My Discoveries

Now which I write this blog, it is around the middle of December. This year is almost over.>< This year was a turning point for me in various sides, and I think what happened to me in this year is the very what I discovered.
In this spring, I moved Fukuoka to Osaka in order to go to a university. Between Fukuoka and Osaka, everything was different!
First of all, in Osaka, the main public transportation is trains(mostly Hankyu or JR)! That in Fukuoka is buses, however, so I had never gone to school by train(Although there were some subway lines in Fukuoka, I went to school by bicycle or on foot). And to make matters worse, my home lies in Osaka though my university,Kwangaku,lies in Hyogo>< so I have must ridden the train for a long time, which made me depressed at first. When I rode Hankyu for the first time, I noticed the passengers in Kansai are very cheerful. It was common in Fukuoka that the people must keep quiet in public,and it was an unspoken agreement, but that isn't applied in Kansai. I was very surprised. Especially, the lady(It is said in Japanese "Obachan") has very strong power! Some of them speak to their friends loudly in trains. I am still often overwelmed by them now. However, they generally look like delightful, and I think it is very wonderful. As for public things, another example is an escalator! In Osaka, the people stand on right side, but the people of Fukuoka do on the opposit side(Tokyo is the same as Fukuoka).
Second is the what a university is, and what International Studies Department is. I had studied very hard just in order to pass the entrance examinations in my high school days. So, I could not go through to go abroad in that time. When I entered IS department of KG, I was surprised there are many people who experienced overseas including returnee students. I noticed there are various ways to live in the same 18 years then. As for universities, it is very freedom! No regulation about my life in campus in terms of lectures or eating and so on. It depends only myself!! I often feel fearful because of too free. I must make useful my life with my hands.
All of them are good discoveries for me!!!!!!!

When I'm 40 Years Old

In the morning, I wake up earlier than any other my family, open the curtain in order to bathe the sunshine and change my cloth, then set about the breakfast for my family. When I finish preparing it, I wake them up. That's how the new day begins. Then, I say "Good morning!" cheerfully.
When I'm forty-year-old, I'll be a good wife of my dearest partner and a good mother of my cute boys and girls. I want to marry with him when I'm around twenty-six-year-old. As you know I wanna hold a wedding ceremony in France! I will have two children, older son and younger daughter. Affected by my husband, my son practices the baseball(My partner is a baseball addict). I want him to grow up bigger in terms of tall and spirit. As for my daughter, she learns the piano with me. One of my goals until I have dead is to master the skill of playing the piano, so I and she beg my husband to buy grand piano. Anything else, we cook the dishes or make sweets together frequently. I want her to grow up with a lot of culture and as intelligent and beautiful, so she is loved by everyone. I would like to bring them up to be kind and polite person. Another what I wanna give them is to wear Familliar's clothes when they are young. They are so pretty^^ And, my family travel somewhere at least twice every year. Tokyo Disney Resort is absolute. I and my daughter are also addicted to Disney! We always say,"Dad, please take us to TDR!!^^" When I am 40, it will be the six times that we visit there my family all together. Thus, I wanna make pretty warm home.
How fun to imagine the future! lol

I am Addicted to.....!!

One of my hobbies is to collect cosmetics! What is paticulaly favorite is JILL STUART's ones^^＊ I use its base makeup cream,lose powder,and cheek color. They are related to face's base make. Why I favor face's base make of JILL STUART is that the skin absorbs its cream or pwder very well, which makes myself looks as baby face! Actually when I touch my face which I made up, I can feel soft and supple. As for cheek powder, the color of it came out very well. Moreover, the smell of these cosmetics is pretty good! I love it!! These cosmetics' design is also good! They are so cute!! The motif is princess's belongings. As you know, I really love Cinderella^^ So when I use these ones, I feel happy as if I was spelled special magic. This picture is a limited cosmetics kit of this year's Christmas. I wanna collect more items of JILL STUART. However, as for eye make, I collect Dior's ones. Dior's mascara is so excellent in that it needn't to use curler of eyelashes. It allow my eye to make looks as big bright. Anyway, I'm addicted to collect sweet and cute cosmetics! I'm espacially crazy about JILL STUART!! I recommend you to use it^^

