Recently, I am very busy because of preparation for the ICU festival!! I belong to the production bureau in ICU festival committee. There are only one month for the ICU festival so I work for it until 10 p.m. everyday. That's why I am always tired...
When people are tired, they need to rest. And in my case, I need someone who listen to me. If there is no one who listen to me, I will be sick. However, there are a lot of friends around me who listen to me!! They are in BB section, in ICU festival committee and so on. So I am tired but really happy to have such friends!! Thanks a lot everyone!!!
By the way, does everyone know the mean of my name?? My name is Tomoe and "Tomo" means "friends" and "e" means "blessing" in Chinese character. So when my parents named me, they wished for me that I can make a lot of good friends. And recently, I always feel my life is as well as my parents wished.
I want to help my friends like they do for me from now on.
2007年9月28日金曜日
2007年9月18日火曜日
Stereotypes
I went to Australia with SEA Program and in Australia, I experienced a lot of things.
I stayed with my host family for 6 weeks. And there were another 2 exchanged students. One of them is 28 year-old woman from Venezuela and she was so nice that I felt she was a real my older sister. The other is 35 year-old woman from China. She was a professor of fisheries college. And also at school, I made a lot of friends who are from various countries.
Before I went to Australia, I had stereotypes that Venezuelan people are messy and Chinese people are not so good. This is very bad stereotypes.... However, in fact, my Venezuelan house mate was so nice and she was not messy. After she used kitchen, she cleaned there and after she used washroom, she cleaned there so I could use very comfortable. So my stereotype was wrong. And also, I made a lot of Venezuelan friends through her and they were also very good and kind to me so my thought for Venezuelan people was changed into good impression. However, my Chinese house mate was very messy. She has long hair and every morning, she used washroom to wet her hair and wash her face and so on and when I enter washroom after she used, there were a lot of her hair and water. It was very unpleasant. In terms of this point, my stereotype toward the Chinese was not so wrong but I saw only her behaviour so I cannot say all of the Chinese are like her.
Through the SEA Program, I felt that only one person can make impression of that country. And the impression will connect to the stereotype. I have to behave carefully not to make bad impression of Japan to another countries' people especially when I am in foreign country. I think stereotypes are not so good because if the stereotypes are bad, we feel unpleasant to him or her and we escape to have connection with them. However, some of the stereotypes or most of them are wrong in some ways. So we shouldn't have stereotypes and we have to communicate a lot of people from all over the world to make us more good people.
I stayed with my host family for 6 weeks. And there were another 2 exchanged students. One of them is 28 year-old woman from Venezuela and she was so nice that I felt she was a real my older sister. The other is 35 year-old woman from China. She was a professor of fisheries college. And also at school, I made a lot of friends who are from various countries.
Before I went to Australia, I had stereotypes that Venezuelan people are messy and Chinese people are not so good. This is very bad stereotypes.... However, in fact, my Venezuelan house mate was so nice and she was not messy. After she used kitchen, she cleaned there and after she used washroom, she cleaned there so I could use very comfortable. So my stereotype was wrong. And also, I made a lot of Venezuelan friends through her and they were also very good and kind to me so my thought for Venezuelan people was changed into good impression. However, my Chinese house mate was very messy. She has long hair and every morning, she used washroom to wet her hair and wash her face and so on and when I enter washroom after she used, there were a lot of her hair and water. It was very unpleasant. In terms of this point, my stereotype toward the Chinese was not so wrong but I saw only her behaviour so I cannot say all of the Chinese are like her.
Through the SEA Program, I felt that only one person can make impression of that country. And the impression will connect to the stereotype. I have to behave carefully not to make bad impression of Japan to another countries' people especially when I am in foreign country. I think stereotypes are not so good because if the stereotypes are bad, we feel unpleasant to him or her and we escape to have connection with them. However, some of the stereotypes or most of them are wrong in some ways. So we shouldn't have stereotypes and we have to communicate a lot of people from all over the world to make us more good people.
2007年7月9日月曜日
The importance of choice
Today, I met a friend of high school who lives in Tokyo now. We talked about 9 hours!! Then I noticed about the importance of our choice.
