Some thoughts*

Good morning everyone.
I am having a cold for like almost two weeks..:( Please be careful not to catch a cold!
So for today's blog, I am going to response to the articles on Japan Times.


By reading the article "Don't judge marines too fast" which is a response to the article Four marines investigated for rape", it was really shocking to know about the thoughts of the author, Sandoval. In his sight, it is almost like it cannot help them doing like that to a woman who is working at a bar. What kind of opinion is that? It is just disgusting. Also how can this person think like the U.S. military is the best in the world and other countries can nothing without their work. Maybe it is true, however, it is something wrong that he is saying like it is related to this matter.

Against that article, the author of another one Disgusting outlook on women" is saying the fairer opinion, especially "Even for the well-respected members of the U.S. military, if wrongdoing is suspected it needs to be investigated".

It seems like Sandoval is discriminating about people who are working at the bars by saying "I know what type of people work in these places". Is it not a big problem that women are raped? Because those women are working at the bars? Or, should we forgive them who might actually raped a woman? Because they are well-respected people? That's totally wrong thoughts. People are people, they should be treated as the same as ordinary people who are suspected of raping.

For Sandoval, She seems to be really proud of the U.S. military and their work or something, but it is irrelevant to this matter that a woman was raped by four marines. Wrong thing is wrong. There should be no exception on this matter.


Thank you.

IES program*

Hello, everyone.
Today's topic of blog is "Why I am in IES".

Because before I entered this university, I knew that there is an IES program - which is like we can take English classes by foreign teachers, and I thought I wanted to get into this program because I really wanted to study English. However, to get into this program, I had to get a high score on TOEFL - which every freshman have to take for deciding which class they will be in. I didn't have any confidence that I could get into any classes of IES, so I thought IF I could get into it, that would be lucky. So I had a desire that since I go to Kansai Gaidai University, I wanted to be in the IES program. Then I took the TOEFL before actually entering this university, as I said above, and for some reasons, I could get into this class. I am really glad to be in this class actually. Before I got into this program, I was thinking like the class would be really good and fun for me because.. maybe students do study English intensively and teachers who teach them are native speakers. So I decided to choose IES program to take, IF I could. Studying English intensively is what I really wanted to do at the university because I really like English, this reason would be come first, and maybe it will good for me or help me in the future since I want to get a job which I can use English somehow. For those reasons, I decided to take the IES program and Fortunately I got a good score on TOEFL, so I am here.

Kansai Gaidai Univeristy: website

I love marching<3

Hi everyone, how are you doing?
Actually I am having a cold right now. I cannot stop caughing, yes, it sounds really sick because I am real sick. So everyone please be careful not to catch a cold.. since the range of temprature is really wide in these days, it is easy to catch a cold I guess:(


So, I just finished writing my essay for the assignment and my topic was "The marching". I would like to talk about it here too,lol. The marching is awesome, so much fun. Well, at first, I want to begin with how I got to know about the marching. When I was junior high school, we had to belong to a club. So I decided to get in the brass band because I like music. That's it. I did not know about any instruments at that time or anything about the brass band. After I got in that club, I decided to play the saxophone for my instrument because I do not know.. maybe I liked that shape and sounds. Now I have my own alto saxophone with me and I really love it. So this club, of course does just playing the music, but also they do the marching, too. I did not know anything about the marching but through doing it I really become like to do it and now I love the marching.

We participated some competitions every year, and our school was kind of high level. We could go to the all Japan competition when I was in the 2nd year, that was amazing. Of course, we practiced really hard, especially in the summer, the practice time was like from 8:30am to 7:00pm.. yes it was so long and we did it outside so it was SO hot and tired. But we were (at least my a couple friends and I) pretty into it, so our memory about the brass band club is really big for us.

I wanted to show you guys my pictures of that marching thing but unfortunately I did not have on this my new laptop so I cannot:( So instead of that, I will put a picture of something I took last year at my high school school festival.

Oh if you want to know more about marching, please ask me:) lol

Busyness*

Hello. It is getting colder in these days and I am really happy with that. I hope the winter will come so soon.


My life has been real busy in these days so the time is passing by so fast for me. Actually the second semester is shorter than first semester so I guess the winter vacation will come soon too. The reason why my life has been busy is that maybe I started the part-time job, I actually started that in the beginning of September but I was still on the vacation at that time so it was not that hard for me. Then the second semester has started and we are having a lot of homework everyday, well it is not like I am working everyday but two days at least for a weekdays so maybe that is why I am feeling busy right now.

So I am going to talk about my work a little bit for today. I am working at the yakiniku restaurant now, it is not that big restaurant. Some people who work there are nice, some are ..not actually, lol. Actually I am not having fun with my work but I am doing it because I need money, if we need money, then we have to work you know. On weekdays, it is not busy at all. It is not good for me actually because there is nothing to do if nobody comes, and that means I really feel the time passes REAL slow. I usually work at 6 to 10 p.m. so it is only 4 hours work but I feel like I am working for 6 or 7 hours maybe. However, on the weekend, many people come and eat, sometimes there are some people who are even waiting for the seats spare. I think the food we serve at that restaurant is really good so I want a lot of people to come:) The menu I really want to recommend is Ishiyaki Bibimba. We have some kinds of that, but any of that taste really good. The smell of the food, yakiniku or bibimba makes me really hungry sometimes when I am working. Oh speaking of the smell, because the smell of yakiniku is kind of strong, I always think like I hope I will not smell like yakiniku.. that would be really gross!


It is hard or making me tired that going to school and work ..and also doing homework but I hope, by through this experience, I will be the kind of person who can spend the time usufully. No waste of time. haha. But sometimes this busy-ness makes me really ..kind of sick and feel like I cannot do anything anymore. I will do my best on those but no overwork:P

A respond to two articles

Hi, everyone.
For today's blog, I am going to respond to two articles (first one and second one) I have read.


I thought this is really interesting topic, maybe we are losing "Japanese" things. Actually we are using a lot of loanwords, gairaigo, instead of using Japanese own words, as the author of first one said. I do not think that we are using that much long or difficult katakana words in our speaking or writing, however, I can say we see those words on the newspaper or advertisements. What I thought by through reading these articles is that those words are making it harder. We are having Kanji from a long time ago, and a single kanji has its own meaning so even if there are some difficult words in kanji when I am reading a newspaper or something, I would know or at least be able to guess what that word means. So in spite of having such a good character, we are still taking and using gairaigo.

I actually have seen otaku, the author of first one talked about, and I agree that they are using "jargon" to show people their knowledge. I cannot understand why they are doing such a thing but I think that would be making communication between people harder. Then they are making small groups which only people who can understand and use those words are in. I think they are narrow their world by themselves.

Probably it is difficult to put our language back to original one, but I hope it will not be harder than now in our communication because of that.