My Christmas this year

Hi guys! I have a really tough schedule for Christmas eve, Christmas day, and boxing day.

I have lessons eve and Christmas. I have to go Hong Kong in boxing day. I have 2 hour lesson in eve

I have a 1 hour lesson on Christmas day, It makes me and both teachers are really scary. It makes me tired.

I have to go Gotanda for eve lesson, and I have to go Suginami ku for the Christmas lesson.

I rather have Christmas dinner then do lesson.

I research traditional Christmas dinner.

In Japan, we usually eat chicken. KFC is popular in Japan.

Apparently, one Christmas a foreigner living in Japan went into KFC Aoyama branch and said "We can't get Turkey in Japan, so I will celebrate Christmas with KFC chicken." KFC sales man got inspired by this and he started a campaign to "Eat KFC on Christmas day"

However, I'm not sure this is true.

 Traditional Christmas dinner in western country is Roast Chicken or Turkey, Pigs in Blanket, Roast Potato, Brussels Sprouts, Devils on horseback.

nothing sounds appetizing, because sounds like people get fat, and name of food is horrible.

 In Iceland they eat Christmas dinner on eve 18:00. They sometimes eat Reindeer,smoked lamb.

I had no present this year, because I have no idea, and Santa Clause is never come for ever.
See you next time, and have a good new year!

Christmas

I believed in Santa Claus until I was about six years old

I found out it was my parents, because my cousin told me and right after that I found presents in my parents' car.

I remember being shocked. I felt like someone pushed me off a cliff.

However, I pretended that I didn't know until I was in Grade 4

My brother also found out early, but pretend he didn't know either.

My mother said she discovered that I knew when I was seven years old, but she had to hided, because I have a younger brother who still believed in it.

I used to write letters to Santa and leave cookies and juice for him. When I wake up, they were gone, so my parents must have had them.

I still remember, when I was in Grade 2, my classmate were talking about seeing Santa Claus. One girl said "I saw Santa in the park!" and the other boy said "I saw Santa in my dream" I couldn't join their conversation because I already knew Santa was not real. It was funny.

My English tutor told me about secret Santa game, that I think I would hate to participate in it, because I think it is stupid. I wouldn't like a present I don’t want.

I hate buying present for people too, because I don't understand what people want, and I don't want to use my money them.

Christmas is a big deal for many of my friends. For me, Oshogatsu is more important.

Oshogatsu (New Year) is similar to Christmas in Japan, because this is when a family gets together. In Oshogatsu we get fat, because most people eat a lot of carbohydrates, and don’t move. For example eat Soba on the 31^st, Mochi, Osechi, Sushi, and Alcohol.

I can’t wait for a New Year to come, because there will be no school (But we have homework), I can get Otoshidama that is money.

I borrowed a book

Last week, I borrowed a book from my violin teacher.

It is called "The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesu" written by Peter Biddulph.

My teacher introduced this book to me after a lesson one day

I knew about this book, but I never seen it before

I was interested in it, because I love looking at pictures of great violins.

I was overwhelmed, because this is a very precious book

This book introduces violin masterpieces made by Guarneri del Gesu who is a violin maker as great as Stradivarius.

However, his personality was different from Stradivarius.

Stradivarius was calm and sensitive; on the other hand, del Gesu was aggressive, that when he was angry, he used his hands. You can see this clearly in his violin.

Stradivarius’ violin does not make any sound unless one plays it carefully and sensitively.

Del Gesu’s violin is very tough, and if a player plays it hard, del Gesu answers back and make powerful sound.  Some says del Gesu is greater than Stradivarius.

Violins in general are named after first player or owner.  For example, Paganini who was the first virtuoso (great violinist) ever, and one of del Gesu’s violin is named after him. There is also Heifetz, which is named after the greatest violinist of the 20^th century.   Heifetz had his own del Gesu and Stradivarius (His Stradivarius is called Dolphin. Currently used by Akiko Suwanai a Japanese violin player based in Paris).

Del Gesu is still loved by many violinists. Mayuko Kamio is a violinist I know personally. She was using Stradivarius before, but she now uses del Gesu after she got it recommended by many people.

I can’t play sensitively, so I would love to get del Gesu one day. If it is possible, I would like to get violins by Stradivarius and del Gesu.

My favorite technology of today.

Hello everybody. I would talk about my favorite technology of today. I have to introduce about technology, because this is my homework.

