Causes and Effects of Smoking.

The Table of Cause and Effect
---Cause---
・Smoking
・Tobacco

---Effects---
・Smoking makes it easier to get diseases particularly affecting hearts and lungs.
・our feeling great temporally during smoking.
・ourselves being addicted to nicotine
・the risk of cancer rising
・teeth color yellow, not white
・the function of the respiratory system declined
・body odor and clothes’ smell bad
・spend a lot of money to purchase tobacco
・us getting tired easily
・children’s health getting worse
・affect non-smokers badly

----Cause and Effect of Smoking----
　It is said that smoking tobacco is one of the cause of serious diseases. In fact, according to the research of WHO (World Health Organization) in 2008, about five million patients died because of smoking. This number is larger than the one of the cause of patients’ death including tuberculosis, HIV (AID), and malaria. It can be possible to decrease your lifespan shorter due to several effects from tobacco.
First, there are physical problems. As you know, smoking is the same action to provide unhealthy chemical smoke into our body. These smokes from tobacco made from 4000 kinds of chemical substances, and mainly contain nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide. Nicotine is the drug which let smokers smoke chronically and becomes load of heart actions. Tar destroy the function of the respiratory declined, and also change a lung to dusty. Moreover carbon monoxide disturbs the transportation of oxygen in blood so that our body gets tired easier. Those toxic materials affect our body unhealthily.
　Second, the physical effects connect to the mental ones. Smokers can feel comfortable temporally during receiving benefits from nicotine as well as drugs such as cocaine. However it means that smokers can’t be relaxed without smoking because they can compose themselves thanks to nicotine. When the body is lack of nicotine, their attitude tends to be short-tempered, lazy, and inactive. Smoking disproves not only physical health but also mental health.
　Finally, the bad effects to smoke are not only problem for smokers. In the other words, people are affected by smoking even if they have never smoked. The gases from tobacco are widespread into the air, and then people may breathe them before they notice it. This action is the same as smoking even though you don’t breathe smoke directly. The younger people who breathe smoke are, the riskier you approach to dead. So, for example, it is more dangerous for from 0 to 19 year-old body to stay in environments spread toxic smoke.
　Nowadays, people who have smoked for a long time seem to try to quit smoking because they realized that it causes only their health unfriendly. In addition, the price of tobacco has risen in recent. It is one of the reasons that people quit smoking. It is accepted that smoking is permissible under the Constitution in many countries, but there is not any good effects for us, so I think it should be banned in the near future.

The second draft of "Causes and Effects" -----------------------
　It is said that smoking is one of the causes of serious diseases. In fact, according to the research of WHO (World Health Organization) in 2008, about 500 million patients worldwide died because of smoking. This number is larger than the one of the cause of patients’ death including tuberculosis, HIV (AID), and malaria. Smoking makes our health worse.
　First, there are physical problems. As you may know, smoking is the same action to provide unhealthy chemical smoke into our body. This smoke from tobacco made from 4000 kinds of chemical substances, and mainly contains nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide. Nicotine is an addictive drug which forces smokers smoke chronically and becomes stress on the heart. Tar destroys the function of the respiratory systems, and also contaminates the lungs of smokers. Moreover, carbon monoxide disturbs the transportation of oxygen in the blood so that our body gets tired easier. Those toxic materials affect our body unhealthily.
　Second, the physical effects connect to the mental ones. Smokers can feel temporarily comfortable while enjoying nicotine as well as drugs such as cocaine. However, it means that smokers can’t be relaxed without smoking because they can only compose themselves thanks to nicotine. When the body lacks nicotine, their attitude tends to be short-tempered, lazy, and inactive. Smoking is danger of not only physical health but also mental health.
　Finally, the bad effects of smoke are not only problems for smokers. In other words, people are affected by smoking even if they have never smoked. The gases from tobacco are spread widely though the air and then people may breathe them before they notice it. This action is the same as smoking even though you don’t breathe smoke directly. The younger people who breathe smoke are, the riskier it is. Therefore, for example, it is more dangerous for from 0 to 19 year-old body to stay in environments which have spread toxic smoke.
　Nowadays, people who have smoked for a long time seem to try to quit smoking because they realized that it causes only their health unfriendly. In addition, the price of tobacco has risen in recent. It is one of the reasons that people quit smoking. It is accepted that smoking is permissible under the Constitution in many countries. However, in fact, there is not any good effects for us.

