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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Cheerful Harupi--ni: Book Review 2-9

Cheerful Harupi--ni: Book Review 2-9

Hi!! I'm Yurina!! I read about your book review. I think your book review is very interesting and good!! I can't write like your book review.

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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

☆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!!

Portfolio

Writing IIIc: Portfolio ID :6234
1.0. Essays

1.1. Catalog	Titles of posts with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Numbers of words	Numbers of comments
Example	Restaurant: Star of India	2007.03.13	185	1
1st (introduction) April (150+ words)	Introduce myself	2007.04.18	161	2
2nd (campus life) May (200+ words)	♪My Campas life♪	2007.05.18	243	0
3rd (your choice) June 5 (250+ words)	Fiding NEMO!!	2007.06.20	251	2
4th (Kumamoto) June 18 (250+ words)	About Kumamoto	2007.06.11	251	0
5th (review 1) July 2 (175+ words)	Cafe Review	2007.07.04	203	5
6th (review 2) July 16 (200+ words)	☆KGU☆	2007.07.16	208	0
---	---	TOTALS:	1317	9

Note: Calculate totals without the example.

1.2. Selection and assessment: Which of those essays do you feel is the best, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons.

• ...I think my best essay is Cafe review, because of this essay's photograph is very good!! And this essay is written by origin of starbucks. I think it is very interesting.

2.0. Comments

---	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments (yyyy.mm.dd)	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments*
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog	Movie: Dreamgirls	2007.04.11	8	I think my english is very poor.
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog	My favorite place	2007.04.11	10	My english is very poor.
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog	Cafe review	2007.07.03	30	These are very useful comment.
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yyyy.mm.dd)	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments*
2.4.1. Any one of your essays	Cafe review	2007.7.3	61	These comments are very good!!
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2007.4.11	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	45	It is poor.
2.4.2. Any of your other posts	My favorite place	2007.4.18	24	These comments are very short.
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2007.4.25	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	22	It is very poor.

* Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post.

2.5. Additional reflections on comments:

• ...I was very happy. These comment is very useful in my article.
  

3.0. Typing Speed Trials (5 mins.)

---	Numbers of words	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)
3.1. Worst typing speed trial	33 words	2007.05.09
3.2. Best typing speed trial	112 words	2007.06.06
3.3. Average speed for three (3) most recent speed trials	108 words	2007.05.23 2007.06.06 2007.06.13

4.0. Book Reviews

4.1. Catalog	Titles of posts with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Number of words	Numbers of comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
1-01	Seeing Eye dog Quile	2007.04.25	30	0
1-02	Diana	2007.05.09	32	0
1-03	TITANIC	2007.05.20	38	0
1-04	ESCAPE	2007.05.21	41	0
1-05	JUNGLE BOOK	2007.05.22	76	0
1-06	SURVIVE!!	2007.05.24	58	0
1-07	THE MISSING COINS	2007.06.13	46	0
1-08	THE WINNER	2007.06.13	46	0
1-09	Amazon RALLY	2007.06.14	42	0
1-10	STARMAN	2007.06.26	54	0
1-11	KING ARTHUR	2007.07.04	56	0
1-12	SALLY'S PHONE	2007.07.04	41	0
---	---	TOTALS:	560	0

Note: Calculate totals without the example.

4.2. Selection and assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons.

• ...I think my best book review is JUNGLE BOOK. It is very difficult but very interested. and this book review has most words in my book review.
  

5.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking & Media Presentation

---	Yes	No
5.1. Does your blog have an archive in the sidebar?	○
5.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	○
5.1.2. Is the archive organized by week?	○
5.1.3. Is the archive at the top of the sidebar?	○
5.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?	○
5.2.1. Do your labels include each of these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural)	○
"essays" (plural)	○
"quickposts" (plural, with no spaces)	○
5.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	○
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? ○ I have 7 labels	---	---
Which labels, and how many posts each? books(11) essays(6) hostfamily (8) food＆drink (6) portfolios (2) quickpost(26) review(13)	---	---
5.3. Links & media	---	---
5.3.1. Does your blog include pictures?	○
Does your blog profile include a picture or graphic representation?
How many of your blog posts include pictures or other graphics? ... 36 pictures	---	---
5.3.2. Posts with multiple links	---	---
How many of your posts include three (3) or more links? ... 3	---	---
5.3.3. Does your blog include other media?	○
How many of your blog posts include other media? ... 2 About Kumamoto, Spring widget	---	---

5.4. What would you most like to do to enhance the overall presentation of your blog?

• ... I think enhance the overall presentation of my blog is to repose on many pictures. Because of pictures makes very colorful to my blog. So I always take pictures with my mobile phone's camera and send to my blog.
  

6.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing:

• ...I can't make my blog well. It is very difficult for me but I'm enjoying it. This blog is my first one. I always tried to take pictures to put on my blog and easy to understand about article.

7.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors:

• ...I think, you always take picture in your cell phone's camera. This picture make colorful in your blog.
  

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!!