Picture 1

Hello everyone, recently, we have some final turm reports for almost a month later. So we have to remind studies. Anyway, today I'll talk about picture1. I guess this photo were taken at an Arabian contry. It is easy to find out because of the letter of Face book in Arabic. Maybe this photo is one of famous picture when Arbic Spring. In Arbic Spring, Face book played a important role. That makes people together and encourage ordinariy people. Face book and other SNS have great power and influence for people around the world in these days. In old days, only the upper classes or people have posts keep their power and move ordinary people. However, thanks to these SNS, each person can influence or effect people, government and world. I think it is good for societies. But, I use no SNS and have no plan to start SNS media. So, maybe I'm old school and should try to new technological media.

Something new

      Today, I'll write about "something new" that I had tried and would like to try. From entering university, I was starting to ride sports bicycle. Until then, I was only playing basketball for my sports. I still love basketball very much and play that at least one time per week, but riding bicycle is another great sports I think. Cyclesports needs a lot of carefulness and concentration. Bicycle shares the road with cars and motorcycles, so I ride bicycle at same ways as I drive a car. One more point, riding bicycle is like a marathon. I must not use full power and try to use my power efficiently. Bicycle is called  "most efficiently vehicles" Next, I want to talk about what I would like to try. I have a plan to go to USA and watch NBA basketall games in spring vacation. That is one of my dreams, so I am looking foward so much! In NBA, over 2 meters men plays highest level basketballs, maybe it will  amazing  experience. I want to see my favorite player Lebron James until I die!
In addition, I want to travel a lot of countries but I have a limit. So if you travel foreign contries, please tell me about that countries and bring back souvenirs!!

Travel

      Today, I am going to talk about where I want to go.  Speak honestly, I want to go around world and visit every where. But I can't do that, of course, so I'll pick up my best longing places. First of all, I want to go to Paris, Fracehave watch a lot of beautiful pictures and movies. For example, Tour de France, the most famous bicycle event is hold in Frace and final race is held on Paris and The avenue of  Champs-Élysées. There are so beautiful art musiam and famous buildings. I always long for racers and the city of Paris when watch this bicycle race. Next, I want to tell you about my travel experience. When I third grade of high school, I visited Seattte, USA as my basketball team tour. That is my first visiting abroad, so I was very nervous at that time, but I had grate time and got motivation of studying English.

Culture!

        Hallo,everyone. Recently we have OC class presentation, debate in seminar class and other assignments, so this week and next week are maybe busy. Anyway, I will write about culture. First, my favorite Japanese culture is New Year's Eve and Days! Modern Japanese don't live lives in traditional Japanese style and without thinking about "wahuu". However, these days we will eat "osechi", wear a  kimono and people live like a traditional japanese. When New Year's Days, I ate a lot of delicious food and spent good time with my familiy and relatives through my life. I think these days are most special days in a year. That's why I looking for winter holidays. Scound, when I 17years old, I went to Ise Zinnguu where is Shintoism's the head temple. I don't believe any religion, but I felt great holy and spirtual power in there. I think that feeling made on a long long times.I strongly recommend you to visit there at least once in your life. Next, talk about forign culture, I like to see forieng city buildings and sceneries. However, I don't know about behaviers of foreigners, so I want to know their behaviers when I sudy abroad.

Autumn

       Hallo, eveyrone. Today's topic is about autumn. Frankly speaking, I do not like autumn because tempartures are gettig colder and sunset time is more earlir. Anyway, I did go to the school festival. For me, culture festival at KG is 7th time, so it was not fresh but my first university's festival was more fun than I expected. I am belong to the basketball circle, so I worked at the circle's store. I sold much food tickets for visiters and friends. If you bought my ticket, I must say thank you for you.  In addition, during school festival, I and my high school friends hold alumni meeting and had a evening meal. It was very francly and funny meeting. They are still nice guys and I feel plaasant around them.  During this autunm, I don't have any plan to check out the autumn leaves. However, instead of watching autumn leaves,  I go to basketball games at Shiga with my basketball club members.  I hope we can win every games.

Keeping in touch

         Today's topic is difficult for me because I don't use  any social media and my way to keeping touch is tooo simple. I only use e-mail and phone to keeping touch with my friends, but I don't feel unconvenience because my friends live in Kanai area. However, recently I'm interested in social medias, especially mixi and facebook. A lot of my friens using mixi, and they seems to feel convenience and frendshios with a lot of people. It's very interesting and nice, I think. On the other hand, facebook is huge popular around the world, so I think using facebook and keeping touch with a lot of people is very important to live present-day. I also think when I study abroud, how I keeping touch with my forgin friends without facebook? It's maybe difficult.
Therefore, I want to start facebook .  

