a girl who has a friend of blind

I'd like to write about a book today. It's "Lilly Makes a Friend" by Brenda Bellingham.

Lilly is a girl who likes Yodel. One day she went to school late and on her way to a classroom she found a boy, Davy. He was crouching over the sidewalk. She told him her name because he was a blind. Then she tried to help him but what he wanted..... was yucky worms! With this as a start, she tried to help him but seemed to get into trouble. When he wanted to play soccer with her, how she did?

I didn't know this book was about a relationship between a girl and a blind boy when I borrowed. I don't know why they knew each other but the story is interesting. The boy has interests toward everything. I can understand why he can put worms in his pocket! Because he doesn't have a sense of "yucky" looking. I don't know anything about blind people so it's good to read.

shopping&movie mood

This after school, I went to watch a movie with my friend, Yu. We took a bus to get there but missed a bus stop we should have got off so walked for about 10 min. to the theatre.

We watched the devil wears Prada. I knew this movie when I was in Canada but I didn't have a chance to watch it. Finally it just came to Japan last Saturday!

I was in a mood to go and watch a movie today. I don't know why(><) Also Wednesdays we, ladies, can watch with only ￥1,000! I could go home after classes before it rained, but I didn't. I didn't want to miss this chance.

The movie we watched started at 19:10 so we had enough time to shop before. I bought an umbrella. Yu bought a skirt for her friend's wedding. It was fun to shop. We had our supper there, too. Then! We noticed it was already just after 19:10!!

We ran into the theatre and thanks to many advertisements, we could watch the whole movie. It was not bad. The girl who worked at a "devil" was very cute and there were so many nice clothes in the movie. That was good.

When we went out from the room, I got surprised that so many people were there to watch movies. Because of Wednesday? or something interesting movie? I don't know.

Anyway it was a good day. The picture at the top is from Kumamoto down-town, Tsuruya. You can see Christmas light-ups everywhere now.

a confusion of a presentation

One surprise was given to me yesterday... My friend who went to Korea together last month called my cell and told me "tomorrow, we might have to make presentations!!"

"What's the presentation!? I didn't know it at all!! Oh, my god!!"

I knew it was my problem that I didn't know when I had to do it, but tomorrow!!?? That was too soon!

According to her, it was our turn to do presentations today(this Friday) for sure. However, last week we didn't have a class because of our school festival, so there were some other classmates who didn't (couldn't) do last week. We guessed today would be their turn and we wouldn't have enough time to do ours.

Still, we weren't sure we had to do them or not. ....Finally, we gave up(><)! and dicided, promised each other to get ready for them.

This early morning, I finished mine at last. I made it! I went to another class and advanced this blog. I was taught how to link my friends on my page and so on. It was fun to know new things.

At the beginning of the class which I was supposed to do my presentation. The professor told us to change the schedule and of course ours became next week!

I was happy about it but I got tired...(><)

My First Book Review

Finally! I can tell you about a book.

Its title is "Kitchen Table Talk". (by Kay Hetherly)

Its author is an American and she came to Japan. She found many interesting differences between the U.S. and Japan which people usually don't realize. In this book, she tells them with short stories.

I liked her short stories because they were very casual but something new to me. They gave me more ideas I didn't know before. Also her writing style is full with a warm, comfortable mood. While I was reading, it made me comfortable, too.

You can borrow this book from me anytime if you want. Just let me know!

the Blank for a month...(><)

I'm so sorry... I didn't write this blog almost for a month.

After I wrote the last my blog, I left Japan and visited Korea for ten days. It was for teaching practice. My major is English but I'm also taking the class of teaching Japanese for foreign people.

Actually this course was one of my biggest reasons I decided to enter my university. I wanted to study not only English but also teaching Japanese. That's why I'm here.

In Korea, I did my plan twice, the same one but to the other students. It was hard! difficult! But I think I did my best and it became a good experience to me.

Through ten days, I had a lot of chances to enjoy Korean beer! It's very cheap to drink in Korea. I went to drink five nights after all. Every time I met new friends and it was fun to talk with them.

I came back to Japan last Monday. The next morning when I woke up, I found my throat was strange. I caught a cold!! I don't know why.... Anyway my teaching practice is over.

My cold stayed for a week but now it's gone. I'm fine!
Now I have to write something about a book!!!!! I haven't done it yet.... During this week!

volunteer

I'm done another busy weekend. From last Thursday night to Sunday I couldn't sleep enough. The Thursday night was my fault. I didn't get ready to do a presentation till just a night ago. I was planning in my mind but didn't write it out or finish it in advance. That's me. That's not new, no surprise to me. As a result I did it good at the presentation so it's okey.

From Friday night to Sunday I joined camping program as I told you here before. I helped kids to make bamboo planters, to visit a nursing home and so on. I stayed there for two nights and I noticed one thing. It is, after kids got slept in, we volunteer had a lot of things to do! Every kid had a notebook which they wrote about each day. We had to write something for each kid. There was another paper to put anything we noticed about kids. It took us so long to finish for every kid. Also at Saturday night each of us got a square paper to get messages from everyone there. We didn't have enough time to finish it so we did it after kids went to bed. Then on Sunday only kids messages they need to collect.

Like this I don't know this volunteer sounds like hard or not, it was so fun to me. Next camping is in next February! I can't wait for it.

Fun Fun Sign Language

I had a sign language lesson tonight. We call it a lesson but almost all the time we just talk about something new with of course a sign language. We've done this lesson since June of 2003 when we were in the first year of the university. I love this lesson! To communicate with using a new tool is so fun! Our teacher is a woman who can't hear or speak. When we just started this lesson we used gesture and writing on a white board. By the way, she is so cute! She also looks so young. To express her feelings she uses muscles of her face very well. We think that's why she doesn't have much wrinkles!

Last year I couldn't join them because I wasn't in Japan. Even in Canada I looked for a sign language club or something like that but there was no chance to use it.

Just before I left Japan, I passed the third grade of the sign language exam. It required more difficult words and reading skill so I studied hard. Now, after an year without any studying, my sign language skill got bad... Although, I still like it and think I want to get better so first, I want to get my skills back! I'm always looking forward to coming Thursdays!