Amakusa

I went to Amakusa. On the way we went to amakusa, we ate dinner. That restaurant is very expensive. I ate sea food dish.
In Amakusa, we went to jyuman mountain. This place is very quiet and beautiful place. I often go there in pupil. But night, there is very terrified.
After, we drive around Amakusa. We stay in the car until the morning. it was very cold.

pochi's diary: ＨＯＷＬ Ｍoving cathsal

pochi's diary: ＨＯＷＬ　Ｍoving cathsal
I think this book is nice story. I want to read this book.

SaaaE's BloG: Book review2-6

SaaaE's BloG: Book review2-6
I read Sae's book review. I can understand the detail of this book.

shopping

I went to shopping to Claire. There is big shopping center. But we didn't buy anything. We ate takayaki. Mayo cheese and salt takoyaki is very delicious. I want to go there again.

stomachache

I am heavy stomachache today. So I went to hospital near my house. I recieved aptitude test etc. I lose my apprtite. I want to recover soon.

My favorite place

I will talk about my favorite place. My house, my parent's house, My friend's house and Amakusa.

My house
I live by myself in Kumamoto. My apartment can be very relaxed. When I am in my apartment, I am very free. I always watch TV, reading magazine, sleeping and so on. It is very lazy life. But there are a lot of things to do by myself. For example, washing, cleaning my house, cooking and so on. I am disgusting them first, but I can do everything now. I am pleasant this life.

My parent's house
I like my parent's house the best. I often come back my Parent's house. I ike my hometown. My house is surrounded by nature. The scene is very beautiful. My parent's house is confortable for me. There is a place that it is quiet and clam.

My friend's house
When I am in my house, I am very lonesome. So I often go to my friend's house. We cook dinner, watching TV, lisning to music and so on. There is very relaxed and enjoyable place. I like this house.

Amakusa
This is my hometown. Amakusa is nice place. There are many natures. I sometimes go to drive there with my friend.

shopping

I went to shopping with Kanako. We went to PARCO. We went many shops and I bought purple scarf. It is very cute.
After, we went to eat dinner to so-ya. There is my friend working. We ate many dish and feeling og fullness soon. I have a very enjoyable.

comic

I went to comic cafe. It is very nice place. There are many comics and magazines. We can read all of them. And we can watch movie there.
I ate curry rice, drink, popcorn, softcream and so on. We don't need any money. I take three hours there. I feel relaxed. I had very good time.

website

I often use website. I examine many things by Internet. I can learn a lot of things. I make my blog by cell phone.

I watch it and write a diary every day. Also my friends make blog. Her homepage is very cute. She make some pictures, music and so on. I want to make like it. This homepage don’t need money. So it is very convenient.

movie

I saw "miraiyosouzu". This movie moved me to tears.

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Fall Semester Essays

Essays	Short titles [+ links]	Dates yy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M	Notes
Mega- essay 07.10.12	Mega essay	07.10.10		282
Favorite place(-s) 07.10.26	My favorite place	07.		207
Movie review 07.11.11
4th essay 07.11.25
5th essay 07.12.09
6th essay 07.12.21
Totals	---	---							---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs three or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media included

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culture

There are a lot of traditional culture in Japan. For example, living is very difference compare with other country. In Japan, we use chopstick at meal, but in other country, they use fork and knife and so on. And it is difference liking food.
[44 words]

friend

I have a lot of friends. When I am a high school student, I always play with them. My best friend is in Fukuoka now. I and her call and mail everyday. She always guided me. I become college, I belonged circle first. I became friends in circle. They are very kind.

[52 words]

School festival

I don’t belong to club. So I have no things to do for school festival. My friends busy for school festival. I went to school festival last year. It was very interesting. So I want to belong to club and participate school festival this year.

（48 words）

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Proto-Portfolio 2-01: Reviews, Posts and Words

Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Totals	fn	Indices
Book reviews
Blog posts
Words
Sub-totals								---

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Friends

I have a lot of friends. When I am a high school student, I always play with them. My best friend is in Fukuoka now. I and her call and mail everyday. She always guided me. I become college, I belonged circle first. I became friends in circle. They are very kind.

[52 words]

Mega essay

I will explain about Kumamoto. Kumamoto has many fomouse things. I will talk about them.

