Learning with computers

Introduction
6th essay title is ‘Learning with Computers’. We use computer now. So we have to study about computers. I use computer in some classes. Computer is needed to study for me.

Body

Before Writing III

Internet
I use computer in my house. I search something by Yahoo and Goggle. These can search many, many things. I can study everything. These are very useful for us. I studied many things from internet.

E-mail
I sometimes sent to e-mail for my friends. When I was junior high school student, I didn’t have mobile phone. So I sent e-mail by computer for my friends. It was a little inconvenience. Because of I couldn’t read answer mail for my friends immediately. But e-mail can send to a long mail. E-mail can send to all over the world so I can send to my host family in America. My host family lives in Minnesota and I stayed Minnesota in during summer vacation. I and my host family change many e-mail to know each other before I went to America. When I went back to Japan, we can keep in touch by e-mail.

Class
When I was high school student, I had to take computer class. I studied to use internet, word, excel, power point and so on. And when I was fresh man in this university I must take basic computer class so I can use computer a little.

During Writing III ＆ IV

Writing III
I started study about writing to use computer in this class. I haven’t studied writing class to use computer yet so I feel a little difficulty.

Writing IV

Listening
I must understand to speak teacher in the class. Teacher said very important things. For example, class contents, homework and so on. I couldn’t understand to say teacher first time. But I can understand a little to say about teacher in the class.

Writing

Essays
I have to write many essays in this class. First I couldn’t write many words and write good essays. I didn’t like write essay. But I wrote essays I could write more than the first semester. I gradually like write essay.

Comments
We must comment for friend’s post in their blog and my friend write to my post. Comment is my blog to be better than now. It is very important opinion for my blog. And I’m grad to get comment for my friends so I want to write comment for many friends.

Posts
I have to up to posts on my blog. I always write about books, essays, food&drink and so on. I sometimes put on picture and link on my blog. I like take picture by my cell phone.

Portfolios
We must make Portfolio on my blog. It likes summary. I have to count word and check date about all posts. My teacher can easy know my blog’s state. It is very useful!!

Reviews
I write reviews. I wrote café review, movie review and so on. I must write good point about shop and movie. It is difficult!! But I like read reviews for my friends. I want to can write better reviews.

Reading

Book review
I have to read about English books. I can rental to library in my university so I always check bookshelf. After read books I have to write book review in my blog. It is very difficult. I can’t write particular about books story. But I like read about English books.

Friends blog
I like read for my friend’s blog and I have to write comments. I can watch some beautiful picture and good posts. I sometime write comment to friend’s posts.

Typing

Typing speed trial
I must to do typing speed trial in writing class. We must type 100 words or 150 words during 15 minutes. First, I couldn’t type 100 words. But I can write 100 words gradually in the class.

After Writing IV
I like use computer before writing class but I couldn’t use well. First writing class is difficult for me. And I think my typing speed and English skills but I take writing class during this semester I think my type speed and English skills are a little good. But I want to get English skills and computer skills better than now. So I want to more study about English.

Conclusion
I think computer is very important tool our life in the future. We have to use computer and English. So writing class is very useful for me. I want to more study English and computer skills.

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5th essay: TV

Introduction

5th essay title is ‘TV’ so I will write about TV programs. TV is very important and need to tool in our life.

Cable TV

I like cable TV programs. I sometimes watch cable channel. Cable channel has many TV programs. For example, MTV, FOX TV and Shop channel. I like MTV. MTV is music channel. I watch music video and interview for singer. I watched FOX TV too. Fox TV is popular channel in America. This channel has many interesting programs. I like American idle. It is really good TV program. My mother likes shop channel. She always watches about this channel.

Japan TV

I like television. My house’s television always turns on. I watch news, drama, animation, music and so on. News channel is really important channel. It inform to politics, economy, matter and so on. Drama is performance channel. It is really fun. I like watch about drama. Japan has many TV Company. There are NHK, Fuji television, TBS, Asahi TV and Japan TV. These companies are really good and very big. I went to Fuji television’s building. It is really big!!!

