December Conversation

(1) Movie Partner is Ayumu Suzuki


First, we talked about Hayao Miyazaki.He is a most famous animation director in Japan. Maybe, almost Japanese people have watched his movies or comics, so he called a king of Japanese animation. In2008, Mr. Hayao released an animation movie”Gake no Ue no Ponyo”, and n Nov 20, he is giving a interview about the movie at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo. In there, he said that he doesn’t like interviews, but he will get a praise of Oscar. After that, his most widely quoted remark was a dig at Prime Minister Taro Aso, who has often publicly proclaimed his love of manga. “It’s an embarrassment” said Miyazaki”He should do that sort of things in his private time”
Also, he criticized today’s children that they tend to live too much in the virtual worlds of TV, game, e-mail, mobile phones, and too little in nature. It takes away their strength. The opinion is included his movies, so his movies must have beautiful nature on back grounds. When he is a young boy, he spend life with natures, however now, he was frustrated because nature such as the mountains and the rivers was being destroyed in name of economic progress. He thinks that nature is a most essential thing for us.
Ayumu and I agree with his opinion. Today, Japanese young people come to crazy.

October Conversations Report

In October, I had four conversations at the class. So now, I’d like to tell you about 2 conversation topics in there.

First topic is Japanese animation. I talk the topics with Ayumu. He likes Japanese animation and comics. Especially, He likes soccer animations and comics. He has some comics in his home. Surprisingly, all of comics are soccer comics, but his brother likes other kind of comics, so he sometimes read his brothers comics. I also like Japanese animation and comics. My favorite comic is Slam Dank. It is the most favorite comic in Japan. When I was a junior high school student, I read the comics, and I began to basket ball. Recently, I bought all of Ge ge ge no Kitarou comics. It is a famous Japanese horror and fantasy comics. I like the comic’s writer Sigeru Mizuki antasy comics. I like the comic’s writer Sigeru Mizuki because his thought is so unique. I often　sympathize with his thoughts.

Second topic is favorite movies. I also talk the topics with Ayumu. I often go to cinema with my friends. I watch a lot of genres movie. Especially I like suspense movies and Japanese animation movies. In summer vacation, I watched Sky Clara in Cinema. This is a latest animation movie in Japan. The image’s quality is so fine. I could not discriminate that the image is real or animation. By the way, my best animation movie is Lupin. The 3rd series. I think all of main characters are cool and sexy. I also like suspense movies, but I don’t watch their movies in cinema because when I watch serious movies, I want to consider about the stories, so I always watch the suspense movies by my self in my room. How do you think? In summer vacation, I watched SAW series. There are horror and suspense movies. Their contents are so scarily and surrounded by mystery all the time. When I watch the movies at first, I get hooked the movie right away, but the story was proceeding, the story become to more grotesque, and I felt sick, but I continued to watch. In brief, I could watch SAW3 yet. I’d like to try to watch the movie when my health is good. I like movies very much, but recently, I’m too busy, so I didn’t go to cinema, so after the part time job, I go to rental video shop, and I enjoy the movie in my home.

Summer Vacation

I’d like to introduce about my summer vacation plan. I want to visit various places in the vacation. First, I will go to the rock festival in Hokkaido with my friend. I like rock music very much. A lot of my favorite bands come to the festival, so I have to get the ticket absolutely. I have never visited in Hokkaido yet. If I can go there, I’d like to eat many delicious foods. Especially I want to eat Chinese noodle. Second, I will go back my home town Shizuoka for a long time because I didn’t go back my home long time. I want to meet my family and talk about myself. My home is near to the ocean, so I want to spend slow good time with my friends. BBQ, fishing, surf board, fire works festival, cheerful music, when I stay in my home town, their pleasures always around for me, and I’m became a naughty child by them. Finally, I will visit to America about two weeks. Now, my friend is living in Seattle, so I will stay in there. When I visited in Hawaii, I did home stay for three days, then I could not conversation well with host family. So this time, I want to speak English actively. This plan is so fun but too expensive for home. Before the vacation, I have to work hard.