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.