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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