Dancer in the Dark

I watched Dancer in the Dark. Thi is very tragedy movie. I will would not watch this movie again. I knew the name of the movie when I was junior high school student. Maybe, the movie was out then. The star of the movie is Bjork. Do you know her? She is famous singer in Iceland. I know her name, but I do not know well about her and her songs. This movie was shot the way of Dogme95. Dogma95 is a way of shooting of film. This way uses hand camera, so if someone who do not know Bjork and actors, maybe he will think the movie is a document film.

I will not explain the story of the movie. The story is so tragedy, but in the play there are many musical scene, if the scene is not happy scene. That scene and actiong is very strange, and it makes more effective the scene. I recomend this movie, but you should prepare if you watch this movie I think. [171w]

Essay 2-5 Kumamoto! Kumamoto? Kumamoto!!

I live in Kumamoto for 14 years. I moved to Kumamoto when I was six. I do not well about Kumamoto and I do not think I am not being to Kumamoto, but it is OK. I will try to write about it.

Kumamoto is a one of the prefecture of Japan. It is in south of Japan. Summer is very hot and humid. Winter is very cold. Some time, snow falls. I live in Kumamoto city. My house is placed near down town of Kumamoto city. Kumamoto city is capital city of Kumamoto.

In Kumamoto city, there is Kumaomto castle. Kumamoto castle build by Kiyomasa Kato. He was a top of general and master of architect. He is said very good at building of Ishigaki wall. We can into the castle. In the castle, many staffs are displayed, such a Japanese katana sword and Shach hoko. You can go top of the castle and see view of Kumamoto city. In new years day, there are many people come to top of the castle to see rising of the sun. I have been to top of the castle once or twice when I was a child. I remember I cried. I hate high places. If you were lackey, you can see some ninja in the field of the castle.

I like more Kumamoto museum than Kumamoto castle. Kumamoto museum is near the Kumamotocastle. I used to go there many times when I was elementary school. Having school name plate, pupils could enter into the museum for free of charge.

In aso city, there is Mt. Aso. Mt Aso has great caldera. Its caldera is in kind of very big one all over the world. There are field which called Kusa senri in Mt. aso. That is a sightseeing spot I think. I have visited there three or four times. There are many shops, and cow and horses. You can ride horses if you pay charge.

Kumamoto people eat meat of horse. That is very famous. The low meat of horse is called basashi. You can cook horse meat many way. The horse of meat is very good I think. You should try it.

Do you want to go Kumamoto? I hope you like it.

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BR 02-3 William Shakespear

I read William Shakespeare. I chose this book because I am interested in the Shakespeare. He was said the greatest poet in the world, now and then. I think most English people know about him and his play, and even most Japanese people also know some of his play such Romeo and Juliet. Name of my blog is the phrase which came from The Macbeth. I like this phrase, but I have never seen and hear T Macbeth. I would like to see it very much. Last year, I saw The Tempest in an English culture class, but I could not all of that.

A teller of this book is Toby who was friend of William Shakespeare. He was actor. He tells about life of William Shakespeare and about England in 17 century. The book was not bad. [138w]

Movie review 2-01 Mrs. Doubtfire

I watched Mrs. Doubtfire. I watched it 2 times. First, I watched it with English sound and English subtitle. Most English was good for me, I could understand, I could catch the line of the movie. Second, I watched it with Japanese sound and no subtitle. I enjoyed difference of languages. The movie was so good, the story was so touching. I liked it.

The main characters are Daniel Hillard, Lydia, Miranda, Chris, Natalie, Mrs. Doubtfire and Stuart. The actor of Daniel is Robin Williams. I think he is a very good actor. I like him very much.

In this movie, he played as an actor. Daniel is an actor. Daniel has a funny personality and his children Lydia, Chris and Natalie are crazy for him, on the other hand, he is so messy man, it makes Miranda irritate. Daniel and Miranda were conflicting each other about it for a long time, so they ended up divorcing. In a court, Daniel was determined he could meet his children only every Saturday. It was so hard for him. His children was his life, but he also got a chance, if he get a job and place to live, maybe a court will change the decision, so he got a job carrying can of films in a TV company. One Saturday, he knew Maria looking for house keeper for her children, so he thought up to camouflage be a old English woman and to be a house keeper to be with his deary children.

