere and I especially like her behavior when she says" uhm~". It's pretty cute!! I am happy because we can still meet in Australia(^^)♪

Long time no see you!!!

2008-01-07T21:45:00.000+09:00

ドイツに短期留学してる友達が、日本に一時帰宅してきました(*´v｀)LovE(´v｀*)ぃゃ～、お久しぶりだ～。面白いくらい、良い意味で、全然、変わってない(笑)安心しました。写真も見せてもらいました。なんか、狙われてるのかなと思わせる男性人の写真がちらほら。ドイツでも楽しくやっているそうで良かった、良かった☆
My friends who belong to the same department and ,now, go to German to study as a exchange student came back to Japan briefly to take part in the event for the young who come of age(成人式). She spend her school life in German from last August. She let us see some pictures with her friends. As far as I guess from these pictures, some of guys in pictures will aim her. Anyway, I am glad to know that she enjoys studying in German. I am also happy that she hasn't changed so much since she left Japan. She is still charming and often chuckles as before. She can enter into our atmosphere immediately. I bet many her friends eager to meet her and she will be pull about because she has to leave again soon to join classes in German. I hope she have fruitful life in German. I am looking forward to hearing the story of her travels.

(-ω-o)=(o-ω-)

2008-01-06T12:35:00.000+09:00

　私にとっては他大学になる県立大学の留学生とお茶して来ました☆彼は、甲府の姉妹都市のアメリカのアイオワ州デモインからの留学生です。同じボランティアしたのがきっかけで友達に( ^^)Y☆Y(^^ )写真はその時のものです♪また、さらに、さらに、偶然にも!?単位交換でお邪魔している県立大学で,同じ授業を取っていることが判明!!世間狭っ。というより山梨狭っ。"デモインは何もないよ～"とのこと。だから、"何もない甲府と姉妹都市になったんだよね～"って。ん～、同意せざるを得ないのが寂しい。。という何もない甲府で特にすることもないので、今、甲府で開催されている風林火山博まで散歩してきました。そこで売ってるジェラート食べました☆黒ゴマ、ゆず、巨峰、きな粉、等々、どれも惹かれてしまうゎ、、今度、他の味にも挑戦したい!
　アメリカ人の気質なのか、彼は俗に言うェントルマン(笑）申し訳ないですが、慣れてないってのもあって、ウケてしまうゎ～。私も負けじと、ジェントルガールを目指す!!!!ん～、具体的には、何すれば良いのかな。。。
　Today, I hung around with an international student who belongs to other university than mine. We met at a certain festival which I took part in as a volunteer and we made friends. We took the upper picture that day. He came from Des Moines at Iowa state in America.
　In this semester, I take some classes in his university as a part of a certain program hosted by the Kofu government. And I found that he takes the same class. How coincidence we are!
According to him, Des Moines is countryside and there are nothing special. Kofu is also countryside.. He said that Des Moines and Kofu became sister cities because they were very similar." Sadly, I can't help agreeing with him..
We went to a kind of event held in Kofu. In Yamanash,there is a famous historical person named Takeda Shingen who lived in samurai period . And his life became a video drama. The event is held for the video drama. We ate gelato there. There were many kinds of tastes such as grape, green tea, a sort of mandarin orange and so on . I　was puzzled which taste I ate. I choose soybean flour taste finally. Next time, I want to try other tastes!!
　He is a gentleman, I think. I was little upset because I am not accustomed with being treated such way. I make my mind that I become a gentlegirl following him!!!

