Stranger than Fiction

I watched "Strenger than Fiction".
I have been interested in this movie since the movie was shown for the first time at theater. And I watche it on DVD at last!!

This story is about the man, Harold Clik who spends everyday nothing change.
He is an auditor. So Everydays, he counts all the number of times. For example, he counts times moving his hands when he brushes his teeth. And he counts the number of steps from his house to a bus stop. He is sobriety itself. He wakes up as same times everyday He brushes as same times everyday. He walks to a bus stop as same times everyday. He works as same times everyday. He comes home as same times everyday. He eats dinner(lonley) as same times everyday. He takes a bath as same times everyday. And he goes to bed as same times everyday. He spend everyday nothing change...

BUT!! A problem happened!!
One day, when he brushed his teeth, he heard someone speaking suddenly.
"Who is talking!?" he said. But he couldn't know. This voice spoke to only him, and the voice narrated his action as if he was a hero in fiction.
Every times he actioned, the voice narrated.
And one day, the voice said, "He'll die!!".
Ahter he heard this words, he was anxious about his death. Then he tried to change this fiction to comedy!! So he tried many things he couldn't ever. He tried to play guitar he wanted since his childhood. He tried to enjoy his life. And he fell in love with a woman who lived in different world from him.


This is a story about "Stranger than Fiction".
The man who was sobriety became to change a new parson. And the fiction became to change.
He tried to change his life. I like such a him!!
When he fell in love, a woman didn't like him because he is very very sobriety.
He did only things decided. So she didn't like him. But she became to fall in love with him more and more. Because he became to change his personality. I like this process!! I also became to fall in love with him!!
When I watched this movie, my heart was beating.
"What will it happen!?" I thought.

This movie is so interesting. If you are interested in the movie, please watch!!
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I Love U.K.

Last Saturday, I watched Sekai Fushigi Hakken on TV. This is a program in Japan. Do you know?
This title means Discovery the Wonders of the World. As this title, it shows the wonders of the world in the program. In this day, it shows United Kingdom, this country I love.
In the program, some women called mystery hunter travel in the world. (In my childhood, I wanted to be a mystery hunter...) And they introduce each country they visited.
This time, a mystery hunter visited Cotswolds in the U.K..

There are many canals because a lot of coals were transported in the Industrial Revolution.

And now, the sightseeing is famous by boats called narrow boats.

In Industrial Revolution, people took narrow boats to transport coals. This boat is so slowly enough to walk, so you can watch beautiful
view.

But there are some problems... In U.K., there are many canals, and these were made each times. So these water lebel are defferent. We must change each water level, it needs muscle power!! Although it's very tired, we must enjoy this journey.


Then a mystery hunter visited a village called "honey color" in Cotswalds.
Why do people call the village "honey color"?? Because there are many houses colored honey. Color of bricks which are used to build houses are honey color. So color of the village is honey color. It's very cute!! And these houses have beautiful garden. There are full of flowers. I'm wondering fairy live in there. The village may appear in fairy tales!!

In Cotswalds, there are many beautiful view, cute house, kind people and so on.
I wanna visit there someday.
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Movie Essay ―Edward Scissorhands―

I'll write about one of my favorite movies, "Edward Scissorhands" as a movie essay.
The director of this movie is Tim Burton. He is famous as he has a very clear-cut personality. And movies he made are very fantastic and impressive.
The cast is Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price and so on.
Johnny Depp usually performs in Tim's movies. For example, These are Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and so on. All of them is very interesting and personality.
And I'll write one of his movies, Edward Scissorhands.
This movie was made in 1990 so you can watch 90' America.
This movie describes an unreal world and a real world, so you can see the world of Tim is so personality.

This is a story about Edward (Johnny Depp) who doesn't have common hands.
He has Scissorhands instead of common hands. And this movie is a sad and love movie about such his love.
He was lonely in a big residence because the man (Vincent Price) who had invented Edward died.
So he was lonely, and he didn't know outside.
But a woman visited his residence as a saleswoman. And he met the human except inventor.
She took a big fancy to him, so she came home with him. But his daughter Kim (Winona Ryder) didn't like him because he was odd, and he had scissorhands.
From there, this story started.
Many problems happened. In these problems, Edward who is made by inventor became to have a heart. And he fell in love with Kim. Then, Kim was gradually charmed by him, too.
But he had no common hands. He had scissorhands. So he couldn't hug her.
In last, a big problem happened. And this problem decided his love.

