Museum

August 11th

In the after noon, I went to Auckland Museum. I saw Maori show first. They told us Maori culture and Maori words. They used traditional stick and played a game. I had a very good time to touch another culture. After the show, I took picture with Maori cool man. I was happy! I had short free time so I went to 2nd floor. 1st floor is Maori's traditional house and boats. 2nd is history in the world. We saw volcano's history and sea creature.

August 14 th

This afternoon, we went to Harbour cruise. We went near sky tower. We got a ship. It was very cold but we sit down seats which is outside! At first, I enjoyed cruising but I tired and wearied of cruising. We went down and took a rest. I drunk an orange juice. After that we went back to Unitec. I went home earlier than usual.

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Important things

-Computer
It is very useful and important things for me to study English and tidy my job. I use computer everyday. I have own note pc. I like using computer because it is easy to input important things. I can see many pictures and listen to music and so on. I can do every things. However, too use pc makes me forgetful about kanji!! I have to write it.

-Electronic Dictionary
I bought dictionary when I was 2nd year high school student. I could pass the English examination of 2 grade so my mother gave it to me. I was very happy. Dictionary is easy to carry and look up. However, I didn't buy a case of it so the dictionary has a lot of scratch.

-Cat
I don't have much time to play because I have a lot of homework and I have a job of my club. My job is to keep in touch with nursing home. I have to call and take new volunteer. The work is too hard to do. I can't sleep well. However, I have a lot of goods of cats. I have cute calender of cats. I have pictures of cats. Cats makes me mend.

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Hospital

I will go to a hospital to meet a old man who keep good relationsip with our club. Every Saturday, we go to his house and talk with him. Sometimes, we go shopping or help cleaning his house. Some of us go to his house at night and help eating and having a bath. We love him. He is nice old man.
Last week, he cought a cold and he took medicins. He always take some medicin so it is not goood for his health. He felt sick and went to the hospital. He has to stay in hospital a week.
Tonight, my friend and I will go his hospital. I will help to eat dinner. I want him to recover soon.

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Movie Review 2-1 Shrek

Shrek

A hero of this story is Shrek. He is a strong monster. His color is green and he has an ugly face. When people see him, they yell and run away. One day, Farquaad ordered his men to catch fairy-tale characters like Pinocchio and three The Three pigsPigs. One of the characters, Donkey, could run away from the followers of Farquaad. WhileThe way of getting outaway, Donkey met Shrek. Shrek is strong so the followers run away. Donkey respects Shrek. He wants to stay with Shrek. That night, a lot of fairy-tales came to Shrek’s pond. He was angry and he went to castle with Donkey to tell Farquaad with Donkey.
Farquaad wants to marry Fiona. She is very beautiful but she is in the top of the castle. There is a dangerous dragon so he looks for people who help Fiona instead of him. He found Shrek. If he Shrek can help Fiona, he promises him Shreck thatto have the characters will move. Shrek went to the castle and he could help Fiona.
While going back to the castle, Shrek and Donkey and Fiona become good friends. Fiona is beautiful but she is a very strong and tuff tough girl. The That night, Shrek tells the story why he will not to make friends to with Donkey. He doesn’t want to judge a person by his appearance. It is important for people to live together.
The last night, Shrek wants to say tell Fiona that heI likes her you to Fiona. He loves Fiona. He doesn’t want to be apart. However, he heard about talking Fiona and Donkey. At night, Fiona becomes monster an ogre like Shrek. She wants to become human. Shrek has the mistaken idea that her hatethe monster she hates is him. Next day, Fiona had gone to the castle.
At noon, Donkey told him true thingthe truth. They went to the castle to escape save Fiona. At eveningWhen the sun set, she became monsteran ogre. Farquaad was surprised. Shrek knocked down him down. Shrek kissed Fiona but she can’t change. She is monster an ogreface but Shrek thinks her face this is beautiful face for her. Shrek and Fiona love each other.