（’ー’＊）

2008-01-03T09:52:00.000+09:00

〜本に出てくる言葉〜　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　★★★☆☆
要得体の知れない
掴み泥のない
表面的なくすぶり
美化
言い控える
静観
本音
真実の一端
闇
etc...
まぁ、こんな感じの本でした。250ページ過ぎたくらいからが面白い(o≧▽≦)o粘って読んだ甲斐があったかな☆☆
　I read the book called”Fukuin no Syonen". In this story, two boys cleared up the incident that the building erupted. There were 9 victims. One of victims was their friend. Most people thought the incident was an accident. But, they thought the explosion broke out intentionally by someone.
This book begins the scene that one man visits the place which the building were. We can't know who he is until we read the later part of this book. This book is difficult for readers to piece out the setting . The author doesn't mention a lot about the situation. So,readers can use my imagination. We gradually find out the detail of each characters, who each character is and how did they meet each other. And finally, we can face the fact why the girl was killed. Boys search the fact not to be famous. They search the fact because they only eager to know the fact.
Another highlight of this book is that they suffer from their own characters. They have two faces. At a glance, they are normal students, in fact, they try to be normal studentｓ. On the other hand, they have desire to kill others. They try to hide this desire and to erase the desire somehow. But, they can't do by themselves. Through their search, they have to keep in touch with the criminal. He sees through their dangerous desires and draw them into criminal black world which he live in. The context that boys try to strain at the leash of their desire will grasp reader's attention and the unexpected ending will make readers satisfied with !!

Letters are better.

2007-12-30T00:02:00.000+09:00

筆まめには、相当遠いですが…、書くのは好きです☆手書き、味が出て良いと思います!!と言うことで、年賀状書きました☆とは言うものの・・ここ数年で一気に年賀状書く枚数が減りました。年賀状の文化はだんだんなくなっちゃうのかなぁ。。ちょっと寂しいです（＞＜）
２年連続で、差出人の自分の名前を書き忘れるなんてことをして送り手に迷惑かけてましたが、、今年は、ちゃんと書きました。ひとりひとりに、コメント書くの大好きです。書きたいこと多くて、つい、字が小さくなってしまうのだけど…そこはご愛敬m(*_ _)mこうやって筆…と言うよりペンを取ってると、２００８年になるんだな～って実感します。
!１年経つの早っ(・・;)))光陰矢の如し。まさにビュンって感じで1年終わりました。
２００８年も素敵な年になりますよぉに。幸あれ(*^^*)
　
　I usually use e-mail as a communication tool. Sending E-mail is more convenient than writing letters. It is faster and easier. But! writing letter is also good. Handwriting can express person's color, I think. I wrote new Year's cards, today. I am not a good correspondent(letter writer) , but I like writing. I can recognize that new year is coming soon by writing New Year's card.
New Year's card is common among Japanese. It is one of Japanese culture. But, recently, the number of people write new year's card has been decreasing observably. Many young people send new year's mail instead of writing new year's card. I will miss New year's card...
This year(2007 ) goes quickly for me. Time flies for me. It proves that I can enjoy this year!!
I hope new year(2008) is wonderful year for everyone and happiness comes to everyone.

みんなの雫よ、海となれ　～Many drops make a flood～

2007-12-29T22:33:00.000+09:00

　 I met my friends, today. All we belonged to the student council when we were junior high school students. After graduating from the junior high school, we went to different high schools and now, most of them don't live in Yamanashi, because most of them go to universities in other prefectures. But!! we still keep in touch with each other. And once a year, we gather and chatting to catch up with each other. They each have each character, so it is interesting to speak with them for me. Most of us are twenty years old now. So, next time we can held a drinking party legally. I can't join the next drinking party because I have a previous reservation. So,I am looking forward to the next of next drinking party!!

中学時代の生徒会メンバーで、いつものごとく、"サイゼり"ました。大学等々の関係で山梨県外に住んでる人も多いから、簡単に会えるわけではないけれど、、、それでも１年に１回は召集メールがやってきます。生徒会にいれてもらえて、良かったなぁ～と、みんなに会うたびに思います。だから、こうして、この輪◎の中に入っていられるわけなので。特に役に立ってなかったけど・・このメンバーと出会えたことで、得るものは大きかったです。感謝。そして、今でも、こうやって繋がっていられることが、とても嬉しいです。何年越しに会ったとしても、"すっと"入って行けそうなみん雫の雰囲気良いよね～。安心します。雫メンバーは、それぞれ味があって、話してて面白いっ!!何人かには会えなくて残念だったけど、、またの機会を楽しみにしてます。そして、そして!?ほぼ全員が成人したので、いよいよ!合法飲みの年がやって来た!!!!!日程的に、次の飲み会には、私自身が参加出来ず・・寂しいけど、、話だけでも聞こうと思います。来年も開いてくれると嬉しいな♪♪

