Finally.......

Today, finally my spring 2011 is finished and I am so happy to feel about it. My presentation went really good and I really like that one.

Now I am prepare for some stuff coming up tomorrow and this weekend. I am going to have a great summer I hope!!!

Well this is ok.

I will go back to Japan sometime in June.

I hope summer is going well for me.

May 3rd, 2011

今日は日本語で書こうと思います。
このブログを初めて６年になるんですが(２００５年５月１日から始めたんです)、なんとグリーンビルに来る前からやっています。

前書いているのはとてもグリーンビルに関係ある内容ではありません。

ところで、あと２日でECUの学期末テストも終わりになります。すでに終わってる学生もいますが、まだ終わってない人もまだまだいます。

今回はECUについて少し紹介をしようと思います。
East Carolina University (ECU)は環境面では都会の中にある学校ですがノースカロライナ州の中では都会の中の田舎という所にあります。グリーンビルは都会ではあるのですがまだまだ他の年に比べると田舎であると行ってもいい所があります。高層ビルがあるわけではありませんし、学生の街になっている部分もあります。

学生数：	約26300人			入学者のGPA平均：		3.45
学費：	約23000ドル			必要なTOEFL点数：		80点
寮費・食費：	約9000ドル

ここに留学をしようと考えている生徒はどのような授業を取りたいか、どのような学部に入りたいかで決めるのが一番ではないかと思います。

Well now, I am going to talk about Greenville and ECU from my view in English. I am a graduate student at ECU and majoring MS in Software Engineering. I think we have various major at undergraduate and graduate School education. One of strong field of study is Education, also field of Medicine and Nursing. Undergraduate majors are Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and so on where it is related to Medicine is stronger area at ECU. But still they have good program for all over majors. Also, a lot of people are working at ECU and who live in Greenville, people are working at ECU most of time. I am sure ECU is big part of Greenville society and students who is around here knows what's going on.

For my view that graduate school students has a lot of opportunity to work as Graduate Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, and/or Graduate Research Assistant. International students are allowed to work up to 20 hours per week, and that give us to take 6 hours credits for Graduate Courses which is better then taking 9 credit hours for semester.

In this university, professors are working with you and making sure that we are able to learn and success for what we are learning from them. Also, they are always help us and welcome to ask the questions we have about classes, research topics, and/or our problems. It is nice to have someone like them being alone here. Also, American students who are my friends, and working together sometime. They are a great help for any of us. I am sure that people have feeling like that anytime. Also, I am sure that is the most important university life in America.

In Greenville, Around here American people are really nice and friendly for me and other people. Also, most of international students who talked to me that they thought American people were really great and sweet for us.

It is nice and good. Just one think you may concern that food and eating diet. If you want to eat something good stuff, maybe you can have some good food from cafeteria at university. However, that is not really for some of people, but people can go out to eat sometime and get good Japanese food, Italian, Indian food, Thai, Korean, and Chinese foods around here in Greenville.

Oh well, it is not much to say after all, but you can read this explain a lot more about Greenville's students' life. On weekend...

i will talk about that weekend tomorrow!

5.2.2011

I am so surprised that Osama Bin Ladin who is the head of 9.11 terrorism. I was already here in the USA that happen was, and I could not believe that US army got him and killed Yesterday.

I am sure that happen made some people happy, and it is really nice to know for news last night. President Obama announced to everyone in American last night around 11:15pm. I was listening him, and I thought that end of war about 9.11.2001.

I am so happy to hear the news but same time sad to hear about 9.11 who died that day. I have been thinking about people who died that day. I heard news on that day, and I was so sad that real happen. Also, I couldn't believe that happen that time. But when I heard and talked to people when people were sad, mad and really not sure what to do.

Well, now we knew the person who was really head of 9.11 and terrorism, and now we knew that the person is died and killed by USA.

hopefully, this is not making other people to have aftershock and after attack for United States of America. I heard that news anchor said that they are worried about it. But I am sure that is not much worried stuff.

I hope we will have a great days.

Hope everything has peace forever!

It is a very nice day!

