The best day of my life

When I was a high school student, I served as president of Kumamoto Kita high school for a few months. The school has a sports festival in May every year. Other high schools also have it in the same season. However, the end of the sport festival, my old high school has a special event which other schools don’t have. At the end of the festival, the school president should do something special. It is called Randa. The president stands front of whole school students and shows his or her hands to the whole student body and move their hands from right side to left side saying the word Randa loudly. Then students who see the hands should clap their hands. I was a president of the school at the time, so I had to do this act. At first, when I heard about that, I didn’t want to do that because almost every former president was a male and I had never experienced such a thing before. However, friends encouraged me to do it, so I decided to challenge it. I practiced dance because the president has to dance after the special event “Randa”. While whole students are singing Kita high school’s fight song, the president has to dance. I choreographed an original dance myself.

 And, the sport festival day came. I participated in some competitions. After that, I changed costume from sport wear to a hakama. At last, the time came. I stood in front of whole students and said the word Randa in a loud voice. When I showed my hands to whole student body, they clapped their hands. I felt that I unified my old high school at the time. After that I danced by myself while all of the students sang and watched me. It was a great experience. After the sports festival finished, a lot of people, not only students but also visitors told me that I was great and very cool. Some people said to me that “I respect you!” When I heard these words, I thought I accomplished great things which nobody can experience easily. I was proud of myself. After the event finished, the student council held a small party. The teacher who took charge of the institution bought delicious manjus for us. It tasted better than when I ate it on any other day. It was the best day of my life.

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Defying Gravity

This is my favorite song. I met this song in London 2 years ago. I joined a program about studying English in London as a student of language school. I watched amazing musical that is called WICKED. At first, I didn't plan to watch the musical, and I wanted to watch The Phantom of the Opera. However, the ticket was sold out, so I decided to watch WICKED. I hadn't expected it until I watched. It was very good!!!! I was moved!!! I thought that it was far better I have expected!!! I listened this song in the musical!!! However, I didn't know the song's name at the time.

Last year, Mr. Waterman who is my favorite teacher introduced this song in speaking class. I didn't know the name of the song until the time. He handed out papers that had the song's lyric. I was moved by the lyric. After that I heard this song a lot. When I am disappointed with me or I am worried about something, this song encourages me to challenge. I love this song!!

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hot spring

I went to hot spring with my grand mother today. It has taken long time since I went to hot spring the last. It was comfortable. I used to go to same hot spring with my friends. One day, my friends and I found a red chalk on the stone which one of the stones making circle and the water in it. We scrawled a small circle on the stone. It remains still now. Today I found it and I long for those days. By the way, surprisingly, my grandmother has a lot of hot spring friends, because my grandmother always goes there. I feel that the hot spring is good place to have community with people who live the region. I hope I will have like the place when I become an old woman. I had a good time today. I want to go the hot spring with my old friends someday.  

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My other classes.

I am taking a lot of classes. I take 30 classes including writing class. I like some of other classes. I think Speaking class and listening class are good classes. I also like writing class, however, I don't think it is writing class. I am studying how to read English newspaper in reading class. That's why I think it suits the name of English Newspaper class. I also take not English class. I like some classes which is concerning about other country's culture. I take culture anthropology class. In this lecture, I learn about something that we usually don't care about. However it is good opportunity to understand thought which other country's people have. I like this class. I also like International law class. I learned when the origin of the first international law and background of it. I didn't learn about World History so much when I was a junior high school student. In this lecture, I can study World History, learning international law. Taking this lecture is like killing two birds with one stone. I take more interesting classes. I manage to keep attending these classes not to fail degree.

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BR1 08-Seasons and Cerebration

In Japan, there are a lot of national holiday. Other countries also have each national holiday and celebrate these holidays in their own way. In this book you can find other country's national holidays and how they celebrate and spend these days. This book introduces holidays that are celebrated in Western Area. It is interesting because I could know the origins of these holidays. Almost of holidays are concerning about religion; for example Easter and Christmas. Do you know why Egg is important on Easter? Why Valentine's Day began? Please find these answers from this book. Some celebration events look very fun, so you will feel like joining the events when you read this book.. After I finished reading this book, I thought that I want to learn about Japanese national holiday. You will also hit same idea of mine. I recommend you to read this book.

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Maguire Jackle (1997) Seasons and Celebrations , Oxford University press