8(^▽^8)(8^▽^)8"

2007-12-28T23:30:00.000+09:00

　中学時代の友達と夕食を食べに行きました。専門生、大学生、社会人ということで、なかなか時間が合わないけど、一番仲良くしてくれてる友達です☆★１年会えないことを”寂しい”と言ってくれて・・・嬉しいょ～。幸せ者だ～（^^)次に会えるのは、留学から帰って来た時かな。また、ガールズ・トークしようね～♪
　I went out for dinner with my friends in my junior high school days. We meet about once a month even though It is little difficult to arrange our schedules because we are a university student, a student in the technical college and a member of society respectively. We won't be able to meet again before I come back from Australia. So, I will miss them.. And they also said they would miss me. I am happy that they think they need me. I hope we can chat again after one year as now.

The best things in life are free.

2007-12-27T00:55:00.001+09:00

　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　★★★★☆
　この前、ドラマやってましたね。本は、名言満載☆☆想定できないような、おばあちゃんのコメントの数々、さすがだゎ～。"歴史もできんと？「過去にはこだわりません」って書いとけ"名言です!!メモっちゃったょ(笑)　言葉通り、お母さんに背中を押され始まった、おばあちゃんとの生活。うっそぉ～と言いたくなるようなとこいっぱいありすぎて、どこをつっこんで良いのやら。。"衣食住のすべてがシンプルな暮らし。"とあとがきにあるように、まさにシンプル極まりないですね。凄いな～、凄すぎるな～（'　'；）...全体的なはフランクで軽い感じがする本だけど、教わること、気づかされること、多い気がする。"大切なのはお金じゃない"ってことを前面に押し出した内容だけど、１番この本が伝えたいのは、おばあちゃんそのものなのでしょう。"気づかれずにするのが本当の親切"　ん～。確かに。目に見えない親切、地道な努力、難しい。押し付けの親切にならないためには、相手がどうして欲しいのか、どう思ってるのか、気づかなきゃいけないので。人に良い自分を見せるのは、案外、簡単なんだけどね～。料理できないけど、料理出来そうなランキングには入れます。根がしっかりしてなくても、一瞬ならしっかりすることは出来ます。O型でも、A型と１週間くらいなら勘違いさせられ（ると思い）ます。人に見せる自分は作れます。でも、それが本当の自分なのかは・・不明。人に見せるための自分ではない部分でも、素敵な人になれたら良いなと思います。
　I read a book named "Saga no Gabai Bachan" The author is a Japanese comedian. This book is written about a country life of the author with his grandmother in his childhood. "Gabai" is dialect in Saga prefecture. And it means amazing or impressive. Their life was very very very... simple! But that does not mean their life is dull. His grandmother has own point of view for all sides. And the author learned a lot of important things to live happy life from his grandmother. Readers can also learn as well to read this book. His grandmother often said that money is not important and we can live a pleasant life without much money. And her life proves this thought.In this book, we can find a lot of witty remarks which the grandmother said. Most of her sayings are funny and make us laugh. But there are also sayings which we can guess her view of life and these sayings teach a lot of important things for us. She does not take care how she was shown by others, but she take care others heartily. And her kindness is not for being prised. I hope I can be a nice person such as this grandmother someday.

The next day of Cristmas comes but once a year.

