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Book Report

2005-07-04T23:30:00.000-07:00

I read Castle in the air for the class assignment. I'm sure most Japanese people know Howl's Moving Castle which became a Ziburi Movie the begining of this year. In this movie, there are descriptions of Howl who is a famous magician and his surroundings. It became a famous movie and many people saw it! I also saw this movie and liked its story. Therefore I chose Castle in the air which is the companion volume of Howl's Moving Castle.
In this book, a flying carpet appear. Abdullah, a hero of this book got it suddenly from a stranger and at that time, his life really changed! I think this book is interesting and worth reading, so I recommend you to read it.　This book is like The Arabian Nightｓ。

Open campus!

2005-07-03T22:21:00.000-07:00

Sunday on July 3rd, there was a open campus in Sagamihara. We did parades twice, noon and the afternoon. There were many high school students and their parents came.
When the parade began, many of them noticed and came closer to us.
It was very happy that there were a lot of people hearing our performance.
After the parade, we played medley as if we did in the baseball game.
In front of our band, baton part and cheerleading club did performances,smiling and dancing.
As soon as it started, many people gathered around us, and listened and watched carefully.
Though I was very tired, I could enjoy and I'm sure we had a good perfoemance!

Seminer

2005-06-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

I went to Sagamihara campus on June 29th to listen the seminer with my friend.
In this seminer, teacher taught us how to study and the way to look up the literature.
When I entered the university, teacher didn't tell us deeply about report or the way of writting its litersture. Therefore it was a good chance to make sure how we should write reports.
The teacher who went to teach us was once a student of AGU and now a postgraduate.
He said he works in preparatory school for university entrance examination, so I thought his explanation was clear and intelligible.
After I finished this seminer, I decided to study more harder and sometimes should take some qualification examinations such as TOEIC and TOEFL to improve my English level and to know the importance of study.

My lovely dog!!

2005-06-27T22:29:00.000-07:00

In my house, we have two dogs and a cat. This picture is a one of them! His name is Lucky which my brother named. He is a Shetland sheepdog(this type is called 'Shelty').
He became a member of my family 3years ago. When he first came to my house, he was only two month old and very shy.
Now his weight is 15 kilograms which is a little heavy in comparison with the general weight.
Since I haven't seen him from 2 month ago, I really miss him!
I wish he and the other my pets keep their health good.
I'm looking forward to seeing them and would like to walk them when I come back my house.

Surprising fact!

2005-06-26T15:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday(in fact yesterday to today's morning), I was talking on the phone with my friend for 4 hours!! That was amazing fact for me. I have never talked with someone on the phone as far as 4 hours! Have you ever talked on the telephone more than me? However I sometimes felt sleep and was half-consciousness when talking. We talked about trivial daily matters such as school and club activity. As we tried to stop talking, the sun began to rise and outside seemed to become bright. We had a good time, of course but I couldn't sleep well and got up at 2:00pm on Sunday's morning! After that, I clean up my room and washed my clothes. Then I went to my part-time. To my surprise, the restaurant was crowded for the sale of fashion floor...I was very tired.
I think to have a enough time for sleep is very important! Be careful of your health.

At the bar

2005-06-25T23:30:00.000-07:00

Today, we had a brotherhood between 1 year and 2 year of our club to be our friendship more deeply. To my pleasure, there were a lot of people attending this party. Since we have a common time only in the club hour, I could really enjoy drinking and eating, and could see their own character which I didn't know. One of my friend tried to suceed it so hard that he made lot to decide where we should have sit down. The party was good and I'm sure almost people had a full time.
After entering the university, I have a chance to go to the bar. Surely drinking with friends is very plesant. But without our cautious attentions, there are some risks that people will be in danger for the extra drinking! Therefore we should always keep our temper and not bother friends.