I think my first big choice was when I decide to take exam for juniour high school. When I decide to take exam for juniour high, I was not serious. I decided because my friends said she would take exam for juniour high. If she didn't say so, I didn't take exam for juniour high. And, after I passed the exam, I did not want to that juniour high because many friends go to public school but only some friends go to juniour high school attached to a university. However, in the end, I decided to go to the juniour high attached to a university. I made a lot of friends and a lot of good memories at the juniour high school.
However because of my father's work, I had to move to Hiroshima. I could take exam for Hiroshima university's attached juniour high school because I went to Shimane university's attached juniour high school and I could pass the exam and I could go to Hiroshima university's attached high school. And there, I met sooooo many good friends and made soooo many good memories like studying in Australia for two weeks sports festival and so on!!!
If I couldn't pass the exam for Hiroshima university's attached juniour high school, maybe I couldn't go to Hiroshima university's attached high school and I couldn't know about ICU and couldn't meet YOU!!!
A friend who I met today was my high school friend and if I didn't go to that high school, I have never met her. So I think choice makes our future and that will be big part of our life!!
I think my first big choice was when I decide to take exam for juniour high school. When I decide to take exam for juniour high, I was not serious. I decided because my friends said she would take exam for juniour high. If she didn't say so, I didn't take exam for juniour high. And, after I passed the exam, I did not want to that juniour high because many friends go to public school but only some friends go to juniour high school attached to a university. However, in the end, I decided to go to the juniour high attached to a university. I made a lot of friends and a lot of good memories at the juniour high school.
However because of my father's work, I had to move to Hiroshima. I could take exam for Hiroshima university's attached juniour high school because I went to Shimane university's attached juniour high school and I could pass the exam and I could go to Hiroshima university's attached high school. And there, I met sooooo many good friends and made soooo many good memories like studying in Australia for two weeks sports festival and so on!!!
If I couldn't pass the exam for Hiroshima university's attached juniour high school, maybe I couldn't go to Hiroshima university's attached high school and I couldn't know about ICU and couldn't meet YOU!!!
A friend who I met today was my high school friend and if I didn't go to that high school, I have never met her. So I think choice makes our future and that will be big part of our life!!
2007年7月5日木曜日
Meeting and Getting host family info
Today, I went to school because I have to attend the meeting of committee. Before the meeting starts, I went to International exchange center (Kokusai koryu center) to get my homestay information. My host family has a host mother and a 16 years old host sister. I'm really looking forward to meeting them!!
After getting the information sheet, I went to the meeting and after that, we have small meeting. I belong to the Hanami dori part so I had Hanami meeting. We decided a lot of thing, so it took soooo long time. We started the meeting at 1 p.m. but it finished almost 6 p.m.. I got tired but I'm very enjoying to work for putting enthusiasm into the ICU festival. Now, our manufacture part has only 1 boy in 11, so I want some boys to join our part. Let's join us!
After getting the information sheet, I went to the meeting and after that, we have small meeting. I belong to the Hanami dori part so I had Hanami meeting. We decided a lot of thing, so it took soooo long time. We started the meeting at 1 p.m. but it finished almost 6 p.m.. I got tired but I'm very enjoying to work for putting enthusiasm into the ICU festival. Now, our manufacture part has only 1 boy in 11, so I want some boys to join our part. Let's join us!
2007年7月4日水曜日
Disneyland with section mates
On July 2nd, Miki, Misao, Toru and I went to Disneyland. In fact, we were going to go to Disneyland with 8 section mates but 4 of them could not go.
It was raining but we were so lucky that we did not get wet because when it rained, we were in indoor atractions. And also, it was a weekday so there were not so much people so we could take a lot of atractions. Almost atractions' waiting time was 10 minutes and the longest waiting time was only 30 minutes. Such a short waiting time was my first time so I was very surprised.
On waiting time, we talked a lot of things which we do not talk at school and they were very interesting to me. I could know a lot of new things about Miki, Misao and Toru.
At last, we took "Splash mountain". It is very popular atraction but then, the waiting time was only 5 minutes and actually, we could take without waitng. And also we took it only us. No other group people were on the same boat. So we decided the pose and at the last dropping spot, we posed and were taken a photo. Of course, I bought the photo.
This section Disneyland was really fun !! Next time, I want to go to Disneyland with more section mates.