2007-12-26T00:03:00.000+09:00

　クリスマスは年に1回☆と言うことは、つまり、"クリスマスの翌日"も年に1回=貴重な日に変わりはないはず(笑)アメ横&浅草行ってきましたε=ε=(/*^▽)/若者の聖地(?)ディズニーランドやら新宿やらに、"ぐっ"と来るべきなんだろうけど…なぜか時めいてしまう…ものは使用がない!!そそられました。ので、ので、素直に足を運びました。"浅草でおばちゃんに絡まれる"　"アメ横で人ごみに潰される"等々、まわりに脅かされましたが、、めげずに行って良かったです。みんな行くべきだょ!?
　まずは、アメ横。うわさ通り、いたるところで値切り交渉の会話。と言うよりむしろ、店の人が勝手に値切ってました。安っっ。やっぱ、気になるのは食べ物。タピオカミルクティー＝台湾のミルクティー。夏にイギリスに留学した時に仲良くなった台湾の子達が作ってくれて以来、私の中でヒット中。こんなとこで再会できるとは♪♪タピオカのモチモチ感に思い出の力が加わって、これは、もう～絶妙な味わいです。タピオカミルクティー信者を増やしたいな!ちなみに、今回は抹茶バージョンを飲みました。今度、紫芋も挑戦したいっ♪１０円饅頭も有名みたいです。ぶらり旅。はなまるマーケット。やって来たっぽい。へぇ～(>ω<)ノ凸"入れちゃえ入れちゃえで有名（らしい）チョコレートのたたき売りも通過しました。姉＆妹のお土産はご当地キティ。神楽坂行ってないけど、まぁ、良いでしょう。
　
　浅草はと言うと、"The 日本"のような雰囲気でありながら、インターナショナルな町。英語が聞こえてきました。外人さん多いもんね。英語の教科書で、アメ横が出てきて、「"Hey, guys!"とアメ横のお店の人が外国人観光客に話しかける」という設定があって、、"いや～この設定は無理があるだろ～"とウケてたけど、、浅草なら、そんな設定も"あり"なのではないかと思われます。浅草のオーラ好きです。自分に合ってる気がします。同化できる気さえします!浅草寺は、、、もうプチ京都発見と言えちゃうんじゃないかな☆常香炉があって、その周りは、お線香の煙（？）がもくもく。煙を"体の悪いところにかけると良い"とのこと。ということで!?バイト先のみんなに言われ（懇願され?)た通り、念入りに&思いっきり、頭に浴びときました。効果に期待だ(笑)お賽銭もちゃんとしました!良いことありますように( ＾人-)-☆十分なご縁があるはず。なぜなら・・
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５円　　ご縁がありますように
１５円　十分ご縁がありますように
２５円　二重にご縁がありますように
３５円　みんなにご縁がありますように
４５円　始終ご縁がありますように
(私のためにも)今年の初詣には、ぜひ３５円入れてあげて欲しいですm(_ _)m
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　浅草からは、隈田川を下りながら日の出桟橋まで、水上バスに乗りました。水上バス、乗ってみたかったんだよね♪♪ベタなこと大好きなので☆水上バス、お勧めです。途中で東京タワーが顔を出しました!!
　
　道音痴、方向音痴、距離感覚ゼロのトリプルは、もう致命的です。でも楽しかったです(^o^)ノ♪

