Smiles

Smile has a power. Smile make people happy, even though a person who smiles is unhappy. So when people smile to unhappy people, the unhappy people will be happy. Here is a nice line which I just made right now, "No smiles, no life." It's like "no music, no life", but it makes sense, doesn't it?

By the way, my wallpaper of my cellphone is a smile thing. The picture says 'Egao ga ichiban (Smile is the best)'. I think so. Besides, I believe if I always think everything positive, everything is definitely going well for me. And as I let my own light shine, I unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Smile has a wonderful power to make people happy.

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I was a woman....

Last year, in Halloween party in the dorm for exchange students, I became an woman, who name was Tomoko not Tomoki. Actually, it wasn't only me that the person who became a woman. My friend also became a woman, who was named Yoshiko. We bought big boobs in a 100yen shop in downtown, and something good and funny for the party in donkihote in downtown too. And I borrowed some clothes from one of exchange students. Can you imagine that? I was kinda sexy without make-up. I don't know why we decided to be a woman, but as a result, it was fun. However, I don't want to disguise myself as a woman anymore because it's such a silly thing I've ever done even though it was kinda fun... yeah, kinda... not really.

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Sky

I'm going to school by bike these days. I used a scooter from the end of September of last year till the second weekend of October of this year, but the scooter is my friend's one. I mean he has been renting it to me for a year because he had got a car. However, he can't use the car anymore now. So I had to give it back to him after English Weekend.

Now, as I said, I'm going to school by bike. It takes 40 minutes to come to school, but I enjoy it. And yesterday, I just noticed one thing. I was going home yesterday night, then I suddenly looked up the sky. There were lots of beautiful stars in the sky! I was impressed that because it was beyond description! In Kumamoto, we can see many stars at night. You should look up the sky at night, and you can find some constellations! You will be impressed.

Speaking of stars, it's the best that stars I saw in New Zealand. It cannot be compared with Kumamoto's one. There were soooo many beautiful stars there. I couldn't believe that then, but it was true. All stars were brilliant. I can't forget that sky...!

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Sucks, but Happy a bit

I have a in-class test tomorrow. And I have to memorize so many sentences for the test. It's too tough, but I did my best to memorize them. But I'm not sure how the test will be going. I think it's going to be tough test, I mean the result is depending on my work.

Usually, I'm supposed to have 4 classes on Friday, but I only have to 2 classes tomorrow. It's because 2 of 4 classes will be canceled. You know what? It means I can go back home so early, and I can have so much time to sleep! Yay! But actually, I will eat yakiniku tomorrow night, so maybe I'm not going back home tomorrow, I'm not sure though...

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Dorm, such a nice place ever! ~Writing Essay: My favorite place~

Do you know a dorm for exchange students from KGU overseas?? If yes, you are nice, but even if you don't know it, it is okay! It is because I'm going to introduce about it this time. My favorite place is the dorm, so I can tell about it to you as much as I know. It is included good points and some kind of bad points. Are you ready to start? Alright, let's start!

First of all, let me introduce people living there. Right now, there are about 25 people in the dorm. And they came from the US, Canada, England, Australia, Thailand, South Korea, and Chinese. Some people live there for about 1 year, other people live there for about 6 mouths. It depends on each student. In almost every weekend, they hold a party to get drunk, or they go to downtown to get drunk as well. If I'm in a party with them drinking alcohol, I can speak English much better than now somehow, which is called "飲むゅニケーション" stands for "nomu(飲む)" and "communication".

Second, I'm going to talk about the reason why I go to the dorm. But before that, let me talk about my experience. It was last year's maybe May that I went there for the first time. One of the exchange students at that time forced me to come there in order to eat a cuisine, I mean his cooking. Even though I could really nice time with him at that time, but I was afraid of going there several times because I was not familiar with the exchange students and the dorm. But it's getting better and better, and I'm not afraid of going there any more. Now I'm going there to chill out, to talk with them, to drink, to learn English and Korean, and so on. When I talk with them in English, my English skills are getting better little by little even if I'm not drunk. There's a lot of opportunities to hang out with them. For example, if you are friends with any of them, you might be invited to somebody's birthday party, and you can be friends with other exchange students! That's why I go there.

Third, there are some events in the dorm. As I said right before above, for instance, some people hold a birthday party, what is more, welcome/farewell party, Halloween party, just getting drunk party, and so on are held. Every party is quite fun, one is kinda sad though. And we Japanese can invite them to a party outside of the dorm like downtown. We can hang out anytime we like with them It's depending on them though... However, there's one bad thing for exchange students and us visitors. It is the curfew which is till 0:00am. No one can break it, and if exchange students don't go back home, they are scolded by a caretaker of the dorm. It's soooo strict, isn't it? But it is the rule, so every visitor has to keep that as well.

