an one-piece

I went to shop with my sister today. She came home last night from Fukuoka. She won't be able to stay at home on a new year's day because she has to work. I asked her to go shopping.

I'll have a class reunion in a week so I wanted to get clothes for it. I tried some clothes on but couldn't find any I liked.
After we looked at several shops finally I found a black one-piece made from wool. Also it was on sale so I was lucky! I bought it and I was happy. My sister helped me to choose and decide. This shopping was a success.

the end of this year

Finally I'm done all my part-time this year!!!
I worked every day through this week! I got tired but I think it was a good chance for me to know more about the job.

I started this job at the beginning of this December and I wasn't sure about it yet. Especially taking on a phone was very difficult because I had to understand what a person on the phone wanted to know, ask, talk with staff or so on. Even if he/she asked me something about the system of the school I couldn't answer it. I was afraid of taking phone. Through this week, however, gradually I got used to it and got some confidence.

Also I think I made closer to the other staff. One of the staff was not full-time and she did jobs like mine. She was very kind so I could ask her many things. She worked at some different companies before and knew well about computer and worked much faster than me. I liked her very much.

Although today was the last day for her to work there. She quit this job and will get married in spring. I'm very happy I could meet her. I know her only for a month but she taught me a lot. Now I can continue the job because of her.

We don't know when and where you meet an important person for you. I strongly felt that today.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is over. How was yours?
I worked my part-time all day! After that, I went to my friend's house to have a party.
I work at the office which is very close to a department store. I got some salad, chicken, sushi and a cake from there. It was crazy there! So many people were buying Christmas dinners and it was so crowded. One Sushi store had a line up! I was so surprised at this sight.
Usually I avoid to go out when an event goes on like a festival and of course Chistmas. I don't like crowded places. I get tired by energy of people. But this time I had no idea where I could get any kinds of foods at the same place. Anyway I could get what I wanted so it was good.
At my friend's, we had the dinner and talked a couple hours. She bought some new kinds of drinks so we tried them. That's all about my Christmas but it was good enough.

slideshare is difficult...

These slideshare pictures are from my stay in Canada 2005-2006. Have a look!

a Christmas Party

Tonight we had a Christmas party at a sign language lesson.
I brought a cake and many different Christmas goods from last year. One of them, I brought some hair clasps with horns of reindeer and moose. I just had four of them and we had four members so that was perfect. We all put them and had a big piece of cake, a glass of fake champagne and cups of black currant tea. We took pictures each other and had a very good time.

Almost all this 2006 is over and next 2007 is coming. I had so many new experiences and so much fun this year. I hope next year will also be a good year and I can find a good job.

I'd like to do my blog check today.


How many total posts? 25
How many words? (Calculate this last.) 4,782

How many posts
in October: 6
in November: 9
in December: 10
in January:

(use labels for the following)
How many posts
about books: 8
with links: 4
with pictures/photos: 11

Sidebar: Do you have:
a labels section: YES
a Kumamoto links section: YES
other blogs: YES
(including at least 2 blogs from other classes in the WinK community: YES )

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 16


That's all now. I have to write more about books and put more links with them.
It's very big I couldn't write anything in Korea... I have to catch up!!

a Christmas Present

I got a Christmas present from Jansi in Canada! She and I are very good friends. Her mother was my host family and she often helped me. To me, she is a friend, but at the same time, she is my mother in Canada.

She made a calender for me. It has many pictures and comments in it. I can easily image she spent many hours for it. I was so happy about it.

With a parcel from her, I also got some Christmas cards from the school staff I worked with. They told me about something new after I came back. Hopefully they'll have a nice Christmas and a happy new year...!!

Shakespeare Forum in PUK

I went to my school today to attend the Shakespeare forum. A lady came from Kyoto gave us a presentation about Shakespeare, especially how Japanese accepted his works. It was very interesting because I've never noticed that his works gave such big inflence to Japanese writers. After that, professors of our school also gave presentations. That was interesting, too. I don't usually see their faces as scholars so it was something new for me.
As I had to leave before the forum was over I couldn't see all presentations. However, I had a good time there.

sign language

As you know every Thursdays is a sign language lesson day. We usually do the words for a test but today was different. We talked about many things all the time.

When we speak a learning language, of course we have words or expressions which we don't know how to say. In that case, we use finger letters. They are signs to show from あ to ん of Japanese sounds. They are very useful. We show the word or expression with them to our teacher and she tells us its sign language. After we learned them, I think our communication got much smoother and faster than writing down the words on a board.

Next week will be our last lesson of this year. We're planning to have a Christmas party! It will be fun!!

I love Anne♪♪♪

I read a book, Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.

This is a world famous book and my favorite! I read it first time when I was in the high school. I love Anne and her family and friends. Every time I read a part, Matthew died, I become almost cry. He was a so nice man and a first friend of Anne. When she wanted a dress with puffsleeves, Marilla said no but he got one for her. He was with Anne at anytime. Loosing someone important made Anne more stronger. She became a teacher in a town to be with Marilla.

Also I love the part of Anne and Gilbert. In this book they are not good friends but gradually they become closer through this Anne series. I like both, Anne and Gilbert so I was very happy when I read about them.