Concert

2005-06-24T22:00:00.000-07:00

Today, I went to see a concert which was held in Hucyu.
Some of my friends joined it and their stage was so good that I was surprised a lot.
They stayed in a camp for this concert about a week.
In this concert, there were many university students attending around Tokyo yed who were chosen by instrument test.
Therefore, the stage was very good and we could see a effect of this training.
I thought my friends also played well.
They were filled with pleasure after the concert and said that this was a good chance to know their level and to be friend with students of other university who belong to the brass band club.
I took a picture with them.
Now I'm looking forward to develop it and have some hope to join this concert next year.

CD

2005-06-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

Don't you know Ayaka Hirahara, a famous Japanese pop singer. Perhaps, she became popular by the release of Jupiter which was her first single CD. I like her voice very much. It makes me calm and gives me relief. I borrowed her first album named ODYSSEY. I chose it without deep consideration, but my select was correct! This is good album, so I recommend you to listen it!
By the way, her first single Jupiter has in fact a origin in classic. There is a famous suite Planet and Jupiter is a one of it. Since I belong to the brass band club, I have once heard of the suite Planet which was played by pro-players. I think it's sound is beautiful. Ayka Hirahara is a student of musical university and she is majoring in saxophone. Therefore in this album, there is her sax playing. I respect her!

Summer concert

2005-06-19T17:30:00.000-07:00

Yesterday 6/19 Sun., there was summer concert of Komazawa university in Shibuya kokaido and I went there with my club company. Perhaps Komazawa is the most wonderful band around here, so there was so many people coming here. We should have waited about an hour.
When the concert started, I was at once surprised at their performance. Their stage was both wonderful and worth seeing! It consisted of 2 stages. On the firts stage, they played like popular jazz and classical musics, giving some arrangement. Some came in front of the band and played solo part! They were so cool. Then on the second stage, they gave a Marching show. There were some surprising actions. Although they were students, their stage was like a professional.
I'm content with seeing this wonderful stage. I wish I would play like them in the future.

My own instrumental practice

2005-06-19T17:07:00.000-07:00

I brought my trombone home from Aoyama campus to practice in Sagamihara campus by myself. Since I bought own instrument this year, I came to like trombone more and would like to play well. So I decided to practice as much as possible. Though my senior began to play trombone from university, he is the nicest player of my part! I really respect him and want to approach his adility soon.
I practiced both Thursday and Friday. Of course I can't play well, I progress little by little. I wish I could play as my part leader!

June 16th

2005-06-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Without notice, it became the middle of June. I have no class today, so I can be in my house and clearn up my room, taking a lot of times. I washed many clothes which I am sometimes apt to miss clearning. There were some winter clothers there. It was trouble to free a room of clutter.
On Wednesday, we have a club activity from 16:30 to 19:30. But after finishing the club activity, I practiced until 22:oo when Aoyama campus finally was closed. These days, my club members know each other and I really trust them. Therefore I can enjoy each club activity very much.

At the celebration after the tournament

2005-06-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

After the decision of our victory, there were celebration held by the side of AGU in Aogakukaikan. This is where wedding reception sometimes is held. The organizer invited our brass band club to this celebration, so I could see all members of baseball team near. They seemed to be filled with pleasure. I was happy to be here and I took many pictures with players. They were very kind to receive my wish willingly. I'm looking forward to developing films.
I think to see a baseball game is really fine. I had a very good time and wish there will be a chance like a dream of yesterday in the future!

Our victory

2005-06-13T18:39:00.000-07:00

Finally, our baseball team won the final match which was held in Zingu stadium yesterday! They played Kinki university. The game played off at 1:00 pm and it run into extra innings. Both teams got one point in seven times. Sometimes it seemed that Kinki univ. was stronger than our team. However fortunately, there were some errors in the enemy's side! Our team got a chance in the bottom of the tenth inning and got one point! This was when our team got a victory.
Since this was a all-Japan tournament within university, our university really became the top of Japan! It is wonderful result. I'm pleased to be at the scene of this victory. I think more we students of AGU should know the splendid achivement and congratulate together!

News!!

