Book Review 2-10

I read the book"Picture Puzzle". I tell about this story.
It was a fine summer morning. Pete was a college student. He wanted to something exciting to happen. He went to a large shopping mall to get the Stephen King book. Then something exciting did happen. A girl ran through the crowd of people in the mall. Suddenly, she ran up to Pete and pushed something into his hand. Pete tried to talk with her, but she disappeared into the crowd. Pete looked at the thing in his hand. It was a film cassette. A minute later, Pete saw a man pushing through the crowd. He was a fat man and wearing a red shirt. He was in hurry and finding something. Pete thought that he was looking for the girl and she was afraid of him. Pete decided to solve the puzzle by himself. First, he developed the pictures on that film. There were only six pictures in it. Five of the photos were pictures of the girl with her friends and a young child. The sixth photo was a picture of two men. One of them was tall and thin. The other man was the guy he watched at the mall. In the picture, the two men were standing in a churchyard. A small part of the church was in the picture, too. When he saw the tall man, he remembered seeing him in the City News, which was the city's evening newspaper. Pete looked at the clock in the shopping mall and then had to go to college. However, he thought the girl was more important than college. He went to the City News office to find the newspaper about that tall guy. At last, he got to know him in a newspaper. He was Ronald Thurber and a lawyer of Donald Zetter, who had killed James Black. Pete thought that the big guy was a member of Zetter's gang. Next, he tried to find that churchyard. Two hours later, he found the same church as that picture's. Pete walked up to the church and he opened the heavy door. There was a priest inside. Pete asked him about the two and the girl, but he did not know either of them. It was lunchtime and Pete was hungry. There were some shops in the street near the church. One of them sold sandwiches and drinks, so he went into it. He ordered a chicken sandwich and a coke. He also asked a clerk about them. The moment he asked, a woman at the back of the shop came and talked about her. Pete got to know about her well. She was Amy Bates who lived in a flat near the shop. And then he went to her flat, Richfield House. There were six bell-pushes by the big red door. There was a name next to each bell-push. One of the names was Amy Bates. Pete put on the bell-push and rang the bell. Pete waited and looked up. He saw a man who leaning from one of the windows. It was the big man. Pete greeted and asked him about Amy. Then he asked Pete to come into his room. He told Pete that Amy would come soon. That's why Pete came there and sat down. Suddenly, the guy asked Pete about the film and there was a gun in his hand. Pete gave him the photos. When Pete gave him the film cassette from his pocket slowly, the guy held out his hand. Suddenly, Pete turned round and threw the cassette out of the window. There were some people in the street below the window. A woman saw the film cassette and pick it up. When the guy looked down into the street, Pete jumped towards him. The two men fought and the guy fired the gun. The people in the street heard the sound of the gun. Pete pushed him. He fell on the floor. He tried to kill Pete, but Pete moved quickly and then he fell out of the window. Pete ran to the bathroom door and helped Amy. Amy told the policemen about the story of the guys. According to her, they wanted to help Zetter from prison. The policemen found ￡50,000 inside the envelope. After they left the house, Pete and Amy walked away together.
Though the book is level 2, it is so easy to read. I coould read it soon, but I was lazy to type review. I took a long time to review this story. Anyway, I was happy to finish. I will find books like this again.

Late birthday cake

Today I wondered why my father bought a cake. It looks a big cake in the photo, but in fact it was a small cake. My father seldom buys cakes. It was amazing that he bought it to my sister. She was more lucky than me because she got two birthday cakes. Speaking of cake, my favorite cake is Gateu chcolat. The next time my birthday comes, I wanna eat it!!

Durian Candy

Today I attended English lounge and then I got a candy. Its flavor was Durian. One girl who did not know what it was tried to eat one in front of us. The moment she ate one, her face turned yucky and spat it out quickly. According to her, it smelled in her mouth. I was afraid that I ate it in front of everyone then. I brought it home and shared it with my sister. I tried to eat it, but it was not so bad to me. I could eat it all. My sister also could do that. We felt that the smell was similar to gas. I wanna eat it again and recommend many people to eat one!

