natsumi's blog

The Last Day of My Second Year of University

2006-01-25T18:09:00.000-08:00

It is the last day of my second year of university today, and it means it is the last day of IES. When I entered the university, I thought it would be very long and hard two year of IES. Indeed, in IES classes, I had so many homeworks, and it was very hard for me. However, i felt this two year were very short and fun. All people in IES b are really really nice and Im very haooy that I caould in the same class with them. We always cheer up each other and work hard together. I took pre departure classes in CIE in second semester and i was very busy. I was under a stress. However, they always cheer me up. Therefore, I could overcome therse things and I could go to Australia soon. We spent a wonderful time with them this two years and I had many many good memories. Many people are going to go to study abroad and we will not be able to see each other as now. It is really really sad but i know we are all very good friends forever. Im going to go to Australia soon and i feel very sad to think I will not be able to see them long time. I even cant believe this. Everyone, please dont forget about me and keep in touch with me.
I go to the last class of IES from now. I really want to say thank you to all of B's. I love B's!!! Thank you soooooo much for everything! korekaremo ganbaroune!!!!!
I'm really looking forward to go to ninnikuya tonight with them! I'll eat alot!!!!!! hehe

Study Abroad

2006-01-25T17:50:00.000-08:00

It's already 26th and it is the last day of may second year of this university. It means the day I go to Australia comes soon. Im going to go to Australia on Feb, 13th. There are only about two weeks left before leave. However, i've prepared nothing and I even dont feel i'll go there soon. I have mixed feeling. I am excited because it is what I really want to do but Im also worrying about study things, homesick and so on. I think i will face many difficult things but through these things, I want to learn meny things and come back japan as grown up natsumi 1 year later. I want to experience many things which i cant experience in japan. It is very very sad that I leave from my friends of family.... Everyone, please dont forget about me and keep in touch with me!

Game in class

2006-01-25T17:31:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, we had a game in Dareen's class. There were some kinds of categories of questions such as semester review, current events, foreign languages. We devided into two groups and I was in the "Inu group". And we won the game! We got chocolate from Darren! I was very glad! Thank you, Darren! Through many questions, I realized that i dont know about world. Our team won, and my team member knew nmany things, but I didnt know. So I thought that I should read newspaper. Also, I thought that we could learn meny things in class, through semester review questions. Darren said we have game in class today too, so I hope i can also win today!

Study Abroad Inauguration Ceremony

2006-01-17T21:37:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, we had a study abroad inauguration ceremony after school. We got certificate to study abroad and listened some people's speechs. These speeches were great but that ceremony end at about 8 o'clock, so I was tired. I will go to Australia soon but I haven't feel that I will go there soon yet. I also cant believe that this semester will end soon. It will end soon, but I have some more works i have to do before the spring vacation such as Darren's paper. So I have to keep working hard(>_<)!

men's author and women's author

2006-01-11T21:55:00.000-08:00

In Darren's class, we thought about why people read more books written by men's author than women's author. I like reading books, but i never thought about this and i even didnt realize this.
I think one of the reasons of this is the social problem. In the past, women had lower status than men and women could not get the enough education or opportunities to write books. Therefore, it was difficult for women to publish books. In school, we had to read little old stories which written by famous author like Akutagawa Ryunosuke or Natsume Souseki. At that time, it was difficult for women to publish books as i stated above. Therefore, such kinds of stories on the text books were written by men's authors. Therefore, more famous authors who are known by many people are men than women. However, situation changed today. Both men and women publish books as great writers. I think men and women often write books from a different poin of view. I want to enjoy both men and women's works.

♪Coming of Age Day♪

2006-01-11T21:38:00.000-08:00

Jan. 9th was a coming of age day and i went to seijinshiki. i met many old friends who i havent seen long time. I had a very good time with them. I was glad to wear kimono but i found that it made me very tired. We are 20 years old now and considered as adults. However, i am very lazy and my mom did everything like prepare kimono for seijinshiki. So i felt that im dont independent yet...(^^; i have to independent and behave as an adult.
I was tired but i had a very good day!

☆☆Winter Vacation☆☆

2006-01-10T21:37:00.000-08:00

Winter vacation was over and school starts again☆ Winter vacation was about three weeks and it finished soon. As soon as classes finished, i went back to my hometown, shiga. Because i had to do part time job in shiga. i worked as a casher in a super market. During this vacation, i worked a lot and i was busy for work. However, after the work or when i have no work, i could see my junior high and high school friends. i usually live in osaka, so i was really glad to see them. It was very short, but i really enjoyed the winter vacation. Classes start again and there are only about three weeks until spring vacation. I cant believe my second year of university finish soon. I will work hard and enjoy rest of my second year!