2005-06-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

This is a good news! Our baseball team won the match in which they battled with Soka univ.
This was held on Zingu kyuzyo and there were a lot of people gathering in comparison with Touto university baseball match.
We're surprised at Soka's supporters, because the numbers of blass band was large.
Since our club had a practice with other five universities around Tokyo, the number who could go there was limited.
I was a side of going Zing stadium!
Although the whether was so good that we were very tired, our team won and 6/13 is a final match!
If we can win this final match, AGU will become the strongest baseball team within universities in Japan.
Let's support our team again. The match will heat up!

Baseball tournament

2005-06-11T17:23:00.000-07:00

Now, baseball tournament is taking place at Zingu stasium and of course AGU joins this game.
If we continue winning, our univ. team will become a winner of university team in Japan!
Yesterday, we matched with Tokai univ. and won a fine victory.
Today, we will match with Soka univ. and our blass band is going to go there to cheer our team.
If we win this game, tomorrow will be a final match!
Therefore I get with it and support our team as much as possible.
Until now, AGU continue winning from this spring match, so I hope that the all game are topped off with victories.
Let's support our team and wish our victory!

Ziburi movies

2005-06-11T17:03:00.000-07:00

I like Ziburi movies very much, especially Mazyonotakkyubin, Tonarinototoro and Mimiwosumaseba.
I am watching Mimiwosumaseba in my room now.
I think Hayawo Miyazaki, a creater of Ziburi movies is genius and talented in painting pictures.
In his movies, all characters have its own personalities, so they are drawn activity.
His recent movie Haurunougokushiro was also interesting.
I watched it with my mother and both were touched by the story and beautiful paintings.
There is Ziburi museum in Mitaka, so I'd like to visit there in the future.

NANA

2005-06-11T16:13:00.000-07:00

Don't you know NANA, perhaps the most famous girl's comic title in now Japan?
I knew its name before, but began to read recently.
As most of my friends who read NANA more than once said its interest, I was at once absorbed in reading this comic and bought all volumes.
Sometimes, NANA's appeal for not only girls but also young to old age is broadcasted on News.
Ai Yazawa ,the writer of NANA is becoming more famous.
Her comics are both interesting and beautiful.
There are drawn complicated human relations through real world.
I recommend you to read this comic because it's content isn't only comics any longer.

Recent news

2005-06-07T18:22:00.000-07:00

I have no class on Wednesday, so can get up late and relax in my room.
Yesterday I had a part-time job from 19:00 to 23:00 and very tired.
I work at Japanese restaurant from last summer.
This is my first part-time job. Therefore I was at first confused but now become accustomed to this job and enjoy working. In fact I thought that I didn't like a customer service.
However, more times I worked, more interest I began to have toward this job.
Now I really like my part-job and learned many things such as service, and a way of talking with customer and shop staffs there. There are many kind people working there and I'm taught variety of services by them every work time.

Well-manner at train

2005-06-06T21:19:00.000-07:00

Before entering this university, I didn't use train in ordinary life in spite of going away on holidays. My school stands within 30 minitue ride from my home, so I always go by bicycle. However now I use train everyday to go to school and I often see ill-mannered person with their cell phone on or talking with their friends loudly. I think these are bad actions and we should warn them against their ill-manner.
For me, I hardly use cell phone near prority seat and always put on manner mode. However some use in front of many passengers on crowded train. I'd like to use train comfortably for all passengers. Japan has a congested schedule for train, so I see people especially workers hurry to get on the train everday. I wish some accidents will not happen like the incident of a deraliment in Hukuchiyama line which over 100 people died from.

Sumo

2005-06-06T19:47:00.000-07:00

Do you have some interest in Sumo? I don't know the rules in fact, but when we switch on TV now, we can see recent news and there is a sumo news brodcasted by the death of Hutagoyama boss, a father of Waka-Taka. Don't you kow Wakanohana and Takanohana who were the most famous brotherly sumo wrestlers until these days? They were the first brother that became Yokozuna together. Their appearance cheered up sumo and many people began to be interested in sumo. By their activities, sumo became more popular and there were many fans.
Last May 30th, their father died from illness. This news spread around Japan quickly and perhaps many people were shocked by his early death. I'm one of them, but their histories in sumo will succeed from now on.

