BABEL

I saw "Babel" yesterday with my friend. "Babel" is a story about how different races misunderstand each other due to their lack of communications. Three stories are set in different countries and the whole stories are eventually all linked, though there is no direct connection between all of the characters. Two young boys in Morocco who accidentally shoot an American tourist and the American woman who was shot by one of the kids (Cate Branchett ) and her husband (Brad Pitt) who frantically tries to save her life in a different language environment. The couple’s two little kids at home in San Diego and their Mexican nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with the two. And in Tokyo, a deaf-mute school girl (Rinko Kikuchi) who goes crazy with loneliness and her father (Koji Yakusho) who is often absent from home.

Each of the individual stories deals with the lack of communication. So, the message is very clear how human’s inability of communication causes confusion so they cannot make an appropriate decision. I also felt like the film was trying to show that communication with care and love was crucial rather than understanding of language.

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YAKINIKU!

Yesterday, I went to Yakiniku restaurant with my sercle members; Aki, Kensuke and Kazunari. At that restaurant we can eat and drink all we want for 1,500 yen every Wednesday. I like hormon, so I ate many of it. My friend, Yuki and I like hormon very much. We often go Yakiniku restaurant in order to eat hormon. We called it "hormon party". Anyway, I like it very much! I drunk Calpis. I like it. Kensuke and Kazunari drunk cola. They always drink it. Aki likes oolong tea. We enjoyed eating and drinking. Finaly, we wanted to take a PURIKURA, but game center had already closed. Next time, we will go to eat hamburger steak. And we will take a PURIKURA. :-)

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How to study English

Do you like English? I like it very much. I became like it without notice. I have been studying English since I was ten years old. I like talking, so I want to talk as many as people. Of course, I want to talk to English speaker. Then, I started to study English. I will explain about my history of learning English.

I touched first time to English. I started taking an English conversation lessons when I was ten years old. I didn't know anything about English. There are 2 teachers: one person is Japanese female teacher and the other person is Australian male teacher. Her name is Kaori. His name is Simon who is very fat. I talked to a foreigner for the first time in my life. I had never talked them, so I was very surprised. He spoke Japanese very well. He is very kind and funny teacher. First, I learned alphabets how to write, how to pronounce. We played English game, sang some English songs. We had a Christmas Party every year. We could get a Christmas present. I enjoyed speaking English with my teachers and friends. My kind teachers were makes me become to like English.

Next, during my junior high school history of English, I discovered that I liked English already because of English conversation lessons. Junior high school teacher taught us alphabets how to write, how to pronounce. I had known those things, but it was more detail in junior high school. I learned grammar. I read an English textbook, and memorized. It was easy to understand in the beginning, but I hadn't known about English grammar. English grammar was a little difficult for me, so I studied it hard. I learned many English words. It was easy first, for example ‘apple’, ‘bee’, ‘car’, ‘dog’ and so on. I liked English very much, so I studied hard for English tests. I often got a perfect score in English. My grade was fine in my junior high school.

Third, during my high school history of English, I entered English class of Luther Gakuin high school. There were many English classes. Those were Reading, Writing, Grammar, Oral Communications class and Listening. We had English summer camp every summer. We were learned English songs by some American teachers in the camp. We could enjoy studying English. We also learned about American culture in the camp. And, we go to Australia to study English for about 10 days. We could learn real English. We had to write journal every week in Oral Communication Class. Journal likes today’s blogs. I had to speech in front of everyone in the class. I took official English examination, and I passed in it. English became difficult for me. I didn’t like grammar, because I was confused by it. But, I liked English very much!

Finally, I study English in my university now. I have many assignments and English classes. I have to write blogs everyday. I liked studying English, but now, I don’t like English so much. I am going to go to NZ in this summer. I will study English conversation in NZ. I will try to study English hard.

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