I went to NYC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was amazing city!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm from Tokyo so New York City was much familiar to me than Toronto. High high high buildings and busy people with Starbacks(but they were very kind). I don't have enough time to write down everything becasue I'm packing now. My room is now disaster...so I'm ganna write down some other day about my trip(maybe kkk)

Don't say good-bye...

As you know, I'm going to go back to "home" soon. I can't imagine I have spend half an year in Canada. 6 months ago, when I came here, I really regreted that I came here. No friends, no family, no boyfriend... too much pressture, too much English and too much ice-cream. BUT!!!!!!!!! This 6 months changed me a lot.

I have become little bit mature.

I noticed the importance of family, friends and boyfriend.

My English has been improving a lot(I still need hard work, though).

I became able to handle bunch of things.

and so on and so forth...

I'm not ganna cry becasue I want to say bye with big smile.

I'm sure I will really miss my friends and Canada... little bit teachers as well.

Don't forget me everyone!!!!!!!!

I won't forget!!!!!! How can I forget!!!!!

If I have free time, I ganna keep writing this blog so please visite me sometimes!!!!!

Don's classmates are for free!!

Thank you all your help.

xoxo

Ayana Moriwaka (森若　綾菜)

Farewell Party

I had a big party on Saturday night.

After this session, a lot of Japanese students (includeing me) who are very kind, funny and beautiful will go back to Japan, so our common friends held a big farewell party with approximate 20 people. We went ot a Mexican food restaurant in downtown, but it was very defficult to order because most of the name of the plate were written in Spanish. Therefore, my table decided to order the top two dishes in each section. They were very delisiouse!!!

I took a lot of lot of pictures with my friends. At the end of the party, one girl standed up and asked to pay attension for second. I had no idea what was going to happen. She asked people who is going to leave YUELI to line up, so I joined the line.She gave a little speech to each of us and gave us a present which I wanted ot buy before I leave.I didn't ecpected this so I was so surprised and it made me cry.

Seriousely, I wish I could stay in Canada little bit more. I can't imagine I'm going to go back to Japan. I could spent presiouse time in here thanks to all of my friends. I won't forget them forever!! How I can forget!!!! This 6 months was...is the most briliant time in my life. I really really appreciate my friends, teachters, homesay mom and my parents. I'm so happy and I'm so sad...

One thing that I decided is to say "SEE YOU" insted of saying "GOOD BYE" when the time I really have to say so. I hate to say good bye to my friedns. It sounds really sad isn't is?

Please don't forget me!!!!!! I will not forget you!!!!!!!!!!

Toronto Island!!!

I went to Toronto Island with my friends!!That was my first time to go there so it was awesome!!!! I was so excited!!




After we finished shcool on Thursday, we went to there with lunch. We planned to go to the Toronto Island on Wednesday,but unfortunately, the weather was terrible so we decided to go on Thursday. When we arrived at the place where we can board on the ship, there were already full with people and they were all excited a lot. I found one dog when we waited the boat. I love animals so I asked her owner to let me pet her. He allowed willingly. Not all god owners but, a lot of dog owners are very kind. I believe that dogs effect people a lot. They makes me happy if you like them, though. This dog was very funny. According the owner's story, she always gets scared when she boards the boat, and I knew what did that mean. We sat next each other and we was chatting little bit. But soon after the boat moved we couldn't chat any more. The dog started to screaming and jumpping!!!!! She was really really cute. The owner spent whole boyage to made the dog calm.

After we had our lunch, we moved to the nice garden and the beach. It was beautiful. We played a lot on the beach untill the sky dyed beautiful orange colour. I rearlly regreted why I didn't go there before!! I wish I would go again....

Life in Canada

I met one very very old linkled-face plump Italian grandma. She lives in near my homestay house and sometimes, I see her on the way to go back to my house. We know each other's face and naturally, we have started to greet each other.She always sits outside when the weather is good, and watches pedestoriands or knites someting. Every day, I enjoy imagine something about her background.



Two weeks ago, we finally had a cnversation. She knited something very beautiful. We greeted each other as usual, and she asked me something. However, at that time, a TTC bus passed us with huge noise which sonded like an old tired elephant. I walked in a drive way and stand beside her. She asked me a lot of questions and I also asked many questions. She came to Canada 35 years ago. Although her English sonded much more like Italian, I could understand becasue my homestay mom also comes from Italy and mom has strong accent.