At the cafeteria

2005-06-06T19:05:00.000-07:00

I always can't go to our cafeteria for the busyness of my classes. Yet yesterday as I had a enough time to eat lunch at cafe, I went there with one of my friend. There were a lot of foods which excited me. I chose ‘Hiyachi-cyuka’which was a cold noodle decorated with cucumber, ham and egg. It was a very delicious! Since the weather is becoming hot, cold menu increased these days. I recommend you to go to cafe if you have enough time, and enjoy eating meals at the beautiful cafe.
There are one thing I always think about- I wonder why our univ. cafe is so small. I often some people sit down on the floor and eat lunch. I think we should expand our cafe's area and make a good space to enjoy lunch for all people.

At the meeting

2005-06-06T15:12:00.000-07:00

We had a meeting to talk about the outside activities in our club yesterday. As I listened what the senior said about the happening which had caused on Sunday, I realized that there were some misunderstandings and nobody wasn't bad! However in spite of the fact, many horse racing fan got so angry that they came to our club's homepage to attack our fail. Surely we had a mistake and knew how it was a big one at the important race. There were a lot of fans came to enjoy the race and also parties to see their horses. We thought about our miss fully, but I can't forgive the people who attack our website and write about the happening sompletly different from the fact. I get angry toward these ill-mannered men.
This was a good meeting to think about our activities in the future! I wish that everything will go well.

Outside activity of our club

2005-06-05T16:41:00.000-07:00

Our blass band sometimes do outside activities to meet the request of companies such as parade and concert. Yesterday June 5th, we had a opportunity to play fanfare in front of a great deal of people who came to the racecourse enjoy. This was a very big peformance, however, we had a mistake and it was a very bad problem.
In fact JRA who is a assistant of horse racing should have showed a clear sign to start a fanfare before the race, there was some misunderstanding between the side of JRA and our commander. We started to play before the starter didn't ready, stopped playing and then began to play performance again. It was a rare happening that didn't occur recently and of course many of the fan got angry. Our member are thoughting about ourselves deeply and I determined that we couldn't do such a big mistake from now on. Since this race was a big race called Yasuda Commemoration, there were about 70 thousand of the people came to see!
Today at the club hour, we will have a reflection meeting to think about the provision for the future.

My room

2005-05-30T22:37:00.000-07:00

I live by myself and today, I cleaned up my room! Since there were a lot of things to do last month, I didn't clearn up my room recently. I washed many things such as clothing, carpet and sheet! When I lived with my family until high school student, my mother did almost around me. She always cleaned up not only living but also our children's room. At that time I didn't think about what she did for us and didn't show some respections for my mother, I begin to understand that housewives works are very hard and feel that she really did many things for us. Therefore I think it is high time that I helped my mother in return. I'd like to assist my mother's works when going back my house and to talk about mant things.

My favorite

2005-05-30T21:55:00.000-07:00

I' d like to talk about my favorite character. I like disney character very much, especially Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse! They are so cute that I gather their item from pupil. In my house, there are a lot of disney item such as dolls, towels and stationeries. I recently bought memo pad which is drawn many disney character and seal which I sticked to my cellular phone.
By the way, I haven't been to Disney Sea yet. Many of my friends have been there sometimes. I'm very sad...I'd like to go to Disney Sea and have a good time someday! My dream is to stay at Disney resort in the future.
Also, I like Disney movies very much. My favorite movies are Aladdin and the beauty and the beast. These stories are wonderful and I have a DVD of Aladdin. I sometimes watch its movie in my house! I'm planning to buy Disney movies but these are very expensive...

The rainy season is coming

2005-05-30T19:07:00.000-07:00

These days, we have rain sometimes. I don't like the rainy season because the humidity become high and we can't hang out the washings. That is very problem!
Anyway in Sendai, I ate cow's tongue. That was delicious and different from what I always eat. Tongue meat was thick, enough chew to enjoy its taste. I ate Miso flaver!
As I wrote we went Sendai by bus, so I couldn't sleep well and now my condition still isn't good. I should have enough rest.
I think , through this trip, to visit beautiful place with full green is good for both our health and mind. I want to visit many places if I have enough time and money.