Race Relations

2005-12-05T01:15:00.000-08:00

Hi! It's already December. How fast time passes! Winter vacation will come soon! Yahoo~~~!!!However, i think the rest of the days until winter vacation will be really really busy. I have to work hard. I want winter vacation comes soon.
Today, in Peter's class, Yuki and I had a presentation about race relations. I think it is very deep problem and is defficult to solve. We mainly talked about the situation in the United States, issues about native americans and whites people. I live in Japan and usually, i do not face the racial problems, but i think there are some but very serrous racial problems in Japan, like korean, ainu. It is wrong that certain group of people are discriminated or treated unfairly because of their race even though we are all same human beings. It is very difficult to solve racial problems but this problem have to be solved as soon as possible. As a first step, i think it is important know about people who are different race. By knowing them, I think we can realize that we are same and difference is only appearance. I hope that people see other people not by their appearance or race, but by their characteristics.

Harry Potter

2005-11-28T18:50:00.000-08:00

Hi, it's too cold thesedays.... i dont like cold weather.
i went to watch a movie, HARRY POTTER on last Saturday. I liked reading Harry Potter books, but i watched only first one movie of Harry Potter. and,,, the movie was very good! When i reading or watching Harry Potter story, i always feel like i want to be in the Harry Potter world. In Japan, the sixth book of Harry Potter havent published yet. I want to read it very much! I'm looking forward to read it very much! I should read it in English....
Anyway, the movie was very good so i recommend to watch this movie(^^)/

Momiji in Kyoto

2005-11-21T00:42:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday, I went to kyoto to see maple trees which turned into red with my friends. There are many famous places for beautiful maple trees in kyoto and many people came to see them. I went to Arashiyama, Yasaka shrine, and Kiyomizu temple. In every place, I could see really beautiful maple trees. We went to Kiyomizu temple at night. It was illuminated soooo beautiful. It was first time for me to go to Kiyomizu temple and see the illuminated temple. It was very different from that of daytime. That day was soooo cold, but I had a very good time. I could feel Japanese beautiful autumn.

2005-11-12T06:59:00.000-08:00

I learned about nuclear weapons and national security in Int'l politics class. Some countries want to have more destructive weapons in order to improve their national security. However, in my opinion, it is not a good way. Because it became easier for more and more nations to have nuclear weapons because of the development of technology. Therefore, if A country have strong weapons, B country which want be stronger than A countrie will have more stronger weapons. Then, A country will have more stronger than B country's weapon. It will be a vicious cycle. If many nation do this, the number of destructive weapons will keep increasing and people who are threatened by these weapons will increase. Japan doesn't have nuclear weapons but today, government thinks about having nuclear weapon to improve national security. However, I think Japan shouldn't have nuclear weapons as a country which is only one victim of the nuclear weapon in the world. Nations should improve their national security by showing not have nuclear weapons to other countries. I think if no country have nuclear weapons, no country dont have to be threaten by being attacked.

saki's house was soooo nice!!

2005-11-05T07:08:00.000-08:00

Today, let me tell you about very fun and relaxing holiday. After i went to the schol festival, i went to Saki's house with my friends. Her house is in Hyogo and we went to there by train. I usually dont use train to go to school so it was fun to go back home talking with my friens. However, I was surprised to know that saki always commute such long way. She's great! When we arrived saki's house, her mom welcomed us. She was very kind and beautiful! I like saki's mom:) Saki's mom cooked dinner for us. It was soooooo good. I think her mom can have restaurant. At night, we talked a lot until late at night. Saki's house was very big and comfortable so I relaxed very much. In the morning, we ate great breakfast made by saki's mom and went for a walk a little. Her house is surrounded by nature and it was very different from where i live, Hirakata. It was like my home town. It was very quiet and air was very clean. I like saki's family and her home town very much! After we came back from the walk, we went to the shopping mall in Itami. It was very big and nice. We ate good lunch and enjoy shopping.
I had a very very nice holiday. Saki's family was so warm. Thesedays, i had spent very busy and stressful days, but her nice family and great time I spent with my friend made me relax. Thanks so much every one(*^-^*)!!

