A Tale of Two Cities

Lucie screamed. She rushed over to him, and he, leaning over the dock, hugged her. “Goodbye, my love. One day we shall meet again – in Heaven,” he murmured.

Have you ever read this book, A Tale of Two Cities? I have not read this book, and I don’t know about this book. This book’s cover picture was a little bit scary. That’s why I chose this book. This book story was about like an execution. A man is going to be put to death. The man has a wife. But he is going to be put to death. It was very sad. And in this story, how to kill the person was by guillotine, so that was too scary.

Sebag-Montefiore, Mary (2009) a tale of two cities

London, Usborne

GUCCI

Gucci became more and more famous. So, the family opened a store in Rome. Then, almost everybody in Italy knew about Gucci products.

I chose this book, GUCCI. Do you know what GUCCI is? GUCCI is a fashion brand. I think almost all people in this around the world know this fashion brand. This fashion brand is from Italy. This brand has made by Guccio Gucci. So this brand called Gucci. This brand deal with like bags, shoes, purse or wallet, wrist watch, perfume, or of course dresses or clothes. I like this brand, because I like the logo of Gucci. I think this logo is very cute. I want to have something of this brand, but it’s too expensive for me.

 

Trimarco, Paola (2001) gucci -business in fashion-

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Bleak House

Bleak House is huge and grand, beaming with light. And Mr. Jarndyce is so kind, like the father I’d never had. (page11)

Have you read this book? I haven’t. This book cover picture was looks very sad. And I can’t understand the title mean, so that is why I chose this book. This book title is Bleak House. I know the word break, but I didn’t the word bleak. So I thought like what is this Bleak House mean? Bleak mean was like of a situation, not encouraging or giving any reason to have hope. And after I read this book, I understand that mean.

Sebag-Montefiore, Mary (2009) bleak house

London, Usborne

Frankenstein

From time to time, Victor caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. Wild-eyed and pale, he was an alarming sight, but he shrugged it off. (page11)

I chose the book Frankenstein. This Frankenstein story was written by Mary Shelley. This story is her outstanding work. Do you know Frankenstein story? In the story, Frankenstein was just a human. He is a Genius scientist. He could make a human. But what he made was looks very scary. So he abandon the scary man. The scary man was very good and kind inside. But people around him avoided him. So he got angry to Frankenstein. This is kind of this story, but did you know this story? I didn’t. I thought this was very interesting. I like this story.

Shelley, Mary (2008) frankenstein
London, Usborne

E.T.

E.T. went into his little room and sat down quietly. Where were the spaceship and his friends? Elliott closed the closet door. (page12)

Have you ever read this book? Have you ever heard about this story? This story is very famous in a lot of countries. This story is from a movie. The main character is of course E.T. There is a boy in this story. His name is Henry Thomas as Elliott. Elliott and ET will be like a best friends. I didn’t really like this kind of story, but my friends were saying E.T. is very good. That is why I chose this book. I thought this story was very good. This story makes many people being moved. If you never see this one, you should see one time.

 

Kotzwinkle, William Mathison, Melissa (2002) e.t.

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The Scarlet Letter

Arthur Dimmesdale was a very sick man, but has also the most famous minister in the town. His church was full every Sunday. (page15)

Have you ever heard about this book or this title? I have heard about this, so I chose this book. I think this story is very famous in the US. This story was a little bit hard for me to read. The main character name is Hester. This woman will fall in love with a man. But she has a husband. And they had many troubles. This trouble will be a big problem. Do you know about this letter A? This is the scarlet Letter. If you have never read this, I think you should read it.

 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (2000) the scarlet letter

Harlow, Pearson Education

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

When they saw Alice, thy cried, ‘No, no you can’t sit here! There isn’t a place for you!’ (page21)

I chose this book Alice in Wonderland. Do you know this? I think almost all people know or have heard this. Many people know this story, but actually this story is very old. The first time I knew this story was maybe 15 or 14 years ago. That is very long time ago. In this story, there is a girl names Alice. She is just a cute girl, but there are many other interesting characters in this story. It’s like Talking animals or moving cords. My favorite character is a Cheshire cat. This cat is a purple cat. He can disappeared. I really like this characters.

