Over this past weekend, I went to the Ween concert in Detroit. Half the crowd was wearing costumes for no reason other than it was a Ween concert where ridiculous things are encouraged. Ween is not a popular band by any means, they have never been played on the radio or given any attention by mainstream culture, but they have found a huge cult following over the past 20 years. They play a wide variety of music and ever album they release covers different genre's of music. they have played all sorts of music from punk rock to country. I'm huge ween fan, it was the second show of theirs I've seen this past year

I go to a lot of concerts here in Detroit, I usually see 3 or 4 concerts a month except during the winter when theres snow because few bands come through detroit because the weather is so bad.

Happy Halloween!

Instead of being fun, I spent Halloween studying. I told people my costume was a "disaffected college student." But I'm so busy all the time, I can't go out and party! In Japan, do you celebrate Halloween? It's fun to pretend to be someone else for a day.

This evening, I studied my scuba diving manual. Scuba diving is my favorite thing to do, though it does consume a lot of time. I'm training now to be a divemaster. A divemaster is the first professional certification that a diver can attain. It's a lot of work. I have to understand physiology, chemistry, physics, and first aide for scuba-specific injuries. But scuba diving is really fun and rewarding! Last year, at Christmas, I went to the Cayman Islands with my family. The islands sit on an underwater cliff that drops 3000 feet. While we were diving, we saw three giant turtles and a humpback whale. It was amazing!

Do you have any unusual hobbies?

Happy Halloween~~~!!!

Hello everyone! How are you? Is the weather nice?


My name is Lynsey Piernick. Lynsey (usually spelled "Lindsay") means born under the "linden" tree... which does not seem very cool or cute. My mom is an elementary school teacher and she named me after one of her favorite students. My mom wanted to be creative so she spelled my name "L-y-n-s-e-y," but this is very unusual. Piernick has no meaning at all, I believe.


If I could go anywhere right now it would have to be Japan because I miss all of my Japanese friends and my exchange student 舞ちゃん. I really like Kyoto but Tokyo is too much like America. I really love 和歌山 though; it is so rural and beautiful! I also feel very special in 和歌山 because there are almost no 外国人~!


Today is Halloween! Do you know it? It is the holiday when everyone puts on costumes and parties. Though, when you are a kid, it is the day you go out and ask people for candy. Today I dressed up like a 芸者. It was very difficult to get all the white paint off!


I want to be a Japanese teacher someday-- My dream is to be a professor! What about you? What is your dream job?


Have lots of fun and stay safe!





SLANG TIME


Bounce - Leave

"Let's Bounce." = Lets leave right now.

"She just bounced." = She just left.

"Gotta bounce!" = I have to leave.



Bouncing also means moving up and down, but in slang it means to leave. (^u^)

色々！

My name is Nicole Jean Humphrey. I don't know what Humphrey means. Jean is my middle name and it came from my grandma because her nickname was Jean. My first name, Nicole, means victory in Greek. I am not Greek at all, but my mom liked the name. Someone asked where I would like to go. There are so many different places I would like to visit. I would of course want to go to Japan. I would also like to go to China, Russia, and many places in Europe. I love European History and I want to visit just about all the countries of Europe, like England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Sweden, so many! The only foreign countries I have been to are Japan and Costa Rica. In Japan, I want to go everywhere. I especially want to see Hokkaido and Nothern Honshu. I also want to see the mountains in Japan. I really want to see some 日本猿. I have been to Kyoto and Tokyo. Between Kyoto and Tokyo, I liked Kyoto better. Tokyo was too big! I also liked all of the history in Kyoto (I love History). But I liked Wakayama more than both of those cities. I also went to Osaka, but just to the aquarium, so I didn't see the city.

こんにちは

はじめまして！私の名前はグレンハートクリスチーナです。ミシガン州立大学の二年生です。せんもんはびじつ。今年、たくさん授業をとるから、いそがしくなりました。自分の時間がぜんぜんあいんです。でも、今週たくさん時間があります。だから、アメフトを見たり、ビデオゲムをしたいします。来週、家にかえります。スキューバダイビングを教えます。よろしくおねがいします！

Where do you wanna go?