I like thinking of Shrek. People can’t know about their character when they see their face. I have a best friends. At first, I didn’t talk with them her because she looks very cool. However, to talk with her is the most interesting thing and I found that she is funny and very kind. Shrek and Fiona is are nice monsters. They could know each other about through their appearance and heart. He told me that the important thing is to talk with people. We can’t judge. I want to talk with many people at this university.
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Movie Review 2-2 School of Rock

Dewey is hero of this story. He is an unsuccessful rock musician. He wants to play his rock on the stage. However, he lost his friend. His friends don’t want to play with him. He was alone. He lives with his friend, Ned, he is a quiet man. He was used to play the rock music with him. Now, he is a substitute teacher. His girl friend is always angry because Dewey doesn’t pay the house rent. One day, Dewey answered the phone. It was a call from Horace Green Elementary School. He has a good idea! He will pretend to be a teacher in place of Ned. He thinks that it is the best way to earn money easily.
Dewey went to school. He thinks that it is easy to look after children. One day, his students took a music class. He heard their performance. He was moved and surprised at their good talent. He hits on another good idea! He tried to play rock with students and take part in the band battle. He talked about secret assignments which are to play and know rock music to students. All of the students have a lot of talent of music. Dewey gives a role to each student. I think he is not a teacher but he can be a good teacher because he helps children to know their own abilities. Thanks to Dewey, students could know that to be keen on something like music is wonderful.
Summer is good girl. She is the class president. She is the manager of this band. Zack is a cool boy. He is good at playing the guitar. His father is strict so he didn’t want to play the guitar in his free time. Dewey told him the meaning of playing rock is to say something in one's own words to someone. It is good idea for people who can’t say anything to stronger persons. Lawrence is a nice keyboardist. He is shy and he doesn’t have confidence. Dewey told him that to play the guitar makes him cool so he enjoys playing. Tomika has a very beautiful voice. She is a nice singer. She has good talent but she worries her figure. Dewey told her to sing songs are attractive performance for her.
Before the band battle, everyone noticed the truth that Dewey is not a teacher. He couldn’t come to school. However, next day, his students pick him up to go to the concert. They played a nice performance.
I like this movie. Dewey is not a teacher but he can be a good teacher because he helps students to know their good personality. It is difficult for students to find out their personality.

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WEI 2

1. What is your usual writing/blogging schedule each week? Where do write/blog?
I write blog posts at home. I write on Wednesday and Sunday and Tuesday. I have no time to write posts at school so before sleeping I write posts.

2. Please look at your first post from Spring term and compare it with what you are writing now. What improvements do you see with your English and what do you think you should work on to improve?
After half year, I could write posts long. I could write about every theme what I want to write. However, my English level is not improve, I always use easy English words. I study new words now so I will use these words.

3. What are your opinions of doing movie reviews? Please talk about the time it takes and the availability of the movies.
I like watching movie and write movie reviews but I have no time to watch the DVD which is chooses. I don't have much time to go to the library and watch. If I have no time to go, I rent DVDs. I don't want to pay money for studying. I think that it takes one and half hour to write movie review.

4. Please give your suggestions for the class
I have no time to write posts but I enjoy writing posts. However I like three posts a week. Recording of movie review is so fun because teacher rewrite our review. I had wanted to rewrite my English. I like this class.

5. Please give some advice to the students who will take this class next year.
Please buy new diary book. You should write about your homework. Time is money.

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Countries

I want to go abroad.

-Canad
I really want to go to Canada. Canada is so beautiful. When I was a high school student, my English teacher is Canadian. She told stories of her hometown. It was so exited to hear that. I want to go there with my mother. My mother has never been to abroad, she likes log house. In Canad there are lots of log houses. I want to stay there and have a good time with my mother.

-Switzerland
I want to Switzerland. When I was a high school student, I had been going to English school. I enjoyed taking lessons. My teacher is interesting man. He is from Switzerland. When he went back his home, he always get present for us. He told me that chocolate of Switzerland is very delicious. I want to eat!

