Summer!!

It is getting hotter day by day. I don't feel like preparing for my final examination because it is too hot. Well, I can't wait my summer holiday to come :) My job hunting will be start from the second semester so I would like to enjoy my holiday than ever, hahaha. First in August, I'm planning to visit my grandmother and grandfather in Nagoya. I really love foods in Nagoya. I can't wait to eat Miso-Katsu, Misonikomi-udon, Hitsumabushi and so on. Also, I love shopping at Sakae in Nagoya. It is very convenient and enjoyable place. Because of Nagoya is near to Kyoto and Nara, I'm looking forward to visit there as well. Kyoto and Nara always fascinates me a lot so I visit there once or twice a year. I will visit my friends in Mie and Gifu too. I think it will be a long stay in Nagoya.
By the way, my birthday will be on this week so I'm excited to it as well!! I wish I could have some fun on the day.

GOAL "JOB"

Employment Vocabulary
Please study some vocab's which are related to job hunting!!

1	bonus	n. additional pay given to employee as incentive or reward
2	curriculum vitaeUK	n. short account of one’s education, career etc; CVUK; résuméUS; resumeUS
3	dismiss	v. to remove or discharge from employment; to sack [colloq.]; to fireUS
4	employer	n. person or firm who employs people - employee n. person employed
5	fireUS	v. [colloq.] to dismiss
6	interview	v. an oral examination of an applicant for a job - also v.
7	make redundantUK	v. [made, made] to dismiss because of not being needed - redundancyUK n.
8	maternity leave	n. period of absence from work (for a woman) when having a baby
9	notice	n. advance warning of intention to resign - to give or tender one’s notice v.
10	perk	abbr. perquisite; something additional to regular salary [eg: free meals; a car]
11	personnel	n. the people who work for a firm
12	personnel officer	n. manager responsible for recruitment, training and welfare of personnel
13	promotion	n. advancement in rank or position - to promote v.
14	prospects	n. opportunity for success, promotion etc
15	recruit	n. to look for and employ personnel - recruitment n.
16	resign	v. to give up a job - letter of resignation n.
17	retire	v. to leave employment, esp. because of age - retirement n.
18	salary	n. a fixed, regular payment, usually monthly, made by employer to employee
19	staff	n. the people who work for a firm or a particular department; employees
20	take on	v. [took, taken] to employ; to hire

Source http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/20_employment.htm

Article

please read an article from this web page and answer some questions!!

Source http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4042448

Question
1. What is Shower-Ready suit?
2. How much is a price of Shower-Ready suit?
3. Who is a target of Shower-Ready suit?

Answer
1. Business suits, which can be washed in a warm shower and require no ironing.
2. Between $260 and $492.
3. Targets are job-hunting college students.

Listening about job interview!!

FUN FUN FUN

I played futsal yesterday and I had great fun!! As I said before, I belong to a futsal team. In the team, there are only 4 girls and 3 of them absented a game yesterday. Therefore, I was the only girl in the team. I was bit worried first but there were nothing to worry. Everyone was very nice to me, hahaha. I really love everyone in the team. For yesterday's game, I bought a new uniform. It is red uniform and home uniform of Liverpool F.C. My mentor bought me a red football socks. He said it will match with my uniform. I thanked him a lot. I also borrowed shorts from other guy so I looked like enthusiastic fan of Liverpool F.C. hehehe :) Everybody wore their favorite football team uniform!! It was very hot day and I sweated all over but I felt refresh after I finished playing. I can't wait for next futsal night!!! I become more and more interested in futsal day by day. I'm planning to buy a blue uniform of FC Chelsea next time.

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You can go shopping in Machida. There is 109, Jorna, Lumine, Marui, Modi,Tokyu-Twins and so on. Every shop is near Machida station both of Yokohama line and Odakyu line.

There is a station called Minami-Machida, it is at the edge of Machida-city. You can visit this station by riding train called Tokyu-DenenToshi sen. At Minami-Machida station, we have big outlet mall called Grand Berry Mall. You can buy clothes, shoes and so on at a cheaper price. There are some stores from foreign countries but you can also enjoy Japanese brand's clothes. You can know what is trend in Japan. There are also many restaurants. You can eat Chinese, Vietnam, and Italian and so on.

You can enjoy watching movies as well. We have big movie theater called 109 cinemas. On weekends, this place always crowded with many people and you can see some street performance. Grand Berry Mall is good place not only for shopping but also for walking. On weekends, many people come to show their pets to other people and have fun talking about pets. Neighboring areas are sometime used as location for Japanese TV drama.

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http://wikitravel.org/en/Machida

The Final: Travel Project-Hawaii,Honolulu

I changed a place to visit because Florida is very expensive to visit from japan. My new destination will be Hawaii. Hawaii is also one of the place where I would like to visit!! I will visit Hawaii by myself because I want to relax at there to escape from reality, haha. I think Hawaii has a rich natural environment so I want to see beautiful sea and so on. I also want to have fun with some activities!! I like to experience Hawaiian food. It will be wonderful to experience Hawaiian culture.