 

Carroll, Lewis (2000) alice in wonderland
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BABE

Quickly Babe ran round and stood in front of the sheep. He looked at them and started to speak. (page11)

Do you know Babe? He is a young pig. There are some kinds of BABE story, but this one is maybe the first one. In this story, there is a man names Hogget. He is a Farmer. And he got a young pig one day. The pig got name Babe. Babe make a lot of friends. The friends like cows or ducks. In this story there are a lot of kinds of animals, and the animals are very cute. The all animals can talk to each other. I think that is very cute. I don’t like pigs. But Babe is very cute. I thin young pigs are so cute.

 

King-Smith, Dick (2008) babe -the sheep pig-

Harlow, Pearson Education

SHERLOCK HOLMES

When I arrived at his flat at six o’clock the next evening, Sherlock Holmes was half asleep in his chair. (page8)

Do you know Sherlock Holmes? I think this is very famous, so maybe you know. All of Sherlock Holmes are very famous detective story. The main character of this story is of course Sherlock Holmes. He has extremely observing eye, and power of reasoning. When I was a junior high school student that was the first time I read this story. I thought this story was very interesting. I usually didn’t like this kind of story, like mystery story. But I’m very interested like this story, since I red this story. The very interesting parts of this story was each of the inspection of the scene I think. I really like that parts.

 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, (2005) three short stories of sherlock holmes

Harlow: Pearson Education

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

They went slowly down the mountain. The weather was very bad and they couldn’t see much. (page18)

This story is about the movie THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Have you seen this movie? This movie made by 1992. This story is about the novel of the last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore. In 1757, when England and France were fighting in America, the Mohicans were there. Did you know there is the Mohicans? In this story, the Mohicans are last, But the Mohicans are still in the Hudson River Valley around Albany, NY. I like the story about like history, so I really interested this movie.

Cooper, James Fenimore (2000) the last of the mohicans

Harlow, Pearson Education

JURASSIC PARK III

A huge head broke into the plane. The mouth was open and the teeth were rad. Thr dinosaur looked at Amanda with wide, hungry eyes. (page8)

Do you like dinosaurs? I really like to know about dinosaurs. I chose this book Jurassic Park 3. This story is about this movie. This is the third one, but there are about three more Jurassic Park series. In those story, there are a lot of dinosaurs. This series are very famous in the world. In this Jurassic Park 3, the main character is Alan Grant. How many dinosaurs do you know? In this story, there are Triceratops, Corythosaurus, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Brachiosaurus, and so on. I think dinosaurs are very scary but they are very cool.

Ciencin, Scott Buchman, Peter Payne, Alexander Taylor, Jim Crichton, Michael jurassic park 3  (2002)
Harlow, Pearson Education

William Shakespeare

William still dreamed of acting. He longed to visit the big London playhouses. But for now he had to stay home and work. (page13)

Do you know this name? William Shakespeare is very famous person. He is a very famous playwright in the world. He was born in 1564. Have you ever seen his play? Do you know Romeo and Juliet? I think all of you know this. This Romeo and Juliet is very famous you know. There are a lot of more famous plays written by Shakespeare. Do you know his four generations tragedy? Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello is the four generations tragedy. If you have never seen or read some of his work, you should see one.

 

Dickins, Rosie (2008) william shakespeare

London, Usborne

JAWS

By 2.30 there were not many people on the beach. Brody walked down towards the water. (page15)

This book is about a movie called JAWS. Do you know this movie? Have you ever seen this movie, or read this book? In this story, there are a lot of people in the beach, and they are having fun in the beach. The first target was a woman. Polices are wanted the beach close, but the beach didn’t want to be close. So still there are many visitor. Do you know what kind of shark is this? This story’s shark is a great white shark. This shark is very big. In the summer, I’m so scared about sharks in the sea.

