What went wrong. 26th September.

We discussed how and why a company from other culture sometimes couldn't sell their products well.

When there are difference between manufacturer's culture or common sense and consumer's them, usually the company which are trying to sell their products have some problems without being aware.

Assumption of similarity is one of good example of that.

I noticed that the same thing is happening in our daily life, even in the community which consists of people who are same nationality and from same culture, religion, and generation.

Sometimes I said something that I assume that others also think same.

However even in Japan and they are my friends and same generation,  there are a lot of people who have their own criteria of judging things that are different from mine.

Even if I said the thing that I assume I'm totally right, sometimes it was totally wrong thing for others.

Then I could't persuade them or got bad feeling.

So, I should be careful for what I'm gonna say based on only my feeling or my personal assumption.

I think most of ELA reading materials are good not only for study but also daily life and hoe to live well.

During lunch time, I took a picture with my friends who went to Canada together and had a lunch together!!

We didn't know before our stay in Canada for 6weeks, but now we are good friends.

I had a lot of fun with them in the shade of a tree at bakayama.

Today was hump day. 24th September.

Every Wednesday, we have our ARW class in ILC mac room and my teacher show us some useful tool in the internet.

We were taught "Feedly" which is a web site that we can check our friend's blogs at the same time.

If we have another web site that we're interested in, we can keep that URL in Feedly as well.

Another thing that we did during today's class was make a group with some friends who have same essay topic.

My essay topic is "eating habit and the best way to lose weight".

Actually, I want to know how can people lose their weight in healthy way and I'm going to reflect the content of my essay in my dormitory life.

I found my partner Kei whose topic is health.

We had a small discussion, then we said he wanted to write his essay about the relationship between food and body.

By using writing portfolio which is also the tool Rab showed us, we can share and compare our essays and give some advises each other.

I'm so satisfied with our class in ILC mac room so far, because I can know new things in every class. 

Anyway, today was hump day!!

I learned this phrase in my writing class in Canada.

My English-English dictionary says that hump is a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal such as a camel, bison, or whale.

In short, most of camel has one or two humps on their back.

Hump day represent the middle day in a week.

In general, the middle day is the hardest day in a week but after hump day, people can imagine what they will do in weekend.

I have a reunion with my friends who studied in Canada with me in this weekend.

So I'm looking forward to it from now!!

No electricity day in ICU. 23rd September.

Today, we have no electricity in all ICU building from 8am to 5pm.
So, we can't use any electric devices such as a light, a refrigerator, or security of entrance in my dormitory.
Also, we can't use any ICU buildings such as main building, cafeteria, sports club house and so on.
I expected that I was free today, but I had drama practice out of ICU.
We practiced a drama "the wizard of Oz" from 9am to noon at a civic center near ICU.
After practice, we went to Saizeriya which I've never used to have a lunch.
Then I came back my room near 3pm, but I had nothing to do and there were few people in global house.
The only one choice that I had was to sleep. lol
When I woke up, I could use electricity so I suppose it was 6pm or something like that.
But I noticed immediately after watching clock, it was already 7am, tomorrow morning!!
Anyway, I slept well. lol

Thanks God, it's Friday!! 19th September

Finally, this tough week was end and the last class was ARW class.
We were taught how to make a title which will attract reader's attention.
Alliteration, such as bad banana or stupid scout, was so powerful to attract readers.
It is also interesting for me to try to come up with good alliteration.
My teacher said that we shouldn't use personal pronouns in academic paper and most of us made such kind of mistakes in our academic book review.
Actually, my writing class teacher at UBC in Canada taught me same rules which I shouldn't use.
But I totally forgot that rule and I broke that rule many times in my academic book review.
I was taught same thing twice, so I won't make same mistake again.


My friends who took driver license will pick me up by car tonight.
We are going to go a short trip during this weekend.
It must be fun and will heal my fatigue.

