Halloween

Hello All! This past weekend was Halloween. Although Halloween is not until October 31, many people, especially students, get dressed up and go out to parties on the weekend before. While Halloween is mainly known as a children's holiday, but young adults often attend parties in costumes. In college, because we are now too old to Trick or Treat, Halloween is just another excuse to drink with friends while wearing the most ridiculous costume possible. While children are still young, parents will make or purchase costumes for their children to wear and go our Trick or Treating. Trick or Treating is when children walk from house to house, knowing on the door, and when someone answers the door kids say, Trick or Treat and receive candy from the house. Many houses have many decorations to make the house look scary. Because there are no other times that so many people can dress weird and have a good time, please try to experience it at least once! Has anyone celebrated Halloween before?

門限

　こんにちは。みなさんは家族と一緒に暮らしていますか？日本では、地元と離れた学校へ行く学生は一人暮らしですが、家族と一緒に暮らしている学生が多いです。私も家族と一緒に暮らしています。私は門限があります。夜の１１時までに帰らなければいけません。高校生の時は１０時だったので、ゆるくなったほうですが、大学生になって門限がない家庭も増えてきています。みなさんは門限がありますか？私は末っ子のため、特に親には心配されます。だから、少し家に帰るのが遅くなっただけで、親はとても心配します。私は１０月に２０歳になりました。もう成人のため、いろいろなことに責任をもたなければならないことも知っています。でも親は門限をなくすことはしません。私はどうしても友達と考えたい問題があったとき、１１時という門限をこえてとても遅くに帰ってしまいました。親は怒り、門限やほかのことももっと厳しくなりそうです。心配してくれる気持ちはすごくうれしいですが、私を信頼して、もう少し考えてはくれないかなと悩んでいます。自立しなければいけない年なのにこのままでは親に頼ってしまうこともあり、自分が成長できない気がします。私がもっと態度で示すべきでしょうか。

誕生日

こんにちは。実は１０月１９日は私の誕生日でした。ついに２０歳になりました！ティーンエイジャーとお別れです。。でも、まだ２０歳という実感がありません。
誕生日には家族がお祝いをしてくれました。大阪に住んでいる姉も帰ってきて、みんなでパーティーをしました。大好きなメニューを用意してくれて、バースデーケーキもチョコレートケーキとミルクレープの２つを用意してくれました。でも、たくさん食べて、最後には気持ちが悪くなってしまいました。食べすぎですよね？？私は食べること・・特に甘いものが大好きで、毎日甘いものを食べています。朝から、ケーキやアイスクリームを食べることもあります。それなのに、運動が嫌いなので、気をつけないと簡単に太ってしまいます＞＜
プレゼントはまだほしいものを決めていないので、もらっていません。バッグが欲しいのですが、可愛いものをまだ見つけていないので、見つけたらおねだりするつもりです。
日本では２０歳からが大人とみなされて、お酒も飲めるようになるし、選挙にも行けるようになります。私はお酒好きではないので、２０歳になっても飲みません。政治については、まだまだわかりませんが、選挙には行こうと思っています。みなさんは、何歳からお酒が飲めて、選挙にも行けますか？
１９日になった０時に、このブログをやっているyoshikoとayumiがメールをくれました。日本では仲の良い友達の誕生日には０時になった瞬間にお誕生日おめでとう、というメールを送るのですが、みなさんはどうですか？
２０歳になったのを機に、ダイエットをちゃんとしようと思います。夏休みに留学をして太ってしまったので、体重を元に戻すのが目標です。そして、大人としての責任をしっかり感じて、立派な大人になりたいと思います。

アルバイト

みんなは、何かアルバイトをしていますか？
私はうなぎ屋さんでバイトをしています。
夏はうなぎが旬の時期なので、たくさんのお客さんが食べに来ました。
夏休みの土日は、毎週600人を超える人が来るので、本当に大変でした！！
たまにどれだけの人が待ってるか数えると、たいてい100人以上の人が待っていて、数えるだけで失神しそうになっちゃいました＾＾；

