my favorite tennis player

Today, I would like to talk about my favorite tennis playerMy favorite person is Marat Safin. He is professional tennis player. Have you seen his tennis? It is very good and I can feel his passion. I like his powerful tennis, I like his play style and I like his attitude when he is playing tennis.I like his powerful tennis. His service is not only its fast, it is also heavy. His body balance creates powerful shots. He also can hit very strong volley.　Volley is when you hit the ball before it bounces. He won some of the grand slam title with his services, strokes and volley.I like his attitude. He always get angry when he misses the ball. He throw racket to ground. I don’t think it is good. But it is very coolRight now his ranking is very low. Probably he is injured. I hope some day he will get better and play wonderful tennis.My favorite player is marat Safin but If I could be some one else, that person will be Rafael Nadal. I have three reasons why I’d want to be him. One is that he is the number one tennis player in the world. He is almost unbeatable in tennis. So I’d want to become him and know how it feels to be number one. His play is very wonderful and everybody cheers for him every time he does a great performance, so I also want to feel that. Another reason is that there are four big tournaments in the tennis world. Every player who has won the tournament cries. So that means that tournament is so big for the tennis payer. Rafael Nadal wins most of those tournaments this year, so if I could be him, I could feel how it feels to win the tournament. Last reason is that Rafael Nadal has won many tournaments and he has lots of money, so if I could be him I might play all day long using his money. I think it would be great to become Rafael Nadal. You could play tennis very well; you could use lots of money. But I don’t think I want to become him forever. I like myself.

florida

Florida is great place. Nice weather, good people and lots of fun. 2nd day of Florida, we went to Magic kingdom. Magic kingdom is a place where the huge castle is located. When I went there, I felt like I finally came to Disney world. We walked around there. There were lots of shops which were pretty fun. I met Donald duck. He was cute. We rode on Splash Mountain. I got wet but it was very fun. At night, we went to Epcot again to eat dinner. We ate at French restaurant. It was little bit expensive but tasted very good. Third day, we all went to animal kingdom. There were lots of animal there. Then the next day, we went to universal studio. It wasn’t fun as Disney world but it was pretty good. I had lots of fun at Disney resort. I wish I could go there again.

florida

I went to Florida last week. It was great. Today, I would like o talk about the Florida trip. We left Keio last Monday. I woke up at 4:00 am because we had to leave at 4:45 am. It was very early but I was very excited. We went to New ark airport. I have never been to that airport before. Even though it was very early in a morning, there were lots of people there. I checked in with my friends so I get to sit with my friends. It took about 2 hours to get to Orland. I couldn’t sleep in airport because I was too excited. We went to hotel. Our hotel was located in Disney resort. It was very nice hotel. As soon as I left my things in a room, we went to place called typhoon lagoon. It was a huge pool with many attractions. The weather was not good. We played with water slides and I swam with a shark. It was pretty cool. The weather was too cold for me to enjoy. I wished the weather was better. That day, we also went to place called Epcot. Epcot is a place where many country’s traditional foods and things are there. It was very big place. They had nice souvenir shop. We had dinner at Japanese restaurant. I ordered Tonosama combination. Tonosama combination is made up of Gyudon and Teriyaki don and Tempura. It wasn’t bad but it tasted like Daido’s Gyu don. At 9:oo, the fire work had began. But we had to leave because we had time limit to go back to hotel. This is what I did in a first day. I will tell you more about them next time. See you