Christmas comes but once a year

2007-12-25T00:04:00.001+09:00

　奉仕される人がいるということは、奉仕する側も必要なわけで� 年中無休とか止めてほしいです(;-ω)/"見飽きたんだけど"とか店長に言われても…もう少しお付き合い頂くしか…私に出来ることはありません。でも!?ぐちぐち言いつつ(グチの相手させてすみません.)バイト続けてるのは、やっぱり楽しいから♪2年もやってれば、自分の居場所みたいなものを感じてみたりなんかしてみたり。喫茶店は、何を隠そう、人間ウォッチングの穴場。ぃゃ～、面白い人がやってくるやってくる。90歳越えても、元気にモーニング食べに来る常連のおばぁちゃんやら、女装に磨きがかかるおじいちゃんやら。怪しい勧誘してる人もいたり。。いつもトーストセットを流暢に頼む外人さんもいたな~。常連さんの1人が図書館のスタッフってことも判明しました。図書カードも落としてみるもんだ(笑)喫茶店でコーヒーを優雅に味わう図書館員って…彼の与えるイメージは満点+α!!!!まぁ、見た目はいたって普通のおじさんですが。みんな良いお客さんなわけでは決してないけれど、素敵な出会いも多いです。続けられてて良かった、良かった。仕事間違うゎ、仕事出来ないゎ、仕事覚えないゎの私が、暖かい、暖か過ぎる程のスタッフのみんなのおかげです。諦めてくれて助かります（笑）何だかんだで、指導する立場まで成り上ってきてますが、、、先輩の貫禄ゼロで、、申し訳ないです。でも、新人さん達は、物覚え速くて、私の拙い日本語を理解してくれて可愛い限りです。未だかつて、バイト初日にお冷溢した子見たことありません（私以外に。。）みんな素敵しい!!何も出来ないけど、せめて(?)ハートのカプチーノを作れるようになるように、最近は、必死こいてます（ >o)o"写真は、第何弾か目の、ハートらしきカプチーノ☆現段階の私にしては、誰になんと言われようが、これはハートであり、かつ、あっぱれな仕上がりです。
If there are buyers, it is necessary to be sellers. The coffee shop which I have worked at part-time opens all a year even Christmas... Unbelievable( . . ;) I often complain about a part-time job, but, in fact, I also enjoy my part-time job. So, I could have worked there for about 2 years. Many people come to the coffee shops and every customer has charming character. Of course, not all of the customers are good. But,most of them are good and they bring me fruitful time. As most of my friends know, I often make mistakes and take more time to remember tasks than others. I guess I often bring trouble to other staff members... But,other staff members are soooooooo kind. So, I have worked there for no lass than 2 years. I can't help saying "thanks for their kindness" to them.　Recently, I practice to be able to make Cappuccino on milk which shaped heart. I don't know my Cappuccino in the picture can be said heart , but , as far as I judge,it is a Heart Cappuccino (*^^*)

☆(ノ^^)八(^^　)ノ☆

2007-12-23T23:55:00.000+09:00

バイト先に、大和田伸也が、お客さんとしてふらっとやって来ました!! ぃゃ～、アートで芸能人に会えるなんてびっくりだ～!っと思いきや!?山梨が結構、ロケ地で使われ&うちの喫茶店が駅の中にあるおかげで、時たま芸能人来ちゃうらしいです。朝小竜、ダチョウクラブの上島竜平、川嶋あい( I wish)etc..なかなか凄いんじゃないかな。ちなみに、スープセットをお召し上がりになりました。レジ担当したので、”頑張って下さい”と言ってみました。
大和田伸也は、最近では”暴れん坊ママ”のおじいちゃん役やってましたね。そして、そのドラマのエンディングで使われていたのが、mihimaru　GT のI should be so lucky.♪♪この曲が流れて来た時は、私のために流れてきたのか!?くらい、驚きでした。本当にびっくりしたゎ～(・`ロ・ノ)ノ!!小学生時代に、天テレでジャスミンが歌ってるの聞いて良い曲～と思いつつも曲名を覚えてなくて…長い間片思い状態だった1曲。予想だにしなかった再会☆☆そして、mihimaruのおかげで、原曲はKylie Minogue が歌ってることが判明☆ぃゃ～、感謝です。mihimaru　GTのカバーは、相当アレンジされてて、新たな曲って言った方が正しそうですが…どっちも好きです（＾＾）でも、ジャスミンが歌ってるのが、もっと好きです!!天テレは良い曲カバーしてるなって最近気づきました。マドンナの　マテリアルガールも、確かジャスミンが天テレで歌ってたし♪
　I met a Japanese actor named Owada Shinya because he dropped in the coffee shop which I work at part-time as a waitress. I was surprised that such a famous person came to the coffee shop. It was the first time for me to met an actor in the coffee shop although I have met entertainers in Tokyo,but, surprisingly, I heard from other staff members that other famous person also came to the coffee shop before even though I missed the opportunities to meet them. The coffee shop is in the Kofu station( Main station in Yamanashi) and Yamanashi prefecture is sometimes selected as a place for making movies or TV drama. So, I think sometimes famous person comes to our coffee shop. By the way(?) Mr.Owada ate the soup and toast set.
He appeared the TV drama , Abarenbo-Mama, as the role of the father of main character. The song used in the ending of the TV drama is I should be so lucky sang by mihimaru　GT. I know the melody of that song because I know the original version of this song sang by Kylie Minogue. Most every day, I watched the TV program for children( Tensai-terebi-kun) when I was a elementary student. In this TV program, there was a program which children practiced and sang songs. "I should be so lucky" was sang by children in this program so I know this song. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of the song though I could hum it.Thanks to TV drama , Abarenbo-Mama, I can remember the name of the song and examine who sing an original version of the song.

