Everyday life in Liverpool

We stay in a hotel in Liverpool. Needless to say, we have to pay for it everyday.
It costs very much and we also have to pay for our food.
To save money, we share food and cook everyday.
We cooked hanburg steak for the first night. It was good!!

I had a cold and I had been ill for a week.

I have to go to wash clothes some times a week. In the hotel, they have a washing machine but it is out of order. So, we have to take 15 minutes walk to wash clothes.
The picture is on the way to the laundry.

The First Snow in Liverpool

I took this picture on 8th Februrary.
Snow fell on that day. For me, this was the first snow this year.

It's cold in Liverpool, but it's not so much different from my hometown.
I miss my hometown, family, friends, and Japanese food.
I want to go back to Japan!!

Wet Floor

I found a lovely picture in the university.
I fell in love with it for the first sight, so I post.
Is anyone who agrees with me??

The meeting at the university

As soon as we arrived in Liverpool, we had to contact with a British teacher for our schedule.
I had heard that we could take five classes or lectures during our stay.
I wanted to take some classes for the students who want to be teachers. The classes are called TESOL.
However, there was a problem. The classes had finished in Semester1!! As arriving During in Semester2, we cannot take these classes.
I was really disappointed about that, and I could not find what to do.

I cannot have found what to do now, I took some classes eveyday.
Who knows what to do??

Arrival in Liverpool

On 5th of February,we arrived in Liverpool at last!!
A friend of mine took this picture in the Liverpool Lime Street station.
It took long time from Kumamoto to Liverpool.
We had to stay in Seoul and in London because we would arrive in the midnight.
I didn't want to do so, but we didn't have another choice.

I want to make many friends with British people in Liverpool!!

Broken suitcase!!!

In the ariport, I was excited because I arrived in the U.K. at last.
And I had a lot of things to do in the U.K.
However, my dreams were gone when I saw my suitcase.
It was broken!!!!

I could not say even a word, then I had to fill out some forms.
It took long time and my companies had to be kept waiting for me!!
I'm so sorry for that...

I could not know how to do with my suitcase in the hotel in London.
But, a friend of mine helped me with my suitcase.
She helped me with opening it.
I was very happy then. I appreciate her!!

By the way, I had to contact to an office worker to get new suitcase.
I had to pay for making a call, then they told me that they would replace my suitcase to new one.
I told to them where I stay in the U.K.

Some days later, a staff visited my hotel and he left new suitcase.
HE JUST LEFT IT!!!

They didn't apologize to me.
Then, I realised that something is wrong with this system.

Coke

I found an interesting coke in the airplane to U.K.
It was colorful and its design was my taste!!

I want you to have a little look!

In Seoul

I took this picture when I was on the way to the airport in Korea.

In Korea

I have studied abroad in the U.K.
I had to stay in Korea just one night.
I travelled with my friends. However, we lost in Korea because it was the first stay in Korea.
I took this picture in the next morning.
We will have to stay when we will go back to Japan in March, but I don't want to do that because of this bad memory.

Final WAI

* Do you have a blog? YES
* Did you personalize your blog YES
o What did you do? (describe)
I made a label sections.

* Did you average at least 2 posts each week? YES
* What’s your total number of posts for
o September 4
o October 18
o November 12
o December 9
o January 2
* Please make a link to the post you like the best This is it.
* How many posts with pictures? 8
A suitable title? 32
At least two sentences? 45
* How many posts with links? 2
* How often did you comment on other KGU students' posts? 6 blogs I made.
* How often did you comment on the weblogs of students from other courses or universities? 3
o link to other comments you have made, best are ones where you had a conversation
I have made 3 comments to other students and universities, but I didn't have a coversation.
* What’s the total number of words in your weblog? (since the beginning of September)? Use Microsoft Word to calculate this. If you have more than one blog, you may use the blog you have the most words on, and then add other blog’s word totals and multiply by 0.5
9,233
* How many of your movie reviews did you turn in? 6
* What was the total number of words? 2,832

Bonus Do you have a mixi blog? (link) No, I don't.

Examinations

Test term is coming!! I hate exams. I have 11 exams this time. I don’t want to take them but I have to. Some of them are allowed to refer some texts, but others aren’t. I wish I were allowed to refer all of the texts at the exams.

Holiday

New Years holiday have finished. How did you spend your holiday?
I went shopping, and went to watch a movie with my friends. It was named Eragon. It was a adventure movie.
I also met my friends on Christmas Eve. We had a Christmas party then. I could not stay long because my parents didn’t allow me to. I wanted stay longer, but I had to go. I want to stay longer next time.

What should I do during my stay in Liverpool?

