Second 5 favorites 1-01: My favorite drink

My favorite drink is coffee. I have realized that I'm a something of coffee addict recently. I don't need to drink it at breakfast or lunch, but when I would like to concentrate on lots of homework, papers and studying involving with English. Coffee must hot and non sugar, lukewarm coffee is terribly bad taste. It is good combination of a cup of hot coffee and a bar of chocolate. Sugar and caffeine are run through my body and wake my brain up then I can keep concentrate on studying. Without caffeine and something sweet, I always start to get on my nerves, so I hope that I want to bring a bottle of coffee, but you know, if I keep bring it, it definitely getting cold. I had been thinking of that, and I found that there is a way to keep warm it. It is a thermos bottle. I will buy it soon.

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First 5 favorites 1-05: My favorite TV show

I have some favorite TV shows. The first one is "Ikari Shintou"(Angry new party). It's a popular variety programme. Two famous TV stars, Ariyoshi and Matsuko DX are on it. They talk about many kinds of themes that viewers send to them. Their contents of the letter is almost complain to other people, social structure, way of thinking, and so  on. And the two men, one is gay, talk about them funnily. People love to empathize with others' moaning. The next one is news programme. I like to see 10 o'clock news programme "Houdou station". I can get lots of information about domestic politics, economy, and also world. It is really helpful to grasp what is going on in the world. I like NHK news programme as well because everybody can listen to the simultaneous interpretation at 7 and 9 o'clock news.

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First 5 favorites 1-04: My favorite car

I have some favorite cars. The first one is Aventador, Lamborghini. Of course I will ever buy that really expensive car, but I love to watch it on the Internet for a long time. That space-ship like body, really noisy sound, everything attract me. This Italian super car often appears on the famous British TV programme, Top Gear. In the show, a person who is a member of the programme drove the car excitingly and happily in a circuit. I was really envy him. Then another one is also made by Lamborghini, Miura. It's a classic car, but the design is not old. I love that big eyes and the shape. If I have a chance, I want to go the shop which sells Lamborghini with pretending a rich man, and take it for a test drive.

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Movie Review 4: Romeo and Juliet

 
Nearly two decades ago, when I was a kindergarten student, me and my classmates played "Romeo and Juliet" in front of our parents. Of course, I played Romeo and a girl, who I liked the best at that time, played Juliet. After the play, everybody gave us a long standing ovation with crying. It was sweet and just like dreamy memory....yes, it is a dream.

Actually, I played some grass. I had been hiding behind a cardboard grass during the play. A role of a grass? I still it doesn't much make sense about my role. Anyway, every time I see "Romeo and Juliet", which reminds me of that memory, and also I didn't exactly know the detail of the plot of the drama and the end of the story. I only knew Juliet's lines, "Oh, Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be Romeo?" Most of students around me only knew those lines as well, so we often talked about it as a conversational topic. Which means, the words in Japanese, sound a little bit funny (or weird) for us who don't know the surrounding words of the lines, I mean the context. I

think it is a translation problem.

Anyhow, thanks to the movie review, it was given the opportunity to see the drama, I understood the meaning of "Oh, Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be Romeo?" It is really tragic story. Because of the long-standing bloody battle between two prestigious families, young beautiful woman and handsome man must be destined to die. If Romeo wasn't a members of the opponent’s house, they would have spent a happy life. lines may be include that kind of meaning in it, I guess.

In addition, I have a question about making Juliet in a state of apparent death. A padre attempted to allow the couple to escape secretly, which was in vain eventually, but was it really necessary to camouflage her death? I thought the priest just let her go to the place where Romeo had stayed. I find it doubtful about that point, so if I have a free time I want to check why did he do that. What's more, I thought, this is William Shakespeare. While I was watching the movie, lots of interesting and fantastic expressions came from the characters’ mouths. I wonder

if it is difficult to understand the lines in English? Either way, I want to read or watch that masterpiece again.

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BR:2-08 Buddy, the first seeing eye dog

“But you must learn to pay attention to Buddy at all times. Your life may depend on it.”

I don't like to watch, read and listen to animal's death story, especially dogs. That makes me cry all the time. This book is written about the first seeing eye dog, "Buddy". The dog is a female German shepherd, and she is really friendly and smart. She understands many commands, such as Sit, Come, Forward, and so on. Also, she avoids her master from any kinds of dangerous.

Fortunately, most people can see everything. We can enjoy beautiful sights, we can choose many informations from surrounding media, and we can escape from menaces through our eyes. On the contrary, for blind people, reality is full of dangers. Seeing dogs are eyes for them.