Sendai!!

2005-05-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

I went to Sendai, a city of Miyagi prefecture from last Friday to this Sunday. We left Tokyo at 22:00, reached Miyagi parking at 2:00 and spent time in sleeping till morning there. Since we all sat on seat, nobody couldn't sleep well and I slept only half and an hour! So we tired in fact, but I think it was a nice trip and I could have a good time.
At first day, we held parade and concert. Then next day, we visit Sendai with Tohoku Gakuin students. I went to Matsushima, a beautiful place with sea and to Matsushima, a beautiful place with sea and 264 small island. We got on cabin cruiser. Therefore that was a very good trip and I could know Sendai!

Music

2005-05-23T19:02:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I went to the rental video shop and borrowed some CDs. I like Japanese pop very much! I hear musics when feeling sadness or riding on the train and going outside. Music make me happy. As I said I belong to athe brass band club, so sometimes listen to the classic and jazz. I'm surprised that there are many kinds of musics flooded around the world. Also, I sometimes go to concert with my friends. I think without music, I would not lead a happy life. I'd like to go to see musical in the future.

Happy News

2005-05-19T23:30:00.000-07:00

Today is fine day and we have a happy news! Did you check the result of baseball games which were held on Tuesday and Wednesday? This news appeared on sports colum. Our school team won both games and by this result, our team became a winner in this spring game. That is wonderful! Though winner was already settled, the game will continue. We have two games with Cyuou univ. next Tuesday and Wednesday. Let's support our team again. I think to see baseball games is very fun.

About my club

2005-05-16T21:00:00.000-07:00

Today have baseball match between Toyo univ. and our univ.! Let's support our team and tomorrow have also game(14:30~) ,so you should pay attention the result because this game really connect to our univ.'s victory.
Don't you know Tohoku Gakuin University, a sister school of our univ.? Our club have annal event with TGU, performing each other. Since TGU came to AGU last year, we'll go to Sendai this year, from May 27-29. Not only our club but also other club like baseball club go together to meet. For this event, we started everyday practice from yestaday. This is very hard, though, I'm really looking forward to going there and taking with the students of TGU!
I'll write new posting about TGU after finishing this event.

This is written on May 13th

2005-05-16T20:38:00.000-07:00

Today, the wheather is not so good and it seems that we'll have a rain this evening. I'm very sad to hear that. I wish the wheather goes well and I want to go outside for shopping!
Anyway, My hobby is listening musics and watch movies. For the rush of everyday life, I in fact can't go to the movie theater these days, so I'd like to watch some new movies if I have a free time. I like Japanese pops such as Mr. children and Orange range. Sometimes, I listen classical musics when I go to bed. It makes me calm, so I recommend you to listen classical and many kinds of musics! It will give you something new thoughts.

My　‘Golden Week’holidays

2005-05-16T20:34:00.000-07:00

I resume posting my homepage after a long separation, for I couldn't access well. That's a problem and I have to say sorry about that.
　　By the way, I had a parade on May 5th which is the biggest in the year and is called ‘Golden parade’. In this parade, many brass bands around Tokyo gather and each groups are gived about 40 minutes. For me, this was the first time to take part in such a big parade and I could really enjoy it! Though my part is trombone in my club, I'm to join the parade as a Color guard. May 5th was a very hot day, so some students became ill and fall down. I thought to keep our good health was a process of importance.

Welcom to happy-room

2005-04-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Hello! I'd like to give a reception for your visit.
My name is Hi-ko.
I'm a student of university in Japan and made this homepage.
Please access and exchange information.

Now, I belong to the brass band club and play trombone.
Playing the instrument is very fun!
I'm planning to buy my own trombone, but it's too expensive...!

Let's enjoy talking and I'm looking forward to your postings.