As a conclusion, I've been having quite fun time with exchange students since I went there for the first time. And I keep going there whenever I can because I can learn many good things for me, can drink with them, and can be good friends with them! What is more, this is kind of origin place to start communicate with exchange students. If I didn't meet the man who forced me to go to the dorm, I don't write about the dorm. When I go there, I just feel like everything is going to be okay I don't know why. So why don't you go to the dorm? You don't know where it is? That's okay, just feel free to ask me. When you are there, everything is going to be alright!

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Nightmare...

Yesterday, I saw a dream. It's not good dream, but it's a... nightmare. I was quite tired because of English Weekend, so I went bad right after I went back home without taking a shower. And it's the beginning of the nightmare...

I was seeing a dream, and suddenly, one of the exchange students appeared in the dream. And then, he tried to rape me. He forced me to kiss him, but of course I didn't accept it because I'm not gay! What the hell was he doing!!?? And then I tried to get him off on my body, but he is heavy and my left pelvis was suddenly hurt. I couldn't get him off... I shouted really loudly with quite dirty words such as f*** off motherf****** son of a b****! But I couldn't...

I woke up with the pain of my left pelvis. But I couldn't believe it because my pelvis was still hurt, and I felt something on my body...! I tried to open my eyes and to check my body... Fortunately, there's nothing on my body, and I noticed that was such a bad nightmare ever. But I don't know why the pain was still on my left pelvis...

Next morning, it's probably NO though, I noticed he is gay. Because even though he is a man, he raped me in the nightmare. There's no relation with the dream but I hate him. You know what? Gay people is not bad. To me, it's just so what? I mean, there are many kinds of people in the world. But this case is totally different! ...I will try to... you know... but it's really difficult for me right now. It takes much longer time... about a month at least??

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Outline: My favorite place

1. Introduction

• Where is my favorite place and why (it's just briefly)

2. About people

• People who lives in the dorm.

• Their countries.

3. Reason why I go there

• Why I go to the dorm - Things I can get and learn.

4. Extra

• Events in the dorm.

• Curfew.

5. Conclusion

• Those are the reason why I go to the dorm (just briefly).

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Urgh!! Brainstorm!!!

Comfortable
Music
Cultural
Communication
Friendly
Fun
Drinking
Learning
Movies
Indoors
Outdoors
Hanging out
Chilling
Games
Languages

My favorite place is... what??

My favorite place is the dorm for exchange students. I often go there because there is so much fun place, even though there is a curfew... But it doesn't matter for me because I can spend much time with exchange students almost everyday.

Now about 30 people live in there in total now. They are from America, Canada, England, Australia, Korea, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Everybody can learn their mother tongue in the dorm. In my case, I'm majoring in English so I can improve my English skills there. And I'm interested in Korean, so I can learn Korean.

In the dorm, as I said, people from 8 countries live there, which means, we can know their cultures. Most of people can speak Japanese, so we can talk about it in Japanese, and we can talk about it in English too. And sometimes, they cook me their ethnic foods. My favorite one is Korean food. Of course it's too spicy, but I can eat them up because I love spicy food!

I'm sure some people want to know English slang. Me too. If we go to the dorm, we can know some English slang, even f-words, swear words, and something like that. I've been learning slang from exchange students a lot. And slang makes us easy to communicate with people, I guess. Speaking of slang, Japanese can teach Japanese slang to exchange students. And also Japanese can teach district to them. It's totally fun!

I love the dorm!!

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My favorite Fall activity is... EATING!!!

My favorite activity during Fall is eating! I love eating whole seasons, but during fall I have a big appetite. I mean, my appetite has increased. Maybe it's not only me but also everybody in Japan. It's because fall in Japan is called fall of appetite. I know it's called other name, but to me, fall is for eating!! For example, I get hungry soon everyday, even though right after each meal I'll get hungry soon. So fall is kind of important for me. Speaking of eating, I often eat kimchi these days. I love spicy food, especially Korean food. My favorite Korean food is Jimmiche (I don't know the correct spell and pronunciation), but nobody has it even Korean friends in Japan. That's why I eat kimchi instead of it. But as you know, kimchi is really good!

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Anberlin!!

