I saw my friends name and the names of high schools where they passed on the wall. Many of them passed really good high schools in Japan. A boy passed Nada high school---the most difficult boy’s school in Kansai, some passed Keio high schools, Tsukuba high schools, and Waseda high schools. I was so happy to see that, and I long for time that I was in the middle school. I really miss my friends in Japan!!! I want to meet them again!! And of course I like this school very much too!!
It is April now, but it is so warm these days that I feel like summer is nearly there. Well, yesterday I visited my cram school where I’ve studied in when I was in the middle school. I was happy to visit there. There has changed a little bit. Some teacher has gone to other places, and some new teachers were there.
I saw my friends name and the names of high schools where they passed on the wall. Many of them passed really good high schools in Japan. A boy passed Nada high school---the most difficult boy’s school in Kansai, some passed Keio high schools, Tsukuba high schools, and Waseda high schools. I was so happy to see that, and I long for time that I was in the middle school. I really miss my friends in Japan!!! I want to meet them again!! And of course I like this school very much too!!
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I felt so good this week!!!! I was so happy~~!! Then I really want to hang out with my friends!!!
I want to go to People Square to take purikura, and go shopping. I often go there with my friends when I was in middle school. We first visit some accessory stores to look at cosmetics, accessories, porches and so on. Sometimes we buy them too. Then we go to Qipu Road to buy clothes, accessories, shoes, bags. Or go to pet shops to see those pretty cute lovely dogs and cats. In Qipu Road, there are so many shops that sell clothes and accessories. Their designs are all very new and fashionable. We can find some lovely clothes that we cannot find even in Japan. And of course their prices are much cheaper than in Japan. What a wonderful thing!!! The dogs and cats in pet shops are so so so~~~ cute!!! We go there just because want to see them. I love animals---especially small animals, such as dogs, cats, hamsters, and squirrel soooo~~~ much!! So it is a really happy thing for me to see them in pet shops. I also love going to amusement parks. I hope I can hang out with my friends in this school, too. I think there are many interesting places to visit in Shanghai. I love Shanghai!! What? Report cards next week?? That’s not good… I think no one loves report cards, except someone could get perfect grades in every class.
Well actually, I don’t have so many feelings about the report cards… I hope that I could get not so bad grades. If it was good, I will be very happy and be more positive and keep hard working, but if it was bad, I will fix what I couldn’t do well and study harder to be better. I think we should care about the report cards but we shouldn’t care about it too much. No matter if it was good or bad, we both should make the result as our next energy for next semester. Oh yes. Let me reflect myself a little bit… I think I wasn’t so bad in English quizzes, but I have to work harder in participations. And I will study hard for The Hobbit, the book we are learning so far. I’m a little worried about Physical Science, Social Studies, and Algebra. One of my assessments in physical science class was not so good, and the unit we are learning so far is a little difficult for me because I haven’t learned it before, algebra as well. In Social Studies, I often feel sleepy because I can’t understand what teacher means very clearly because the vocabularies are difficult. We should always care about plagiarism when we are doing our tests or homework, too. But I think I wasn’t so bad in the tests. I hope I could get my best grades in all the classes and I will review them with hard working, and I will do my best in the next semester, too!! Mr. Manno… I think I always can write over 300words when you didn’t tell us to write 300words, but I often cannot write that much words when you tell us to write. I really wonder why!! So please give us interesting topics and fewer words!!! In this book, The Hobbit, there are many characters. Bilbo, Gandalf, 13dwarves, 3trolls, elves, goblins, Gollum, human and so on… Actually, if I could be a character from chapter 1-6, I would like to be Gandalf, because there are no other better choices… I don’t want to be Bilbo who will meet such a lot of dangerous things, I don’t want to be dwarves who cannot be told about the difference between each other by readers, I don’t want to be goblins who has ugly looking and wicked heart, I don’t want to be Gollum who should live underground lonely and lose the ring. These are the biggest reason that I want to be Gandalf. He can use magic, too. He can use magic to save his teammates just like a hero. How cool!!!
Well, can you imagine how happy I was to write this 100 words blog, Mr. Manno? Please give us 100words blogs in the future!!! Oh!! 300 words again? Isn’t it too often that you give us 300 words blogs, Mr. Manno?
