asato418の日記

TOEIC

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:14:09 +0900

なんだかんだ色々ありましたが、ようやく念願の９００を達成しました。長かったなぁ。。私のように集中力が続かない人間にはなかなかつらいテストです。＞ＴＯＥＩＣ．

リスニングがまだ４６０点と、９００達成している人の多くが４９０点を取っている中まだまだ感がありますが、とりあえず目標の９００を達成できたのはうれしいので久しぶりに書き込みです（笑）

Hawaii留学後。。。

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:35:17 +0900

２月にハワイ留学から帰ってきてから、グローバルビジネスにかかわる部署に行きたいと希望を出し、時間がかかりましたが６月にグローバルビジネス室に移動することが出来ました。

まだ少しですが、仕事でも英語に関わる機会が出てきましたので、今後英語を行かせることが出来るといいな。。と思っています。

留学前に８００点前後だったＴＯＥＩＣも、留学のおかげかその後の勉強のおかげか、かなり点数も上がりました。　が、まだまだスピーキングは問題があります。　スピーキングと、文法含めたリーディングをあげつつ、より実際的な英語能力を高めて生きたいと思っています。

Oct 7

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:48:49 +0900

I went to the Church.
It's one of our assignment, but it's really interesting because if I don't get the chance studying abroad, I will never have experienced such event. I went to the Cathedral of Our Lady and Peace, and I joined Rite of Acceptance Into the Catechumenate. It's interesting.

After that I went to another church, St. Andrew's Cathedral (it's more famous) and Kaumakapili church. After that I went to the Bishop Museum and learned Hawaii's history there.

After that I went to Diamond Head (It's famous in Japan). I climbed up it but it's pretty hard for me to climb.

After coming home, today the host family had some guests, they are their son's girl friend and their neibor couples (who is the owner of Waikiki's Restaurant).

Unfortunately, I couldn't understand what they say very much. I hope I could understand what they say....

Today's class (Oct 6)

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:04:54 +0900

Today is Saturday, but we have a class.
The class is Art of persuasion.

Our assignment is to see one of the 'TED TALKS', and in the class, we discussed a lot.

It's a little interesting, but we had another 2 assignments today. We have really a lot of assignments.... sigh...

Yesterday's clas(Oct.5)

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:02:16 +0900

Yesterday, We went to Downtown to do our assignment 'Downtown Assignment'

First, we went to Aloha Tower Market Place and did Coffee talk.

I talked about Nara City, but I had better check about Nara City and talked More. One of my classmates, Kaku, asked me about Himiko. I don't know about Himiko very well, because it doesn't have a lot of evidence, but I will try to know about those to be able to answer foreigner's questions.

After that, we went to another place by group.
We went to Iolani palace and aftr that we went to merchant street and bishop streets.

We walk aroud there and checked historical buildings and asked for people about those buildings.

Today's Class(Oct 4)

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:54:38 +0900

Today's Class is...

1. Writing Essentials
It's writing essentials class, but today we partnered by someone and introduce ourselves with each other in front of everyone.
After that we took a class abouot writing essentials,

We should write as follows:
1. take away
2. react
3. apply

and we got a new writing assignment.
(reading the topic "What Brain Science Tells Us About How to Excel" and write about it )

2. Debate Techinique

We made a presentation in a group about 'Should Gun control stricter in Hawaii?'

and after that, We also got another Assignment for Thursday Oct 11th.

Another 2 people and I will debate about
'Private companies should adopt a mandatory retirement age for employees'.

....... to many assignments... sigh..

tomorrow, we will go downtown in Honolulu, and will do downtown assignment..

Today's class (Oct 3)

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:52:02 +0900

Today's class is ..
1. Coffee Talk
Our class member Kaku and Nao was the host.
They give us some topics and we discuss about that.
It's interesting but today I feel irritated because I can't say what I want to say very much.

2. EIL Varieties of English Exercises.
We got explanations of EIL Assignment #1, #2, #3.
#1.. Interviews.
Each of us is required to do 50 intervies during our class (till Oct 24th). It's pretty hard assignment especially for me.

#2 Book Report
I got a book and the title is My Boyhood in Siam.
and we have to read it at least the first 100 pages of the book. The report should contain some information.

#3 Group Assignment..
As a team we are required to do make reports of 9 Cultural Observations. and after that we have to do presentation.

