My First Shopping

Last weekends, we went shopping with my RA and my group members for the first time.  I couldn’t go out for 2 weeks because of coronavirus.  But the day is that we went shopping so I was excited.  First, we went to downtown and I bought vanilla cream Frappuccino in Starbucks.  I was surprised at the size of Starbucks in America.  Japan’s Starbucks use tall size often.  But American’s one often use grande size!  It was very big size for me so I couldn’t finish drinking it.  I’m sure that the next time is that I want to take tall size.  After that we went to Northtown.  I didn’t buy anything there but I could see many stores so I was happy.  But my group member bought some colorful waterbotles, for example, purple, sky blue, etc.  They are very cute and I wanted to buy any waterbottle.  And I want to buy some big stickers because I put it waterbottles, laptop, iphone case or etc.  Two of my group members had already put it waterbottle and laptop.  It’s very good.  And finally we went to wallmart which sells various things.  I bought papers, markers, cosmestics, and dry seat it use at dry machine.  I was very glad because I wanted stationary goods!  And the dry seat is very good smell so I’m looking forward to using it every time.  The cosmestics is made from e.l.f bland.  Do you know e.l.f
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It’s very cheap bland my friend told to me.  But the cosmesticks is very good to use!  So I recommend you to buy anything in e.l.f.  We went shopping Sunday, too.  But the weather is pretty bad.  So we couldn’t have much time and buy anything…  I was very sad but the day is walking around the downtown, Northtown.  So it was great time for us because we can see the scenery of Spokane!  I’m looking forward to go shopping on Saturday!!1

My Happy 19th Birthday

by Mizuki
My birthday is February 11th, so I spent my 19th birthday in the US. It is unusual to spend birthday in other countries, so I feel that I was lucky that I spent my birthday in different place. On February 11th in Japan and America, I received some messages from my friends. My group 19 and RA held a birthday party for me. They gave me some presents and a message card. Also my RA baked a cake for me!! It was a chocolate cake. It's my favorite cake. It tasted very good!! Also I ate pizza. It was first time to eat pizza in US. It was bigger than Japan's one.  I enjoyed the party because I haven't held my birthday parties with friends for a long time. February 11th in Japan is national foundation day, so everyone has a day off. I couldn't meet friends at school before, so that day was speacial for me. I had a pleasant time. I was glad for being held my birthday party. I felt grateful to group 19th and RA. I will not forget my happy 19th birthday.

I love Candice!

by Sayaka 

My RA is Candice and she is 29 years old. And she is kind and powerful woman. 

She likes listening to music well and especially likes R&B and ballad, so she recommended to me  “ Lizzo” ; she is a great singer-song writer.

When I played the music, she looked really happy. Also, she likes talking a lot with me and my dorm-mates.

We can have a great time because she always thinking about our group work time, and also she often helps me if I couldn’t solve questions in my homework. I'm really grateful to her because she makes it easy for me to understand.

There are 12 people in my group and they are very powerful. After school, we always do homework in living room. After we finished it, we go to commons to eat dinner together and we always play card game until midnight. Sometimes, I feel sleepy, but it is very fun.

I miss my family, but I don't think it than before. I would like to have a good time for the rest of the days.

My Living Group

     There  are 12 people in my group, and RA,Cassie. She is very kind and cute. Our group is energetic and cheerful. Everyone is very gentle. We watched the movie called "Kissing Booth". That movie was recommended by one of the group member. It was very exciting. I thought that love is difficult. We ate many snacks and ice-creams while watching it. I was surprised that the snacks and ice-creams were too much. However I was satisfied with it, because I ate a lot. There were very delicious. I thought I tried to eat many other snacks, so I'm looking forward to going shopping to buy snakes. I had great time the day. Another day, there were much times after eating dinner. We talked about something and played games. I like playing games. Especially, I like gesture game the best. I knew the game for the first time. The game is different from Japanese games. It was easy for me to do it. The game livened up. We player it many times. It was very exciting. We are able to go outside this week. We will go skating, and eating dinner in downtoen this week. I'm looking forward to going to many places in Spokene. I think that I want to get along with the members of the group.

My Favorite Movies

Hello! It's Kanna. Today, I would like to share with you all about my favorite movies.
I am always in trouble if someone asks me. "What is your favorite one?" I can't answer because I have so much! I really like watching movies because whenever I watch movies, they teach me new world. I can find many things to watch movies and also to watch movies is very good practice to study English or another languages. I watch movies in English with English subtitles, not Japanese subtitles. It is very good to improve my English vocabularies and listening skills. When there are difficult words I have not  known, I search. I would like to go to theater in the United States, so I have to practice watching movies without English subtitles.