Benchley, Peter (1998) jaws

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Dracula

The next morning, Jonathan was shaving when a sudden noise made him Jump. He spun around and nearly collided with the count. (page10)

Have you ever heard about Dracula? I think all of people know about Dracula. Did you know that Dracula is just a name of one kind of vampire? I think many people thinks all of Dracula equal vampire. But it’s wrong. Dracula is a name of a vampire. Dracula is a tall and skinny man. And he has very red eyes. In this story, a man was making something. And somehow he make Dracula. The Dracula is usually laying down in a box. But in the moon night, Dracula is up and go to suck a man’s blood. Many people thinks Dracula is scary, but I think he is just a man.

 

Stoker, Bram (2007) dracula

London, Usborne

MEN IN BLACK

Edwards pulled out his gun. ‘You’re crazy!’ he told Kay. ‘Why did you do that? Put down your gun!’ (page7)

Do you know this story? I think this is very famous, so maybe you know. This book is about the Men in Black movie. This movie is an action movie. The main characters are James and K. James will called J a little after the story starts. They are police in New York. In this story, there are like a lot of strange astrobiology. I really liked this story, but also I like Will Smith, so I chose this book. Do you know him? I think every people know him. He is very good person I think. I like Will Smith that is why I knew about this story.

Gardner, J.J. (1998) men in black

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DREAMS

I already told about my dreams, but I think I have more other dreams for my future, so this time I will talk about my dreams.

My dream is to be a good person. I want to be kind for all of people around me. I like to do something for someone. I want to take my time for someone, and I want the person to be happy.

In the future, I want to be married and I want to have my own family. But if I have family, and have children, I must work for family, so I think it will be no time to do what I like. That is not bad, because to work for my family is good thing. But if I don’t have family, other ways I could have time to do what I want.

If I can do anything I like, I want to go to America, and I want to see my friends of America. It’s not just like a trip. I want to go America, and live in America. To live in America is my other dream. When I was in America six years ago and for ten months, I could hear and speak English well, but now I’m too bad. It past more than six years, and in the six years I was not using English, so I think I forgot how I speak English. This is so bad and sad for me. I really liked to speak English. This is why I want to go and live in America. I want my English back.

My other dream is to be good parents. I want to have three children, and I want to be friendly or good with my future husband. I think if the parent of the family is being nice to each other, the family will be very happy. And I want my future children will be nice to everyone that around them. I want to make a happy family in the future.

 

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cousins

I already told about many things, so it’s very hard to think about what I should talk about. I told about my family, and my boyfriend’s family so the next, I think I will talk about my cousins. Is that ok? Thank you.

I think you of course know what cousin means, but first I will teach you what cousin is. A cousin means your sister or brother’s children. Do you have cousins? If you have cousins, how many cousins do you have? My boyfriend has five cousins. I have eleven cousins. I have four cousins on my father's side, and I have seven cousins on my mother side. On my father's side, there are one boy and three girls. On my mother's side, there are three boys and four girls.

My father has one older sister, and one younger brother. His sister's name is Yumiko. Her husband's name is Ryuya. They have two children. So those children are my cousins. Two of my cousins’ names are Miho and Yusuke. Miho is 23 years old, and Yusuke is 22 years old. Miho is a designer. She is a very kind person. She is a very quiet girl. She really likes to go shopping. I think she looks like her mother. And she is my oldest cousin. Yusuke is working at a big camera company. He has a very cute face like a girl. He is very good at his work. He is a very good person. He was very quiet when he was young, but now he talks a lot. I think he looks like his father. It’s so funny.

My father’s younger brother's name is Kazuya. He is 50 years old. He is a member of the Self-Defense Forces. His wife's name is Hitomi. They have two children. So those children are also my cousins. The two cousins’ name are Miki and Yuki. They are both girls. Miki is eight years old. She has very white skin. She is really like a girl. She cries immediately. And she gets angry quickly. I think she is not so good. But she is cute. Yuki is six years old. She has very loud voice. She is also cries immediately, and gets angry quickly too. The two girls are very good sisters.

