Typing Trial Week 13

Summer vacation plans
I want to go to the seaside this summer vacation. I want to play beach volleyball on the beach. In the rest time, I want to go to the beach house and to eat some seafood dishes there. I also want to go to a display of fireworks with my boyfriend. We went there also last summer, so I want to do so this summer, too. Moreover I want to go to a summer festival with someone, friends of mine, my family or my boyfriend. I want to stop in at some street stalls and to buy a variety of foods such as apple candy, cotton candy, takoyaki and fried noodles with sauce. I also want to do goldfish scooping, to do target shooting and to play quoits. I'm looking forward to the days so much.

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Typing Trial Week 12

What I think about blogging
I think it's important for us to blog in English. It's good to open our opinions to the public and to share opinions with others. We can know different opinions all over the world and state mine. we can see a variety of pictures on screens. Movies are more interesting on screens. I like to get a peep of friends of mine's blobs and to post my own comments to them. The blogs listed my blog list are Mikiko's, Mari's and Chisato's. I renewal my blog about three times a week. I like perfumes very much, and I have a large collection of perfumes. I look forward to contribute posts about my favorite perfumes. The number of word I have used in blog posts has reached ten thousand, but I continue to update still from now.

[142 words]

Typing Test 01

I took the typing test for the first time. The topic was self introduction.

Hi, my name is Kaori ueno. I am 19 years old now. My birthday is September 26th. I will reach 20 when. My blood type is A. There are 4 people in my family; my father, my mother and my younger brother. I also have one fish named Akahire. I'm a Kumamoto Gakuen University student. I go to school by bus, train and on foot. The way of going to school is so tired for me, so I don't go every morning, but I try to go hard. My dream is to be a ground hostess. My favorite fruit is mango. I eat almost every day. I buy them when I go to the convenience store or other shops.

I'm not good at typing fast very well, so I want to be able to do better than now.

[155 words]

Portfolio for Writing III

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Student ID: 07109
(last five digits of
your student no.)

Portfolio for Writing III,
Section 1a [or] 1c
(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below[.])

1.1. Showcase	Short titles [+ links]	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	¶	W	C	L	P	M
Self-introduction 08.04.20 (250 words)	Placement essay	2008.04.09	9	292	0	0	0	0
Movie review 08.05.04 (300 words)	MR 1-01: Shrek	2008.05.07	6	153	0	0	1	0
University life 08.05.18	My Wonderful University Life	2008.05.16	5	500	7	0	1	0
Another review 08.06.01	Writing essay ★Restaurant Joyfull★	2008.05.30	8	814	3	1	9	0
Language learning history 08.06.15	Writing Essay: Personal Language Learning History	2008.06.15	9	601	0	0	6	0
5th essay (pending) TBA	My Presentation	2008.07.09
Totals	---	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media embedded

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those essays do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• Writing essay ★Restaurant Joyfull★ Because I pasted a lot of graphics, so people can enjoy seeing my essay. Also because I wrote so much information on this essay, so people can know much about Joyfull. And the layout was neat to me.

2.0. Comments

Showcase	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments (yyyy.mm.dd)	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	Best Reviews 1.1 (2008): Best [Post] Title	2008.06.04	26
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*	Heart leaf☆	2008.06.27	67
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*	★The Island Pig Nemacystus Decipiens' Sausage★	2008.06.27	44
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yyyy.mm.dd)	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments*[*]
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*	My Wonderful University Life	2008.05.16	125
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2008.05.21	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	140
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*	★The Island Pig Nemacystus Decipiens' Sausage★	2008.06.27	44
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2008.06.27	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	58

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain what makes them good comments.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where or why not?

• header...
  

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

It's good for me to be given different comments. For I can know a variety of others' opinions all over the world. I'm happy to be given comments, and I look forward to checking all comments.