The Chat Lounge Report #2

Chat Lounge Report #2
Partner : Alex
Date : ?

On that day, I was so hungry because of skipping the lunch, and then Alex was too. We began to talk about Japanese and American foods without notice. I have never been to foreign country so that I'm not sure what kind of foods in America is popular for daily meals (=breakfast, lunch, and dinner). According to Alex, it is common for American breakfast to eat toasts, salads, fruits, and sausages with scramble eggs. Especially, coffee is indispensible for American people to begin a day smoothly. (In fact, some of movies I have seen ever have one scene which people drink coffee in the morning at least.) Alex said he could work well if he didn't drink it in the morning too. In my case, drinking coffee regularly isn't my habit so that I don't know how important it is. (When I told him my idea, he seemed to feel strange.)

Recently, it is said that Japanese foods' habits has been similar to American. 50 years ago, after WWW2, Japan was colonized by American because we lost WWW2. And then the American climates changed Japanese ones. For example, those are clothes, household appliances, transportations, and products. Japanese people who used to wear Kimono tried to wear western clothes, and stated to use electronic devices such as TVs. (This industrial revolution in Japan has developed our life conveniently. It happened remarkably from around 1960 to 2000.) At that time, it was sure that Japanese were very interested in new things from foreign country. Therefore our scientific technology can have improved until today. Those effects from historical facts have occurred the change of Japan. It affects our daily lives, for example, it's eating a slice of toast and drinking a cup of coffee in the morning as breakfasts as well as American.

Just talking foods, there are many things we don't know why. However, I realized I ought to talk about foods when I am full. Why not? Because foods' topic made me and Alex very hungry.

The Chat Lounge Report #1

Chat Lounge Report #1
Partner : David
Date : November 27

I have two of my friends who have been to MN as exchange students now, and one of them, who is the 3rd year student in Bunkyo University. Before she had gone to America, she used to come to chat lounge to talk with native speakers regularly. Therefore she'd like to have a chatting with us in Japan through Skype. I wanted to know what her staying in different country as a foreigner to study abroad, and how hard the life in MN is.

As you know, it's said that studying abroad is not easy thing for us who has learned language. There are some reason I think so. First, everything of foreign country is new so we may feel culture-shocks. If it's difficult to adapt yourself to new life in overseas, we can feel stress about it. Second, we have to do housework by ourself. Its means we have to do everthing we need such as houseworks. Students who have never had experiences to do this, it will be hard for them. The most difficult things staying in non-native county should be language. That's why students go to study abroad in most of cases, but it becomes an obstacle for us even though we have confidence to speak in non-mother toungue. I mean speaking English fluenly isn't enough to make conversations smooth. American jokes are one of the good examples. Some of American jokes request to know historical facts to make an ironical remark about them in jokes. You can get the meaning even if you can understand grammatically. Actually, we need to understand society and history of country. I think that to know background is helpful when studying languages. A chat lounge partner, whose name is David, he taught me the similar ideas when I asked the difficulty of American jokes.

Finally, I could know that her staying has been great and hear about studying abroad. (This means I could know how hard studying abroad but it's really good for learners.) Nowadays I have being thought going abroad to study like my friends. On the other hands, I can't determind it because I'm worried if I won't let my stay in foreign country fruitful.

"He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord."

If you don't have an umbrella when catching the sudden rain, what will you do to prevent yourself from the rain? Looking for an broken umbrella which somebody left on the street, or perchasing a new one by 300yen? If you don't have heavy rain, you try to pitch yourself into the rain?