Daniel began to work as a housekeeper and Mrs. Doubtfire. Mrs. Doubtfire was a very polite woman not messy like Daniel. Her character is just opposite of Daniel's. Anybody did not sensed who she is, in his family. His children and Maria liked her very much. Through to be Mrs. Doubtfire, Daniel touch more his Family especially Natalie. He did not like talk about serious things. Every time he made joke serious problems. He talked with Natalie deeply as Mrs. Doubtfire and he found what was bad for Maria and Daniel. He began to change. He cleaned up his room, learned how to cook and worked his real work harder he was liked by Mr. Lundy a big director of the TV company which Daniel works at. However one day Chris and Lydia found who she is.

On Maria's birthday, Maria and her children, Stuart Maria's old flame and Mrs. Doubtfire went dinner to Maria's favorite restaurant. However Daniel had a dinner meeting with Mr. Lundy on same day, same place. Daniel would like to cancel Maria's birthday dinner, but he could not. Daniel tried to acting to be Daniel and Mrs. Doubtfire, but finally his camouflage was worked out. His working effected bad to the judge of a court; Daniel must be along with supervisor when he meets his children. Daniel objected to the judge but it did not make anything, but finally Maria took care that, and Daniel could meet without any legals. The line what Mrs. Doubtfire said was so touching for me. It let me think about family. I like that scene the best.

Is there love in your family? Bye-bye.
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Web site RE:view

Introduction
I will introduce this site "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species" http://www.iucnredlist.org/.
I chose this site bucase I like animals, plants and any kind of species, and I think dissappearing and threatening of species is very big issue for all life and the earth, so I would people think seriously this problem.

About IUCN
IUCN is a organization which do campaign and activity for protect threatened species and nature. IUCN is stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. IUCN is established in 1945.
Sections of IUCN
IUCN is consisted by 111 government agencies, 874 nongovernmental agencies and 35 agencies. Japan is also member of IUCN. IUCN has 6 commissions of exparts. The biggest one is SSC (Species Survival Commission), WCPA (World Commission on Protected Areas), CEM (Commission on Ecosystem Management), CEC (Commission on Education and Communication), CEESP (Commission on Environmental, Economic & Social Policy) and CEL (Commission on Environmental Law).
The front office of IUCN is in Switzerland. They do action for keeping threaten animals, plants and nature by direct, indirect or making lows.

About website
IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesYou can see vivid red and bloody back ground and some pictures of animals on the top page of this site at the first.
You can see some links on this site. You can search animals in "Search" section.

If you link to "Help Save Species", you can donate online. You can credit card for donate.

You can see introduction of IUCN and its some sections at "introduction" section, and you can see many partners of red list and many organizations cooperating with IUCN; at "Partners and Credit" section. You can see lists of Red data books at "Categories and Criteria". You can see a lot of pictures of threatened animals, plants and seaweed were listed in IUCN Red list in 2006 and 2008.
We would see the pictures, those animals which are listed, they have rare or ugly figure, beautiful or vivid color, rare pattern and good quality horn or antler. The because of their extinction are so many. The most reason of aquatic life's extinction is comes from over fishing or water pollution.

I know Red data book and I think this is very good site, but this is not common I think. In this time the problem of environment is very big issue and we much interested in the problem. The disappearing animals and plants is just warning. I think this is turning point. We should recognize much more that we are choking necks of ourselves.[428w - 569w]

Book review 2-01 Elephant Man

I read Elephant man, because its book cover is so strange. In the book cover, a man is standing and wear sack on his head, it looks kind of creepy.

The story was interesting. This story is real story. I could not believe that at first, so I searched about Joseph Merrick. I found some photos of Joseph Merrick. Those look so... so poor. In our time, I can feel that is poor because I know many kind of sick are existing in the world. However, if I was living in 19 century, probably I think he is a monster.

