High school days

Hello! Today, I received a letter. What kind of letter do you think?.....It is a letter from my high school. Yes, it inform me of "alumni meeting(同窓会)."I'm happy to hear it. I haven't seen many friends of my high school because my friends live in all over the place in Japan, for example, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Chiba, Nagoya and Fukuoka and so on. Now, I feel homesick for my friends and high school days. How did you spend in your high school days? Well, I'll tall a little about my high school life.

My high school life was so pleased and busy, and it's different from University's life. I was a captain of a tennis club. v(*'∀'*)v We used to training after school to late time, however we have 7 classes every day and they are very hard, so we didn't have enough time. Therefore, every day I and my friends used to go to school in early morning and play tennis, after that we took 1st class. So, we were sometimes late to 1st class. Ha-ha. It was very busy day, but it made ties of friendship and full life. In University, we can get them too. But it's not easier than high school, because we have to do everything by myself. It's not passive. I want to spend full life in University tooJ!!!!!!!!!! Let's do our best! Anyway, I'm looking forward to the alumni meeting. See you.

1 chocolate for 1 smile

I love chocolate. Maybe, many people too. I often buy "DARS, twelve piece of chocolate in a case." Recently I found words on left of the case. The words are "1 chocolate for 1 smile." Did you notice it? I didn't understand it then, so I checked the homepage of Morinaga Confectionery Company. Now, The Company has a plan to help the poor. Today, I'll tell about the plan.

The plan is easy, but it has big power. If we buy 1 chocolate (1piece of merchandise), 1 yen is used for the poor in the world. This plan is from 10/10 to 11/10, and already 4,217,487yen is contributed for it now. This time, we will support the poor in Ghana. More than 60% of people in Ghana can't read and write words. There is not enough school, equipment for study and school system, and many children can't go school because of lack of understanding in importance of study and the spread of parasite. Ghana is major source of chocolate, but they can't eat chocolate. Several years ago, I watched a TV program about the poor, and I knew that children who work in a farm of cacao don't know cacao become chocolate. It's unbelievable. Now, the plan,"1 chocolate for 1 smile" can change the surrounding in Ghana. First, people will have a new school which has six class room and library, and newly about 300 children will be able to have their school. Second, about 8,000 students will get textbooks, pens, erasers and pencils. Third, steering committee of school can study about management. Finally, a lot of books will be supplied to library in the school. It's difficult to give them big help by myself, but if we can help them by just buying Chocolate, it's easy for us. 1 chocolate can't help them, but a lot of chocolate can do it. Let's buy chocolate!

If you want to know it more, check the website.

http://1choco-1smile.jp/

KOTATSU

Do you have KOTATSU in your home or your room? I don’t have it now…(　■　；)…and want to buy it, but I have a big problem. Do you know what it is? It’s easy to think about. Yes! My room is too narrow to put it in. Now, I’ll tell you the reason I want it.

Kotatsu is so wonderful item because it is useful on various occasions. First, the charge for electricity is more lower than air conditioner’s. In winter, the charge for electricity is very high, so I must save the other costs. Second, we can do anything on it as have a warm by it. Now, I have small table and I can’t cook on it. If I have kotatsu, I want to cook and eat a hot pot at the table, takoyaki（たこ焼き）,okonomiyaki（お好み焼き） and gyouza（餃子） and so on with many friends. Therefore, kotatsu is so good for winter life.

AUTUMN

I like autumn. Do you like autumn? Japanese often say “autumn for sports”, “autumn for eat”, “autumn for reading” and so on. Which do you suit? Of course, I chose “ for eat” hahaJ Today, I’ll talk about goodness of autumn.

Autumn is nice season because it has several attractions. First, in the early fall, we can fell difference of climate from summer. It is beautiful change. In the early morning, we fell colder and colder, and we have some frost. Many trees become red or yellow. When we go to school, kinmokusei(金木犀), a plant which have many small yellow flowers, gives off a pleasant smell. When we go back to home, we can hear the song of insect. In my home town, rice field become full of brown and gold in the fall, after that, it was cut. Second, we can enjoy eating in autumn. Japanese are looking forward to eat new rice in the fall. Many stores sell many kinds of sweets of limited autumn, because we have a lot of fruits in the fall, for example, chestnut, sweet potato, grape, persimmon, apple, and pear and so on. So, especially girls enjoy new sweets every autumn. And we often want hot something to eat or drink from autumn to winter, so we like oden(おでん),nikuman(肉まん) and nabe(鍋), a dish cooked in a pot at the table. We can feel them to be more delicious than other season. Finally, we have some events in the fall, for example, moon viewing(お月見), Halloween and field day. I still remember field day in my elementary school, junior high school and high school whenever autumn comes. It is precious memories. Each season has good side, but autumn is special season for me anyway.

Driver's license

I get a driver's license in this summer vacation! I went to Tottori prefecture to get it and stayed two weeks with many friends and teachers of driving school there. The memory is precious for me, and I'll talk about the reason.

My stay for getting a driver's license was so good for me because I can concentrate on study, I had many new friends and I enjoyed Tottori. I learned all about driving for only two weeks, so I and my friend were very busy everyday. We studied in school and after classes, we studied in hotel. However, we could eat delicious break fast and dinner everyday in the hotel, so they helped us. There were a lot of students of different University in the school, for example, from Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya and so on. We made many friends there and spent a lot of time with them, so I didn't feel lonely. We went to Tottori sakyu(鳥取砂丘), it is so beautiful location, on free time. In my driving class, I drove around Tottori sakyu too. Accordingly, the two weeks became my important memory.