politics

I have learned about terrorism in political thought class. Japan might be in danger. May be other country will attack. There are lots of terrorism attacks that Japan should be aware of. I will talk about what is dangerous for Japan and what should Japan do to respond to them.
The threat from domestic terrorist group is very big to Japan. In the past, there was a attack from the Japanese religious group. Thirteen years ago, Aum Shinrikyo ha s released a Sarin gas in to Tokyo subway. Aum Shinrikyo is religious cult obsessed with the apocalypse. They release a Sarin gas in a rush hour so it damaged a lot. It killed twelve people and sent more than 5000 people to the hospital. This attack was biggest terrorist attack so far in the modern history in Japan. How they brought Sarin gas to the subway is, one of the Aum Shinrikyo’s member had put Sarin gas in to the bottle and left them in the subway. Eventually, it leaks and damaged a lot. What should Japan do is that first Japan should destroy all religious group that considered dangerous. To do this, Japan has to make their information technology better. By making the technology better, Japan could get a lot of information from many places. That way, we might prevent the terrorist attack. Also, Japan’s government should make subway’s security stronger. Sarin gas was brought in to subway because the security person thought the Sarin gas was just bottled water. By making security stronger, it might disturb privacy. But we have to take a risk to prevent a terrorist attack. All the terrorist attack form the individual happens suddenly. What we can do is that either prevent the terrorist destroy the group or make the security stronger. When the terrorist attack happens, what is important is that how fast the government gets the help. Attack form Al Qaeda is very fearful to Japan. Al Qaeda had attack world trade center in 2001. It damaged US a lot. It killed lot of people. If Al Qaeda attacks Japan, same thing as US will happen to Japan. Japan has lot of tall buildings so Al Qaeda attack city like Shinjuku, it will kill many people. This shouldn’t happen. Japan should be aware. When Al Qaeda crushes to the buildings in Japan, Japan’s government has nothing to do except for getting the help fast as possible. If Al Qaeda attacks Japan in different way like attack with army, Japan should get help from other country to defend Japan. What is really important is that way to prevent the attack. Japan should show Al Qaeda that Japan is neutral with problem with Al Qaeda and US. This might make US little angry but Al Qaeda might stop the attack to Japan. Al Qaeda doesn’t kill anyone with no reason.
What is the biggest fear for Japan is the nuclear attack from other country like North Korea. When North Korea shoots a nuclear bomb, it only takes a few minutes to hit Japan. Way to respond to this is I think Japan should get from the US. Japan should ask US to shoot down the nuclear bomb with US’s missile. I can’t think of any other way to respond nuclear bomb attack. Or what Japan could do is make a peace treaty with country that have nuclear bomb. In that way Japan might prevent the nuclear attack.
I think what is important for Japan to do to save Japan’s life is by preventing the attack. They are only few things that Japan could do when the attack happens. But there is lots of thing that Japan could do to prevent the attack. Japan should re think about way to respond with other group or other countries.

Iran

Have you ever visit Iran? Iran is located in the Middle East and people say it’s very dangerous country because in the news, people are saying Iran has a nuclear bomb and it is next to Iraq so people think Iran is very dangerous. I also had those images. I have been to Iran six or five years ago. And since that, my image had changed completely and I have learned many things at there.
When my parents told me that we are going to Iran, I was very scared and worried because I don’t have good image of Iran. My image was very dangerous country and I thought Iran was having war every time. So that’s why I was very scared. It was very long journey to Iran. It wasn’t that long but it felt it like it will take forever. Some guy took us to house and it was so huge. They had tennis court and swimming pool so it was really big. There were few people at my house who worked for us. I was first very scared of them because they were from Iran and looked very scary but they were so kind to me. So it was very comfortable living there. Not only people who worked at my house were kind. All the Iranian people were kind. Every time I go to shopping, people started to talk to me like “hi” or “how are you? Some times their English is not so well but they tried to talk to me. All the Iranian people are kind and friendly. My impression towards them had changed completely. I have learned how kind Iranian people were and I was making a mistake.
I would like to talk about school I went at Iran. It was very small school. There twenty five students in total including elementary school and junior high school. In recess, all the students play together. I couldn’t believe that because in Japan, I was playing with my age group so it was unbelievable. But time goes on and I was getting use to it. It was actually fun playing with younger people and older people. I took care of younger people and it was tough but it was good experience. My school life at there was really nice even though there were only twenty five people at school. I have learned that taking care of people is really hard and you can have fun even your friends are different than your age.
Iran was very different from my first image. You won’t know that country if you don’t go to that country. Even though the impression of the country is bad, you won’t know until you go there. The country might be very good for you. So this is what I have learned from my journey to Iran.