Grief is lessened when imparted to others

2007-12-22T00:03:00.000+09:00

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　★★★★★
I read the book named "NEVERLAND" written by Okuda Riku. This book grasps my attention when I read only one sentense. That proves the author of this book has fantastic skill of witting, I think. There are mainly 4 boys in this story. And they live in a dormitory of a boys' school. Even though the dormitory itself is small, but!!,the content of this book is deep( There is full of meaning in this book.). There are some parts which I can't understand meaning. I hope I can understand every part someday.
4 boys have a kind of serious frustration and tried to solve their problems without other's help. But, finally, they open their mind each other heartily. I guess this story is little serious to read. I read this book when I was little tired. And I felt more tired because of serious content of this book. So, I might recommend my friends to read this book when they are cheerful in order not to feel tired.
"ネバーランド"良いです♪出だしから、吸い込まれてしまうところに、恩田陸の力量を感じます♪舞台はほとんど学生寮の中=小さいのに、内容は深いこと、広いこと。深すぎて、今の私には理解出来てない箇所もちらほら。悔しいな~。もったいないな(><)読んでいくうちに、男の子4人に声と顔が、いつの間にかついていってしまうのはなぜでしょう。最後には、もう、私自身が4人と一緒に学生寮、確実に居座っちゃってます(笑)だんだん、みんなの鎧が綻んでいくのが…緊張。話の展開上手すぎだ。自分を知って欲しいけど、隠したいような…現実世界でも似たようなこと沢山あるから、頷ける。4人の背負ってる過去が重すぎ→飲めり込み注意です。意味なく自分までも、"はぁ…"って気分になります。せめて、もうちょっと、元気な気分の日に読むべきだったかな。私の独断ランキングで上位に来るのではないかと思える1冊です。ダレン・シャンを越えるものに出会うことはあるのかなぁ!?楽しみですヾ(ｏ・ω・)ノ

Histry itself returns

2007-12-20T20:49:00.000+09:00

日本発の日が決まりました!!　２月７日☆　そろそろ、本腰を入れて準備に取り掛からないと、出発できないんじゃないかと思います。12月に水着を探すのは、無謀ですね。。留学の準備のひとつとして水着を掘り起こしました。と言っても、母の若き頃のもの。一応、セパレート！母の時代にも、セパレートはあったんだ～（笑）海の無い県しか住んだことないので⇒、水着（スクール水着以外）には縁遠かったので⇒いや～新鮮。時代はめぐるというようにファッションの流行りもめぐるらしい。Aラインも前に流行ったことがあるみたいだし、頷ける部分もあるのかな。ということで母の水着には、オーストラリアまでお供してもらう予定です。
I decide the day I leave Japan. February 7th. I think I have to get down to prepare for studying abroad soon. Now is summer in Australia, so I need swim wear to study in Australia. I realized that it is difficult to buy swim wear at shops in December... . So, my mother and me hunted for swim wear in our house and found mother's swim wear which my mother used when she was a student. This swim wear is good for me even though it was made a long time ago. I heard fashion itself returns. In fact,some part of modern fashions for young people in Japan came into fashion when mother's generation was young. Anyway, I am going to take this swim wear to Australia with me!

