Best friend

I interviewed Hitomi. Her best friend's hair is brown and has a permanent. Her eyes are brown. She has a small mouth.

When she laughs, she usually put her hand on her mouth.

Her good point is that she is loved by everyone. She likes to play with them. And she is popular among old people.

When they are elementary school students, they went home every day. Their memorable experience is that they made a secret base, when they were six years old.

 

I listened to Makiko's report. She interviewed Kimika. Makiko says that Kimika's best friend's is Natsumi. She is light-skinned and she has big eyes. Her hair is brown color and shoulder length. And she is tall.

I heard that she likes to riding a car and listening to K-pop music.

Her good points are kind and she laughs and smiles quite a bit. She is a healing person.

They met in the same department at this university. Their memorable experience is staying at their friend's home together. 

BR4 How elephants lost their wings

Once upon a time, elephants could fly. (p. 4)


I chose this book because the title was attractive to me. This title created my interest. The story of this book is different from what I imagined. I imaged that elephants have warm personalities but in fact, the elephants in this book are selfish and noisy. And it was also interesting that the two gods in this book are similar to Avatar.

They are gods.

Sims, Lesly. (2007). How elephants lost their wings. London: Usborne.

BR3 Ghosts!

What is that behind you? (p. 12)

This book consists of seven stories of ghosts. My favorite story in this book is "Susie". This is a story of cats. And I like "The teeny-tiny woman", too. This is a funny story. The ghost in this story wanted an artificial tooth. Most stories in this book are not scary but funny in spite of ghostly stories.

Schwartz, Alvin. (1991). Ghosts! New York: HarperCollins.

My favorite animal

My favorite animal is bears. Because I like  the Disney character Winnie the Pooh and Kumamon. I like Winnie the Pooh the best in the Disney character. Kumamon is the character of Kumamoto. It is usually called "yuru chara" in Japanese. I have some goods of these characters. I don't like real bears so much because they look scary. But both of these bears make me happy because they are very cute. So I like bears the best.

Kumamon

A back shot of Kumamon

My treasure

My treasure is a costume that I wore at a sports festival when I was a high school student. I didn’t like dancing so much, but because of a lack of members, I had to join the team as a dancer. There were a lot of lessons every day. Even during the Golden Week, I had to go to school to practice dancing almost every day. I had to practice harder than other members because I was not good at dancing and in addition, I couldn’t remember the dance. I spent very hard days until the sports festival. My treasure is a costume which I wore while I danced in the sports festival. The costumes are made by hand. Usually mothers make them. Also in my case, my mother made my costume for me. Because there was only a few days until the contest, she sat up late at night making it and I helped it in places. Dancing was very difficult, however, making a costume is as difficult as dancing. Thanks to cooperation of mothers, eventhough, there was a lot of trouble, but the real performance was a huge success.

Even though I made a half-hearted attempt to practice dancing, but in the end, I thought that I did well just to join the team because I gained a sense of accomplishment with comrades. Thanks to this event, I could build a bond with the other members. And after the festival, some members acknowledge my efforts as a group. I keep it close to my heart. This sports festival is one of my big events during high school. Unfortunately, I didn’t get better at dancing, but I had a great experience by joining the team. The costume reminds me of the hard and good days. Sometimes I look at it to brace myself. Therefore, the costume is my treasure. 

BR2 Mouse tales

I will tell you seven tales -one for each of you- (p6)

This book contains many funny stories. My favorite story in this book is "The journey". I like it because the content is funny but I was little impressed when the boy finally met his mother. And the last words which the mother said made me laugh.

Lobel, Arnold. (1972). Mouse tales. New York: HarperCollins.

A letter to my host family

Dear host family,

Hello. My name is Misato I. I live in Kumamoto, Japan. I am 19 years old and I am a university student who is majoring in English language and literature at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto. I decided to go to Australia this summer because I want to learn English more and know about Australian culture. In addition, I want to speak English fluently with native English speakers, so I want to talk with you a lot about Australia and Japan. I will stay with you for six weeks this summer. This stay is my first time to go abroad, so I am very excited. Of course, I have never been to Australia. I have wanted to go to Australia for a long time because I am interested in countries in the Southern Hemisphere, which have the opposite seasons to Japan. And in Australia, there are a lot of natural beauty and animals which I can’t see in Japan. And my hobby is swimming, so if I have a chance, I want to swim in the beautiful sea in Australia. I am looking forward to finding out about Australia.

Here are some questions about you.

How many people are there in your family?

My family is consists of five members. There are my mother, my older sister, my grandmother and my grandfather and me. My sister is two years older than I. She is a university student, too.

Do you have pets?

I don’t have any pets now. But I once had some goldfish. I also like animals, so if you have some pets, you don’t have to worry about my allergies.

I will arrive at Melbourne airport at 10:30am on August 7^th. I will meet you at 11:00am there.

I am looking forward to meeting you.

Misato