Movie

I like movie too. I think movie is very good entertainment tool. Movie can feel power, emotion better than TV. So movie is very popular in Japan. I watched ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix’. This series is very famous in the world. I like this series so I wanted to see this movie. This movie is a little scare and exciting!! I want to see various movies in my life.

Music

I like music. Because of it can watch about many singers and their performance. I think it makes good feel for us. So I like watch about music channel. Japan has many music channels. These are containing funny element. The most famous music program is ‘Red and White sing battle’. This program broadcast in December 31. It is appearance very famous singer in Japan.

Animation

Japanese animation is very famous in the world. For example, dragon ball slam dank and one-piece. These are really popular in the world. And Japanese animation movie has good evaluation from world. The most famous supervision is Hayao Miyazaki. He is very famous person in Japan. He makes many animation movies. These are really good movies.

Conclusion

I think TV is very good communication tool. We talk about TV programs almost every day.

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4th essay: Community Life

Introduction
4th essays title is community life. We have many community tools in our lives. So I introduce to my community life.

Classmate

I have many friends in my class. We are called to ‘frecan member’. I always take class and eat lunch with them. We hold to each birthday party in our birthday month. I like this time!! For example, we went to bowling and joyful, we went to Italian restaurant. We absolutely eat cake!! It was really fun time. My friends are very good!! I think my friends one of the very important community lives.

Part-time job
I work in Starbucks coffee. I like this part-time job. Starbucks is very famous coffee shop. I think almost people know the Starbucks. We are called in ‘partner’ for each other. It mean nothing relationship to between boss and our. I like this system. Starbucks is driving for customer’s satisfaction. So we must study about service skills and coffee’s knowledge. It is really difficult for me. I am studying about coffee beans now. It knowledge is rally deep so it is very difficult for me. I tried to tasting coffee and study to process until finish to coffee beans. I want to be better clerk.
Club
I belong to flower arrangement club now. It club is only girls. We sometimes arrange flower with teacher. It is really difficult. We had to city parade to down town in Kumamoto. We made to costume for this festival. It was really difficult for us. I sewed many skirts in my house. It was really hard but we were very glad to finish to made costume. My club makes flower display in the school festival every year. This year’s theme was ‘south land’. So I made jungle. We made flower display and many gadgets. This flower display was really beautiful. So we got the most excellent prize in the display section. I was really happy!! We will go to Aso farm land in December with club’s member. I’m looking forward to going to Aso!!
My family
I have five family members. I have father and mother and two older brothers and one female dog in my family. My father is office worker, my mother is house wife and my oldest brother is elementary school teacher, another brother is office worker. My father has many hobbies. For example, he plays golf. He likes play golf with his friends. He sometimes goes to practice for golf it is emission about stress to him. And he goes to fishing. He always goes to Ashikita. Then our dinner is very fresh fish. I like fresh fish!! My mother is very good mother. She can cook very well and she can sew anything. I like talk with her to cook dinner. I learn cooking from her. I want to be my mother in the future. My brothers are really kindness person. They are very hard worker. I like them.

Conclusion
I think community is very important things in our life. We have many communication tools it is very important and difficult. There is no communication tool I can’t live.

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My favorite places!!

My house
I like my living’s sofa. This sofa is very big and comfortable. I always stay on the sofa. I take a nap on the sofa, read book on the sofa, use cellular phone on the sofa and watch TV on the sofa. And I play with dog on the sofa. My dos likes sofa too. She is always sleeping on the sofa. I like sleep with my dog.

Sea
I like sea in amakusa. I sometimes go to amakusa’s sea with my friend. It is very beautiful and big. I couldn’t go to sea to swim in this summer but I went to drive. It was really fun time!!! I could to watch fish. Amamkusa’s sea is good to make my good feeling. I like sea in winter. It is very cold but winter’s sea is really beautiful!!