In my case of yesterday, I didn't have my umbrella when I was on the way to go home. (Because I just thought it wouldn't be rainy till I arriveed at home.) Therefor there was no help without getting wet with rain, so I put one sheet of A4 paper on my head as an umbrella and started walking. During my journey to Nezu station, a man I don't know approached behind me. Actually, I didn't have any idea why he came closer but I continued to walk with wondering why. Unfotunately, I dropped my A4 paper backward because it was too wet with rain to grasp them, then I and a man caught each eyes. After two or three seconds, he spoke to me "Are you alright? I have two umbrella. So...here you are, please use it. It is too cold to walk without it." I was surprised at the unpredictable thing, I had never had such as benefits from unknown person on the street. (Absolutely, my face became :0) Finally, he left his umbrella and me on the roadside.

Coincidentally, I just learned this word "He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord." in the class.

What Dish is real Cuisine in Tokyo?

I have never eaten genuine(real) Italian, Spanish, American, Chinese foods in the restaurants in Tokyo. I can have seen/tried similar ones like the places which we can eat delicious foods easily, e.g. 100yen Sushi and fastfoods restaurants. (It doesn't mean cheap dishes are third-classes) When I imagine our how to connect foods in recently, I felt We have changed our food style with being affected by foods' trend. Just 50 years ago, Japanese people used to eat rice, vegetables, and fish. Most of the Japanese dishes are good for health in the nutrition. In contrast, in the period including our generation, really like instants, frozen food, and deli. According to the investigation about food behavior in Japan, it shows our food style really are different from previous one. When we walk along the street, it is very much easy to find fastfood restaurants and convenience stores within 5 minute.

(I totally didin't talk about this article...)finally, I'd like to say the best cuisine for me is home-made dishes by my mother!

News and information from the article : "Tokyo 'world's best place to eat'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8364051.stm

The Giant Jellyfish Become a Giant Problem

Have you ever been touched any venomous(poison) tentacle(feeler) of jellyfish in the sea? This article will give us some serious facts about them.

I guess everyone knows that global warming is one of the representive issues in the world now. And it has caused a lot of environmental problems and pollutions for nature and wildlives. We could used to have the number of animals and plants, which are regard as endanger species in recent. On the other hand, some species which are harmful to native ones and human beings have bred increasingly. This jellyfish is also that one. They usually don't invate the place because of the sustanable cosystem as well as the others, but according to the damages occued by people, it has changed so that we have faced to the crisis of species. I just watched "The Inconvenient Fact" during reading class, and then I thought these problems could be more serious than present even if all over the world made an effort to save us.

I'm only able to say "As you sow, so you reap." That's why we have responsibility to do action to save the all. If we don't do anything, we including all species will be dead.

News and information from the article "Giant jellyfish swarm north in warming world"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33959849/ns/world_news-world_environment/

5 Objectives for Study

Good evening from midnight in Tokyo; it's about 2 a.m. now, but I'm blogging to change recent myself who can't have kept my high motivation. I talked about why we had had bad behavior for studying, and how we ought to change ourselves with Tomomi Kiomura who is one of my friends. Actually, we couldn't find our obvious answer about it, we decided to achieve 5 objectives we had to do from Monday to Friday.

My objective is,
1. "Making and memorizing 250 vocabulary cards"
2. "Study with 3 round 1 unit everyday"
3. "Read 1 article from newspapers"
4. "Don't use the Internet more than 1 hour per day"
5. "Blog 1 article every the end of day"

However, my result today(November 16) couldn't reach the goal. I missed to do 2 and 4 because I just did my homework of Journalism English(to edit pharagraph about Interest Group) with suffering from my worldly desires. But I must do my best even if I can't 5 objecs everyday, because trying to change myself makes a great degree of sense even if it's only small step for the others.