My mother has two younger sisters. Their names are Mihoko and Mariko. Mihoko is three years younger than my mother. She is 47 years old. She is working at a care facility. She is a care worker. Her husband's name is Katsumi. I think he is younger than Mihoko. I don’t know how old he is. He is working at a civil landscaping  engineering company. He owns the company. My mother’s dad was the company president. And when Mihoko and Katsumi were married, Katsumi had moved to Mihoko’s family. Katsumi was a staff of this company. And later, the company president was changed to Katsumi. Anyway, Mihoko and Katsumi have three children. The children's names are Shin, Mako, and Kaho. Shin is a boy. Shin is 22 years old. He wants to be like his father, and he will follow his father, so he is working at a different civil landscaping engineering company and he is training. He is a very nice guy. He has a girlfriend. He is very fun. He drinks a lot. He is very tall. He is very good at Judo. He looks a lot like his father. Mako is a girl. She is 20 years old. She is very quiet and very smart. I think she is cute. She likes her mother very much. She is going to Shokei University. She wants to be a nutritionist when she graduates from the college. She is very quiet, so I don’t talk with her so much so I don’t know about her so much. Kaho is a girl too. She is 15 years old. She is a junior high school student. She is not so friendly with her classmates. She didn’t go to school so much. She just doesn’t like to go school, but she likes to study, and she likes to play. She was very good at playing basketball. She is very tall. She likes her father very much. She always goes somewhere with her father. She and her father are very friendly. I think that is a very good thing. Her father looks very happy. She likes to go to pet shops with her father.

Mariko is eleven years younger than my mother. She is 39 years old. Her husband name is Kenji. Mariko is working at a hospital, she is like a nurse. Kenji is working at a big car company. His work is very awesome. They have four children. There are two boys and two girls. Their names are Jin, Kou, Riho, and Kako. Jin is a boy. He is 15 years old. He is same age as Kaho, and he is a junior high school student. He is a very kind kid. He always takes care of his sisters. I think that is so good. He is very good at playing sports. He likes soccer very much. When he was little, he was so cute. He is like a guy, so I don’t talk to him so much now. I think he will be a very good person. Kou is a boy. He is 12 years old. I think he is going to elementary school. I think he is in the sixth grade. He is very naughty now. He also takes care of his sisters a lot. I think he likes his sisters very much. He really likes soccer a lot, like his brother. He has a very cute face. When he smiles, he is very cute. Riho is a girl. She is 10 years old. She is going to elementary school. I think she is in the fourth grade. She has very white skin. When she was younger, she was very naughty, but now she is very cute and quite. She likes her father very much. Kako is a girl. I forgot, but I think she is 3 years old. I think she is a kindergartener now. She is very cute. As I said now, she is very cute. I love her. She has a very good smile. She always running around. She looks very happy all the time.

These eleven are all of my cousins. I love my relatives and cousins. Almost all of my cousins are very younger than me. So I want to them to be a good persons, and I hope they will be happy.

 

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seasons

There are four seasons in Japan. One is Spring, and the others are Summer, Fall, and Winter. Everyone have a favorite season and a hate season they hate. Which season do you like? And do you have a season you hate? I like Fall or Winter, and I hate Summer. So this time I will tell you about what seasons I like and I don’t like.

I like Spring and Fall as I just said. What do you think the reasons are that I like those seasons? I will tell you about the reasons. I think Spring and Fall are the middle seasons. Both seasons are not so hot and not so cold. I like that. Another reason I like Spring and Fall is my birth day is in march. March is in Spring, right? And Fall is before Winter. I don’t like when it is warm out, so to be in to cool is my best time. So actually I like Fall better than Spring. Spring is to before Summer. So Spring is a little warm. I think Spring and Fall are beautiful. In Spring, the flowers and the sky are so beautiful. The view makes me very happy, and make my heart warm. In Fall, the autumn leaves are so beautiful. I really like to go to see the autumn leaves in Fall very much.

I said I like Spring and Fall, but actually my favorite season is Winter. Winter is the best season. Do you know why? Do you want to know why? Ok, I will tell you. It is because winter is very cold! Some people say they don’t like cold. But I think if it’s cold out, there are no bugs. Bugs like warm places, but winter is cold so bugs hate that, and there will be no bugs in winter. I think that is wonderful. Because I really hate bugs. So you will know why I hate summer. Summer is very hot. And bugs like summer.

Let me say again. Bugs like warm places. Warm places are in summer. So there are a lot of bugs in summer. That is why I really hate summer. Do you understand? Thank you.

