Softball

I have played softball for six years. When I was a junior high school student, I was not a good player, but I practiced very hard, and I became a very good pitcher. When I was a high school student, my softball team was very strict. I practiced every day. My coach was very stern, but he became more fun coach when practice finished. I like having a fun coach, but I don't like having a stern coach. He often was angry and hit our cheek. Everyone practiced more because it was really mortifying. I thought, "I don't like softball. I want to retire soon,"but now, I think it was a very good experience for me. Now, I like softball. I want to play softball again, and I want to play it with Kathy. I love sports.

My Pets

I really like animals. I especially likes cats. I have three cats now. My cats' names are Gonchan U-chan and Chibi. Gonchan is very fat and looks like a racoon dog but he is very cute. He weighs 8 kilograms. I think should put him on a diet . He is like a friend to me. U-chan is a loner and is old. She likes my mother best. Chibi is very small and powerful. She has different colored eyes. Her right eye is green and her light eye is blue. Her eyes are very beautiful. I'm with Chibi at all times. I want to have many more cats in the future. I really love cats. I want to be a cat and I want to play with my cats. Before I had a dog, a lot of fish, rabbit, three turtles, and two hamsters. My family are really really likes animals.

I Love My Basketball Team!

I love my basketball team. When I started college, I joined the basketball team. There are a lot of teams. For example, there are teams for tennis, baseball, basketball, soccer, football, and dance. It is very exciting. My team's name is "Fabreeze." It has about 60 people. Every month we have about 8 practices. We always play basketball, and then we go to eat dinner, and we talk to a lot of friends. We had a pizza party, went to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN, had a Christmas party, and went cerebrate Hatsumode. When I went coming here to Spokane, they held a party for me, and they gave me a present. I was very happy. My best friends Yui and Takumi came to the airport to see me and they gave me a photo album and chocolate cake. I was very happy, but I was very sad, because I was left Japan. I have a lot of friends in Japan, but I want to study English. My friends in Spokane often say they want to come back early in Japan. I'm looking forward to meeting my friends, and play basketball game together again.

my mother

My mother and I are not very much alike. First,my mother cooks very well. But I don't cook well. She often bakes cakes or cookies. There are very delicious and healthy. She also cooks pizza that is healthy,and better than pizza that is sell at a pizza shop. Second, she is serious. When she was a high school student, she was a class representative. In a festival of her school, every her classmates follow her, because she was a leader of their program. She talked me boastfully about this story. Third, she is so kind and smart. I sometimes respect her. She likes Eco activities. She is always saying"Don't leave the water too much!"and"Bring your Eco bags!" Also, she likes fund-raising. So,she belongs to UNICEF. When I heard about this,I thought she is great. But,really something I can't understand. And that is that she raises a huge sum of money for UNICEF. Fund raising is a great activity,but I can't understand how she did. One day,I heard her said the reason why she raise such a large sum of money. She replied "I prefer spending money for hungry children or children who are in trouble to spending money for useless things." I was surprised to hear her say that. And,I thought at that time that her activity is very important lesson for me. She has taught me many thing about how to live. Anyhow, I love my mother!

My Extra-Curricular Activities

Today, I would like to talk about my extra-curricular activities. I was in brass band club in junior high school and high school. I love musical instruments. My favorite musical instrument is the horn. My conductor was very strict with the students but fair. He made me strong and I learned a lot of things from him. I was very selfish before I met him, But I learned that it is important to compromise with other musicians in the band. I had a great experienced. My conductor was so strict that I wanted to quit the band. But my friends encouraged me. I am proud of having such good friends.

When I passed the entrance examination for Mukogawa University and decided to go there, I was going to join the brass band, but when I listened to their performance I wasn't attracted by it. Instead, I was attracted by the baton twirling club at this university. I was impressed by their dancing! and I started to be interested in baton and dance. That why I decided to join this club because I wanted to be like them. Now, I respect the other dancers and baton twirlers. I must practice dancing and twirling baton so hard because I would like to get better.

Sometimes I miss playing in the brass band when I listen classic music. I love classic music. I would like to play a musical instrument again. But I don't have an opportunity to do that here. I am so sad, but my college club friends are very precious to me. I thought it would be difficult to continue to participate in the club and study. To be frank with you, I have thought about quitting in order to study more . But now, I don't think I will , thanks to my friends. They make me grow up all the time!! It was just an accident that we met, but I think it has been very necessary for me. I am such a lucky girl !! Thank you.

My Part Time Job!

I work at a cake shop and a bar. The cake shop is very small, but there were many cute cakes, so that's why I decided to work there. It is important for me to learn many things. For example, how to be polite, to have good manners, how to greet people, and so on. I wanted to get a job, so I looked for one in the classifies. Then I researched about part time jobs in a book of jobs. There were many places, but I have wanted to work at a cake shop for a long time because I love cakes. I was hired. This shop is in a department store.

I was very anxious the first time I went there, but the people who worked there showed me what to do quickly. When I couldn't wrap anysthing, I practiced it a number of times. I was very happy. One of the things that was most fun was eating cakes. I love chocolate cake, NY cheesecake, tortes and so on. I went home with cakes every day I worked at this shop.

Before I came to MFWI, I told the owner of the cake shop that I had to quit work, but she said to me, "If you want to continue when you come back, you can." I was so happy ;-)!

"Ruuuuuuuun!!"

I want to run! In Japan, I run long distances, about 5~6 kilometers with my friend named Ayumi. Ayumi is one of my best friends. My house is near Ayumi's house. We live in the same condo block. We have been friends for fourteen years. We were on the same basketball team in the same junior high school, so we are good at sports. Here, no friends can ran 5~6 kilometers with me. Only Ayumi. In Spokane, it's snowy now, so I can't run because it's too dangerous and it's too cold to run about three days ago I ran around MFWI with my friends. However, they got tired fast, so I think I want to be able to run long distances. I'm looking forward to running a marathon in Spokane. I want to keep running. I don't want to walk during the marathon, but I don't know whether I can reach the goal by running. Basically I like sports; I love to exercise!! Yesterday, I exercised in my room while I skyped with my boyfriend. Maybe if my friends saw me doing this, they would think we are crazy!! By the way, I haven't seen any Americans running yet. Do Americans hate to exercise?

My Parents.

My mother's name is Asayo and she is forty-four years old. She is very kind to us for family and to people in our neighborhoods. My father's name is Makoto and he is about fifty years old. I like my mother and father but I like my mother more than my father because I can talk to her about everything. For example, about university's life, friends, part-time job, and my boy friend. She always listens carefully and give me very important advice. I sometime worry about my life, then I always talk to my mother. After talking to her somehow I feel relief. She is my only mother, I know. But sometime I irritate at my mother, because she meddle with my business. When I feel down, my mother asks me "Why do you feel down?" I be irritated at my mother when I don't want to her asks me such things. Contrary to my mother, my father doesn't ask me about every things. My father is always calm. If we face big problems, he will solve this problems, maybe. My mother and father have different characters!! I think that both characters are good and important. I love my parents!!