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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

What do you think about blogs?

Hi! It's very beautiful day today. But in the morning and in the night, it is very cold. I want kotatsu in my house.
I take media class in CIE and today, we discussed about blogs in the class. Today, blogs are very popular and many poeple enjoy them. Nowadays, poeple can give and get many kinds of information through the internet. It is very convenient, but there are not only good things. Yoshiro Oto, an associate professor of media studies at Sophia University, said that because of the anonymity, a flood of irresponsible information is happening. It is difficult to know if what an article on the internet says is true or not. Writers dont have to write their names so they can write what they want to say freely. However, because of the anonymity, people can write true things on blogs. It is very difficult problem....
Tomorrow is the due day of Darren's historical paper, so I have to do this from now. I have so many things i have to do. I think I'm gonna be crazy at the end of the October and die at the biggining of November..... I have so many things to do so I dont know where should i start...I have to use my time effectively....but it's difficult...
Anyway, I have to work hard! ganbare-----!!!!

Saturday, October 22, 2005

osaka peace museum

It's very cold thesedays..... I cant get out from the warm bed in the morning....
Today, i went to the peace museum in morinomiya, osaka as a field trip of my class in CIE. I didnt know there is such kind of museum in osaka. i heard that there are many peace museums in japan. In the museum, there were many kind of things which related to the war especialy osaka air attack. I read letter which was written by child who had to live separate to their parents in the countryside in order to save themselves from the war. One boy said that I dont want to go back home until japan win the war. therefore dont worry about me. I became very sad to read this. I think that boy really want to go back home and live with their parents. However, he didnt want to worry their parents so he said such thing. I also saw the letter which inform the war death. I knew war produced a large amount of victimes but when i saw thesethings in my own eye, i felt that the war really happened 60 years ago and i could imagine how they feel and so many people are suffered from this. I could see some terrible pictures. I saw pictures of koreans who abused by japanese. It was terrible. i couldnt understand why japanese did such things. After we saw around the museum, we watched the movie. It was an animation movie about war. I heard this movie is for like elementary school students. Movie was about war and it described the people's lives in the war time. There were air attack scene and there was also the scene people die in the war. We, japanese watch such movie even when we were child to know how terrible the war is. However, foreign students said they didnt. they also said if they are teacher and if they show such movie to their syudents, they will be fired. I was surprised to hear that and i didnt know why. It was very good experience for me to go there. I could know about war. I felt that i need to know more about history. I was ahamed that I dont know well about what japanese did in the war well. In Darren's class, I could learn about history and I found that although it is difficult, but knowing history is very important and interesting.

Monday, October 17, 2005

USJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi! It's very beautiful day today! This weather makes me sleepy...
Thesedays, I am busy but I had really fun couple weeks ago. I went to.... U.S.J with Satoko!!!!! It was second time for me to go there and was first time to go there in the Halloween season. it was really nice to go there in this season. On the other hand, satoko went to there many times like 5 times or more. so she is an expert of U.S.J! We went there from morning, but there are already many people. When I entered the U.S.J, I felt that I was in the different world. We were surrounded by beautiful buildings and I felt that I am in the movie world. We have to wait long time, but waiting time was also fun! Both satoko and i dont like roller coaster things but we tried to ride snoopy's roller coaster. It was short and less speed roller coaster, but it was enough scary for us and we were really excited!!!! For lunch, we ate very big and delicious humberger. It was really good and we were so full but we ate ice cream few hours after the humberger, and we also ate churro after ice cream.... We stayed there until night. We ride a lot. We ride almost all rides! There was one special thing that day. Thane Camus gave the show!!!! We could see him from near. He was sooooo cool!!!!!! He was reeeealy cool so that we went to see the show two times. However, satoko showed me more hundsome person to me. he is in her mobile phone..... haha shii san...
U.S.J was very good and It was a really great day. It was so much fun and I could forget about a lot of my homework. Thank you satoko to go there with me!!!!! I want to go there again in the near future.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Hi! It's already October 11th today! How fast time passes! It's getting colder and colder thesedays. Everyone, please tale care of your health! I have no clothes for autumn I want to buy them but I also have no money..... On the other hand there are extreamly rich person in the world. I read that one Japanese called Mr. Enomoto will be a forth space tourist. If it comes true, he will stay in the space about a week and it costs about $2000 million(about 23 oku yen) including training cost. He will pay all that money by himself. I was surprised to know it costs so much to travel space and there are people who can go that travel by paying such a large amout of money. It is very nice that he can travel the space. However, when I think about people who cannot eat, have no house, and die from hunger, I bacome very sad and complicated feeling.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

New semester has started!

Long time no blog! I haven't written anything since the end of the last semester even though i enjoyed writing blog last semester. I want to enjoy blogging here this semester too.
Enjoyable summer vacation finished and second semester has started from about two weeks ago. I'm glad that I can see my friends in school but my life is getting busier and busier recently. In this semester, I have to take pre-departure classes at CIE besides my usual classes. Therefore, I need to use my time effectively. I think I will have a lot of things I have to do and it will be very busy semester. I feel bad and worry about whether I can survive when I think about this, however, I have to study hard to study abroad in Australia and doing a lot of work is good practice for study abroad. I hope I can spend nice and enjoyable semester with IESb's!!!! We have new teacher, Darren. I hope I can learn meny interesting things in his class as well as last semester. I'll do my best and I hope I'm in Australia in March!!