this summer

Let me tell you what i did this summer for this years's season. This summer I went to tennis camp. I have run more than three miles every day. First time I run, I got tired very fast. But when I get use to running for many miles, I didn’t get tired very fast. First day of the camp, I run eight miles. I didn’t run that long distance so I got muscle pain very badly. I couldn’t even sleep. I had that muscle pain for long time. It was painful to play tennis with I having muscle pain. But when I was cured from muscle pain, I could run like as if I had wing to my feet. When I was in camp, I didn’t forget to eat three times a day. I realize how important to eat three times a day. If I didn’t eat breakfast, I couldn’t run to the court. If I didn’t eat lunch, I couldn’t play tennis well. And if I didn’t eat dinner, I can’t wake up. So eating three times a day is very important. I improved toughness in this camp.
In summer I was very careful about what I was eating. I always ate vegetable and fruit. I ate lot of good food like meat, ice cream and more. It is not good to eat only eating this stuff. So I ate vegetable and sweet at last.
I was very healthy at summer. So i had good summer for preparing.

before the season

Before the season, I will improve my body strength. If I had muscular body, I don’t get injured much and I can use that strength for season sport. Or if I got bullied from another people I could fight back.
To build my muscle strength, I have to train. I will go to weight room four times a week. I will lift dumbbell for arm and my shoulder. I will also train my stomach muscle. I can’t keep training forever. I have to put rest in each session of training. I won’t just train at weight room. I will also train in my room. Push up and other training. What I also have to be careful is what I eat. I have to think about balance. I can’t just eat meat or greasy food. I also have to eat vegetable and fruit. Of course I can’t just eat vegetable and fruit. I have to keep balance. These are the thing that I have to do to train my self.
This year’s goal is to lift 100 pounds. To do that, I have to what I said in the beginning. If I get to do that, I could lift 100 pounds. I don’t want to be person who cannot stick to anything.

snow

It snowed yesterday. I was wondering about snow. What is snow? The definition of snow is, water frozen into soft white pieces that fall from the sky in cold weather and cover the ground. It is very beautiful to watch snow falling. I can’t believe that small pieces of snow piled up. My father is from Hokkaido. Hokkaido is northern part of Japan. So it snow pretty much. Buildings in Hokkaido are little bit different from buildings in Tokyo. The roof of house leans slightly. Why they do that is because if they do that, snow will come of from the roof. People in northern part of the world are really smart. They know how to survive. I have lots of thing to learn from them. Snow has shapes. The shape of snow is very magical. From our eyes, it looks like small circle piece but it really a one beautiful shaped object. Sometimes, snow entertains us. We could play with snow, we could make something like snow man with snow, and we could ski with the snow. I like skiing. My father is very good at skiing so sometimes, he takes me to go on skiing with him. I’m not bad at skiing but not good as my father. When we were living in Japan, he took me to Niigata to go on skiing. In Niigata they have very nice place to ski.
I like winter season. But what I really like is spring season because spring is not that cold and not that hot. it’s really nice.

4 day weekend

we had 4 day weekend. what i did was play tennis on saturday and sunday. i didn't go out. i had lot things to study like politics, english and more. but i didn't studied them. i just stayed in my room and just playing games and looking at some movie. i saw movie called "red cliff". this movie is based on story from ancient china. the movie was awesome. there were so many people in the movie. the scene where they had war was incredible. it was very cool. i prefer this movie. on monday, it sonwed. it piled up pretty much. i had nothing to do that day so i went outside with few friends and played. it was pretty fun. i had fun this weekend. i am sad that we have school tomorrow. 

spring

February is almost over. Next week will be March. I like spring season because it is not that cold and it is no that hot. Also tennis is in spring season so I like it. It is almost season for graduation. I haven’t decided which course I’ll take in university. I have to make decision in few months. But now, I’ll think about things that are nearby. This week we have four days weekend because of entrance exam. Some of the students go to ski trip. I will stay in keio and enjoy the weekend. I don’t have any plan for the weekend. I will just rest for while.

