These days..

I think that it is so changeable weather especially this year in Japan. Some days it is quite hot, but the day after it turned to be cool and chilly. I have never experenced such changeable temperture in this season. never! What's happening to Japan? :( I feel that the global warming is getting serious and serious.. Although it is often discussed and warned through media such as TV recently, what have we done for the earth exactly? What can we do for it? Humans can't change nature, coming disasters. So the most thing we should care is absolutely the weather - global warming. We each should reserch about it and try to save the earth and save our future!

As the temperture is very changeable these days, I have to think our tomorrow. :O

*this is a picture of a part of England I have been to.

AIMARBLE

I am going to tell you about a small restaurant / cafe where I work for as my part-time job. This shop is called "kitchen and cafe AIMARBLE" Aimarble means "kind" in French. yes, this shop is a kind of French restaurant founded by a Sheff who has worked and experienced its job in some famous hotels in Japan and also in France for a long time! He cooks self-arranged menu even a bread. And this shop just opened last month near Mukonoso station in Amagasaki, next to Nishinomiya city. and so i am an opening staff.
Anyway I think that his is a good place to learn a lot of things like cooking and a service to our customers. Although my service skill is very poor at the moment, I am sure that i will be able to improve myself through this job because the Sheff is so strict to watch us, which is good for us.
Talking of its menu, there are many fashionable cooking, especially a cheese fondue. You can hardly find restaurants where you can eat it except my shop. haha :D
Other menu is of course good taste as well. Yum Yum. xx I am strongly recommend you to come around my shop! If you're over 20, you can also drink alcohols and it is very welcome for us to come around my shop by yourself! We also have counter seats! lol

Oh is this just an ad? no no because this is my favorite cafe / kitchen / restaurant I know. So I'd like to you to come!!!!! AIMARBLE - where you can smile and relax yourself.

My 1st trip to China!

Hi everyone! This time im gonna talk about my trip to China with my friend as our graduation trip 2 months ago. We tried to make up preparations to go there on our own as much as we could.
Before i had bn to China, my image of the country was like - noisy, full of bicycles, dirty, and dangerous.. those negative things..
But actually I found that many people get on an electric bikes than bicycles, and I visited some World heritages which are so beautifully combinationed with nature, green.

Although there are many shop assistants who strongly push us to buy their goods ( and I was a bit scared), I enjoyed different cultures in China so much!!
I also found some problems for citizens in China - it is much rains in Shanghai and in front of houses, there was like a little river, a small flood.. i guess the government doesnt move for them. theres a big gap between the rich and the poor I felt.

Anyway I went to China with my friend as on tour with many strangers from Japan but the tour coordinater was Chinese, so i learnt Chinese a bit, such as "Hello", "Konnichiwa", "Ohayou", and "Otsukaresama." and I met many people during the tour - there was an old man who left Kwangaku many years ago, so he is my older student!!! aha :D xx
I experienced many other things as well! it was a nice trip ever!! My image of China has a little changed since I hav bn there. I feel that visiting a place actually is the best way to know there rather than expect them just as a stereotypes. :)

Yeah this trip encouraged me to learn Chinese at Keangaku!

My Hometown !

I live in Amagasaki for my life so far :D

It is very convenience to live here, cuz we can go to many big places to shop, such as COCOE, Daie-, Tsukashin, and Diamond city by only bicycle! we can also go to Umeda and Sannomiya less than 30 min. So I really dont wanna leave my city in my future if i can.. aha It is soooo comfy!!
And there are many nice citizens here. Almost of strangers here often talk to me easily! lol They are so warm-harted! I recommend you to live in Amagasaki and get your own bicycle!! So you can go everywhere in the city.

Anyway it is famous that the Japanese famous comedian DOWNTOWN grew up in this city!

My future..★

hi :) Im going to talk about my future dream..

erm.. actually i havent decided what job i will difinitely do. but in my future, id like to use English for my job. For example, if i can help some work in English or communicate someone important with English in a office.
But i also have a unclear dream.
Id like to go aloo over the world and help international confirences or help people / children who are feeling hard to live in the country such as poverty, education, racial problem, or war. so im just thinking of JICA if I can be a member of it..
So im gonna study hard and get loads of information, knowledge in this university this coming great 4 years for unnumrous international problems.
In addition, i would like to talk about those problems with many diffrent people and they will probabry inspire me!!

An amazing teacher ever!!!

hiya I'm gonna talk about my tutor at my high skol for great 3 years.

My class in my HS was called 'English course' and it wont b changed the class and the tutor for 3 years! My tutor was a Canadian woman, who has bn in Japan almost 10 years. For the 3 years, she taught us many Canadian cultures such as foods, events, and customs. Also she bring a big hand-made/or not birthday cake into our class to cerebrate some classmates who are birthday girls/boys in the month. it was so fun and we thought 'what a freedom and awesome class it is!!'

She was like our mum - always she gives us advices when we face to difficulties, if some classmates did not-good things like teasing others, she warned them and stopped it seriously. in her class, International Understandings, we experienced eating fair-trade goods, lending actual money for those who really need money to live their life in the 3rd world... We had a Halloween party, Christmas party, the English camp which she had prepared almost all by herself for us, International parties with exchange students as well. Our great 3 years wiz her was really unforgettable! We all cant tell her how we thank her, how we had been helped by her...

on our graduation day, after the ceremony, she showed us a slide show appearing pictures of our 3 years with nice music she wrote for us with her band! We all were so amazed, moved, and cried... She Is actually our AWESOME teacher ever!!! Thanks to her, our 3 years had bn so great, fresh, and loads of good memories!

With good memories and experiences for those 3 years, im gonna do my best on my 4 years at Kwangaku!! And yes, TRY SOMETHING NEW TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxx

Kwangaku - my 1st impression

Hiya my name is Kimiko and i just got into Kwangaku university this month.. What I've realized through this new life so far is that this uni is absolutely amazing than i expected! the view is very beautiful, feeling freedom, useful to buy something when we need it, people here have got their originality which inspires me a lot, and classes are fresh to me! :D

At the opening ceremony, i felt a bit nervous with a little tight suit and my new friends from all parts of Japan such as Kagawa, Oi ta, Osaka, Nara, and Hyogo.. but everything in Kwangaku is kind to me and now I'm getting accustomed to be here as a 1st student of International Studies department in this uni.

All of tasks are of course responsible for the student, not the teacher like until last year and so I've already made a mistake that i missed the deadline to apply for attending the class i wanted to take this Spring term.. It was absolutely my fault. it was shame but so I'm going to check the schedule carefully not to miss the deadlines anymore. :P

Also the facilities in this uni are so great I think. For example, the big library, the fast food - Subway, two additional convenience stores, Fujita global lounge where we can meet up with exchange students and watch the news from all over the world, and the big grass in front of the clock tower where not only students but also citizens who live around here can use to play and to relax.

Now I'm thinking about which classes to take and which circle groups to be involved..

I'm gonna do my best in my short campus life! XD thanks for reading! C ya xx