3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
1-01	Victorian Adventure	08.04.24	70	0
1-02	Castle Adventure	08.04.24	72	0
1-03	Viking Adventure	08.04.24	70	0
1-04	Submarine Adventure	08.04.24	72	0
1-05	Egyptian Adventure	08.04.25	93	0
1-06	Roman Adventure	08.04.28	96	0
1-07	Land of the Dinosaurs	08.04.28	124	0
1-08	Kipper and the Giant	08.04.29	92	0
1-09	Rotten Apples	08.05.02	313	0
1-10	Chinese Adventure	08.05.05	305	0
1-11	The Jigsaw Puzzle	08.05.13	147	0
1-12	The Motorway	08.05.14	507	0
1-13	Maggie Magpie's Pie	08.06.07	373	0
1-14	Wendy Worm's Adventure	08.06.07	424	0
1-15
1-16
1-17
1-18
1-19
1-20
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Note: Please calculate book review words and comments totals without the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [Remove these square brackets, including these remarks; identify your best book review, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & Media

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog have an archive?	○
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	○
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?	○
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?	○
4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?	○
5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	○
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	○
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)		○
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)	○
"movies" (plural) AND "photos" (plural)	○
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	○
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts?　 _５_ other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. books (14) foods (14) graphics (45) links (4) medias (1) movies (2) music (2) p.p.essays (4) perfumes (5) reviews (17) stars (4) Typing H.W.s (13) Typing Tests (1)	---	---
4.3. Links & media	---	---
4.3.1. Does your blog include pictures or other graphics?	○
Does your blog profile include a picture or graphic representation?	○
How many of your blog posts this semester include pictures or other graphics? __36_ posts including pictures or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?	○
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links?* __1_ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?	○
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? __1_ posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list them here: ...★Prisoner Of Love★ ... ...	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes or enhancements that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. graphics...I have pasted a lot of pictures on my blog posts. Because of this, you can enjoy seeing my blog posts more.


2. verdana...I have done formatting the almost all letters to font of verdana. Because of this, it's easy for you to see each posts.


3. layout...I have changed the leyout about once a week. Because of this, you don't lose interests in my blog.

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing

• ...I enjoyed my blog writing. I had felt tired of doing so at the start, but I got to be fun while I did them hard. Though there was much time when it was difficult for me to solve problems, I did my best as possible. I’m looking forward to the Writing class in the second semester.

6.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors

• ...You had better enjoy this class. You mustn’t think that you have to do things, but that you can do things in this chance. You had better update your blog almost every day. If you update five times a week, I think, you may get into habit of knocking off your works.

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc portfolios (2007-08).


2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios in the footer of your blog.
   


3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derives from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008)
   

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★The Post Which Is Interesting To Me★

D☆O☆A☆R☆A

I nominate this post.

DOARA which is image character of one baseball team are dancing, giving enjoyment to the spectators at the baseball games. He's imitating performances of artistes.

I choose this, because DOARA is so cute, unique and wonderful. As he's wearing a koala suit, his movements are great so much. I really respect him.

DOARA is loved by everyone, probably. I also love him very much. Because of him, I think the baseball games gets to be more interesting.

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★The Island Pig Nemacystus Decipiens' Sausage★

This is island pig sausage. It's kneaded a lot of Nemacystus decipiens, and it is enough delicious. My father had bought it as an Okinawa souvenir the other day. When the first seeing, I thought it was a little strange. However, it was possible to eat by eating fast because it was very delicious. I thought that it having only had to be more. Excluding this, there seems to be the one to knead squid Sumi etc. , too. I want to eat one some time. It is possible to eat by warming it delicious even as it is. However, the method of eating in short putting up mustard is a royal road.
Please relish everybody by all means when you go to Okinawa.

[124 words]

★D&G light blue★

This perfume is good for people who don't like sweet perfume. This perfume makes me image perfume of a grapefruit, a lemon and a green apple. It also makes me feel beginning of the day. When I first put on this perfume and my heart beat fast, I was glad to be said by friends of mine that it smelled good. It's not childish, but still it's too adult, and this balance is exquisite. The perfume is be refreshed and a citrus scent. It gradually changes from the fresh scent of a lemon and an apple to the soft and sweet scent. This felt patterned package and bottle are beautiful. Light blue is my favorite perfume.

[119 words]

★ANNA SUI DOLLY GIRL★

The dolly head of the top of this perfume that is so characteristic is really cute.
The fruity, fresh and fine perfume that is rare for ANNA SUI is suitable for the blue sky of clear weather.
Let's go out with a graceful mood.

The top note are marine note, green note, bergamot, cinnamon apple and melon.
The middle note are lantana, magnolia and jasmine.
The last note are battebert, raspberry and umber musk.

