Essay 2-02b: Saintmarc – My favoriteCafé

Saintmarc cafe is the best favorite place in Kumamoto. It is a cafe. When I was high school student, my friend worked in it. So she introduced it to me. It is very good place and cafe.

There is in down town in Kamitori. Also, Saintmarc Café is in Shimotori too. I work in Kamitori. Kamitori and Shimotori are very famous in Kumamoto. There are many shops. For example, a tailor’s shop, a restaurant, a department store, a musical instrument store, a book store and so on. 

Also, there is Kumamoto castle near it. Kumamoto castle has old histories, so it is very famous for Castle in Jaoan. Many tourists visit it, so they come to Kamitori and Shimotori too. It takes them 10 minutes to come Kamitori. It is very convenient. Also there are many signs in down town. So it is easy for tourist to go there. Many tourists visits Saintmarc caffe.

Saintmarc café has many menus. Main menu is coffee. But other menus are very good too. There are many kinds of drink menu and sweets. For example, sweet drinks, a fruit juice, a Vietnam coffee and so on.

Sweet drinks are Strawberry banana or blueberry yoghourt and so on. It is very popular for children, but it is popular for adult too. Because it is not too sweet. It is used many fruits. So the sweet is not sugar. It is sweet of fruit.

And, fruit juices are orange juice or mango juice grape juice. It is 100 percent fruit juice. There is morning menu in it, breads and drink set. It is popular in morning. Many customers usually say that they can wake up due to it.

Also, a Vietnam coffee is very popular too. A condensed milk into coffee. Many customers usually ask about it to us. A customer who drinks it one a time said it was very good. Also, I usually hear that I want to drink it again. It is not other shop so much. I want everyone to drink it. Also, it is both hot and cold. In summer, cold drink is very popular, and hot drink is popular now. It is both very good.

Also, there are many sweets menus. For example, a soft ice cream, a parfait, a zenzai and so on. There are many kinds of it. A kinds of soft ice cream is 6, and parfait are 8. For example, a chocolate, a strawberry, a powder green tea, a banana and so on. It is difficult for me to make it. Because it needs many ingredients. Also we have to make it early. So it is very difficult. To become skilled, I have to make many times, so I want everyone to order it. It is a practice for me. And it is very delicious too.

We can cheaply buy drinks,  food and other menus on 20 percent off. When I go to the down town to shopping, I always go there. An atmosphere is very good too, so I like it. Also, I study in it before a test. I can concentrate. So Saintmarc cafe is the best favorite place.

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BR 2-14: The Phantom of the Opera

All that was left in the boat was the phantom's mask (p. 62)

This story is very famous in the world. It was novel. I have never read it. Also, there are a musical and movie too. I have watched the movie. I heard that the musical is very beautiful and big scale.

Also, The Phantom of Opera is very famous for music. When I had not watched the movie, I knew the music. It is very impressive. When I read this book, I remembered that music.

This story is  very difficult for children to understand. But I could understand this book. The picture are very good too. The women is very beautiful and dress is cute too. Also, the man is very cool. I like the man who wears the mask. It is very cool. I can not sea his real face, but it is good. The mask seems to be terrible. I wanted to watch the movie again, and I want to watch the musical. We can watch it in Japan. So I will watch it someday.

I want everyone to read this book, and I want everyone to watch the movie and musical.

Gaston Leroux. (2008). The Phantom of the Opera. London. Usborne

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BR 2-13: The Fox and the Crow

Don't always believe people who say nice things (p.22)

This book is devious fox story. Fox was always hungry. Then, he saw Crow who has some cheese. He wanted to eat it. So he said to the crow ' I want to listen to your song ' The crow opened her beak, and down fell the cheese.

When I was child, I read the Little Red Reding Hood. I fell that Fox was very terrible, because he eat a grand mother. But, this story is good, because he was disciplined by a man.