-NZ
I want to go to NZ again. I want to write a letter to my host family but I have no time. I want to go back to NZ and have a good time with my host family. I took a lot of pictures. I will sent a letter with pictures. I want to go back!!

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Party

On November 9th I woke up at 12. I had good sleep. After brunch, I cleaned my room. My room is full of clothes but I cleaned up! I could study English on the clean desk! At 4, I went to the school library. I studied about the class of English introduction which is taught by Mr. Hori.

At 5, I went to my friend's house. We held an okonomiyaki party. We are same group while the school festival's preparation. At 7, the boss of group would come so we played the game and went to shop to buy snacks. At 7, the party started. A boy who is landlord is good at cooking so his choice is so nice. I enjoy eating many kind of okonomiyaki. I ate too much. After dinner, we played the game and enjoy talking. I had a very good time with club members. I want to add nice memory with them for a year.

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Book Review 2-7 The Kidnappers

The hero of this story is Kipper. Kipper has a magic key. He always play with magic key. The day, the key didn't grow. After sleeping, they key grew up. The key took him to Bear's picnic with his toys. He can go to another country and enjoy Bear's picnic. There are a lot of bears. They gather one place from every country. They hold a picnic one a year. Famous bear come and do speech. They have lunch and they looks very happy.

Afternoon, Kipper saw a unbelievable thing that the famous bears are kidnapped from another 3 bears. He and his toys helped their escape from kidnapper. He satisfied with his action. In the morning, he told the story to his brother and sister but they didn't believe him.

This book is too short to read for me but the pictures are very cute and readable. I want to magic key and want to go another world. He wants his brother and sister to believe him but they say that it is dream! I always confuse real or dream. I want to sleep long time.

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Japanese breakfast

In Kumamoto, we eat a traditional breakfast everyday. Japanese traditional breakfasts foods are rice, miso soup, rolled eggs and grilled fish. When we eat rice, we also eat pickles with it. Japanese have also eaten miso soup since the Muromachi period. At that time, miso soup was country food so farmers ate it, and it became popular. Now, miso soup is necessary for a Japanese traditional breakfast. We can cook it easily and we can make a lot at once. When the warring States Period, Japanese ate miso soup.

Rolled egg is also a famous dish. Each home has their own taste. When we make it, we use a frying pan which is shaped in a rectangle. Most people put salt or pepper into it. However, sushi or tea-ceremony egg rolls are used sugar. Also, in the Kanto area, they eat sweet rolled eggs. In the Kansai area, they eat dashimaki which uses soup stock. There are also spinach, carrot, eel rolled eggs and so on.

We also eat rice balls shaped as a triangle. We put salt on them and put kelp or pickled ume into them. Pickled ume is one of the Japanese traditional foods. The effect of pickled ume are 3 things. 1 Acidity of citric acid helps secrete the saliva and help assimilation. When we eat food, we use chopsticks but when we eat rice balls, we use our hand. 2 It helps recover fatigue, and it is medicinal food so when we have ill, we eat okayu with it. 3 It has antibacterial so we put it onigiri or lunch box with rice.

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My reserch about Break fast

I studied about New Zealand breakfast. Most kiwis eat cereals. There are a lot of kinds of cereals at a grocery store. A big one has about 90 kinds of cereals. The popular kinds of cereals are The Crispy Golden cereal which is not sweet but has a strong apple and cinnamon taste and Muesli cereal which has a lot of dry fruits. Including apricot, raisins, pineapple and so on. It is low calorie.

When they eat cereal, they use a spoon and put milk on it. In NZ, there were many kinds of milk. My host family uses 2 kinds of milk. One is lite. The other is trim. The difference of these is on the fat contents. Trim milk was a smaller percentage of fat than lite milk. The lite milk has 1.5 g and the trim milk has 0.1 g.