Japanese Lounge

Today I became a private Japanese teacher at the library in the second period. My students were two Chinese women. I met them through my Japanese lesson. Though I pretended to be a Japanese teacher to them, we just enjoyed chatting in Japanese. Of course, I did not receive money. I like teaching Japanese to foreigners, so it is fine to me. It was so hard to teach Japanese. I often got confused teaching Japanese. Though I was a Japanese teacher to them, I learned some Chinese words from them and asked them to teach me more. We had really good time together. I wanna teach them Japanese next week again!

Book Review 2-9

I read the book "MR BEAN IN TOWN". I will tell about Mr. Bean before I summarize this story. Mr. Bean is a character of British comedy program starring Rowan Atkinson. Rowan also wrote the stories himself. I review the story about Steak Tartare.
It was Mr. Bean's birthday. Mr. Bean put on a clean shirt and his best coat, trousers and shoes. Then he drove to a restaurant in the center of town. He arrived at eight o'clock and went inside. It was very nice restaurant. Everybody was wearing their best clothes, and there were flowers on every table. The manager met him at the door and took him to a table. The manager pulled the chair away from the table. Then he waited for Mr. Bean to sit down. However, Mr. Bean did not sit down and looked at him. When the manager went away, Mr. Bean sat quietly. He took a birthday card and an envelope out of his jacket. Then he wrote something and put it on the table. After a minute or two, Mr. Bean pretended to see the card for the first time. The manager arrived with the menu and gave it to Mr. Bean. He realized that everything was very expensive. He put the money on to a plate and began to count up it. Finally, he ordered Steak tartare. After that, a waiter arrived at Mr. Bean's table with a bottle of wine. The waiter put some wine in Mr. Bean's glass and he had a drink. He smiled and waiter tried to put more wine into the glass. He didn't know about wine manners and he quickly put his hand across the glass. The waiter looked at him strangely. Then Mr. Bean took the knife and started to play with it. The woman at the next table looked at him angrily. He also played with his napkin. A minute later, the waiter arrived with his food. There was a large cover on the plate. Mr. Bean couldn't see the food, but he gave the waiter the money on the table. Customers don't usually give a waiter money when he arrives with the food. The waiter didn't say anything and took the money. Mr. Bean was happy because he thought that he was doing everything right. When he saw his dish, his smile disappeared. He thought they didn't cook that meat and could not eat it. He wanted to change his dish, but he couldn't ask the manager. He was afraid that people thought he was stupid. Then he thought he would never ask for steak tartare. The waiter asked him whether he was all right or not. He smiled and pretend eat some meat. He tried to hide the meat in any ways. He had an idea. First, He put the meat into the mustard pot and put the cover on it. Next, he took the flower out of the vase. He then put some meat into the vase and pushed the flowers in on top of it. He also pushed some of meat inside the roll. Then, he put more meat under the small plate and into the sugar pot and so on. Finally, he put some meat into a violinist's trousers. He thought everything went well. When the waiter walked past with some plates of food, he fell over Mr. Bean's foot. The plates fell on to Mr. Bean's table and on to the floor. The moment the people looked up the waiter, he got an idea. He pretended to be very angry and blamed the waiter that his meat was spread around his table by him. The manager came and apologized him. He invited Mr. Bean to another table. The violinist began to play "Happy Birthday" to him. Mr. Bean smiled. The waiter put a plate in front of Mr. Bean. The manager smiled and took off the cover. Mr. looked down and stopped smiling. There was Steak tartare in front of him!
Recently, I got to like Mr. Bean. He is a good comedian like Charles Chaplin. I can enjoy with his joke, but I think reading his joke like this is not interesting at all. Then I found his movie about Steak Tartare from You tube. You should watch it than read my review.

