blog 13 夏休み

私は来学期に日本に行くから、この夏休みに授業を受けることになっている。それに、六月ロスーに行って、インターンシップすると、UCLAでまた授業を受ける。だから、この夏休みは忙しくなると思うけど、早く卒業するためになるべく勉強したのほうがいい。ところが、夏休みにロスーに行けると、新しい友達を作れる、楽しみにしてる。そして、授業を終わったら、すぐ中国に戻る。でも、その前に韓国と香港に旅行に行くから、夏休みに苦らしいことあっても、友達と旅行に行けると思い出したら、もっと頑張るかもしれない。とりあえず、まず夏休みの授業を受けて、中国に戻って、日本に行ける。私の人生は素晴らしいと思う。

blog 13

We decided to compare the population of people who study abroad in Japan, America and China. I searched some information on the Internet and I found out that it was not too difficult to find the related news, data or graphs. Furthermore, I think three countries share something in common which is that people prefer to go to English spoken country rather than other countries in which English is not the first language. And then I think the only thing we need to do is to analyze the information that found on the Internet.

blog 12

This week I gained the knowledge of Japanese religion which is kind of unique Japanese culture. In japan, people regard religion as a part of their life and most of Japanese have religious conscious in their daily life. At the same time, Japanese people easy to embrace the new religion brought from foreign country, such as Christianity. The reason is because in Japanese shinto, they believe in various Gods in different fields.
日本人は何か苦しいことがあったら、神様とか仏様に祈ります。家の中で、多分神棚と仏壇のどちらも置いてあって、朝も夜も両方の神様に祈る。他に、色々な宗教の行事もある。例えば、正月には「初詣」といって、人々は神社やお寺にお参りに行き、お守りとかお札をもらう。日本の伝統的な行事だけじゃなくて、キリストのクリスマスという行事も祝う。だって、日本の神道は多神教だから、色々な宗教が共に存在する。多神教と言えば、日本では昔から海や山や木など神様がいると考えられてきた。そして、日本の神道は中国の道教と同じで、多神教のである。実は日本人は宗教を強く信じているという意識は無くても、宗教的習慣と行事を大切にしている。
１）波平はかつおのお父さんです。
２）サザエはつかおのお姉さんです。
３）日本の家族で女より男の地位がおほうが上です。
４）The house looks like a Japanese house.
５）皆が桜の木のそばに座って、桜を見ながら、食べて、話す。
６）お年寄りは上の席に座って、他のメンバーは周りの席に座る。
７）花見は日本の伝統的なとユニークな行事だと思う。桜の花は日本のシンボルだので、そいう美しい花を見たら、心も単純になれる。それだけじゃなくて、家族にとって、花見はとても大切な日だと思う。花を見ながら、家族と一緒に食べて、話すということは世界で最も幸せなことと思う。

blog 11

I think because it was the week before the spring break, I was too busy to study every tests that I had. So that I was absent from the class on Tuesday. On Thursday, Aaron and I finished our dialogue which was made up by Aaron but I just fixed a little bit afterwards. I appreciated that he made the major part of the story which I liked it. And also I learned some Japanese tongue twist which sounds funny but still hard to talk fast.

春休み

春休みにトッドとフリちゃんとニックさん一緒にアーミッシュカントリーに行たが、一人で行かなかってよかった。ところが、あそこでほとんど何もないし、変な人もいっぱいいたから、ちょっと怖いと思う。アーミッシュ人と言えば、彼らは電気とか車なんて使わないという人達です。でも、予想以外に普通な人間と同じで電気など現代のテクも使ってる。それで、失望した。

blog 10

I feel like I have too much task that I have to compelete this week and I need to start thinking about writing my Japanese essay. First, I already decided my topic that discusses important friendship and the relationship between friends. In my opion, I learned a lot from Japanese anime and manga about the substances and precious emotion between friends, so that I cherrish my friends more than anyone else. However, I'm still a little bit confused that how I should develop my essay in a creative way so I need more time to think about it.
Furthermore, I did practice the conversation with Aaron and actually he is the person who came up with the idea and I appraciated him. I hope we can do a good job in the class on Thursday.

blog 9

This week I practiced the dialogue with other classmate in the class but I couldn't stop laughing somehow. Although I did practice the dialogue before the class, I still have problems to say it fluently. So I think I should practice more with my friends rather than only by myself.
a) I read the again.
b) I think I want to talk about Japanese spirit not only in sports, but also in their daily life. Such as the spirit in manga, it influences people in various ways.
c) Such as in One Piece, whenever they have any problems and difficulties in their life, they won't give up and will work together with their friends. I think the spirit of them that I should learn from. So if I was in that situation, I think I will choose the same way as them because I know I can't succeed without my friend's help sometimes. And the perspective of life's value in China is similar to Japan, so I think it is the connection to people in these two countries.