Hello! How are you?
I’m sorry for this delay. I failed to plan for my homework....
I’ll see that I never repeat such a miss.
A few weeks ago, I visited my high school to give my juniors the textbooks and the cram books that I used to read when I was preparing for an examination.
Then, I saw my teacher who were from Sophia University and taught me English in the second grade in high school, Mr.Ichikawa.
He congratulated me on entering Sophia University and I thanked him because he is a teacher who made me like English!
When I showed my schedule of the classes, he told that he used to be taught by Mr.Ikeda
who is teaching me English grammar now!
Sure, there was no wonder because he graduated Sophia University about five years ago.
However, I was surprised and very happy that I can be taught his teacher.
Besides, the other day, I saw my friends who belonged to the literature club together in high school and our club adviser, Mrs.Yamada.
We met at the Musashi Koganei station, and went to the ice cream shop where our senior works. In the ice cream shop, we talk about each university over ice cream and coffee.
We entered different universities and even departments.
So, nobody led a similar life to that of anybody and the talks about each university are very interesting.
After we left the ice cream shop, we ate dinner in a family restaurant near the station.
I ate bonito steak and salad there. They are quite delicious!
While we ate dinner, I consult Mrs.Yamada about my hesitation about having the teaching course or not.
From high school days I have wanted to be a teacher,
because I disliked study itself before I was taught by Mr.Ichikawa.
Whether we like to study or not, we had to study in high school.
It was too hard for us to escape studying.
So, I became to hope to be a teacher who can understand feelings of students who hate studying and help them to rescue their mind from such bad situations; I want to let them like studying naturally as Mr.Ichikawa did for me.
Mrs.Yamada agreed with me and told me the pleasure of teaching. However, I lost the confidence that I can do it and then my faith is faltering now.
From this April, I have taught as a tutor in a supplemental private school.
In this work, I find it difficult for me to teach something to students,
and also realized my unskilled teaching.
Though it is very happy to teach children, I became to worry whether I made students hate studying with my poor teaching.
I never want to do so. I want to avoid only it.
Teaching is so difficult for me...but, I would like to let children know that it is happy to like to study still.
Well, I think to consider this problem for a while.
Anyway, I enjoyed this meeting, and I would like to see them again.
In next May, the sport festival is taking place in our high school.
I’m looking forward to visiting the festival. In our high school,
as the final event of the sport festival students and seniors gather with each club and dance Nikou Bayashi together.
When I was at high school, I love this event though I don’t like doing sports well.
I was happy to see seniors after a long time since we met last,
but now I’m in opposite position to last year and I expect to join the event as a senior for the first time!
It’s about end. Next time, I will never be late!
See you again.
2007年4月28日土曜日
2007年4月19日木曜日
My first article!
Hello! My name is Tact.
I am a university student and studying English literature.
I hope to see more of you.
Honestly, I’m a little nervous about writing in this blog for the first time.
But I’ll try to throw away such a feeling,
and I’ll do my best to write something interesting.
Please enjoy it!
Well, I’ll mention my aim in this year first.
It is that I want to shorten the distance I feel between myself and English.
Because I hope to finally understand and taste
how and what the native English speakers feel and think
when they speak English as I speak Japanese.
The reason why I hope so is that I love music especially rock.
I love Western rock music as well as Japanese rock music.
However, I’m poor in English and I can’t understand the lyrics of Western rock as well as those of Japanese rock.
That’s too disappointing!
I want to understand the lyrics more smoothly and deeply!!
Besides, it is one more reason that I like to read stories, especially fantasy, fairy tale, and fable.
For example, I love Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
However, in translation I can’t taste the most of the amusement,
such as the plays of words like puns that they needs knowledge of the linguistic and cultural background.
These are the main reasons why I am learning English.
Next, I talk about the reason why I am studying literature instead of language.
When I was in high school, I belonged to the literature club.
This is very nice club to me.
There are all unique members and their also interesting works.
You know, we write some novels, poems, or essays (but few members like to write essays. Somehow, we generally like to write novels or poems.)
Of course, I made some works for three years in this club.
And the most favorite one is named “The stars dance on the railway or The star’s dance on the railway” which I wrote in the summer of second year.
In this story, the hero and the heroine met on the railway in very cold, windy winter night while holding each completely different but very similar problem in their hearts.
And then, they talked on the railway every night.
They mutually thought the other’s situation was better and enviable.
In the end, they got a certain feeling but I can’t explain well what it is. (So I wrote this story!)
I mean, what I wanted to describe in this story is the conflict in a teenager’s heart, such as the worry about independence from parents.
Then, we traveled in the summer vacation to a small hotel in Okutama every year.
In the travel, we discussed a story about which we were going to exhibit the reports in school festival in September, such as L.F.Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and SADA Masashi’s “Gege”.