Marriage

       Hello everyone! Today, I'll talk about a marriage but I never think about my marriage in the future, and I can't image how I will live together, when I  will get my partner and even think that can  I get a wife?  Anyway, I want to tell you about my ideal woman. I like a talkative person. I think chatting is very delighthul and we can understand each other how we feels or our opinions. Additionary, I want men(not only woman) to talk from one's real heart, so a lot of conversation makes two men friendly I think. Then I want my ideal partner to have own opinion if that is different from majority. I am attracted by that because having individualistic idea needs a lot of thinking and special sense. Finary, my ideal partner's best important character is curiousness. If my future wife has a lot of curious, my married life become very pleasant. Ok, my ideal partner is so perfect but where is perfect human?  As a result, I think my ideal partner is fittest woman for me.

Scary Stuff

             Today's topic is about scary stuff. When I was an elementary school child in the lower grades, my familiy and I had been to a sightseeing spot( I forgot it's name). The city was famous for wild monkeys. When my familiy was enjoying hiking, suddenly the monkeis appered and chattered very loudly and angrily. We encircled by over ten monkeis. I was child, and in these days, I was playing video game "Sarugechoo" that was about voilent monkeis. So, I was very frightened and thought the monkeis were going to attack us. This is one of my scarist  memory. Anyway, compare to my childhood days and now, I used to fear darkness. It forced  me to imagine a ghost or a kind of an alien. I especially imagine these monsters while I up stairs, because I could feel someone or somethig follow me. So, I used to hurry to go next floor. Thinking from now, it was foolish and I never believe the ghosts. Hoever, I still fear one thing, it's never change. It is insects! They are so terrible, and I think they are unearthly lives. Do you think am I nonsense?  NO, they are so terrible..

My favorite season

        I love all seasons, because each seasons has each special events, sceneries and foods, etc. Anyway, my favorite season is winter! I hate winter's cold temperature very much, but without this bad point, I think winter is perfect season. First of all, Winter has two  biggest events, Christmas and New Year Holidays. I think everyone loves these events.When I was a child, I was given presents that I desire to get in Christmas. And one week later, I got "Otoshidama" from my familyand relatives in January 1. In additon, I love Christmas dinner and "Osechi" dishies. So I love to say "Merry Christmas" and " A Happy New Year".  Second, I like winter's refreshed air, and that cause very clearly, beutifull sceneries.  In winter, buildings are lights up and decorated very colorfully, so night views are very beautifull. These seneries and refreshed air make me refresh and calm down. Finally, I like winter's fashion than other seasons it's. Because of very cold temperature, we have to wear a lot to stay warm in winter. I think it is nice to dress up in the way we like. However, I konw that winter cloths are more expensive than other season. This is way I like winter . So, how about you?

Summer Vacation

         Hello everyone! Today I'm write about my summer vacation. My first university vacation is I think long and free. I want to write two topic, ciycling and basketball. I enjoied hung out with my friends, and worked as a  part time  a lot. But my best memories of summer vacation were these two topic. I went to Awazishima for ciycling at early days of vacation, it took two days. I and my bicycle friends stareted at Nishinomiyakitaguchi station, then we took ferry to get Awazishima. First day was very hard. we had to climb three mountains by bicycle! It was so tired but after climbing mountain, there were great sight that sunset at the ocean. We took a Japanese-style hotel where has nice spa we enjoied. The scond day, last day, was rainy day unfortunately, so we drave slowly and carefully. However, after a noon, the sun shined  a lot, and we felt very comfortable at ridind bicycle. Then, I got my hometown, Takarazuka in evenig with very hard musler pain and very very good memory.  I'll talk bout another topic, basketball.
I am belong to basketball club team that has memburs of my high school basketball club friends. Our team practiced every Tuseday in summer vacation. I really love playing basketball, so all practice were great, but I was more look foward to chat long time with friends.  We had so close feeling and laughed a lot. In my summer vacation, I didn't go to any special place, but it was so funny, interenting and special for me.