Few months ago, I heard awful news that someone stabbed a seeing dog with sort of fork. The dog's master had never noticed until his colleagues told him about the injury. The reason why he didn't notice was the dog had never reacted someone's attack. I don't understand why the culprit did that base action, and I really felt sorry for the dog as well.

For blind people, lots of seeing dogs deserve their lives. I don't mean to blame the system of this guide dog, but are they really happy with spending their lives for people? I understand that I should not say such things...It is so sad. I hope that more high-tech devices, which help blind people will appear in the future.

by Moore Eva ; illustrated by Bolognese Don. (2003). Buddy, the first seeing eye dog. New York : Scholastic.

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First 5 Favorites 1-03: My favorite book

My favorite book is "Juuni Kokki series (The Tale of Twelve countries)". I met this novel when I was in junior high school student. At that time, I was really concerned about the relationship between my friends in the school. To be honest, I didn't want to go there. Some students were really nice and kind to me, but some of the bad boys were really bad to me. During the situation, I went to a bookstore by chance, and I happen to found the novel. I had already knew the presence of the book because the novel's animation had released on TV. The TV version wasn't good, due to the bad quality of the drawing. However, as to the content, it was so interesting, so I bought it and obsessed with the series.

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First 5 Favorites 1-02: My favorite elementary school memory

When I was in elementary school, I was a more brisk and active boy than now. I belonged to the soccer club in the school. I was a defender. Because of the J league that had started at that time. I admired a lot of soccer stars, such as Kazuyoshi Miura. The school is located near my home, it takes about 5 minutes from my home to there. While I was in the school, I enjoyed swimming in the pool, and went to catch bugs, like beetles, cicadas in the summer. In the winter season, we held a little festival at the school court yard, and we ate yakiimo. It was really delicious. I still remember the smell of it. What's more, the students went through some incidents.[128/4971]

BR:2-07 Lost in New York

“‘Be quiet !’ Jake said. ‘We'll take you back later.’”

Around 15-year-old English boy, Nicky, visited New York for the first time without his parents. Through the trip, he had some unexpected experiences including very bad thing. 

I don't like this book, actually, the boy. He came to New York to see his Aunt Carrie. She was supposed to wait him at JFK airport, but there she wasn't. Instead, her friend was there to pick him up. The friend got him on a taxi, and went to the center of New York.

On the way her place, Nicky had to got out of the taxi because of the friend of aunt's personal business. While he is waiting on a street, he found a bike gang then they came over to him interestingly. They demanded for him to ride in their sidecar. He refused to get it in, but they pushed him inside the car and went away in the end.

The bad boys dragged him round, and they made him steel some goods around the city. There were a lot of chances to escape from them as he was kidnapping. However, strangely, he didn't leave from them for fear of being lost, despite he's already lost. As a result, he was about to catch by the police.

In general, if people plan to go to foreign countries, they must be prepare for the trip, which means money, knowledge, and sort of wariness. Nevertheless, he had a minimum of budget and lack of security himself. I think he should start to visit to his own country.

By the way, the name of the title "Lost" reminds me of an experience when I went to Gold Coast, Australia. That was the next day I had arrived the country, my host mother showed me around the city near our home. During the short trip, I tried to remember all the location, and I felt sure I succeeded to memorize where I live. But reality doesn't work out well. As I went back to the home from a language school, I completely lost. The sun was going to set soon, and the temperature was getting lower and lower. I was about to start crying and screaming with alone. 

Finally, I got into a convenience store, and I said to a salesperson "I'm lost. Please help me." It was one of the most miserable moments I've ever experienced before.

Escott John. (2000). Lost in New York. Harlow : Pearson Education

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BR:2-06 Frida Kahlo : Mexican painter

“Her leg had to be removed. But through it all, she continued to paint.”

Frida Kahlo is known as a famous Mexican woman painter. She left behind over 200 paintings for her life. Most of the theme of her works were her self-portrait, and those portraits were painted minutely and intensively.

I picked up this book at randomly, therefore I didn't know about her until I read it. Surprisingly, I like to see paintings or paints, such as Vincent Willem van Gogh, Gustave Caillebotte, Hasui Kawase, and so on.

Great paintings draw people into their world. People can see, feel, smell, hear something as if they were actually be there. Frida Kahlo's paintings were draw my attention into her world as well. According to this book, since she was a child, she usually gets sick, and also she had a car accident when she was young. Because of the injuries, she had been suffered from severe pain. 

I think that her paintings reflect the effect of her pains, sufferings, and anguishes. Exactly, her paintings are very good, but if someone asks me that "Do you like her paintings?" I would reply "No." Her works have a big impact on everyone who sees her paintings, but have a bad feeling on them as well. Abnormality is hard to understand. 

Woronoff, Kristen. (2002). Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter. Boston : Thomson Heinle.

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