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My favorite dish is spaghetti! There are many kinds of spaghetti menues. For example, spaghetti Napolitana, spaghetti alle vongole, spaghetti alla carbonara, spaghetti and meat sauce and spaghetti with cod roe. Especially, I like spaghetti alle vongle and spaghetti and meat sauce! Spaghetti alle vongole's good things are richly flavored of Japanese littleneck clam and good smell of garlic. I like Japanese littleneck clam and garlic so much, so spaghetti alle vongole is the best menu of all spaghetti. Next, spaghetti and meat sauce's good things are good-tasting of tomatos and meat. And I like that spaghetti and meat sauce is the best popular menu of spaghetti. Then, my grandmother preparates spaghetti alle vongole or spaghetti and meat sauce for my birthday! I'm very happy then. I'm glad eating my favorite spaghetti and cakes on my birthday. In addition to that another spaghetti's good thing is easy to cook for us. Because we just do 8 steps. Boil, stir-fry and mix! So anybody can cook favorite spaghetti manu easily. Finally, my favorite spaghetti restaurant is Jolly pasta! The restaurant is reasonable for us and there are so many kinds of spaghetti's menu. So I often go there with my friend!  

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My friend

    She is my friend, name is Mao. She plays basketball and very tall girl. We often go out some where. Especially, we go to "amamiya" and clothing shop. She eat a lot of dishes. hahaha. I love her^^ 

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Thanks !

    I was given a kimono by the celebration of the adult from my father. This picture is the kimono. The kimono's color is light pink and design is small floral. I like it very much, so I want to value it forever. Thanks father!

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Thanksgiving Day at my host-family's house

 
   My host-mother contributed picture of thanksgiving day on facebook. The picture reminded me of home-stay's memory. There are many kinds of dishes in table. I miss host-family~

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My room

   I cleaned up my room. My room was so in a mess before, but I cleaned up my room on last week. I like indirect illumination of orange color, so there are three indirect illumination of orange color. The illumination makes me so at home. But my room uselessly wide, so opposite side become drying ground of many laundry at rainy day. I often listening my favorite artist's music in my room. So I want many friend to come to my room and enjoy talking, eating and listening!

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Autumnal colors leaves

I went to kumamoto castle these days. Then, unexpectedly I could enjoy looking the colored leaves of autumn. I thought that the season of autumn leaves front has finished, but when I went to kumamoto castle, many maple tree and ginkgo were best now. So I was lucky girl^^ There were full of turned leaves, and many beautiful tree and kumamoto castle is best mach. So my heart was polished up there.

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Cooking

   These days, I cook diner, because my grandmother used to cook diner before but she had sickness. So I gradually became to be able to cook many kinds of diner. For example, nikujyaga, lightly fried tofu, spaghetti and so on. This picture is dagojiru. Dagojiru is the local cuisine in Kumamoto. The diner is easy for me to cook. So I want to be able to cook more kind of diner.

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My favorite sweet parlor

  I sometimes go to sweets parlor. Especially, "Amamiya" is my favorite sweets parlor. So I sometimes go to the sweet parlor with my friend. This picture is my favorite green tea parfait. A green tea cake, thin chips of dried mochi, whipped cream, bracken-starch pastry, rice-flour dumplings, vanilla ice cream and coffee jelly in this parfait. This parfait is so sweet but has not strong sweet taste. I really want everyone to go this sweet parlor!

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BR 2-5 FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN

For a small country Britain offers a wide choice of food and drink. People in Britain still enjoy roast beef and other traditional foods, but the way they eat has changed a lot in the last fifty years. This book looks at the traditions, and the changes, and even give some recipes if you want to make British food for youeself.

Oxford Bookworms Factifiles give important and interesting information to the reader, moving enjoyable towards real reading in English. Each book has been carefully graded to help the learner. 

FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN is a book in the Factifiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factifiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are books are about places, and some about social problems such as the environment. Many of the books, FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN has 12 chapters: Introduction; Changes in diet and shopping; Farming and fishing; Home-cooked food; Eating out and eating outside; Fast food; Potatoes: a staple food; A sweet tooth; Going for a drink; A nice cup of tea; How to make Shepherd's Pie; How to make Scones.  

The language in general is fairly simple, but the impression is that it's noticeably more challenging than Stage 1 books. Most of the vocabulary is fairly simple,  but there are many proper nouns. This is unavoidable in a book introducing a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students. Picking page 8 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 20, 16, 10, 10, 21, 38, 9, 9, 20, 27, 15, 22. These figures give a mean of 19.8. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of very short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.

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Gift from my father and grandfather.

My  father and grandfather presented kimono for me yesterday. This gift is celebration of my twentieth year. My father asked me " What do you want for your twentieth year?" I take lesson of Koto when I was 7 years old, so I sometimes have to wear Kimono at Koto's concert. So that I said " I want Kimono" to my father. So I went to a kimono fabrics shop with my father and grandfather yesterday. And I found nice kimono, so I decided that kimono. I thank my father and grandfather I got nice and expensive kimono.