I searched Elephant man on You tube, I could found movie trailer of Elephant man, and also found many poor movies, what about people who has anomaly of face or body cause of accident or inborn. Those were very, very poor.[141w]

Website review 2-01

I will introduce this site "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species" http://www.iucnredlist.org/. This is one of the site of IUCN. IUCN is a organization which do campaign activity for protect threatened species. IUCN is stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. IUCN is established in 1945.

IUCN is consisted by 111 government agencies, 874 nongovernmental agencies and 35 agencies. Japan is also member of IUCN. IUCN has 6 commissions of exparts. The biggest one is SSC (Species Survival Commission), WCPA (World Commission on Protected Areas), CEM (Commission on Ecosystem Management), CEC (Commission on Education and Communication), CEESP (Commission on Environmental, Economic & Social Policy) and CEL (Commission on Environmental Law). The front office of IUCN is in Switzerland. They do action for keeping threaten animals, plants and nature by direct, indirect or making lows.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
You can see vivid red and bloody back ground and some pictures of animals on the top page of this site at the first. You can see some links on this site. You can search animals in "Search" section. If you link to "Help Save Species", you can donate online. You can credit card for donate. You can see introduction of IUCN and its some sections at "introduction" section, and you can see many partners of red list and many organizations cooperating with IUCN; at "Partners and Credit" section. You can see lists of Red data books at "Categories and Criteria". You can see a lot of pictures of threatened animals, plants and seaweed were listed in IUCN Red list in 2006 and 2008. We would see the pictures, those animals which are listed, they have rare or ugly figure, beautiful or vivid color, rare pattern and good quality horn or antler. The because of their extinction are so many. The most reason of aquatic life's extinction is comes from over fishing or water pollution.

I know Red data book and I think this is very good site, but this is not common I think. In this time the problem of environment is very big issue and we much interested in the problem. The disappearing animals and plants is just warning. I think this is turning point. We should recognize much more that we are choking necks of ourselves. [386w - 1540w]

FUNKAHOLiC!!!!!!!

I bought Suga Shikao's new CD album "FUNKAHOLiC"!!!

To tell the truth, the release date is tomorrow, but I could buy it today. I do not know why.

Most of songs are very good. I liked it very much.[40 words - 40words]

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

I went to hear lecture presentation at Kumamoto prefectural library in July 12. The lecturer was Natsuki Ikezawa. He is a Japanese novelist. He got Akutagawa prise in 1988. I took listening class test and presentation started at 1:00 PM. I took test to at 1:50 PM, and I went to KPL in hurry. Then, it was about 2:10 PM I got to library. The lecture was scheduled finished at 3:00 PM. I went up to third floor, and went into a site room. There were about 60 men and women in the room. Almost of them were older than me. Probably, they were more than 50 years old. There were very few young people, 2 or 3 with included me. Unfortunately, I forgot my glasses, so I could not see the lecturer. The half of lecture was already finished. The theme of lecture was "What is the world literature". Mr. Natsuki rereaced complete works of world literature, those are chose by Mr. Ikezawa. He talked about that. Finish talking about world literature, he started to read aloud his novel. He read aloud "きみのためのバラ" (Ki-mi no ta-me no bara). It means rose for you. It story is that. A Japanese tourist traveled in Mexico. He always take train or bus to move. One day, he met a Mexican girl in train terminal during waiting next departure. She waited to departure too, and waited her grand mother. They talked few minute got friendly with her. He was mesmerized her brightly smile. Departure time came, they took a train with "see you" in Spanish. The Mexican girl and her grand mother took different truck. The Japanese tourist got out of a train. He looked for the girl, but she did not get out, then She was in a train. He found a rose seller. He bought a single rose. He thought it is enough. He leaped on in a train, and plunge in to the crowd to truck which her take. Lastly, he found her, and send a single rose, with "rose for you" in Spanish. The story is end. I read this book this year. Reading aloud was great.
Finally we got time to get sign of Mr. Natsuki. I got his sign my his novel. So great.