The discussions were very exciting and interesting!
So, I felt like having such discussions more, and decided to enter Faculty of English literature.
Accordingly, I’m happy in the Speaking class (Not flattery!),
because the activities in the class is so similar to the discussion in the club trip
that there is only one difference; in English or Japanese.
Now, what should I say?
I wrote about 500words, but I am to write 700words!
I feel it is very difficult for me to write 700words blog even in Japanese......
Well, I’ll talk about my favorites.
You know, my hobbies are playing and listening to music, walking, and taking a long bath.
When I was a junior high school student, I belonged to the brass band club and played the euphonium that appears only in brass band and rarely in orchestras. (“Jupiter” and “Mars” of the suite “The Planets” of Gustav Holst is famous.)
This musical instrument is very cool and its sound is very mild.
I love euphonium!
However the brass band activity needs too much time for me to do other things,
and I wanted to do other activities like literature club.
So I didn’t belong to the brass band club in high school and joined the literature club.
Both clubs are very good.
Now, I’m going to participate in the band music club and play the bass guitar.
Since I began to play the euphonium, I love bass part!
Bass is very cool and bright.(But it is not so noticeable. That’s wrong!)
I’m looking forward to playing the bass guitar with my lovely acoustic guitar.
Oh, I have written more 700words! I could work out this homework!
I feel like praising myself!
OK, see you again!
Tact. 07.04.18.
I am a university student and studying English literature.
I hope to see more of you.
Honestly, I’m a little nervous about writing in this blog for the first time.
But I’ll try to throw away such a feeling,
and I’ll do my best to write something interesting.
Please enjoy it!
Well, I’ll mention my aim in this year first.
It is that I want to shorten the distance I feel between myself and English.
Because I hope to finally understand and taste
how and what the native English speakers feel and think
when they speak English as I speak Japanese.
The reason why I hope so is that I love music especially rock.
I love Western rock music as well as Japanese rock music.
However, I’m poor in English and I can’t understand the lyrics of Western rock as well as those of Japanese rock.
That’s too disappointing!
I want to understand the lyrics more smoothly and deeply!!
Besides, it is one more reason that I like to read stories, especially fantasy, fairy tale, and fable.
For example, I love Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
However, in translation I can’t taste the most of the amusement,
such as the plays of words like puns that they needs knowledge of the linguistic and cultural background.
These are the main reasons why I am learning English.
Next, I talk about the reason why I am studying literature instead of language.
When I was in high school, I belonged to the literature club.
This is very nice club to me.
There are all unique members and their also interesting works.
You know, we write some novels, poems, or essays (but few members like to write essays. Somehow, we generally like to write novels or poems.)
Of course, I made some works for three years in this club.
And the most favorite one is named “The stars dance on the railway or The star’s dance on the railway” which I wrote in the summer of second year.
In this story, the hero and the heroine met on the railway in very cold, windy winter night while holding each completely different but very similar problem in their hearts.
And then, they talked on the railway every night.
They mutually thought the other’s situation was better and enviable.
In the end, they got a certain feeling but I can’t explain well what it is. (So I wrote this story!)
I mean, what I wanted to describe in this story is the conflict in a teenager’s heart, such as the worry about independence from parents.
Then, we traveled in the summer vacation to a small hotel in Okutama every year.
In the travel, we discussed a story about which we were going to exhibit the reports in school festival in September, such as L.F.Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and SADA Masashi’s “Gege”.
The discussions were very exciting and interesting!
So, I felt like having such discussions more, and decided to enter Faculty of English literature.
Accordingly, I’m happy in the Speaking class (Not flattery!),
because the activities in the class is so similar to the discussion in the club trip
that there is only one difference; in English or Japanese.
Now, what should I say?
I wrote about 500words, but I am to write 700words!
I feel it is very difficult for me to write 700words blog even in Japanese......
Well, I’ll talk about my favorites.
You know, my hobbies are playing and listening to music, walking, and taking a long bath.
When I was a junior high school student, I belonged to the brass band club and played the euphonium that appears only in brass band and rarely in orchestras. (“Jupiter” and “Mars” of the suite “The Planets” of Gustav Holst is famous.)
This musical instrument is very cool and its sound is very mild.
I love euphonium!
However the brass band activity needs too much time for me to do other things,
and I wanted to do other activities like literature club.
So I didn’t belong to the brass band club in high school and joined the literature club.
Both clubs are very good.
Now, I’m going to participate in the band music club and play the bass guitar.
Since I began to play the euphonium, I love bass part!
Bass is very cool and bright.(But it is not so noticeable. That’s wrong!)
I’m looking forward to playing the bass guitar with my lovely acoustic guitar.
Oh, I have written more 700words! I could work out this homework!
I feel like praising myself!
OK, see you again!
Tact. 07.04.18.
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