School Festival☆

2005-11-05T06:58:00.000-08:00

I went to my university's school festival. It was sunny and warm so it was very good day for the festival. Last year, i had a store with my class mates for the school festival. We sold hamburgers, hot dogs, pancakes, and mixed juice. Therefore, I was very busy. However, this year, only i have to do was buy food and eat! hihi I ate many good foods! I went to watch Michika's dance. It was reeeeally good! She was sooo cool!
From 4 o'clock, i had a class in the CIE so i went to the class. However, there were only seven students in the class...!! Many students went to the festival or somewhere and didnt come to the class. Everyone!! Come to class~~~~~!!!

What do you think about blogs?

2005-10-26T22:54:00.000-07:00

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-----!!!!

osaka peace museum

2005-10-22T04:13:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2005-10-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

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.

2005-10-10T20:20:00.000-07:00

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.

New semester has started!

2005-10-02T07:00:00.000-07:00

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!!

Last class....

2005-07-18T02:03:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is the last day of this semester. It means tomorrow is the last day we can take Scott's class. I can't believe it. Time flies..... In this semester, I could learn many very important things in his class. I come to interested in global issues after I took his class. I could learn I, ordinary person, can do something to save the earth. His class was always fun so I can enjoy learning. All IESb's student will miss his class.... There are no more global issues class next semester, but I will never forget what I learned in this class and keep thinking what I can do to make the world for the better. And I will keep blogging next semester. Because it is very fun! Well, Scott, thanks so much for great classes and teaching us very important things!! Your class was wonderful!!
Thanks again...

Global warming

2005-07-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

Hi! It’s very hot these days and I can’t live without air conditioner even though air conditioner is bad for environment. Air conditioner leads global warming and global warming makes more and more people use air conditioner. bad cycle….
I read as many as one million species of land plants and animals are in danger of becoming extinct if global warming continues. The article said as many as 37 percent of the world’s living species could be destroyed because of the global warming by the year 2050.Global warming is really really serious problem….
Not only Plants and animals but also humans are in danger. Many scientists believe the Earth's rising temperatures could eventually melt polar ice caps, cause sea levels to rise and worsen flooding.
We know global warming affects the environment negatively and we have to do something to stop it. However, it is difficult to actually take action. I also can’t turn off the air conditioner… but now I set the air conditioner at 26℃ from 24℃ and pulled out the plugs of electronic machines which I’m not using now. There are many things I can do easily to save the earth. It is not big power if only I do these things but when many people take action, it effect positively!

2005-07-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

Hi! It's Saturday! Yahoo~~!!
I went to "Bikkuri donkey" with Erica and Michika yesterday. I like hamburger steak so it is one of my favourite restaurant. I ate very delicious hamburger steak and parfait!! After that, we went to "Geo" to borrow the videos. I watched "life as a house", Japanese title is "umibe no ie". It was really good! I had a very good Friday night!!
But I have a lot of things I have to do this weeekend. So I have to study hard from today...
I am going to work on Scott's essay first. I am writing about deforestation. I hope it will be a good essay.

2005-07-14T20:18:00.000-07:00

Hi! it is very hot thesedays. I often feel like i want to go to the sea to swim. However, many sea in japan are not clean. My home town is in Shiga. There are no sea around Shiga but there is lake Biwa in there. Lake Biwa is the biggest lake in japan. My house is far from laek Biwa so i don't go there often but sometimes I go there. Because there is lake Biwa, my prefecture work hard to clean the water of lake. It is said that water from house is one of the cause of water pollution. Therefore, people encouraged us to do something to stop pollute water. For example, it is bad for water to throw away(?) used oil to drain. Therefore, community try to gather used oil and they made soap from oil. Also poeple recommend us not to throw away the water which was used to wash rice before boil to drain. Instead of doing this, they reccomend us to use this water to flower or foliage plant. It is not easy to do this because it is very easy to throw them directly to drain. However, this small action make water clean!

2005-07-13T10:50:00.001-07:00

Hi! I worked for Peter's research port folio but i was too tired to continue writing it. So I decided to write blog. I am very sleepy....
It is very hot thesedays and i drink alot. There are many pet bottles in my house.
Now I remembered my high school uniforem was made by pet bottles. my high school is friendly to environment isn't it? and it is surprizing that poeple can make cloth from pet bottles.
It is great that by recycling garbage, garbage will be something new. There are so many garbage around us and it is very serious problem. There are no place to put the garbage. therefore, i think recycling is one of the best ideas to solve this garbage problem. Recycling is what we can do easily in our daily lives. so....let' recycling!!I will bring pet bottles in my house to some place where can recycling pet bottles. So if someone know the place where i can bring my pet bottles in Hirakata, please tell me!

