Ramen n strawberry It had been a while since I met my friend before. We met after 3 or 4 weeks past. We were talking about Japanese ramen retail when we hung out before. So I just asked her “would you like eating Ramen?”. I knew how she answer my question . Of course, she said “Yes”. Actually , I was craving for an authentic ramen since I hadn’t eaten it for a while. We both had a ramen which is a bit expensive, but is quite tasty. We both were feeling very full after eating a ramen, but I suggested we go to a cafe because I wanted to eat sweets. In the cafe, I ordered strawberry shake , which is amazingly delicious, but after drinking it I had stomach-ache … Anyway, it was a good weekend. Thank you , my friend!!!

recently feeling and weekend To be honest, recently I feel very nervous because I really don’t know how to improve my English any more . I’m not too sure which part of English I should focus on . I think i can not speak English properly. So recently my brain has been something like this … I need to focus on something with someone… I think if I do something alone, I will quit it soon . Anyway, I am going to write about my weekend. So in this weekends , I moved to new shared apartment , so I have started living with 3 Japanese . This apartment is quite clean because of landlord who likes keeping things clean. My share mates are so friendly that I could get familiar with them soon. After I organised my stuff, me and one of share mates went to Japanese festival with some friends. Before going to the event we meet up in cafe , which is run by one of my friends. Afterwards, we were supposed to head to the event, but we decided to grab beers in bar because it was raining at that moment. In the bar, we met a welsh guy and we sat down in same table because he liked my share mate. But he was talking about UFO and unbelievable stories so I found him a bit strange. He bought a beer for each of us though. After the weather got better , we went to Japanese festival . We went see my friend who worked in one of shops and bought a TAKOYAKI (Octopus ball) there. I think it was not bad. But if I were in Japan , I could eat a much more delicious one .haha

Success You might want to become a successful person as you are reading this blog. If so or even if not, I would like you to think about a quote which impressed me. In this blog, I’m going to tell you about the quote and my opinion about it and success. I hope you will be impressed on the quote either.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” by Winston Churchill

Actually, I completely agree with this quote, because you might find it difficult and fail to do it whenever you start something new .

Especially, if you don’t have any knowledge about new tasks, you might have huge difficulty. However, you can be used to it unless you will give up . That’s why You should push on and toughen up to get used to it even if you have loads of problems and difficulty. If you do so, your effort leads up to your success, I believe. When I was playing softball in my childhood, I was a pitcher . But I couldn’t efficiently throw a softball as a pitcher early days . Whenever I went to the game, I was annoying the team, but I didn’t give up being a good pitcher because I wanted to win the game. And I continued my effort to win the game. Thanks to my effort, I could become a good pitcher that we won a tournament in our town.

On the other hand, I think we might have many things in our lives which couldn’t complete without success. It is not only me to feel difficulty in keeping things, I suppose. And also Some feel difficulty in starting new things or quitting things you are doing to start new things. Therefore it is quite difficult for us to start something new and complete it with success. Then, what should we do to be successful

? I’m going to give you one advise about successfulness. That is pretty simple ,but it is enormously important. It is just to remember what you want to be or want to keep doing and never give up. For example, just write down your future achievement and watch it more than 3 times every day, like morning ,noon and night.

Journal for London First day... It is my third time to come to London. London is not too far from Manchester , I think. It takes about 2hours and half to get London from Manchester, but if you come to London by train, It won’t be cheap for poor students . So in this time ,I come with my roommate ,who is from china. It is our first trip to travel somewhere . Today, we went to watch the musical ,called the phantom of opera, but I was so sleepy because I slept only about 2 hours last night . Additionally, the musical was quite interesting , although it was so difficult that I couldn’t understand all of story, nevertheless I could enjoy it ,that’s why It must be a decent musical. Afterward, we went to Chinese restaurant, which is also my roommate’s recommendation, and then ordered three meals, which included mapo doufu. It was tasty for me, but a bit spicy… Otherwise, for my roommate it was salty and bland. So I mean why he said that , since one of waiters asked him about these meals. If I were him, I would say it was so tasty, but I realised it won’t be good for them. At that situation , I reckoned I have to say my honest opinion , they don’t seek fake opinion to make them happy at that moment. Anyway, I really enjoyed first London day, tomorrow I’m going to Birmingham to meet my friend, who is also from china . It will be a meeting for me and him after long time. I hope I will write about my journal from now on. See you then!!!