私のバイト先のメイン料理は「ひつまぶし」です。「ひつまぶし」を知ってますか？
ひつまぶしは、名古屋の名物料理でもあるので、地方の人や外国の方もたくさんみえます。
ひつまぶしは、普通のうなぎ料理とは違って、ちょっと変わった食べ方があります。

まず、おちゃわんに盛って、そのままの味を楽しみます。
その次に、ネギをのせて、ねぎのシャキシャキとした食感や味を一緒に楽しみます。
最後に、熱々のおだし汁をかけて、お茶漬けにしてたべます。
好みがあるので、人それぞれですが、これが一般的な食べ方です。
私はお茶漬けは苦手なので、よくわさびを使って食べます。
わさびのツーンとした香りと味が、うなぎの甘いタレとベストマッチだと思います！！

アメリカにはうなぎ屋さんはありますか？
もしこっちに来ることがあるなら、ぜひ私のバイトしてるお店に来てくださいね♪

はじめまして

みなさん　こんにちは
僕はマイク・ウェイツです。今ミシガン州立の３年生で二十歳です。日本語だけじゃなくてビジネスも勉強しています。将来、多分ビジネスの仕事をさがすけど、日本語を習うのが好きだから、日本語も勉強します。もう二回日本に行きましたが、また春学期には戻ります。JCMUで勉強しようと思っています。JCMUと言うのはたくさん留学生が日本語を勉強する場所のことです。みなさん、知っていますか？しがけんの彦根市にJCMUがあります。みなさん、アメリカに行ったことがありますか？行ったことがあったら、どうでしたか？？

My name

Hi! I'm Ayumi. Today, I talked about meanings of our names in class. It was really interesting, so I'll teach the meaning of my name. My name is Ayumi Nakano: あゆみ 中野, but Japanese say our last name at first. The order that say name is different from English. In Japan, my name is 中野 あゆみ. My last name, Nakano means "Inside field". "中" expresses inside. "野" expresses field. It is interesting, isn't it? My first name don't have chinese characters. It is only "Hiragana". My mother named my first name. My first name, Ayumi means that walking step by step happily. It is a good meaning, isn't it? I like my name. In Japan, our last name are decided since when we were born. How about your country? I'm interested in it. I want to know meaning of your name. Please tell me. I'm looking forward to your reply.

Name meaning

My name is Yoshiko Sato.
First name is written 佳子 in kanji.
佳 means good, beautiful and elegant. 子 means a girl.
I like my name meaning, but I think it sounds old in Japan.
Few days ago, my name was used common, but now, my name isn't so common.
There are a little girls who have same name as me.
My last name is written 佐藤.
I heard that a last name including '藤' means Fujiwara's posterity.
Do you know Fujiwara family?? They were big and famous aristocrat family.
Maybe, you should study Japanese History if you want to know details...
I think it's little difficult to explain.
So, please tell me about your name meaning!! Good-bye!!

about my name^^

H, today, I discuss about name in the class, so Iwill talk about my name^^
My name is Hitomi Takeuchi. My lasat name is Takeuchi, and my first name is Hitomi.
Takeuchi mean is Samurai Inside, because Take's chinese charactor is 武. this mean is Samurai.
Uchi's chinese charactor is 内, means inside. And my first name 瞳(hitomi) means pupil(eye). When I was born, my eyes are so beautiful. My parents thought "very beautiful...we give her Hitomi."
So, my name is 武内(takeuchi)瞳(hitomi) mean is Samurai Inside Pupil^^ so funny...Samurai Inside^^ Actually, I think we don't have imortant meaning for last name.
I like my name, Hitomi^^ and like hitomi's chinese charactor. My nickname is hito-chan. I also like it^^ Most my friends call me hito chan.
Could you tell me your name's meaning?^^

I like...

hello. how are you?? today, I will talk about my hobby^^

well...i like listening to music. I have an i -pod and bring it to my school. I takes 1.5hour to go to school..so, I always listen music by i-pod on the train. but I don't have many songs in my i-pod..because , I am not sure how to use it..^^

I think Japanese music is good. The lyrics are really beautiful. So I like Japanese songs. I also like and listen to songs in English. Their sound is cool...and they helps to study English. I can learn English from these songs. I think it is very good to study English.

