Studying

            Last Saturday, I did a practice TOEIC exam with my friend in school. My friend brought TOEIC textbook from Japan. We did it in quiet room and saw time as if it was real test. We wanted know our English skill. My score was little better than before, but it was still terrible. I didn’t know many words in this practice test. I have to review it and study vocabulary. We reviewed it together next day, and it needs long time. I couldn’t finish reviewing it in this day. This score says me that I have to study hard. We will do a practice exam again next week.

Values

                I’m going to talk about my value. My value ranking is below.

1.      A comfortable life

2.      An exciting life

3.      Freedom

4.      World peace

5.      Family unity

6.      Keeping harmony and balance in my life

7.      Wisdom

8.      Developing myself to the fullest

9.      Economy stability

10.  Stable and solid relationships

A comfortable life is the most valuable in my life. My purpose of life is happiness. I hope my life will become to be unique and exciting.  If the world wasn’t peace, I can’t alive. If I don’t have family and friends, I can’t spend good time.  I want to be wisdom because wisdom person can spend time useful. I ranked my value, but all of these things are very important in order to achieve my purpose. Now, studying English and other countries’ culture is most important for me. These things make me exciting. I’m spending valuable time recently.

Free Hotdog and Swimming

            I went to SHOPS AT NEW WEST last Sunday. Sponsor was Safeway in New Westminister. first, I met to my friends at New Westminister station, and looked around. There were a tent that served to free hot dods. We stood in a line and got hot dogs. I ate three these. After that, we went to swimming in Coquitlam city center. There is a water slider. It was exciting. I like sauna. There are two kinds of sauna (steam and dry sauna). We enjoyed sauna and talking. I was very tired when we finished swimming because we swam a lot and spent a long time. I enjoyed last weekend.

Any Regrets

I’m going go to talk about my regrets. I wish I practiced badminton my best when I joined badminton club in junior high school. I practiced lazy many times. I like real game and practice using racket and shuttle, but I don’t like running and muscle training. I usually walked or run slowly in running time. If I practiced hard, I would win match more. Also, I regret I didn’t study hard. I studied almost every day high school, but I didn’t do my best. I want to study math, Japanese history, world history, and biology now. I wish I studied hard when I was a high school student because I had a time more than now. Finally, I wish I studied English more before I came to Canada. It is the biggest one in my regrets. I don’t have many vocabulary and good listening skill. I wish I studied English hard and watched English movie. I don’t want to regret any more, so I will do my best every day from now.

Kentucky

         I spend my friend’s house on last Sunday. I wake up twelve o’ clock. Even wake up, I laid down on the floor and spoke with my friends. Then we went to Kentucky to buy lunch. We bought a big pack (flied potatoes, chickens, small flied chickens, coleslaw). A clerk said that this potato is new menu. The clerk gave us a lot of kinds of sources. There are gravy, mango chili, BBQ, plum, honey garlic, honey mustard. I never saw mango chili and plum source. We tried all of them. Mango chili was most terrible for me. This is not much potato and chicken. I liked gravy and BBQ source. Trying rare flavor sauce was interesting. Kentucky was delicious, and I enjoyed eating.

Communication Breakdowns

           I’m going to talk about communication breakdowns. I have a home stay friend. She is Brazilian. She is studying English too, so we are hard to understand each other’s word. She invited me party, bowling, shopping and so on. At first, I went to with her. I didn’t go with her when I was tired or busy. Therefore, she thought that I was angry for her. I heard her thinking from my friend. I didn’t notice that she was sad. I was surprised to it and wanted to apologize her. I talked to her that I was not angry, and she understood what I said. I will say reason for refusing when I don’t go with her in order to avoid misunderstanding.

Homework and Dinner

              Last Sunday, I did homework with my friend. The homework of listening was difficult for me, so we did it together. However, we couldn’t finish it. Then we went to our friends’ house and they helped us. They never mentioned answer but gave us hints. We could understand homework. We appreciated them because we needed about five hours finishing that assignment. They helped long time. Then we went to dinner. We ate Korean food and that was very good. I don’t know dish’s name that I ate. That food included noodle but serviced with rice. I like Korean food, and I like spicy food, so I want to go there again.

Making Friends

 

I’m going to show that how to make friends at Douglas College. First, talk with classmate. The level of English between you and your classmates are almost same. Maybe, you can talk with classmates without tension. You will spend long time in your class, so you are easy to make friends. Next, join clubs or activities. There are a lot of opportunities that meet new people. People in same clubs or activities have similar interest, and it makes you to continue conversation. Making friends is very difficult for newcomer. However, it’s important in order to grow up your English level and spend good time. I hope my advice will help you.