the last day of IES-b class!

wow~~~its the last day of our ies class! i cant believe it!!!! we studied toghether for 2 years now i dont feel we are just friends,,,its like a ies family~
^u^ now some of us go overseas and others stay here at Gaidai. i hope whatever we do will be successuful!

are you keeping a diary?

have you ever kept a diary? or are you keeping a diary? i think its interesting! you dont always need to write something i think, you can do it whenever you want ! i just write a diary when something unusual happened ^u^ so ...its really interesting to read it again! i can know how i felt or what i did at that time. i write things as if i was talking to someone. and maybe it doesnt need to be a diary, so why dont you write down what you thought on a piece of paper? it might be fun for some people

studying with international students

i studied with international students in Kansai Gaidai for 4 nonths since im going to Australia. (pre depature course). now im taking classes which is taught in English but the pre depature course was quite different!! actually its a class for foreign students so the teacher spoke really fast and so do students. so it was really hard for me to catch up. so i was really worried about the test ,,,, but i asked some of the foreign students to study with me and it really helped me! i could get a better grade than i thought it would be! thank you for helping me~~~><

what is the meaning of studying literature

we talked about the meaning of studying literature. is it valuable to study literature in English? my answer is yes. i studies literature in English for 1 year. when we read a story, we usually reaserch about the authors and then connect their eperience or backgroung to the story. This kind of study helped me when i did a reserch in other classes. the strategy to study literature can be used in other fields of study. moreover, in literature, i can know other people's experience that i have never experience and it was the most interesting part of studying literature.
and since its different from Japanese literature, i can know about different cultures and different ways of thinking.

studying other language in English?

im thinking of studying Spanish when I go to Australia. actually i was interested in Spanish. (well i was interested in both French and Spanish). i studied Frence and and Spanish a bit by myuself but it was really difficult to do it without anyone to teach me;;; the university im going dosnt have French class so i want to take Spanish but im worried if its too difficult to study Spanish in English. im thinking of taking Spanish book explained in Japanese with me(would it help me a little?) well, ill find out...

Gun society (Mr adn Mrs Smith)

The other day, i watched Mr and Mrs Smith. its about a couple that both husband and wife is a killer. since they are killer, they are really good at shooting guns! they use more that 1 gun at the same time and their action is beautiful and attracts people. the film was interesting but i wonderd if this kind of film will have a bad infuence to children's image of guns.wouldnt children think they want to shoot guns like cool actors in the movie? or can they accept it as a story which just happens in a movie?

ceremony for study abroad

we had a ceremony for study abroad. all the students who are going to study abroad were gathered in a hall and some of the students gave a speech. the speech was really impressive! i made me thihk that next 10 months im gonna spend in Australia will be affect my life, my way of thinkng , and everything. i hope it will be a meaningful experience.

women in Japan

For the last essay in IES-b class, i wrote about women's position in Japan. do you think women in Japan are discriminated in a society? Recently, the term Kangohu(nurse) was changed into Kangoshi because Kangohu includes a word which describes women. (nurse is not a job just for women so the term was changed). it seems the position of Japanese women has been changing, now women have more opportunities to get a job, and in some fiels, women are more active than men.i dont think that women and men always need to be the same because they are different and that will never change.but if people value our abilty equally, it would be good.

Fairy tales

we talked and studies about fairy tale in the literature class. stories such as Red Riding hood, Cinderella etc,,,, always have a happy ending. (prince and princess lived happily ever after,,,) however, i knew its a story made for children later. For example,in a original version of Red riding hood, a little girl is raped and both the girl and her grandmother are killed. i think it would be interesting to know the origibal version of fairy tales.

Study abroad

i decided to go to Australia to study from February 8th. its coming soon! now i feel weird because im really glad that i can go to Australia to study but which mean i can not meet my classmats at kansai Gaidai uni anymore,,,, im coming back next year and will study 1 more year here but most of the students in my class go overseas for 2 years, so we cannot study together again;; but spending time in this ies-b class was a great an experience and it had a great influence in my life.

Winter Break

I went back to my hometown during the winter break. my home town is in Okayama.(Next to Hiroshima). and i celebrated my 20th birthday with my family. i can not believe that im already 20! in Japan we can drink alcohol from the age of 20. and we are able to do many other things without our parents' permission. on the other hand , now i have to be responsible to many things. (if i commit a crime, my name will be on TV...)
i need to think about the meaning of being 20.

Girl suspected of slowly poisoning mum

i was really surprised when i knew this news. 16 years old girl poisoned her mother and attempted to kill her. And what surprised me more is that the girl wrote how her mother became ill in her diary.i dont know how she poisoned her mum, probably she put the poison in food or drinks. Since she kept a diry , it seems that she experimented with the poison. i wonder why she experimanted on her mum. Do you think that children dont respect their parents recently?

2nd semester

this is my first time to write here since the 2nd semester has started. actuallu it is very hard this semester because I started studying at CIE for study abroad.Im going to Australia so id like to learn a lot at Gaidai till Feb. In the class that im talikg with exchange students, i realised that students always say their opinions in class even if it is not really iomportant thing. So, i always try to say something in class, but actually,its really hard to understand the lecture so far. I think u need to improve my listening skill, and also my reading skill to manage a lot of homework.
because i have to do lots of readings as a homework, and probably it will be the same in Australia. im worried if i can do both IES and CIE well but i try my best.

The last day of the semester...

its finally the last day of the class. i could know a lot of things i didnt know before, and i could learn it in an interesting way in this class. Thank you Scott. And thank you for everybody! in ies-b class, everyone has a great ability and i was really motivated! ill miss that Scott says " Speak English!" actually, i dont feel anything strange when i speak in English with my Japanese friends now.^o^ isnt it great? i though English was just a tool to survive in foreign countries before, but After i studied the things like Global Issues in English, i feel that English is not just a tool to talk with foreigners. its a langage which helps us to know the world.
it might be hard next semester, but im sure everybody can do their best cause we learned a lot this semester.
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Finished writting an essay!

In my essay, i wrote about hunger. About the food production, the people who is suffering from hunger, and where they live. it was good for me to wite about hunger because i could look over the section again, and could have chance to reserch about it on the internet. Actually, i m not sure how we are going to deal with this kind of problem in the future.it seems the situation is getting better, theare are still many people suffering and dying from hunger..... however, just knowing whats happening in the world was really good for me actually, cause i didnt even know about it before.