The most fearful thing

The most fearful thing happened when I went to Thailand last summer. My family and I went to Pattaya and we rode elephants. It was sunny at first, however, it started raining when we tried to ride elephants. I think it was a squall. It was a very heavy rain and it started thundering! I was so afraid of falling on us. But, elephant trainers said "mypenlai," it means "No problem". In Japan, people in service industry, like elephant rider, will stop because it is the most important to save lives.

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King Donkey Ears

King Donkey Ears
Retold by Lesley Sims

Illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon

USBORNE FIRST READING

978-0-7460-9677-2

This story is actually a continuation of King Midas and the Gold. King Midas and King who has donkey ears are the same king. I read the story recently but I didn't know that.

King Midas was asked to judge a competition between a musician and the god Apollo. King Midas declared the musician the winner - and even said he was the better player. Apollo was so angry, he gave King Midas donkey's ears.

The King Midas was modeled on King Midas who really existed in the 10th B.C. That is so interesting. I didn't get what was a lesson from King Donkey Ears but I learned it as I knew these two stories were closely related. I think they told us to be always generosity to everybody. If we forgave for someone who made a mistake or something, we could feel comfortable.

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About blogging

I have a blog except the English one. I started it in April last year but I hardly update it these days because it is kind of troublesome. I used to update diaries on my homepage very often when I was a high school student. Most of high school students had their own homepages then. I like seeing blogs of my friends. I can know what they did on their weekend. It is interesting. Blogging is kind of troublesome for me but I have to post to my English blog more and more.

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What I hate is...

What I really hate are cockroaches!!! To get hotter, they appear in my house. One night, I was entering into my room, and I turned on the light, it was there!!!!! I screamed. It went behind a chest of wearing. It was around 11:30 o'clock. My father came to my room, but he just scored me and said, "You do not scream! Do you know what time it is? I'll go to bed, you should sleep any other rooms." He went to bed with leaving me alone. "Oh no, what should I do? I can't see it. Nobody helps me. I can't sleep in this room but I can't leave it." But finally, I killed it by using a insecticide. The next morning, one of my sister picked it up, and I cleaned my room.

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The Reluctant Dragon

1. A boy met a dragon who was frightened.


2. The dragon was reluctant.


3. They became friends.
   

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Ayano

I'll introduce one of my friend, Ayano! She is friendly, cheerful, and funny. She likes taking pictures, so she takes them almost everyday. She and I met at this university. our students numbers are the front and the rear. We became friends at once. she makes me funny. She works at juku on a part time job. I think she is a hard worker. She can get along with whomever. She has so many friends. she studies English a lot. i have to study hard as her. she lives in Yatsushiro, she go to school by train. she likes Yatsushiro. She also likes her high school. She used to play basketball when she was a high school student. She likes her kohai, so she went watching a basketball game in order to cheer of them last week. What a great senpai she is.

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The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe

The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe

Retold by Russell Punter

Illustrated by Joelle Dreidemy

USBORNE FIRST READING

978-0-7460-9655-0

It's no fun living in a shoe when you have as many children as this old woman. She needs to find a bigger home - and fast.

The old woman was great! I think the children were adopted. How gentle she was. It is hard to raise the naughty children, but she loved them. By the way, I would like to know why they lived in a shoe. She got a bigger shoe who a giant had at the end. I wonder if it didn't stink. It was a interesting story.

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The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

Retold by Susanna Davidson

Illustrated by Mike Gordon

USBORNE YOUNG READING

978074608534-9

The emperor loves clothes and his new clothes are the best yet. What's more, they're invisible to anyone stupid. So the emperor is a little worried that he can't actually see them himself...

What a poor emperor! I laughed. He liked clothes very much and people praised him, but I wonder if they told the truth. I don't think that he had a sense of beauty. Who on earth wants to put magical clothes? Not me. Magical clothes!? It sounds too strange. Why all of the people believed it even they could not see it? I think men of today never believe it. This is a "story", so it's OK. Slimus and Slick were clever. They were lucky. Good (!?) job.

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