Blog#3 The leader ship

Megumi Shoda

Good morning. How have you been doing?
Today, I'd like to talk about this.
The leader ship
I belong to the "movie club"(映研）. Recently, our captain said to me, "We have to make sign for college festival, so could you please work together to do that? " And I said "Yes", without thinking much about it though I was a little bit worried. But it turned out that even this small working together is difficult. Whenever I send a mailing list, I have to think it over a long time to make sure there is no mistake on it. I am such a poor leader, so I didn't understand how to work together.

And then yesterday, I was so shocked to be said by one of my friends that there is someone who says bad things about you. I was so disappointed, because first of all, I didn't know that and second, I did like her.

I cried for my terrible work. I was thinking how to be a good leader. And after talking to my friends on the phone, I reached one conclusion.
I have to do more about the work and show them my incentive, and then I can say "please do ～".
I will do my best on this !

Blog #2: Cooking

Misaki Yoshioka

Good evening! How was your day?

Today I want to introduce what I cooked recently. To tell you the truth, I cannot cook. I am the worst cooker in the world. However, one morning, I was craving for French toast. So I looked up in the internet for the recipe and made it. It took an hour to make it but it was worth it.

Doesn't it look yummy?

It was yummy:)

Making a French toast is very easy.

All you need is bread, egg, milk, sugar, and butter.

First, you break the egg, mix it, and put the egg in a flat plate.

Second, you pour the milk in a flat plate.
Add one spoon of sugar in each plate and mix it until it dissolves.
Cut the bread in half and place it in the plate with milk until it soaks all the milk.
Then do the same with the plate with the eggs.

Lastly, roast the bread on the pan.

I want to ask everyone a question- do you cook? If so, what`s your favorite dish?

Have a nice weekend!

Blog#2 ROOM

Kaori Motoda


Good evening.

Recently, it's been cold and the weather isn't nice that I prefer staying inside the house and relax instead of going out when I have a day off.
There isn't so much things to do in the house, so I started reading a book called "Room" by Emma Donoghue which I found in a book store few months ago.

I haven't finished this book yet, but it is about a 5-year-old boy called Jack and his mother, trapped in a single, locked room. Jack's mother was abducted from the age of 19 by a man called Old Nick, who comes to the "room" only at night and brings foods and supplies for them.
Jack has never been outside of the room, so the only world for him was the "room". Fortunately, they succeeded on escaping from Old Nick, but the story doesn't end there. It is written how they struggled after they came back to the normal world, because the case attracted the attention of the mass media too much and they had some physical and mental problems, locked up in one place for years.
This book is written by the eyes of Jack, so you could understand Jack's emotions and feelings, and it is easy to get into the story, though it makes you sad a little.
I'm very interested in how the story ends.

We say autumn is an season of reading, eating, and sports in Japan.
I hope everybody will enjoy this wonderful season.

Thank you for reading.
See you in class!

Blog#1 My Favorite Song

 Megumi Shoda

 Good morning.

Recently, I have been into one song "Forever Love" by Shota  Shimizu and Miria Kato.
Last week, I went to karaoke with my friends. There, one of my friends sung this song, and soon I came to love it. though I had never heard it.
The reason  I love this song is because the words are so great.(Of course one of the reasons is probably because of my friend's voice.)
As you guessed, it's a song of love. It was released on February, 3, 2010.
Before having any information, just listen to it.

Also, if you want to know more about the singers, check this website.

Blog #1: Summer Vacation

Misaki Yoshioka

Good evening!

Today I want to talk about my summer vacation in San Diego, California.
I stayed at University of California San Diego (USCD) for about 2 weeks and studied at a graduate school. I went there with 26 other Japanese university students from Tokyo and Kanagawa.
We interacted with many foreign students staying at USCD for the summer. Also, we had an opportunity to meet with permanent UCSD students as well.

I made wonderful memories in San Diego, but I will introduce you two of my favorite things I did.

First, my friend and I became very good friends with some students who were permanently studying at UCSD. They were very nice to us and took us to a major league baseball game for free. We went to see Angels (LA) vs. White Sox (Chicago). Anaheim won 6 to 0!

Second, going to the beach was one of the most fantastic activities we did. The beach was beautiful; especially the sunset.

I hope you have spent a nice time over the summer break as I did.


See you soon!

Blog#1 Hockey club

Kaori Motoda


Hello everyone.
Today, I would like to introduce about my club.

I am in field hockey club at this school, doing a manager, but I think most of the people don't know much about field hockey.I didn't know anything about it either.
If you could imagine ice hockey, the main difference is that you do it in the field, and the rule is almost the same as soccer.

It has been about 5 months for being a manager at this club, and I am starting to get used to it little by little.
Not only giving them drinks or towels, managers takes video, make ice bags, tape up their legs when someone sprained their ankles, gather the balls, records scores, etc.
We work for the players to do the practice smoothly as possible.

Our team are consisted of 21 players and 10 managers, so it is not a big team, but everyone in this club are so friendly and nice, that even it was difficult to remember all the things about field hockey and the jobs at first, I was able to enjoy every time during the club.

Now, the players are practicing really hard for the upcoming league game on this Saturday.
We are in the first division, which means we are in top 8 at universities in the Kanto area, that every opposing teams are very good hockey players, but I really really want our team to win at least once.
Please hope us good luck!

See you again.