June 27

I had a boring class today. Now I'm taking a business English course. I like all of my classmates and enjoy another teachers classes, but I don't like today's teacher's classes. His explanation is not clear and his pronounciation is hard to understand. Plus, I think he doesn't prepare enough for classes. I usually don't like his class and often fell asleap, but today's class was especially horrible. I complained with Korean guy who sat next to me during the class.

My Holiday

My 10 days holiday finished this Sunday. I went to Sydney during my last holiday, but I didn't go anywhere special in this time. I had just relaxing time. I went out for shopping with my friends couple of times, and went to the birthday party of my friend's boyfriend on Saturday. I spent all of other time with my one of Japanese friends who lives near my house. He is the only Japanese student who lives in the same town as me, so we spent time together every weekends. We always just stay at either of our house and study together. We also make our lunch by ourselves. I can't cook at all, so my friend always teach me how to do it. He calls it 'cooking class for you'. I feel I really need to learn cooking from my mother after I go back to Japan.

Love Actually

I watched "Love Actually" at my house. I'd watched this movie before once. In that time, I didn't think this is not that good movie, but in this time, I found it is very incredible one.
This movie shows that there are a lot of kinds of love in our lives. Love between men and women, sisters and brothers, fathers and sons, and friends... And the movie also shows that love is not always just a thing make you happy. It sometimes brings you a great sadness and agony. Though, I still thought love is wonderful after I watched this movie, and I miss Christmas!

Just Married

My host family has a lot of DVD, so I borrow them and watch in my room when I have nothing to do. I want to watch all of DVD before I leave this house. Anyway, I watched the movie which called 'Just Married'. This is a love comedy. A guy and a woman fall in love and decide to get marry very soon. The woman whose name is Sarah is from a very rich family and they are not so happy about the maridge. The guy whose name is Tom is a guy who loves sports and doesn't have any interests about fancy things. Sarah and Tom are very different, but they get marry because they love each other very much. They think everything is going well, but it isn't... Their perfectly-planned European honeymoon becomes a tragedy.

Zoo

I went to a zoo with my host family. It was a special zoo and all animals which are there are Australian animals. I saw a lot of Australian animals such as koara, kangaroo, tasmanian devil, emmue and so on. The koara was much bigger than I had imagined and very massive. Now my image of koara changed.

I finished 3rd term

I graduated my third class on Friday and I have 10 days holiday now!
I attended morning class and after that, I went to eat Saudi Arabian food with a Japanese friend and two Saudi Arabian friends. My Japanese friend Ko-chan is a good friend of them and he often goes to eat with them, and most of time, it's all their treat! I was always envy him because he always eats delicious dishes for free.
Though, that day, I finally could go with them! I ate Kapsa which is a kind of fried rice with meat and vegetables. It was delicious and it was all on Saudi Arabian friends!
I was very happy to eat delicious food for free.

Different World

Samantha is a 18-year-old girl who cannot hear anything because of her illness. She fell in love with a guy who works at the store in front of her house. She goes to the shop to meet him, but she can't say anything to him. One day, she meets him at a party and gets along with him. She feels very happy, though a girl who calls herself his girlfriend appears in front of Samantha and says, 'You can't make him happy because you can't hear his music which means the world to him!'. Samantha is very shocked by her words. She feels she lives the different world from him.

Boku ha benkyou ga dekinai

I borrowed this book from one of my friends. Now I miss Japanese novels more than any other things! I can see now how much I like Japanese sentences. I knew that I like reading very much and I also like reading in English, but I didn't know I like Japanese Language so much! I guess it is impossible for me to live without Japanese books. I was very happy when I got this book from my friend and I already finished the book in 2 days. I tried to take a long time to read it because I have no other books to read, but I couldn't help myself.

The main character in this novel is a 17-year-old boy Hidemi Tokita, who is not good at studying but loved by many girls. He likes playing soccer and has a good relationship with an elder woman who works at a bar. He doesn't care if people call him stupid, because he doesn't think it is important whether people get good marks on their tests or not. He has his original sense of value, same as his grandfather and mother.

I like Hidemi's relationship with his family. It seems little strange at first sight, because the have very different sense of value from other people. Though they never care about it and proud the way they live. I think they live very honestly, and that's why they can trust and love each other. I think they are precious family.

What I'm thinking about

I hadn't written for a long time.
It past more than three months after I came Australia. Now I'm used to a life here. It is very natural for me to spend everyday in Australia and it is more difficult to imagine a life in Japan.

Now I have a completely different life here from Japan. I wake up everyday in my new bed, meet and talk with new friends, study with classmates from different countries... It's all different from what I had in Japan.
I'm very enjoying life in Australia, but to be honest, I sometime feel strange and confused... I still do.

Actually, I feel strange these days.
Some of my friends also ask me 'What's on your mind? You sometime look strange these days.'
Well, I'm not sure what's wrong with me by myself. I'm usually thinking about so many things in my mind, so I'm not sure which one occurs this feeling. But... I guess it's because I'm worrying about my future.

I really like living here very much and feel happy that I could come here. That's why I'm afraid of the days after finishing staying here. I know I can't stay here and be with all people whom I met here forever. It will be completely changed one day and I'm afraid that day. I'm thinking what I can do now for my future.

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.