First, I introduce about Kumamoto castle. There is Kumamoto castle in the center of Kumamoto. It is traditional building in Japan. Many people visit this castle. Kumamoto castle is built by Kato Kiyomasa 400 years ago. So this year is 400 anniversary. It is held special festival this year.
The characteristic of building is musyagaeshi. It is the wall that people can not enter in the castle. It is very famous.
There are a lot of events peromed. In spring, we can see many cerry blossoms in Kumamoto castle.

There are many festival in Kumamoto. Especially Fujisaki shrine fall festival is very very famous. It is held every year and very big festival. the last day of the festival, people lines climax. The most notable thing is "zuibyou" and "kazariuma". It attracts people' s attention. They parades around the Kumamoto city.
In summer, it is held yamaga garden larntern festival in yamaga. Woman dance with garden larntern on the head.
In Kumamoto castle, there are fire festival every year. It is very big festival.

Kumamoto has long history. Kumamoto was called higo clan a long time ago. The famouse people is Kato Kiyomasa and Hosokawa tadayoshi. They are very famouse people in Kumamoto.
Kato Kiyomasa built Kumamoto castle. He served it as a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and he fought in one place after another in each place and showed a military exploit. He became a feudal lord of Higo Kumamoto. He became a vassal of Tokugawa in Hideyoshi posthumously and I gave a military exploit by a fight of Sekigahara and became Higo Kumamoto feudal lord.

eripopon♪: 4th Essay: Kumamoto

eripopon♪: 4th Essay: Kumamoto
It is any nice essay. I like Amakusa too. I don't know about Kumamoto very well. So I want to know more about Kumamoto.

summer vacation

I went back to my home town . My home town is Amakusa. I went to get to driver’s lisence. It was difficult to drive the car first time. I got it about a month.

[35 words]

myself

Writing IIIc: Portfolio
1.0. Essays

1.1. Catalog	Titles of posts with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Numbers of words	Numbers of comments
Example	Restaurant: Star of India	2007.03.13	185	1
1st (introduction) April (150+ words)	myself	2007.04.11	150	5
2nd (campus life) May (200+ words)	Campus life	2007.05.26	203	0
3rd (your choice) June 5 (250+ words)	Family	2007.05.31	204	0
4th (Kumamoto) June 18 (250+ words)	Kumamoto	2007.05.31	201	1
5th (review 1) July 2 (175+ words)
6th (review 2) July 16 (200+ words)
---	---	TOTALS:

Note: Calculate totals without the example.

1.2. Selection and assessment: Which of those essays do you feel is the best, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons.

• ...

2.0. Comments

---	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments (yyyy.mm.dd)	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments*
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yyyy.mm.dd)	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments*
2.4.1. Any one of your essays
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---
2.4.2. Any of your other posts
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---

* Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post.

2.5. Additional reflections on comments:

• ...
  

3.0. Typing Speed Trials (5 mins.)

---	Numbers of words	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)
3.1. Worst typing speed trial
3.2. Best typing speed trial
3.3. Average speed for three (3) most recent speed trials

4.0. Book Reviews

4.1. Catalog	Titles of posts with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Number of words	Numbers of comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
1-01	Book review 1-01	2007.04.24	63	1
1-02	Book review 1-02	2007.04.27	77	0
1-03	Book review 1-03	2007.05.07	41	0
1-04	Book review 1-04	2007.05.14	81	0
1-05	Book review 1-05	2007.05.22	89	0
1-06	Book review 1-06	2007.05.28	95	0
1-07	Book review 1-07	2007.06.07	38	0
1-08	Book review 1-08	2007.06.19	76	0
1-09	Book review 1-09	2007.06.19	33	0
1-10	Book review 1-10	2007.07.03	104	0
1-11	Book review 1-11	2007.07.05	22	0
1-12	Book review 1-12	2007.07.06	71	0
---	---	TOTALS:

Note: Calculate totals without the example.

4.2. Selection and assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons.

• ...

