Blog#7:Study abroad in Oxford

 Hi, I'm Megumi. I went to Oxford from 22nd July to 20th August to  study English.
It was my first trip to go to abroad so I was anxious about many things at first.
When I arrived at Heathrow airport, I was very tired because I had been taking an airplane for 12 hours. It was too long for me because I had never taken an airplane such a long time.  But when I took the first step toward outside of airport, everything I saw was fresh. A sign written in  English, a car number written in English...these things  made me excited.

I went to language school in Oxford. In the school, students came from a variety of country.  I made friends with Chinese, Korean, Slovakian, Czech, Italian, Indonesian, and Kazakh!! Especially, I became close friends with  two Chinese girls and one Kazakh girl. We could understand almost everything each other. But sometimes we couldn't. In that case we communicated by gesture or handwriting. We often went out with them after school. We went London, Brighton, Stonehenge. I made a lot of unforgettable memories.

But actually, not all memories were happy. Sometimes I couldn't say my opinion in my class because of  my lack of English speaking ability. When it happened, I felt stressed. And unfortunately, my  I phone was stolen, then I went to the police, but I couldn't understand what policers said and couldn't tell them the truth correctly. I was very disappointed.


The days I spent in Oxford were valuable days. But I thought I need to study English hard.

 with my class mate

London tower

a famous building in Oxford

Blog#8: Trip to Hokkaido

Hello, this is Masako. Today, I’m going to talk about my trip in the summer vacation. I went to Hokkaido with my old friends for four days in August. We visited a lot of interesting place and enjoyed sightseeing. The first day, we went to Hokkaido by plane, and saw many famous places such as Goryoukaku, Hakodate Mountain, Asaichi, and the cemetery for Westerners. It had been our dream to go to Hokkaido since we were junior high school student, so we were very excited. The second day, we went to Biei and Furano by train and bus. Biei and Furano are famous for the vast nature, the vegetables, and the flower farms. The flower farm was so beautiful. Third day and Fourth day, we went to Otaru and Kushiro. In Otaru, we ride the Zinrikisha for the first time, so we had impressive experience and good time. This trip became one of the most important events of my life. If I have a chance, I want to visit Hokkaido with her again.

 

 

If you want to know about Hokkaido, I reccomend you to check here.



Blog#8 Summer Training Camp

Hi, I'm Moe. In this summer, from August 21 to 26,  I went to Sugadaira in Nagano prefecture for a summer training camp. I'm belonging to a Track and Field club team in Gakushuin, so I went there with my club team mates. There was not so hot compared with Tokyo, but my skin was suntanned because I was exposed to the direct rays of the sun everyday. The summer training camp was very hard, so for all the camp, I was thinking I want to go home early. To tell the truth, I don't like a summer training camp. However, I could keep going to the end due to my club team mates. We gave encouragement each other. I like running because after the trainings, I can feel a sense of achievement so I could a lot of them after the summer training camp.

This is a picture of the same period of my club team mates. They are my valued people.

Blog7#Kusatsu Hot Springs

Hi, I'm Moe. In this summer vacation, I went to Kusatsu hot springs in Gunma prefecture with my family. Kusatsu is very famous for its a lot of hot springs in japan. Have you ever been to hot springs? I like them very much because I can shake off my tiredness in there and feel happy. I think hot springs are nice Japanese culture of which we can be proud to foreign countries. My family also like it so we often go there in vacation. After we enjoyed hot springs, we ate Japanese foods at old Japanese-style hotel. It was very delicious. I like Japanese foods, such as sashimi and tempra, better than foreign foods so I was very happy to eat them. the atmosphere of the hotel was also nice because of its good treatment and a comfprtable room.  Besides, at night, we walked a road of hot springs, called yubatake. It was fantastic to see some light of  each hot spring. I thought I want to go there again.If you are interested in kusatsu hot springs, click here.

Blog#8: Tokyo Skytree

Hi! I'm Tomoko. In August, I visited Tokyo Skytree with my friends. Tokyo Skytree is 634 meters high, so it was very scarely when I was overlooked towns at the observation deck. Tokyo Skytree is illuminated by two types, "Iki" and "Miyabi". "Iki" is blue color which is imaged water. "Iki" shows spirits of a person born and brought up in Tokyo. While, "Miyabi" is purple color that shows "Edo purple". "Edo purple" is dyed color. The night of the day I went, Tokyo Skytree was illuminated by purple color, "Miyabi". It was a moving sight for me. After we went there, we moved to Tokyo Soramati. Tokyo Soramati is a shopping mall and there are many kinds of shops such as clothes, shoes, miscellaneous goods and food. I bought a accessory. We ate dinner at the Italian restaurant that we could see very beautiful sights. We ate pizza and a spaghetti with tomate sauce.The Italian food was to my taste. It was so delicious. I want to visit Tokyo Skytree and Tokyo soramati again. Next time, I want to go to Sumida aquarium.
                                                   This is blue color, "Iki".

                                              This is purple color, "Miyabi".

This is the picture of Italian food we ate.

 

 

Blog#7: France

Hi!  I'm Tomoko. This summer, I went to France with my mother for 8 days. I had wanted to visit France, when I was a junior highschool student, so I was really happy to go there. I stayed many places such as Paris, Orleans and Mont Saint-Michel. The second day of this trip, I visited Mont saint-Michel and ate really famous omelet in there. The first time I saw Mont saint-Michel, I was so surprised to the scael. The night of the day, I went for a walk to see  floodlight of Mont Saint-Michel again. Before I reached there, I could see many beautiful stars in the sky. I was impressed deeply and took many pictures, because I live in Tokyo, so I can't see stars clearly in there. And the floodlight of Mont Saint-Michel was brilliant and I thought that I want to visit here again when I saw it. The third day's night, I moved to Paris that is the most place i wanted to visit. During staying, I went to many famous spots such as Eiffel Tower, arc de Triomphe, Louvre Museum, l'Opera and Palace of Versailles. The most impressed place for me is the hall of mirrors at Versailles. I saw many pictures of this room in materials for world history, but I thought that I couldn't feel this impression before I came here. So I recommend you to visit here at once. I also enjoyed shopping at Champs-Elysees. This is the most famous avenue in France as you know, so there are many bland shops and famous sweetshops like "LADUREE ". "LADUREE" is the famous shop which sell macaron . I experienced many things, met many Japanese and foreign visiter and had a great time in France. I like travelling more and more. Next month, I'm going to go Korea with my friends, so I really looking forward to the trip.
This is Mont Saint-Michel. There is a famous omelet restaurant in here.

This is the hall of mirrors. Can you know the brilliant of this room by this picture?

I think Japan has many beautiful places, but the beauty of places are different between Japan and France. So I want you to visit France at once.

Blog #7: Summer Vacation

Hello! This is Masako Miyahara. It is too hot everyday in Japan. How are you? Have you enjoyed your summer vacation? A lot of my friends have been to foreign country, and they have studied English, but I can't go abroad this summer, so I've enjoyed my summer holidays in Japan. Today, I'm going to show you one of the most impressive events. In August, I went to the Edogawa fireworks display with my club members. I wore a Yukata, and I enjoyed watching the beautiful fireworks.  About 14,000 fireworks were displayed with the good music, and every firework's form expressed the pryotechnist's thought. I went to this event for the first time, so it was wonderful and happy time for me. This fireworks display is famous, so a lot of people gathered in the same area. We also enjoyed talking with these people. If you have a time, please to go the fireworks display in the next year.

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in this fireworks display, please check here.