Summer Vacation

Today(my last post in this semester),I want to write about summmer vacation.I'm very looking for my summer vacatino, but previously I must study hard for my examinations. After that, I will completely free!
I have some plans for the vacatiom. Soon after examinations, I 'm going to go Awazisima to go cycliong two or three days with my bicycle friends. After that, I'm going  to go swimming pool and sometimes sea. In middle of August, I have to go Nagoya to meet my great-grandmother with my relatives. She is 99 years old , so it's little sad that I wll see her decline. My relatives are livig near my town, so every summer, we go to Takarauka fireworks festival. Of course we wil go to that this summer. I want to enjoy my first summer vacation in universtiy, but I have to preper study abroad in this summer I think. Therefore, I will study English a little in this summer. Anyway, Let's enjoy our summer vacation!!

Poster Presentation

After I had listened all of my class mates presentation, I was very impressed by yours. Moreover, I regret that my presentaion was too ordinary. I had pasted to only black and white pictures, and my topic was might be uninteresting for you( but I'm very interested in bicycle!). I had found if topic were intersting for audience, presentation were getting easier. Therefore, I should present more enjoynable in next time. Anyway your presentaions were so enjoynable! Rena, your presentation was very interesting and you chose nice topic. My favorite colors are blue, white, and black. In your explanation, you told us each colors meamnigs, I think you were right. Takato's topic was an alien. It's funny. And other class mates also had good presentation, I think. However, most suprising thing for me was, Ako=A vegetarian!! I never met vegetarian, so I was very surprised and it's very interesting. Ako, you have nice charactor! By the way, I understood I should prepare much more.

Differences of Opinion

Hallo,everyone. Now, I wll talk about Defferences of opinion between man and woman. However, my generallly opinion is defference between man and women doesn't matter. Person's opinion is stand one person, not gender I think. In additon, I think people should not exaggerate defference between man and woman. However, I know there are men's character and woman's character. I am a man, so I want to talk about woman's behaviors and thinkings. Women almost everytime make groups and does anything together, and women group has very big energy. They are very powerfull and sometimes noisy!  I think men doesn't care about making groups compared to women, and we think we can communicate by tacit feelings without too many words. Therefore sometimes it cause misunderstanding between men and women. Next, I talk about perception and liking gaps about love. I think women prefer to showing  thier love to partners. Men prefer too, but I think men prefer to using "secret vocabulary" to show thier love.  Men's and women's way of showing love are defferent, so it is difficult to show enough consideration. In additon, I can't understand that most women quickly change their mind from old love. I think most men depress longer time than women. I know women depress too in their deep mind, but women recover more quickly than men. By the way, there are deffernces between men and women, but I think it is common because we are all defferent persons.

(Story 1) A Strange Dream

It was getting late, and the kids were ready for bed. They kissed their parents goodnight and curled in their beds under the covers. It was a bit chilly, but Molly kept herself covered so that her little feet wouldn't get cold. After a while, her and her little brother Steve were asleep.

Molly started dreaming of a beautiful green park with lots of big trees and berry bushes. She saw herself walking around with her little brother. Then she saw a pair of red shiny boots in the bushes. They looked sparkly new and she thought they were just the size of her cold little feet. "These boots will keep my feet warm" she thought, and when she didn't find anyone in the park she guessed that they didn't belong to anyone.

Molly tried the boots on and they fit perfectly! Her brother thought they looked beautiful on her. Molly stood up and started walking, but all of a sudden, her brother couldn't see her. These boots were magic boots. They made people invisible. Then her brother felt lonly and started to find his sisiter. Therefre, she toook off boots for her brother, then she appered.Now they understood these boots's effect. "Let's go out of this park, and go our home" her brother said. They were coming home, and tried to suprise their parents. she went into house wearing the boots. Suddnly she found a girl who had same face and same body of her. She was very very suprised, and scared. "who is she?" she thought. She pinched her cheek, but she still satied there. They never escape form this world.

Recent Life

Recent days, I have catched cold so I have feeled sluggish. However, I must finish my homework until yesterday. Theresore, I was tired but I have worked yesterday. Then, I just funished my reports, so I feel freeness and peacefull. Actually, my recent days are not interesting and exciting. I couldn't play basketball this week becauese of my ill, and could't hang out with my friends because of my ill and homework. However, now I am working as a part-time, then savig and deposit some money. It is for my summer vacation plan to trip Fukuoka with my freinds. I am really looking forward this trip! I also want to play bsketball at least two days on a week. I am belong to basketball circle, and club team that participate in Ashiya legue.

