Essay 2-01a: My Room

My favorite place is my room. Because there are a lot of things which I love and I can relax the most of one day. I often do my homework, listen to music, read books and sleep. I spend a lot of time in my room. Here is my most favorite place. There are a lot of my collections. For example, Disney, airplanes and Histeric Mini.

I love disney and I have been to Tokyo Disney both Land and Sea each 9 times. I display cute things that I bought there. I remember time when I went. Disney makes me happy. I want to go there more and I want to go Disney Land all over the world. In paticular, I like Mickey Mouse. I often buy Mickey's things.

I like airplanes so I collect models of airplanes. I have about 8 models. In particular, I like JAL's airplane. It is Boeing-787. I was gave it when I boarded JAL's airplane. I was very happy. I want to be a flight attendant. So, I study about airline. And, I work in Kumamoto airport. I like watching airplanes.

I like Histeric Mini. It is a brand of children's clothers. I have put on this brand's clothers since I was a child. My mother loves it too. If I will have children in the future, I want my children to put on this brand. My older sister has two sons and often has put on it. They are very cute.

I often listen to music in my room. My favorite singers are Taylor Swift, aiko, MACO, Cher Lloyd, and so on. I enjoy listening and singing.I study airline and English, do my homework. I have a lot of things that I have to do, so I am busy every day. But, I enjoy anything. Also, I want to achieve my dream, I can study hard.  I read many books. For example, magazins about airline and airplane and nobels. My favorite writers are Higashino Keigo, Ishida Ira and Onda Riku and Minato Kanae. I enjoy reading and imaging.

I like sleeping in my room. I can always have a good sleep. I sleep off my fatigue. So, I can keep health every day.My room is a oasis for me. I love my room.

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Essay 1-03a : My Language Learning Story

Past: 10 years ago (& 5 years ago) 10 years ago when I was 9 years old. I had never learned English. I didn't know about English at all. 5 years ago when I was 14 years ago. I was a junior high school student. I had not studied English before I became a junior high school student. I started to study English and I became to be interested in English. I often sing English song and read short stories. I enjoyed studying English. • Present: Now Now, I am studying English at university. I have many classes about English. For instance, speaking, writing, listening and reading. In speaking class, I talk with my class members in English. I practice speaking skill with English central. I have to get a lot of points. It is very hard for me, but it's of use. In writing class, I have to write blogs and book reviews. I can improve writing skill and reading skill. In reading class, I learn about how to read newspapers in English, and study world's news. It is very interesting. In listening class, I hear world news. I can know about world's occasion. I am busy doing homework, but it useful for me to improve my English skills. I try to do many things to improve my English skills. For example, I will accept a boy as a host family next month, and I will go to Canada to study abroad, home stay and intern next year. I am looking forward to going to Canada. I want to see and do o lot of things. I have many chances, so I try a lot of things for my English skills. I enjoy studying English. • Future: 10 years from now (& 5 years from now) I want to be a flight attendant. English is essential for it. I want to board an airplane that flight in the world as a flight attendant. I want to communicate with many people all over the world, and tell good points of Japan. In the future, English will be more important in the world. I want to use English fluently. I want to go everywhere and know and see a lot of things. In addition, I want my children to study English as possible as early because I think and hear that it is a good learning about language earlier. I want to travel all over the world with my family in the future.


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Essay 1-02b: University Life

We will write about university’s class, club activities, study abroad, and friend.

There are many students in KGU. They love KGU, because there are many good friends, experiences, events and interesting things. Most of them always feel happy.

First, there are many interesting classes about English. The student who study English at KGU have many things that they have to do as Homework. They are busy everyday, but they enjoy classes. They learn about reading, writing, speaking and listening. In addition, some students study U.S. history of literature, English literature outline and science of Japanese outline.

The students who is in English department are very interested in English and want to improve them English skill. English classes, reading, writing, speaking and listening, become tomorrow's provisions. In these classes, they use blog, newspaper, news videos, movies about history, powerwords and English central. It is very difficult for them to accomplish them, but they try them hard. They want to use English fluently.

Second, there are many club and it called circle. They  join the circle thet they are interesting. One of all circles is traveling abroad society. They who are in this cilcle go to Korea twice in a year and do many activities on every Wednesday. For example, they play sports, go to driving, eating dinner, do games, watch DVD's, take a hot spring bath and travel anywhere.

They enjoy them very much. They are looking forward to doing them every week.  

Futhermore, they went to Korea in this spring vacation. They enjoyed eating some foods and shopping clothes and cosmetics. They want to go there again.

Third, about study abroad. They who are a KGU student have many oppotunities to go study abroad. Some students will  go to Canada to study abroad, internship and home stay. They want to improve themself English skill and have many experiences. They want to learn about culture. They want to go and see many place. They are looking forward to going.