My favorite movie is "Sing Street","Almost famous", "Romeo&Juliet","ROOM","Me and Earl and the Dying Girl","Star Wars", "The Dark Night", "Cinema Paradaiso" and more. You all should watch these movies:) I have watched "Parasite" twice and it is recently favorite. It was very funny and interesting.

I especially like "romance" and "drama". I like touching movies. But I always affect by movies, so if I watch sadly movies, I must be sad. If I watched music movies, I would like to begin any instruments. I like to go theater alone because I want to think about story again in my mind.  I feel sometimes, especially romance, to want to watch with boyfriend:)

Thank you for reading my blog:)

My Living Room

     My RA is Liz, who is 21 years old and very kind and cute! She likes rock climbing well. When I first met her, she broke her knee because she is a rock climber. I was surprised to hear that she have broken her knee three times. Also, she works in library, so she always busy and often isn’t in my dormitory, but she talks a lot to me when she is in there.

      In group 13, there are 12 people and RA. Tow of them are another class, but they are very kind and friendly, so we are good relationship.

     After school, we often do our homework with dormitory members in living room. It is very fun, because we talk about our classes or teach each other. Also, we eat breakfast and dinner together every day. 

Group 13

     In group time and free time, we often laugh. Liz thinks interesting games, so we often laugh and become good relationship. Also, we like watching movies.  have watched more than 6 or 7 movies since I came to MFWI. 

I am surprised that we have become such close friend. Everyone is kind and I like them. I want to go out various place with them for four months, and I am looking forward to making memories with them!!

Out Going For The First Time

      I went out first time in America. We couldn't go out for two weeks because coronavirus and influenza are prevalent now. I was looking forward it very much. I went to downtown by bus. I was a little excited while I was on the bus. At first, I was surprised at difference in getting off the bus. In Japan, to press the get off button to inform drives, but in America, to pull the rope to inform them. Also, I thought it was good  “Have a good day!” to say passenger and drivers when passenger get off. First, I went to River Park Square. There were many kinds of shops. I did window shoppig. I wanted something, but I put up because I didin't have time. It was very short shopping time. Second, I went to North Town Mall and  I bought clothes and lip there. I  had thought that there are many people because I went to there on Saturday, but people were less than expecded. Finally, I went to Walmart and  I bought snacks and stationery there. I was very happy to buy what I wanted. At last I felt really came to America because I met many American people. When I left downtown, I was tired, but I had a good experience. Next, I want to go shopping, when I have enough time.

My Living Group / RA

My RA name is Tiffany. She is very cute and  kind of us. She's mother is Japanese, so she can speak Japanese a little. She always thinks about group work, because she wants to make me happy and relax. She doesn't ignore a minority opinion and listen to everyone opinions, so I don't feel unpleasant. She also hopes to improve my English academic and talk speak English with someone. I wish to live up her exceptation. 

My living group has different opinions on many things. For example, some people want to study their homework, but others want to play the game. We have a clash opinions now and then. However, so far, so good. I think I can't win them all, so it is need for me to compromise. This experience is also a good lesson for me to learn about the real world. 

I played tag in complete darkness. At first it is terribly and frightened, but my eyes have become customed to the darkness, since on the contrary it become fun. I also made cookies, played cards, and played Wii. Thanks to it I can enjoy myself every day. It makes me relax even if I am exhausted from a lot of homework. 
 
My living group support me when I am unable to keep up with classes. I appreciate their help very much. Building up stree is bad for my health, so I think released my prent-up feeling of discontent is vital for me. 

Tiffany

American Cookies

Wii & Tramp

My Living Group and RA

Cather

I live in Cather, and our RA are Daniela and Bella. There are 11 people in my group. They are very kind, reliable and so cute! Daniela and Bella are also kind, and they’re always help us when we’re in trouble. I like them very much. 

At a group time, our group often play a game, watch a movie or do our homework. The third day, Daniela made me and my friend cocoa, and it tasted great! While drinking it, we talked about our dream, hobby and our family. I had a great time there. Last week, we played a card game, UNO which made me so excited, and I felt very happy. Also, three days ago, the day was my housemate’s birthday. So, we celebrated her and we ate chocolate cake which was really good. My housemate looked very happy, so I felt happy, too! 

