#10 What are some items which I would bring to my host family'n'friends?

I would bring Pictures, Postcards, Print-Club Picture(Purikura), and a book which tells about Japanese customs or what we do.

I chose Pictures, because it's the best way to show what we usually do in Japan. To see something is easier to understand than reading or listening. So, I prefer Pictures.

Postcards has the same reason as the pictures. The difference is that postcards could show the things which I can't take with my camera. There are lots of interesting postcards recently like sumo, traditional Japanese pictures(Ukioe or Ukiyoe) and such...

Prikura is one of Japanese culture I guess, even though some other country has one. The quality could be different. When I brought the pictures of prikura to the US, my friends there or host family said it's interesting because they didn't have exactly the same machine like Japan.

Finally, the book I picked above would help a lot when we go abroad. It would help when we explain something. That's why I chose the book. Also, it'll help when we explain about our language, Japanese if the book has both English and Japanese.

Pic. from→http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=postcard+katsushika&ei=

#9 Love!

Talking about love, it is the most difficult topic for me to talk about... What is the love?
According to a dictionary, "love" means:
1. a strong feeling of deep affection for sb/sth, especially a member of your family friend(affection)→e.g.) a mother's, or father's love for their children
2. a strong feeling of affection for sb that you are sexually attracted to(romantic)→e.g.) They fell in love each other.
3. the strong feeling of enjoyment that sth gives you(enjoyment)→e.g.) I'm in love with movies.
4. a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much(sb/sth you like)→e.g.) He was the love of my life. (=He was the person I loved the most.)

As you know through my blog, I'm in love with comedy movies!! There is a good movie which is basically about a family love. I guess it is about family love... Anyways, The movie's name is "Cheaper by the Dozen." It's a story about a family which include parents and 12 kids. They lived in a small town. But one day, the father got a new job in a big city. So they moved. But the timing was not so good because his wife also got a job for a couple days or weeks. Then, he need to handle both the new job and taking care of his kids. As he works hard, the family starts falling apart, and the story continue.
This story is interesting, funny, sad, and happy!! This is one of my favorite movie!



(pic. from: htte://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/cheaper-by-the-dozen.shtml)

#8 My favorite actor:)

I like lots of actors... Or, should I say comedian?


I like Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, Ben Stiller and etc. So, it's difficult to choose my favorite celebrity... But I chose Robbin Williams!!(The picture below is him!)

Do you know him? He is in many movies. Because he is funny, I like him.

I've heard a story about him from my host-mom in Oregon, the US. She said that he read newspaper everyday to think about the humor in society, or what phenomenon can be funny. I don't know if it's true or not, but we can say he is a genius comedian!

I believe that the first movie of Robbin Williams I've ever seen was "Flubber." At that time, I was 2nd or 3rd grade in elementary school. So I watched in Japanese of course, and I didn't know who he was. But I liked the movie. I loved the story, the musics and his acting.

When I was in 3rd grade in junior high school, I got interested in watching movies; especially comedy movies. I'll list up his movies which I've watched: "Mork and Mindy(it is a TV show)","Jumanji", "Good Morning, Vietnam", "Dead Poet Society", "Hook", "Aladdin (just voice)", "Toys", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Father's Day", "Patch Adams", "Death to Smoochy", "RV", "Man of The Year", "Night at The Museum", "August Rush", "Night at The museum:Battle of The Smithsonian."

I really recommend all of them except "RV" and "Man of The Year." "RV" is very funny and I like it, but a little bit gross... Then, I couldn't understand the sense of humor in "Man of The Year." It made me sleepy. I'll try to watch it again though.

My goal is to get Robbin's humor in the movie, "Good Morning, Vietnam." It is funny and a bit serious, but he speaks too fast to catch all words.

Please watch some of his movies! You would love it!!

The picture is from:
http://www.peopleclub.fr/rss/newspeople/3403/Robbin-Williams-opere-avec-succes.html

#7 What am I thinking now??

I'm thinking about today's lunch because I'm so hungry...
Other than that, I'm thinking about the assignments to do in this week... I've just finished some reports today. But I have tons of homework still :( Why??
Anyways... Without thinking about the homework, I'm thinking about going to a cinema, or to watch DVD sometime in this month. I really wanna watch comedy movie now. Do you recommend any comedy movies, or any movies? Oh, I recommend "Bruce Almighty." It's funny, interesting, and good!