Sunday, September 30, 2007

Good-bye September!

Today was the last day of September.
It has been raining since this morning. The rain has made the temperature lower, so I felt good all day, but my family said it was too cold. In fact, the weather forecast said the temperature of today is like that of the middle of November. I prefer winter, but for the growth of my cactuses I hope hot weather will last a little longer.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

examination

I’m taking an English exam authorized by the Japanese government next month. So these days I’m busy preparing for it. I’ve realized that I need to extend my vocabulary because I can’t answer most of the vocabulary questions in it. There’s only three weeks left before I have it. Probably I won’t be able to memorize many words, but I don’t want to fail because it took me 6,800 yen to take the exam. Thanks to my homestay family and teacher who taught me English while being in Australia, I found it very interesting to study a foreign language, so for them I will pass the exam!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

A teacher I respect...

Today I went to school to see my teacher who looked after me for about a year. When I first met him, I was so scared of him that I seldom talked to him. I don't know why. Maybe it is because he looks very vigorous in spite of his appearances, and he has a lot of things that I don't have. He can talk to anybody without any fear, while what I don't like more than any other things is chatting. He is so friendly that I often feel as though he were a friend of mine. I want to be an adult like him in the future.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

heat

It is so hot in Japan that sweat runs down on my cheeks even while I'm just sitting using my computer or playing video games. I try not to use an air-conditoner because it is one of the causes of the global warming. However, it's too hot for me to endure this swelter. It sometimes compels me to turn on the air-conditioner, but soon I change my mind and turn it off. This is just a small thing for the environment, but I believe that it'll eventually become a big thing. As the proverb goes, Many a little makes a mickle!

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Gardenig

I like doing the gardening very much although I hate insects.

Today I went shopping with my mother to buy some flowers. It's summer now in Japan, but autum will soon come. So we wanted to plant autum flowers in our garden. I've wanted to grow cosmoses since last July, but it's a little late now to sow its seeds. Therefore, we bought some other flowers' seeds. We're going to sow them at the end of September. I'm looking forward to seeing them blooming next year.

After shopping, we went to a famous ice-cream parlor and ate sesami ice creams. They were so delicious! Now, I did nothing but the shopping today, so I must study hard!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Homework...

Hi!

Five days have passed since I came back home. I found it very difficult to maintain my English, especially my listening skill. When I was in Australia, I could always hear English, but now I can't hear any English unless I listen to CDs or watch foreign movies. If I don't do anything to maintain my English skill, it will be getting worse, and eventually it will vanish. So I'm going to listen to reading CDs so that I can even improve my English!

I was doing my history homework all day, but I finished less of it than I wanted to. Some people who have good noses might realize that I don't like history very much. there are too many things I have to memorize in history, and I have a bad memory. That's why I hate history. If someone knows how I should deal with it, please tell me!

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

At last!

I arrived in Japan last Saturday. I still can't believe I'm at home. I didn't at all notice it while I was in Australia, but I felt my life in Australia has become usual. So everything I've seen in Japan since last Saturday is a little bit strange.
So far, I haven't done anything I intented to do. The first thing I have to do is finish my homework and then take tests on 1st September. The tests won't be difficult. To maintain my English is much more difficult than that. So I'm posting something at least three times a week on this blog. See you next time.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

I don't know what to say...

Everything seems to be going well to me…well, a little bit better than before, but actually it isn’t. Nothing’s going well. We’ll never ever recover things we’ve lost, and nothing can be substituted for them.
The only thing we can do about it is go over it. How much time will it require to replace sadness taking up so much space in our hearts with something else? Time is the only effective medicine that can cure us of the mental pain. But…does the sadness thinning away mean that we’re gradually forgetting about what we’ve lost?
Time is making us keep on walking and never gives us any time to stop to think about what to do, which, however, means that we don’t have time to feel sad as well. The father we go, the grater distance there is between us and them, and in the end we’ll reach somewhere so far away from where we are now that we’ll never be able to see anything that is now around us, even its tiny bits.
Something is changing little by little, so slowly everyday that we won’t notice it until the change gets big enough to recognize, and when it’s got visible sometimes it’ll already be too late. Whether we like it or not, we can’t avoid it and have no choice but to reconcile ourselves to it…then what can we do about it?

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

First Posting

Hello, I’m Heityou. I’ve just created a new blog of my own. Probably most of you already know who I am, but please let me introduce myself again.

I’m from Japan. I’ve been studying English in Australia since last September…but I still haven’t spoken English well anyway. I like to read a book so much that at times I forget to do things to do. I seldom read a book when I was a little child, but these days I’m beginning to find it not only very enjoyable but quite good for studying a foreign language.
At the moment I’m reading a book titled The Dragon Rider written by Cornelia Funke, the same author as The Thief Lord, which I mentioned on another blog. As you can see from its title, this story is about a dragon and a boy. I really like a character called Twigleg, which is a mannequin made by an alchemist. I’ve read over two-thirds of the story. I want to finish reading it as soon as possible, but I also want to take my time reading it. This is so big a problem, which always worries me!

Well, I’m soon posting something interesting. See you then.