5.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking & Media Presentation

---	Yes	No
5.1. Does your blog have an archive in the sidebar?
5.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?
5.1.2. Is the archive organized by week?
5.1.3. Is the archive at the top of the sidebar?
5.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?
5.2.1. Do your labels include each of these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural)
"essays" (plural)
"quickposts" (plural, with no spaces)
5.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? ...	---	---
Which labels, and how many posts each? www (n) xxx (m) yyy (o) zzz (p) ...	---	---
5.3. Links & media	---	---
5.3.1. Does your blog include pictures?
Does your blog profile include a picture or graphic representation?
How many of your blog posts include pictures or other graphics? ...	---	---
5.3.2. Posts with multiple links	---	---
How many of your posts include three (3) or more links? ...	---	---
5.3.3. Does your blog include other media?
How many of your blog posts include other media? ...	---	---

5.4. What would you most like to do to enhance the overall presentation of your blog?

• ...
  

6.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing:

• ...

7.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors:

G-mail

I check G-mail sometimes. I get G-mail from teacher. I like send mail. So I often send mail for friends.

Teacher

When I was high school, my teacher was very kind. My home room teacher in the third grade, she is very friendly. She taught calligraphy and classic. She has neat handwriting.

Yesterday, I went to drive to Aso with my friend. I had a lot of homework, So I finised homework, We went to Aso. 11:00p.m. We left my house. It was heavy rain yesterday. So fog lay all around and I couldn't see around. We came back to house 4:00a.m. I coudn't sleep very well. So I am very sleepy now.

stomachache

I have been stomachache since wednesday night. It was gripe. So I went to hospital. I had any examination. Aptitude test, echo test and so on. But I didn't know the cause of stomachache. I want to clear up soon.

Lunch

I ate lunch with Kanako and Minako. We went to yayoiken. There is near university. I want to go again.

DVD♪♪♪

I watched DVD in my friend's house. I saw him since a week, so I was very pleased. I forgot to DVD's title, but cat is appearance. It was interesting.

Summer time

I will come back to Amakusa this summer time. I don’t have driver’s lisense, so I will get to driver’s lisense. There are many seas in Amakusa. I like swimming. So I want to go beach.

The Rainy Season

Recently it has a lot of rain. We have much thunder this summer. It is very scary. Also hot weather.

Drive

I went to Amakusa with my friend. We listened to music through get to Amakusa. We went to near my house.
We ate dinner at joyfull. Then we went to karaoke. I am poor at karaoke, but interesting. I want to go again.

mango

I ate mango parfait in Joyfull.
This is very delicious.

Season

I like summer the best, because I like swimming. I go to beach every year. I am good at swimming. I often go Mogine beach. There is in Amakusa and near my house.

Family

There are 4 people in my family. Father, mother, brother and I. My father is office worker. He is very kind. My mother is helper. She is very scary. My brother is college student. He lives in Kagoshima and lives by himself. He is third grade of university.

★Night view★

I went to drive to Kinpou mountain and Honaoka mountain with my friend. We went to there to see night view. There is long mountain path and very dark. Night view is very very beautiful. I want to go there again.

Aso

I went to Aso with my friend. It took about one hour and half from Kumamoto to Aso. It was mountain path in Aso. We can see Aso mountain. It was very beautiful. But it started raining, so we came back Kumamoto.
After that we went to bar to eat dinner. We talk a lot of things. It was many dishes and cocktails. It is all delicious.
We watched movie after drunkenness. We watched "paireetsu of karibian" It was interesting and impressive.
I want to go Aso again. I enjoyed all day.

Creaning

I'm very boredom. So I did the house cleaning. My room is messy. There are textbook, printed sheet, clothes and many things in floor. I cleaned up these all things, and do cleaner. I am happy that my room is very fair.

returned goods

I went to PARCO to return clothes. I bought one-piece two days ago, but it was small. So I went to shop and return it. That is good.

Eating

Today I had a lot of food.
Morning, I ate junk food and vegitable juice. Lunch, I ate a bread and salad and rice ball and yoghurt. Afternoon, I ate short cake and ice cream. Dinner, I ate curry rice. It is all delicious!!!!!!!

Kumamoto

I will explain about Kumamoto. There are a lot of place to visit in Kumamoto. For example, Kumamoto castle, Aso, Amakusa and so on.
Kumamoto castle is very long history. It is 400 anniversary this year. But I have never been there. In summer, it holds fireworks there. So I want to go there to see fireworks this year.