The music in the movie also make me sad, and impress me.
Although this story is very sad, I feel something warm.
For this reason, this movie attract many people. So this movie is loved by many people include me.
Please watch this movie. You must feel something warm.
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I love Disney

I usually listen songs of Disney recently. I love Disney because Disney is very fantastic and interesting!! In Disney, I like "Alice in the wonderland" and "Little Mermaid".  And I like song of "Little Mermaid", Part of  Your World. Do you know? I have listened this song since my childhood, and I like this song very much. This song is sung by a heroin, Ariel. She wanna go to the world of human, she wanna be a human. But she is a princess of mermaid. So she must not long to go there. 
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The Haunted Hotel

This time, I read this book, The Haunted Hotel.

In this book, there are three children, Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose.

A town they live in, there are a hotel. And a ghost has checked into the hotel, so the children try to find the ghost.

Dink usually take the lead, Josh is timid and Ruth Rose is a steady girl. They are friends.

They visit this hotel, Shangri-la hotel, and they watch something white...

What's that do you think??

You should read this book!! This book is very exciting!!

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Chocolat

Last Saturday, I watched this movie, Chocolat.
I have watched this movie in my high school days, but I watched this time because I like this movie!!
Have you watched this movie?? This movie is about chocolate as movie's title.
There are one old village, this village is very strict. If you live in this village, you must go church every times, you must not get a divorce and more.
In such a village, one woman and one girl appeared. They are a mother and a daughter.
They visited there to open a chocolate store.
But the days when they visited are fast days. A village mayor is too strict to allow this opening chocolate store. But she doesn't mind what he says, so she opens her store.
Chocolate she makes have magical power that attract people. Fast day as there is, some people eat her chocolate. Then, after a village mayer knows this fact, he become agree for opening chocolate store.
But she is not a woman to be daunted by such a thing.
And the man appears in this village. He wanderes from town to town.
He is also hated by a village mayer because he is a vagrant, so many villager also hate him.
But a mother, daughter and some villager like him. And all of them like chocolate.
Then.... a big progrem happens!!


This is a story about Chocolat.
I like this movie!! Although we eat just chocolate, chocolate have magical power!!
Please watch by all means!!
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Essay Drafts of Movie

I'll write about one of my favorite movie, "Edward Scissorhands" as a movie essay.

The director of this movie is Tim Burton. He is my favorite director!! And the cast is my favorite actor, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price and so on.

This is a story about Edward who doesn't have common hands.

He has Scissirhands instead of common hands. And this movie is a sad and love movie about such his love.

He was lonely in a big residence because the man ( Vincent Price ) who had invented Edward died.

So he was lonely, and he didn't know outside.

But a woman visits his residence as a saleswoman. And he meets the human except inventor.
She takes a big fancy to him, so she comes home with him. But his daughter Kim ( Winona Ryder ) doesn't like him because he is odd, and he has scissorhands.

From there, this story starts.

Although this story is very sad, I feel warm something.

For this reason, this movie attract many people.

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Edward Scissorhands

I'll write about one of my favorite movies, "Edward Scissorhands" as a movie essay.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: Tim Burton & Caroline Thompson

Cast: Johnny Depp

          Winona Ryder

          Vincent Price

This is my favorite movie, and I'll write. 

When I first watched this movie, I was very impressed.

This movie is Edward's story, Edward is a man who has scissorhands instead of hands.

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My first visiting America

     In this summer, I'll visit America as foreign study and training. This is my first visiting foreign countries, so I'm very looking forward to visiting there. Last Tuesday, I attended the foreign study and training class. In there, we heard about credit cards, suit cases, the insurance and so on.

Although I'm looking forward to visiting, I'm also anxious about this visiting. Can I talk with my host family in English? Can I make my friends? Can I become used to America? But I think this is natural for first visiting people.

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Stories of WITCHES

I read this book, "Stories of WITCHES".

This story is one witch, Bess's story. She loves parties, and she's going to attend the party.

But there are one problem, she has lost her broomstick, and she can't remember where she loses!!
So she must go to the party without her broomstick. She has just thought of a good idea!! That is going to the party with her magic rope. When she throws her rope over a woman, the woman turns into a horse!! So she goes by her horse. But horse's husband worries his wife, where she is?? And he meets Bess, then she gives her horse, his wife.
And she turns people who she meets into something. Every times, she is taught a lesson.