Total price for this flight trip: $933.30

Sun 1-Feb-09

Tokyo (NRT)

Depart 7:25pm

Terminal 1 to Honolulu (HNL)

Arrive 6:53am

Terminal MAIN TERMINAL3,

831mi (6,165 km)

Duration: 6hr 28mn

Flight: 880

Economy/Coach Class, Boeing 777

Total distance: 3,831mi (6,165 km)

Total duration: 6hr28mn

Thu 5-Feb-09

Honolulu (HNL)

Depart 10:20am

Terminal MAIN TERMINAL to Tokyo (NRT)

Arrive 2:20pm +1 day

Terminal 13,

831mi (6,165 km)

Duration: 9hr 0mn

Flight: 9719

Operated by: AIR JAPAN FOR ALL NIPPON

Economy/Coach Class, Meal, Boeing 767-300

Total distance: 3,831 mi (6,165 km)

Total duration: 9hr 0mn

Hotel

Name: Resort Quest Waikiki Circle Hotel
Cost: $145

Location: 2464 Kalakaua Avenue (formerly Aston Waikiki Circle Hotel) Honolulu, Oahu, HI 96815
Description: Cylindrical 14-story Hotel located across street from Waikiki Beach & close to Diamond Head & Honolulu Zoo.

Sight seeing spots

Honolulu Diamond Head: It is a place that overrun with tourists and it is unspoiled place so it is worth place to experience nature by hiking. I think hiking is fun for whole family. I thought the beach is also very good place to visit in Hawaii but I venture to choose this place. I felt this spot could be the best place for exercise. I hardly exercise in daily life so I decided to hike. It will be good, seeing great view of Hawaii while hiking. Hiking course is not that much hard so old people and little children also can manage to reach the top. The 350-acre Diamond Head crater can be seen even from the flight into Honolulu airport. Its vantage point offers some incredible panoramas of Honolulu that you will not be able to find anywhere else. The park is open from 6am-6pm and it costs $1 to get in; get there early to avoid the crowds. It is also a good idea to start early to avoid the heat of the sun.
Queen Emma Summer Palace: It is not popular sight seeing spot so it is hard to find it in the guide books. It is unique place to visit. You can study history of Hawaii from this Palace. You can see inside of the house and you can imagine that how the Royal families in Hawaii lived in that days. I like studying history so I chose this place to visit. Especially, I love watching historical buildings. I thought it can be a good chance to experience history of Hawaii.

Football Club

UK is a country where the sport FOOTBALL was born. Therefore, I think the whole nation love watching football game and playing football. Of course, all of my friends love football. They always get together at English pub and drink beer while watching football game on TV. I like it when everyone start to sing along their team's official songs in loud voice. It really feel like that they are connected each other very strongly. There is a one thing that I thought it was funny. Most young boys, around 3 years old to 11 years old, wear their favorite football club's uniform T-shirt for everyday clothes. Not all of them but I was surprised. When they hang out with their friends on weekend, they wear football uniform T-shirt even they don't have any plan to play football. I thought "Do they have clothes except football uniform?" If we have football game in London, tube always be crowded. You have to pass tube up many time because there is no room even for one person. Sometime I feel annoyed about it. The one thing that I don't like is Hooligans. They are really scary. However, I think it is one of culuture in UK. Football has power to arouse the supporter to enthusiasm. I can realize that football is very important culture for people in UK. Since I fascinated with football culture in UK, I became a great fan of sport called FOOTBALL!!!

At last, I will introduce two football clubs. FC.CHELSEA (London) and LIVERPOOL FC. There are both famous football club in England. My sporting goods shop (where I work as a part-time job) supports these two clubs.

The Arctic Monkeys latest single "Teddy Picker"

No Music No Life

I really love this words "No Music No Life" because I think it is true. I am crazy about listening to music. I want to listen to it all the time. It is a part of me and it always cheers me up. Music is good to get yourself together and heals you. Especially, I love rock music played by British band. Do you know "Arctic Monkeys"? This is my best band so far.
Today, my friend gave me a CD. It was handmade CD and it has only 4 songs. However, when I went back to home and listened to songs, I thought that songs were pretty good. My friend's boyfriend is a bandsman. He takes a part in vocal. Therefore, she gave me her boyfriend's band CD. His vocal was quite good. In this connection, my friend told me the band's name. It is "Through the mirror". To change the subject, As I said before, I belong to a light music club. I heard that my two years senior's band is going to debut from indie. I'm bit excited about it. The band's name is "PASHLAS".
I love listening to music more than playing (because drums are difficult to play, hahaha) but I feel refresh when I play drums. I will do my best with drums until this autum. We need to retire from club activities in November after school festival. Well, I love playing drums too. hehehe :) By the way, I'm looking forward to two music concerts. I will go to African American's gospel music concert in October. They are coming from New York. The other concert is in September. This one is rock music concert. I will enjoy rock music by band from UK.