My most favorite his novel is "骨は珊瑚、眼は真珠" (Ho-ne ha san-go me ha shin-ju). It means Bones are coral, eyes are pearl. This is a short story. It is in a book named same name short stories book. This story is very impressive for me. I read this when I was high school student. I think If I read it I was in junior high, I could not understand it. Its story is very good. Really good, very silent story. There are woman and man. The woman is a wife of the man. The man is dead man. He is in the story, but he is not in the story. No one can see him. He only sees his wife from somewhere, from start to the end. In life, he told his wife to dispare his burned bones in the sea. He did not want to exist a thing. He did not want to stay in other than memorize, but her wife was confuse. It was hard to decide it. In this story, there is allusion of Tempest and Macbeth by Shake spear. Those are very effective.

In any English class, there are often same questions, "What or who is your most favorite books, or musician?" When I am asked it, I always confuse to answer. I like reading books and listening music. Those are my main hobby, so I have read many books, and I have listened to many tunes. I can not decide one. Can you decide it one?? I think it is very difficult question...![641 words-total 7094]

Peeeeach!

This is a peach beared in my garden. My mother planted seed 3 years ago. This is first bearing. We say "Momo kuri san-nen kaki hachi-nen". It means Peach and chestnuts needs 3 years to bear, and Japanese persimmon needs 8 years to bear. That byword was true I thought. Peach was very small. If I dress more then peach bears more big, my mother said. Peach was not sweet and so hard. I hope bear sweet peach in my garden.[83words- total 6653 ]

Oh my god...!!

I heard the news of Esbjörn Svensson's death. So sad!!!!
He died during diving accident in June 14, Sweden. I already knew in June 16, but I had no chance to write about his death. He was 44 years old. Too young I thought. I wanted to go and listen his live music, but I cannot any more.[60words- tatal 6405]

Essay1-04 My favorite things!!

I would like to introduce my favorite things.

I like music very much. I like any kind of music. I would like to introduce my favorite musicians.



The first is Esbjörn Svensson trio. It called e.s.t. that is a Swedish jazz trio band. It is the hottest to me now. I heard their music first, when I was high school student.The e.s.t members are Esbjörn Svensson (he is middle of the picture), He plays the piano. Magnus Öström(he is right of the picture), he plays drums. Dan Berglund(He is left of the picture) He plays woodbase. They see itself as a popband that plays jazz. Their play makes me sometime exciting and some time relaxing. I have two CD albums of e.s.t. "Vaiticum" and "Tuesday wonder land". "Eighty-Eight Days in My Veins" in Viaticum is my favorite.(↑The movie is not Eighty-Eight Days in My Veins. It is Dodge The Dodo.) Those two are the latest CD of e.s.t. I want more CDs of them.

The next is Suga Shikao. He is a Japanese singer. I like his lyrics and his husky voice. Most of Japanese musician sing such as love songs, broken heart songs and cheer up songs but it is so dull. But he write and sing jealous songs too. This is because I like him. His name "Shikao" is real name. I think "Shikao" is very rare name. "Shikao" written in Japanese Kanji "止戈男". 止 is pronounced "shi", it means stop. 戈 is pronounced "ka", it means weapons. 男 is pronounced "o" it means a man. I believe that he is the man who can stop the war by music. Ha-ha :)

Anyway, I would like to introduce next my favorite thing is...UMA!!
Do you know UMA? I guess you know UFO. It means Unidentified Fling Object. UMA means "Unidentified Mysterious Animal". I guess the most famous UMA is "Loch Ness Monster". It usually called "Nessie". Do you know?

(↑)My best favorite UMA is this one!! Do you know this piture? This is called "winged cat". Winged cat is a cat which have a wings. I like cat very much. This is a cat and still more having wings!! This is very fantastic isn't it?
I like unidentified things very much, for example UFO,USO and UMA. But I do not believe really they exist. The reaseon I like UMA, imagining these is makes me funny and exciting.[407words-total 2491words]