However, recently, I am interested in Korean musician^^ I don't speak Korean, so I can't understand what their lyrics....but they are handsome^^ I listen Korean songs more than English songs these days....not good...for study...^^

anyway...do you like Japanese song?? and do you have favorite musician? I want to know who is good in your country^^

こんにち みなさん。。。。

このブラグは始めですよ。すみませんちょっとちちゃくです。私の名前はネサン。コールです。二十歳です。ミシガン州率大学で、せんもんは日本語です。しょうらい、ほんやくするつもりです。セーラ・ウィーバーとダーネル・パーディです。次のポストはもっとかくつもりです。。。。

ネイサン。コール

NY 07

My Mom & I (Sara) in Times Square.

Hello everyone!
How was your weekend? I had a fun weekend. I went to New York City with my mom!
It was a surprise trip and I didn't know where we were going until we got to the airport. It was my first time there. I went to the NBC Studios, saw the Statue of Liberty from Battery Park, went to the World Trade Center Site, and saw the Broadway play "Avenue Q"!! The World Trade Center Site was very sad. It's also strange because there are tall buildings and then an empty space in the middle. I didn't go to Ellis Island for the Statue of Liberty because the ticket line was one hour long and the ferry line was two hours long!
The NBC Studios is in 30 Rockefeller Plaza and I went on the Studio tour. I saw the Saturday Night Live set, have you heard of SNL? It was a very small set! That was my favorite building to visit because my two favorite shows, "The Office" and "30 Rock", are on the NBC channel. Have you heard of these shows?

I recommend visiting New York at least once in your life! There is so much to do there. I bet that many New Yorkers (those who live there) have not even seen all the things the city has to offer!
Please tell me how your weekend was! (^_^)
~Sara

nice to meet you^^

hello. my name is hitomi .i will be 20 years old 9 days after. my birthday is October 19th. i will miss teenage. there are 5 people in my family. my father is a dentist. he is a good dentist and good father. he is funny, clever and kind...but sometimes, crazy!! my mother is a housewife. she always keep our house clean and give us very delicious meal every day. sometimes we have fighting talk~.my sister is older than me by 4 years. she married on May, and moved to Osaka. i miss her... she is beautiful, kind, clever and best sister for me. everyone like her. her husband is also a dentist. when she live with me, we often go to shopping and eating. she is going to back to my house on my birthday^^ and i have a dog, she named Scharz. she is old, but she always follw children. she bark to them... so cute^^
well...nice to meet you^^

Hi!!

My name is Yoshiko. My friends call me Yoshiko or Yocchan.
I'm a 2nd grade student of Sugiyama University and almost be 20 in December. I like listening to music, watching movies, playing the piano, shopping with my friends and chatting. My favorite singer is aiko who is very popular in Japan. Do you know her? Her songs make me nice feeling and almost all of girl sympathize with her songs. If you are interested in, you should listen to her songs.
There are 5 in my family, father, mother, grandma, brother and me. We have a dog named cookie and she is so^^^^^^^ pretty! We are getting along very nicely, and we will go to hot spring in November. I’m looking forward to go.

Introduction

Hello. My name is Ayumi Nakano. I'm twenty years old. A few days ago, I became twenty. I have never joined blog, so I don't know how to write so much, but I like to communicａte with
people. I'm looking forward to communicating with you. There are five people in my family: father, mother, two older sisters, and me. I love my family. They make me happy and relaxed. My hobbies are listening to music, watching movies, and hula. Do you know hula? Hula is a Hawaiann dance. Last year, I started to learn hula. It's very interesting and exciting. When I'm tired, I often listen to Hawaiann music. It makes me relaxed. I recommend this.

Minasan,

Konnichiwa. Ioroi desu.
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