I am going to Liverpool during winter vacation with my members. We will stay two months there.
However, a trouble came to me. I heard that I chose some classes that I couldn’t attend at. I was really confused and I felt like not going Britain. They were about education, and almost all of them were canceled. I wanted to study about education in Britain. I was disappointed.
Some of my friends said to me that I was luck because I had a chance to study abroad, and it could help me with brushing up my English skills.
However, I don7t think so, because native speakers not always speak English correctly. I already know that. Some native Japanese speak broken Japanese. And we also spear wrong Japanese without conscious. Young people like to speak Japanese wrongly because it’s trend.
Therefore, I wanted to study about British education.
I have heard that some students are working at a hotel that we’ll stay, so I will make friends with to have a chance to attend at some educational classes. I will also contact to some teachers, too.
I will do my best to make this stay better for me.

Book Review13: Oxford

I read a book about Oxford. It told me not only historical stories of Oxford city but also story of Oxford University.
The university was built by the year 1200. People went to the University of Paris at that time, but now people come to Oxford to stud about religion.
Oxford is not as old as some other English cities. London, York and Cambridge were already built in Roman times.
There is no end to the names of famous students who came from Oxford University. President Clinton of the United States of America and Prince Naruhito of Japan graduated from the university.
Oxford is famous for people by cars and Printings. There are many printing factories and car factories in Oxford. Oxford University Press is one of the most famous presses in the world. We can read its books in our university library.
Oxfam is a charity to help poor people all over the world. It started to work during World War 2. Now, it helps people by sending clothes, foods, other useful things, and helping poor people to work themselves.
I think the most important thing is not to give poor people foods or clothes, but to teach how to live by themselves or let them work by their skills. I strongly believe that a charity as to act to help poor people with their skills to live.
There are many places to visit in Oxford. There are many events like St Giles ‘ Fair or Eights Week, in which the boat Races are held. Oxford has many faces day and night. By day, you can see beautiful gardens and have fun there. On the other hand, you can have too many places to drink in Oxford. People have good times there and talk to other people. However, you have to pay attention to drinking too much and your health, because beers in Oxford are very delicious.
You can sightsee around Oxford. Blenheim Palace, A Cotswold village, Cogges Manor Farm Museum and Stratford are he places to visit.
I went t Stratford Upon Avon this summer. The city was a perfect town for me. Shakespeare was born in the town and I went to the house. It was lovely place. I also went to the house in which Shakespeare’s wife lived. There were many shops, and I enjoyed shopping there with my friends. I bought some souvenirs for my family there.
I thought I should have studied about Oxford because I could not understand how the city had worth to visit.
As I am going to Britain in this winter, I will study much about the cities which I would like to go.

What I learnt from Frankenstein

I think it is very important for children to have love from their parents. I have read Frankenstein and I learnt that from the book.
There are many parents who abuse their children. They kill their children sometimes. It’s unbelievable for me. The mothers have given birth to their children with great pain. Why can they abuse their pretty babies?
I have been alone when I came back from schools for a long time. My parents have worked outside to bring up their children. I wanted one of them to stay in the house because I had felt loneliness. But now, I don’t think so because my parents have loved me and they have done their best for us.
Someone said that Japanese is not good at expressing love. I think so, too. Therefore, parents hurt their kids, and children hurt their family. We have to understand each other. We, Japanese do not have many ways to express love.
What’s the solution of child abuse? How can we show love to our family? I think we have to think more seriously about that.
How do you think?

On Christmas

Christmas is coming soon. How are you going to spend on the day?
I will have fun with my friends on Christmas Eve. The day is close to my friend’s birthday, so we have celebrated it every year. We are going to have dinner together and go to Karaoke. It will be fun!! I cannot wait any more.

About animal abuse

I saw a TV program which about animal abuse. In the city that a reporter visited is not allowed to chain animals outside. People have to take care of their animals very much, and there are special police officers in the city.
If the owners have abused their animals and the officers have found that, the owners are going to be punished by the laws.
I have watched PETA advertisements which about animal abuse in my listening class, but I could not understand why the teacher let us hear that. However, I found the reason. The program was the reason.
I found that the animal abuse is crime. If someone has murdered a person, the criminal will be punished by the laws. I think that animals have to be treated like that.
I have found the reason, and I can listen PETA advertisements seriously from now on.

