My Favorite Pianist Fujiko Heming

  My favorite Pianist is Ingrid Fuzjko Von Georgii-Hemming who is difficulty in hearing. She can use only her left ear. Furthermore, she can’t use sixty percent of her left ear, but she can play the piano wonderfully.

  She was born in Berlin. Her father is Swedish, and mother is Japanese. She didn’t have her nationality, so she couldn’t study abroad when she was high school student. In1961, she could study abroad to Berlin. She learned the piano by Paul Barula Skoda and Bruno Madetna in Europe. Unfortunately, she lost her hearing before her recital.

  She doesn’t care to strike the wrong keys of the piano, but her performance is amazing. I especially like the song “La Campanella” played by her. I was impressed by her performance when I was elementary schoolchild, thus I practiced hard the song. Today, I can play the song, but I can’t play the song like her. I want to play like her! 

By Maiko

Miel

  In Japan, I was not belonging to any club of my college. At first, I wanted to join some clubs and enjoy doing activities. I looked for some clubs with my friends but there is nothing that looks fun for us. Then, I decided to make a club by ourselves.

  We wanted to do something new and we like eating. So we decide to make a café club that is called “miel.” Miel means honey in France. That activity is simple. We gather twice of month and hold meetings. At first meeting, we search for some nice café that is close to our university. Next time, we go to there and eat delicious deserts!
  Last January, we went to Café caffon in Tokyo. These deserts and interior were so great! I ate chiffon cake. We enjoy chatting and taking a photo. I’m glad to make such a great club!

Little Miss Sunshine

  Little Miss Sunshine is one of my favorite movies. This is story about one family that has a lot of problems.
  Sheryl Hoover is a mother of two children. Richard is a husband of her. Richard is fighting to stack the career as self education teacher such as "9 Step Program to Refuse to Lose". Eldest son Dwayne is 15 year old boy who fancies becoming air force's test pilot. He is influenced by Nietzsche and it does not speak at all as "a vow of silence" until he got his dream. Frank is a uncle who lives with the family temporarly through suicide. He is a scholar of the gay who is studying Proust. Edwin who is Richard's real father who driven out in the home for the aged because having used heroin.
  One day, Olive who is a plump daughter of Sheryl got the right to participate to the contest called "Little Miss Sunshine." However, the place to hold the contest is California. They didn't have money to go to California by air plane, thus, the family takes a yellow microbus and takes an 800 miles trip.
   I really like this movie. this movie makes me laugh and feel heartwarming. In addition, music is great. If you go to drive after watched this movie, you must be want to listen the soundtrack of Little Miss Sunshine. How about seeing this movie?

Being a Teacher

  Someone will know about my volunteer. I am a teacher and I teach Korean to Korean kids. What? Are you kidding me? No, not at all. Because probably they can understand Korean, but their writing is a little weird to people who live in Korea. So I teach them about Korea grammar. At first I was worry about that. Because my Korea grammar is poor, thus sometimes my students probably confused about my explanation. And  I thought I had to teach them use English, but I was wrong. I could use Korean because they can understand my saying. So It does not matter teach them. Also I loved teach them because I can see their improve and change their attitude to me. At first time, their grammar was poor and sometimes can not understand some Korean culture. After I teach them, they can understand Korean culture and their grammar is great!! their grade? hahaha they got 95 and 91 each of them. Isn't it great? thus I think teacher is worth job in the world.

My First Car

                When I was eighteen I bought my first car, it was amazing. I can remember everything, each detail about that day.  I was a technician in a company and I used to work all day.  For that reason I used to look for a car just only at night. One day I asked to my father for his help, and he looks in the agencies one car for me.

                One day while I was working my father go  to  the company and asked for me, when I saw him in the parking lot, he stay inside of the car, the color of the car was  like gold,  in other words,  I love that car  since  I saw it.

                My father asked if I liked the car, and my first reaction and words was, how did he know that I like that car?  I asked to him and he say, I know you at all.

                It has not a new car but I could afford it in that time, now I have   a new car but I miss it my first car. 

By Jessica

My Favorite Sport

              My favorite sport is snowboarding which is the sport of going down snow-covered hills on a snowboard. When I was the first year at university, I played it for the first time. I thought that it is very excited sport.

              When I played snowboarding for the first time, I felt pretty scared. However, once I started playing it, I became pleasant gradually. A few hours later, I could play it, thus I felt very happy. In addition, I was fun to go up by lift because I can see a lot of people and beautiful view from it. Moreover, the view was marvelous from snow-covered mountains. However, there was also a bad thing. My all of the muscles were pain the next day, but I did it. And then,

I have a lot of memories of snowboarding. If I did not go snowboarding, I would never try it in my life because I do not want to play dangerous sports. It is pleasant for me to play snowboarding that is why I would like to go next winter!

My favorite place in U of M

I have a lot of favorite places in U of M, so I introduce some of places in it. The first one is UC. I always eat lunch there with my friends. There are many people in UC, so I feel very fine. I can hear a lot of laughter and I can see a lot of smile there. I always feel happy at UC. When I want to be lonely, I often go to parking area at the behind of library. There is so quiet, so I can be cool down and think about new idea. After class, I often go music building and to do vocal exercises, because I want to be a good singer.

When I finished vocal exercises, I walk around the music building, if so, I can listen to any kind of sounds. It from the Piano, Trumpet, singing voice, Violin, and so on. It gives me mystical mood . I know some good place to feel good in University. However, there are a lot of good places that I have never seen at the University. So I`m looking forward to find a new place that provoke my sensibility. 

By Tomohiro