Essay 4: My self introduction in 2036

I want to introduce myself. It is 2036, and I am 42 years old. I live in Canada with my husband and my children. My husband’s name is Akira. He is 44 years old, and he is 3 years older than me. He is very kind to us because he sometimes buys many kinds of toys, CDs, and the others. He is a Japanese person, but he can speak English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian. He had lived in Spain, France, Germany, China, America, and Italy. He is very good at cooking, too. His job is a pilot, so he sometimes travels around the world. He doesn’t smoke, but he loves alcohol. His parents live in Kyoto.

I have two daughters and a son. Their names are Yui, Tomomi, and Satoshi. Yui is 7 years old, and she is very good at playing volleyball. She has been practicing volleyball since she was three years old. Yui also likes to play the piano. Her dream is to become a professional volleyball player. Her favorite volleyball player is Saori Kimura, Erika Araki, and Haruka Miyashita.

I also have a niece and a nephew. My niece’s name is Yumi, and my nephew’s name is Ritsuki. She is 19 years old, and she is a college student. She goes to Kumamoto University by motorcycle. Yumi likes studying English very much. But she is not good at Japanese history and old Japanese classical literature. She wants to be a cabin attendant in the future. She also likes to cook. My nephew is 16 years old. He is a high school student. He goes to Marist high school by bike. Ritsuki likes to play the guitar. He likes studying math, physics, biology, chemistry, and earth science. He wants to be a super doctor.

Tomomi is 4 years old, and she is a girl who is very much a spoilt crybaby. However, she is very affable. She is interested in electric guitar. Her favorite guitarist is Takahiro Matsumoto. The food she hates is fish, but she loves vegetables, meat, and fruits.

Satoshi is 11 years old. His dream is to become a baseball player. He always plays baseball with his friends after school. He is a member of baseball club. His position is catcher.Satoshi likes to listen to music. His favorite British artist is the Beatles. He loves Paul McCartney. He is interested in the bass guitar. He is a left-handed person, so he wants to buy a bass guitar that is left-handed. Yui and Satoshi always help me, and they sometimes take care of Tomomi.

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Earthquake in Kumamoto

After a main shock, I stayed at a grandmother's house with my family. My grandfather passed away in November last year, so she is alone now. In Ueki city, water, electricity, and the gas are usable there, too.  We couldn't take a bath because of the earthquake.  When we went to her house, we felt relieved very much. My father went for work from Ueki to Aso police station. It took 2 hours to arrive there. My mother got up early to make his lunchbox. They got up from 4:30 to 5 o'clock. My mother and I helped her. We cleaned her house, cooked meal, and went shopping. I made 100 rice balls with my mother, my cousin, and my aunt.

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My new family

On April 26th, my older sister-in-law gave birth to a baby in a hospital in Hitoyoshi. She named the baby “Yumi”, and she is a girl. I jumped out of bed hastily. She was going to give birth to a baby in Fukuda hospital in Kumamoto city, but we were very glad that a baby was born safely. On April 30th, I went to the hospital in Hitoyoshi to watch a baby with my older brother and my parents. When we arrived at the hospital, Yumi was sleeping on the bed. She was very cute, and her cheeks were very soft. I held a baby in my arm for the first time.  I thought that my parents held me in their arms when I was born. I have become an aunt. I am looking forward to my niece growing up.


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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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