I feel little sad when I think about my friends who will study abrod soon. I can meet a lot of good people including teachers to enter this university, and have many friends. They are really diligent, humorous and kind to me. When I become second year student at this university, I was unexpectedly supposed to be in class 2. It was very suprising to me because I was in class 17 last year and I didn't believe I could get such a good score on TOEFL which is at least for me. In class, my class mates are wise and have qiuck minds, which surprised me and made me disappointed. But they helped me, and seemed they're always smiling. Now I think I'm lucky to be in class 2. Therefore the departure of my friends for study abroad is sad and I feel like crying. But for their dream, I have to smile and cheer them. I hope they will enjoy their new life abroad.

There are a lot of things to do before tests or end of the class in this month. I have seven tests and one paper I have to turn in to my teacher. Of three of my tests will be conducted in the class term, not in the test term, so I need to study for them hard and quickly. Also, I must submit my paper on January 25, but I'm at a loss because the topic for it is so difficult for me that I don't know what to write. It's laborious. The reat of my tests are in the test term, so there is a little time to study and it's welcome to me. Before this year, I was really lazy and didn't study every day. However, recently I have been studying every day since at least last week. It's suprising even to me. The study I've been keeping is just for my test, but I myself think it's a good practice for me, and hope it will last from now and onward.

Trip to Atami

I went to Atami with my family and my relatives in the New Year holidays. My grandmother really like to take a trip and the trip was her offer. In fact, we planned to go abroad for our trip, but she is now eighty-eight years old and has a bad leg. So my mother guessed My grandmother can not bear to get on the plane for going abroad, so we decided to go near place where we can be relaxed and have good dinner. After researching, my mother and my cousin's mother decided to go Atami. When we reached Atami, there are a lot of visitors and unfortunately it rained heavily. We felt disappointed, and went to the hotel soon. On the day, we all were in the hotel and killed our time untill dinner. Dinner was so good and great. Because the amount of dinner was much, I couldn't eat all. The only interestingness for me on the day was that I played cards with my sister and cousin. It was very interesting. On the next day, it was fine. We went to the place where there are alot of animals and cactus. I watched a small chimpanzee's show there, and had a good time. We took a trip to Atami, but we didn't do special things or visit mamy famous place. However, it's been long time since I went to somewhere for vacation, so it was good time for me.

Coming of Age Day

I went to the Coming of Age Day ceremony on January 9 in Kyoto. For it, I went to the beauty salon at 9:30, and have my hair set beautifully. After that, I began to wear kimono with two assistants. They tied some strings and an obi, so I spent a hard time during my wearing kimono. Because it's been long time since I wore kimono last time, I was tired. And then, I went to the photo studio which is near my town, and had my photograph taken. When I arrived at the place where the ceremony took place, there were a lot of new adults, which was disgusting time for me because I don't like crowd. In addition to that, I had a headache at that time, so I really felt like going back to my house. After the ceremony, I could meet a lot of my friends in my junior high school days, but I couldn't enjoy talking with them because of my troubles. So I retuned to my home soon. At night, I had an appointment with my close friend to eat out together, so I did. I like her, but we haven't had time to meet recently, so I enjoyed the night with her.

Announcements

I've got two announcements for the exam I took before. One is about Eiken test. As I told you on this blog, I had passed the first of it, so I took the second one on nevember 13th. Becuse it was litlle easy for me and believed I could pass it, but actually I was nervous untill the announcement for Eiken was delivered to me. When I got the announcement, I was so happy that I immediately tell it to my mother. She also seemed happy to hear that. Another is about study abroad. Last Saturday, I had an interview with some professors in this university, and it was not good because I didn't say what I wanted to tell at all, and the time of the interview was shorter that I'd expected. After the interview, I didn't have confidence and was at a loss. But my friends comforted me and cheered me up, which made me happy. After that, I found I could pass the exam for study abroad! I was so happy.

Lazy

Recently, I really don't have motivation to study or go somewhere. On the weekends, I always work part-time job and get tired. So I don't feel like studying at all. Last weekend, I had a lot of things to do until then, but I couldn't spend time efficiently and continued to watch TV over and over. That's why, I was upset when Monday had come. I didn't do my home work completely, amd to do it, I couldn't take some classes. I regreted my laziness and decided to do what I could do within the day. However, yesterday, the decision was broken. I had to do my home work yesterday, but I didn't, and watched the movie on TV. As a result, I didn't have time to study and slept with leaving my home work. Unless I have a strong will for study and keep it, it's difficult for me to study abroad. Therefore, I need not to be lazy any more.

Usually, I work part-time job on Saturday and Sunday, but I didn't do so last Sunday. On 13th of November, I took Eiken test in Kyoto. I took first of it last month, and I could pass it, so I took second one last Sunday. On my way to the place where the thest took place, I was confused because I didn't exactly know how to go there. I managed to find a bus stop, and could reach my goal. Eiken test was easier then I'd expected. I hope I can pass it. After the test, I took the wrong bus, but I found it and got off as soon as I could. Fortunately, I knew the place I got off, so I didn't be lost. I was really relieved at that. In the evening of the day, I went to the yakiniku restanrant that my father's friend keeps with my family. The restaurant appeared on television last year, so there are usually many people, but it was not crowded at the day. Therefore, my father had time to talk with his friend, and seemed happy. I want to go there again.

Nice dinner in Osaka

On the 6th of November, I ate out with Saori, Haruka, Mari and Yuki. Last month, we were all tired from much homework or some examinations, so we planned we had time to go out and have fun together. Finally, we decided to go to the aquarium in Osaka and have dinner in the evening. I was really looking forward the day. Unluckily, I had a bad trouble before the day, and I therefore couldn't go the aquarium with them. I was dissapointed, but I simply wanted to have fun with my friends, and I decided not to go to the aquarium but to have dinner together. We made it at six p.m. at Umeda station. I got there before some minutes from six, but it was over six when we met. To tell the truth, I have no sense of derection, so I was lost then. I think Umeda station is too complicated not to get lost easily. After we got together, we walked the restaurant where we could eat as much as we liked about for 3,000 yen. There were many kinds of food such as pasta, pizza and desseert, and they were all delicious! We ate too much! After dinner, we took pictures near there and enjoyed the day.

Cheerleader's performance

Did you go school festival? It was the first time for me to go school festival at Kansaigaidai university. Last year, I didn't go Kansaigaidai school festival as well as other universities' one because I don't like crowd. The reason I went there in this year is that I want to Kansaigaidai just to do my homework, but my friend who also did her homework said we were in this university where the school festival took place, so we should go anyway! I followed her unwillingly, but when I saw the performance of cheerleader, my feeling was completely changed. Actually, I've never seen the performance before, so I was surprised at that. It was so great and wonderful! I didn't believe what I watched then. I heard the cheerleader at Kansaigaidai university is famous widely. I hope I will have a chance to see the performance again.

Business class

I'm taking business review course in the first period twice a week now. The theme of this class is principals of business. It is difficult for me because I don't have any knowledge concerning business today. That is true, however, I recently like this class since there are good students in the class, and we try to understand what is business. The business class started before the end of summer vacation, so we had only this calss then, and always had lunch together after the class. Unfortunately, we now have classes even after this class, therefore we don't have time to be together. Then, we planned to have dinner together during school festival and have fun. The day of our party was on November 3rd. We met each other at Hirakatacity station, and went bar near there. Although we saw in ths class, we didn't have time to chat, so we all had a long chat and had so nice time. I was little tired from talking too much, but I enjoyed the day.