Aso is famous sightseeing place. Aso attracts many visitors. I have been there two or three times. Aso mountain is very big, and landscape is good. Especially, night view is very beautiful. I went to firm land before. there is nice place.

Amakusa is a lot of seas, and you can see dolphin. In summer, there are dolphin show. It is very popular. I went to see it sometimes. Sea is very beautiful. Water is very clear. I often go to Mogine beach and Rippuru land. Mogine beach is near my house and go to swimming every year. Also Amakusa is famouse for Christianity. There is Christianity building in Hondo. A lot of tourist visit there.
Famouse food is mustard lotus root, basashi and so on. I can't eat mustared lotus root, because it is very spicy. But I can eat basashi. I like it very much.

I have lived Kumamoto for 19 years. I love Kumamoto very much.

Family

I will introduce about my family. There are five people in my family. Father, mother, brother, Mika and my pet. My pet's name is Hanako.
My hometown is Hondo in Amakusa. So my father and mother live there. My father is very kind. His role is to do the wash everyday. He always do the wash before he goes to work. When I return home, he takes me to and from the Hondo.
my mother is good at cooking. She can cook every thing. I often learn cooking from her. Also she is strict. When she gets angry, I am terrified.
My brother is college student. He live inkagoshima and lives by himself. he is in the third grade of university. He is majoring math. He is diligent.
Hanako is very cute. She is six years old. She likes eating. She eats everything. For example, dog food, ice cream, junk food, rice and so on. So she is very fat.
I always play with her. I love her very much.
My grandmother lives near my house. She is seventy years old, but She is very activity. She also good at cooking.
I am looking forwerd to seeing them, when I return home next time.

Shopping

I went to shopping with my friend.　
We went to Makudo naldo to eat lunch. I ate cheeseburger. After that we went to PARCO and went to many shops. But I didn't buy anything.

Campus life

I am a student at Kumamoto Gakuen University. I am in the second grade of Britain and America department. I learn English, Europe culture, history, religion, politics, sience, Japanese, French and so on.

There are a lot of facilities at Kumamoto Gakuen University. For example, libraly, student's cafeteria, student union, gym, bakely, convenience store and school room. There is always a hustle in the students' cafeteria in lunch time. There are a lot of menu.My favorite menu is hashed rice. It is very delicious and cheap. My second favorite menu is tantanmen. It is spicy. Lowson is very convenient. I can buy everything there.

I don't belong to cirecle. I belonged tea ceremony club berore. But I dropped out. Because I am not cut out to tea celemony. So after school, I am very very boredom. I don't have part-time job. So I want to do anything.
The class almost begin 9:00 AM. But I am poor at getting up early. So I often come late for school. I think I work hard to get up early from now on.

I want to be a flight attendant in the future. So I study English very hard now.
I want to enjoy school life.

Animals

I have dog. The kind is chiwawa. She is very small. Color is black and white and have big eyes. Her favorite food is dog food and sarami. I often go for a walk with my dog. She is very cute. But She is very fat. I and my dog is very friendly. I like cat too.

Homecoming

I went back to my hometown in weekend.
On Saturday, I am in house from morning till night. I played with my dog and took my dog for a walk.
On Sunday, I went to shopping with my mother. I bought a present for Mather's Day. I gave her handbag. She was pleased.
That night I ate out with my parents. I spend happy time with my parents after a long separation.

Shopping♪♪♪

I went to shopping with my friends. We went to street. I bought clothes and accessory and so on. I walk long time, I was very tired.
After that, we ate dinner. Ice-cream cone is very very delicious!! I want to eat again.

Proto-portfolio

1.0. Essays

1.1. Self-introduction essay

• myself

• 150 words
• 2007.04.11

1.2. 2nd essay (campus life)

• Campus life

• 203words
  
• 2007.05.26

1.3. 3rd essay (topic of your choice)

• Family
• 204 words (in your essay [250+])
  
• 2007.05.31

1.4. 4th essay (original perspective on Kumamoto)

• Kumamoto
• 201words (in your essay [250+])
  
• 2007.05.31

1.5. Best essay: Which of those [four] essays do you believe is [the best] & why?

• 
  

2.0. Comments

2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog:

• Title of post with link: Title+link
• Date of post: 2007.mm.dd
• Date of your first comment: 2007.mm.dd
• Number of words in your first comment: nn words
  
• Do you believe that was a good comment? Why or why not?
• ...
  

