Essay 2-05; My Happy Place

I introduce to my secret place in Kumamoto. My secret place is Honmyo – temple. This place is near my house. Do you know Kiyomasa Kato? He is held a ceremony there. He is a historic person.

This place will be held a festival in the latter half of every July. This festival is called “Tonshae”. We usual call “Tonsha”. Also, many people will visit with family, lovers, friends and so on. They often wear yukata or jinbei. The night always bustles and they spend a good night. On this festival day, both sides of the street are lined with stalls. These are about 150 stalls. Many stalls sell many kinds of shaved ice, ice candy, cotton candy, candies shaped many characters, frankfurters, grilled chicken, chow mein, juice, grilled squid, masks, yo – yo, goldfish and so on. We must go up in stone steps until we arrive at the top of Honmyo – temple. They are tired, but they can enjoy until the last because many stalls are lined until the top. They reach the top soon if they talk with family, lovers, friends and so on, eat kinds of food or play a game.

I went this festival with my friends last year. A friend and I wore yukata. This festival day is the first day that I will wear yukata or jinbei on the year because the event is held on the beginning summer. I can see to local friends on this event, so I can have a good time. I took university friends to this event. I want many friends to visit my local festival, so this summer festival is so funny! Please come “Tonsha” next year :) I will be looking forward to see you.

HP: http://cyber.pref.kumamoto.jp/asp/kanko/kanko_intro.asp?LangCode=j&BackURL_ev=event_cal.asp&EventNo=746

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Poems

In the room at duskA story about a man ,Getting close to the age of having nothing except thinking.The sky,Reflected by the setting sun,Now seen,From the window frame.A golden light there.He begins to think ,At the time when Summer is over. Now thinking of how to release something.After being released, then how to fill in.At first, turn or loosen it being fastened firmly.There is something important besides the procedure.It calls the sense of time.Feels like getting what it is,Immediately.But, my hands cannot function properly.How come?Power and breathing.Eyes focused on from the garden to outdoors,Where purple flowers and wild peonies are blooming.The head of a flower is swaying.The man who saw one piece of a petal falling down."Fed up with everything.",He said to himself,In an almost inaudible voice. It's fading away.Near his hands,Something fastened,To be released.The above-mentioned is just a prelude of this story.After being released,The edge should be raised.After being fastened,It should be kept for a long time.How could it be done?The other day,The man, holding up an umbrella,Walking on the path along the beach.Regretting to have already come out on foot.Rain and wind became stronger.How come in this case?What I have to fasten,Is an umbrella.At first fasten my wrist,And then, turn my feelings toward where?Toward my hands rather than feet.Noticed clearly the rain shower falling heavily.A car came,With head lights on.Holding up and waving the umbrella,Let me enter it.When the door was opened,One young girl was holding the handle."What a terrible day it is!" "I have a wife and a child.", The man said. "And a job, too. I happened to encounter you here." "The sea is stormy, isn't it?"This has been passed through."Everything has been passed through", Murmuring to himself, and fastened it on his memory."That is a lever." The man who let that lever slip down near his hands.Well, this man opened the white paper,In the room at dusk,Fed up with thinking,And drew pictures of big plus and minus screws.Suddenly it became dark in the room,And nobody knows what is fastened by drawn screws. Dusk stays. In my room where my wife and child are away, Only the sound of tearing silk, Creeping on my skin.

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Softbank Shop

Nov. 25.
I went to a softbank shop near my house at last. I had to buy a battery pack because my battery pack was broken, so I ordered it. It took a few week to reach mine. I had a part time job the day and I had no time to spend too many things. So, I was harried. It was good to be able to go there at last:b

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A well-kept secret of Kumamoto; Freewriting

There is Honmyo - temple near my house.
Kiyomasa Kato is held a ceremony there.
A festival called "Tonshae" is held in the latter half of July every year.
We call the festival "Tonsha".
Many people visit the festival with family, lovers, friends and so on.
They often wear yukata or jinbei.
The night always bustles and they spend a good day.
Many street vendor's stalls stand in a line and they are worried which stalls they enter.