This book is written in plain English. This story is fun to me.
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happy birthday

Few days ago, I went to a pet shop in Kumamoto city. The day, May 12th is my dog, May's birthday!! And on May 12th this year, she became five years old. So, I went to buy a birthday present to her(^▽^) In the shop, there were many cute pupies!! Although my purpose was buying the present, I couldn't take my eyes off them(´∀｀)After I watched them for a long time, at last, I selected her birthday present, a toy and snack for her. This picture is so.
And after I got home, I gave her them at once. She looked very happy. She played with her toy which sounds PU-PU-. She played without she got tired. I'm also happy!!
Happy birthday to my May＼(^_^)／

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The Essay of Kumamoto

The Traditional Folk Songs of Kumamoto
I have been living in Kumamoto, and I was brought up with these songs.
If you have been living in Kumamoto, you must have listened these songs.
Although I have listened these, I don't know these well, so I'll write about the traditional folk
songs of Kumamoto.

1. Otemoyan(おてもやん)

Otemoyan is a traditional folk song of Kumamoto.
She is called Otemo (←). She is a young lady in the Meiji (明治).
This song, Otemoyan is a song for her marriage.
This is very comical and rhythmical.
Then, I translated Japanese, Otemoyan into English.

Otemoyan
"I heard that you have been married recently."
"Yes, I have been married. But my husband is a too plain-looking, so we haven't held our wedding ceremony yet. We'll be all right because there are many people, a public official of a village, a manager, ago-between. "

This is the words of Otemoyan. Although Otemo tells her husband is plain-looking, I don't think she is discouraged for her marriage. I think this song is a interesting song rather than a sad song, and I think Otemo is so comical girl!!

This picture is Otemoyan in front of a traffic center in Kumamoto.

2. Senba-Tanuki （せんば狸）


Senba-Tanuki is one of traditional folk songs of Kumamoto. ( Tanuki means a racoon dog.)
This song is a Kemari-song. The Kemari is a sort of football by nobles in ancient Japan, so Kemari-song is sung when we play Kemari.
Senba-Tanuki songs about Kumamoto.
I think there are two people in this song, and they are talking.

"Where are you from?"
"I'm from Higo. (肥後)" ( Higo means old Kumamoto.)
"Where is Higo?" " There is Kumamoto." " Where is Kumamoto?" "There is Senba!! There are many racoon dogs in the Senba mountain."

We sing this talking on the rhythm. This is very rhythmical.
In the old days, people eat racoon dogs. Of course, some people eat them now.
I think this song means the old days. The Senba mountain actually exist, but the Senba mountain is actually a hill. This hill is in Kumamoto Daiichi high school. There are some racoon dogs now.

3. Itsuki-no-komoriuta（五木の子守唄）


Itsuki-no-komoriuta is also one of traditional folk songs of Kumamoto. Itsuki means Itsuki village in Kumamoto.
But This song is a sad lullaby.
In the past, the girl who is poor must go to find the work, so many girl works as babysitter.
This Itsuki-no-komoriuta is a sad song of girls when they works very hard.
Although this song called a lullaby, this song isn't for babies, I think.
This song is the poor girls song for herselves. This song sings her sadness and pain.



This time, I knew about traditional folk songs of Kumamoto.
I have often listened these songs, but I didn't know about these.
I studied these songs this time, I thought we must hand down from us to our sons and daughters.


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Amelie

I'll write one of my favorite movies, Amelie.

Amelie is a French movie, and this movie is so cute!!(^^)

Amelie is a girl ( Although she is a lady, I wanna call her a girl!!) She is very shy girl, and she is good at finding some little happiness. Her thinking is little odd, but I like her thinking!! She has a very clear-cut personality. Such a she falls in love with a boy who is also little shy and odd. They don't make their love so smooth... BUT!! Amelie plans her strategy.

This is Amelie's story. I like this movie, music, an image and Amelie!! Audrey Tautou as Amelie is very cute. (^^)

Please watch this movie!!

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essay prep of Kumamoto

I'll write about folk songs of Kumamoto.

I have been living in Kumamoto. If you have been living Kumamoto, you must have listened some traditional folk song of Kumamoto. So I'll write about it.

1. Otemoyan (おてもやん）

Otemoyan is a traditional folk song of Kumamoto. This song is widely known in all Japan.

Otemo is a lady in the Meiji (明治) period1. Otemoyan is a song of her. This song is very interesting and rhythmical song.

