New Year

Happy New Year!!

I greeted the New Year in my hometown.

My grandmother lives alone, so she comes to my home and spend New Year's Day with us every year.

When my family greet a New Year, we usually set off crackers and celebrate a New Year.

I made a cake and ate it together last year, but I couldn't do it this year because I went back to my hometown by a ferry, and I was very tired. It took about half a day from Kobe to Kitakyushu!

I was very happy to spend New Year's Day with all of my family.

This year, I will go abroad to study. I have never been to a foreign country and I'm worried about it, but I want to study English, experience a lot of things and make many friends there.

I hope 2011 will be a good year!

Discoveries

This year, I have discovered that a university student can experience a lot of things. After entering this university, my life was completely changed.
I started to live alone, part-time job, club activities and so on.
I got to be able to make some dishes. I talked with many people through part-time job. I appeared on the stage to dance for the first time. I made a lot of friends in this university.
I lived a full life this year!

I think a university student can choose what to do differently from a high school student, so I want to challenge many things next year.
For example, I will go abroad next year. I'm looking forward to it very much.
In addition, I'm going to go to a driving school and get drivers license, and participate the next dance stage in the spring vacation.

I hope to enjoy next year too :)

When I'm 40

21 years from now, I will be 40 years old. Where I'll be living or working, and what I'll be doing?

First of all, I hope I'll get married to an ideal person, and have many children. I want to get along with my children, even if I'm 40. For example, If I have a son, I want to play catch or go watching a sports game with him. In contrast, if I have a daughter, I want to enjoy shopping with her.

Secondly, I hope I'll be continuing my job. I don't decide what I want to be in the future now, but I hope I'll find a job I want to do, and enjoy working there when I'm 40. I want to earn a lot of money, and have my house!

Finally, I want to live in Kobe or Osaka. After moving to Kansai, I got to like Kansai very much, so I want to live there after I graduate from this university.

I don't know what I'll be doing when I'm 40, but I hope I'll be enjoying my life!!

Cooking

I like cooking and I want to try to cook a lot of kind of dishes. This spring, I started to live alone in Kotoen, and I had to prepare a meal for myself, but I have ever made dishes without my mother's help. I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

After passing a recommendation entrance examination, I made dishes for my family at home. I learned how to make curry and rice, spaghetti, hamburger and so on. My family was pleased at dishes I made. I was very happy too.

But, I am not good at cooking yet. I failed many times. For example, I put an egg in a microwave oven, and the egg burst! Moreover I heat a potato too long, and my room was full of smoke!

I want to try to cook more dishes. Especially, I want to make a cake now. Next weekend, I will try to bake cookies.
I want to be a person who can cook many dishes!

My Ideal Pertner

After reading John's blog, I wanted to marry. John has a good partner and a pretty daughter. I really envy John!


I'll tell you about my ideal partner.
First of all, I want to get married to a person who helps me with housework . I want to continue to work after marriage, so I want to help each other. Especially, I like cooking but I don't like cleaning and washing, so I want him to do it.

Secondly, it is important point for me whether he likes children or not. When I was a child, my father was busy to work, but he played with me and my sister in the park and took us to a lot of places on weekend. That is a pleasant memory for me. If I have a child, I want to go many places with my family.

Finally, my ideal partner is a person who has same taste with me. In the last OC class, we talked about that topic. I think If two person have same tastes, they can enjoy talking about the same thing, and be happy together.


When I went to Okinawa on a school excursion, a couple was holding a wedding ceremony by the sea. Girls including me were staring at it.
I want to find an ideal partner, and hold a nice wedding ceremony like that someday!

Good Friends

I have a lot of good friends, but especially I'm going to tell you about my friends when I was a high school student.

I graduated from Kokura high school in Kitakyushu city, and it was a school that had a tradition of 100years. My school had many strict rules. For example, we were regulated a hairstyle, a length of a skirt and so on. Classes began at 7:30 every day, so I had to leave my home at 6:30. Moreover, the level of classes was very high, and it was very hard for me to keep up with classes.

So, students helped each other in my high school. All of the students of the same grade were good friends. The school life was very hard, but I lived a full life thanks to my friends.

After the graduation from my high school, we went camping in the woods. We enjoyed playing sports, making lunch, and talking at night. I had a good time. This photo was taken then.

Now, we are studying at universities in various parts of Japan. I want to see them again!

A Special Day

When I was a junior high school student, I was a member of a brass band. I played the clarinet. My school's brass band was a weak team, and always lost in a local competition. We didn't wont to participate upper competition.

But when I was in the second year of junior high school, my life greatly changed! A new teacher came to our school, and he became a new conductor of our band. He had taken former band to Kyusyu competition. He was very strict, and we had to practice every morning, and after school. Although the practice was very hard, I like music, our band, and my clarinet, because he let me see a famous clarinet player and go to a concert of famous band. We wanted to participate the national competition.

Finally, when I was a third grade student, our band got the gold prize in a local competition, and took part in a prefectural competition for the first time! I was very happy then, and the day is the most impressive and special day for me.

I didn't continue to play the clarinet, but I still like music and the clarinet:)