2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog

• Title of post with link: Title+link
• Date of post: 2007.mm.dd
• Date of best comment: 2007.mm.dd
• Number of words in best comment: nn words
• Why do you believe that is a good comment?
• ...
  

2.3. The best comment by a classmate on your blog

• Title of post with link: Title+link
• Date of post: 2007.mm.dd
• Date of best comment: 2007.mm.dd
• Number of words in best comment: nn words
• Why do you believe that is a good comment?
• ...
  

2.4. The greatest numbers of comments on your blog

2.4.1. The greatest number of comments on any of your essays

• Title of your essay with link: Title+link
  
• Date of essay: 2007.mm.dd
• The total number of comments on that essay: n comments
  
• Best comment on that essay by a classmate: BloggerID
  
• Date of best comment on that essay: 2007.mm.dd
  
• When did you respond to those comments? 2007.mm.dd
• What did you do in response to those comments?
• ...
  

2.4.2. Greatest number of comments on any of your other posts

• Title of your post with link: Title+link
  
• Date of post: 2007.mm.dd
• The total number of comments on that post: n comments
  
• Best comment on that post by a classmate (Blogger ID):
  
• Date of best comment on that post: 2007.mm.dd
• When did you respond to those comments? 2007.mm.dd
• What did you do in response to those comments?
• ...
  

2.5. Additional reflections on blog comments:

• ...

3.0. Typing speed trials

3.1. Worst speed

• words
• 2007.mm.dd

3.2. Best speed

4.0. Book Reviews

4.1. Book review 1-01

• Book review 1-01
  
• 63 words
  
• 2007.04.24

4.2. Book review 1-02

• Book review 1-02
• 77 words
  
• 2007.04.27

4.3. Book review 1-03

• Book review 1-03
• 41 words
  
• 2007.05.07

4.4. Book review 1-04

• Book review 1-04
• 81 words
  
• 2007.05.14

4.5. Book review 1-05

• Book review 1-05
• 89 words
  
• 2007.05.22

4.6. Book review 1-06

• Book review 1-06
• 95 words
  
• 2007.05.28

• 2007.mm.dd

3.3. Average speed

• average
• number of trials

Other comments or reflections:

My favorite country

My favorite country is Japan. I love Japan very much. I have not been to foriegn country. I like Japanese movie. I like Japanese food. My hometown is Amakusa. Amakusa is warm. Amakusa is a lot of beautiful sea

My father has been to America. America is very good country. I want to go too.

Movie

I went to watch movie with my friends. I watched "Tokyo Tower" It was very interesting. It was impressive movie. I am wailed.
After that, we ate dinner. We had a very good day.

Joyfull

I went to Joyfull to eat dinner. I often go to joyfull with my friends.
My favorite menu is chicken doria. It is very delicious. Drink bar is very very good. I like powdered green tea and strawberry milk. I want to go again.

Amakusa

I went back to Amakusa. It is two hours and half from Kumamoto to Amakusa by bus.
I often go back to Amakusa to meet my families. I had a good time.

Favorite music

I like Japanese music. I like Koda Kumi.

My favorite place

My　favorite place is Amakusa. There are many place to visit.

myself

I will intriduce myself. My name is Mika Arima.I am from kumamoto in Japan. I'm nineteen years old. I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University. My birthday is September 4th. Star sign is Virgo.
My hometown is Amakusa. Amakusa is famous for dolphin. You can see beautiful sea. I live by myself in apartment house near school. I make dinner myself every night.

I am majoring Britain and America at Kumamoto Gakuen University. My hobby is cooking. I'm good at cooking cake. I'm proud of cooking short cake.

My family is 4 members. Father, mother,brother and me. My father is office worker. My mother is helper. My brother is college student. He goes to kagosima University. He is two years older than me.

I want to be English teacher in the future. I like studying English very much. I would like to communicate with you. I'm looking forward to seeing you.

First post

My name is Mika Arima. I am nineteen years old. My hobby is listening to music.