My Future Marriage With My Ideal Partner

I couldn't have considerd marrying to someone ever before. I made up my mind I would work hard and become one of the career woman when I was young, so I had been dreaming own freedom(How I was cold-hearted!lol). However, my resolution was changed. I am very happy now I met the someone who was meant for me. Originally, I am apt to put on a bold front. I reluctant to rely on someone. If I feel somehow lonely or distressed, I am apt to solve just by myself. My boy friend really see through my characteristics and understand me! He supports me with all his power at any time, and respect my feeling. He dislike the lieing and secret so he always tell his straightforward innermost feeling. I feel very comfortable when I am with him. I can believe the future which he is my partner. I think he is the very person who is my ideal. Now, I'm dreaming that I hold a wedding ceremony at France!(I and him always say that.) I really really love Chinderella and always say "If only I want to be Chinderella", so I want to wear the shoes of crystal at the ceremony. He will give me it. As for a honeymoon, I want to go travel of Europe such as France,Britain,Italy and Belgium! Since I also love the World Heritage Sites, I want to see many monuments! I am really dreaming^^

My Precious Friends

There are my good friends which I can say with confidence they are liferong friends. Since my family moved many times on account of my father's transfer, I have not what is called hometown. However, I had lived Fukuoka for ten years, and a lot of memories and my youth are filled there, so I regard there as my hometown. Last summer, I went back there and this photo was taken at Hakata Station when I returned to Osaka. My best friend's names are Ai and Sachi(It looks like a souvenir of Tokyo Banana! Actually, when we went to Tokyo in school trip, we bought it contentedly.) We got on good terms when we were second grades in the high school. We were same class and used to spend the school life together at anytime. We also used to talk about studying or love or worrying when some of us suffered from them. Now, I think it was my precious time that it couldn't replace to anything else. We made merry everyday meaninglessly, which was the maximum and the strongest happiness! Fortunately, we could be same class at the next grade again! And it was the last grade in the high school, we swore to spend more full life toward the graduation and exert ourself to pass the examinations. We struggled to study supporting each other. When my result of practice exam was awful, and I was in very low spirits, who encouraged me was them. I remember it became my power. Throughout the rash of examinations, when my course was decided, I would enter KwanseiGakuin university, who grieved my moving was them. Although I left Fukuoka for Osaka, they still have me got along very well, which makes me happy! I am grateful to them. I am going to make them precious as ever.

My Special Day

My special day is the very last Sunday!! I went to OSAKA AQUARIUM KAIYUKAN!! My mother said to me "You have ever been there when you were little young." Of course, I have no memories with it, so I think this is for the first time to visit for me, which I was sooo excited! I really love marine animals. Penguins are so cute that I like the best them. One of the penguins' charm points is that how to walk over the ground. Since they don't have what is called legs, they walk as if babies were toddling. To the contrary, when they swim in the water, they look free and easy and very graceful. When I watched them at Kaiyukan, since it was around evening, they were sleeping! Do you know how penguins sleep? I was surprised when I knew that. They stood up straight with closed eyes. It was also very very cute!! Moreover I enjoyed watching Clown fishes, it is known for one of the Disney films "Finding Nemo", or various jelly fishes and so on. After all is blue whales, it is known as the most bigger whale in the world and the aquarium is the most proud of. The gigantic body was amazing spectacle, so I cannot help admiring. After I had seen around, I rode Ferris wheel of Tempozan. It took about 15 minutes to make a round. It commands not only the city of Osaka but also that of Kobe, Rokko. If it is the sunny, we can see the strait bridge of Akashi. Unfortunately, it was cloudy so I couldn't. Since there is USJ near there, we was able to look down the park from sky when our gondola arrived at the top. A lot of lights which make the city were brilliant, the night view was very romantic! To sum up, I really enjoyed! Therefore, it is my special day!!

