Diary-4- What I thought in the US no.2. This is my forth entry. Thanks for visiting and reading my diary. I would like to begin where I left off last time. You can find the last entry on my italki page if you are interested in. I am welcome to collection from you! (3) Land and population Area of the US is very big: Actual area of the US is 9,629,091 km2 which is approximately 25-folds bigger than Japan’s area (377,972 km2). I was very surprised when I knew that just one state (e.g. Texas which is 696,241 km2) is larger than Japan. It’s crazy big. Indeed, we have never seen horizon in Japan. In the US, however, I can see horizon everywhere and I re-recognized the origins of name of the US. By the way, when I wrote this entry, I found that horizon means a line between earth and sky. In other words, English don’t distinguish between a line that separate land and sky from a line that separate ocean and sky. Since I had curiosity, I asked my co-worker who is native English speaker, about this and he said we don’t distinguish land and ocean because land and ocean are both a part of earth. This was also surprising for me because Japanese have each word corresponding to them which are called ‘ちへいせん (a line between land and sky)’ and ‘すいへいせん (a line between ocean and sky)’. I’m curious to know whether other language have each word. Next, let’s look at population of the US. Current population of the US is 300 million which is just only 3-folds larger than Japan’s population (100 million), meaning that The US is very low population density. I’m wondering that such huge land probably provides excess amount of source such as food, natural energy and something like that but why the US population is not get increase. Today’s topic is too difficult for me to write in English! If you can correct my English, that would be great! If not, no worries. Thanks in advance!

Diary-3- What I thought in the US. This is my third entry. Thanks for visiting and reading my diary. In this entry, I would like to tell you about what I thought in the US. Let’s see gaps between the US and Japan. It has already been one year and half since I came to the US. During the course of this studying abroad, I had a bunch of experiences, which I would not have experiences in Japan if I didn’t come to the US, and of course, I had not only good experiences but also bad ones. (1) Food American food is amazing for me: Herein I’m saying that typical American food means hamburger, French fry, Hot dog, Pizza and so on, also known as junk food or fast food in Japan. It’s so tasty but little bit expensive and too much for me. Originally liking fast food, I ate it almost everyday. One day, I looked myself in a mirror and found that I got fat and became like other person! Indeed, I gained weight of more than 10 kg as compared with the weight just before I came to the US. I thought I need to re-consider my eating habits and take health consciousness. (2) Apartment and the rent I’m currently living in the small city where almost people go to the X university which is a very big university or hired at the university like me. This means that average income in this city is probably much higher than other cities in the US. Therefore, apartment rent is gradually going up every year and now my apartment rent achieves more than $1,100/month! This is also amazing for me because the rent of the apartment in which I previously lived was only $400 /month and the previous apartment was much better than current apartment: I’m not sure why but apartments in the US are very old (I guess because probably there are no earthquakes in the US or less than Japan.). This is not a complain to the US but I’m feeling different culture, system and environment. I would like to discuss other points in next entry. If you can correct my English, that would be great! If not, no worries. Thanks in advance!

daily-2- This is my second entry. Thanks for visiting and reading my daily. I’m trying to keep regularly writing a daily as far as possible. In the last entry, I forgot to introduce myself so let me introduce about me. I was born in Japan and grew up in a city which is at very countryside; it’s located at probably several hours flight away from Tokyo. I’m interested in life-science and actually working as a researcher. After I received my Ph.D., I decided to study abroad to train myself, look over the world and break my stereotype to get sophisticate vision. Fortunately, I succeeded to get an opportunity to work in the US. I have lived in the US for one year since 2016 and been plaining on staying for an additional year but it depends on my personal competency. I like traveling and I’ve been to several countries including US, France, Spain, Chile, Greece and German for some international conferences. My English is not good; I still need writing and speaking training to improve my English so that’s why I have just started italki. If you can correct my English, that would be great! If not, no worries. Thanks in advance!

Diary -1- I would like to write about some events of this weekend. I had a party with some friends of mine who are also coming from Japan on last Friday. On the party, I brought salad and soda for them. Pot luck which is that those who are attending to a party bring some foods for it, is a pretty common style in the US whereas it's not common culture in Japan where foods for a party is prepared by a person who organizes it. It was really fun and a very long day: I got back home at 3 am. I hope I can have a party again soon. On Saturday, I played soccer which I regularly have every single Saturday at evening. Having 6~8 people, we normally enjoy 3 on 3 games. Although I'm not familiar with soccer (I had belonged to track and field club for 6 years since I was elementary school student.), I make it because it's a good exercise for my health. Currently I don't have any other sports in a week which allows you to guess that I have sore on next day. That's right. I'm sore Today... I would like to keep having soccer for my anti-aging and opportunities for global communications. Dear reader, Thanks for reading this diary. I just started to practice for English writing so I think I have many grammatical mistakes. If you can correct my English, that would be great! If not, no worry. Thanks in advance. All the best wishes,