My Favourite Book

My favourite book is “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, which I read last year.
The heroine, Sal, takes journey to see her mother with her grandparents. During the journey, she tells her grandparents the story about her friend, Phoebe. Her story contains the mysterious disappearance of Phoebe’s mother, strange messages in envelopes, and her romantic feeling for Ben, her classmate. While telling the story, she notices her own story is underlying the story of Phoebe. In the end of the journey, the unbearable truth awaits her.
The messages in envelopes in the story contain some morals. My favourite message reads “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.” Isn’t it so beautiful? There appear five messages in the story. Are there any messages you like in the five?

"Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins."

"Everyone has his own agenda."

"In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter."

"You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head,

but you can keep them from nesting in your hair."

"We never know the worth of water until the well is dry."

Playing with children

Today I visited an elementary school with members of the circle in order to teach English to children. This activity of teaching English has begun since May of this year. We visit them every second Saturday. Actually, we play games with children by using English.
At first, we sang the song called “Hello song” with dance. Although it was a little sad that children didn’t dance with us, I was glad they did sing the song together. Then, we played a game, in which children had to touch the thing containing the color we said. It was clear that they was enjoying, which made us happy. After that, we played with cards on which animals had been drawn.
However, the English names of certain animals seemed difficult for children to memorize, for children aren’t familiar with the names. Also, a few children were too shy to speak English. They hesitated to speak English, which worried us to some extent. We were relieved when they, later, showed a little bit interest in writing English characters. I am now looking forward to seeing them all again.

Tanabata

On Sunday, it was raining. When I was on the way for shopping, I heard a beautiful melody. The voices of children singing somewhere. They were singing a Tanabata song. Then, I thought of Tanabata. Unfortunately, according to weather forecast, on July 7, it will be overcast. So, it will be difficult for children to see the Milky Way, I’m afraid.
By the way, when I was seven years old or so, I made a seemingly odd wish. I didn’t think it odd when I came up with that wish, but my elder friends made fun of me because of it, which ended up in my tearing up the paper on which my wish was written. When that paper was torn up, (I myself did tear it up, though,) I felt that my wish was also torn. Those days, I learnt at school about the monkey which was able to understand some signs and communicate with human. Now, can you guess what I wished and wrote on that paper? The seven-year-old girl wished to be able to talk with (communicate with) animals. Like Dr. Dolittle (although I hadn’t known about that character that time yet.)
Anyway, I am hoping that children's wishes will come true.

With my mother

My mother recently came to see me all the way from Hiroshima. We met at the station near my apartment and then had a meal at the restaurant which had recently opened. They offered hand-made breads which tasted very good. After returning to my apartment, we went shopping for food. Next day, I took my mother to the library. Then, as on the previous day, we went shopping. I bought sandals, a hat and so on. I had never bought so many things like this. I also got a wind chime, the sound of which is very beautiful. At night, we watched the movie “Catch me if you can” which we had borrowed. The scene where numbers of police officers gather in order to catch the hero is somewhat funny and humorous. We had a happy time together.

my favourite song

I like the song" When you're gone, " which Richard Marx sings. I like the music of this song so much. His voice is a little bit hasky. The phrase I like is "who's gonna dry my tears when I'm crying, who's gonna hold my hands when I'm dying, who's gonna set me right back when everything is wrong, and who's gonna love me when you're gone. " He asks again and again who dry his tears, hold his hands, set him right back, and loves him. He may thinks of no one except someone special called "you" in this song. I would like to be a one like "you" for someone, I think. Probably "you" is a lover, a friend, or a mother of him. Richard Marx is an American singer. I recently knew about him. I think "you" is a precious, irreplaceable person to him. This song tells about the person special for him. While he is singing this song, I guess he is trying to convey how important, precious, irreplaceable the person is for him. I think the music of this song is comfortable to listen to and merry, although the song contains his sadness. He misses the person so much, I think.

I joined a circle

I joined the volunteer circle “global supporter’s.”
Last Wednesday, I cleaned around the Hirakata station for the first time with them. It was a great experience. Then, on Saturday I helped them prepare for the exhibition which was held on June 19, today. We made posters which showed activities of the circle. Today I helped them and enjoyed the exhibition with them. We made dogs and rabbits by balloons, which we gave to children who visited us to see our work. To our surprise, more than 100 people visited us. Great! I and my seniors visited the art club and the photograph club. Each of their works was beautiful and impressive. We also ate the food called “Tamasen,” which tasted good.
Although I was exhausted, I’m sure I really had a nice time!

Being There

I watched the film "Being There." The Japanese title is "Chance," which is the name of the hero.
One morning, Chance hears from a maid that his master is dead. After the death of his master, the house is closed, so he has to get out. The problem is that he has never gone outside since he was a child. He was forbidden to ride a car by his master. As a result, he packs his belongings into his suitcase, and he goes outside with his suitcase, remote controler(which seems to him like a treasure), and an umbrella, for the first time. While wandering the city, Chance meets a woman, Eve, by chance. He introduces himself to her, saying "Chance, the gardener," which Eve mistakenly understands as Chauncey Gardiner. Then, he meets Ben, an important person, and even meets the president. Chance never has knowledge about economics; however, his statement comes to have great influence on the government. You may wonder what happens to Chance after that, but I won't tell.
Although his behavior seems a little odd, Chance is like a little child who is pure and innocent. He likes to watch TV, and his knowledge only has come from TV. Few people really know background of Chance. My favorite scene is the last scene and I think you may be a little surprised by the scene.
I assure you that this movie is so interesting that I couldn't help but write about this movie.