My Answer to The John's Question

I think technology prevents someone from communicating. I also think it develops too much today. I really feel that when I see my mother struggles with conveniences. She is the very person who can't accept the new things, in short, she is analog. She can't(maybe isn't good at)handle technology such as "Chidegi"television, cellphone,or personal computer. She always says "I can't any more!" Although whenever I see that I laugh at her(of course I shouldn't do that), it is very serious problem for her. It doesn't matter for me that technology spreads around me, because I can mostly cope with the trable wich is occurred by it. Surrounded the conveniences, she looks very tired. My grand mother also says "I can't catch up with your deed(or words)." Thanks to that, We can't continue to our conversation friquently. For the generation which doesn't go through and isn't accustomed to high technology, they are absolutely helpless against them. They often say they have no room to take new knowledges. It is estimated the speed of the tecnology being used generally is faster than that of ten years ago by some authorities. Times shifts to new thing continuously and one of these days my mother or grand mother's generations disappear, but now, there are people who suffer from the development of technology. We must consider the environment all of the people feel comfortable.

Something To Do With Globalization

I'm so affected with Disney. It comes from America, but I'm blessed with its fascinate although I'm in Japan. And that's not all, a lot of people now are enchanted by it all over the world. It is a good glovalization, I think. The magic of Disney have been making them fascinated. Thanks to development of mediums of mass communication such as television or newspapers or the Internet, we can shere the blessing of Walt Disney with all over the people. In this summer, I read "The sacred place named Disneyland." It was written by Notoji Masako who is a proffesor of Tokyo University. She specializes in American cultures. It says how Disney influences the people's mind, how the American recall nostalgia from it, and so on. By reading it I was able to understand the consciousness of the American. It was fun for me. I think it is one of the important prosesses for globarization. To know different culture caltivates my vision or way of thinking. I can know who I am, or what I'm interested in. It leads to build myself up, I think. Therefore, I 'm for the glovalization.

I Love THIS Class! .....E2!

Well, I forgot the another precious memory of the summer vacation. It was the E2 party! I was in charge of arrengements for this party. I dare to hold the party at the end of this vacation in order to encourge ourselves for fall semester. It had been about a month since we attended the last class of sprig semester. Since I felt miss them in the summer vacation, I was so looking forward to this party. We had really really good time with eating pizza and drinking the juice(of course, we woldn't drink alcohol!lol) Then, we talked about each summer memories, or discussed if we were able to take the credits of sprig semester or not,and the boy who is the member of E2,and he failed in our class, English. For this, he never be able to join our class from fall semester, but we believed he was essential for E2, and the member of us forever! We swore. At the end of the party, the light was turned off suddenly, and a special cake appeared!! It was secret I planned. September fifth was one of us's birthday who visited France this summer. So, we sang birtheday song and ate the chocolate cake. I really love the class! E2! I am actually unbelievable that we can't spend the time studying English together only for a semester. The rest was just a semester... On the contrary, a half of year had passed since we met for the first time. This period of time, the class came to be the best for me, and I came to feel my classmates were really really precious in my mind before I knew it. When I thought the day we reached the last class, I felt just sad. So, I want to make the class more active and enjoyable and sophisticated!! Everybody of E2, are you ready? Fall semester started. Let's make our classes passionate by ourselves! Thank you!

At the end, I'm really sorry for my classmates who couldn't take part in the party. I'll arrange the one again before long!