I have three favorite technologies.

First my favorite technology is a smart phone, because it can be used for chatting with friends, calling, using internet, and emailing, and it can download any application.

World’s first smart phone was made in 1994, that phone is named Simon. However, this phone did not get famous. I think iPhone made by Apples famous director Steve Jobs is the most famous mobile phone, because before iPhone all smart phones were unknown.

Smart phone got popular, so most people use a smart phone now, and many cell phone companies produce many kinds of smart phone. For example, Samsung from Korea is known for Galaxy, this company sells curbed phone, so it is easy to hold.

One of the smart phones with long lasting battery is Igzo, made by Sharp. It can be used for two days without charging.

My second favorite technology is wifi in other words Wireless Fidelity. Now it is everywhere mostly internet I think there are two kinds of wifi internet. Open wifi and locked wifi. Open means without password and locked means with password. However, if you leave your wifi open, you can get your private information stolen.

My last favorite technology is human shaped robot. Honda was the first company to make this.

I think this technology is great, because it lets me imagine the future with robots.

A robot's appearance is become more human like every day. I think they look a little ugly

I think robots will take care of us in the future, because robots improve very fast and will be smarter than us one day.

These are three of my favorite technologies. See you next time.

I changed the phone

Hello everyone today, I have lucky news. I changed my mobile phone, because my old one was broken.

My old mobile phone was made by docomo, named Galaxy s 3. This mobile phone has three features. First feature is a bigger than usual size, so easy to see. However, it doesn't fit in pockets. Second feature is it is very clean LCD screen. The last feature is this mobile phone has many applications.

This phone is not only good things, because this mobile phone has often get computer bug. For example, the application was disappear, and if turn off this mobile phone, it always application is not start up.

The second one is it cannot be charged. I think this happen is crazy! Because if the phone doesn't’ charging, it cannot to using!!

 When happen like that computer bug, it makes me very angry!! So I changed the mobile phone.

My new mobile phone is iPhone 5s. This is a really nice to me, because it is very easy to use.

For example, application's start up is faster than my old phone and no computer bug, and of coerce it can be charging!

The first iPhone made in 2007. Then it evaluated 6 times. I think every time it better than old one.

I think iPhone 5s is very simple than Galaxy, but I think iPhone is very cool.

This iPhone's great feature is it can be fingerprint authentication. I think this is amazing, because other people never release the phone, and I thought fingerprint authentication is rare to me, and I thought it can be only on very high technology machine. I think if other mobile phone has fingerprint authentication, it would be better and quality increasing!

Next week, I would talk about present technology, and see you next week!

I am very ANGRY now!!

Hello everyone. Recently, I am very stressed about school homework.

There are too many assignments and homework right before the important violin competition. I get homework from every subject.

 I do not have enough time, because I must practice violin for the competition.

I have new piece of music given by my teacher which I have to master.

How do manage my time???

I don’t know how to make time for everything.

Ryu Goto is a young musician. His mother is Japanese and his father is Korean. He graduated from Harvard University. He had to study and practice violin that, apparently he only slept for 4 hours every day.

I also know some people who never went to school. These people still succeed as musicians.

Some famous musician can do school work well, but I am finding it difficult, and I don't like them, because it is not interesting.  I want to study about musical grammar, which is a compositional rule of music.

To understand the concept of music grammar you have to know major and minor. Major melody might make you feel happy, and minor might make you feel sad.  Major and minor both have scales.

Scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.

Within each scale, there are basic chords made from three keys.

For example, one of c major's chords are "C, E, G (Do, Mi, So) " because C major starts with C.

And these basic cods are already set. When you compose a piece of music, you have to make chords first.

I just explained the basic of music chords, but I still don’t have enough knowledge about music grammar. In order to go to music school to study this, I need to finish high school. So for now, I guess I have to do my homework.

See you next time.

My classmate in my school.

Hi guys! Today, I would introduce my classmate at school.
 I would talk about my four best friends. Their names are Jordi, Yuho, Muhhamed, and Allesio. Jordi is half Spanish, Yuho from in Japan, Muhhamed from pakistan, and Allesio from Italian

Jordi likes his family very much. If he has good events, he always invites me. He is my classmate. When I came to school for the first time, he always came up to me, and he always teach me English. Yuho is Japanese. He started attending CIS when he was in kindergarten.  He very know about heavy metal music and very good to sing. However, he is a shay, so he never song in school.