Well, Mr. Manno said that there is comedy tone mixed with dark and serious tone in this book---The Hobbit. Then I read so carefully again and again, and finally found it!!! Yeah!! Let me talk about chapter 5 as an example. In chapter 5, Bilbo played riddle with Gollum. I think that part is a comedy because the riddles are interesting. Who will play riddles with the dinner to decide whether eat it or help it, even you are not very hungry? That’s not really serious!! In addition, some of the answers were not really gotten by Bilbo’s own idea. The question about fish and time were this. Bilbo was so fortunately to get the answer “fish” because Gollum got out from his boat to get close to Bilbo and a fish jumped up. He also was fortunately to get the answer “time”. Bilbo wanted to say “Give me more time! Give me time!”(Page 86) when Gollum tried to get close to Bilbo for the second time, but he was too scared and “his tongue seemed stick in his mouth”(Page 86) , so he could only say “Time! Time!”(Page 86) and that was the answer… These really sound like jokes! I think the darkness and seriousness in chapter 5 is that you don’t know who will win and what will happen in the riddles, and then you will be nervous during reading this part. After playing the riddle, it was more serious. Bilbo should hide from both Gollum and goblins, and get out from the mountain. I think every reader was tense when they’re reading the part that Bilbo escaped from a lot of goblins. There were so many thrills!!! But I like this chapter!!! Dwarves…. Well, I really don’t like dwarves. They are short, they have long beards, and they have ugly looking… What’s more, they are all men!!!! They don’t have women!! In addition, I’m not so sure about each dwarf because there weren’t so many details about each of them except Thorin.
But if I really have to choose one, there are no help for it, I will choose Kili. He is the brother of Fili. They “both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag of tools and a spade.” (Page 11) They were important especially in chapter 4 because they helped their company to find a safe cave. “They had very sharp eyes and being the youngest of the dwarves” (Page 65) They are very useful. Bilbo and dwarves would not be able to find a safe place to sleep without them. Then they could only die because the rock giants. The reason why I chose Kili not Fili is because “Kili” sounds cuter than “Fili”, just my opinion haha. Actually, I don’t like Gloin so much. He is one of the dwarves, but he wasn’t friendly enough to Bilbo especially in chapter on page 21. I hope that I can know more about each dwarves. I think there are many songs in this book, The Hobbit. The dwarves sing, the elves sing, the goblins sing!!! Everyone sings except the hobbit. I can imagine that how much J. R. R. Tolkien likes songs. Though there are many songs for each race, the tones and languages are very different. Today, I would like to talk about the differences between goblin’s song and elves’ song.
First, though elves sang their song to make fun of dwarves, the tone of the song is happy and the words in the song are not bad words. There are the phrases “O! Tra-la-la-lally” “O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly” and “ha! ha!” in the song. These phrases sound a little bit silly, but their tone is happy and innocently like children. We cannot find these kinds of phrases in other songs sung by other races, and actually I really like this song better than other songs in this book because these phrases are funny. How about goblins song? There are many nasty words. “Clap! Snap! The black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab!” “Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs!” “Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat!” These phrases are all from the song of goblins on page 68. We can know that there are so many verbs about killing or hurting. How wicked they are!!! The tone of this song is wicked and terrifying too. Then I have nothing can write to reach 300 words… Aaaaaaa!!! OK, so the writer of this book, Tolkien wanted to use different kinds of languages---happy and silly languages for elves, nasty and wicked languages for goblins, to show their different tones. I think it is not easy to show different tones so clearly by songs. I will be happy if there are more songs in this book. This Qingming holiday wasn’t very happy for me. Though we didn’t have so much homework, I didn’t go anywhere. I just stayed at home to do my homework and to scowl to my computer. I felt not so good. How many times I wished I can go to school!!! Well, I wanted to hang out with my friend and go shopping or speak with my friend on the phone. I also wanted to open pierced earrings. This is a thing I have wanted to do for long time!! But I could do none of these. And I was sad because the relationship with one of my friends. I hope that I can feel better tomorrow or next week.
This Wednesday, we had Easter Day Event in our school. Easter Day is the day Jesus revived from death. We have heard about this event about a month ago but we didn’t have much time to prepare for. My class, 9B sang a song called “Abide with me.” Angela and Bill worked very well as our leader. Jenny and Jun were in charge of the music part. All of them did really well!! The only thing I wasn’t happy to do was wearing the dress. I think not only me but also all the girls in my class wasn’t very glad to wear the dresses. The dresses looked like cabbages… Well, but they made our stage effect very good. Though we couldn’t sing very loudly, we had a happy time…
The performances of grade 10, 9A or middle school students were very fantastic. Most of them performed dramas. It was so much fun in this event!!! I’m looking forward to have more interesting events like this in our school!! I'm very happy to write today's topic because this topic is my idea and I like this kind of interesting topics very much.