My familiy house and the neighborhood

My house is in Takarazuka city and halfwaty up to a hill. My house building is square and has a triangle little sharp roof. My house is not large, maybe ordinary size of a house. That has three floors. First floor, there are me and my brother's room and one bedroom. This bedrooom is the second big room of my house, and I love this room because it has large size TV and I enjoy watching NBA basketball in there. Second floor has a living room, dining, bathroom, and kitchin. My family usually get together on dining and talk about a lot of topics. Third floor is very thin, so there are only my father's room and a storeroom. In summer, third floor will get very high temperature. I think it is dangrous to stay third floor long time. This is all my house but we have another one, a garden. My house garden is too narrow to call "garden". However, my dog like the garden so my house's garden is only for my dog. Next, I will writte about the neighborhood. My house is located in very quite street and an area, because my neighbors are all aged men. Therefore my neighborhood is very safe and calm. I think my neighborhood is not exiting or interesting place, but very peacefull and good feeling town, so I like my town and neighbors they are all kindly men.

Where I hope to live in the future

In the future, I hope to live in a house because an apartment have a few pravacy, for example, I can't make big sound and back to home in the middle of the night. Additionally, I can decorate my house whatever I want. Then, I want to write about my dream house. First of all, my dream house is little bigger than common houses because I hope to have many rooms. I want to have rooms for clothes, hometheater, and bicycles in my house. These rooms are for my hobbies and I think home theater is very usefull for my holidays though watching movie is not my hobby. It's one of my dream to have a clothes room, so if it fullfil, I'm very happy. Moreover, it is not room, but I want to have a big garage. Car is also one of my hobby, and I like sports cars or luxury cars so I want to drive and watching these cars. However, sports or luxury car is huge expensive, so it is just a dream. Finally, I hope to live in a town because I love cities, but I demand quietness and peace. I think these factors are very imoportant in living. However, I want to go cities to shopping or playing, so I want to go to cities in one hour from my house.

My recent days

I think almost every freshmen got used to own university lives. And I am also enjoying my university life. I could make many new friends, they are very nice and funny, so I feel fun to go to school every day! My new friends have each experiences that I never know or hear,of course, so hearing their experiences is very very interesting for me. In my recent days, I go to school to study many subjects, working in sushi restaurant as a part time job, play basketball in circle and club team, and sometimes I go out to hang out with my friends. I think these days are busy but very interesting and fun. And I also think me and freshmen at least in the department of International Studies have own hopes or ambitions that want to be or want to do. So we should coorporate and make other people higher.
Anymay, I like my university life and I feel happy for study some subjects that I'm interested in. Additionally, I want to make more friends so please contact friendly.

A Childhoood Memory

When I was a ten years old, I met a dog . It was my familie's dog we called "coo". My dog is white Shiba. I strongly remember that shocking scene because I really hated and feared every dogs. In early childhood days, I was often barked and sometimes bitten by my neighbor's big dog.
But unfortunately, my father liked dogs and He wanted to have a dog.
In spring vacation, me, mother and brother had been to skiing. When we backed my home, my brother shouted "What is this?". In my house, there were the dog. Surprisingly, My father had bought the dog without any consultation with my family menbers! I remember that I cried all the day.
It was taken almost two year until I felt dogs were cute.
Now I love my dog and like dogs very much but this memory is one of my worst experience.
And what I leared from this exprience is consult family and friends when I do somethig as much as possible.

What I like in Japan

I like Japan very much and I feel a kind of happy beause "I am Japanease".
First, I love Japanease each four seasons! Spring has refreshing wind and cherry tree. Summer has big sun and the sea. Autumn has colored lesaves and beatiful sunset. Winter has cold air and sometimes snow. I enjoy all seasons. Secound, I love Japanease dishes. I love sushi, rice cake, and any other Japanease foods. Especially, sushi is one of my favorite food! And I am workig in sushu restaurant as a part time job. So I am Practicing press a piece of sushi into shape. Finally, I think people in Japan is very nice.
It is includs foreign peoples living in Japan. People in Japan are kind for everyone, patient, pay carefull attention well and refined. I think we shoud have a kind of Japanease sprit.

About Me

I'm Hiroaki Kawanishi. I was born and grown in Takarazuka. I have a brother and a dog. My dog looks like a dog which appears on softbank's TV CM.
I have five main hobbies. Playing or watching basketball, reading, listening to American music, fashion and cycling. Some of you know names, Lebron James, Kayne West and Alicia Keys, their are my heros!
And also I'm interested in political studies and English. I feel my university days are too short because we have only four years but I have many things want to do. So I will do my best. And I want to have great time on my university life!