3. EIL (Some talking simulations--
-- You could hear a Pin Drop)

divided 2 groups and we simulate conversations.
the teacher tells us how to talk about and something..(I can't explain well =)

4. EIL
5. EIL Guest Speaker come and talking with him (like coffee talk)
The Guest speaker is alumni of JAIMS and now lived in Hawaii and working for JTB. (I forgot his name.)

6. Downtown Assignment Preparation.

Friday(Oct. 5), we will go to down town and investigate some place (and after that we have to make presentations).

Today we get explanation of it in detail..

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After that, we try to make presentation tomorrow.

Today's class

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:02:12 +0900

Today's class..

We did coffee talk, and at that time, we discuss about Hawaiian Cluture and some of the relationships between Hawaii and Japan. That's interested.

After that, we took a lass of
'What is ESL? English as an international Language?'
It had a couple of difficult words, and the teacher sometimes speak fast (for me), so sometimes I couldn't understood.

And Last Class, Debate techniques,
We speech respectively about some theme.
My theme is "Should commercial airlines charge for baggage?" It's a little difficult to speak, because I didn't know America's situation a lot.... And I'm sure we don't have much time to retrieve information..

I' worrying about wheter I can continue this diary or not? =)

The first assignment of the class

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:28:15 +0900

Today our class began and the title was Introduction to Public Speaking, and we got the first assignment.

The assignment is preparing for the tomorrow's speech, and my assignment title is 'Should commercial airlines charge for baggage'.

So I prepare the next sentences for my speech.
Can I remember those sentenes by tomorow ?

In the first place, is the content not strange? =)

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My assignment title is "Should commercial airlines charge for baggage?"
At first, I wonder commercial airlines are charging baggage.
Do you know whether airlines now charge for baggage or not?

In Japan, we don’t much care about charge for baggage, because if we don’t’ exceed weight limitation, we don’t need to pay for it.

However, in America, many airlines require travelers to pay to check baggages lately.
Traditionally, airlines would not charge for the first two pieces of checked baggage unless they exceeded weight limitation. That’s similar to Japan. But lately, a lot of airlines started charging even for the first checked baggage.

One of those reasons is the price of fuel. Many airlines cannot get a profit because of the fuel cost.
So they began to require charge for baggage.
It’s the situation of my assignment title, and I consider about the answer of this question.
From a traveler's point of view, no one wants to be charged for baggage.
However, from airlines point of view, checking bags costs a lot beause it needs human cost. and it needs for the safety of the airline.
So my opinion is, Commercial airlines should charge for baggage, but it's only when traveler has over 1 baggage or when they have heavy baggage.
Because if airlines want to cut cost and they don't check baggage at all, the airlines have very high risk. So at least airlines should check baggage.

And if we don’t need to pay without over 1 baggage, we can try to pack our baggage compactly and then we don’t need to pay. So both are happy.

So my opinion is commercial airlines should charge for baggage but it’s only when traveler has over 1 baggage to check or when they have heavy baggage.

That’s all, thanks.
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Studying abroad in Hawaii

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:12:44 +0900

I was very very busy in Japan and I didn't have a time to write diary. However I came Hawaii now at last! ( My project continue to proceed in Japan, but I can't do any good things more =). Because of shortage of preparation, I had a some tiny trouble in Hawaii, however I finally found my house of home staying and moved today. It's very gorgeous house and very kind family, so they made dinner for us (for me and another student in our class). After dinner, she (host family's wife) recommended us to swim at their pool. So we swam under the sky in the night in Hawaii. It's so beautiful and wonderful.

I bought my prepaid cell phone in the shop of Hawaii. There is no one who can speak Japanese, so I had to bought it in English. That's maybe good experience, too..

By the way, I have very busy life in Japan, and I often worry about time, but all things that I want to need times in Hawaii.
For example, when I wanted to buy my cellphone and went to walmart, 1 customer talked about her cellphone for about 30 minutes and I had to wait to finish their trade... I thought why no other shop worker didn't help, but maybe it's normal thing here.. I gave up to buy cell phone at walmart and went to another cell phone shop and bought it.

I'm now very sleepy and maybe my English has a lot of mistake. However It's good for me to write a lot of things in English within a short time. Maybe my english skill will be improved in the life of Hawaii. (I hope so very much).