I thought the fox was disciplined at first. But this story was not it. I was impressive the word. ' Don't always believe people who say nice things '

 Mairi Mackinnon. (2007). The fox and the crow. London. Usborne

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My favorite brand

My favorite brand united arrows. It is fashion brand. There are many kind of it. For example, united arrows green label, BEAUTY & YOUTH, and so on. There are many shops in Kumamoto.  Lately, the new shop opened in Tsuruya. It is popular department store in Kumamoto. And, it is the biggest in Kumamoto. There are many cute clothes, shoes, bag, hat and so on. I bought very cute hat, one-piece and shoes in this summer. I worn it, I went to the sea. Also, I want to buy the coat in it. The shape and color and size are very good. I don’t like only clothes but also I like the shop’s clerk and atmosphere. They are very kind. They chose good clothes for me. Also, they tell me new arrival clothes. I like to talk them. Also, the atmosphere is very good. It is not annoying. Music is not big so much too. Also it is classic music. I like everything. 

Also, I like GAP. There is next to Tsuruya. There are many kind's of clothes. For example, women, men, kids, baby. There are many colorful clothes. There are not is so much in other shop. So when I want to buy it, I go there. Also, I buy presents for my brother and father in it. It is very difficult for me to enter the men's shop. But GAP is good. And I usually baby floor. I have my niece. A baby clothes are very very cute. It is very interesting for me to just look it. There are many kinds of clothes. I did not know what there are many baby clothes. I want to buy it for my niece. She is very cute. I usually go there with my mother. She buys many clothes for her grandchild. Last time, we bought boots. Baby boots is very cute. I want to sea her who put on it.

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My favorite sports

My favorite sports is baseball. My older brother has played it since he was elementally　school student. When I was child, I usually went to a baseball park to cheer him with my parents. So I like to watch the game. My father taught me about a rule. It was very difficult for me to understand. For example, a kinds of ball, strike, ball, curb, fork and so on. Also, I could not understand other rules. I could not distinguish. I usually watch the game of baseball player. 
So I can do it.

 I’m soft bank hawkes’s fan. It is in Fukuoka. Fukuoka is in Kyusyu. So I can go there to cheer. When I went to the Yahoo dome to watch the game, I'm always excited. The cheer is very big. I was surprised for the first time. I wanted to remember the fight song then. Now I can song it. Also, home game is very fun. There are many fun of the team. So, we talk about the game. And I can know the new things. For example,  the next fan vent, about player and so on. It is very fun too.

Also, the team is very good fan service. For example, Taka-festival. We get the team’s uniform for free. I was looking forward to get it every year. Last year, it color is blue, this year is green. It is very good service. I want them to continue the service.  Also, I got the sing ball of the player. He is Munenori Kawasaki. He plays in Seattle Mariners now. He is very popular, because he is very cool. Also he is good at it. When he went to Seattle, many fun were cried. I was sad too. The sign ball is my treasure. I want him come back Fukuoka. I want to watch his play again. 

Now baseball player is off season. I'm very sad, but I watch the high school student's game. I like it too. So during off season, I cheer them on TV.

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BR 2-12: In the Garden

Run inside. Get to the magic house. (p.4)

This story is children become small size. And, they experience many things. They are very small so grass, flower and cat are very big. Also, their toys are very big too. So they can ride a car of their toy. They run around by the car. It is very cute.

And, they could eat a strawberries in a garden. A strawberries are very big. I like it very much. A strawberry's size is mouthful. This size is ten times as big as a normal strawberry. When I was child, I wanted to live sweets house. It is made sweets. For example, cookies, chocolates, candy and so on. I can eat all sweets until I am full. They ate many strawberries until they were full. I want to eat it.

After the magic was over, the garden's owner said ' There must be giant slugs round here'. It was very interesting. The picture is very good too. He don't know that children became small size and they ate it.

Alex Brychta. (2003). In the Garden. Oxford. Oxford Reading press

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Draft Essay 2-02a: My favorite place

My favorite place is Saintmarc cafe. I have worked since I was high school student in it. It is a cafe. When I was high school student, my friend worked in it. So she introduced it to me. 

There is in down town in Kamitori. Also, Saintmarc Café is in Shimotori too. I work in Kamitori. Kamitori and Shimotori are very famous in Kumamoto. There are many shops. For example, a tailor’s shop, a restaurant, a department store, a musical instrument store, a book store and so on. Also, there is Kumamoto castle near it. Kumamoto castle has old histories, so it is very famous for Castle in Jaoan. Many tourists visit it, so they come to Kamitori and Shimotori too. When I work in out to advertisement, they often ask me about a place. I’m from Kumamoto, so I know it so much. I can tell them about it. Some of them are foreign people. They can speak Japanese, so I talk in English. My major is English, so I tell them about Kumamoto in English a little.