As I love this book so much, one of my big plan this summer in Canada was to visit Prince Edward Island and to see the land Anne lived. PEI is famous for the place as Anne was born. L. M. Montgomery was from PEI and made this story. In PEI, there are many places about Anne.
Of course I went to the Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery's birth place and so on. Not only I visited some these places, but also I watched some musicals.

I watched "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne and Gilbert". "Anne of Green Gables" was the best! It was awesome and perfect!! All casts were as they were in the book and music was also great. I bought a CD after the show, actually. Because the show was so good and I saw a poster of "Anne and Gilbert", I went to watch it. It was okey. I enjoyed it. But to tell you the truth, it was just after one night I watched the first show and it was so good, I didn't feel great. Anyway it was worth watching these musicals for me.

These pictures you can see at the top are from my trip.

This is a HP of the musical, "Anne of Green Gables".
http://www.confederationcentre.com/anne.asp
Also, this is a HP of government of PEI.
http://www.gov.pe.ca/greengables/index.php3

old friends

Today I met my old friends who have known each other since high school. One of them is in Nagoya now and this weekend she came home. I hadn't met her for more than one year. I forgot the last time we met before. I think the spring of 2005. We talked a lot, for about three hours.

After we left the restaurant, my another friend's husband came to pick my friends up. Then, she asked me to give me a ride so I did. We talked more in a car and I enjoyed driving home. Actually she just had her birthday last week and I had a present for her. But I forgot to bring it with me today. I could give it to her so it was nice, too.

We have another chance to meet each other soon. Our high school friends will have a reunion this coming new year at a hotel. I'm looking forward to this reunion from now even I don't know what I should wear for it.

folks&fairy tale 2

I read a book, The Nightingale.

Long long time ago, there was a king in China. He lived in a beautiful palace and its behind was a forest. A nightingale was living in it. He was very famous because of his sweet singing. People wrote books about him and the king read one of them. The king has never heard his singing and really wanted to hear it, he asked his servant to bring the nightingale. The servant found the nightingale and asked to come to the palace. The nightingale agreed and went to the palace. The king loved his singing very much so he asked the nightingale to stay with him and made a nice cage. One day Japanese king sent a toy nightingale to Chinese king.It sang very well so he loved it. Then he seemed to forget about the real nightingale so the nightingale went back to the forest. After for a while the toy broke. Several years later, the king got very sick. He missed the singing but there was no nightingales. One night the real nightingale heard the king was so sick and came to his window. He sang a song so well that the king became well. The king asked the nightingale to come back again but the nightingale said to him no. Instead of that, the nightingale told him to come to his window every night to sing. The nightingale's singing made him very happy.

Last night I had a sign language lesson. These days we've started to study some words which are included in a test. The licensing examination of sign language is what we are trying to pass.

There are 1st grade~7th grade in it, and I have passed 3rd grade last year. Next chance to receive it is in March. So, I was going to challenge 2nd grade and printed out its extent of words. Then, I found a big thing. The extent of grade2 is so wide!! Even when I received grade3, it was hard to remember all its extent of words. Also I have an year blank and I forgot many of them. My friends who are in the lesson have 4th grade now and next March they're going to challenge 3rd grade. So I decided not to have the test next March and to study 3rd grade's words with them again. That would be better.

My goal by my guraduation is... to pass the 2nd grade!!

Check this link more about the licensing examination of sign language!

http://www.shuwaken.org/

new job

I started to work part-time this December. It has a lot of different works and needs computer skills. But I'm not good at computer.

Yesterday I had to print out some information on postcards. I changed the info using the last time's one and kept it in the computer. Then a member told me to open it with another computer to print out so I did. I found it in a folder and opened. ...Oops! Its design became dim! I didn't know what to do. I think it's because of the computer. Members were busy and couldn't find out the way to correct so that was it. I have to do it next time, I guess.

Still I can't get used to the job but I just started it. Let's see what happens from now on.

Jane Austen

I read a book, persuasion by Jane Austen.

I had an image that books which are written by Jane Austen must be difficult to read. But this book has changed my mind. It was very interesting and I finished to read it in an hour.

The main story is about a girl, Anne. When she was nineteen years old, she loved a man and wanted to marry him. But her father who didn't care much about her didn't allow and her close friend who was her mother's friend talked to her to wait and find a richer, more important man. The older woman's persuasion slowly began to work. She told the man she couldn't marry him. He left there and then she didn't want to marry anybody.
More than seven years after that, he came back to the country and she met him. But they didn't talk each other like before. Then some events were happened around them and finally.....

This book is one of "Penguin Readers" series. This is a book series for some English levels and this Persuasion is placed in Elementary level. English is very easy. Also the stories are simplified so it makes easier understand. I think this series are very good way to touch many good, famous books. I'd like to read them more.

folk and fairy tale

I read a book, "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse" by Violet Findley.

There was a mouse living in the country. One day his friend living in the city came to visit him and they played together. They played so hard that got hungry. They went into the field and ate some corn and beans. The city mouse told the country mouse the food was boring and suggested to go to the city. They went to the tall building and plaeyed together. When they got hungry, they found nice foods in the dining room. As soon as they started to eat, a cat and a dog and a person came in so they had to leave and hide for their life. The country mouse thought the city was nice but corn and safty were better than cherry pie and danger. He decided to leave the city. He went home and thought there was no place like home.