（＊＞ω＜）♪

2007-12-19T14:52:00.000+09:00

　成人式の前撮りをしました～☆★着物は黒。仕上がりは、、悪く言えば、”もはや私ではない。。　”よく言えば、"私じゃないみたい♪”　ファンデーション塗るときに、絵の具を塗られる画用紙の気持ちを垣間見れた気がしました（☆o☆）!!でも、人にお化粧をしてもらうのは、面白い☆文字通りまさに、化ける粧おい。いつもは、考えもしないようなアイシャドーの色をチョイスされたり、口紅塗ってみたり。新鮮だゎ!!
　”笑って”と言われて、笑うのはかなり至難の業でしたが、私にしては上出来ではないかなと思います（＾＾）スタイリストとヘアリストという雰囲気ではないけど、、髪と顔をいじってくれた、おばちゃん方、ありがとうございました～。何はともあれ、これで、無事、二十歳の記念は残せました。これが、お見合い写真に使用されることがないことを祈るばかりです（－人－）。。
　I took pictures with dressing in a traditional piece of Japanese clothing like long coat,kimono. That pictures are so-so showing, I think. If I say positively I could photographed like a woman not a girl thanks to wear kimono. If I say negatively, I looked like...
Stuff members in a photo studio dressed me , makeup me and tie my hair up. They selected the different colors as eye shadow and lip rouge from the colors I always select. I was surprised how I could changed only by changing colors. I think that pictures will remind me of my twenties when I see them for a long time later.

Speach is the picture of the mind

2007-12-15T23:00:00.000+09:00

２ヶ月強越しの思いをついに実現させて・・・という程でもないけど・・・やっと見ました。「しゃべれどもしゃべれども」。宣伝通り、落語中心の内容。主役の国分さんもさる事ながら、森永悠季君だったかな。ツボです♪関西弁ってだけで、私的には・・ツボです(*^^*)　適役！！彼のためにこの役がある！と言っても良いのではないかと思います。彼自身が役のキャラにスポッと納まってる感じ。まさに”スポッ”って感じでした。本物はどんな性格なのかな。役の感じのままでいて欲しい～と期待してしまうのは、視聴者のわがままなんだろうけど。。。何となく、さんまのからくりテレビに出て欲しい（笑）香里菜さんだったかな。泣き方が“美”。泣こうと思えば、あんなに綺麗に泣けるものなのだな～と、内容とは違うとこで関心してしまいました。寝相やら、泣き方やらは自分の支配の範囲外だと思っていたけど、、、そうでもないのかな（’’？）頑張る価値はある・・・のかもしれないですね。
　I watched DVD named "Syaberedomo-Syaberedomo" I had been looking forward to appearing this movie as DVD for about 2 months. This movie mainly deals with comic storytelling(らくご）. Of course, I like main cast, Kubub Taichi. But, one of sub casts, Morinaga Yuki, fixed my attention more. I can easily "guess" his own character "completely" suits his part in this movie even though I don't know whether my guess is really right or not. If possible,in his real life,I want him to be as the same character as the part not to fail to meet my expectations for him. I was also attracted by the scene that another sub cast , Karina cried. She wept bitter tears. I surprised the fact she was still beautiful even when she cried.

Money Talks

2007-12-14T20:47:00.000+09:00

VOAを見ていたら”大学教授はどれくらい稼ぐのか”というの記事を、目ざとく見つけました。かなり興味しんしんです！記事によれば教授が$９９０００、助教授が$７００００、アシスタント教授が$５９０００
つまり９９０万とかってことになるのかな。私の計算合ってるのか！？と疑いたくなる数字です。凄いな～。異世界。写真の下に、”自分の著作の本の印税も収入の足しになるみたいなことが書いてありました。大学の授業で自分の本を教材にしてる先生もちらほらいるのはこのせいなのかな。BOOK　OFFに売りたい本のリストが簡単に出来そうで困ります（＞＜）
　I spotted the article "Excuse Me Professor, How Much Do you Earn?"in VOA Special English. This title absolutely fascinated me. According to this article, the average salary for full professors , associate professors and assistant professors is $99000,$70000 and $59000 respectively. These numbers are too big to belive for me. I think they live in another world. Indeed, one of professors said that "Money from the sale of books written by professors can add to their salaries." I can easily convince that comment because same professors in my university use books written by themselves as texts. That helps their live, I guess. That gives me a troublesome task to make a list to buy these books after the semester...