17th September

We had an ARW class in Mac PC room.
My teacher taught us a lot of useful tool, google calendar, google group, some writing support web sites, and so on.
I thought google calendar was so useful as a reminder tool,  so I'm gonna use this during this term.
I reconfirmed that the thesis statement is simply composed of topic, claim, and three reasons.
The thesis statement is one of the most important part in essay, but we don't think too complicated.
If we have a question about something, a our own idea about that, and three reasons which support our idea, we can make thesis statement and start to write essay. What a simple thing this is!!

After all classes, I came back to my dormitory, cooked and ate dinner, then slept from 7pm to 11pm.
We had a meeting about football practice match against Zelkova dormitory on tomorrow morning from 11pm.
After that meeting, I took a bath with my friend then I played guitar in my room.
That's all. I don' t have any "special" story worth writing in my blog today.
But I enjoyed my class "Introduction to Christianity" and the time in a bath with my friend.
I love normal day such as today even if I don't have any plan to do something differ from daily life.
Anyway, I'll do my best in a game tomorrow!!

16th September

Today, we had an ARW class at Bakayama with the autumn sunlight.
The main part of class was the discussion about "have you ever felt stumbling block?".
I know some gestures have different meaning depends on countries and people, but actually I couldn't come up with the stumbling block which I've felt.
I had studied at Canada during this summer and made a lot of friends who from different countries.
Of course, sometimes we had a problem to communicate with each other, but I guess that problem simply came from our English skills.
Language differences is, I know, one of the stumbling block, but I think such a my experience in Canada is not worth saying "stumbling block".
Even if we had a difficulty with English, we could communicate with each other.
So, I guess I have never felt any stumbling block so far.


After all classes, I went to Nihonbashi to visit an exhibition of gold fish with my friend.
I have been wanting to visit there from before this summer vacation, and finally I could visit there!!
The venue was not crowded so much, so we decided to look around there twice.
At the first lap, we looked and enjoyed the beauty of gold fish and the atmosphere of venue without camera and iPhone but our own five-senses.
Then we took some pictures as memories, but those pictures are not enough to convey that real beauty.
So, I burned those scenes into my eye sight.
I can say that night was so great.

12th September

In our ARW class, we can use our own cellphone such as iPhone whenever we want to know that we didn't know before.

Some teachers prohibit using cellphone during the class, because they think student tend to waste their time when they use cellphone.

 But I usually use my iPhone when I want to know the meaning of new vocabulary. 

So I think Rab's rule is good for us.

Anyway, we started to study about the article which was written by LaRay M. Marna.

So, I guess our ICU life with a lot of homework finally restarted.

After all classes, I went to Musashi-sakai with Kei and Aya by bike.
I went to there to buy the bible, Aya went to there to buy pants, and Kei went to there, I don't know why, but to eat a croissant.
That was so fun, Kei and I tried more clothes than Aya even though we weren't going to buy any clothes. Aya, sorry!!
Anyway, I spent the first week in autumn term with my friends and a lot of fun.
Thank you!!

The first blog 10th September

This is my first post on blogger.
I hope I can learn a lot of things from my blog writing.
In today's our ARW class, we did the presentation about our summer reading.
My summer reading book was "Proof of Heaven" written by Eben Alexander.
During our presentation, our ARW teacher Rab showed so many presentation techniques to us, for example, presentators should show their own hands, they should look at one person for each sentence, and so on.
I think I can learn how to convey my opinion better and how to do presentation well from my teacher through his class in this autumn term.
What we did in today's class was just to do presentation about our own summer reading, but we could learn many things.
I'm gonna watch the movie of " about a man" which is Eriko's summer reading, because I didn't know anything about that book and I became be interested in that novel after listening her presentation.
Also, I have a plan to watch the movie of "The Catcher in the Rye" which is Ayari's summer reading, because her presentation was so good and I already knew about that famous novel, so I wanna watch the movie in English.
Anyway, I'm glad to meet my new ARW teacher Rab Paterson, because I'm sure I can learn the things which I didn't know about not only english skills but also communication skills for living my life well.