i pod

Today, I would like to talk about I pod. I think I pod is one of the greatest invention that human created. I pod is getting better each year. I pod is getting smaller each year but quality doesn’t fall down. You can watch video with small I pod. I thin it is very interesting. Even though the size of I pod is getting smaller, capacity of I pod is getting better. You can put more than thousand songs in I pod nano. I’m very surprised with it. Recent years, apple had created I pod touch. You touch the screen and do everything. I have no idea how they are doing that. Evolution of I pod is unbelievable. I have no idea what will happen in next few years.
Right now I am using I pod classic. Capacity of my I pod is 80 GB. So I think it can put more than ten thousand songs in it. I have 5260 songs and 12 videos in my I pod. I love my I pod because I put my favorite songs. I use my I pod any time I’m bored. I listen to music in between the class. Sometimes, I use I pod while I’m running. I pod is very useful. I feel comfortable when I am using I pod. I am glad that apple created the I pod.

nico nico

There is website called nico nico douga. This site is something like a YouTube. Difference is that you can make a comment and the comment will show up on the screen with the movie. It is interesting to see movie with comment. Everyone in the world makes a comment. Someone say good thing about the movie and someone say bad things about the movie. In the nico nico douga, there are more otaku kind of movie is posted. It is very fun to watch it. Someone posts the movie of someone playing a game. They have lots of that kind of movie. every body should chek it out

weekend

last weekend, i went to kalbi house with cross country team. we went there by school bus. we went there with about 20 people. that included coach. Kalbi house has very good kalbi. we sit in a group. i sit in group of six. we ate a lot of things. we ate Kalbi, bibimba, yukke and more. it cost me $80. it was unbelievable. i only got $15 in my pocket so i have to get money from the bank. after we went to cafeteria in keio. at there, cross country team gave senior a present. i was happy with the present. so after that, we annouced the new captain of the cross country team. then we came back to our room. soon, my friends asked me to go out for dinner. i was full but i went with my friends. first we went to Daido and bought some food. then we went to cheesecake factory. but cheese cake factory was full of people so we couldn't go there. so we decided to go to outback. i couldn't eat that much because i ate Kalbi in the noon so i only ate salad. it was very good. it was almost 7:00 when we came back. i had very fun today. monday was holiday. i think it was president day or something. i didn't d anything special. i played tennis and that is about it. but i enjoyed playing tennis so it was fun. i enjoyed this weekend. see you next time

February

February had started. We will almost be graduated. I have feeling of want to be graduated and go back to Japan. I also have feeling of don’t want to graduated and enjoy more high school life. But my feeling is no the matter. Time will go on and eventually, I will be graduated. Right now, I shouldn’t think about what will happen in the future. I have to think about what I should do now. That is what is important.
Last weekend I had tennis match. We lost in consolation match but it was very good experience. I watched the final of tournament. They played incredibly good. I wish I could play like them. We lost the match but we understood what we have to do before the season. I will improve more by the time we play in spring season. By the way, our tennis coach for Keio came yesterday. I don’t know why he came but he was talking with our captain. Spring season is nearby. I feel excited because I get to pay with many people who are from other school. I also feel scared because this is my last season for playing tennis in high school. So if I lose in the tournament, that would me my last game and I don’t want to end it so I feel scared. But, I will enjoy playing.
Today, the grade report will be passed out. I don’t think it is that bad. I didn’t do badly in the exam so my grade should be better than last quarter. I think 12th grade is easier than 10th and 11th grade. I think that is because in 11th grade, we had physics and in 10th grade, we had chemistry. Those kind of subject lower my grade a lot. But 12th grade, I could get more than average in the exam. So it is easier. I think I am enjoying the senior year of Keio. I will enjoy more.