Finally, the first day for 5 aims didn't work well, so I'd like to try harder than today to be able to say "I did them today!"

The Season of Essay

About 2000 kinds of species which came from other countries currently live in Japan as invasive species. Invasive species are animals or plants which are non-native, and compete with the native inhabitants by taking over their territory. Due to close relationships between Japan and other countries, the entry of invasive species into Japan was made possible. The existence of invasive species also affected human beings, resources, and ecosystem.

The beetle is one good example of Japanese invasive species. The beetles’ population started a rapid growth is in 1999. They used to be not so popular before, however they gained popularity for two reasons. First, the International Plant Protection Convention, which came into effect in 1950 and restricted the import any harmful species in Japan, was relaxed. This made it easier to import animals and plants, so the number of species entering Japan increased. The other reason is that the image of beetles people had before changed dramatically because of the affection of children to foreign beetle. Surprisingly, this enthusiastic trend has extended to adults as well. Foreign beetles have characteristics that are different from the Japanese ones with respect to their size, shape, and color. For example, the Hercules beetle, which is a foreign beetle, is said to be the biggest beetle in the world. Its wing color is yellow, and it has a big horn. In addition, some TV animations about insects, especially beetles, were broadcasted in a way that gave an impetus to the popularity of non-native beetles from abroad. So the number of beetles imported from overseas to Japan as pets has increased year by year. In fact, the number of non-native beetles imported in 1999 is amounted to 7,000; reached 463,000 in 2000 eventually peaked at 1,923,000 in 2005. When we compare the ratio between 1999 and 2005, it is about 275 times. This exponential rise in reflects the increase in the number of people attracted to small insects.

As a result, many problems have occurred due to the foreign beetles. First, there are possibilities of any microbe and parasite carrying diseases. It is said that imported beetles haven’t brought any disease nor been harmful for human beings in Japan at present, but we can’t declare this will always be the same. Secondly, it could affect agriculture and environment. One of the invasive beetles, the Rhinoceros beetle, feeds on sugar canes, palm, and pineapple trees. And this feeding habit causes damages to farm products. Moreover, the invasive species usually don’t have natural enemies. That’s why their number has increased sharply, so it can be said that “wild invasive species” take away original environments from the native species. The most serious problem is genetic pollution by hybridization. Genetic pollution is undesirable gene flow into native populations. Spreading invasive species’ genes around domestic species has the danger to distinct native ones. Many scientists have had misgivings about the disappearance of native species in near future.

In 2004, Invasive Alien Species Act was enforced. This is the law to limit how many and what kinds of species can be imported into Japan. Although this law has taken effect for five years, we have faced to the issue of invasive species because of the difficulty in removing them. Practically, it has remained difficult to completely reduce the import of foreign insects.

Finally, we need to know the root of these serious problems about invasive species. The people have brought foreign species from other countries into Japan for several reasons such as pets, and also they have spread them over the country. In the beetles’ case, people who can’t breed foreign beetles anymore, they tend to release the non-native beetles into the wild. They do this because they think that it is the best way for living things even though this action has had a bad influence on the environment. We must not forget our responsibility for all of the species when we concern with them. Japan isn’t only the country that has the issue of these invasive species, this issue has happened in the countries of all over the world too. Nowadays, global warming, acid rain, rising sea level, and environment pollution are well-known as the world issues, and people have made an effort to change them for the better. On the other hand, there are still controversial issues like invasive species on the earth. It is necessary not only to think but also to put these ideas into action to protect all of living things before this problem is more serious.

#2 "La tigre e la neve" by Roberto Benigni

My first summer holiday was started, I guess almost students in Bunkyo University would have begun their vacation like me. In my routines, I have tried cleaning my room from early morning but...my hands still have being worked because I don't finish it yet! Moreover, I watched the movie of Roberto Benigni before I knew it so that I thought that "I do need to tell how nice it is!"

