Writing Class

 It's a new year. And the first year of college is now only about a month away. It's the New Year and my relatives came to my house. It was a very fulfilling New Year's day as we played games together and ate delicious food such as crab. And above all, the New Year's gift was the most indispensable thing for me as I was short of money. I'm going to do my best for another year.

 Last New Year's Eve, I ended up doing nothing because I was studying for my exams. This year's New Year's Eve was the first time in a long time that I got together with my good friends. This New Year's Eve, I watched a singing show because my favorite TV show didn't play. Many of my favorite singers were on the show, so it was very interesting. Afterward, we all went to the shrine. I prayed that I would be able to stay healthy this year without getting injured or sick. I also prayed to make more money.

 This Christmas, I went back to my hometown and had a Christmas party at my friend's house. Last year, I had to take the university entrance exam, so I studied regardless of Christmas. So this Christmas was the first time in a long time that I was able to hang out with my friends. At the Christmas party, we were going to have a gift exchange, so first we went to the shopping center to buy gifts. I was very worried because I had to keep my budget within 1,500 yen. In the end, we decided to buy 150 pieces of 10 yen sweets. At the party, we ate chicken, played games, and had a lot of fun. We also exchanged gifts with each other and had a great time.

     Today I listened to an English podcast about beauty. They talked about problems bilingual people have and beautiful people in England and Japan. Minao had a problem not getting enough chances to speak Japanese because she had classes in English at uni. Also, she thought the best way to learn the language is to talk many times and not try to shut up.       

Recently, I watch anime for about 4 hours every day. There are many and famous anime in Japan. I'll introduce 2 anime I watch recently. First, "Demon Slayer". It is called "Kimetsu no Yaiba" in Japan. This anime was broadcast the last year and it became so popular. These days, 2nd season is broadcast. I read all original comic books, so I know the detail. But, in animation, I can watch this story with a voice. I'm so excited. The second one is "Attack on Titan". It is called "Shingeki no Kyozin" in Japan. It is also known well around the world. The attractiveness is its contents. All things in this anime are connected and there are many foreshadows. So, I watch it again and again.

 I finished exams and felt so relieved. I went to YOASOBI concerts in Nippon Budokan, Tokyo. I had been looking forward to it for 3 months and it made me do my best for exams.  YOASOBI is a musical group. Their concept is to install novels into music. So, their all music is based on each novel. Recently, they released English version songs, so they become more popular around the world.  The concert title was "NICE TO MEET YOU" because this is the first time to hold a manned concert.  They only held online concerts due to the coronavirus. I listened to their song many times. When I listened to their voice in person, I was so impressed and moved. I won't forget this experience forever.

 I read an article about Heavily Mutated Omicron Variant Puts Scientists on Alert. It explains a newly mutated virus emerging in South Africa. The mutated virus was named Omicron by WHO. Researchers hadn't understood it, so there are some anecdotal report now. Omicron changes its body consistence, so maybe vaccine doesn't work. 

One movie which I really liked was 'Wolf Children'. It was made in 2012. This movie was an animation movie. Mamoru Hosoda directed it. It got an award for Japan Academy Prize.  This was a story about relationships in a family. The main characters were Ame and Yuki. They were born from a woman and Werewolf parent. They grew up and it happened thought difference. Ame wanted to live as a human, but Yuki wanted to live as a wolf. Their mother Hana struggled with their determinations. At the end of the story, Ame and Yuki lived in their every way. The reason why I liked this movie is that it told me the importance of parents. I saw this when I had a quarrel with my parents. So, I was very impressed with this movie. Then, I thought I should be thankful to my parents more.

 I have two problems now: temperature and tests. I have been annoyed by them for many years. These days, they are coming together. First, winter is coming. I like this season because I go to ski every years. Why have I been annoyed this season? The reason is this season's morning. It becomes colder and colder, so I don't want to wake up because it's very warm in a bed. I am almost late for school many times due to temperature.  Tests season is also coming. I have to study a lot for the tests. It's very tired. But, after tests, I will go to a concert. So, I'll do my best to get over tests.