Happy Birthday to my sister

Today was my sister's birthday. She became 23. We didn't have a party because we celebrated her before and did not have much time to do that. My sister has an important test soon, so she went out somewhere to study. My parents also went out during daytime. I spent all day at home.
←This is a Tsuruya-udon.
Tonight my father bought my favorite udon (Japanese noodle) for me. It is Tsuruya-udon. Tsuruya-udon comes from the shop name "Tsuruya". I like it very much since I was a junior high school student. There were two Truruya shops in Kumamoto, but one of them was closed. It was near my house, so I would often visit there with my family. I love Truya-udon. There are tempura shrimp, meat and wakame (soft seaweed) in Truya-udon. Though it contains them all, it is 400 yen. I think it is cheap. The shopkeer sometimes misses putting wakame to Tsuruya-udon for takeout. As you can see, the Tsuruya-udon was missing wakame. I was a little shocked.(> <)　
←This is a Curry-udon.
My father likes Curry-udon very much. Perhapses, my father visited the closed shop more than me. We do not go to another Tsuruya shop because it is too far. Today my father happened to get a chance to visit there. According to my father, he met the old shopkeer there and then he gave him the Curry-udon for free. My father and I really like Tsuruya's udon, so tonight we felt happy. I want to eat Tsuruya-udon again!!



Anyway, today was my sister's birthday! Happy birthday to my sister Yoko! I will do something for her someday!!

My sister's birthday Eve

Tomorrow is my sister's birthday. She will be 23 soon. That's why today was not special day especially. Now she is busy studying for her work. We family have already celebrated her and eaten birthday cake before her real birthday. (> <) I don't know that we have her birthday party tomorrow again. Anyway, I want to have gorgeous dinner!!

Take Back Bag!

After our dinner, we went to Hikarinomori Youme town with my sister's driving. We tried to enjoy shopping. My grandmother and I were looking at new bags. Suddenly, she recommended me one bag. The moment I saw it, it looked good and I got to like it. That's why she bought it for me. As soon as I got it, I began to use it. Firstly, I walked around many shops with it. I lost an interest in that bag while I saw another bags. I was thinking whether I should keep it or not for a minute. Finally, I decided to take back the bag and I did so. I will find a new bag better than it!!

Imari-en

These photos remind me of that taste and make me hungry!!




Today I went to Imari-en with my family for dinner. We ate yakiniku there. My sister really likes yakiniku. When we eat out, we often go to yakiniku shops. Recently, we begin to order Bibimbap. I can't eat spicy Bibimbap, but that Bibimbap was not spicy at all. We also ordered Salad bar. Those foods were good, but I was not hungry so much. Next time we eat out, I want to make me hungry. However, I try not to eat too much. I should care of my health!!

Docomodake

It is Docomodake!!
Do you know it? I put it with my cell phone. Dokomodake is the main character of Docomo. I don't know whether it is a boy or girl. I believe it is a boy, so I will treat it as a boy. I did not have an interest in it at all before. I got to like it since I bought my new phone. Though it seems to be too big to put on my cell phone, it is fine to me. (^ ^)

Movie Review 3

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare’s Romeo ＋ Juliet is romance and tragedy movie. It was directed by Baz Luhrman in 1996. Leonard DiCaprio played Romeo and Claire Danes played Juliet. This Romeo and Juliet is a modernization of the original one. The original Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. This movie won some awards. For example, at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio won the Silver Best Award for Best Actor and director Baz Luhrman won the Alfred Bauer Award. Thank for this movie, many actors were nominated for movie awards. I tell about this story.
Romeo’s family Montagues and Juliet’s family Capulets were mutual enemies.
One day, Juliet’s father gave a party at his house. The Montagues were not invited, but Romeo stole into the party. There they met and fell in love each other. However, their families hated each other, so they shouldn’t make love. After that party, they decided to marry.
The very next day, they could marry. They became real couple, but the problem happened. Romeo’s friend was killed by Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, so Romeo killed Tybalt. That is why Romeo had to leave Juliet. Before his leaving, Romeo spent all night with Juliet. They slept together and he went far away. Juliet father did not know his daughter’s marriage, so he had Juliet marry to Paris who was a rich man. She did not want to marry him, so she went to Friar Laurence who was Romeo’s friend and helped their marriage.
He told her that she should drink a special poison before her marriage. Because of that poison, she became in suspended animation. Many people thought she died and held her funeral. Romeo heard about her death before he knew their plan. He bought a poison, which could kill him and went to see Juliet. He kissed her a lot. When she woke up, he drank that poison. He died in front of her slowly. There was a gun near her. She also killed herself with gun. The families were sad and decided not to fight again.
I have seen this movie for a few times, so I know about the story a little. I think it is nice story, but it is too fantastic. Romeo and Juliet are too early to fall in love. I sometimes think that they can make love easily, but separate easily, too. Considering the stage of this movie is modern, their words are strange. Sometimes I can’t understand their words. Those words fit drama, but doesn’t movie. Speaking of DiCaprio, I am not a big fan of him, but I have seen his several movies. I think that he looks cool in this movie and Taitanic. Anyway, I only know this modern version Romeo and Juliet, so I want to have a chance to see the original version Romeo and Juliet.

