interview

I had an interview with Mr. Dunham.
I ask him “Why did you come to Japan?” His answer is “For a wife.” I am envious of his wife, because through the interview, I feel big love for her from him. He said he isn’t interested in Japanese culture. Then, I think “It’s strange.” But in the moment, I can understand what that mean. He falls in love with his wife in America, and married. He go back his country once a year, But it is for work. So he can’t met his family, I ask him “Do you want to meet your family?” He said “Of course”, He has been in Japan over 20 years. His favorite food is Okonomiyaki, But he said “My favorite food is changing day by day.” His first impression of visited Japan is “HOT!!” He is from California. His hometown is good temperature and so on for living.

During the holidays

On Christmas Eve, I went to Kaiyu-kan to see illumination with friends of University. There is very nice illumination. We are impressed.
On Christmas, I went to Kobe to try out the food at various Chinese restaurants, and to see a light up. But we abandoned to see a light up, because there is no place to kill time until light up time.
On New Year Eve, I went to friend’s house. There are some friends already. We cooked dinner, and talked. After that, we picked up other friend, and go her house. Her mother gave us a soba noodle.
On New Year, we went to New Year’s visit to shrine to pick a fortune cookie.

Agnes Chan

I’m going to explain Agnes Chan.She was born in 1955 at Hong Kong. When she was in high school, she started volunteer activity with guitar. That is talked about. So she got a request to record music on omnibus album. Then, her entertainment started. She record song with sign language. She has three sons. They each have different nationality. She said that about “That has a reason. If war is caused, it very convenient about a place of refuge.”

★Manners in train★

★Result★
I asked 9 students and a teacher about manners in train to know their thinking.
Almost people’s answer is “Don’t mind those questions.” Peoples are not interested in other people. All people answer “I pass if there’s a priority seating”. I asked people “How to pass the seat?” Almost people answer “Please (sit down here)” Some people answer “Nothing to say, just move other vehicles” Other said “I get off soon. So please sit down here.”

★Comments★
I was surprised this result.
Before I do this survey, I thought most of the people would chose “No” because train isn’t house, it is a public place. So many people use it. At first, the manners are very sternon train. For example, there is poster which warns people not to do those, and conductor said
“Please turn off your cell phone”. But now, conductor said “Please turn off your cell phone near the special seat.” In other words that said “You can turn on your cell phone and use internet and e-mail in general seat.
This changing announce mean “Train’s manner became liberalize” Train side give up to stop warn too hard.
To everyone use feeling good, manner is necessary. So, I want to train side keep people under strict control.

今日学んだこと!!

アンケート等の中で使われる英語表現について学びました。
また、興味のある質問も幾つかあったので、純粋にアンケート結果も知りました。

★ANIMAL★

I ask student about animals because I like most animals.
Five out of six students like dogs. Other students said like dolphin (2), panda (2), tiger (1), and chicks.
The most popular reason the animal is pretty Other reasons are relax (1), and strong(1).
One of the students hates wolf, others hate shark(1), and monkey(1).
The most popular reason is fear, other reasons are is ugliness (1), and they eat us.
Three out of six students have a dog, I want to have a pet.
I was surprised at this answer, because I imagined that all students have animals which they like and animals which they hate, but three out of six students said, there is no animal they hate. May be they have, but they don’t notice it.

Gunpowder Plot

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1.This is the photo of the Palace of Westminster in England.
2.It was taken a day after Bonfire night on November 6, 2006.