 I have two favorite subjects. They are mathematics and English. I have studied these them for many years and I like to study them. Firstly, the reason why I like to study mathematics is it is interesting. In high school, I studied it to enter the university and I solve a lot of problems. There are many difficult problems to solve, but when I could solve them, I felt so good. I think mathematics problems is like puzzle questions.  English is also interesting. In high school, I read a lot of long English essays and realized thought they are more interesting than Japanese essays. I don't understand why I feel. Moreover, my dream is to go to USA. There are many places I want to go. I like basketball, so I want to watch NBA games. I want to try gamble like poker, blackjack and roulette. I like to take a picture, so I want to see beautiful and grand nature. To come these dreams true, I study English.

 From this picture, we can see a boy, an elderly woman and man, and a cat. Woman and man look so relax and look after the boy.  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/learning/40-more-intriguing-photos-to-make-students-think.html

 These days, it become colder and colder. I sometimes think which seasons I like summer or winter. I think this question's answer depends on person.  I think winter is better. There are several reasons. First, I like winter sports. Especially, I like to ski. I go to ski every year since I was 3 years old. Of course, I like summer sports too. Second's reason is big matter. I don't like insects. I hate mosquito. Mosquito made me irritated many times. When I slept, it fly to me and it's flapping waked me up. In winter, there are no mosquito and I can sleep well.

 Today, I listened Hiroshima University's English Podcast. The title was 'The Power of Cosmetics'. This was one of misunderstanding story. A girl's looked like so bad and a boy talked to the girl about it. But it was cosmetic. The girl was so angry.  In mu experience, I didn't allow to make up in my high school. A girl student made up when school festival. Every students notice her change. After, the students was scolded. But in university, we don't have any restriction to make up. Maybe many women make up. There are not students whose face look like pale. 

 This times topic is my favorite food. My parents bought many kinds of food, so I could eat many kinds of food. My favorite food is sea food like fish, shellfish, seaweed. When I stayed home, I ate sea food 3 times every week. There are a lot of cooking style like grill, steam and eating in the raw. I heard foreigner hate eating fish in the raw. My favorite eating style is raw fish on the rice. This is said 'kaisendonn'. Also, I often watch cooking channel on YouTube. I recommend 'kimagure cook'. His cooking skill is excellent. He sometimes cook so big fish, weird fish. He gives me fish knowledge and fun of sea food world！

This time's topic is movies. To tell the truth, I have not watch movies many times. But I have my favorite movies and it gave me a lot of feelings. My favorite movie is 'Rurouni kensin'. This movie is based on comic. This is an action movie. There are a lot of action, so it makes me excited every times when I watch it. Moreover, this movie includes family relationship, past experience and so on. Enemies come to kenshin to do revenge. This sounds like bad, but watching them past experience, I always think what justice is. In my conclusion, this movie is not only cool, but also impress, so I recommend this movie.

  This times topic is my favorite English songs. I often listen them, but I hardly understand words of songs for the first listening every time. So, I check words of songs and understand what they say. This behavior maybe improve my listening skills. One of my favorite group is Queen. My father always listened to Queen when I had a dinner. I always listened to it and when I studied and ran. Especially, “Don’t stop me now” made me excited. Listening it when I ran, I felt faster and faster. Listening it when I studied, I could do arithmetic faster.  Moreover, I also listened “We are the champion”, “We will rock you”. I will listen Queen forever.

 Today's topic is my favorite sports. I have two favorite sports, baseball and basketball. I'm gonna write team, player, my experience. Firstly, I played baseball for 6 years when I was in elementary school and watched  a lot of baseball games. I am a fan of Chunichi Doragons whose hometown in Nagoya, Aichi because I'm from Aichi. This year's NPB (professional baseball league in Japan)  season was so fun and I checked results almost everyday. But, I was more interested in MLB. A player's performance was monstrous. It's Shohei Ohtani. In this season, he hits 46 homeruns and he won 9 games as a pitcher. I think he gets MVP. I have watched him since he was in high school. I felt he's like a baseball monster and it comes true. I was glad to hear his news and baseball is plenty of fun. I also like to play and watch basketball. I have played it since I was in junior high school and I'm a basketball player now. I watch B league and NBA. B league is professional...

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