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June 11, 2008, 6:58 pm
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Here are my writing class assignments:

Unit 1: My Weekends

   My weekends are usually relaxing. I spend more time at home. I usually wake up at 12:00 and have lunch with my mother and sister. After that, I enjoy talking with my family, reading books, doing my homework, and cleaning my room. Sometimes I go to a bookstore with my sister. I love this way to spend time on weekends. I always relax at home, however, last Sunday was very busy but fun. First I met my friend and went to a doughnut shop called “Well Well Doughnut”. There were many kinds of pretty doughnuts there. I even bought five of them! Then we went to Takaoka and walked around.I enjoyed being busy for a change.

Unit 2: My friend

   Kengo Yamakawa is a friend from school, and he is also my best friend. Kengo is nice guy. He is 179 cm tall. His eyes are black, and his face is round. His hair is black and curly. He wears glasses and tight pants everyday. Kengo has an excellent personality, too. He is a serious person, but he also likes to have fun. He is very smart,too. He is a good student, and he gets good grades. He is a philosopher, so sometimes he is stubborn, but he is a friend who understands me. Kengo has many hobbies. He likes to read books about philosophy and play the bass guitar. His favorite activity is billiards. He belongs a music club, so he practices the bass guitar every day. He has a regular concert each month at a club. All of these things make Kengo a very interesting person.

     Kengo is a student of great promise. He is going to graduate from university next year. He plans to go to graduate school. After that he is going to work in a hospital. I know that he will be successful because he studies and works hard. He will have a lot fun in the future, too.

Unit3:Friendly Message

Dear Hiro,

 How are you? I am good. It is Monday morning, and I am sitting on a soft sofa near the wall of the Starbucks cafe. I am reading abook and thinking of you.

 I had a interesting night. I went to a karaoke place because my friends asked me go. When we got into the karaoke room, we met other friends, so we decided to all sing together. These days I have been thinking about them, but I hadn’t seen them for a long time, so I was happy to see them. What a coincidence! We talked and laughed a lot. It was fun.

 I have good friends here, but I miss you. I hope you are well and happy. When will you come to Toyama for a visit? Did you make any friends? I want to meet you. Please write soon. Write to me English. 

Your friend,

Sayako

Unit5:Sayako’s 1st Day of Work

 
     Today was Sayako’s first day at her new job at a cram school. She liked kids and talked to them often. She wanted to be a teacher in the future, so the job was challenging for her. 
     On Sayako’s first day of work, she woke up early because she felt so nervous. She washed her face and brushed her teeth. After that she dressed and had a cup of coffee to steady down the tumult in her mind. She wanted to got there early, but her mother said, “You should not go so early. Take it easy. I know that you can do it.” Sayako laughed and felt a lot better. She went to work by bus. She arrived a little bit early. There were some teachers already there. They said, “Hello! We are happy to meet you. We think you can help us, so please come with us.” She felt they were so kind. At the class, students were kind to her, too. She worked very hard. It was difficult, but also exciting. 
     When Sayako got back home, she had so much to tell her parents about her day. Her family listened to a lot of her story. Her mother said, “It was nice! I’m happy to hear about that.” Her first day of new work was so hard, and she thought the job was very challenging. She decided work harder than today to be a good teacher.
Unit 7:Entering a Cram School
 
     Joining a cram school really changed my life. When I was in high school, I did not like to study. I did not care about my future. I just wanted to have fun. When I was eighteen, I entered Toyama Ikuei cram school. I started to live alone and commuted to school everyday. I studied hard, so I was very busy every day. I never knew that my life before entering the cram school would have some similarities and differences to my life after entering the cram school.  
     Before entering the cram school, I used to be lazy. At school, I didn’t study at all. I talked about worthless things with my friends everyday, but it was so interesting for me. There were no ambitions. I woke up at 7:30 and went home at 18:00. Fortunately, my parents paid for my education, so I didn’t work so hard, and I didn’t have any responsibility. At high school, my favorite activities were only physical training and reading books. I exercised hard in PE class. After school, I went to the library and borrowed novels. I never worried about myself before I entered  the cram school.    
     Then, I entered the cram school. Many parts of my life changed, but some stayed the same. When I took tests, my scores were so bad, so I was really ashamed of myself, but my friends and teachers gave me a good advice. So gradually, I could bear the pain and made more effort. Joining a cram school has taught me to be strong in my mind. I am now more confident. Whereas before I didn’t make efforts to study, now I do. In addition, I have found that studying is very interesting and exciting. My original goal for joining a cram school was just to enter a university. However I learned and got more important things than that.
Unit 9: Albert Einstein
        One person I’m interested in is Albert Einstein. I read about his life and wise saying, they were very interesting. I have learned a lot from him. He is my inspiration for being diligent, making efforts, and living life positively.
        Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, on March 14, 1879. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was named Pauline. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where his father and his uncle founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current. In his early teens, Einstein attended the progressive Luitpold Gymnasium. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. In 1894, when Einstein was fifteen, his father’s business failed. In 1896, Einstein enrolled at ETH. During the next few years, Einstein and Marić who was Einstein’s future wife’s friendship developed into romance. Einstein married Mileva on 6 January 1903. Albert and Marić divorced on 14 February 1919. On 2 June of that year, Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal. In 1905, In his paper on mass–energy equivalence, Einstein deduced from his equations of special relativity what has been called the twentieth century’s most well known equation: E = mc2. In 1911, Einstein became an associate professor at the University of Zurich. In 1922 Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”. In 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which Einstein signed, urging U.S. development of such a weapon. On 17 April 1955, Albert Einstein died by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm.
        Albert Einstein’s life was full of ups and downs, but  I really respect his life, words, and diligence. When I read Einstein’s words, I was impressed by them. My favorite saying is “I am not genius. I just do one thing longer than anyone. ” That taught me I can do anything. I like Einstein because he said “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” He was a brilliant scientist, but he said that. I like his tolerant way of thinking, so I want to be tolerant and diligent like him.
 

Sources:

Albert Einstein. Wikipedia.
Einstein Archives Online.
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September 26th:

Where is your unit 3 assignment? Please post this as soon as possible. Thanks.

   Jerry 09.25.08 @ 8:00 pm

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