Book Review 2-8

I read the book" Kidnap!". I summarize the story.
It was winter. Tom lived in America as a cartoonist. One day, he went out
with his car to find topics for his work. Firstly, he went to a coffee shop in a bookstore. Then he noticed that some white paper fell from a man's hand. He picked it up. He tried to give it to the man, but he could not. Tom found a map in the paper and he put it into his coat. When he got a cup of coffee, there was a woman with red hair near him. He tried to draw her with the paper. After that, he saw the woman standing in front of her car. She said to him that her car had been broken. She asked him to lend his cell phone and then they saw the paper. Tom told her about the men in the bookstore. He thought that a kidnap plan was written in the paper. There was the mark of high school in the paper. The woman's name was Rita. Tom wanted to know the high school to tell the police, so Rita tried to help him find the place. That's why they began to find the high school with his car before someone was kidnapped. At the same time, in Boston a famous movie star and her daughter left their house to go the high school. The movie star's name was Jodie-Anne and her daughter name was Anastasia. When they dropped at a gas station, Tom realized that the men wanted to kidnap Anastasia from a magazine. He told about that to Rita and then her face turned scary. She had a gun in her hand and dug it into him. She was a member of the kidnap group. Rita said that she and the men would kidnap Anastasia and ask her mother for three million dollars. Rita also asked tom to drive. After driving for ten minutes, Tom stopped behind a blue van. There Rita met the men. Just then, a big black car was coming to them. Tom was entered into the van by them. There were Jodie-Anne and Anastasia in the car. Suddenly, everything happened. Rita and the men kidnapped Anastasia. One of the men was Joe and the other was Max. Joe was shot by her bodyguard. However, Rita and Max took her away with the van. Her bodyguard couldn't stop the van. They drove at high speed, but the van skied on the ice and snow. Tom and Anastasia got a chance to get away from them. When they ran away, Max could not get out of the van. Rita found them. Tom jumped on Rita and knocked the gun from her hand. They ran very fast and Rita also followed them. Tom and Anastasia managed to cross an old bridge, but Rita fell into the river. She couldn't swim. Though she was killer, Tom tried to help her. When he tried to do that, many police officers came. Tom was suspected of being a kidnapper by police officers, but Anastasia told them the truth. Finally, they could go home. Tom was happy that he could get great ideas for his comic strip.
This book is level 1 and it is almost comic. However, it was too long for me and made me tired. This story is too unbelievable to enjoy. Though I said so, I will try to read comic books like this!!

Saturday night

On the night of the 6th days, our dinner was Hamburgers. We went to FUDDRUCKERS. I met my host father's brother's family. They are three boys in his family. They are all cute and handsome. They lived in Spain, but they went back to Minnesota then. I greeted them in Spanish.^^ I like Fuddruckers after Burger King. I loved the atmosphere of this restaurant. It was a very American style shop for me. The Burgers are big and the meat is good quality. There I noticed many plump people.