My Summer Vacation

This summer was so fabulous that I could feel it was the happiest summer.There were good memories. First of all, I achieved that I went to see fireworks four times!! With Ashiya summer carnival as a start, I went out Tenjin festival, Nagahama fireworks display(It was held in Shiga), Yodogawa fireworks display. They were all beautiful.This picture was when I went to Tenjin festival with my friends of SIS. I was also glad to be able to wear Yukata many times. Some of them, I went with my friends of SIS in great numbers. The girls were dressed in Yukata, and The boys were dressed in Jinbei. I felt so excited that I did just like the play of university sutudents! Second, I went back to Fukuoka to meet my friends of my high school days. I had been five months since I saw them last, so I was so excited on the way there. The most enjoyable thing there was that I stayed at the hotel with my two friends who were the best friends in my high school days. We stayed up late and talked until the sun rised about each campus life or love or our memories.It was also good that I was able to visit my high school. Then, our junior tried hard to practice for the sports festival. Last year, I experienced the cheerleading in the festival. They reminded me of last summer days. Anything else, I traveled in Kagawa for Sanuki noodles with some of my good friends of SIS,or I went to USJ many times. Well, there was one thing that I was absorbed in this summer. It was watching Disney's famous movies in English such as Cinderella, The lillte mermaid, Snow White,and so on. It was so utility for my English comprehension ability,so I'll keep on doing this custome. To sum up, I really enjoyed summer vacation. I was very very busy to play and to work part-time job, but it was so fortunate! This summer was my treasure.I'm going to hold on the fall semester!!

The Real My Summer Vacation is Here!!!!

Getting out of the rush of final exams and a lot of reports, summer vacation starts!!!
I'm already enjoy summer(^ω^)!!!!For example, I went to Ashiya summer carnival with some friends of International Studies on July 24th. Since it was setted off nearby the sea, it was so beautiful. There were so many food stalls. We ate Kakigo-ri,pizza,baked potatos,snow powder ice cream,and frankfurt. Our stomach was filled with delicious foods and joy!The Bi-dama which is hold in the Ramune I drank in the festival is my treasure. I had a very good time except I wasn't able to wear Yukata(;_;) However, the very next day, namely July 25th, I was able to do(^0^)/ I went to Tenjin festival wearing Yukata with my boyfriend. Of course, we saw many fireworks. It was done in the center of the Osaka city, so there are a lot of people,and the near station was so crowed. However, the fireworks which was setted off nearby Osaka castle. The coraboration between fireworks and Osaka castle was very beautiful!!
Thus the start of my summer vacation is so fabulous!!! I am going to enjoy more more more!!!!

My Summer Vacation Plan

Now,I am really looking forward to coming this summer!! There are two reason. First, it's the first time for me to spend entire summer vacation in Kansai. My grand parents live in Osaka, so I have visited them every summer vacation. I really liked to play in Osaka with my cousins and so excited when I was young. However, Since I could stay at most one week, I felt very sad when the time to go back home comes. Now, I don't have to go back home!! My home lies in Osaka!!! So, I want to enjoy the summer of Kansai. For example, I want to go to Tenjin festival and Yodogawa firework festival with wearing Yukata. I am going to go with my boyfriend, so I really looking fowarad to. Next reason is I can go back to Fukuoka and meet my friends. I have lived in Fukuka before my family moved to Osaka in this spring. Since I couldn't go back there on the Golden Week, it's the first time since I moved there. I can meet my junior high school and high school friends for the first time in five months. I want to talk much to them about each campas life. Also, I am going to try hard to study languages, English and French. For the fall semester, I'll do reviewing everyday.
I really wish that my summer vacation will be very joyful and effective!!!!!

A Surprising Story

When I heard this story, I was so surprised and I felt nostalgic.
One day the one of my English class mates asked me, "Hey! Maiko! You know Yucchan, do you?" she was excited, and waited my reaction. At first, I was surprised at her loud voice, the next I traced my memories. "yucchan.? ...Oh!!! I know!!" I was excited too. Yucchan is the friend of mine when I was a junior high scool student in Fukuoka. At the moment I thought why she knew her name. She continued, "You know I work at Emperial Hotel Osaka, do you? She also works there!!! She said to me that she found me on the mixi from your page. Then she realized you and me are on good terms with. I was very surprised!!" Of course, I was very very surprised too. I knew she went to the college in Kansai. However, I had no idea that she worked with my friend of Kwangaku.I felt so happy that my junior high school friend was doing fine.Now, I really want to meet her!!

