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.