A book is a machine to kill time with..

2007-12-14T12:55:00.000+09:00

★★★☆☆
One of my hobbies is reading. Yesterday, I read “ kage-hinata ni saku(”陰日向に咲く)
This book is written by gekidan hitori（劇団ひとり）It puts up a good show even though his regular occupation is a comedian and this book is the maiden work for him. There seems to be some different stories in a book and different main characters if we see only the surface. But, in the end, all stories connect with each other. This book is too interest to stop reading so I read it at a stretch. Especially I like the part of “good bye Moses” (さよならモーゼ) I like the unexpected end of this part. He has both ability to make people laugh and ability to write well. His good writing ability lifted him in my eyes. I want to get a part of his ability if possible (><) I heard this book will become a movie at no distant date. I am looking forward to watching it! 　

“一応”＆“自称“読書が趣味なので、昨日は、ちまたで話題の“陰日向に咲く”を読んでみました。貸してくれてありがと～。なかなか面白い！読んで良かった！一気に読みきりました！哀愁漂う表紙の表情も良いです。劇団ひとりって凄いんだなぁと感心せざるを得ない一冊ですね。人を笑わせる能力もあり、かつ文才もある。素敵過ぎです。その能力のほんの少しでもお裾分けして欲しい限りです。芸人さんという本職とは全く違った世界のはずなのに・・。ん～、凄いとしか言いようがない。特に“さよならモーゼ”の部分が良いです。予想外の結末に足をすくわれた気分。映画化が早くも決定されたとのこと。気になります。

A door must be either shut or open.

2007-12-11T10:15:00.000+09:00

Mochi-tsuki
The other day, international students in Yamanashi university do mochi-tsuki ( to pound steamed rice into cake)with their neighborhood. I asked them to give me some rice cake and they really gave me them! They are first rice cake for me to eat in this winter. Mochi makes me realized the coming midwinter. I guess it is not too much to say that rice cake are bywords for winter!

先日、留学生が、餅つきをしたとのこと。"餅欲しいな～”と言っておいたら、本当にくれました。いや～感謝です（＊＾＾＊）何だかんだで、今年☆初餅☆　冬を感じます＊　餅とみかんは、冬の代名詞ですからね～。　毎年、箱買い、大人買い～。
持ちつきは、日本の伝統の１つ・・・の割には、実際にやったことのある日本人は少ないのでは！？という気が（＞＜）伝統に敏感なのは、悲しいかな内部より、外部。。勉強せねばだな～ということでWikpediaをチェックしたら、なんと英語版発見（☆０☆）私が"へぇ～"です（・・；）
　その頃、私は、定期演奏会にお邪魔してきました！みんな上手♪♪１年でこんなに上達できるんだな～とびっくりしました(☆０☆）！それと同時に、１年の重さも何となく感じてみたり。。辞めるっていう私の選択は合ってたのかな・・と。自信ないな～。選択自体に良し悪しは無いと信じたいです。結果次第。＝これからの自分次第。ということで、やる気いただきました（　'　^'）0"

At that time I went to the concert of the guitar club which I belonged to. Their performances were pretty good and I was surprised their rapid improvement of guitars' skill. Their improvement made me happy and also realized me how long one year is. I quit the guitar club one year ago because I wanted to concentrate on preparing for studying abroad. But, now, I don't have confidence with whether this my decision was right or not . If I continue playing the guitar as a member of this club , I would get memory with them. But!!I want to believe there were no right decisions at that time. I hope my effort from now on can proves that my decision isn't wrong. I could get motivation for studying English by seeing friends do their best!