I'd like to tell shortly about its story and my ideas. Roberto Benigni isn't only one of the great directors in Italy, also he is also known as good actor and comedian. His firm "Life Is Beautiful" in 1998 which he was nominated seven Academy Awards is so famous around the world. "La tigre e la neve"(English: "The Tiger and the Snow") in 2005 is his latest firm. Attilio de Giovanni(Roberto Benigni) is a professor to teach poety. Vittoria(Nicoletta Braschi) who works as a writer is his wife but they live separately because Attilio had adulterous affairs before, and they don't get marry. Attilio always has told her how he loves her. However Vittoria usually returns the same sentence to him "If It snows in Rome and I see a tiger then, I'll marry with you." One day, Vittoria went to Iraq to write biograpy of Fuad(Jean Reno) who is a poet. Unfortunately, she was involved the Iraq Wars, then she was seriously ill. When Attilio knew its news, the time to save his wife in Iraq was begun...

This is a love story which relates social factors like Iraq Wars and religion's issues. Some of scence has expressions that I could realize what immigrants in Iraq have spent hard time. Although this movie was made in 2005, issues of Iraq isn't solved yet. I enjoyed its love parts with poeties(I often make a poety to have fun of rhymes), on the other hand, it gave me feeling that we have faced a lot of issues now.

The point that I recommend it is casts in this firm. Roberto Benigni acts a main character and his wife(Nicoletta Braschi, yeah! She is real wife of him. what a wonderful they are.) appears in his movies. I think that they love each other deeply, so they may be able to act realistic, don't you think so?

I hope you'd like to borrow this movie at DVD shop, and are going to move yourself by their story. :D

:Details of "The Tiger and the Snow" in Japanese
http://www.movie-eye.com/jinsei/

#1 "Bonjour Tristesse" by Sagan

Long time no see, I surely had left from blog since I realized this monthe was already July. I have spent busy school times to do difficult assignments, have part-time jobs, and plan this summer vacation which I can spend fruitful time as a student. Moreover, I'm facing "wonderful" tests soon.

Anyway, I'll give you the information of "Sagan-Bonjour Tristesse", which started to show on June 6th. This is the story of a woman that lived storongly as a rich, and also as a poor in one life. "Bonjour Tristesse," the title of book in Franch, was written by Françoise Sagan in 1954. Surprisingly, she wrote it when she was 18 years old. If I was in her position at that time, I couldn't be herself. I mean that it was impossible for me to write such as wonderful stories of Sagan because I didn't survive my life like her. I just have lived peacefully.

Now, we can see "Bonjour Tristesse" in Ginza, so I'd like to go theather to seek what Sagan was. (I have never read and watched firms about her books.)

Magician Made a Miracle is No Melt Ice-cream

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today's article is a wonderful magic came from Kanazawa city. Whoever loves ice-cream must have hoped "Please don't melt soon!" for a long time. Of course, I also have longed for it not to melt quickly (especially in summer). However, a special magician/technician made did dream come true in recent.

#It's from one Japanese article, so I summerized and transfered it.#

According to the new dated May 21, the Japanese seaweed food institute Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture and one of the professor in Kanazawa University, they invested an ice-cream. Its ingredients contain Okara/bean curd lees paste which was made by special process. Therefore, this ice-cream has some good factors though this process. One, it can prevent itself from melting about one hour if you put it on outside so that people can enjoy different texture every time. The other, it’s light calorie, healthy, and easy for children to eat. In near future, they’ll sell new Okara foods as well as ice-cream.

I guess this ice-cram has limit to start melting, but it was a big revolution for ice-cream lovers. Some of them might like melting ice-cream. However, I hope ice-cream will be able to change toward good direction/part for our life.

：News and information from the article "No Melting Ice-cream" -Kanazawa Economic Newspaper-
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090521-00000000-hsk_kz-l17

Gived birth gave me gift

Good evening/morning though it's about 1 o'clock at night.