The girls of second year student are very fashionable. There are a lot of smart dresserｓ. They always wear fashionable clothes, and fashionable shoes.  They are always careful about their appearance. They buy some clothes at PALCO. It's one of a fashionable shop in Kumamoto. Sometimes, there is a sale time in PALCO, so they go there. They spend on them shopping about thirty thousand yen. They have a part time job, so they have much money. Because of it, they can buy a lot of clothes by themselves.　They study about fashion. Fashion is a very important for them. They like cool fashion, cute fashion, gorgeous fashion or simple fashion. Sometimes, they bought fashion magazines and study fashion by use them.

They like cafeteria too. Especially, they like a nostalgic cafeteria, so they search about nostalgic cafeterias. When they find it, they go there, and evaluate its taste. If there really take to it, they go again and again. Sometimes, they take care about their weight, but they can’t patience to eat and drink. They often go to French restaurant. They very like French, so they often go there to eat lunch.

They like cosmetics and big name brands. They are particular about their cosmetics. Some people like KATE. KATE is famous in Japan. They sometimes change their cosmetics maker, and they choose cosmetics which are suited them. Many second year students have big mane brands. COACH is the most popular maker among them. They have COACH’s wallet, COACH’s bag and COACH’s accessories. They are generally given it by their parents. Sometimes they are given by their boyfriend or their friends. They give a big name brands for their friends who are birthday. They get along with their friends.

The girls of second year student are enjoying their university life. Probably, they are more and more fashionable.

There are many chances, interesting things and friends in KGU. There are a lot of things that we have to do,  but they study hard to improve them English skills. They enjoy and feel happy everyday.  It is very important for them to learn in this university. They try much more things and they want to spend school life without repentance, so they have to study hard.

Content for this joint essay came from previous blog posts:
Matsuoka, Yuria. (2014.05.24).Essay 1-02a: University Life [Web log post]. http://yuriannu0107.blogspot.jp/2014/05/essay-1-02a-university-life.html



Yamashita, Maki. (2014.05.23). Essays 1-02a [Web log post]. http://fe13152.blogspot.jp/2014/05/essays-1-02a.html

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Essay 1-02a: University life

There are many students in KGU. They love KGU, because there are many good friends, experiences, events and interesting things. Most of them always feel happy. First, there are many interesting classes about English. The student who studies English at KGU have many things that they have to do as Homework. They are busy everyday, but they enjoy the classes. They learn about reading, writing, speaking and listening. In addition, some students study U.S. history of literature, English literature outline and science of Japanese outline. The students who are in the English department are very interested in English and want to improve their English skill. English classes, reading, writing, speaking and listening, become tomorrow's provisions. In these classes, they use blogs, newspaper, news videos, movies about history, power words and English central. It is very difficult for them to accomplish them, but they try them hard. They want to use English fluently. Second, there are many clubs and they called a circle. They join the circle that they are interesting. One of all circles is traveling abroad society. They who are in this circle go to Korea twice in a year and do many activities on every Wednesday. For example, they play sports, go to driving, eating dinner, do games, watch DVD's, take a hot spring bath and travel anywhere. They enjoy them very much. They look forward to doing them every week. Furthermore, they went to Korea in this spring vacation. They enjoyed eating some foods and shopping clothes and cosmetics. They want to go there again. Third, about study abroad. They who are a KGU student have many opportunities to go study abroad. Some students will go to Canada to study abroad, internship and home stay. They want to improve themselves English skill and have many experiences. They want to learn about the culture. They want to go and see many places. They are looking forward to going. There are many chances, interesting things and friends in KGU. They enjoy and feel happy everyday. They try many more things and they want to spend school life without repentance.

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Essay 1-01a: Letter to My Host Family

Hello! My name is Yuria. Please call me “Yuria”. I am 19 years old. I go to KGU.

I major in English, so I want to learn English more. Therefore, I decided to participate in this program. I want to try many things with your family. I am looking forward to going to America. I have a father, a mother, an older sister, an older brother and younger sister. My older sister is 27 years old and has two children, so I often take care of them. I like children. My father is self-employed and my brother helps my father’s work. My father and my mother are very kind to us. They respect our intentions. Therefore, I ca participate in this program. My younger sister is good at playing basketball and she is a captain of her team. I live at home with my father, my mother and my older sister now. 

I want to be a flight attendant. So, separately from a university, I go to the school. I like watching and boarding airplanes. In addition, I like going anywhere and seeing anything and contacting many people. I want to have a lot of experiences. I want to go everywhere and see many things with you, so I want you to guide me to pleasant and wonderful places. Furthermore, I want to eat a lot of American food. As for me, I eat everything. I don’t have foot that I can’t eat. If I have to, I like fruit, gratin and sweets. My hobbies are traveling, watching movies and DVDs and baking cakes. I want to talk about a lot of things with you and improve my speaking skill. I’ll leave Japan at April 7^th 9:00 and I’ll arrive at April 7^th 12:00. I’m looking forward to seeing you!!! Thank you!!!!!

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