There is a little problem at my end... In first semester , I missed registration of students for a course in Reading and Writing English!! But my register didn't have error!! Why not?! I'm a little shocked....

So next year, I'll take the course one more time. And this year, I can't attend that course...

But I hardly mind it. I seem to be happy-go-lucky. I think I'll try my best next year.

At last, I'll leave United States for Japan on this Sunday.

I loved to stay with my host family and study English in my class.

I was so so so happy because I could make friend with my classmates and my host family is so kind ,smart ,funny. And ,I could have so happy time with you. I appreciate it. 

Thank you so much, everyone. I'll never forget you. Never.

  See you again. Best wishes.

                                                                        Love, yuka            4/9/04

19days have passed since I came here. I enjoy studying English ,eating American foods , going sightseeing and so on.

I like American food and Mexican food. But, in honesty, I don't like American sweets(but I like cookies.). American sweets is too sweet!! When I eat American sweets, I sometimes have heartburn.

And last saturday, I went to Disney California Adventure! It's so beautiful and fantastic!  And this Wednesday , I went to see a movie in the theater. American movie theater has so big seat! I enjoyed seeing princess diary2.

 Of course, I like studying English here. I could make friends with various country people like Korean ,Taiwanese, Chinese, German, and so on. Everybody is so cool. I think Taiwanese people are very active and so funny and good Japanese speaker!! Korean people are shy, but very kind!! I like everyone so much!! 

Fantastic! All Japan soccer team won the championship in Asia cup!! Did you watch quarter-finals and semi-finals? These were really hard games. The actions of every players moved me. Especially,Kawaguchi Yoshikatu who is goal keeper made many fine saves!!

I think All Japan soccer team in this year is the strongest. I am looking forward to Athens olympic. Just do it , All Japan team and Tanaka Tatsuya(I am his fan...)!!

I think summer insects and bugs are one of the summer things japanese.

We can see various summer insects and bugs in my hometown, Fukuchiyama. For example, cicada, "bell-ringing"cricket, lightning bugand so on.

There are many "bell-ringing"crickets(they sing in beautiful voice.) in my house garden. There are a shrine near my house, and there are many lightning bugs in the shrine's pond. I like this shrine. And, there are many various cicadas on the shrine's trees. Large brown cicada, higurashi cicada, kuma cicada..... Especially, I like higurashi cicada because they are so beautiful!

It is a great summer treat for me to see summer insects and bugs.

I think Japanese movie is latest craze among Japanese young generation and so does mai0907.

One of the causes is one novel whose name is sekainochuusinndeaiwosakebu. Somehow( In all honesty , this novel is the worst I've ever read...), this novel is very hit all over Japan, And this novel's screen version and video drama version were made. Many people say these are very sad and moved.

Second reason, recent Japanese movies treasures modern Japanese culture ,fashion ,joke and makes use of beautiful good old places like 69 sixty nine.

By these reasons, Japanese movie is very popular in Japan lately.

Many people in Japan will think that the dentist give us pain. So, although I had a bad tooth, I could not go to the dentist a long time. But, I was at the limit of my patience. Last tuesday, I went to the dentist. Then, I knew that my image about dentist is untrue.

First, the doctor told me "You don't have to stand." And, he put my mouth under anesthesia. So, when he cured my tooth, I did not feel pain. Since his cure was quick and perfect, I could trust him to cure.

Now, I am not afraid of dentist. If you have bad tooth, you should go to dentist. Then, please refer to there.

I met cryozombie in this live journal. 

He makes little movie! I want to see his movie.

He often leave a interesting comments for my live journal. It makes me happy. Thank you , cryozombie! 

I like watching figure skating. There are various event in figure skating. Those are ice dance , women's single , men's single, and pair.

 Especially, I like women's single, because It's gorgeous! I like Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, and Fumie Suguri. Their performance always moved me.

I often watching figure skating on TV, but sometimes , I go to rink to watch figure skating. Last March, I watched ice show in AQUARENA in Kyoto. Then , I watched Ilia Kulik who is Nagano Olympic gold medalist! His performance was great!!

The other day, I look intomel_24 's live journal.

Mel's journal has many interesting stories. Especially, I like story about mel's new glasses. It's so funny. If you like ,read it.

Of course, icon of mouse is so cute! I want to Upload some kind of picture to my Livejournal,too.

I like visiting beautiful construction. Therefore, there are a construction where I simply want to visit now. It's church of the light.

There is church of the light in Ibaraki, Osaka. Why the church is called church of the light is because cross of  light emboss on the wall. It' so mysterious! The church was built by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Tadao Ando designed three churches, including church at the seaside,church on the water.

I have never been to any church, but I'm planning to visit church of the light soon.

I like to see a movie in the movie theater. Because I like dark and mood of the movie theater. When I see a movie, I always have coke and popcorn. This is one of my pleasure in movie theater.

Last week end, I went to see TROY with my friend.

The film is not bad. Brad Pitt , who play the lead in TROY, is so cool ! And , Eric Bana, his performance as Prince Hector was perfect ! The scenario and picture is so good , too. If you like , see the film.

I like to read books so much.

Sidney Sheldon is my favorite foreign author. It will not stop, if I read his books. Especially, I like "Sand of time". It was exciting to me.

 I often read mystery novels. Keigo Higasino is one of my favorite Japanese mystery authors. He writes a fine description of psychology. I recommend "Byakuyakou" to you. "Byakuyakou" means "walk in a night with a midnight sun" in English. Please read it , if you'd like.

I'm hooked on strawberry jam! I always mix strawberry with yoghurt. It's very delicious!

And, nowadays, I'm tea with strawberry jam holic. The tea has a sweet flavor. It's very nice ,too.  

I want to research on other way of eating strawberry jam.

A interesting person I know is my mother. My mother , like me , likes mystery story and "Draemon" so much. "Draemon" is japanese animation.When she folds cleaning , she always watch a mystery video drama. And, before she takes a nap , she always watch "Draemon". Every day , every day , every day, she watches these.

She often cook a creation dish. It's sometimes tasteless... Then, my father gives a bitter smile, but eat up. My brother saves some foods and run away. I complain about the dish. Then, she always say " I don't cook a creation dish."

But she cooks a creation dish again.    I like her as such.

My home town , where is very countryside, is Fukuchiyama city in kyoto.

Fukuchiyama castle , where is famous place in Fukuchiyama , was built by Mitsuhide Akechi. Mitsuhide Akechi , who was the lord of Fukuchiyama castle , is well-known for Honnouji revolution that Nobunaga Oda was killed.

Fukuchiyama has big river and many mountains. And we can see innumerable star in the sky ,so I love my home town.