8th week (5/31~6/6)

About 2 months have passed since we entered ICU.
I feel time passed very fast, but if I look back I feel the entrance cermony was long time ago story. May be this 2 months was thick.

This week, we reviewed argumentation and started discussing about TOMAT.

*Argumantation*
I really thank Susan teaching us very detail about argumentation.
Fallacies, syllogism, and assumption were complicated, but I think Icould understand them.
However, I still worry whether I can write argumantative writing by using or not using those skills.

*TOMAT*
I read TOMAT twice (actually, 2nd time was just skimming).
When I read first time, I couldn't grasp the image of the story. I couldn't picture each scenes in my head and I thought it was little bit boring.
However, when I read 2nd time, my image got clear and I started understanding the depth of the story.
I started to think about old man's feeling or what author want to say.
In first time, I think I was not in the story.

I heard that there are many symbolic expressions in TOMAT.
However, I can find few of them.
Did you found any of them?

And also, I thought it is important to concern about the story relating with about author.

That reminds me-
I saw a picture of Hemingway when he was young. He was handsome guy!;)
You should check it.lol

This is all for today.
Thank you for reading:)

7th week (5/21~5/28)

Augh, a lot of due of homeworks are near at hand...x(
I don't have confidence to finisi note of TOMATS by 6/4...x(

But I will do my best.


This week we learned more about argumentative writing.
We deepened understanding of logical fallacy, assumption,and so on.
However, I can't get the image of argumentative writing. I can't imagine actually how to write it.
So I want to see the whole text example of argumentative writing.
Not just one sentence example.
And as I learn logical fallacy, I recognized that I had been made many mistakes in my writing.
I'm afraid that if I write argumentative writing, I will be too careful about fallacies to write.
I will not be able to write anything.
So I think I have to used to it little by little.


Tomorrow , I have a game of AFC at Tokyo Kogyou Univrsity.
I've never seen football game live.
So I'm looking forward to see it:)

This is all for today.
Thank you for reading;)

6th week (5/17~5/21)

This week was little bit busy ^^;
I start doing manger in AFC.
It is veeeerry tough work, but I'm learning a lot.

Well, this week's study about "fallacy" was interesting, because I didn't know that there were a name of sentences or statement which is illogical and stereotyped.
And the most I ineterested in was "red herring."
I saw this word in the book called "Murder on the Orient Express" and "And Then There Were None", written by Agatha Christie.
They are series of Poirot.

In "And Then There Were None", an American traditional folk song called "Ten Little Indians" is a base of this story.
The word "red herring" appears in this song.
I think this word is the key word in this story.
If you are interested, please read this book:)

I search why "red herring" is used as this meaning.
People used red herrings in the training of hunting dogs to catch the scent of games. They used to delude dogs.

Mmmnnn, interesting:)

This is all for today.
Thank you for reading♪

5th week (5/10~5/15) retreat**

This time, I'm going to write about retreeeeaaaat!:)


I spent a full time in retreat.
In the bus, we did kind of quiz and our team won first place:)
After arriving at the hotel, we had dialog session.
Before doing this, I had thought it was such a bother. However, it was not.
We talked about why we had decided to come to university and had chose ICU.
I think everybody was talking honest feelings.
Professor in our group told us to distress or be worried about our life is very precious, because it is unable to do when we grow up.We still have a lot of time in the future.
It is delightful thing.


In the night, section mates gathered and chat for more than 4 hours!
Some were talking about love and some were just lying around.
Marie's story was very funny!
I felt Natsue and I have some common point:) (Sorry Natsue...
We were very relaxed and deepened friendship more.

We had pleasant time, I think;)<3

After chatting with section mates, I met high school friend and played cards.
We did game called mutimillionaire. And we made a rule that who put out the jack have to act like the aged from then.
It was very funny.

I went to bed 5:00am and wake up at 6:30.
Next day was veeeeeerrrrrrrrry sleepy!
I spent all his spare time sleeping.

I joined Kirigamine recreation and ate milk soft ice cream. Not vanilla. Milk.
It was very delicious!<3<3<3


I was very tired, but I enjoyed retreat!
I was retreat committee and in charge of the brochure.
It was hard work.
However, it became good memory.
I am glad to participate in the committee.


We have full days next week x(
aah , I have to decide topic of essay!
I have to do homeworks! I have to read Old Man and Sea!
I am pulled back to reality.....


byebye;)
see you Monday!

4th week (5/2~5/7)

Do we have to write a blog for 4th week??
Well, I gonna write several things.

Meiland is drawing to a close.
I think the part about an argumentative writing is different from other parts of this texts.
Because other parts are about his idea about university and argumentatitive part is more practical contents. He mentions about more detail skill.

I have to read 17~31 again, because I don't understand really.
The problem is I didn't write paraphrasing or note in the margin as I read.
I realized again that writing makes ideas clear and stable.

And I am wondering which topic to use in the essay X(
I'm going to think without haste.

Phew, retreat work tires me a lot!! :(
But I have to stick it out.

sleepy.....

Good night;)

4/27~4/30 3rd week

Oh my god. Time flies like an arrow!
I leave for Osaka(actually, Hyogo) tommorrow!
So I have to write blog now X(

In this week, we wrote ARPs of Meiland(1-10~1-12).
It was pretty hard! The most difficult thing was to make transitions fluently in paragaraphs.
I used many conjuctions to make clear connections between ideas.
However, I used a conjuction to make sentences one paragraphs in which I have to divide into two paragraphs.
And fatal mistake was my topic sentences was not at the beginning! I think I didn't recognize cleary what I wanted to discuss. That's why it happened. It is very important to make clear what is discussed about.
I'm going to look over again these mistakes and polish ARP :)

Concerned Meiland1-12~1-17, I thought it wasn't easy to read. The contents were philosophical.
I remember that I heard the word of Socrates in RCA,too. I think Scrates is a person who is indispensable for scholarship.
And there are many similarities between what Morgan and Meiland says. They are very interesting, but they confuses me a lot :(


Thanks for reading this :)
If it's possible, I going to bring souvenir in Friday class ;)

2nd (4/19~4/23)

In this week, we continued reading Meiland(1-4~1-10) and deepened our comprehension of contents.
Also, we learned about ARP with using two ARPs of Meiland. We compared them and analysed what the ARP is. The point is that a summary will depend on its discussion. The statements that are criticized in discussion have to be focused in summary, too.
While discussing the worksheet, I understood the meaning of normative statement and descriptive statement. Normative statement has to be kind of ideal and descriptive statement has to be a matter of fact. Actually, Hayato's example made me understood. Then, I found the ARPs we used in class could be an example of them. Bayne is giving a normative statement at the end of his discussion, while Hammond writes descriptive statement.