Book Review 12: Frankenstein

This story was about a creature and its creator. Victor Frankenstein was born in countryside. His mother wanted to have a daughter. However, the first child was a boy, Frankenstein. A poor family lived near he house, and they had a daughter in their family. The mother took the daughter because she wanted to have a girl. Her name was Elizabeth. Frankenstein and Elizabeth loved each other.
The time came that Victor had to go to school. There was a kind boy and they made friends with each other. Henry helped Victor very much and they were good friends.
The day came that Victor had to go to a university. But, Henry could not go with Victor because his family was too poor to let him go to university. So, Victor went to a university alone. At the university, Victor learnt many things from his professor. As Victor was clever, the professor gave him a laboratory for him. Victor studied much about lives. He was interested in making lives. He wanted to put souls into dead bodies. To do that, he had to learn about dead people. One day, he found a secret of lives and he succeeded in making a life. The creature, however, had terrible face.
Victor was frightened because he wanted to make a beautiful creature. He could not accept it. He escaped form it and left it alone.
When he came back to his home, the terrible murders happened. One of Victor was killed in the murder, and he found the creature had killed his brother. In his dream, the creator was talked to the creature. The creature wanted the love and friends. He was always alone, and he was hurt many times. The creature wanted to love human beings, but they tried to kill him. He got angry with human and wanted to hurt his creator. The creature decided to visit to Victor7s house, and killed his brother.
Victor was afraid of the creature because he aimed Elizabeth. The creature said to Victor that he would appear on the marriage night. Victor wanted to protect Elizabeth but he couldn’t. Elizabeth was killed and victor decided to kill his creature by himself.
Victor followed it and always it escaped from him by a hairbreadth.
On the other day, Victor went to the north to find the creature. There was a cold place and he lost in the cold place. There was a ship on the sea. Victor was in the sea by accident. He was saved from the worker in the ship. Victor was died in the ship and the creature appeared. The creature cried in front of the dead body and said to the Captain that he would go to the north to die. The creature wanted love and friends like human. He just wanted happier time with people.

About bully

I think bullying someone is very bad thing. But how do you think I say it can happen anytime, anywhere to you?
I have seen the situation that some of my classmates bullied a boy. The boy was fat.
One day, we changed our clothes to clean up our classroom. Boys and girls had to change their clothes in the same room. A boy said “ I saw that you ate school lunch too much. I think you can eat milk churn!” to the boy.
All of us laughed at what that boy said, not at the fat boy.
However, our homeroom teacher heard that accidentally. He shouted, “Who did say that! Come with me now!!” All of us were surprised because we could not understand why he said such a thing.
He told us that we could not understand what bullies were, and where they were. Therefore, we had to pay attention to our friends, our classmates, and people who were around us. It was us who made bullies, and it was us who eradicate bullies in the world.
I was impressed then. He taught us bullies could happen everywhere.
I have paid attention to bullies and my friends since then. I have warned my juniors not to bully.
I think bully can happen everywhere, and the most important thing is to realize it. If you do not realize it, you need to be aware of it first.

Things that I have learned from Robin Hood

I went to Nottingham this summer. I had not read “Robin Hood” before, so I could not understand how valuable place there were. I thought that I should have read the book before I left Japan.
I also thought that we cannot understand its worth if we do not know about things. I think we have to learn about many things, history, arts, music, and culture because we cannot understand their value. We can talk to other people about them if we know much about them. I believe that helps you with conversation.
I keenly realized it is very useful for me to learn much about things. I would like to study many things from now on.

Book Review 11: Robin Hood

I read a book called “Robin Hood”. I read this book for the first time, and I found it was very interesting. Robin Hood, whose correct name was Robin Fitzooth. He was a great man because he robbed money or valuable things from greedy people, and he gave them to poor people. He was not greedy, but few people knew that he came from rich family. He was also half-Saxon and half-Norman.
His grandfather had three children. They were two sons and a daughter. Both of the men and their mother were killed by the Norman lord. The lord wanted the lands of Sir George Gamwell, Robin’s grandfather. Sir Gamwell decided to teach how to fight or how to use swords to his daughter. She learned well, and she became strong and beautiful.
One day, she said to her father that she wanted to marry a man. On the other day, the man visited the house, but the father never allowed her to marry him, because he was a Norman! Joanna decided to marry him, and she escaped from her father. Sir lost all of his family.
Next year, Joanna gave a birth to a boy. His name was Robin. This was Robin Fitzooth. His mother brought him to his grandfather. The grandfather was happy because he could have his family again. Robin was taught how to live in the forest.
When he grew up, he had a girlfriend. Her name was Lady Marian. She was very beautiful and other man wanted to marry her. The man was the Sheriff of Nottingham. He was very greedy man. He was connected to church. They had too much money in that time.
Robin decided to help the villagers and he had many plans to do. He escaped his lands and the Sheriff took the lands. Robin was called Robin Hood among the villagers. He stole many things from the Sheriff. Robin kidnapped some people sometimes. He served dinner for them, then he made them to pay for it.
Robin and his men liked to have many adventures. Robin was good at arrows and other weapons. So he cheated he Sheriff and his men in a contest.
The sheriff was eager to take Robin, but he escaped for the Sheriff by a hairbreadth. On the other day, the Sheriff of Nottingham planned how to take Robin, and Robin was injured badly. He was arrested in the tower. One of his men came, but it was too late. Robin could not move from the tower at all. Robin asked to help him with an arrow to the man. They pulled the arrow and it flew a long way into the forest, then he died.
There was a place in the forest near the abbey. There you can find the words “Under this stone is Robin Hood. Remember Robin and his men – No braver man will come again.”