Today, I'd like to talk to you about how important the 20th birthday is. To tell the truth, yesterday(on May 21th) was my birthday of the 20 times. Some of my friends I could see at school gave me special present(sweet snacks!) with birthday card. The others sang "Happy Birthday" song for me in English. Moreover, my friends that were the same high school as me sent emails even though I totally had forgot when I received their emails.

However, the greatest things on my birthday was brought by my mother. The day before yesterday, May 20th, my mother became a "Santa Claus in May." She left a birthday cake in the refrigerator. This is alike situation that Santa Claus left a present in red socks, isn't it? So that I was so surprised at present with opening the door of refigerator and my mouth! I could be smiling at that time. Then, I thought about how I was given a lot of affection by my family(particularly my mother). In usual life, people can't see what the family is and how important they are. It was a first time to feel them even though I have lived with my family for 20 years old.

I want people to do think about their all relatives (not only family) because whoever have many kinds of influences for each others. Finally, I want to say "Thank you!" to my mother and all of my friends. :D

Car Chose Chocolate as Friend to Clean.

Good morning, everyone. Did you look at the today's sky? What's a fine day today! A few days ago, the rainbow appeared in the sky by(for) 20~30 minutes. I couldn't help singing "Over The Rainbow" MANY times. (I was pretty sure that I tripped to the OZ world.)

Anyway, I'm telling you about new ecological biofuel vehicles(cars) from London.
According to the newspaper on May 5, scientists disclosed their new biofuel vehicles. This vehicle fuel produced by scientist uses waste from chocolate fancties and made partly from plant fibers. In other words, those cars "eat" chocolates and plant fibers to run! Morever, their vehicles changed not only fuel but steering wheel(is made from plant-based fibers came from carrots and other root vegetables), seat(is built of flax/linen fiber and soybean oil foam/bubble), and body(is made of plant fibers).

Scientists at the University of Warwick said "Our car is the fastest to run on biofuels and also be made from biodegradable materials. It has been built to Formula 3 specifications about the car's size, weight, and performance."

Those cars are use by racers so that they need speeds. Scientists tested them on a racetrack several times, speeds of cars was approximately 60 mph though scientists hoped to reach 145 mph, There are still some adjustments(adaptations) to run by 145 mph.

Warwick's project manager James Meredith said "Our model shows that it is possible to build a fast, efficient, environmentally friendly car."

They called their car "WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car," is going to display ar several races the European Grand Prix, Britain's Goodwood Festival of Speed, and aother race.

I don't have car licence, and also I'm not interested in car because I'm not good at mechanic much. Therefore I chose this topic to find any funny thing. As s result, I tried this article. Did you enjoy it?

We live on the earth with nature, animals, materials(arts) created by people, and all things. I think that the best way for all lives is the symbiosis(living close together) with regard(kindness). Especially, people have a big influence on the large part of the earth as same as nature. If people don't take care of the other lives, the earth must be like Mars, which no one can live. Thinking about environment on the earth will certainly make all lives happy. I hope poeple(of course, including of me) will be more friendly for the earth.

：News and information from the article "Scientist unveil chocolate-fueled race car"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30581299/

Exploring the evidence what Mercury is

Hi, everyone. I found an amazing article on the Internet.This is some new evidences about Mercury.
According to this story, NASA's MESSENGER made its second close-approach flyby of　Mercury in October 2008.The spacecraft was first time to visit the diminutive(small)　planet since Mariner 10 spacecraft's sojourn(stay) in 1970s.Then NASA's MESSENGER discovered a giant crater and evidence of ancient volcanoes, which no one may has seen.The giant crater's length is as almost same as the distance between Washington, D.C, and Boston.Can you imagine how long this distance is? Washington, D.C is on the west coast, on the other hand, Boston is on the opposite side!There is "the other United States of America" on Mercury. That sounds nice, doesn't it?