I said summer is so bad for me, but in summer there are many fun and exciting events in Japan or also around the world. In Japan, there are many Matsuri, fireworks, or barbecue in summer. We can go to the sea to play or swim in summer also. We can have a lot of fun times in summer. I think so too. But for me, the presence of bugs is very big bad point and is much worse than the fun things. So my favorite season is winter, and I hate summer, spring and fall is just better.

This is my opinions about seasons. What do you think? I’m bad? lol

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My other family

Do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend? I have a boyfriend. I have nothing to talk about, so I will tell you about my boyfriend, and I will introduce his family this time.

My boyfriend’s name is Masa. He is 23 years old. His blood type is AB. His birthday is in August . He is a very kind person.

Why I think he is so kind is he always does things for me. If I tell him that I’m thirsty, he says he will go to get some drink for me, and he gives me a drink. Becouse of things like that. I think he is very kind. So I love him.

There are seven members in his family. I will talk about his father first. His father’s name is Yuji. He is 59 years old. His birthday is in April. He is same age as Sanma Akashiya who all of you know. His blood type is AB. He is right handed. He has an older sister whose name is Rie. She worked at a hospital. She is like a doctor. She has a daughter and a son. The daughter’s name is Miyabi, and the son’s name is Yoshinori. Miyabi and Yoshinori will be my boyfriend’s cousins. Miyabi is 38 years old. Yoshinori is 28 years old. They are both married. Miyabi’s husband's name is Tetsuji. And Yoshinori’s wife's name is Ayumi. Miyabi and Tetsuji have a kid. The kid's name is Takuma. Yoshinori and Ayumi have two kids. The kids’ name are Keigo and Takumi. Takuma is 5 years old. Keigo is 7 years old. Takumi is only two. Takuma is going to Keiai kindergarten. But anyway, my boyfriend’s father Yuji likes to drink too much. He drinks every night. Yuji likes to drink highballs in summer, so in winter, he likes to drink Shochu. He likes Imo-jochu better than Kome-jochu. Yuji likes to watch baseball games on TV. He really likes baseball. This is like my boyfriend. Masa likes to watch baseball games on TV too. They like a team called the Yomiuri Giants, because Yuji adore Sadaharu Oh, and Shigeo Nagashima. Yuji’s favorite food is Sashimi. He eats Sashimi every day. He is growing some kinds of vegetables  from about two years ago. He is growing carrots, radishes, and cabbages. Yuji doesn’t like animals, but in his house, they had a dog about 5 years ago. The dog’s name was Base. Base was very fine every day. He was always running outside. But sadly he died 5 years ago. The reason why he died was because of a thunder storm. Masa’s family was so sad he said. His mother was so sad about it.

Masa’s mother’s name is Roko. She is 57years old. Her blood type is AB. Her birthday is in August. She has an older sister. The sister’s name is Meiko. Meiko has a husband. The husband's name is Tsugiyoshi. They have two daughters and a son. Their names are Kana, Nachi, and Takuro. Kana is 35 years old. Nachi is 32 years old. Takuro is 31 years old. Kana, Nachi, and Takuro will be my boyfriend’s cousins. Kana has a husband. She married with Makoto. They have two kids. One is a boy, and the other is a girl. The boy's name is Hayato and the girl's name is Hina. Hayatio is 8 years old. Hina is 7 years old. I have seen their pictures, and they are so cute and I thought they are very interesting. Oh, but anyway, I will go back to talk about my boyfriend’s mother Roko. She is a child minder. She works at Onjaku hospital nursery. She really likes children. She really likes to care for children. I think she is very good child minder. She has a lot of hobbies. When she have some time to do what she likes, she is knitting, writing letters and drawing letters, and hula dancing. These are her hobbies.

Next, I will talk about my boyfriend’s older sister. Her name is Akane. I think her name is very cute. I like that name. She is the oldest. She is 30 years old. Her blood type is B. Her birthday is in October. She graduated from Kumamoto Gakuen University high school. And also she was going to Kumamoto Gakuen University. She likes to drink very much. But sometimes she becomes very drunk. Masa always tells me her room is very messy. I heard she will marry soon. She has a boyfriend. The boyfriend name is Takahiro. I have never seen her boyfriend, but I think he is very nice person. Masa always says he hopes his sister will be happy with Takahiro.