I ate this whole hamburger set all by myself and I remembered that I drank seven glasses of soft drink. It was so yummy!! My host family was surprised about my appetite. Afterwards I also ate a cookie. I regretted eating and drinking too much. (> <) Anyway, I would often eat hamburgers lots during stay in America. Perhaps, I ate hamburgers at least 8 times. I love American hamburgers. I wanna visit there again!! I really had good time there. I wanna take my family and friends there.

After our dinner, I met my host sister Christina at the airport. She had stayed in Mexico for her church trip during my first week in Minnesota. I also met Sarah's boyfriend Chris there. Christina likes ice cream very much, so we went to the ice cream shop Culver's.
This chocolate ice cream was too sweet and made me ill. Finally, I ate it all. My stomach became worse then. > < I really got calories too much that day. However, it was my best memorable night. I wanna come back to that day!!

Saturday noon

She took me a Swedish Church after visiting downtown St. Paul. It was an old beautiful church.There we met my host grandmother Marmar. We walked around this church. I could learn about the history of Swedish who immigrated to Minnesota. We took time to visit a cafeteria in this church and we ate sweets. Anyway, I like this church because I felt like I was in a Disney Movie like Beauty and the Beast.

Saturday morning

On the 6th days morning, I went to St. Paul with my host family.

At first, we went to a market there. There were many foods and different race people. I enjoyed watching many shoppes and eating foods. I ate corn and spring roll there. I remembered that my host mother bought lots of vegetables.
After that shopping, my host mother took me downtown St. Paul. I saw many beautiful buildings and cute statues like a dinosaur, Snoopy and other Peanuts' characters. The author of Peanuts was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. I took photos with the statues of Peanuts' characters.

St. Paul looked like New York or a European city. I really wanted to stay there longer.

Fake birthday cake

Today was not my sister's birthday, but my sister impulsively bought a birthday cake at Swiss. My sister's real birthday is November 25. It was too early for me to celebrate for her birthday. I wondered why she bought this cake there, but I got known her reason later.
She had eaten this cake at her firm before. That's why she just wanted us to eat this cake. My sister made this cake look her real birthday cake. My mom and I celebrated her unofficially.
It was really unexpected birthday party!!

Book Review 2-7

I read the book "LOST LOVE and Other Stories". There were 6 short stories. I will summarize Lost love.
There was a young guy who lived in a city. He wanted to see the country, so he went there with his car. When he drove his car, his car stopped suddenly. He needed to get some petrol and should walk a town. When he got lost, he saw the girl. She was pretty. She asked him to come with her to the village. He followed her. Her name was Mary. There was a village, and it was old and pretty. She invited her house and then he met her parents. They were nice, but looked poor. Their foods were not so good. He liked her, so he didn't mind about it especially. He stayed all day and enjoyed having dinner with them. Suddenly, she asked him to leave there that night. She said to him that there was dangerous there. He didn't want to leave, but had to do that. It was midnight. He walked and walked. He managed to find a town and then got known about that village. One man said to him " There was a village there, but it isn't there now." The man also told him about the history of that village. There happened a war in that village 350 years ago and then people in the village were killed by Oliver Cromwell. He couldn't believe his story. The man also told to him an interesting story. For one day every ten years, it lived again and went away again for another ten years. If a person didn't leave before morning or he would never leave. He loved Mary, so he decided to go back to the village. He now had to wait two months. The village would come again. He would find her again and never leave before morning. He would stay with her.
I will also summarize the other story "The doll" shortly.
Mr Brown was lonely guy. One day, he bought a old doll at a small shop. It was strange and odd doll, but he liked it. He met some unbelievable accidents since he got that doll. He became unhappy day by day. For example, he was disliked by people. He wanted to get it away from him. He tried to threw it again and again. However, it always came back to him. That's why he tried to burn it at his garden. The fire got bigger and bigger. Suddenly there was a loud cry, and people run of his house. There was a big fire round the house and garden. They couldn't find him, but there was a doll near the fire. It was not a pretty doll and there was a smile on its face.
I like this book well. Each stories were short, but interesting for me. This book is level 2, but easy to read. It did not take much time to read. Speaking of Lost love, the guy was crazy for me. He didn't meet Mary so much, but he kept loving her so long time. I think there are many girls like her in the world. I know what this story wants to tell, so I don't say about it anymore. Talking of The doll, I don't like this story so much. The ending was different to what I had expected. I expected its happy end. However, I will recommend my friends to read this book!!

