The Gingerbread Man -Book Review 5-

Gingerbread man is tasty♪ But I was surprised this story('д’;) There are many tragic fairy tales in foreign counties. In Japan, there hardly are such stories.

Once upon a time, an old woman and old man lived with horses and cows. They wanted their children. Then, she made a gingerbread man. He began to run away as soon as he left an oven. She and he followed him. He ran singing. Watching it, a horse and cow also followed him to eat. Watching the old woman and man, the horse and the cow was following; farmer also followed him to eat. Watching the old woman and man, the horse, the cow and farmer was following; children also followed him to eat. The gingerbread man ran and ran singing. Then, he found stream ahead. A fox told him to help to cross the stream. He took on a fox's tale. But his tale got wet. He moved to the fox's back. But there also got wet. He moved to the fox's head. Then, suddenly the fox ate him!

Oh no! Then, what this story wants to say? It's just cruel! After reading it, I researched about the gingerbread man. His origin is thought having started in British. Henry VIII said ginger takes effect to Pest having spread in British in those days. Many people made cookie added ginger. By the way, fox always acts the villain in Japan and foreign countries, I think. Do you know this is why? (。_°) (252 words/total: 7408 words)

The Ink Drinker -Book Rview 4-

Despite this book's cover is weired, it attracted the interest of mine. The man is sucking ink by straw. What is he doing?



A boy hates books was son of book store's owner. On day, he hid himself there when he tended the store. It was his favorite. Then, a strange man entered his store. He floated off the ground! He picked a book and begun to suck by straw. After that, he left the store. The boy followed him. He went to a cemetery and disappeared in crypt. There, the man was sleeping. Suddenly, he woke up and looked at the boy. He told a lie that there is his grandmother's grave. But the man read his mind and said, "You will develop sacking ink tomorrow!" The next day, he became one of the ink drinkers!

How dreadful! (><;) When the boy became an ink drinker, he felt happy he is son of book store's owner for the first time. But I little envy him because it's easy to understand contents of books by only sucking book's ink. I also hardly read books as him. If we drink the textbook's ink, we can know easily without reading a lot(＾＾)♪ (203 words)

Birthday Party

I held my friends, Yoko and Kanami's birthday party the other day. It was held in karaoke box. I went there with them, Kanami, Ayako, Marina and Saki for the first time. So I was looking forward to do. Singing was very fine! By the way, have you listened a song, "I am salermoon"? You know, salermoon is sooooo popular animation when I was a child. I listened this song there for the first time. This is a song of salermoon's movie and nice♪ ('∀' ) We talked we want to watch the movie. (＾＾) After singing, we shut Yoko and Kanami out the room coldly and prepared the party: cake and music quickly. We selected a song, of course, "Happy Birthday". Being ready, we recalled them into the room. Then, we said, "Happy birthday! Yoko and Kanami!" and set off some crackers. They were pleased. We were happy. After that, we sung and sung until end of time.
Leaving there, we went to dinner. We had reserved a course meal, buta-shab at a restaurant. The course had salad, fried tofu, fried chicken, udon and pork! There were full of dishes on the table. Do you know the collagen ball? We found the restaurant in the information magazine. It is ball made by collagen! It was frozen and looks just an ice ball at first glance. When we had reserved, we had found a description if we reserve, we can get the collagen balls by free. We went there by 6, so we could got 6 balls. We did shab-shab by soup added the collagen balls. The dished are very tasty!
After leaving there, we gave Yoko and Kanami our presents and said good-bye. I had a very very nice day. (´∪｀) (301 words/total: 6398 words)