Finally, last week, the new album of Anberlin which is my favorite band was released!! The name of the album is "New Surrender". I don't buy the album yet, but I got it via Internet for free today! Yay!! I just listened to only one song yet, but it was sooo sweet...!! I felt like all songs in this album are sweet. Go to Tower Records, and you can buy it! If it isn't on sale now, wait a few days. I'm sure you are going to be a fan of Anberlin soon!

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COLD

I've caught a cold... Now it's 3:40, and I can't sleep because of bad sore throat.

I sneezed a lot day before yesterday, but it stopped a bit. Next day, I felt something bad on my throat during make-up class. But I didn't care because I thought it's going to be fine soon, but I was wrong... I went to the dorm after the make-up class, and then, suddenly, the sore throat became super bad. I don't know why. So I decided to go home.

Before I arrive at home, I went to a supermarket to buy candy for throat. My throat was getting worse little by little. I began to eat the candy immediately after arriving at home. I don't remember the things from then. When I noticed, I mean I woke up, it's 2:30am. Then I just noticed I was having a bad sore throat ever. What is worse, it's cold in my room. I went sleep having bad sore.

Next day, I got up at 8:30am. The sore is still on my throat. I kept eating the candy all day, then my throat was getting better little by little. However, I farted a lot because of the candy. I couldn't stop fart somehow... Then I noticed I might have headache. But I didn't care a lot. And then, I noticed I might have a fever a bit, I tried to check my temperature, but I couldn't because it didn't exist in my house. I have to buy new one.

Tomorrow is Monday, and I have 4 classes from 1st period. Should I go to school tomorrow? Or Should I absent school tomorrow? Maybe I should absent school because I have a possibility to give this cold to my friends. But I'm writing this post now, which means I'm kind of fine right now. And I want to eat tacos tomorrow. Yea, Mr. Tomei is going to make tacos for us at lunch time. Alright, I'm going to bed now. I'm sure everything is alright! ...I guess.

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Rewritten Website Review: Let's go to Beppu!!

Hey you guys! Are you tired right now? Yeah, I know you feel kind of tired. So do you want to take shower or something now? Yeah, I know you want to to go hot spring, right? Okay, so how about Beppu? I'm sure you will be able to have such a good time in Beppu if you go to there. Before going to Beppu, let's take a look at the site HERE (Beppu City Official Web).

I found the website above, and as you know, I'm in Kumamoto now though, I'm from Beppu. So I can tell about Beppu with the website. But this time I'm going to tell about the website. All right, let's start! Beppu is famous for hot springs in not only Japan but also around the world. If you search 'Beppu' in Google, you will be able to find so many websites related Beppu. And the site above is one of them and official website. Actually, I didn't know the site till nowadays.



In the site, many kinds of information about Beppu is introduced in English for people from foreign countries and for Japanese too. My favorite point in the website is "Hot Springs "ONSEN"". If you click there in the side bar of the website, you will be able to find the information about ONSEN. And you can find 3 different kinds of information: Beppu Hatto Information(別府八湯), Municipal Hot Springs, and Hot Springs Encyclopedia. The Hot Springs Encyclopedia is great. If you click Hot Springs Encyclopedia, you will find 8 contents about Hot Springs. There are analysis and introduction of Hot Springs such as the way to take, to use, data, and so on.

Next, it's little bit late though, there are 9 kinds of contents in the website. And every content contains about Beppu or Hot Springs. So you can know anything about Beppu or Hot Springs. This website will definitely help you to know about them. And it will definitely help you where we should go if we are there in Beppu. And the website, of course, contains the links to the websites related to Beppu or Hot Springs. So you can find any other information related Beppu or Hot Springs.

According to the website, Beppu is the leading hot spring resort of Japan with as many as 104 public baths. And Beppu is surrounded by beautiful natural such as mountains and sea. And there's a tower in Beppu which is called 'The Global Tower'. The view from the tower is beautiful, and you can see everything of Beppu such as town, mountains, sea, and so on. Therefore Beppu is really nice place to feel relaxed and is really nice place to visit.

This is the view from the tower.→

← This is the another view from the tower.

Beppu has one professional basketball team, which is named 'Oita Heat Devils'. Actually, they are n't so strong, but all their games are really exciting! The season of basketball is from October to May. So If you come to Beppu, try to watch their games in Beppu. I can assure you that you can enjoy the basketball game even if you don't like basketball! Here is the official website of the team(Japanese). Click here!






I'm pretty sure you can find new things about Beppu if you go to the website. And you will want to go to Beppu for sure. There are many kinds of Hot Springs in Beppu such as just normal bath, sand bath, mud bath, and something like that. Have a good time in the website and in BEPPU!!

← The mud bath looks like this.

and the sand bath is this picture. →

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