2. Senba-tanuki (せんば狸）

Senba-tanuki is a folk song of Kumamoto. This song is a Kemari-song. The Kemari is a sort of football by nobles in ancient Japan, so Kemari-song is sung when we play Kemari.

Senba-tanuki songs about Kumamoto.

3. Itsuki-no-komoriuta (五木の子守唄）

This song is is a sad lullaby. In the past, the girl who is poor must go to find work, so the girl works as babysitter. This Itsuki-no-komoriuta is a sad song of girls when they work very hard.

I'll write about these traditional folk songs.

I'm going to write the words of these songs, and write about what's mean.

Lastly, I'll write my opinion and so on.

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Golden Week

I enjoyed my Golden Week. In first day, I went to Nagasaki. In Nagasaki, I visited many places. For example, I visited Heiwa park, foreigner graveyard, the Urakami church and so on. And I saw beautiful night view. I enjoyed my visiting Nagasaki. I wanna visit there again!!

From the next days, I had two part jobs, so i was very busy. But I enjoyed these days. In these days, I met an old friend who has been being my best friend since I was elementary schoolchild. She is a university student majoring in music, so she is good at singing. She asked me a part job, singing part job. When I was high school student, I learned singing. This is singing in a choir, so I sung in a marriage ceremony. This job made me very nervous.

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Bye-Bye...

This is my shoes. When I work my part job, I wear this shoes.
BUT...!! This shoes has broken!! Oh my god...!!
So I determinded to throw away. I liked this shoes..., so I'm very sad.
But I can't wear these more long time, so good bye my shoes...
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My Best Friend

Today, I met a friend. She is my best friends, and I made friends with her since elementary schoolchild. She is a sophomore majoring in music, so she is good at singing.
This photo is her pets, Figaro and Chobi. They are parent and child. They are soooo cute!!
Do you think so??

My friend studies in university far from my hometown, so we can't meet many times. But we have been being best friends!!
Today, we talked about many things, and we enjoyed our talking!!
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In NAGASAKI

Hi, today, I went to Nagasaki!!
Today was very hot...(:*O*) But I enjoyed my visiting Nagasaki. In Nagasaki, we visit many famous places. For example, we visited Nagasaki city, Heiwa park, a foreigner graveyard and so on. And we saw beautiful night view!! Night view in Nagasaki is very famous in Japan. Have you saw that? If you have never saw that, please see!!
In my visiting Nagasaki, we enjoyed many places... BUT!! We enjoyed eating...(^^)
I ate many kind of foods. In these, my favorite food is this!!

What's this do you think!!??
This is.... ice cream!! This looks like a rose!! Old lady who sell this ice cream made to me(^^) This was little sweet and very cold. Today was very hot, so my eating was very good!! ...Oohhhh!! I forgot to eat Saraudon and chanpon... These are very famous foods in Nagasaki. However I forgot... Oh my god!! I'll eat these next visiting Nagasaki!!

We enjoyed Nagasaki very much!!
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BENNY & JOON

This is one of my favorite movies, "BENNY & JOON". My favorite actor, Johnny Depp is a star in this movie.

This story is a younger sister's love story. Her name is Joon, and her older brother is Benny. Joon has a sick mind, so her brother, Benny always takes care her. And then, one odd young man appeared. This is Johnny Depp as Sam!! He is very strange, but he has very kind mind. Joon and Sam gradually charmed each other... BUT!! Benny thinks it's NOT GOOD because his sister has sick mind and her boyfriend is very odd. So Benny worries charming them...

This is "BENNY & JOON"'s story. When I watched this, I fell in love with Sam!! Although he is so odd, his love for Joon is very cool!! I became more and more love Johnny(^^)

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Holiday

In my Goldenweek, I have two part jobs, so very busy. But first day, I'm going to Nagasaki with my friends. We have been planning few days ago. I'm looking forward to visiting to Nagasaki. In there, we'll visit many place. Nagasaki has many famous places, peace place, housetemboss, and more. But we don't think where we go, so we have no plan!! But our visiting will be good.

By the way, I have two part jobs. One is at a supermarket, and the other is at a marriage. My friend who studies music in university asked me part job of marriage.

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My Father's Birthday

Today, May 1, is my father's birthday.We celebrated his birthday, so we ate out this night.
Our family is very good family!! I love my family, of course, I love my father!!(^^)
Today, I gave a present my father. I bought this present, a coin purse few days ago. This is my favorite coin purse, so I gave him. He looked happy, so I became happy!!
Happy birthday, my father!!
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