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World count -September 189 words
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BR 2-4 WASHINGTON D.C.

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles is a sub-series in the Oxford Bookworms series. It is devoted to nonfiction, and most of the books are about countries or famous cities or environmental problems. 

The book I read today is WASHINGTON D.C.Generally, the book is quite easy to read. There are few embedded clauses, and the sentences are simple in structure. The average sentence length is about 20 words. There are some much longer sentences, but most of those are lists or have easy-to-understand clauses such as "because" clauses. The vocabulary is quite simple, with few unknown words that learners will need to look up in the dictionary. But the books do have quite a lot of information and the number of words is fairly large. Thus, these books are recommended for learners who are aiming to progress beyond very short and simple books such Usborne First Reading or Oxford Reading Tree.

The book consists of ten chapters: Welcome to Washington D.C., Building the city, Getting around the city, Monuments and Memorials, The Smithsonian Institution, Entertainment, Shopping and eating and Come and visit! 

Chapter 2, Building the city, describes The Capital, The White House and President Lincoln and the American Civil War. 

Overall, the book was very interesting and useful for me. My knowledge of WASHINGTON D.C. was very limited, and the book gave me lots of useful information and made me want to visit WASHINGTON D.C. myself. As mentioned above, this book and other books in the Eactifiles sub-series may be a useful next step for learners who have read mainly very simple books.

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Koto concert

I played the koto in kengeki on november 18. The concert named festival of soukyoku. I have been takes lesson of koto since I was 8 years old. I have many homework but I had to practice koto for the concert. So the one month was very hard and terrible month for me. I appeared two piece of music. I played koto and shamisen. I wore one-piece dress and kimono. I can't wear kimono by myself, so I thought I have to wear kimono by myself.  

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Typing homework 13

My favorite shoes is flat shoes. Because I am tall, so when I wear high heel shoes, I become very tall woman. So I don't want to outgrow men. haha. I have three kinds of flat shoes. For example, I have black, red and white flat shoes. My aunt bought white flat shoes for me in Korea. And I bought black and red flat shoes in Minnesota. My host family took me to outlet mall, because I said my host mother that I want shoes. So there shoes were very reasonable for me and design is so cute and fashionable. I was so happy and I am happy now. Flat shoes is so useful. For example, easy to walk, fashionable and match any clothes. I think that people can be happy just wear own favorite fashionable shoes. So I think that shoes is important of fashion. So I value my favorite shoes.  

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Typing homework 12

My favorite dessert is grape and sweet sweets. I like fruit, so we usually eat fruit in my house. For example, we eat strawberry in spring, water melon in summer, grape and persimmon in fall and mandarin orange in winter. So we eat many kind of fruit in some season. It is so fun for me to eat fruit in season. And I sometimes eat sweets after dinner. My favorite sweets is ice cream, cakes, chocolate and cookies. Also I cook some sweet in my free time. Especially my favorite to cook sweets is gateau chocolate cake. So I sometimes cook this cake for my family or friends. And I brought gateau chocolate cake for my class's member in high school. So my class's member were pleased. Many desserts makes people so happy, so sweet food make people happy.

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Typing homework 11

My favorite season is Summer, because I can go to sea and masturi. I like swimming in the beautiful sea in summer. And I like go to matsuri. In addition to that, I like summer clothing. So I can not help buying many clothing. And almost college students can get long summer vacation, so we can do many things in summer. For example, we can go trip some places, read many books and do activities of your own club. Especially in KGU, students of foreign language faculty can go abroad for foreign countries study training. So I could experience in Minnesota for homestay program. Even more summer is warm weather, so I can go many places and do some activities. Because winter is so cold, so I can't move. haha! So I love summer.

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Podcast episode: Walter, the Water Taxi

The water taxi was envious of other ships. But... Please enjoy listening.

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Scripts: Water, the Water Taxi.

There were many kinds of ships is ocean. One water taxi was envious of other ships. One day dolphin was caught in a net. Many ships couldn't help and save the dolphin, but the water taxi could save the dolphin.

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Thanks for our senior

    I made Album for senior of my circle with my circle friends in Joyful. We used many senior's pictures, color magic markers and stickers. We had to make 17 senior's Album. It was so difficult for us to make albums. But we could finish this work till November 3. Thank you for all of your kindness.

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Halloween Party

    I did Halloween party with my friends on October 30 in misaki's house. We cooked 2 kinds of chowder. We ate a lot of vegetables. Especially, Chinese cabbage. And we dressed up as each Halloween costume. I dressed up pumpkin skirt and pumpkin hair ornament. So we took many pictures. It was so fun!!!!

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Hallo Ween Cookies

    I made Halloween cookies with my cousin on October 28. We made many cookies of 2 kinds flavor. And we used many Halloween's molds. For example, pumpkin, ghost and bat. We spent good time with my cousin.

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