Romeo and Juliet -essay prep/essay 9-

Actually I have seen “Romeo and Juliet” for the first time despite it is Shakespeare’s very famous love story. But I have known this movie’s words, “Oh, Romeo, why are you Romeo?” I didn’t know this words’ mean since watching it. This is a modern-day “Romeo and Juliet”. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes act Romeo and Juliet each other in this movie. They are beautiful and right for the role, I think.
Romeo is the son of the Montague. He is beautiful man and beside naughty. But his friend Mercutio is naughtier. His character will make him plunge into a sad situation. Juliet is the daughter of the Capulet. She is　also a beautiful girl and expected to marry with rich man by her parents. Her cousin, Tybalt is the nephew of Lady Capulet. He is proud of himself and his family name and an impetuous man. Capulet is a father of Juliet. He is sometimes ferocity. Lady Capulet is a mother of Juliet and tries hard to make prosper Capulet. Angelica is a Juliet's personal attendant and confidante. At first, I thought she is a follower of Lady Capulet. But she is an only person concerns Juliet heartily.
Romeo suffered from one-sided love. His friends including Mercutio picked him to the Capulet’s party. Capulet and Montague were on bad terms. There, he fell in love Juliet. Juliet did, too. But they knew about each other, they were the enemy. But their love didn’t end. They exchanged marriage vows by Friar Laurence secretly. He expected to be reconciled with both families. But sad accident happened. Tybalt killed Mercutio. Romeo was beside himself by anger and killed Tybalt. He was banished. Friar Laurence told him to publish their marriage and called back Romeo. After he left there, Juliet forced to marry with other man by her parents. She asked not to marry with him for Friar Laurence. He told her a certain plan. The night before marriage, she drinks a poison. But it doesn’t kill her. She’ll stiffen as she died, and wake up after 24 hours. Then, she’ll be in church as a dead person. After that, she’ll run away to Romeo. Despite it was very ganger plan, she decided to do. Friar Laurence sent a letter written the plan for Romeo soon. But Romeo didn’t receive it. He listened by his attendant that Juliet died. The attendant didn’t know the plan and thought she died actually. Romeo grieved and decided to go to her. If he is arrested, it means his death. He told good-bye to his attendant on the way and ran through the town to her. Then he already prepared for death, he had a strong poison. Finally, he arrived at her. When he said good-bye and drunk the poison, she woke up. She said good-bye him and killed herself.
There is no result if both families are reconciled. I think they were. If not, their death doesn’t have a mean. I wondered why both families’ young people are such short temper. Is it common in UK? Japanese are thought calm racial usually. If they become calmer, they may be able to be reconciled. Romeo and Juliet are poor. They are only son and Juliet of both families, so when they dead, both blood end. I think it served them right. (555 words)

Romeo and Juliet -essay prep/essay 8-

This is tragedy. Romeo is a only son of the Montague and Juliet is a only of Capulet. The two families are enemy each other. But they fell in love at a sight...

Mercutio: Roemo's best friend

Tybalt: Her cousin and the nephew of Lady Capulet

Capulet: a father of Juliet

Lady Capulet: a mother of Juliet

Angelica: the Juliet's personal attendant and confidante

(64 words)

The places I want to go -List 8-

1. Nagasaki

-I want to go there because the night view of there is called the one of the three most beautiful night views. Moreover, there are many delicious foods due to Nagasaki has unique culture mixed Japanese and Europe's one, for example, champon, sara-udon, konpeitou, castella and so on. Champon is a noodle dish stewed with meat and vegetables. Sara-udon is a drying noodle dish with meat and vegetables in stewed soup. Konpeitou is a Portuguese candy. It's colorful and cute! Castella is a Portuguese sponge cake and very popular in Japan.

2. Kyoto

-Kyoto has many cultural assets and beautiful views. I think leaves there are about to become red and yellow beautifully. I have been there twice, but I didn't get tired. Nagasaki has many abroad culture and foods, but Kyoto has Japanese original culture, cha, temples, maiko and so on. Cha is powdered green tea. It's little bitter. My favorite temple is kiyomizu-dera. The composition of there is interesting and we can pick a lot about love. Foreigners may prefer to Kinkakuji. Maiko is a Japanese woman server. They wear kimono and entertain their customers by dancing, singing, playing games and talking. But it costs a lot. I think the only rich people visit them.

(209 words)