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A Well-kept Secret of Kumamoto; Brainstorming

Honmyo - temple
Kiyomasa Kato
summer festival
street vendor's stalls
yukata
jinbei
the anniversary of a person's death
garden lantern
stone steps
family
lovers
friends

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Poems

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile

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Essay 2-04; My Delightful Community Life

My community life is a club in university. My club is "Lacrosse". Our university clubs consist of P.E. committee, culture community, a cheering party and a cheerleading, the welfare of the people committee, circle alliance secretariat, Gakusho society and the evening school council. I belong to circle alliance secretariat. It composes of 19 clubs. To my surprise, Lacrosse is one of 5 biggest clubs. They are volunteer group "Asunaro", Aozora - katsudotai, Easy do sports loving club, Passing and Lacrosse. Lacrosse and other clubs are active every Wednesday.

Member of Lacrosse is 17 freshmen, 14 sophomore and 17 junior. But junior retired by Takuma festival. Then sophomore decided new post. I became vice – head. Changing the new club, we were active many times. Our club was changed completely.
Our active is mainly to play sports and go anywhere. For example, we played soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis, baseball, table tennis, badminton, long skipping rope and so on. Then we went to Mt. Kimpo, Aso, Tamana, in a river, in a sea, a trip, see illuminations and eat dinner. Others, we did BBQ, fireworks, game taking pictures. We are going to do things that we have never done and go the places that we have never been.

Purposes which I do club active are for exchange several grades and department, living a full university life, learning many things. In fact, entering this club, we learned how to bring the club together, to understand member’s situations, the respect due to theirs superiors and other many things from elder person. I think this chance is a good thing. We must teach to younger person like this and we also learn more.

Our next plans are to have reelection in December and do winter camp in spring vacation. In reelection, we will introduce other clubs and must make many people know Lacrosse. Many club’s head will come our party. We will know new head at that time. In winter camp, we will go skiing in Hiroshima. I went there last year. I enjoyed this event very much. I want to enjoy skiing new members more. Others, I want to plan pleasant events more. I want them to wait these events and tell sophomore to things that they want to do. So, we will be able to enjoy more.

Our club’s situation and aim tell you. Our club changed our generation and we must think more about our club and freshmen. We should please membership and are delightful actives. I started to understand hard of the oldest grade. I think we will have much hard since now. We would like to create our Lacrosse with freshmen.

I think club can't make up only a club. We should get along with other clubs and help each other. It is important for us to have connection with other clubs. Then my goal is as if we are like brothers or sisters. We want to be able to talk about our worries, happiness or every thing. All members would like to be able to spend comfortable time in a club.

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Poems

now (more near ourselves than we)is a bird singing in a tree,who never sings the same thing twiceand still that singing's always hiseyes can feel but ears may seethere never lived a gayer he;if earth and sky should break in twohe'd make them one (his song's so true)who sings for us for you for mefor each leaf newer than can be:and for his own (his love) his dearhe sings till everywhere is here

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Community: Outline & draft intro.

1. Definition

• club activity (Lacrosse)

2. Membership

• 16 freshmen and 14 sophomore

3. Activities

• sports
• places to go
• things to do
  

4. Purpose

• for exchange several grades and department
• for living a full university life
• for learning many thing
  

5. Plans

• reelection in December
• winter camp in spring vacation
  

6. Situation & Aim

• Club changed our generation
• We must think our club and freshmen more
• We should please membership and are delightful actives
  

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Brainstorn: Community life

Community life

• Lacrosse

• soccer
• baseball
• basketball
• volleyball
• tennis
• table tennis
  

• BBQ
• illumination
• sea
• river
• mountain
• trip
• dinner
• game taking pictures

• cafeteria

• an athletic meet
• a cultural festival
• events

• other clubs
• connection
• like brothers or sisters
• all members
• worries
• consultation
• 
  

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Poems

Something too far away to see from here. I tried to see through a telescope. What was it that appeared in the round frame? It was a horse and a woman in the field. Looking at it closely, I recognized that, The woman was being raped by the horse. The horse, Holding the woman, While raising his front hooves. No way for her to get away. She was just lying under his abdomen, Naked. He cast a brown glance at me, While swinging up and down his long mane. I was absorbed into his eyeballs, And disappeared into the scenery in the round frame, Together with the horse and the woman.