Mountain
I like go to Mountain. I went to Daikanbou in Mt. Aso last Sunday. Daikanbou is very famous sightseeing place. It has so beautiful view. I went to Daikanbou by car. I like driving to go to Aso. Aso has many mountains. There are beautiful locations. I want to go to Mt. ASo again!!

Hot spring
My family likes go to hot spring. My family often went to hot spring. Hot spring is very good to relax my body. But I can’t go to hot spring recently… So I want to go to hot spring to refresh my feeling. I like to talk to my mother in the hot spring. It is really fun time. I think it is very precious time for us.

Starbucks coffee
I work in Starbucks coffee. Starbucks coffee is very famous café in the world. I like Starbucks. Starbucks’s coffee is really delicious. I like Café Mocha. Café Mocha is very sweet coffee flavor. But it is good to relax my feeling. I think Starbucks is very good place to chat with friend or lover. And Starbucks is good to study. Starbucks can’t to smoke in the shop so there are always hang to good coffee flavor. I like it!!!!

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Proto-Portfolio 2-02: Essays

Fall Semester Essays

Essays	Short titles [+ links]	Dates yy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M	Notes
Mega- essay 07.10.12	Kumamoto	07.10.10	9	485 words	0	0	0	0
Favorite place(-s) 07.10.26	Favorite places	07.11.13	5	364 words	0	0	1	3
Movie review 07.11.11
4th essay 07.11.25	Community life	07.11.14	5	519 words	0	1	1	0
5th essay 07.12.09	TV Programs	07.12.05	7	399 words	0	2	1	0
6th essay 07.12.21	Learning with Computers	08.01.03	15	755 words	0	0	1	0
Totals	---	---							---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs three or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media include

Mega Essay!!!!!

1st Sight seeing

Kumamoto Castle

There is a big castle such as Kumamoto　Castle. It's a famous place of Kumamoto. And If you want , You can see in the castle. It is really beautiful and you think, very huge !!

Green land

Do you know No.1 amusement park in Kumamoto ? It is a photograph of the amusement park. The amusement park is near my house such as a certain "Green land". I work in a hotel of this amusement park. When here came close to Kumamoto, please come there.　It is really fun.

Aso

Both air and water are pure , So , both rice and water are delicious.There are a lot of places where scenery is beautiful. 　There is really much nature.　If you watch such a scenery, you will be surely healed. In addition, Kumamoto is famous because there is an active volcano. We say Mt. Aso, and it is a very big mountain.

2nd Foods

Basashi

Kumamoto has many delicious and special dish products. The first one is named Basashi. It is a rear meat of horse. We can eat it with sashimi. This product is very famous and popular. When tourists will come to Kumamoto most of them will eat it.

Karashi renkon

Second product is Karashi renkon. It is a kind of lotus root and it covered with mustard and flies it. So it is very hot and spicy! But when we drink we often eat them with garnish. In a New Year's Day, we eat Osechi that means special dish. In Kumamoto we eat karashi renkon.

Taipi-en

Third product is Taipi-en. It has a bean-strarch vermicelli and many vegetables and seaweed and so on. For example carrot, cabbage, egg, bamboo shoot, Judas's-ear and so on. These materials are very healthy and low calorie. It is very popular among young woman. Not only them but also all age people and tourists likes it.

3rd History

Kumamoto castle’s history

Kumamoto castle was build to 1601 by Kiyomasa Katou. This is the one of the most famous castle in Japan. This is very beautiful and very big. Kumamoto castle has very beautiful place. For example, many cherry blossom tree. These are open for spring. This season is very many people come to Kumamoto castle to watch cherry blossom tree.

Famous people

Kumamoto has very many famous people. For example, Souseki Natsume, Kiyomasa Katou, Musashi Miyamoto, Keigo Kiyoura. Souseki Natsume is very famous novelist in Japan. He wrote many books. These books very good and famous. Kiyomasa Katou is very famous SAMURAI. He build to Kumamoto castle. Musashi Miyamoto is very famous fighter. He wrote GORIN NO SHO. Keigo Kiyoura was president in Japan.

