Respond to the letter, "Don't judge marines too fast"

Responding to MANUEL SANDOVAL's letter,"Don't judge marines too fast" ,he seems like he does not care about women's feelings. He says that it is not strange for those kind of things such as rape, happening to women who is working at a bar. Whatever the reasons was, rape is a crime obviously and it should never happen.

Moreover, they are from the "U.S. military". They should be protecting countries not being criminals. Sandoval is saying that if U.S. military leaves Japan, no one will protect Japan from other countries so people should respect them. However, this is nothing to do with this incident. It does not mean that U.S. military people can rape women.

Sandoval is looking down at Japanese people. He just want to say that U.S. military is doing a important job for Japan, so Japanese police should over look this incident.

He just cares about his own country and being boaster that he is from the States. He does not care about women's feelings even an inch.

Why I am in IES

At first, I chose Kansai Gaidai because I've been studying English since I was in kindergarten and I wanted to keep studying English.

I knew that Kansai Gaidai had a class called IES and we could study English more than other classes with the same school fee. My mom was really happy about it and she wanted me to be in IES. However, I did not really want to be in IES class because I am not that kind of a girl who studies seriously. Also, I heard that I can't be in circle.

The day that we took TOEFL test, I knew that I was going to fail IES anyway so I circled on the sheet to be in IES. Unfortunately, I passed it. However, everyone said to me that it means that I have a high level skill of English so I should try.

Therefore, I decided to try it. Although I had many times that I wanted to quit IES. To tell the truth, I was getting really tired physically and mentally. I didn't have time to sleep. I did not have a confidence in my ability. I could not catch up with everyone.

However, I'm getting used to this life and one thing that IES has changed me is that I'm kind of getting to know what I want to be in the future. I've never had a dream. However now I'm thinking to work at the airport. I can't explain it concretely, but I'm thinking of it seriously. I've learned a lot in IES and although it's still hard for me, I'll try it to make my dream come true.

Nail Art***

Hi:)

I didn't have anything interesting to write about so today I would like to show my hobby.:)☆☆

My hobby is doing nail arts. I used to like painting nails since I was little and still I like doing it. I do it on my free time or when I'm stressed, when I need a break.I'm not really good at it but I just like doing it.♪
I'd like to show you some of my nail arts I've done so far.


I once did nail art to Mitsuko.:) It looked really bad though; Sorry MitsukoX(
I don't have a dream yet but I'm thinking of being a nail artist someday:)
I know that it has no realation to English but I really want to make people happy by my nail art.:)

Grandma

How's it going?:)
Lately, I have a lot of things to do (well, especially home work) so I go to bed around 3A.M so I'm kind of getting tired...
I wasn't like this when I was in high school though. I NEVER studied or did my homework. lol I was hanging out with my friends everyday after school.
Anyways, today I got letters from my host family in Canada.:D They sent me some birthday presents and pictures. My birthday was on August.
I was sooo happy that they sent me some presents and letters and pictures. I was reading the letter from my host sister and as I notice the fact, I was shocked.
My host mom's mom (Grandma)has passed two months ago. I could not believe this. Grandma is only 59years old and she always looked healthy and active. I didn't know, but she had cancer. I really loved grandma. She welcomed me in her family, and she was always nice to me and gave me a big hug. Grandma lived 5hours away by car from my house so we couldn't visit her that often. I really loved going to her house. She baked the BEST bread in the world! X)
It was like a month before I came back to Japan, grandma came to our house to say good-bye to me and gave me presents. She said to me that she hopes to see me again and I'm always welcome to her house.
In the letter I sent last time, I asked my host family how's grandpa and grandma are doing. I was assuming that my host family would write in the letter that they are doing good. I never thought about somebody passed away. I was always assuming for a good news. But now that she has passed away I will never get to see her.
We should always have in our mind that people around us would not always be there. We should not assume that they are always there.
I'm so glad that I met her in Canada and I will never forget the times I spent with her.

Gairaigo-foreign loan words-

In Japan these days, many gairaigo, loan words are used and we use them everyday when we speak or write. For us like teenagers feel this is common and we use them without thinking anything. Also there are a lot of loan words which are abbreviated and we don't even know the real words.

My opinion is that I think it is not wrong to use loan words. It feels familiar to us and comfortable to use. Also young people think that it is cool to use loan words when they talk or when they write and I think that's fine.

However I think using difficult loan words is useless. For example, the word "country identity" and "accountablity". The other day when I was watching the news on TV, former prime minister Abe was using so many loan words in the speech. I could not understand almost everything what he said. He was using loan words which were too difficult for us to understand. I think most of the people did not understand what he was saying. If he really wanted to use loan words, then he should have explain what those words mean. Therefore, in these kind of case we should not use difficult loan words.

Older people might think that using loan word is wrong and we should use the proper language.However the age is changing day by day like the electrical appliances are developing and this is the Japanese reality so we can't do anything about it.