2005-07-11T21:48:00.000-07:00

H! Summervacation will come soon! But I have to do so many things before this vacation...
The due day of paper for Peter's class will come soon. I will write about child labor.
I was really sad when I know the fact that there are at least 250 million children between 5 years old and 14 years old who have to work in developing countries. Many of them are working under the very hazardous condition. I was researched about it and many people said the main causes of child labor is poverty and lack of education. In developing countries, children have to work to support their families. Children can't go to school because they have to work. Therefore, they can't get education and then, they can't get jobs. It is bad cycle.
The laws to ban the child labor is necessary but there will be families which cannot live without money which is earned by children. It is very difficult problem to solve. However, I think governmental support is necessary to solve this problem.

2005-07-10T03:03:00.000-07:00

I had a very good weekend!
I went to umeda for shopping with my friends and it was so much fun!
There was sale and there are so many poeple there.
I enjoyed shopping but I don't like crowded place so I was very tired.
I went to the "kushiya" first time!
It was so nice! I ate too much and finally, it is difficult to walk....
I felt guilty to people who can't eat enough food...sorry....
And I can't believe I am hungry now and try to eat dinner even though I was so full last night...
Good weelend will over and Monday comes again....
But SUMMER VACATION will come soon!!
I can't stop thinking about it!!
But I have a lot of things I have to do before the summer vacation.
I will do my best imagining a wonderful summer vacation.

presentations about endangered animals

2005-06-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

We did presentations about endangered animals in class today.
It is good opportunity for me to know about endangered animals.
I was surprised and became sad to know that many animals are endangered because of human's selfish activities, hunting and destroying their habitat. We destroyed their peaceful lives and made them to face the crisis of extinction. Therefore, now, we have to do something to protect them. I think today's presentation was good step. Knowing about them is very important i think. I even didn't know elephant and rhinoceros are endangered animal. Because i can see them anytime i go to the zoo.
When i think about animals in the zoo, i often feel sad. Because mosy of them seems not happy in the small cage. I went to the zoo in Australia. It was really different from japanese one. Animals are not in a small cage and looks much more free than japanese zoo animals. And people who visit the zoo can contact with animals closely.
I can also learn how to give a presentation by using a power point from today's presentation.
I want to use it better.

where is my mobile phone....

2005-06-20T05:55:00.000-07:00

Hi! It is very hot today. News said now is the rainy season but it is no rain thesedays.
Well, I had trouble. I lost my mobile phone three days ago.... On that day I only went to school and korean restaurant near the university. I searched university and that restrant but I couldn't find it. So I spend no mobile phone life now and I realized how I depended on my mobile phone. It is very uncomvinient to live no mobile phone life. I didn't have a mobile phone when I was a junior high school student, but now I can't imagine no mobile phone life. However at the same time, i thought sometimes no mobile phone life is good. It is unconvinient when I want to know where is my friend or tell something important emargently. However, when I think well about mobile phone, it is rare that I really need mobile phone. I got used to having mobile phone and the life which I always can contact with other people. Therefore, it is kind of fresh(?) time now. However, if it last long, I will have problem. So I will buy a new one soon. Anyway, I can't guess where is my mobile phone now. If someone find my mobile phone, please give it back to me. And if someone find white "au" mobile phone with strange monkey strap, it is mine! So please tell me. I used my mobile phone as an alarm clock. I'm worry if I can get up early and go to school on time.

2005-06-07T20:47:00.000-07:00

Hi! Thesedays, I have a lot of homeworks and I am tired about it.
I can't stop thinking about summer vacation....
Yesterday, I saw people who pick up the trash on the road.
I did such activities when I was a elementary school students.
I was appreciated these people who pick up the trash.
I can't understand why there are people who drop their trash in the street not into the garbage can.
I saw some electrical appliances were dumped in the mountain.
I heard that in Sigapore people have strict rules about trash and they have to pay fine if they drop trash in teh street. Therefore, Singapore is a very clean.
I hope Japan will be a clean city ther are no trashs on the road without any laws but only by people's right mind.