My favorite juice

I like Koiwai's apple juice and orange juice. I liked orange than apple, but yesterday my grandmother bought 6 apple bottles and 2 orange bottles at a supermarket for me. I was shocked that orange bottles were less than apple. I tried to drink apple juice and then it was yummy for me. That's why I am crazy about both of them now!! (^-^)

Japanese teacher again

I became a Japanese teacher at Japanese class again. I made a plan and prepared many things for my class. I wanted to have much time for preparing this, but I was also busy because of Takuma-sai. I didn't have much time to think about this, but I managed to prepare many games, cards and so on. It was the second time that I became a Japanese teacher, so I expected that I did not get nervous. In fact, I got nervous and looked scary. I forgot to smile. > <
My students were only Japanese who pretended to be foreigners. I want to teach Japanese real foreigners someday!!

Takuma-sai

We had School festival called Takuma-sai from Nobember 1th to 3th. I belong to club, so I was busy during Takuma-sai. We sold Japanese noodle Udon. Udon is one of my favorite dishes. Our shop was soso popular and soso busy. I bought one by myself.

We had to arrive at school at 7 am everyday during this time. I was always sleepy and tired.
(> <)
This is Udon we sold. It was 200 yen!!

Book Review 2-6

I read the book "JUST LIKE A MOVIE". I summarize this story.
Brad Black was a handsome guy. He met a girl whose name was Gina at a theater. They fell in love soon. They liked watching movies and wanted to live in Paris. They wanted to marry, but they were poor. One day they went to see a movie called Dead Money. It was about a rich old man and a poor young woman. The young woman married the old man, but the man was so old and sick and died soon. She got a lot of money from his death and got marry a young boyfriend. Brad watched that movie and though he could get money like that. When he worked, he met a rich girl Carrie. She was rich, but lonely. She was not his type, but he approached her for money. She also liked him. They finally married, but he still loved Gina. He wanted to marry Gina soon, so he wanted to kill Carrie and get her money. However, he did not know how to kill Carrie, so he got idea from another movie In High Drama. In the movie, the guy took the girl on the roof and then killed her. The police thought she fell. That's why Brad tried to do like that, but it was failure. It worked in the movie, but it didn't work for him. Then, two days later, Carrie had gone anywhere. He tried to find her and called the police. They came to the house and asked him a lot of question. A week later the police came back to the house. They talked about a killer Mr. Black who killed three women in Rosedale. They thought that he was Carrie's killer, too. When he heard it, he pretended to be sad. That night he went to bed and thought about money. He did not wait to get her money, so he tricked the police. He thought the police thought Carrie was dead and got a lot of money soon. He also watched the movie Fat Cats. It was about a poor American boy who got money from his rich aunt. He called Gina. He told her that they would be rich and go to Paris. A few days later he met Gina and they went to the airport. When they arrived there, two policemen walked toward them. They went to a small room and talked about Carrie Black and her money. Gina did not say anything and smile at him. Then the door opened and a girl walked in. It was Carrie. To tell the truth, Gina and Carrie became friends long time ago. They liked each other so much. When they talked about their boyfriend and husband, they were same person. Carrie knew that he wanted to kill her. That's why Gina and Carrie made a plan to arrest him. He was put into prison. After that, he told this story to his new friend Joe in prison. Joe looked at the newspaper on the table. Then he got known about Gina and Carrie. They wrote his story and sent it to some movie produces. They got Oscar and became millionaires!!
This story is easy to read, but not so interesting. It was too fantastic. Brad is a main character, but not hero. In that way, this book is nice. However, if I would be Gina, I did not help Carrie. I also never forgive Brad.