Next, about volucanoes, NASA's MESSENGER discovered there was volcanism(volcanic activity) to make huge crust(a thin hard dry layer on the surface of something) on Mercury.One of reseachers said "Volcanism was a really important process on Mercury, which is pretty exciting because before MESSENGER's flybys of Mercury we were really not even sure that volcanism existed on Mercury,"I also was excited because of some new clues of Mercury. Even though only a few people(human beings) can have been to planets by spaceship.... Before NASA's MESSENGER went to Mercury in this investigation, scientists had thought that Mercury was very similar to Earth's moon composition for a long time.However, the surface of mercury is suppose to be more similar to that of Mars than of the Moon now. Mercury is "a member of Mars' family"! :D

This article lasts but....(I'm sleeping with typing! omg). If you're interested in Mercury and need more its information, please click link on the bottom of this article.

Well, I often view some tiny stars from my small window. Especially, I like the sky in summer. There are some reasons why I prefer summer sky to winter one.First, summer have less rainy and cloudy days than winter so that we have a lot of oppotunities to view stars clearly. Secondly, I don't like cold much. It's hard for me to go out at late night in winter.Finally, Altair(is called Hikoboshi in japanese) and Vega(is called Orihime in japanese) can see each other again on July 7. They have ONLY ONE chance per annum(every year)! Because of those reasons, I like summer sky.

Anyway, which season is the best to view stars, summer or winter? What do you think about it? Please tell me your opinion. :)

: News and imromation from the article "Huge impact crater discovered on Mercury"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30505307/

Start the blog again

I want to use this blog for writing class-Ⅱ from today. I am really not good at writing so that I'm worried to write the article but...I'll do my best for myself. :)

karuizawa homework # feb 24

Hello, Susan. I’m a first grade student of Bunkyo Gakuin University. I would like to tell you about myself as much as I can. I will talk about my family, my hobbies, and my dream.
I will begin with my family. I live in Adachi ward of north Tokyo with my family. I have one older sister, one younger brother, and two dogs. My father is a truck driver who transports many kinds of fruits and vegetables. He has to work all day without Saturdays and Sundays. That’s why he doesn’t often stay at home. My mother works in Bunkyo elementary school and dormitory. She works two places from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. She is also busy on the weekends. Sadly, I have a part-time job on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays so I can’t spend much time with my family. However my younger brother always takes care of me whenever I am worried. He and I often quarrel about unimportant things but we make up with each other quickly. I think that he is one of my best friends even though he is younger than me. (I can’t say to him “thank you so much” directly, but I own a lot to him). On the other hand, I don’t have a good relationship with my older sister. There are many complicated reasons why I dislike her. I will tell you one reason of: I can’t stand her bad behavior. For example, she never cleans her room by herself. Of course, her room will be messy often, so I have to clean her room instead of her! Although I have asked my sister to clean her room by herself before, she wouldn’t clean). I should do something to change her bad behavior even if she says “NO!” We still have problems each other. Making up with my older sister is a big issue now in my family problems.
Secondly, I want to tell you my hobbies. I like Japan. Especially, Japanese traditional toys and games are my most favorite parts of it. I love Ninja, kendama (cup and ball), ayatori (cat’s cradle), and so on. I go to a park near my home to rest, and then I practice kendama and ayatori to improve my skills. The time I spend time doing my hobbies gives me relaxing and special experiences. The best memory is the Halloween of last year. I dressed up as a Ninja because one of the exchange students was interested in it. She also was a Ninja too. She bought the same Ninja clothes as me. So I’m really happy to be a Japanese person. But, I find it so sad that some Japanese people don’t have any interests in traditional things well.
Finally, I will finish with my dream. I wanted to be a ticket agency at Narita airport when I entered the Bunkyo Gakuin University. However I changed my dream because there were a lot of students have similar dreams. So, I don’t have my dream clearly. Therefore I try to make an effort in order to find my new dream. I hope that I can meet wonderful job in the future.Thank you for reading my letter! I’m happy if you can know about me.