Yoshinoya!

We went to Yoshinoya in Sydney!
There is no Yoshinoya in Melbourne, so it was very valuable time.
We all were very impressed. We went to Yoshinoya two times during we were staying in Sydney. It was nice. I wish there was Yoshinoya in Melbourne... but we have Ajisen-ramen in Melbourne, so that's ok.

Last Night on the trip

Trip to Sydney & Canberra

I had a 5 days trip to Sydney & Canberra!

It was a very cheap trip for students, so we had to go to Sydney from Melbourne by bus. It took 12 hours! My host mother said I'm crazy when I told her it. I also thought I'm crazy, yeah. But actually, it wasn't that bad at all, because I slept all the time on the bus. One of my friends stayed my house the night before the day, and we talked until morning, so I was very sleepy on the bus.
The trip was very nice. We could go many famous places like an opera house, Blue mountains, beautiful beach... and every nights, we bought a lot of alcohol and potato chips, and talked earnestly until late. Actually, it was the funnest part to me. I could think and discuss about a lot of things with them. I think it was one of the precious experience to me.

Class Excursion

I had a class excursion on Wednesday.
Most of classes have their own excursion in last week. We go somewhere with our class teacher and classmates. It's very fun!
I went to Gold class cinema with my teacher and classmates.
Gold class cinema is higher class cinema. There are only 25 seats and you can relax with an extremely comfortable chair. It's reeeeeeally nice!
We can order wine or champagne but they are expensive, so we didn't order anything. Just enjoyed chair. I love this chair. I wish I could have this one in my home...
I couldn't understand the movie but I enjoyed gorgeous time very much.
Then after that, we had lunch at a terrace. It was a beautiful day.

Eagle Bar

Great Ocean Road

I went to Great Ocean Road yesterday!
There were really beautiful ocean views.
Some people say it's little boring because similar views continue for the long time, though I enjoyed it very much because I like oceans.
The color of blue is very beautiful. It's very clear.
I imagined how can I express if I draw the picture of it.
I want to draw pictures!!

Anyway, I also rode a helicopter.
It was little expensive but very nice. And I could take pictures with cool guys, so it's ok.

Girls' Afternoon

I went to Eagle bar with my female classmates after the school yesterday.
Yesterday was Monday and all students except La Trobe University's ones were on holiday. I don't know why only we had to go to school. That's unfair!
But I enjoyed the time with girls after school, so it was OK.
We drank a juice and talked together. It was nice.
My classmates Chihiro-chan and Maki-chan will go back to Japan soon. So many other Japanese students will leave here next week.
It's very sad. I want to keep touching with them after they leave.

The Hottest Day

These are pictures which we took at St.Kilda beach.
Actually, we went there on February 17.

It was very exciting day, but also, it was very hard day to me.

I live in a place in different direction from other friends, so we promised to meet at the tram station near the school. I planed to go there by train and bus, but even how long I waited for a bus, it didn't come. I got panicked because I didn't have any time table and there weren't any information.

I called to Honkawa-san and said 'Sorry to keep you waiting so long. Buses don't come at all and I don't even know it will come or not. So just leave me and go to the beach with other members now.' But he said 'Don't worry. We can meet you. Take your time.' I thought how sweet they are. Though, any buses didn't come even I waited over an hour. It made me very frustrated, then I decided to walk to the tram station. I didn't have any maps and didn't know the direction of the tram station. I asked people where is it and walked(ran) the all way alone in a crazy hot summer day for about fifty minutes.

Then, I finally could meet friends!!

I was very very glad to meet them, but I felt very badly at the same time. I made them wait for me about two hours! That's too...crazy. I had no idea how to say sorry to them. I felt really terrible and exhausted already before reached to the beach.

But once I went in to the water, I was completely revival!

I enjoyed swimming and watching topless girls very much.

It was a very hot day.

Stayed at Momoko-san's house

I stayed at Momoko-san's place with another friend Saori-chan last night. We all were very tired, but our girls-talk didn't stop until three thirty. It's always fun to talk and listen about romance. All girls love that.
Then we three slept in one bed together. It was kinda cute!

The house Momoko-san staying is very cute!
The color of walls and stairs are pale pink. It's very dreamy.
And there is a very cute teddy bear in the corner of Momoko-san's room. I envy her. I want to have a toy animal in my room. I wonder someone will give me one...

1 month anniversary

It spent one month after we arrived in Australia. So we went to a Korean restaurant and celevlated ourselves.
I love Korean food, but I hadn't eaten it since I came to Australia, so I really enjoyed it.
We could ordere kimchi for free as much as we want. We ordered a lot of kimchi and those were very delicious. It was very nice dinner.

After that, we went to Yarra river to watch fire works. It was our first purpose to come to the city. There is a festival now in the city, so we can see fire works Saturday to Monday nights. It's for only about 10 minutes, but it was beautiful.

Party at Eagle Bar

I went to the party which was hold at Eagle bar last night. Eagle bar is in La Trobe University, and there is a party on every Thursday night. A lot of Australian students and international students come there.
My host mother said,'You can get lovely Australian boys there', but I couldn't do that yesterday.
Though, it was very fun night. We drank, talked, and danced a lot. We enjoyed doing them very much.
But a lot of men hitted on us and some of them were scary.
Especially some Indians. They were very persistent. They bothered us a lot.
I think we need to bring at least one guy whenever we go there.

My class

Hello, everyone!

Long time no see, but I'm still living!



Well, the school has started from 18th, so I have been very busy. Especially in the first week.

I was in a very high level class in the first week. I wonder why I was in that class.

My test score was that good? I heard most of people starts 4A class even if they had a really good score, because EFS(English for Further Studies) course is really difficult.

Though, I started 4B class without taking 4A class so... it was terrible.



I didn't even know how to write an academic essay. I've never written those kinds of essay, so I couldn't do anything about it.

I've never learned the way to note-taking,too. All students and teachers use the short form letters in the class, so it sometime was hard to understand for me.

And the most hardest thing was vocabulary.

This class was very high academic class, so the words they use are all very difficult! It was very natural to all student except me. They use those difficult words in their conversation. I couldn't believe it. I was the only one who couldn't speak English very fluently.



I tried to do my best in this class, but it was too difficult to me.

I called to my family in Japan with crying, and said 'sorry..., I can't take this class anymore.'

It was hard to say, because I knew that my family was very happy to hear that I'm in a very high class.

Though, my family said, 'That's OK. You don't need to worry about money. There is no meaning if you can't enjoy your school.', so I changed my class to General English course.



My new class is quite good.

We read some difficult articles and discuss about it, but also we read novels in the class or learn

general conversations. And all other classmates are very gentle and friendly. So now I'm enjoying my school♪