BBC and Japanese teaching activity Finally,I could visit the BBC. Because I couldn’t join last activity . I asked Barbara how can I visit BBC. As a result, she made another activity to visit BBC. It was so interesting . We could know about BBC.For example, about sounds and stages. About sounds,I thought the sounds of animal or closing the door etc, are made of real things. But,indeed,those were made of using various tools. It was interesting. After the BBC tour had finished,I went to the Japanese restaurant with my friend. I ate a Beef Donburi and he ate a ramen. I think it is similar to Japanese taste.Especially,the rice is as almost delicious as I eat in Japan . After that ,we got on the bus and went each home. I was so tired because I didn’t come back my house from yesterday. Yesterday,I stayed in my friend house. So,I had to take a rest for a short time and I had a 2 hours sleeping in my flat house. After I had a rest,I went to a cafe to join teaching Japanese activity. The activity is done for free.Because we(Japanese ) want to make friends who are interested in Japanese culture and language. So, we don’t need getting money. I taught intermediate students so we were mostly talking with each other by using Japanese. I was surprised that I heard one of them can speak 6 language. Afterwards,I went to Chinese restaurant with some of them. In Chinese restaurant, we were talking by using English . It was good day because I could get various experience, such as talking with foreigner by using Japanese and talking with foreigner by using English.

e-mail2 Dear Raiki, You are my nephew.So I have known you since you were born. You're important for me as well.Because you are my sister's son.So I've decided that I bring you abroad when you are 15 or 16 years old. Probably I will travel around the world and make a lot of friends from various countries when you are that age. So you don't have to worry about the travel. I will prepare for all the things to need to do about it. Thank you for reading. Jumpei

E-mail Dear Taro, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I wanted to give you some news.Do you remember Yuta and Yumi?We were all friends in college,right?My friend "ryota" called me yesterday. He told me that they were arrested abroad a month ago. They seemed to be importing illegal goods. Perhaps,it will be news in Japan.I wish that they could return Japan safety.I'll try my best to make contact with them somehow. I'll let you know if I know something about them. See you soon.

Leeds7/14 I went to Leeds to watch the football match on Saturday. My friend loves  watching a football game. I don't like the football game very much. But It is fun for me to watch it with him. That's why I come to like watching football games. But the world cup gets finished. After watching the football game, we were looking for the toilet.hahaha Although I couldn't find it easily, we found finally it in the bowling alley. So we played bowling there. It was fun to play bowling with my friends. Although I played it for the first time in a while ,I got a good score. After that, we went to a Korean BBQ restaurant. The service and meal at the store was very good!!! Especially, the rice was as very delicious as I eat in Japan. I thought it was a very good service because they brought me new chopsticks at once when I dropped my chopsticks. It was too tasty,I ate too much. Lastly, we went to a nice atmosphere pub. So, we enjoyed talking about various things such as the favorite films and the stories of  family . It was a really fun day!!!

7/7 english On Saturday,I went to a pub to watch a game,”England and Sweden”,with my friends. There were plenty of people and it was hard to stand. It was really exciting when England got a goal. After the game also finished,Manchester was very crowded. After that, we went to Japanese restaurant,”SAMSI”. Actually,I went there yesterday as well.hahaha This time,I went there for the third time. Then, we were enjoying a night . However, my english skill is poor, so I have always been helped by my friend,”Frank”. He lives and works in Leeds. Probably, he has stayed there for 10years. I can explain how we knew each other. We used same application,”italki”. That’s why we knew each other online on “italki”. His english skill is very good!! So,I want to speak english like him. From now,I want to talk with him over the phone as possible as.