Have you guys ever thought about this? If you can have a magic power, what would it be? I really like these “if…” questions. It is very interesting for me to think about the things that didn’t or won’t happen in our life. Let me think about what magic I want to have if I could have a magic power. Umm… The power of reading others’ mind? No! The power of going to the past or the future? No! Actually, all I want is the power can fly in the sky!!! I’ve thought about the power of reading others’ mind or going to the past or the future before, and I think they maybe can bring me some conveniences, but they also can take joys from me. If I could read others’ mind, I would not need to talk to others because I already know what they think. I would be sad to know that someone is telling a lie to another. If I could go to the past or the future, I would be very happy to fix the mistakes I made or seeing the future of mine but just AT FIRST. I think I would be very busy to do these things and forget to live in NOW carefully, or even forget which time I’m living. Well these are just my opinions, haha:) Maybe I’ve talked too much about what magic power I don’t need… Finally, I want to have the power of flying in the sky so I can look down from very high place or I can fly to anywhere I want!!! How wonderful and much freedom it is!!! Look!! It’s 300 words already!! I’m so excited to write about this topic^^ I hope Mr. Manno will give us interesting topics like this in the future! Thank you. It was so difficult to find that elves and dwarves have any magic powers. I had to read the book very carefully and for several times to find them, but finally I found them!!
Elves have two magic powers. First, they have the power of healing. We can know that Bilbo, dwarves and their ponies grew refreshed and strong in a few days because elves’ songs. Their clothes, bruises, tempers and their hopes were mended. Their bags were not only filled with food again but also very light to carry. ‘Their plans were improved with the best advice.’---I think it means Elrond’s advice. These things were all because of elves’ songs. I think the songs elves sang are a kind of magic. Second, only elves can read rune-letters under the moon light. Even the wizard Gandalf cannot. I think this is the another magic power elves have. So, what are rune-letters? Well, they are the letters invented by dwarves and written with silver pens by dwarves. According to the book, the rune-letters ‘can only be seen when the moon shines behind them.’ But ‘it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written.’ How miracle!! I think this is the magic power dwarves have, but I can’t understand why they can’t read the letters which they invented!! Do you know who Elrond is? He is an elf. He is a little different from other elves and a little similar with Bilbo. Do you remember that Bilbo has both Baggins’ and Tooks’ blood? So does Elrond too. He has a half of human’s blood and another half of elves’.
Elrond is a chief of elves. He is also the leader of Rivendell. According to the sentences on page 58, we can know that he is a person who is ‘as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.’ His house is perfect too. You can do anything you want perfectly in his house, such as eating, or sleeping, or working, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting down to think, and so on. He is very important for Bilbo and Thorin and his company. If they haven’t been to Elrond’s home and have a rest, they would be too tired to continue the adventure. On the other hand, Elrond has a special power so he can read rune-letters---moon-letters that hobbits and dwarves, even Gandalf can’t read. The rune-letters on the map is so important that without them they can’t find the secret gate to the great mountain. So Elrond is a very important character in chapter 3!!! The chapter 3 in this book, The Hobbit, was a little shorter than other chapters. Though it’s short, there is a new kind of people called elves. Today I’m going to write the differences between elves, hobbits and dwarves, for 300 words!!! Oh, how evil you are, Mr. Manno~ ;( How can we write that much words for a topic about elves…! I’m thinking about what I can write to reach 300 words…
Okay, let me talk about today’s topic. First, Elves live in valley. According to the book, “Evil things did not come into that valley.” We can know that the valley they live, are very perfect for them. Maybe as comfortable as hobbit’s hole. Elves are not short like hobbits or dwarves. They are as tall as human like Gandalf. They don’t have beards like dwarves, and they likes to make fun with dwarves’ beards. I was a little bit surprised that elves are not short. I thought that they are shorter than hobbits and dwarves, and they have winds!! Like the elves in fairytales!! But actually they don’t have any winds and they don’t have pointed ears!!! This surprised me too. The elves in this book were much different with the elves in my head. Well, these were just about elves’ appearance. There are many differences in their behavior, values, and beliefs too. Elves like singing and dancing very much. They often sing songs and the texts of the songs are funnier and more interesting than the dwarves’. They are much more similar with hobbits than dwarves. They like peaceful life. Not to spend time to go to adventures but stay in their valley to sing songs and dancing to enjoy life. I like their life style very much!!! I would be very happy to live with them if I could. |