Food

I have a lot of favorite food. I like Japanese food. Also, I like Korean food, Chinese food, Italian food, French food, and Spanish food, too. I like sushi, sashimi, tempura, udon, ramen, beef steak, chicken steak, pork cutlet, rice bowl topped with seafood, miso soup, omelet, fried rice, chocolate cake, cheese cake, hamburger, somen, cold noodle, curry and rice, tortilla, French fries, chicken nuggets, hashed rice, beef stew, cream stew, waffle, tacos, lasagna, spaghetti, pizza, pancakes, scrambled eggs, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, yakiniku, sukiyaki, macaroni au gratin, chicken doria, meat and potato stew, sandwiches, fried chicken, potato salad, pumpkin salad, gyoza, minestrone, quiche, and the others.

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My favorite drink

I like to drink. My favorite drink is cola, ginger ale, orange juice, apple juice, grape juice, fruit juice, cocktail, green tea, ice-cream soda, bourbon, Coke highball, tea with milk, milk, water, oolong tea, coffee, café au lait, barley tea, and whisky. I like ginger ale, but I don’t like gingers because gingers are very strong smells. I have drunk red wine once, and I challenged tequila and whisky. But I have had a hangover three years. I’m not a strong drinker, so I don’t to try it anymore. I want to challenge gin and volka someday.  Probably I cannot drink gin and volka.

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Essay 3: My treasure(s)

Hello. Today, I want to introduce my family. I have a lot of treasures, but my most important treasure is my family. There are 6 people in my family. My father is a police officer. My father goes to Aso police station by car every day, and he does the work of accounts there. He was born in 1965. He is from Ueki city. He is 50 years old, and he is very strict. He always treats me like a kid. However, he is very kind to me. He always smokes, so my mother and I tell him to stop. My father told us he would give up smoking if a grandchild was born, but he doesn’t readily give up smoking. I like my father better than my mother. My mother works at a community center near the elementary school that I went to. 

My mother is 51 years old, and she is a very charming and funny person. She is from Amakusa city. She sometimes goes to Amakusa city to take care of her grandparents, so I feel very sad when she is gone. She is very good at cooking. I like miso soup, nikujaga, curry and rice, omelet, spaghetti, cheese cake, and cream stew which my mother cooks. There are very delicious. I love them. I like her very much. 

I have an older brother. My older brother works at the Kumamoto Saiseikai hospital. He is 28 years old, and he is a radiologist. He is very smart and flexible. He treats me like a kid, too. He is as tall as my father. He graduated from Kumamoto University 5 years ago. He is good at studying, driving, and playing the guitar. His favorite Japanese artist is the B'z. I like the B'z, too. 

I have a sister-in-law, too. Her name is Saori, and she works at the same hospital. She is a nurse, and my older brother and she got married last May. She is very kind to us. I sometimes eat supper with Saori. She gave birth to a baby this April 26th. She named the baby “Yumi”. She is a girl, and she is very cute. I have become an aunt. I like my family because they are very close to each other. I don’t want them to divorce. This is my treasure. Thank you very much.

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The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

April 14th was my older brother's birthday, so my mother and I wished him LINE and Facebook. I was in my room and was listening to music at that time. I intended to take a bath after my mother.  However, on April 14, at 9:26 p.m., there was an earthquake of seismic intensity 7 in Kumamoto prefecture. We were very surprised. We jumped out of the room in a hurry. We wanted to clean our room, but we were very scared and were not able to enter the house. Several pieces of plates which I liked were broken. I was a little shocked. On the next day, my father went to work early in the morning. My mother and I cleaned our room all day. My house was able to still use water and electricity then. We have finished cleaning our room, but I played a game until midnight. We thought that the earthquake would not happen in Kumamoto prefecture. When I was going to sleep, the earthquake of seismic intensity 7 came again at 1:25 a.m.. The dish which we just put away to the cupboard was broken again. In addition, a microwave oven, computer, TV, and bookshelf have fallen down, too. We couldn't but sleep in a car. These photographs are the supermarkets where we went to go shopping well. I feel like I could cry. I do not know where we should go for shopping.  Why has an earthquake of seismic intensity 7 come twice in Kumamoto? I don’t want to think about anything and don’t want to remember that. 

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