[75 words]

Typing Trial Week 11

All about my keitai
I have my cellular phone. It's colored pink and slide type. I have been hanging three cell phone straps on it. The first one is the strap shaped a doughnut with topping color sprays on it. The second one is character strap shaped capybara. The third one is kitty's strap given by my casual acquaintance as a souvenir from Amakusa. I send e-mails to friends of mine, my family or my boyfriend about thirty mails per day. I talk with them when I want to listen to their voice. I use i-mode when I want to connect to the Internet. I use i-appli when I want to take rests and to play games. I take pictures when I find something interesting. I like to make decorated mails. I’m available pictures for download. I also download music from the Internet.

[139 words]

★Prisoner Of Love★

This song is named Prisoner Of Love sung by Hikaru Utada.
It's the theme song of the drama titled friends.
Please try listening this song!

[25 words]

Typing Trial Week 10

Using the computer, good points and bad points
There are five good points. First, it's useful when you write a variety of compositions. You can convert kana into kanji and delete letters at once. Second it's easy to figure out. Just type expressions, you can solve solutions. Third, you can carry the mass information all the time. Using floppy discs, you can save a lot of files. Forth, you can use the Internet. You can do at any time and anywhere. Fifth, it’s easy to edit. You can copy or paste easily. There are five bad points. First, you will get to be able not to write kanji by yourselves. You will be at a disadvantage in the Kanji Aptitude Test. Second, you will be able not to work out the answers in your heads. Third, you will depend completely computers. For computers help you with doing almost every thing. Forth, you need to worry about the harm done by computer viruses. Fifth, you will be able not to correct proofs by yourselves. You have to master technique of correcting.

[175 words]

Writing Essay: Personal Language Learning History

I have been studying a long period of time. I have been making personal language history. Let me traced my history of learning languages.

I first wrote the alphabet when I might be an elementary school student. I thought it was interesting for me to write letters of the alphabet when I wrote them for the first time. I gradually started to feel something lacking about writing only alphabetical letters, so I started to practice writing simple English words such as apple, rabbit, dog, cat, bag and so on. I could know the pleasure of learning at that time.

I started to learn English on a full scale when I was a junior high school student. I met a great English teacher there. She pronounced English words clearly, at a suitable speed and in a loud voice. She made us write and pronounce English words again and again. She also made us learn basic compositions in English, memorize a variety of Western songs and sing them in front of her. I was really looking forward to her English class. She taught us how to learn English. I liked her very much.

I solved the English problems intently when I was a high school student. I carried out questions for entrance examinations to colleges almost everyday. I contributed to the development of the skills of listening, reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciations. I could master the technique little by little.

Because of a variety of efforts until now, I could enter this college. And I started to learn Korean and German in addition. I thought it was fun to read and write the Hangul alphabet. Korean grammar was very similar to that of Japan. It was so difficult for me to learn German, so as I studied German hard, I could not pick up German very much. I also learn Japanese essay expressions.

I was given help by the teacher as stated before, but I have been helped by my family since I can remember. When I had to recite in English, my mother confirmed English textbooks for me. When I had to write essays in English, my father pointed out some mistakes for me. When I sing Western songs, my brother checks the words to these songs. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

I think the purpose of learning languages is for getting some licenses such as passing the Practical English Proficiency Test and the Practical Korean Proficiency Test. In fact I have the Second Grade of the English Language Proficiency Test. I also think the purpose is for communicate with people. Going abroad, I’ll be able to speak to foreigners, ask them the way or my destinations and ask them to help with something myself. Moreover I think the purpose is for employment in Japan or in other countries. I want to be a ground-hostess in Japan. When a lot of foreigners may visit airports, if I can speak many languages, I can communicate with them well. I learn languages for my future.

My way of learning is useful. It’s not just writing, speaking, reading and listening but the strange way. I remember the something words through their resemblance to words or phrases. It’s my favorite way of learning.

Learning is very important for us. I have been taught how to learn languages by our teachers for a long time. Having carved out a long history, I’m getting to understand the essentials much more. I want to learn the way of learning and to continue to learn from now on, too.

[601 words]

★Dried Ume★

I am crazy about a dried ume. I don't go to shops without buying them. I always buy them as soon as I find them. I have eaten variety of dried umes. I know much about dried umes. When you come to me, I'll always give you dried umes. I'm eating them also now. It tastes very good.

[58 words]

BR 1-14: Wendy Worm's Adventure

One day, there was a very big storm. I was frightened to read this story. The wind blew all the leaves away. I want to pick them up. The wind blew all the flowers away. I wanted to see the storm of falling flowers. The wind blew the bird's nest away. I was sorry to think birds. The wind blew Wendy Worm away, too. I wanted to see the worm flying in the sky.