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Poems

somewhere i have never travelled e. e. cummings
omewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me. or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

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*～Community～*

One of my community is club activity.
I active in my club every Wednesday.
The content of active is to play volleyball, basketball, tennis, badminton,baseball and table tennis in a rented gymnasium or sports ground, to do BBQ, go on an outing, go to watch illumination, go to river and sea, go to a trip, eat dinner together and so on.
I'm looking forward to joining to club activity every week.
Now, every clubs changed our generation.
So, we must think about our club.
We will be harder than by now.

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Poems

To a Friend Jean Valentine
I cannot give you much or ask you much. Though I shore myself up until we meet, The words we say are public as the street: Your body is walled up against my touch. Our ghosts bob and hug in the air where we meet, My reason hinges on arcs you draw complete, And yet you are walled up against my touch. Your love for me is, in its way, complete, Like alabaster apples angels eat, But since it is in this world that we meet I cannot give you much or ask you much. You go your way, I mine, and when we meet, Both half-distracted by the smells of the street, Your body is walled up against my touch. My body sings at your table, waits on the street And you pass empty-handed, till when we meet I have been so far, so deep, so cold, so much, My hands, my eyes, my tongue are like bark to the touch.
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MR 2-01: Mrs. Doubtfire is funny

This movie is “Mrs. Doubt fire”. I’ve never watched this movie but many friends have ever watched this one. Love for children, a figure working as a housekeeping and so on are appeared in this movie. I think this movie has many good points. First, I will write little this movie’s content. Then, I will write 2 good points for me in this movie.

First, an animated cartoon voice artist, Daniel, was given a sentence of a divorce at last because he rely entirely on his spouse's earnings and had to get out home. But he was a lover of children, so he thought that he would dress himself as a woman and enter their home as a housekeeper. He asked a make - up artist’s brother and changed himself into an elderly woman. He became “Mrs. Doubt fire”. His children took to her without knowing that she was their father.

Next, I will tell you about first good points. It’s his love for children. He really loves his children. He can’t stand that he can see his children only once a week. He is optimistic by nature, so he has many bold plans and doesn’t worry about what other people think. I’m sure that he could understand children’s feelings and actives because he is optimistic and does never forget his feelings that he was a child. In short, he likes children very much because he is just like a child. I think a person like him likes children but the person may not like adult. We can find the different between children and adult.

Then, I will tell you about second good points. It’s a figure he or she is working as a housekeeping. These scenes are felt like comedy drama. I couldn’t help laughing some scenes which he is cooking or do other keeping house. Though he is cooking seriously but it is for him awkwardly, I laughed. His life changes completely because of divorce. Then he chooses a way of a housekeeping and must do housework. It is many works which he doesn’t usually do. I love these scenes very much though the content is so important. It is wonderful that the main content has both profound fact and humor, I think. Bringing humor is a big point and a good point.

A family in this movie is different from my family. Each family has each life and hold the life. A various of form of their lives are so many men, so many minds. It may be a good think that you watch other people’s lives. They have worries and happiness of every kind. They live as they overcome the both. I want to live without regretting.

This movie has many themes and deep contains. I think this movie can find many things from many points of view. They are family, divorce, housekeeping, children, smile, love, sense of humor, disguise and so on. We can think as we like by ourselves. Then you can compare with your life.
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Site: http://www.fnosta.com/32mi/mrsdf.html

*～Love for children～*

He loved children very much.
He wanted to separate with children.
So, he changed her as a housekeeping.
She played with her children as if she were a child.
She doesn't forget a child mind.
I think she is a good dad...:b
But, she had to think about her spouse...

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*～A figure he or she is working as a housekeeping～*

Mrs. Doubtfire worked as a housekeeping out of his or her single - mind to see his or her children.
His or her mind for children was more stronger than anyone else.
Have you thought like his or her?
I think we may not still know.
We might understand sooner.

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