My Good and Bad Points

I am usually said I am dependable and am good at taking care of someones by others. Actually, I want to do my best when I see the someone who trys hard for something, and I like to listen to someone's problems too, so I am also said kind person. In my mind, I think I have patience,and I can work efficiently than average. When I meet some difficult, I can think of it as part of my job.One of my bad points is being not able to be well-behaved and shy. I have pride overly,and I'm stubborn. I think I have to be more flexible, and be able to say what I think in my mind.

What I'd Like To Accomplish

My accomplishment is being able to play the piano! I am often said by people around me that I seem to be able to play the piano, but I have never learned it so I can't do it at all. When I was a kindergarten, my mother asked me if I learn the piano.At the time, I have never been interested in what the girls like to do. I'm rather interested in what the boys like to do such as play the socceer. However, I'm really regrret that I refused to my mother's suggestion. Now, listening to the music is my favorite things,and usually it contains some melody of the piano.That's why I really want to be able to play the piano. This is My constractive goal. When I start my second life, I want to spend my leisure time playing the piano,which is good for preventing me from aiging in that I move my fingers. These days, I really want to start to learn the piano.

My Favorite Shop

My favorite shop is furniture's and groceries'shop, because I like to think how I custeomize my house living by myself. Acutually,I really want to live alone when I start my campas life in Kwangaku. Unfortunatly, my family can't afford me to live alone, so I give up doing it(;_;) However,when I graduate from the university,and I start my life as a member of society, I have to make my living only alone. Therefore I dream when the time comes! On weekends I am free, I often go to the furniture's shop. Especially,"Franc franc","TOKYU HANDS",and "Loft" is my favorite shops!! I usually stay there for 2 hours. I want to make my house living alone in the future simple and lovely.

A Place I'd Like To Live

At First, I'll introduce my houce which I live in now.
My house is apartment and it has 12 stores.I live in 9 stores.
There is Senri Minami park near my house,and also is Bampaku park which is known to the OSAKA exhibition. They have a lot of trees, ponds, and fields, so there are rich nature in my surrounding.
By the way, a place I'd like to live is cold place such as northan America and northan Europe.I was born in Faburary so I like winter,and I love snow!
I'd like to see the aurora!

Recently

I have feeled depression. I didn't want to do anything, and I didn't feel like going to the university. I miss you my friends of Fukuoka where I lived before I moved to Osaka,and I felt "I want to go back to Fukuoka..." on that the inside. I sufferred from "Gogatubyo." However, my friends of Kwangaku listen to my trouble,and cheered me!! As we spend the campas life together,I was able to shift my feeling negative to positive! I found it stupid to suffer. Now, I am enjoying my life!I started part-time job these days.I work at yakiniku shop near my house.The work is very very hard but it makes my life full.Trying to the new thing is exciting!! I want to make my life joyful more more more!!!!

My First Few Weeks of Kwangaku Life

I entered Kwansei Gakuin University as a student of International department on 2 April.I was nervous then, because I moved to Osaka from Fukuoka in the end of March, so nobody kn ew me at the entrance ceremony.However, I was able to make friends soon luckly! Haruka and Rina spoke to me, then I got along well with them. They are my presious friends now in that they are my first friends at Kwangaku.
Now, about three weeks has gone since I enterd, I still get confused a little about campas life, but really enjoy the new my life, school life of Kwangaku.I am stimulated everyday by campas friends. Some is not Japanese,so Korean,American,Chinese,and so on, the others have been to abroad such as theU.S.,Canada,China,Switzerland.I have never been to overseas,so I 'd like to try hard to study English to go abroad as I am inspired by sround friends.