Jessica Alba

Fashion magazine called "ELLE girl" is my favorite magazine to read. This magazine releases in odd number's months so you don't have to spend your money every month. Size is much smaller than normal fashion magazine so it is easy to carry in your bag and it is not heavy. I like this magazine because I can know the worldwide fashion trend. In case of myself, I'm not a fashionable person at all but I really like watching fashionable girls from overseas. The newest magazine's cover girl is Jessica Alba!!! I became a fan of her when I saw a movie called "Fantastic Four". She was really cute in that movie. To change the subject, one of my favorite band "ELLIOT MINOR" released first album in Japan, recently. They are from York in England. In their album there is a song called "Jessica". Of course, this song is singing about Jessica Alba. It is very unique song and it is very cute that I can recognize member's sweet love for Jessica Alba. Please check both "ELLE girl" and "ELLIOT MINOR". "ELLIOT MINOR" plays rock musics but all of the members studied classical music at school and belonged to the choir so musics are all beautiful. The next "ELLE girl" will be released on 12th July!!!

Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan

Shibuya is a place with massive crowds and always crowded all night long. At night, neon lights are really bright. Many people use hachiko statue for rendezvous. Shibuya is a place where new fashions are born and 109 is a one of the biggest shopping spot to buy trendy clothes. Center Gai is the place where games and music gather around. Shibuya is very famous place for young people.

Hot!!!

Fernando Torres is one of the hottest football player in the world. Now, I will introduce another hot football player!

My sister has a crush on Cristiano Ronaldo, football player who plays for Portugal. He usually belongs to a team Manchester United. This team is quite famous team in England. His uniform number is 7. ( He wore uniform with number 17 at EURO 2008.) David Beckham used to wear this number when he belonged to Manchester United!!! I also think that Cristiano Ronaldo is really Hot :) Of course, he is very talented person. Also, his technique is wonderful. I can satisfy with the truth that his uniform number is 7. To change the subject, my lucky number is also 7. hahaha :) Well, I have a crush on Cristiano Ronaldo too!!!

EURO 2008

It is a bit late news but I was surprised that Spain won the final game. I thought that Germany will win the game. However, it was really exciting game!!! Well done Spain :)

By the way, I think Fernando Torres is very hot!!! Don't you think?

He play for Spain and he usually belongs to the football team "Liverpool F.C."!!!

Band

I belong to the music band at university and we played in May for freshmen. Our next live performance will be held in October. In September, our band members are going to stay in a camp for practice. Not only practice but also we will enjoy some events as well, such as fireworks. I can't wait for it. In October, We are going to play 4 songs and 2 of them are from Avril Lavigne. My band vocal loves singing her songs. Songs are "The Best Damn Thing" and "Hot". Do you know the songs? I am really looking forward to it too!!! I love performing at live music club. We will play at school festival in November as well so if you don't mind, please come and watch our performance. We are not that much good at playing though, hahaha. Just for fun!!!

Draft: Hotel in Hawaii and Sight seeing spots

Hotel

Name: Resort Quest Waikiki Circle Hotel

Cost: $145
Location: 2464 Kalakaua Avenue (formerly Aston Waikiki Circle Hotel) Honolulu, Oahu, HI 96815

Description: Cylindrical 14-story Hotel located across street from Waikiki Beach & close to Diamond Head & Honolulu Zoo.

Sight seeing spots

Honolulu Diamond Head: It is a place that overrun with tourists and it is unspoiled place so it is worth place to experience nature by hiking. I think hiking is fun for whole family. I thought the beach is also very good place to visit in Hawaii but I venture to choose this place. I felt this spot could be the best place for exercise. I hardly exercise in daily life so I decided to hike. It will be good, seeing great view of Hawaii while hiking. Hiking course is not that much hard so old people and little children also can manage to reach the top. The 350-acre Diamond Head crater can be seen even from the flight into Honolulu airport. Its vantage point offers some incredible panoramas of Honolulu that you will not be able to find anywhere else. The park is open from 6am-6pm and it costs $1 to get in; get there early to avoid the crowds. It is also a good idea to start early to avoid the heat of the sun.

Queen Emma Summer Palace: It is not popular sight seeing spot so it is hard to find it in the guide books. It is unique place to visit. You can study history of Hawaii from this Palace. You can see inside of the house and you can imagine that how the Royal families in Hawaii lived in that days. I like studying history so I chose this place to visit. Especially, I love watching historical buildings. I thought it can be a good chance to experience history of Hawaii.