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.

After School

     Since I have been at MFWI, I often play with my friends, after school. In America, the classes finished earlier than in Japan, so I have free time after school. We play basketball, volleyball, and badminton together. Also, we run around the school. It is very fun, but I sometimes get muscle pain. I think it is important for us to exercise every day. The other day, I went to library to do my homework. We have a homework is uncomfortable, so can't have us. W have a lot of homework, so I want to finish in the library as much as possible. I can't study in my room because I lose concentration. I like the atmosphere in the library. Since I have been at MFWI, I have been borrowing two books from the library every day. Of course, They are easy to read, otherwise I would give up soon. However, I want to finish reading the difficult books, too. Because I want to improve English skills, and I want to increase my vocabulary. After studying, I go to Commons to eat dinner. We always eat dinner with our RA, Cassie. We talk about our classes. I can't understand everything she says, so I want to listen to her, expose myself to English, so that I can get used to understanding English.

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 First Week

by Mizuki

I was stressed out when I left my home because I was so nervous. I felt that I both wanted to go to the US, and I wanted to stay in Japan. On the day that I left, my mother and my aunt saw me off when I was going to go to the airport. They said to me,Don't give up.I really felt grateful to them and I hugged them. I was really looking forward to riding on a plane because I like meals on planes and because I can see the flight attendants. Before I wanted to became a flight attendant or airport groundstaff, but now I don't. They seem cool to me!! At the Seattle airport, I thought I'm really in the United States now and I felt excited. Around me, there were many Americans. While we are flying from Seattle to Spokane I was watching the ground. I thought that Spokane has many trees and a lot of snow which were beautiful. Arriving at the Spokane airport, I met my RA, Candice, for the first time. Then I felt excited because my life in America would start soon. When I arrived at Mukoga Fort Wright Institute, I had many things to do, so I was very tired, so that day, I went to bed early before roll call. When the first class begin and I met my new class classmates I got along really well with some of them. I am glad to make some new friends. In my classes, I try to understand what the teachers say, but sometimes I can't understand and sometimes I can. I will do my best in my classes. I hope that this times will become a big step in my life.