Hi,I want to start with the place where I want to go.
I want to go Egypt,France,India,Mexico,America and so on.
I'd like to go all of these countries if I can.
Going abroad needs a lot of money, so I have to make money.
But to make money is a handful.
Do you guys do part time job?
My part time job is selling clothes at department.
I love my job and wnjoy it, but my house is far from the department.
Also, my train station is not handy,it takes 25 minites by car from my house.
So I need nearer job.

My part-time job

I work in a book store. I usually work from 17:00 to 23:30 after I go to school, and from 15:00 to 23:30 on a holiday.

Book store job is a handful, because we have to do the checkout counter, search for books for customers, put books in order, set the new books, retun old books and so on. Comics are lighter than other books, but magazines for women are the heaviest of all, so colleagues give me a hand.

I start to be in charge of Map corner recently, I study about travel guide books. The books about hot spring travel are selling well, because winter comes and we feel cold. Then they buy Hawaii, Guam books where are hotter than Japan. Japanese people tend to check the famous places by the book. Do you get information about travelig places bythe book?

私の名前

私の名前は福井景子です。
「福井」は県の名前にもあるので、よく知られています。しかし私は一度も福井県に訪れたことがありません。意味は幸福な井戸になります。今では井戸を使っている家庭がいないため、あまりイメージしやすい説明ではないかもしれませんが。
「景子」は景色の子供です。また「景」には広い、壮大なという意味もあるそうです。両親が名づけてくれた由来は、健康な子に育ってほしいからだろうです。
私が生まれる少し前、大きな飛行機事故がありました。その事故で多くの人が亡くなりましたが、その中で6人だけ奇跡的に助かった人がいます。その6人の生存者の中の一人の女性の名前「景子」をもらい、両親は私に名づけてくれました。
友達からは縁起がいいね、と言われますが、私の気持ちは複雑です。将来飛行機事故にあってしまっては、元も子もないからです。
また日本には姓名判断というものがあり、漢字の字画で運勢を占うというものです。名前の字画を占うことで、その人の性格から、今後の人生まで占えるみたいです。両親はこの字画にも注意して、私の名前をつけてくれました。

Slang!!!

リンジー、二コールコメントありがとぉ☆
I'm down with that!!!これいいねー☆使えるー☆
Dude!!　は、アメリカにいたときに使っている人を見たよぉ☆意味わかってすっきりしたぁ☆ありがと☆
ガキ使見てるんだー☆あれ楽しいよね☆まっちゃんとはまちゃん、どっちが好き？？
瑠美は俄然まっちゃん☆ｗ
まっちゃんマジおもろいわー。

リンジーと二コールのためのジャパニーズスラングタイムだよぉ☆
まずは関西弁を教えるね☆
『本当に？』は『はんまに？』
『おもしろいなぁ』は『おもろいわー』
『ありがとう』は『おおきに』
漫才のつっこみで『なんでやねん！！』とか『あほちゃうか！！』と言うよ☆

次はyoung people's slang
『かっこいい男』のことを『イケメン』
『ガキの使いやあらへんで』のことを『ガキつか』
いらいらしている時や、むかついた時は『うざい』
ってかんじです☆

もっと知りたいことや質問があったら言ってね☆
瑠美もいっぱい知りたいから教えてー☆
来年の２月からオーストラリアに行く予定なんだけど、オーストラリアとアメリカの英語の違いも知りたいな☆ではまた☆

NAME

Hi,today I'm gonna tell you my name's meaning.
My name is Rumi Kasuga. Last name is Kasuga, and first name is Rumi.
Kasuga（春日）means spring（春） and sun（日）. I don't know why my last name is such a incomprehensible name,but I like it.
Rumi（瑠美） means sapphire（瑠） and beauty（美）.
Although one of my friend Miharu（she is also your blog member!）has beauty（美） in her name, I'ts totally common putting this kanji in Japanese girls name.
Parents hope their children are going to be beautiful Japanese girl , and put that letter.
瑠　means 瑠璃色（sapphire）. I
n brief my name's meaning is"wish to be beautiful girl like a sapphire."
That's why I love my name!!!What is your name meaning? tell me about it ,please.

Hello!!