When I told her I was studing English, she said "Keep doing. Keep doing. Don't worry. Your English is already good. Keep doing. Things will be fine." in very slow tempo.



That was very good lesson. I always worried about something too much; however, her words which had a power made me feel easy. Sometimes, I have a difficulty to have a conversation with staranger(I hate the first day of the school), but I can have a nice chat after I get used to the person. Although I face a very difficult stuation, it is very important not to worried too much and keep doing which I should do.


I felt like I saw the plump old grandma's life in her very linkled-face. Her gentle smiling face was very impressive. I haven' t had chance to talk with her since then. I hope I can meet her again before I will go back to Japan.

First Impression

I had a great time with our classmates and Don on Friday!!!!!!!!

Don's daughter was extremly cute!!! I wanted to bring her back with me!!!

His wife and her friends were speaking all together with smiling face and they were all very gaiety.One thing that I was surprised is Don had a mustache before. He looked very differen person!! Definitely, people can change their impression easily. Why don't we prepare our good impression just in case of the time when we bumped into a nice gorgeouse rich guy or girl on the street.

People can easily change their first impression to wear nice fancy clothes, to put make up, and to shave or grow mustache. However, I think this strategies for a visual person. If a person who meet you is the feeling or sound person, this nice looking strategy doesn't work efficiantly. So what can we do? Boothman says people judge others in 90 seconds. we don't have enoght time and we need a lot of experience to be able to figure the person out which kind of person is this; however, I came up with this idea. Smile a lot!!!(but don't over do it becasue it looks shilly) I think this is the best strategy. The smiling face can be attracted by visual person. The sweet cheerful voice effects sound person. This haapy feeling grab the feeling person's heart.

Once I saw a TV program which says when people feel sad and happy, the face expression is completely same in all kinds of race. I believe that if I smile a lot, the person srounding me become also happy and start to simle; therefore, I always want and try to be positive (this is my mom's lesson, thogh).

I think we don't need to be liked by all people because ever person has different tates. Somethims, I could not understand other people. That's fine because we are different person; however, it's better to accept the difference. What's the key point whether I can accept or not? I think the first impression play important role. I have a friend who glared me when we first met (I don't know why). She is accturally nice person, and now we are friends, but sometimes I can't accept her and feel very tired when I stay with her. I have another friend who smiled me and had a great time when we firts met. We are very different, but I can accept hers different opinion.

I think smiling startegy is very good because it works not only the first time. If we laugh a lot, it also can help to keep good relationship. So...Let's smile a lot!

Wonderful day!!

On Wednesday afternoon, I played badminton with my friends!!!!!! Accutualy, I and Chinese friend planed to go to Toronto Island but a weather forcast had said it was going to be rain on that day so we changed our plan. My friend brought two rackets and shuttlecocks, and we crossed our finger, "Come on sunshin!!!!! Don't be shy!!!!!!!" because Just before we played, it was terribly raining. Fortunatelly, after we ate our lunch, the sun came out! The grass was still wet, but I took off my shoes and played a lot!!

When we played it, suudenly my friend found some mashrooms which looked like the picture on the top. It looks like a toadstool doesn't it?? I never seen such a very very red mashroom before so I was really really surprised!!!!! I think it was a very similar mashroom which appears in the fairy tale. Don't you think so???Anyway, we played a lot, a lot. Now I have a muscular pain!!!!

When we played, one girl walked toward us and spoke to my friend. She was a my friend's classmate. When I talked to her, her English was perfect and she spoke with beautiful intonation. She was just sounded like native speaker. I was little bit jealouse with her because she said she was a new level 6 student in YUELI. However, soon, I figured it out she was a native. Right after I knew that she was native, my jealousy turened into confidence, because I could understand completely what she said. Before, I couldn't understand what the native were saying outside of the class when they spoke to me. But I guess I could understand this time it was just becasue we just had usual super common greeting conversation.

I can't feel my speaking and listening is improving. My seminer, pronounciation class teacher thaught me one thing. You can't understand what the native are saying becasue you don't speak or undertsatnd how they are really speaking. Once you get the point how they speak, you can understand well, even if you still have pronouciation problem. Sometimes I feel so guilty becasue I asked again and again and again. "Sorry?? Perdon?? Excuse me?????" I think I don't have enough experience with native speakers who are not relating to English education.

One more month, I really want to fix this problem, but what can I do??