Masa has an older brother. His name is Akihiko. He is 28 years old. His birthday is in August. His blood type is AB. He is very good at doing anything. That way, he is very smart. He really likes to watch baseball games on TV just like Masa or his father. He lives in Tokyo. He is an architect since he graduated from vocational school. Masa says he is very nice brother. When he talks about his brother, he looks very happy. Akihiko married last September. In next September, he has wedding ceremony in a very nice wedding hall. His wife is a girl, of course. The wife name is Minako. She is from Hitoyoshi. I heard she is very good at cooking.

Hey, we cannot forget about grandpa and grandma. Masa's grandpa's name is Tamio, and his grandma's name is Keiko. Actually, Masa’s grandpa died about two years ago. But he was a very very wonderful person. The people around him were always saying he is very wonderful. He was a very big person for the town. He was a very nice and smart person, so the people around him always said that they want to be like him.

After he went, grandma was most looks sad. But now, it’s about two years ago, so she is ok. And so she often goes out to meet her friends. She looks very happy now.

I hope my boyfriend’s family will be happy after this. I love my boyfriend, and his family.

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past and home

There are a little more that I can talk about the day I felt happy and had such a fun time, so I would like to talk to you about the happy day when I felt fun. The happy day when I felt fun is about six or seven years ago, when I was in high school.

I went to America for about ten months as an exchange student. I think I’m writing about the same thing, but it’s because this is one of my biggest memories ever. I stayed at a host family’s house in Iowa, but I could visit New York City and Washington DC for about a week with my two host sisters and a friend from the high school where I went. In New York City, we went to the Times Square. Times Square was very wonderful and it was like a dream for me. When I was a little, I really wanted to go and visit the New York City. So when I could visit to the New York City, I was really happy. I went to Broadway and saw two musicals which I really wanted to see at least one time someday. One of the musicals that I really wanted to see was called “Wicked”, and the other one was “The phantom of the opera”. Maybe almost all people have heard the names of the musical “The phantom of the opera”. Both of the musicals are very famous and popular. I already knew what those two musicals were about, and the songs of the musicals. I was taking a choir class in the school I went to in America, and in the choir class we were practicing many songs from the two musicals that I saw on Broadway. Why I already knew the stories and the songs about the two musicals, before I saw those two musicals. If you knew songs of a musical before you will see the musical, you will feel really excited to see the musical, I think. I was very excited to see that musicals “Wicked” and “The phantom of the opera”. In New York, or Washington DC, there are more and more other wonderful things. If I could go to those places again, I want to go to see some of the other musicals again, but also I want to go and visit some other famous places.

From here, I will talk about the place where I live now. I was living alone in Kumamoto city when I entered my college. But I quit  living alone a few years ago.  I am from Yamaga city in Kumamoto. I live in Yamaga city now. It’s very far away from the college I go to. I am taking my car to go to college every day. It is takes about an hour or over an hour. It’s too hard to me to go school. I really liked to live in Kumamoto city alone, but it was very lonely for me. It is because I like to be with somebody like my family, or my friends. Almost all my friends are living with their family. Sometimes when I am having fun with my friends, and that takes too long, my friends call their home or their family to tell they will get home late, or they do not need supper that day. If I hear them talking like that, I feel very envious. I do not like to be only one anytime. Living in Yamaga, I feel better, because of course there is my family, and they are always waiting for me. I always can be very happy for that. Yamaga city is very different from Kumamoto city. There are a lot of tall buildings, stores, cars, people, and so on in Kumamoto city, but there are not so many of those things in Yamaga city. Of course, it is because Kumamoto is the biggest city in Kumamoto prefecture, you know. Yamaga is like a country town. I like the people in Yamaga. There are a lot of kind people around me in Yamaga. I love my friends from Yamaga. And each of my friend’s family is also very good people. If there are a lot of good and kind people around you, don’t you feel happy? I do. That way, I am really happy to be from Yamaga city. It’s very hard to go to school sometime, but I love to living in Yamaga city. Do you like your place?

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