tennis

Last Saturday, I played in tennis tournament. That tournament is done by Japanese society. Most of the players are Japanese but there are some foreigners. I played doubles in that tournament. In a 1st round, we played against 2nd seed players. One of the players was from India. He was professional tennis player in India when he was young. He was very good. His ball was very fast. His partner’s name was Japanese but he was American. He was also very good player. We lost to them in 6-1. So we went to consolation match. Consolation match is for tournament for people who lost in 1st round. We won the 1st round of the consolation match so we moved on to next round. We thought we could play another round in that day but the time was around 10:30 pm so we will play next round this Saturday. I can’t wait to play. By the way, Nadal had won the Australian open this year. He played against Federer in final. I hoped for Federer’s victory but Nadal had beaten him. He played beautifully. He might win the all the grand slam title this year. Nadal is very young. He had bright future. He will improve more and become better player. But, I hoped for Federer’s comeback. I hoped for Federer to win in a French open title. He won 3 of the grand slam title so what he needs is French open title. I hoped for Federer to win in that tournament strongly. Nadal is winning French open title 4 years in a row. So it is very hard for him to win the French open title but I still wish for Federer to win the title. I watched Australian open in a TV almost every day. I saw lots of good match. My favorite is Men’s semifinal played by Nadal against Fernando Verdasco. Verdasco is my one of the favorite player. I like way he plays. The content of the match was very exciting. They both played very well. The match went to final set. In final set Verdasco mad few mistake and Nadal had won the match. The match took more than five hours. It was longest match in Australian open history. I enjoyed watching the game. I wish I could play like them. Well, that is almost impossible though. They are top player. They worked very hard to become top player. They experienced lots of things and become top player. They didn’t become top player by only playing tennis. They run a lot and did much training. Their speed and strength is unbelievable. What I can do right now is train hard and prepare for tennis season. I have to play good in tennis season so I will train hard. I hope I could win a match as many as I can.
See you.

end of the exam

last week was exam week. it was verytough week. i only slept about 3 hours everyday. i didn't do bad. i tried my best. when the exam was over i was so happy. for the weekend i didn't do anything besides tennis. i had nothing to do so it was kind of boring but i enjoyed it. i went to whiteplains in saturday. i went to Daido and bought some food. after that, i went to target and bought some water. when i went back to keio, i immediately go to bed. i was so tired with all the exam. i didn't do anything in sunday. i only played tennis in the morning and watched some tennis match on television and that's all. i enjoyed the weekend.
today, school was closed because of snow. i was happy when i heard that school was closed. i was so surprised that i couldn't think of anything i can do. so i went to bed. i slept more than 10 hours today. it was boring day but i get to rest. so it was very nice. i wish there will be more snow day.

it is snow

last weekend, i went to shopping with my friends. the weather report said it will snow about 15 inches so teachers told us we shouldn't go but we went to the shopping. it wasn't snowing that much but it snowed later. we went to apple bee first. i ate brewtus burger. it was very good. i wish i could eat those kind of things everyday. by the time we went out side of apple bee, it was snowing very strongly. we decided to go to Daido by walking. it was really tough to go to Daido by walking. in Daido, i bought Shiokara. Shiokara is spicy squid. it is very good. if you eat it with rice it is unbelievably good. i also bought some drinks. after that i wanted to go buy tennis shoes so we went to sportech. we went there by taxi. taxi driver was very kind. we had funny conversation with him. he waited us when i was buying tennis shoes. he was very kind. i bought nike tennis shoes. it was little big for me but i liked it. after i bought tennis shoes, we went back to keio. when we went back to keio, snow was piled up. it was very beautiful. snow hasn't been melted yet. it became ice. snow is very hard right now. lake in keio become ice. i think we can walk over the lake. i like snow but i don't like cold weather. i wish spring would come fast. see you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy new year.

i came back to keio last Sunday. i practiced almost everyday in winter vacation. i think i had improved. i missed my friends in winter vacation so i was happy that i met my friends in Sunday. i got many souvenir from friends. i got lots of Japanese food. i was very happy. in Sunday, i had lots of homework to do by Monday so i stayed up late to finish my homework. i would've than the homework in the vacation but i was so busy playing tennis so i couldn't do it. of course i had free time in vacation but i spend that time for resting. i heard lots of fun stuff that my friends did over the vacation. i was so jealous. i wish i had gone to Japan.

new year had started. this year i wish i could raise my grade. next year i am going to keio university so i have to study a lot to go to university. this year i also like to improve my tennis skill. this year is my last year of playing high school tennis so don't want to end the year regretfully. so those are my goal for this year. i wish 2009 will be a great year.

see you