History of Kumamoto

Kumamoto was call about Higo. Higo is very old name. For along time ago, Kumamoto had war. This war caused about Christian people. This war’s name Amakusa Shimabara no ran. This war is very big and famous.

My part

3rd History
Kumamoto castle’s history
Kumamoto castle was build to 1601 by Kiyomasa Katou. This is the one of the most famous castle in Japan. This is very beautiful and very big. Kumamoto castle has very beautiful place. For example, many cherry blossom tree. These are open for spring. This season is very many people come to Kumamoto castle to watch cherry blossom tree.

Famous people
Kumamoto has very many famous people. For example, Souseki Natsume, Kiyomasa Katou, Musashi Miyamoto, Keigo Kiyoura. Souseki Natsume is very famous novelist in Japan. He wrote many books. These books very good and famous. Kiyomasa Katou is very famous SAMURAI. He build to Kumamoto castle. Musashi Miyamoto is very famous fighter. He wrote GORIN NO SHO. Keigo Kiyoura was president in Japan.

History of Kumamoto
Kumamoto was call about Higo. Higo is very old name. For along time ago, Kumamoto had war. This war caused about Christian people. This war’s name Amakusa Shimabara no ran. This war is very big and famous.

☆KGU☆

I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University (KGU). This university is big and it has a lot of student. This university has 11 special fields. It has economics, the department of commercial science, social welfare, and foreign language. My special field is English. I study English very hard everyday. But I like English very much. I have many homework and report. These are very hard but useful for me. In this summer, I will go to Minnesota in America. This is school curriculum. My friends will go to America with me. I’m looking forward to this program!!

My university has many clubs. KGU has many students but almost student belong to club. For example, photograph, youth hostel, walk and so on. I belong to flower arrangement club. This club is only ladies and small. But we are very friendly. We sometime arrange flowers. It is very difficult. I want to more good it!! We have school festival in November. This is very big festival. We make big flower arrangement and bazaar. This preparation is very hard but I enjoy this time. We have firework and laser beam show in last day in this festival. These are very beautiful and enjoyed. In this year, I’m looking forward to this festival!!

Cafe review

I’ll introduce about STARBUCKS COFFEE. I work in Starbucks coffee. STARBUCKS is very famous coffee shop. These are all over the world. STARBUCKS was land for about 10 years ago in Tokyo “Ginza”. This is first shop in Japan. In Kumamoto built in 5 years ago. Kumamoto’s first shop is in “New-s” and “PARCO”.
These shops opened at one time. “STARBUCKS COFFEE”, this name’s origin “Moby Dick”. It is very famous and old book. Starbuck is fisher man appear about in this book. Starbuck was really like to coffee. And this logotype is mermaid in Greek myth. She name is “Seiren”. Seiren has very beautiful singing voice. So she used it and very many people killed. This is legend. Starbucks coffee wishes for “please drunk with coffee flavor to all….” So, decided name and logotype Starbucks coffee by these.

My favorite menu is “Green tea cream frappuccino + espresso shot” with cinnamon role. These are very delicious!!! Green tea frappuccino is very sweet… but change bitter taste addition to espresso shot. I drink it, I cheer up. Cinnamon role is very soft and sweet. I like the best food in Starbucks coffee. If you come to Starbucks coffee, Please try it at once!!

Finding NEMO!!

