International Cocktail Party

Hello, my name is Sophie. I am from France. I am a director of some dramas. I live in Paris with my husband, Napoleon. We have no kids but we have a very lovely poodle whose name is Marie. She is so pretty and gorgeous she is our treasure. Napoleon is a police officer and my prince! I like going shopping and I often go to Louis Vuitton. Napoleon buys whatever I want for me but I usually buy something by myself. What I hate are insects!!! I really really hate them. Why are they so disgusting? I like only lovely stuffs.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

PENGUIN ACTIVE READING

This is kind of hard to read. It took a long time to read but I liked this story. Oliver Twist, how innocent and unlucky he is! In the scene that Oliver asked for more soup and the master took Oliver into a dark room, I felt like I wanted to save him from it! He was taken in by Mr. Sowerberry, however, Oliver was still unhappy and ran away. He joined in a gang of pickpockets. Then, he was involved in many trouble. Oh my gosh. Oliver Twist, his life was stormy! This story had a happy ending but I was excited until I read it out.

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A CATWINGS TALE -Catwings

A CATWINGS TALE - Catwings
Ursula K. Le Guin
ORCHARD BOOKS
0-439-55189-7

I have never ever imagined cats with wings like this story. They are very lovery. I felt that I wanted a catwing. There are so many stray cats around the world. Some cats live happily but some ones live in dirty and risky zones. The catwings were born in a danger city for kitties and they flew out it by their wings in order to live in a comfortable place. The states of catwings were vividly described and the pictures were beautiful, so I could easily imagine the scenery.
There were some difficult words that I didn' know but I could read it without a dictionary.


113 point=4.0 10 points

What a LOTTERY!

What a LOTTERY!

Colin Campbell

CAMBRIDGE

0-521-68327-0

To have a dream is very good. However, people should not only dream but make some efforts, otherwise they can't get a happy life. Rick didn't make any efforts and he was just waiting for winning lotteries. It was natural that his girlfriend left him. Winning lotteries can make people

feel happy but it can't give real happy life to them. I like the end of this story.

70 point=1 14points

Juppun ha Juubun

I am going to tell you about last Saturday. I went to the international dorm in order to take part in the welcome party. I arrived there around 12:00. The exchange students were cooking. Mash potato, Korean food, pizza, Thai food and so on. I have already met the exchange students before that day, so I could talk with them easily. The new exchange students are Gen, Lexy, Jonah, Ian, Jordan, Clark, Pathorn, Ton and Yusen. (I think I made some spell mistakes.) They are kind of crazy but nice and funny. Ayano, Eri, Miku and Megumu also went to the dorm. We ate a lot of delicious food and took some pictures. I couldn't stay for much long time because I had to take one of my sister to a dentist by 15:00 but I had a very good time there. I am really looking forward to the English Weekend.

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My favorite season

I like cold season better than hot season. If I compared summer with winter, I like winter but I especially like fall which begins to get cold. To tell the reason why I don't like hot season, I have two big reasons. First, I don't want to sweat. I don't want to get smell of sweat. The second reason is that I hate cockroaches. Every summer, they appear, so I am so afraid of them. They are so disgusting. I really hate them. In spring, it is warm and nice season but I have a hay fever. I am not suit for too cold season either, so I think fall is the best. However, I feel miserable because cool fall season is very short these days.

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My favorite TV show

I am going to tell you about my favorite TV shows. I like Sekai Dangan Traveler, Sekai Marumie, The Best House, Sekai Fushigi Hakken and Ikegami Akira's Wakaru News. I especially like TV shows of travel such as Skai Dangan Traveler and Sekai Fushigi Hakken. They make me feel like I am traveling. I really want to go to a lot of countries, so they are very interesting for me. I also like foreign reality shows. I have ever seen Paris Hilton's New BFF, Shot at Love, The Island and so on. They are kind of silly but interesting. I often watch some music shows on a cable TV too. I like MTV the best. It's good to get information about music.

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My favorite dish

I am going to tell you about my favorite dish. My favorite dish is pasta. I especially like peperoncino. There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Kumamoto such as Jolly Pasta, Pronto, Ninnikuya and Pissorino. I think peperoncino of Ninnikuya is the best of all but I seldom go there, so I often cook one at home. When I was in the high school age, I liked katsudon very much. I have ever eaten it four times a week. However, because of that, I have had enough. Then, I got to like pasta. Katsurestsu tei, a cutlet restaurant, has really delicious katsudon. I like it even now. I like shabu shabu too. I love MK restaurant. When I was a kid, I liked beafsteaks.