I’m Keiko Fukui, a student of Sugiyama University.
I’m studying Japanese literature, especially I’m going to write a graduation thesis about Haruki Murakami. Have you read his books? His books are interesting!
I also live in Gifu. You think it’s famous, but Hida where is a part of Gifu is famous as an ancient city like Kyoto. If you come to Japan, I recommend you to visit there. To tell the truth, it’ a long way from my city, because it takes about two hours by train.
I read one of Haruki’s book in English, so I’m glad to communicate with you in English for developing my English skill.

Meaning of our names!

Do you like your name? I love my name very much.
I'd like to introduce to you my name meaning today.
My first mame is "Miharu". It consists of two kanji letter”美晴”. ”美”　 means beautiful.　The letter is often used to girls name, so also my mother's name has ”美”. Her name is Chiemi（知江美）. There are many friends whoes name has ”美”. ”晴”means sunny.
However, the name was not named by my parents. There is Japanese tradition that is fortune-telling based on the number of strokes needed to write a name in kanji, so my name is based on it with my last name.
My last name is "Suzuki". It consists of two kanji letter too.”鈴木”."鈴”　means bell. 　"木”　means tree. I think you have heard the name, because it is the most common name in Japan. Almost all my neighbor's last name are Suzuki. It's so interesting, isn't it?

Have a nice weekend. Bye!!

Hello

Hi! My name is Shiho Hayashi.I live in Gifu. Maybe you don't know Gifu. It's far from Tokyo. It takes 2 hours by express.
I like playing the piano, trumpet and listening music, reading book(Japaneae Manga) also shopping. I like Gwen Stefani,Green Day and Guy Sebastian who is an Australian Idol. I had been to Australia for one year 3 years ago, then I watched him on TV program also I watched American Idol.

But my English skills getting down,I hope I get foreign friends and getting up my skills and learn your home colutures on blog.

By the way, Have you read Harry Potter the last story? The ones don't sell in Japan yet. Maybe it hard working to translate English to Japanease. If you have alredy read how was it?


こんにちは、林　志帆です。岐阜に住んでいます。たぶん皆分からないと思うけど、東京から新幹線で２時間くらいの場所にあるよ★
趣味は、ピアノとトランペットを弾いたり吹いたり、音楽を聴いたりマンガを読んだりあと買い物も好き♪　音楽はGwen StefaniやGreen DayとオーストラリアンアイドルのGuy Sebastianをよく聴きマス。(♥ó㉨ò)ﾉ♪
わたしは３年前にオーストラリアに１年留学してて、そこでテレビでオーストラリアンアイドルとかアメリカンアイドルとか観て知りました。！(ゝω・ฺ)
でも英語の能力がどんどん悪くなっちゃって、このブログで海外の友達つくって英語力を上げたいな(｡￫ˇ艸￩)

話変るけど、ハリー・ポッター最終巻読んだ人いますか？まだ日本では売ってないんデス(☄ฺ◣д◢)　きっと訳が大変だと思う・・・。読んだ人がいたら→どうでした？

How do you do?

Hi! my name is Miharu.
I go to Sugiyama universty and major in international communication.
I live in Toyota city of Aich prefecture. You know Toyota city is famous for Toyota car.
In my free time, I like to listen to music and go shopping. My fovorite shopping stot is Sakae.
I want to make many foreign friends and shrare with each culture through the blog work.
I'm really looking forward to talking with you here.
Miharu

Hi!

Hi,my name is Rumi.

I'm junior of Sugiyama university and majoring international communication.
I wanna know how you guys communicate each other. Especially,young people's slang.
I'm also interested in fashion. I love Karaoke ,so I often go to Karaoke box with my friends.
Last time I went to America was September last year. I stayed Oregon state and studied at university of oregon for a half year. I'm missing America...
Anyway,I'm really glad having an oppotunity like this.

Minasan,

Konnichiwa. Ioroi desu. Please post your message ASAP if you haven't done so yet, as I have added Japanese students and they will be joining you soon.

Also, if you haven't set up your computer (or school computer) to type in Japanese, please do the following:
Control Panel → Regional and Languages Options→ Regional Option Tab → Select Japanese →Apply → OK

Please let me know if you have any questions. dewa gabatte kudasai!
Ioroi

こんにちは

こんにちは、ぼくの名前はフェルコです。せんもんはビジネスと英語の文学です。ミシガンのデトロイトから来ました。しゅみはキャンプをすることとしゃしんをとることです。よろしくおねがいします。