I’ll introduce about “Finding NEMO”. It is made of Disney. It is very interesting and exiting. I have memory of this movie. This movie’s stage is sea. Hero’s name is NEMO. NEMO is very small fish. NEMO have longing about outside of coral zone. He go to elementary school, he tried to go to outside. But!! He caught to human!! So His father‘name is marlin’finding NEMO. Marlin meets Dolly about travel on the way. Dolly is very funny, but forgetfulness. Marlin and Dolly finds NEMO. But they don’t find NEMO. It is very difficult and too hard. Marlin and Dolly are meets about shark!! But Shark is very good person. Shark wants to friends for Marlin and Dolly. They make friends!! Next, Marlin and Dolly are attacked by angler fish. It is very scary. But angler fish has clue about NEMO. So Marlin and Dolly fights!! Angler fish was faint. So they get about clue about NEMO!! NEMO is caught for Sidney. They go to Sidney for on the current. In the current they meet about turtle’s troop. Turtle has baby. He’s name is ‘Sclash’. Sclash is very cute and brave. Marlin and Dolly arrived at Sidney. But they don’t know where NEMO is!! Then, sea gull taught them NEMO’s whereabouts. NEMO escaped by human and meet about Marlin and Dolly. They are very happy and go buck coral zone!! I like this movie. Because very happiness so I recommend it.

About Kumamoto

I live in Kumamoto for 20years. Kumamoto is south of Japan so very hot in summer. Kumamoto is a little country town but it is very nice place. Kumamoto has many famous sightseeing places, beautiful and traditional. For example, Mt. Aso. This mountain is very beautiful, and it has very big caldera. It is the biggest size all over the world. And Amamkusa is very beautiful place. Amamkusa is near the sea so this sea is very, very beautiful. Amamkusa has many delicious foods. Amamkusa come in freshness fish and vegetable. Next, Kumamoto has the big castle. This castle’s name is “Kumamoto castle”. It is very big, beautiful and historical. This castle built to Edo age by Kiyomasa Kato. Kiyomasa Kato is very famous parson in Kumamoto. In spring, cherry trees were blossom around Kumamoto castle. It is very beautiful!! I always watch about cherry blossom became spring. Then, Kumamoto has “Suizenzi park”. This park is Japanese style. This park is very famous.

Kumamoto has many good foods. For example, Basashi. Basashi is house’s frozen meat. Basashi is customs peculiar to Kumamoto. We eat horse!! But it is very delicious. And Karashirenkon is very famous souvenir in Kumamoto. Karashirenkon plugs a hole with mustard in lotus root’s holes and fry it. It is very hot, but very delicious. The famous sweets is Jindaiko. Jindaiko is Japanese-style confection. It is made of small beans and rice cake.

I want to come to Kumamtoto once at least. I like Kumamoto so much.

♪My Campus life♪

My campus life is very hard. Because of the second grade is harder than freshmen. I always have much homework and class is very difficult. But, it is very useful.

I belong to flower arrangement club. This club is only ladies and small. But we are very friendly and funny. We sometimes arrange flowers. It is very difficult but so beautiful and challenging. I like flower!! Recently, we add to new members from freshman. They are very cute!! I want to be friend.

My friends are very funny. I have 10 members in my friend. They are called by "frecam members". "frecam members" met by Freshman camp. We always always together!! We eat lunch together, take the class together. If I have free time, I go to bakery with them. We chat forever!! I like this time. This time is release from stress.

I work in STARBUCKS COFFEE for 8 months. There is middle of Kumamoto town. This part-time job is very busy!! We have always many customer. Because of STARBUCKS COFFEE is very famous coffee shop. I make drink, register and I study about coffee. It is very difficult. But I like coffee, so I enjoy this part-time job.

My campus life is very hard. But I enjoy everyday!!

Introduce myself

Hello. Nice to meet you. My name is Yurina. I live in Kumamoto.
I have five family members, father, mother, and two old brothers. But my broters are living diffrent place now.

My father is the office worker, my mother is the house wife, and the older brother is the elementary school teacher, younger brother is the college student in fukuoka.

I have one female dog. She name is cookie. She is very rascal, and active girl, but so cute. She is 7 month years old. I love her.

I think, my character is very cheerful. I like chat with friend. This is my divergence from stress. and I like to go to Karaoke with my friends. This time is very cheerful. I love my friends very much.

My part-time job is the Starbucks coffee. Do you know Starbucks coffee? I study
about coffee, it is very hard, but I like coffee very much. So I am enjoying this part-time job.