Essay 1-01: Letter to my host family

Hello! Let me introduce myself. My name is Rina Takamoto, and I am a girl. Please call me Rina. I am 21 years old, and I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University (KGU). I have been living in Kumamoto city for 21 years. By the way, do you know where Kumamoto prefecture is? Kumamoto is a prefecture in the center of the Kyushu region. Kumamoto prefecture is very beautiful place to visit. Also, Kumamoto Castle and Suizenji Park are very famous for sightseeing. Many tourists visit these places. When you visit Kumamoto in the spring, you can see many cherry blossoms. There are many kinds of delicious food in Kumamoto. Especially, horse-meat sashimi, Taipien, dago-jiru, ikinaridango, and Karashi renkon are very delicious. Karashi renkon is very spicy, so I have never eaten it.

Next, I will introduce about my family. There are five people in my family. My father is a police officer, and he works every day at Aso police station. He always smokes. However, my father does not give up smoking. I wish he could stop smoking. He is very strict, but I like him very much. My mother works at a community center near the elementary school where I went to. She is very good at cooking and sewing. I like miso soup, nikujaga, curry and rice, and cream stew which my mother cooks. I have an older brother. He is a radiologist. He works at Kumamoto Saiseikai hospital. He is very kind to me. He likes driving and traveling. My older sister-in-law is a nurse. She is very kind to us, too. She gives birth to a baby soon. I am looking forward to it. She got married last May.

Thank you very much for inviting me. I have really wanted to go to many places for a long time, so I am very exciting. I really want to go to Victoria, Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. I have some questions to ask you. How many people are there in your family? How many children are there in your family? Do you have any pets? What kind of pets?

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