Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Intro KGU

Introduction to KGU

Mio, Hitomi, YuiS


We tell you about our classes, KGU has 12 departments; commercial science, business administration, hospitality management economics international economics English language, east Asia, social welfare, child home welfare, welfare environment. And there are about 7000 students and many great professors in our university. We are English language students. The student of the English and American Section often uses the 4th, 11th, 12th and 14th pavilions. The class of first period starts at 9:00 am and there are five periods. The final class finishes at 5:50 pm; we have lunch time after second period. The teachers of the English and American Section have a lot of gentle people. We are English and American majors; there are many professors who help us to improve in learning languages. We often have to do assignments; professors correct all assignments each time. The number is too much but they always check those. We are happy to be supported by many people. Next, I tell you about credit. We have to get 124 credits; we can get 48 credits in a year. There are a compulsory subject and an optional subject, we are English and American major so we have to take these class “Reading”, “Speaking”, “Writing”, “Listening”. These compulsory classes are differ for each major.

KGU students are very fashionable, we think. Every student wears very pretty clothes and the girls are cute, and the boys are handsome. Sometimes, people say KGU students are “charai” because of their looks or their loud clothes. “charai” means frivolous. And in fact, we bet every student will experience something special, particularly romantic relationships. If you thought that KGU students are grim, that’s not true. We think every student has warm feelings in their hearts. And they are very kind to everyone, cheerful and honest. They are leading parts in this college. And our college's slogan is "renaissance of Kumamoto Gakuen University."

The classrooms of our university are very comfortable because they are very clean and the temperature is adjusted according to the season. We can concentrate on class. The rest rooms are also beautiful. The convenience of the library is very good. In addition to books, needless to say, there are magazines, newspapers, and DVDs, too. We go to watch DVD in our free time. The personal computer can be used in the library. We use the library in various respects. There is a room that can meet the international students. They are kind and interesting. We should go there when we want to study the foreign language. We can play together. It is possible to understand they feelings of those that have come to a foreign country.

Our university has a lot of convenient places. It is in the cafeteria that everyone gathers most. It is very wide and has many dishes. My favorite menu is katsurice. It is very delicious and reasonable. We also go there at the free time of the class. We talk with friends. The cafeteria is a hangout. It is a bakery that we most often go. The bakery of our university is very delicious. The kinds of the bread are very abundant and new bread is made one after another. We like sweet bread. There is a convenience store at our university, a Lawson. Because Lawson is open till late, it is very useful for the extracurricular activities students. Our university also has Maruzen, Green campus, the hair salon, the travel agency, and the camera shop. It is very full university. I was good at this university. We like our university very much.

We also introduce circles. One circle is the badminton club in KGU. This type is Physical circle. There are many circles in KGU. One of us belongs to Housou. And another belongs to Kadou. This is called “Union of Circle” It is very big and there are many kinds but their activities aresimilar. They have a day of their activity and they do something. Then, they have a drinking party or go driving and do thinks such as a sports festival.

We also introduce circles. One circle is the badminton club in KGU. This type is Physical circle. There are many circles in KGU. One of us belongs to Housou and another belongs to Kadou. This is called “Union of Circle” It is very big and there are many kinds but their activities are almost similar. They have a day of their activity and they do something. Then, they have a drinking party or go driving and do thinks such as a sports festival.

Badminton club is always practices during the week. We have 2holidays in the week, Wednesday and Sunday. The club has 24members and they like badminton very much and all of them who have experience to play badminton and they were a little famous when they were high school students because they were strong. Almost all the members are male. There are only 4 women so practice is very hard because the practice schedule is for men but women do same the schedule. We have three big competitions in a year. In April, we had an important one. We could come true our goal and we won the game. Last week, the club had a big competition to have the right to go the Inter College. Inter College is the biggest and highest level competition for university. Yui is an executive of my club and considers the atmosphere of the club. We hope this atmosphere will stay the same for long time.

Club has different jobs. Yui does office work, going to meetings every week on Tuesday with the captain and booking for expeditions. This is very tiring and hard work. We think that this job is the hardest in the club work.

There are many circles in KGU. All circles are same. But you should join some circle if you want to have a wonderful campus life.

How do you think about KGU? Our school is very nice so if you have a chance to come you should come and you can enjoy!