Saintmarc café has many menus. Main menu is coffee. But other menus are very good too. There are many kinds of drink menu and sweets. For example, sweet drinks, a fruit juice, a Vietnam coffee and so on. Sweet drinks are Strawberry banana or blueberry yoghourt and so on. It is very popular for children, but it is popular for adult too. It is cold drink, but they drink it in winter. And, fruit juices are orange juice or mango juice grape juice. It is 100 percent fruit juice. It is popular in morning. Also, a Vietnam coffee is very popular too. A condensed milk into coffee. Many customers usually ask about it. A customer who drinks it one a time said it was very good. Also, I usually hear that I want to drink it again. It is not other shop so much. I want everyone to drink it. Also, it is both hot and cold. In summer, cold drink is very popular, but hot drink is popular now. It is both very good.

Also, there are many sweets menus. For example, a soft ice cream, a parfait, a zenzai and so on. There are many kinds of it. A kinds of soft ice cream is 6, and parfait are 8. For example, a chocolate, a strawberry, a powder green tea, a banana and so on. It is difficult for me to make it. Because it needs many ingredients, and I have to remember it. Also, we have to make it early. So it is very difficult. To become skilled, I have to make many times, so I want everyone to order it. And it is very delicious too. Also, there are many kinds of bread. Especially, chocokuro is very popular. It is croissant. Many customers buy it. Breads are baked in shop, so it is hot and delicious.

We can cheaply buy drinks, and food and other menus. 20 percent off. When I go to the down town to shopping, I always go there. An atmosphere is very good too, so I like it. Also, I study in it before a test. I can concentrate. So it is my favorite place.  

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I love KGB

Takumasai is school festival of KGU. It is November 1~3th. I belong to the broad cast club. It is KGB. We had to prepare at 5 pm. Also, we made the message for 3 years of university. . It is DVD and letter. We made it 2 weeks ago. We took pictures and video. It was very hard for us to edit. But it was very fun. We thought the message that impressed them. We were cried during making it every time. They are very kinds. So, we were very sad. The last week, we had made it until 3 o’clock am. I had a class next day. So, I didn’t sleep.

We gave them the DVD. They were cried. We were very grad, because we like them very much. We played many times for two years. They told us many things. We went to Okinawa every summer. Also this spring vacation, we went to hitoyoshi for hot spring. Also, we hold birthday party for friends of KGB every time. We make a present for everyone. For example, an album, a DVD and so on. They are very kind. I like it. We have many memories, so I am very sad. We played every week. From now there are one and two years of university, so I want to enjoy every one.  

Also, we sold ramen in takumasai. We had to prepare in the morning, so we get up at 4 o’clock three days. It was very hard for me. I was group leader, so we could not overslept. Also, I had to go to the supermarket to buy food. So I was very hard. But, everyone helped me. I was very grad.

There were many shops in takumasai. For example, a takoyaki, a karage, a frank further, an udon, a crepe and so on. Agepan ice was very famous and popular every year.

It is bread that is fried into ice. It is very delicious. I ate it. We have to wait for a long time, but everyone want to buy it.

Also last day is hold Kouyasai. It is very big event. Then, displaying fireworks. It was very beautiful and very impressed everyone. Many people took part in it, so we took a picture. We can increase memories. I like a club activity. So, I continue it. I’m looking forward to next year.

I love KBU. I love KGB….

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BR 2-11: A Day in London

Gran had promised to take the children on an outing. (p.8)

This story is about outing grandmother and children. They went to London. For example, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge and so on. She tells　children about the place. Buckingham Palace is the Queen lives or Tower Bridge open. They were excited what the bridge began to open. Also, they went to the waxworks. I studied Britain last year, but I didn't know it. It is an art museum. The trouble was very fun in there. I thought that gran is  very interested. I want everyone to read it.
Also it is good book for Japanese children, because they don't know London. This year, the Olympic hold in London. Also, the prince of Wales was married in this year. London become the center of public attention. So Japanese children should know Britain so much.
The picture in this book is very cute, so children can enjoy.

