I had a great time in America. When I first came here, I wanted to go back to Japan because I couldn't get used to American life, food and culture. However, recently, I don't want to go back to Japan because I like
MFWI and American life. I experienced all kinds of events here. I have a lot of remembrances of my life in America. I would like to introduce 3 awesome things among them all.
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| Funny host brother, Zion !! |
One marvelous thing for me was home stay. At first, I was so nervous to meet my host family but my host family is very friendly, kind and cheerful so I enjoyed talking with them. During home stay, my host family took my roommate and I to a lot of places, for example,
the Spokane River, Church and our host grand mother's house. All of these were new for me so I could enjoy them. Besides we ate delicious food. We went to
Huckleberry's Natural Market to eat a tasty omelet and we went to
The Old Spaghetti Factory to eat luscious Italian dishes. We also made a lot of food at home for example, tacos, banana flitters, cinnamon rolls and cookies. I had never cooked them so I was excited. In addition, host sister and brother were very very powerful and cheerful kids. Whenever they go outside, they run at full speed. I like their childish character. My host mother's boyfriend is tender person. He is an Italian chef so he always cooks delicious food for us. Of course, my host mother also is great person. She speaks slowly that we can understand easily and she tells us a lot of interesting history of Spokane or America. I love my host family because they do us a good turn. I'm glad I met my host family. Someday, I want to meet them again.
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| Delicious nabe |
I also really enjoyed fantastic group activity in tutorials with my group members and our RA. The tutorials take place an hour each weekday except Fridays and we can decide what we'll do during those time. I would like to introduce 3 activities which stand out in my mind. First, we made and ate delicious nabe. Nabe is famous and traditional Japanese food which we usually eat in winter. Almost all Japanese like this food. It's easy to make because we only put tofu, Chinese cabbage, chicken meat, and sausage in boiled water. After boiling them up, we ate them with ponzu-sauce. Of course the taste was great. I was satisfied that we could make Nabe in America. Next, we played educational board games in our dormitory. There are a lot of English games for learning new vocabulary in
Kusaka Library so my RA choose interesting games and we played them. American games are very amusing so I like them. During the tutorial time, we have to use English only so we also could improve our English skill. Finally, my most exciting activity was
Laser Quest downtown. It's an attraction in which we shoot other people with laser gun and we hide behind walls to protect ourselves from other people who want to shoot us. We wear a protective clothing vest which reacts to the laser for example, if the laser hits my body, I can't shoot other people for few seconds. In Japan, there aren't such games so I was interested in it. I think it was really really great attraction. I like tutoriasl because we could do a lot of activities which we can't experience in Japan. I had a valuable time during tutorials.
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| My great RA, Nayeli and me ♥ |
The most impressive experience is to spend a lot of time with my RA, Nayeli. She always helps me to improve my English skill. When I didn't know some English words, she translated the words into other words. Then she tries to use them in daily conversation because I can remember them easily. I could remember many words due to her. Moreover, she was worried about me when I was distressed about TOEIC test and my stress. TOEIC test is one of the most important events for me in this semester. I was very nervous before and during the test so I couldn't study and I was tired. Everyday I cried because I was suffered from my stress. Then she asked me that how to refresh my mind and she invited to me to take a walk. We walked and made an exploration around our class room and Commons in MFWI for about 2 hours. I truelly enjoyed with her. After that, I could change my mind and I had energy to study. I am thankful for her help. In addition, I like her character. She is very smart and firm then again she is a curious person and she has a child's mind so I was unwearied. Maybe, I'll miss her when I go back to Japan because we talked for long time everyday. However, I'm happy I met her. Thank you Nayeli for giving me a lot of memorable things. She is my best friend and I respect her!
I have had a lot of awesome memories until now. I learned not only to study English but also American culture, people, food and so on. These memories are precious for me. In addition, I think that I want to learn English more deeply. I feel lonely thinknig about going back to Japan because I think that MFWI is my 2nd home. I want to express my gratefulness to my parents because they gave me a wonderful opportunity to learn in America. I'll never forget these super great experiences.
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