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BR1-13: Kings and Queens of Britain

I read a book. This book is interesting for me because I learn about history of English and Britain. I don’t like history of English but when I read the book, I found some words. Alfred the Great and Danes and William 1 for instance. I had heard these. They were great person and they are very famous. But I was interested in Queen Boudicca. Her husband was King but he died so she became Queen. However, Roman soldiers didn’t agree. She and her children hit so she was very angry and killed the soldiers. She said “I am going to be Queen of all Britain now” I think that she is very cool and has high pride. I want to see her!

Tim Vicary
Oxford University Press, 1997



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BR1-12: Diana

I know about Diana little. She is very kind and beautiful woman but it is just one part. Her life is very deep I learned from this book. She has four sister and brother. When she was a little girl, her parents divorced. I didn’t know this happen. She also divorced with Charles. He was a prince. Diana and Charles were good friends. Charles loved a girl called Camilla. I know her! Recently, Charles remarried Camilla. I was surprised! Charles and Diana married. I thought this is a reason for some bad things. Their life was not so happy. I think that Diana didn’t marry him, she didn’t die. Many people love her. I think that she is like Mother Teresa.



Tim Vicary
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998



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BR1-11: California

Have you ever been to California? I ever been there but I want to go there. I have heard San Francisco and Los Angeles and Hollywood and San Diego. These are very famous city and town. I think that Ichiro is in Los Angeles. Disney is in California. The book said “Americans call California ‘The Golden State’” first page showed picture. This is very beautiful picture.” American people once came”. I thought that it is like Kyoto in Japan. Kyoto has many beautiful buildings and beautiful place. When I graduate from KGU, I will go trip with my friends. I want to go California and I want to go many famous places!

John Escott
Oxford University Press, 2000




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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Kyuuin

Good morning! Last Thursday, I went to Fukuoka for badminton competition with men’s team. I was only woman so I was alone and I worried about something. At 8p.m. we left Kumamoto for Fukuoka and we arrived at 10p.m. It drive was little funny but I thought that I don’t like night drive. It was the first day. Next morning, we went to a gym and played some game and we lost the game so our trip was finished but we couldn’t come back Kumamoto. I wanted to come back but we booked hotel for 2 days so we had to stay the hotel. In the night, we held drinking party in Izakaya. It was very exciting. I was very happy. I felt our team is wonderful! I like them but I felt little loneliness. After that, we backed hotel and slept. Next day, we went to gym for watching some game it was boring and tired very much. It done and we backed hotel. The day was special day because one member’s birthday! So we planned surprised birthday party for him. It was funny and interesting. It was successful! It was nice memory for us. After that we went to drinking party again. We were crazy but the night was last night of the trip. I had a wonderful time. I thought that I was only woman but I could stay with them. They are very nice!

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Last Saturday

Last Saturday, I had a gourmet day! I had three promises with my family and my friends of high school and my friends of badminton club. Why I had these promises? I didn’t know. But I was very looking forward these promises. I will talk about the day. In the morning, I went to practice until 2p.m. after that, I backed home and I went to shopping for some promises. First promise was with my family. It was a Giblets-nabe party. I wanted to eat giblets so I said that to my mother. It is not just giblets; it is famous giblets-nabe shop. It was very delicious. I was satisfaction. After the party, it was 9p.m. I went to second promises with my friends of high school. It was drinking party in the downtown. I hadn’t seen them after a long time but they didn’t little change. We were good friends group, when we were high student. We don’t change! We had wonderful time. I was very happy and laugh very much. After the second promise, I had to go my friend’s house because third promise was Gyouza and an octopus party. It was 24p.m. When I went to her house, there were six people and all most them were laying. They had eaten already. But some Gyouza were leftovers so I ate little and octopus rice. After I ate, I watched some DVD. These were very funny! I didn’t sleep so I sleep at 4a.m. I was very tired the day! But I was very fun and I thought that I ate too much!! But I could have wonderful time with my good people. But I don’t want to do one more.

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Beer Gardnen

 Good morning! On 29 June, 2011. I went to a Beer garden. This is my first time so I was very excited! I went there with my coworkers. I hadn’t seen them for a long time. I thought that they were little change before I met them but they were not. We enjoyed and talked about many topics. For instance, we talked about our work and someone’s romans. The beer garden was very nice! It like BBQ and there were many salaried workers. By the way, I have a comfort. It is new open our work place. Now I work in Kumamoto station. I worked in downtown before two months. I want to work in downtown. When I worked there, I enjoyed my work and I was fun because I could talk with my nice coworkers. But now I couldn’t talk with them and I don’t enjoy my work because there is boring for me. I hope new open is as soon as possible! After the beer garden party, we went to our downtown work place and we drunk and talked again. It was very funny. I want to do again. I love them.

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