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My favorite place

I am going to tell you about my favorite place. My favorite place is, of course, Tokyo Disney Resort. It is a dreamland. Not only can kids enjoy but also grown-up people can have a great time there. I love Disney, so I love to go there. However, it is in Chiba and it takes a lot of money, so I can't go there very often. I like both of Disney SEA and Disneyland but if I have to choose one of them, I think I will choose Disney SEA. I like the atmosphere of Disney SEA very much. Disney SEA at night is especially fantastic. Disney resort has many devices too. We can try to seek hiding Mickey's faces, also, we can enjoy various sounds, interesting names of streets and stores and so on.

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My favorite book

I am going to tell you about my favorite book. My favorite book is Darren Shan. It is a fantasy story of vampires and being published serially. I have the third volume to the last one, the twelfth. When I was an elementary schoolchild, I really liked reading books. I often went to a library to borrow a book. One day, I borrowed the first volume of Darren Shan. Once I had started reading it, I could not stop it. It was so interesting that I had read through for a few hours. I could borrow the second one the other time but I decided to buy the series from the third one. The movie was shown this year and I saw it. I like the original of Darren Shan but I don't like the movie.

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The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot

ISBN 978-4-89684-448-1

'You're not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey,' Dad said. I raised my head. 'I'm not?' I said, blinking. 'Then who am I?' He went, kind of sadly, 'You're Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Princess of Genovia.'

I have ever seen the movie before, so I was interested in this oridinal book. It was not so difficult to read but there were so many slangs and spoken words like young people often use. I enjoyed reading it because I could know how young people spoke!
This story was written by a first person narrative and diary style. That's why, It was easy to put my feeling into Mia. It was very interesting. I could go on reading rapidly.

119 point=5.0 15

Best Kid (The Karate Kid)

Best Kid (The Karate Kid)(2010/ the U.S.)

Directed by Harald Zwart

Starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan

my review ★★★★★

Kung fu is so cool! I liked this movie. Jaden was very cute! He has amazing abilities. I thought his acting ability was great and his Kung fu movement was natural. Also, he can dance and sing rap music! I cherish hopes for his future. I like Jackie's part, Mr. Han. At first sight, he looked timid, tired and old man but actually he was very great at Kung fu. How cool! He had a sad past but through the communication with Dre, not only Dre but Mr. Han also could be positive. The story was great too. I'd like to see again. However, I really wanted to see it in English with Japanese subtitle. Why was there no that one? That was only one thing that I was not satisfied.

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SALT

SALT(2010/the U.S.)

Directed by Phillip Noyce

Starring Angelina Jolie

my review ★★★★☆

I was very excited. Angelina was so cool! So sexy! So tough! The part was exactly right for her. I didn't think that the action looked possible for women, though. The story was like ordinary as a spy movie but it had a new turn that I was kind of surprised. It was a interesting movie but I felt gloomy at the ending. Does it have a continuation?

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Trip to Thailand ~2nd day 2.

We went to some shopping malls, Paragon and MBK, after the sight of Chulalongkorn Uni. Haruna and I bought some CDs because we can get them at a lower price than Japan.
Kie took us to Naraya, a bag shop. She said that most of Japanese girls liked the shop.

Then, we had dinner at Yum Saap. It was a Thai food restaurant. Kie's the other friend joined us there. I ordered green chicken curry. It was kind of hot but delicious. We shared some other foods like Tom yum goong, Pad Thai, Som tam. They were so good. I especially liked Pad Thai.

I couldn't eat any Thai foods before, but now, I can enjoy eating them! That's a good thing, don't you think so?

After having dinner, we moved to the food court in order to eat some desserts! I like coconuts, so I ate like shaved ice with coconut milk. Haruna and I really liked it. I also tried to eat Sticky rice and durians with coconut milk. Well, it was interesting. I thought it better be without durians.

After that, we went back home by taxi.

Haruna and I could have really happy time with Kie and her friends that day. We were so tired but very excited.

Thanks so much, Kie! I hope we can see again!

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