Roderick Hunt, Alex Brychta. (2003). A day in London. Oxford. Oxford university press

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BR: 2-10: World Instruments

People all around the world make music (p. 3)

This book is about world instruments. Many instruments in the world are introduced in this book. For example, Bagpipes, Steel Drums, Saxophone, Panpipes, Sitar and Didgeridoo. It is only one instrument that I know. It is Saxophone. My friend who belong to a brass band club used it.

Bagpipes is Scotland. It is interesting shape. It looks like a pipe in Japanese. The name is Bagpipes too.
Steel Drums is West Indies. It is used Steel Drum, so the name.
Panpipes is Peru. It is pipe too.
Sitar is India. It looks like a guitar. The size is bigger than a guitar. The structure is same.
Didgeridoo is Australia. To blow is very hard. The shape and color are very interesting. Color is red and yellow. I want to see it. Also, I want to try it.

I knew things that there are many interesting instrument in the world. I want to look up other instrument in Japan and world.

Tracey Reeder. (2003). World instrument. Oxford. Oxford Reading press

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BR: 2-09: From Curry to Rice

Rice grows in many parts of the world (p.14)

This book is a food dictionary. Many foods are introduced in the book. For example, Curry, Doughnut, Eggplant, Fig and so on. I know Curry or Doughnut, but I have not known Fig. Figs are small, round fruit. Figs are soft, on the outside but they have lots of small seeds inside. I have not understood. So, I looked up a word in a dictionary. It is Ichijiku in Japanese. I have eaten it. I just don't know the word in English. I think that there are many people who don't know the word. So this book is good for Japanese children.
Also, Rice is introduced in the last page. There are many kinds of rice. It is longer than Japanese rice. Also, rice can be white, black or brown. The staple food of the Japan is rice. So I think that Japanese should know it. I saw the black rice for the first time. I thought that this book is a food dictionary.

Ruby Maile. (2003). From curry to rice. Oxford. Oxford Reading Press

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My favorite drink

My favorite drink is tea. Especially I like Lipton. There are many kinds of tastes. For example, a milk, a lemon, a peach, a grape and so on. Also, it is different for the season. All of kinds are very good. I have drunk all kinds. I always wait for next kinds. I am looking forward to drink it. Especially I like caramel. It is winter season. I usually buy a pack of Lipton. So it is cold drink. I don’t like cold drink when it is very cold day. So, whenever I buy caramel Lipton in winter, I worm up it. It is very good. It make me worm. Also I like normal tea too. Lipton is sweet. But it is not sweet, but I drink it when I eat sweets. For example, a cake, cookies, a bread and so on. The tea which my mother makes is very good. I like it. I always drink hot drink in winter morning. Winter morning is very cold, so I want to drink hot drink. Especially, I usually drink a  hot tea. A ginger becomes hot our body, so my mother mix it into a tea. It is very good. I want to drink it now. I ask my mother to make it now. Mother~!!!

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My favorite comic

My favorite comic is ONEPIECE. It is very famous in the world. When I was elementary school student, it started. My older sister and brother liked it, so they collected it. Then I had read it yet, because I did not like read a comic. There are many words in a comic. When I was child, I liked an anime on TV. So I knew ONEPIECE  when it started on TV. I usually watched it on TV. We could watch the story by comic faster than on TV. So I started to read the comic. My sister and brother continued collecting it. When I was high school student, I started collecting with them. ONEPIECE is very good story. It is boy’s comic. The content is a pirate, but it is loved by many people. It sold two million. My father and mother know it. My mother tell me that selling new volume. I cried many times during reading it. I read it many times, so I remember the word. The words are very famous. Also, I heard that foreign country people learn Japanese by ONEPIECE. It is sold in the world. My foreign country friend knows it too. She said that it is very famous in her country. I was very grad. The author is Eiichiro Oda. He is from Kumamoto. I'm very grad  too. We take pride it. I continue   it. I’m looking forward to read next volume. 

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