Oatmeal is type of soft thick white food made by boiling OATS in milk or water. When they eat oatmeal, they put sugar and milk onto it.
Sometimes, they eat yoghurt and fruits with cereal. They also eat bread with jam or vegemite. Taste of Vegemite is salty miso. At breakfast, they also eat pancakes too. They use eggs, flour, and milk to make them. They don’t put preservatives like bicarbonate in so they make thin hot cake. It is like French crepe. When they eat it, they put jam or cream, sugar, syrup on it.

Finally, most kiwi have never eaten rice in the morning. However, there are many kinds of rice in New Zealand. One kind is long grain rice, the length of it is about 6 mm long. The way to boil is to put in the proportion of 1 to 1.5. You turn down the heat and wait 5 minutes. An other is medium grain rice. The length of it is 5 mm long. It is good rice to make paella.

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Lost my way!?

August 5th

I forgot to wrtite about this day. I went to Sky Tower. It is not important thing for me. The day I went to Subway with my friends. Subway is fast food shop. Kumamoto doesn't have it so I want to eat in Kumamoto! My lunch is not important too.

The day, I went back home at first time. I have perfect confidence to go back home alone easily because I have to walk straight! It is easy for me. I walked to home. While walking, I took many pictures. However, after 30 minutes, I couldn't go back home! I didn't have a phone and card. I was sad and I worried so I went back to school.

I found the library near school. I went there and asked a woman who works there. I told her that I lost my way and I don't have any idea to go home. She was very kind and she called my host mother. She relieved me so I begun to cry. She worried about me. She took me the road and told me that my mother would came here but if she wouldn't come, please come back to the library. However, the library is closed at 5. If the time past 5, I would in here and please knocked door. She helped me and very very kind!! I was very happy.

After that my host mother came and pick me up. I was very happy!!! I talked with her while driving. My house was close to the place where I went back to school. The 3 days, my mother drive to school so I didn't have idea the time to take to go to school from home. When I went back home, my host children worried about me. I could sleep well the night.

Next day, I went to the library and said thank you to her who helped me yesterday. I had good experience in NZ.

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Animals 2

I hate these animals.

-small monkeies
I hate small monkeies. When I was a littele girl, I went to the zoo with my family. I was very happy to go there. I enjoy watching bears, peacocks and so on. I went to the monkeies area. The area of risuzaru can enter inside the cage. I went into the cage. I didn't know yet that it was dangerous for me!!!!! When I went there, I put on the hairband. I like the hairband. However, one of the monkey came and get and run away!!! I didn't have time to stop. I was very sad. I don't like it.

-Big dog
I like most dogs but I don't like big dog which is taller than me. My cousin who is older than me has a big dog. The name is Silver. The kind of dogs is wolf dog. When I had dinner with cousin, Silver gazed me and barked. I scared so I don't like him.

-doves
Doves are symbol of peace in Japan. However, they begin not to afraid human. When I ride the bycicle and come close to them, they didn't fly away and walk. It is dangerous for us. I have to avoid them and I don't have much space to go. I don't like them.

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Book Review 2-6 Crunchy Christmas

Annie's dog, Fang, looks for his Christmas card from his mother. Nate and his dog don't like Fang because he is very big and scary. The day, Nate begun to look for his card. Every Christmas, Fang's mother sent letters. It always says that you have to eat born well. Annie always read the letter. However, Christmas came but his card is nothing. First, Nate looked for Annie's post. She told him that Fang is scary dog so postman always run away soon. Annie have lots of letters. These letter from shops are too much. They can't find. Nate think, think and think. He noticed and he dig the hole and find!! His mother always said that you eat born. This year, she sent real born with card. When Fang sniff at born, he dig and bury. He solved the problem today too. Fang were happy so he press himself against Nate. It is not nice for him.

I think Nate is clever and he loves pancake and mom because when he goes out home, he writes a letter to mother. It says that I have to solve the problems so I will be back soon. I want to have a cute brother like him.

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