Discoveries

I have started to live by myself since this April, I found that the importance of the people around me; family, friends, neighbors, and so on. At first, I was very worried about my life in the future at that time. I didn't have confidence whether I can cook, wash my cloths and clean my room include bath and washroom at that time. The problem that if I have a cold was a big problem. However my mother always worries about me and telephone everyday at that time. She comes to my apartment about twice a every month until now. My father sends me some souvenirs he bought at the place he visited, my brother sometimes comes to see me and talks interesting his experience. My local friends phone me every time when I feel sad or lonly and they encourage me. I talk with them for about one hour. It is very comfortble for me to talk using dialect. When I listen to their a lot of exciting experience at their each university, I respect them. I want to spend my university life like them so I can do my best everything! Many friends in this university are also my treasures. Especially the members of English8 have each different characteristics and thinking. They are very kind and so poweful(^O^)／! I was helped many times by them. I love them!(^^)! My neighbors are all friendly. They hold a party regularly. On the day of my birthday, they held my surprise birthday party!! I was thinking that I wasn't seleblated my birthday with cake this year, but thanks to their surprising party, I could eat a big birthday cake(*^_^*)!!! When I had a cold, they worried about me and asked me if they should go to supermarket for me to buy something to cure my cold. I was really happy.
The connecton with many people is my best treasure. If you start live by yourself, there will be a lot of difficult problem. However, the people around you will help you. I discovered that the importance of them.

The Future

When I will become 50, to make a trip all over the world will have cmpletely changed. Now, it takes 10 more hours to go to Eurpe from Japan. It makes us tired and some people have a sick because of the long fright. About 30 years later, many technologies will change and engineer will be able to make the special engine of plane which we can go another country in short hours. Thanks to that engine, we will be able to travel a lot of country. In addition, I think that we will be able to travel to space. I don't know whether it is true or not but my high school days teacher said to students that we will be able to go to space for honeymoon nearly in the future. I think if the idea come true, it become so memorial trip. These days, the cost of trip is becoming cheaper and cheaper. We will feel travel around the world much more familiar.

If such a trip come true, I want to travel all over the world. I think it is good but some people may think it is bad for environment. Becouse a lot of planes flits. What do you think?

Something I would love to try

I would like to try bungee jumping someday. It looks so scarery but I think it is also fun! Have you ever done bungee jumping? When I was a high school student, my class went to Washuzan Highland in Okayama for excursion. There is bungee jumping. It is 170 meters above sea level. It is so high! My classmate (of course boys) tried it! His face looked so fearful but we laughed seeing his face(^O^)／hahaha~ He hesitated to jump many times. However the clerk in the park started to count down. We also counted down imitating him.

/

Three!

\

/

Two!

\

/

One!

\

/

BUNGEE!!!

\

He jumped!

I also wanted to try it but I didn't have courage. If I have one more chance, I would like to try!

My Ideal Partner

I want to marry in the future and make a happy home. My ideal partner is like my father. Is it rare for most of all daughters to think this? When I talk about this to my friends, they are always surprised. My father is a soccer coach and he teaches it to children in elementery school as a volunteer. He has played soccer since he was elementery school student. When he was high school student, he choose as a member of Japan reinforced player. Then, he went to university in Tokyo to play soccer. He belongs to sinior soccer club still now. I think the man who is absorbed in any sports is shining!(^^)! I like to cheer for any games. I love sports! So I want my partner to play some sports. In addition, my father never complains about his work when he come back home. He is civil servant, so I think he has a lot of irritated things but he doesn't bring things about his work to home. Even he has some problems at work, he come back with smile, so I always respected him. He doesn't smoke and drink so much. He always eat my mother's dish saying "delicious!" My mother looks happy about his words（*^_^*） It is like my father's boast but I proud of my father(^O^)／! I want to marry the man who I can respect.

I want to go to Australia for honeymoon. My parents chose the place for it. They said it was really fun. I saw some pictures they took with koalas. They went to Gold Coast and enjoyed not only shopping and eating but also sports and nature. After I heard about this, I really want to go there! I think almost all the people in Japan go to Hawaii for honeymoon but I would like to choose the place where many people don't go. Is Australia famous for honeymoon place?

Anyway! Every place is OK if I can go with the man who loves me very much(^^)hahaha

My good friend

I have a lot of respectful friends. Here I want to talk about best friend Yoko in Tokushima. We met at junior high school. At first, I couldn't decide which club should I belong to when I was first grade student. Finally, I decided to belong to the track and field club. I like to run long distance so I chose 1500m. Yoko also chose 1500m. The people who chose 1500m were only us! It is the encounter of me and Yoko. The practice was really hard. We run about 1hour everyday. After that, we run 100m about 5times. I often said to her "I can't run any more!" However she always encouraged me and run together. The time I run was faster than first year. I think I owe it to her. That's how I and Yoko become deep friend. Then, we also belonged to the same club:badmintonclub in high school. The practice was also hard. When I cried because of lose of game, she was beside me everytime. I was really happy.
We live in different place now. When I feel lonly, she call me everytime. That is the best way to have encourage. She is university student in Tokushima to become childcare teacher. It is her big dream!(^^)!
I start live alone, I feel important the presence of a lot of friends. I can't live without friends.
THANK YOU（●＾o＾●）

Picture:the member of badmintonclub

A Special Day

For me, a special day is New Year's Day. I think it is also a special day for almost all the people, but the day is only day that my family (father, mother, brother and me) are all together. My brother is a third grade university student. He really enjoys his student life here, so he seldom comes back to my hometown Tokushima. He comes back to Tokushima about teice a year. On the other hand, I came back to Tokushima about once a month but I won't come back frequently next year because I will study abroad, join club activity more and work a part-time job almost all day. However, me and my brother will certainly come back to Tokushima on New Year's Day. We can meet my grand parents, cousins and a lot of relatives, and they give us money called otoshidama. Also, we can eat Japanese traditional dish called osechi which is eaten only on New Year's Day with them. We play card called hanahuda which is Japanese card game all night, talk a lot of things, take a family pictures, go to shrine and temple to wish happy day... many many things! I enjoy that day with family! Spending time with family is a special day for me（*^_^*）

Could technology become more of a problem than a help to communication?

I think technology become more of a problem but whether it become a problem or not is up to us. These days, having cellphone is not special. People often use it by talking, mailing, chatting on the Internet, writing comments some bulletin boards and many many things. They enable us to contact someone at any time and everywhere. I have started to live by myself since this April and when I feel miss my family or friends, I always use cellphone. Thanks to their function, I can feel relieved. At the time, I think high technology is useful and makes me comfortable. However there is a problem which causes lack of face to face communication. If we depend on cellphone too much, we won't talk with people. I love to talk with people face to face. In addition, mailing communication can cause a lot of problems. We can't see the other person's face, so we can't understand the other person's true feelings or the other person may take different meanings which we sent messages. It is very difficult problem but if there is no mailing technology, we won't face such problems. However the life without mailing technology, it will be difficult to contact the people all over the world. We have to handle this carefully.