The Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is a range in England. A fertile natural environment has been in the range. Also many old houses colored honey are been keeping with pretty nature. The Cotswolds is so pretty range as if it appears in fairy tales.

Helen Beatrix Potter who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit was born and grew up in the Cotswolds. She wrote stories that animals appear with much nature. She loved the nature and animals living in such environment in the Cotswolds. From her stories, people can see how pretty the Cotswolds is, and how she loves the Cotswolds is.

The Cotswolds are popular as sightseeing because tranquil time is flowing there. Something that people can’t feel in city is in the Cotswolds, I think. The Cotswolds is special range for people.

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My Favorite Actor and Actresses

Minnesota

I'm talking about my favorite place, Minnesota.

My Introduction

Hi, I'm Yohko.  I'm 29 years old now. I'm enjoying my life, I married my best partner, and I work very hard.

When I was 19 years old, I wanted to get a job as a tour conductor. So I studied English and about traveling very much.

And at last, my dream came true when I was 23 years old. Then I guide many countries. And when I was a university student, I wanted to travel around the world. And this dream also came true!! Four years ago, I was traveling around the world with my present husband. He is kind and reliable. We get along very well. So I love him (^^)

 

We have a three children, a elder brother and a younger twin sisters. A boy is 3 years old, and twin girls are 1 years old. They are naughty children, but kind boy and girls. I wish they grow good boy and girls.

Now I live a full life with my love husband and children. And my parents and elder sister are fine!! Of course, my dog, May, too. She is 15 years old now. She is so old dog, but she is fine. My father takes May out for a walk everyday as 10 years ago.

 

I have a dream now. After my children marry, I and my husband will live in another country. I don't decide which countries yet. But I want to live in wonderful nature. I wish my dream come true. 

 

 

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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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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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My Introduction(^^)

Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Yo-ko. I'm from Kumamoto in Japan. I'm a KGU second-year student. Kumamoto is in Kyusyu which is situated in the southern part of Japan. In Kumamoto, Mt. Aso is very famous. Mt, Aso has caldera which is the biggest in the world. Mt. Aso is very beautiful. In addition, a grassy plain which surrounds Mt.Aso is beautiful, too. There are many spas. If you take a spa there, you'll feel happy. Aso is very popular among foreigners and Japanese. If you visit Kumamoto, please drop in at Aso. I'll guide you Aso.

I'll introduce myself. I was born, and brought up in Kumamoto. I have been being interested in many things since my childhood. I'm especially interested in foreign countries. My parents like to watch movies. Therefore, I was brought up watching movies. The experience that I have watched many movies make me study very hard.

"SISTER ACT" makes me have an interest in foreign countries. When I first watched this movie, I was impressed about music, culture, people and America. After watching this movie, my dream that I wanted to go abroad became bigger and bigger.

This training travel is a chance to study English. Therefore, I wanna study English, culture, people and more.

Please tell me many things I don't know. I'm looking forward to meeting you!!

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