Shopping bags

2005-05-28T07:26:00.000-07:00

I read the news about shopping bag. In Japan, when we buy something on the store, we can have shopping bags free. However, government are thinking about the law that prohibit the store to give shopping bags to customers free. In some countries, people already have to pay money when they need prastic bag at the store. When I went to Taiwan, I have to pay money when I need shopping bag. I feel people waste a lot of shopping bags. When I go to the convenience store, people who work there give me shopping bag even when I buy small things such as gum. I read that in Japan, it is said that 10% of the garbage from house is shopping bag. Therefore, I think it is good way to reduce the garbage. It is not only good to reduce the garbage, but also good to save oil which is needed when prastic bags are made. However, there are people who disagree with this idea because they don't want to pay money for shopping bags.

Sons are prefered in some countries.

2005-05-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hello! In today's class, I learned sons are prefered to daughters in some countries. When I heard this, I remembered what my chinese friend said before. Sons are also prefered in China. Thesedays, we can know the baby's gender when they are still in the belly of theri mother. So when chinese people know their baby is girl, some people have an abortion. Because there is one chils policy in China. Therefore, they can have only one child and many people want son. The governmetn of China thought this is a not good thing. Therefore, they ban to hospital to tell the baby's gender to their parent. I think it's sad thing that people have abortion only because their baby is girl. I don't know why sons are prefered in China but I think people have traditional or conservative thinking. I think Japan getting change their mind to gender. However, the thinking that prefer sons are still remain i think.
In some countries, women don't have power, and in a very hard position. I think it is necessary to make the society that men and women are equal to make a really developed country.

2005-05-03T22:38:00.000-07:00

Are you having a good golden week? I came back to my home town in Shiga! I always gain weight when I came back to my home. My home town is in very countryside. It is surrounded by nature. I feel here is cooler than Hirakata. Some of my friends said Hirakata is a countryside but I think Hirakata is a city when I compare to Hirakata and my hometown. I can go no where without a car. However, I don't have a car license so I have to go to somewhere by bicycle... Sometimes, it is not convinient to live in a country side, but I like countryside. I don't like crowded place. I think the air of countryside is more clean than city and I can be relax in there. I want to live in a country side, but not too countryside...I want to live in the countryside near the city and there are good transportation system...I'm selfish...
The university begins day after tomorrow. I have to study hard again...However, I'm really looking forward to see my class mates and listen to their story of their golden week!!

Wealth and poverty

2005-04-18T20:31:00.000-07:00

hi! I've just finished Scott's class now. Today, we learned about wealth and poverty in his class. I knew there is a big gap between rich country and poor county, but I didn't know the real situation of poor countries. And I was very shocked to take today's class. I learened there are many people who live $1 aday. I can't imagine such life. I was really shocked to know 24,000 people die in a day. I live in a rich country, Japan. I take granted that I can go to school, eat what I want to eat and live safe. I often said "I'm hungry..." even after I finished eatign the meal. But my life isn't normal. As I learned in the class of outside, most of the epople in the world are not rich. And many of them have a problem to live. Not only the gap of wealth and poverty in each country, there is a gap in one country. My chinese friend said there is a big gap between the rich and the poor. Some rich people live very high living in there, but on the other hand there are the people who live very poor and many people can't go to school in the rural area of china. I feel education is very important. I think they want to change their bad situation, but they don't know how to change, because they can't take education. Because of the poor, children can't go to school and because of this, many people cant get a good job, because of this, people can't earn enough money(poor) . it's a very vicious circle. The people who live in rich country have a good education and I think if they work together, we can change something bettter. As a person who live in rich country, I want to do something, but to tell the truth, I don't know what can I do. I feel it's not sure if the money we donate go directly to the poor people. But I want to begin the little thing I can do in my daily life. I'll think what can I do and begin with little thing. i think if many people think about this, world might be change little to the place where more and more people can live peacefully.

what is my goal for IES this semester?

2005-04-11T18:01:00.000-07:00

From last Monday, new semester started. I'm worry about it. Because I think it will be very busy and hard. But I want to learn many things in IES class in this semester as well as last year. I want to learn a lot of things positively and I want to be the person who don't afraid the making mistakes. I want to think by myself and have my opinin about things. I'll try to increase my vocabulary and I want to read books faster. I'm not good at doing presentations. So I want to improve my speaking skills.
In this semester, we will use internet a lot. So I want to use internet well.
I think I will have to study hard this semester, so I'll do my best.

My First Blog

2005-04-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

Hello, this is my first blog