China ( 4 )

Day 4. This was January 1th 2010, it was new year day. In China they have three holidays, but their new year is the lunar New Year. It was not so noisey day. Of course, they celebrated the New Year. Some people was sang a New Year song. I heard sound of cracker. I started to sightseeing. First we went to the old town in Houou. There is very histirical town, it is like a town before 30 years ago in Japan. In Houou, we had a river cruse for about twenty minutes. We had a local lunch. At noon we went to Nanpou-Cyoujyou, there is a large wall like a great wall in Beigin. First there is 200 stone stairs and we cango up another 400 stone steps, if you like. I went up top of the wall, total 600 steps. It was hard for me. The view of top of the wall was very good. We went back hotel and had a diner at hotel. ( 167 words )

China ( 3 )

Day 3. We had to move Houou this day, Houou was far from Choukakai. We left hotel at 8:00. On the way to Houou, We had to rest at three times. Before we leave Choukakai, we went to a limestone cave named Kouryudou. We went in there and we had to get on boat who can seat 22 person. We took a boat to have a sightseeing for fifteen minutes. After got off it, we moved to the entrance. And we went to eat a lunch in Cyoukakai, them we left here. In the rest house in China, we had to pay for one Gen for useing toilet. One Gen is about 15 Yen now. We can buy chocolate, biscuits etc. We arrived at 18:45 at hotel in Houou. And we had a dinner at our hotel. ( 137 words )

China ( 2 )

Day 2. On 29th December, We went to Bryougen National park to see a sightseeing. Our guide is Mr. Ryou. He is chinese and twenty-five years old. He is young man. Fiest we went to the entrance of the national park with bus. In the park we had to chang the private bus for there. We went up the mountain with the elevator named hyakuryuu. That one took us up 326 meters high. It took us less one minutes. After that we had to walk along the moutains, which is very steep mountain road for two hours. One of the customer is 85 years old, so she is difficult to walk so steep road. Then she hire, which took her with two men holds a large basket. It costed 4500 Yen. The view of the road was very nice. We took a bus again, then we had a lunch. The lunch was chinese style. We also used ropeway, it took us down about five minutes. We went to Houhou-lake next. We had to walk a steep road and about 200 stone steps, after that we could get on small ship. When we are in ship, one girl and boy of the minority race sung s their song. After that we went to tee shop and we went back our hotel. ( 220 words )

English Conversation School

Yesterday I went to English Conversation School too. I go there three times a week. There are four people a class. First we talked about what we did last week or this week. A person took two hours to her office the day it was snow. She said normally it took twenty minutes. We learned a relative pronoun. ( 58 words )

Book Review ( 6 ) MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

It is the story of Mary, Queen of Scots. The author was Ms. Bess Curle. She began to write the story in January 1587. She had many experienced life. She have a son, his name is " James". Now she is trying to be killed by Queen Elizabeth, so she decided to write a letter to her son.
When she was a baby, her father died, then she became a Queen of Scotland. When she was five years old, she went to France to marry the King of France's son, his name is Francis. In 1559, his father died, her husband, Francis became a King. Then she became Queen of France and Queen of Scotland. When he was sixteen years old, he died. It was 1560. Then she had to come back Scotland. First people in Scotland were pleased to see her, but there was one of problem for her. That is she was catholic and Scotland was Protestant.
She married Henry Darnley in July 1565. He was nineteen years old and she was twenty-three years old. He was a tall man, with a beautiful face and green eyes. She felt happy when she was with him. He didn't like King's job like reading many letters, talking to people, thinking about important things. He always went out and drunk a lot. He was not good King and husband. One day the man who is her friend was killed, because people in the castle misunderstood he and Queen were lover, then he was killed. She also tried to be killed by them. She had to leave far from Scotland.
Her baby, James was born on 19th June. After that her husband, Lord Darnley was ill and he was killed to someone. Next she thought she is killed by someone.
She married Lord Bothwell on 15th May 1567. They fought with enemies and she was taken to Scotland and was in prison. Her husband Lord Bothwell went over the sea, and died in a prison in Denmark.
　　One day　William Douglas and she left the prison and rode away through the night. She fought them, but she lost the fight. She had to run away. So she rode south, to England. She thought Queen Elizabeth helped her and she could go back Scotland too. But that was wrong. She had to be in prison in England for twenty years. Now she is forty-five. 8th February 1587 she was killed. She thought people think she killed her husband. She wanted to complaind to her innocent, so she wrote a letter to her son, James. We thought Queen was pleased and happy in her life, but actualy sometimes it is wrong. ( 447 words )

English Conversation School

Today I went to English Conversation School too. Normaly I go there three times a week. There are three students toady. My teacher is from England, so he is going to run a Tokyo marathon next month, then we were talking about that. And we had a quiz. This is a quiz that one person was given a paper from teacher, and we can't show them a paper, we have to give a question without saying answer to them. It was funny. I learn some phrase today. ( 87 words )

English Conversation School

I began to go to English Conversation School from last week. Today I went there to take a class. There are six people at class. First we talked about snow, because it was heavy snow in this morning. This was big topic at class. It is seven centimeter. And we were talking each other about our news. ( 57 words )

Driking party

Yesterday I went to drinking party with my classmate and student. This is a party of the teaching profession study. I had a this class every Thursday in this semester. Six people were taking this class. Last week it was a last class, then we had a party.
Yesterday we meet in front of Daiei, then we went to a Japanese style restaurent named "Kuroneko". It is located near Tsuruya. It casts 3000 yen include free drinking and eating. We ate meets, salads, fishes and Nabe etc, and drank some kind of alcohol. I spent good time for two hours. After that I went to a second party, which is restaurent named " Doma-doma". That cost is very cheap, it costs 1000 yen include free drinks. Also we stayed there for about two hours. Every students are forth year, so we will graduate this year. A stident is going to work at high school, other student is going to work at cram school. others will study for employment examination for teacher. I had a good time yeaterday.