MARRON BUN

too tired

2010-06-06T12:59:00.000+09:00

On weekdays, when I came back home, I'm always too tired and sleepy that I can't stay awake late. I want to prepare for the next day's lectures and especially on Tuesday nights watch the anime "K-ON", but it starts at 1:30 in the night... I can't stay up until then. I must build up my strength!

my decision

2010-05-15T21:27:00.001+09:00

It's been a year since I posted the last entry on this blog...I didn't have much time because I've been so busy with my study at the uni that I come back home late every day. However I decided today that I post an entry on this blog once a week, probably on Saturday. This is because I feel that my English skill is getting worse and worse and have to do something to stop it.

I want to be an interpreter (not a Japanese-English, but Japanese-German interpreter), but the skill I have now is not good enough to get the job. Of course I have to learn German and English at the same time, and I don't even have enough time to study it at the moment. That's why I can post something on this blog only once a week.

Anyway, I try to do my best. It is the only thing I can do to make my English skill better.

nothing

2009-02-19T15:31:00.000+09:00

I have nothing special to post on this blog...or maybe I can write things about my part-time job.

3 months will have passed soon since I started the job. It's actually not bad, but the money I can earn a month is really low. So I think I should look for another job...
My job is to teach English, math, Japanese, science, or social studies to junior high school students. I usually teach only English and sometimes math.
I know my English is still not good, but it's enough to teach easy grammar. However, as for math, I myself don't have enough knowledge to teach! That's a big problem, but my boss tells me to do it.
I've found it very difficult to make explains easy to understand. So when I looked at students after finishing explaining, thier faces implied this: "What did he mean? I don't understand!".
I want them to enjoy studying English because it's a lot of fun if you can understand what it means just a little. Don't you think so?

disappearing

2009-01-09T21:39:00.000+09:00

I didn't realize that I hadn't posted anything on this blog. Since the uni started, I've been very busy dealing with everyday things, such as studying for lectures at uni and a part-time job. What's more, it takes me around 4 hours to go to uni and come back home. I'm getting sick of getting up early every day.

Um...actually I have to finish writing a report by tomorrow morning, and I'm sure that I'll have to stay up until morning. Onitsuka Chihiro, one of my most favorite singers, sings, "How do I live on such a field?". This is exactly what I want to say.

Freshman

2008-04-28T02:11:00.000+09:00

Long time no see...

I became a freshman this manth. I study German at university. The reason that I chose to learn it is that there are lots of people who can speak English now and I love books written by Cornelia Funke, who is a famous German writer.
At first it was very confusing because I pronounce the alphabets in an English way and there are too many grammatical rules I have to memorize in German, but now I'm getting used to it. And I still study English too, but I've lost confidence in my English because there are some people who lived in a foreign country when they were little children and can speak English as native speakers do.
It takes me around two hours to go to university, so I have to get up very early four times a week. It's very tiring but I'm enjoying my new life.

I don't have much time to use my computer because my theachers gives me a lot of homework.
Therefore, I won't be able to post many things on this blog. But I'll be back as soon as I can.

Well, see you then!

Good-bye September!

2007-09-30T22:00:00.000+09:00

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.

examination

2007-09-29T17:30:00.000+09:00

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!

A teacher I respect...

2007-08-30T02:17:00.000+09:00

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.

heat

2007-08-28T20:56:00.000+09:00

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!

Gardenig

2007-08-25T02:13:00.000+09:00

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!

Homework...

2007-08-22T18:53:00.000+09:00

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!

At last!

2007-08-21T11:52:00.000+09:00

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.

I don't know what to say...

2007-07-10T07:44:00.000+09:00

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?

First Posting

2007-06-13T13:15:00.000+09:00

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.