The storm was all over. I felt easy. The wind went away, but Wendy Worm knew she was lost. I would cry if I were you. Wendy Worm looked up. I recognized the worm was she. A crab appeared. I wanted to crab's dishes, he-he.

That was too bad not to be able to go home. I wondered if she was on the beach, her body would probably be dry. Please give the worm someone's help! But Wendy Worm could not go home because she was lost. She did not know the way home. If I were the worm, I couldn't have gone home at all. For I'm unbelievably hopeless when it comes to knowing directions.

Wendy Worm was on a stone and a big wind came and blew her away. It blew her over all the trees. It blew her over all the houses. It blew her here. Flying worm sounded interesting to me.

She had to go home. I already knew it. She could not stay here. If she stayed here, a big bird would eat her up. Big birds liked worms. I got to be frightened so much.

There were big birds where the crab lived, too, but she could not go under the ground. She could get away from big birds under the ground. It was kind of the crab to tell the good way to hide from enemies. The crab would take her to the ground. How? The crab took Wendy Worm over the sand to the ground. I wanted to experience a hot sand bath.

Wendy Worm appreciated the crab as she went under the ground. It's important to appreciate. Wendy Worm had to find her way home. I thought it was hard to find her way home under the ground. This was a good new home for a lost little worm. I thought what was Wanda Worm. She could stay in this home with a boyfriend. That was she found male worm.

Wendy Worm stayed with Wanda Worm. It was very good, and she stayed under the ground! I nodded in understanding.

[424 words]

BR 1-13: Maggie Magpie's Pie

I was also hungry to read this story. I wanted to something eat, but I could not eat any bugs at all. I thought oh no when it takes too many bugs to make a meal. It was forcible order to be able to go and find some worms to eat. It was a matter of course that too many worms would make them sick. I felt a little easy to hear they could go and find some bread to eat. I thought bread was okay! I thought stand for that it took too many pecks to eat a slice of bread.

I thought it sounded good that they could go and find a slice of cake to eat. I agreed that they use a slice of cake, too. They could get a slice of cake and a slice of bread and make a pie. It sounded delicious. So Maggie Magpie went to find a slice of cake and a slice of bread to make her pie. Do your best! She got the bread and she got the cake. I thought it was bad to steal them from some people.

Then she got some bacon and she got some cheese. I like bacon and cheese, too. I looked at the image. These things would make a good pie. I was looking forward to the pie.
I thought no that they were going to put some bugs in your pie. I thought oh no to hear the answer yes. Maggie Magpie went and got some bugs for her pie. It made me sick.

I thought no no to hear the words that they were going to put some worms in your pie. What a pain Maggie Magpie's answer yes. I thought of course that too many worms will make me sick. So Maggie got a worm and put it in the pie. I felt bad. I don't wanted to have a slice of your pie at all. I was proud of them who said yes so much. The comments that too many slices of my pie would make them sick was interesting to me.

Maggie and Bertie and Sandie ate Maggie Magpie's pie. The story didn't have an unexpected twist of events at the end.

[373 words]

★Leona Lewis★

My favorite singer is Leona Lewis.
Her voice is soulful, strong, powerful, beautiful and sexy.
They say that when she sings the way she moves her hips is very erotic, she glances up at us seductively, some of her songs have erotic lyrics and she drapes herself against the walls seductively.
BLEEDING LOVE is the song which I like the best of all her songs.
Please try to listen to this song.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM
[72 words]

Typing Trial Week 9

My favorite movie or movies
My favorite movie is "TOY STORY". This is the mysterious world where the toys talk, move, fight, play and jump. The fact of the matter is that the toys have been doing as I said above at somewhere private. The movie is taken a serious view of a matter the culture of visual images, and 3-D images are very beautiful, real, clear, wonderful and colorful. I like such images very much. I'm so excited about home furnishings and tools which people use or foods which people eat are very big for the toys, but they make the beat possible use of those things and they overcome variety of problems then cope with a lot of troubles. By the way, I like to see movies, but I don't like to go to the theaters to see movies, so I see movies at home almost all the time. The reasons why I don't like to go there are that my backside start to hurt after I sit in the seat so long, the posture sitting in the seat starts to steep to me, the theaters are so dark that my eyes start to hurt and the volume of the movie sound is so up high that my head starts to ache terribly. Because of these reasons, I don't see the movies at the theaters but at home almost all the time. Therefore I don't see the movies without using digital versatile discs.

[246 words]