It was raining but we were so lucky that we did not get wet because when it rained, we were in indoor atractions. And also, it was a weekday so there were not so much people so we could take a lot of atractions. Almost atractions' waiting time was 10 minutes and the longest waiting time was only 30 minutes. Such a short waiting time was my first time so I was very surprised.
On waiting time, we talked a lot of things which we do not talk at school and they were very interesting to me. I could know a lot of new things about Miki, Misao and Toru.
At last, we took "Splash mountain". It is very popular atraction but then, the waiting time was only 5 minutes and actually, we could take without waitng. And also we took it only us. No other group people were on the same boat. So we decided the pose and at the last dropping spot, we posed and were taken a photo. Of course, I bought the photo.
This section Disneyland was really fun !! Next time, I want to go to Disneyland with more section mates.
2007年6月15日金曜日
My English
I went to Australia three years ago. That was study tour in foreign country of my high school, and I had been in Australia for two weeks.
When I was in Australia, I went to school in Australia and took classes with my Japanese school friends. We did not get used to speaking in English so we spoke in Japanese during classes even if the teacher told us to speak Japanese. Of course we were talking in English with people in Australia but when we talk with Japanese people, we spoke in Japanese.
One day, we did survival game which we did in ASP class. We discussed which is the most important thing to survive in desert, but in Japanese. However, when I did the same game in ASP class, I realized that we should have done the survival game in Australia in English. I thought "Why we did the game in Japanese? I should have done that in English because we went to Australia in order to improve my English skill."
After that, I noticed that we really hesitated to speak in English with Japanese people. We were very shy to speak in English. However, now, in ICU ELP class, it is natural to speak in English with Japanese people. So we did survival game in English.
The conclusion is....My English skill especially speaking skill was improved compared with when I was a high school student. I want to improve my English skill more and more next four years in ICU.
When I was in Australia, I went to school in Australia and took classes with my Japanese school friends. We did not get used to speaking in English so we spoke in Japanese during classes even if the teacher told us to speak Japanese. Of course we were talking in English with people in Australia but when we talk with Japanese people, we spoke in Japanese.
One day, we did survival game which we did in ASP class. We discussed which is the most important thing to survive in desert, but in Japanese. However, when I did the same game in ASP class, I realized that we should have done the survival game in Australia in English. I thought "Why we did the game in Japanese? I should have done that in English because we went to Australia in order to improve my English skill."
After that, I noticed that we really hesitated to speak in English with Japanese people. We were very shy to speak in English. However, now, in ICU ELP class, it is natural to speak in English with Japanese people. So we did survival game in English.
The conclusion is....My English skill especially speaking skill was improved compared with when I was a high school student. I want to improve my English skill more and more next four years in ICU.
2007年6月11日月曜日
Sports Festival
Today, I would like to tell you about my high school's sports festival. There are two big event in my high school and they are School Festival and Sports Festival. Second grade students make committee of school festival and third grade students make committee of sports festival. Especially, sports festival is very special event for our high school students, so we prepare for sports festival from October in the second grade and we spend about one year for preparing for sports festival.
In my high school, there are some parts and they are Mass game, Cheerleading, Cheering party, Producting, Making costumes and so on. I was in Mass game part for three years and I love Mass game and when I was third grade student, I spent my all summer vacation for Mass game and I did not study at all although I was a student preparing for taking an examination.
Sports festival of my high school is my pride!! If I could go back, I want to go back to when I was a high school student. Some people make light of our sports festival but even though, I love my high school's sports festival. If you want to look our sports festival, please click and jump to this cite!!
http://massgamers.web.fc2.com/mass/mass%20top.html
I would be glad if you are interested in our high school sports festival!!
In my high school, there are some parts and they are Mass game, Cheerleading, Cheering party, Producting, Making costumes and so on. I was in Mass game part for three years and I love Mass game and when I was third grade student, I spent my all summer vacation for Mass game and I did not study at all although I was a student preparing for taking an examination.
Sports festival of my high school is my pride!! If I could go back, I want to go back to when I was a high school student. Some people make light of our sports festival but even though, I love my high school's sports festival. If you want to look our sports festival, please click and jump to this cite!!
http://massgamers.web.fc2.com/mass/mass%20top.html
I would be glad if you are interested in our high school sports festival!!
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