My Group, 9

By Maiya

I live in Dickinson House. There are 12 members including our RA of my group 9, and our RA is Kayla. I'll introduce our every day.  We are a good relationship, but we don't act much together.  Our daily life starts in the morning, but everyone does something different from the morning.  Some people get up early and go to Common's, some go to bed without eating.  Absolutely, however, we don't be late to class,  and then we take each classes.  At lunch time, we greet because our wake-up time are different, so we can know what everybody got up for the first time.  

After the classes,  we go home or go to the library for study English.  However, the funny thing, some people always sleeping when I arrived home.  Kayla usually goes to school or works in library, so if we have things that we don't know, we can take a contact with Kayla easily when she is in the library.  I always go to Common's at 5:30p.m. for dinner, but with 3 friends. Other friends go to dinner each other, so we almost all go to dinner.  The tutorial starts at 7 o'clock, so everybody go on the first floor.  We play games or do homework.  Everybody is friendly and kind.  We can enjoy playing games, and also Kayla's games make us smile.  She has many games and is very cool.  After that, some people sleep, some take a shower, and some do homework.  At 10 o'clock, we roll and talk and sleep.This is our daily life.  We know everyone's character and open mind.  Thank you group 9!!

Bus Orientation

     Today, we had Bus Orientation and went to Northtown.  That was our first outing, so I was very glad to go out.  In this orientation, I found some surprising and interesting things.
     Firstly, I found that how to get off a bus was different from Japan.  In Japan, we push the button to ask the driver to stop the bus when we want to get off.  On the other hand, I saw people pull a rope before they got off.  I felt the difference interesting. 
     Secondly, traffic signals counted down and told us the time when the signals turned red.  Also, we visited many places: North Mall, Riverfront Park, and Walmart.  We had only 20 minutes to do shopping at Walmart.  I intended to buy the chocolate which my RA had given me, but I couldn't find it.  It was a new item, so it had run out.  I was unhappy that I couldn't buy it, but I got two other kinds of chocolate.  One of them contained 12 pieces of chocolate, so I enjoyed exchanging them to other kinds of chocolate which my friends bought.  In the end, I was happy to get several kinds of chocolate.  However, I jogged in the morning and we walked for a long time, so I was very tired.  I could sleep well.

My First Outing and My surprise

I went to the downtown on last weekend. Going to town was forbidden for two weeks due to coronavirus infection, so I was very exciting after a long absence.

We went to the downtown by the bus. While on the bus, I was always exciting because I’ve never been to the abroad. American buildings are generally lower and road is widely than in Japan. Unlike the scenery I saw in Japan, it was very fun just walking.
I went to shopping Northtownmall and Walmart. I bought some clothes and snacks. It was my first shopping and I enjoyed it. But the bill was little difficult so It was nice to spend a little money.

Also, I was surprised for three things.
First, I was surprised to see a timer that displayed at the blue light of the traffic light. This system does not exist in Japan, so I thought it was convenient. Second,  American supermarket are very big and there were many products. I was overwhelmed by the large amount of stock in one product. Third, American products price is cheaper than in Japan. So, I could buy many food and delighted.

Shopping for the first time in America was a very fun and memorable experience.

My RA

By Tomoka
I introduce my RA.  My RA is very nice person whose name is Kayla.  She is 22 years old.  She is very kind and cute.  She always helps when I'm in trouble, and talks openly.  I like Kayla's personality very much.  She has many times to do RA. Our group is 6th time to do RA.

She likes K-POP idols, especially she likes BTS and Seventeen.  These K-POP group are very famous around the world.  I like K-POP, too.  So I'm glad I can talk a lot about K-POP and dancing to K-POP music with her.  Also, she likes ONE OK ROCK.  Do you know this artist?  It is a famous Japanese band.  They have many good songs. I like song called "Wherever you are."  This song is the most famous song of ONE OK ROCK in Japan.  She has been to this artist's concert many times in America.  I was so surprised to hear that, and I was glad she likes Japanese artists.

She has been studying Japanese for 6 years.  I can't speak English very well, but I enjoy talking to Kayla every day.  I want to talk in English very well.  So I have to study English very hard.

 I can learn a lot of things every day and that is a very important time for me.  Kayla is very good at our group RA and I think very happy I met her!!♡