I couldn't sleep last night, and I went to bed around 12:30pm on Sunday, and I am still sleepy... but I had a meeting with SENG 6230 classmates.

Well that is ok.

I thought this morning today is a very nice and fine outside day! Wish I could go out and do something, but I don't have much to do. Since I wasn't sleep last night, my body told me to not go outside before I sleep at least a few hours.

Now, I am awake, and I took some pictures from outside and inside.

Inside is just my dogs. I really love them, and enjoying to have them here with me. Their names are Hana and Kuki. Both of them are Pembroke and they are so sweet doggies!

Kuki looked at me
"what's going?"

Kuki looks like sweet to me

Hana didn't recognized taking picture....

Hana found out that I was taking picture.

  These four pictures makes me really happy and I love them so much. I am so glad to have them as my dogs since 2006 and 2007. I can not believe that I won't have them in my life right now, and this is the one where I can see my American life makes better everyday.

outside picture is  below

getting spring to summer

I took this picture around 5pm and looks like it is really nice outside still at this time of day! You can tell that sun is out there and looks like 2 or 3pm afternoon. But it is at 5pm outside in Greenville, NC.

Well, I hope this kind of weather will be held up all the time.

tomorrow

I have a final exam tomorrow, and that is last final exam for my semester. I can not believe that Spring 2011 is almost over for me. I usually don't think about it is over or not over. But now it is almost over.

However, I got really bad headache and fever right now... wish to no health condition like this one day before final exam. I went to health center today and got several medicine. I am hopping that will work and I am ok to take the exam.

well not well enough to write something right now... tomorrow, I will write more!

Now, I need to make a CV

Today, I have little bit time to make a CV (curriculum vitae), but I am not sure what to write about it.

I am trying to do that for applying a job, but I am not sure what is right. Also, it does not have what it is right and not right form to write. But this makes my applying a job decision difference. I am so not good at writing this, but well just trying to write one. Hopefully, that is ok with them.

Classes are Finished now.

I am so happy that my classes are finished, and now just waiting to take a final and a presentation to go this semester. I am hopping to see my grades so far but professors are not yet to give us back yet...

I am kind of scary that I am going to get a better grade for this semester or not. I hope I did everything ok and hope everything else will be going to be ok.

I am really worried about what's going on now.

Well I will be ok.

I am really tired today but hopefully tomorrow won't have much going on.

good weekend

I had a good weekend, but I had little bit sad weekend too. Because some of my friend at ECU, they will be gone after this semester.

Three of them will be gone because they are graduating, and that is a good thing for them. Congratulations!!!

I am so happy to see them today and this weekend. But that makes me little bit sad.

Also, one of my friend is leaving after this semester because she was exchange student at ECU. I am glad that she had a great semesters and had a great year long stay in the USA and Greenville, NC.

Well hope next year, we will have a great year and having great people again like we did this year.

The Final Week is coming!

The Final Week will start next week. My classes are already finished, and now I need to prepare for Finals. That will be really different from what I am doing usual. Also, that is really busy week start too. This final will make my grades covered 40 to 50% and I really not ready for final yet.

Well just need to study for my all classes, and prepare for what I can do right now. Also, I need to start organizing my DropBox for my Graduate Assistant job. It's a lot things going but I like my GRA job!

That is my good time and really have a great opportunity to work with my wonderful professor. She is really nice and wonderful person ever I work with. She is Reading Education professor, and her research interests is similar to my thought when I wanted to get this GRA job. I am really happy to have this job anyway. Now, I need to finish working on my part of Graduate Research Assistant and finish for this semester work.

I will miss until I can work there again.

Final week start soon!

Today was the last day of the classes at ECU for Tuesdays and Thursdays classes. I only have Tuesdays and Thursdays classes for this semester in 2011.

I can not believe that my all classes are finished for lectures, and now left is finals. I can not believe that finals are next week. After that we are all done and start summer vacation. Well, my summer vacation is after June 20th. Because I have summer job and will take some class. I am so happy to have some kind of class and job.

I just really wish to have some kind of stuff doing anyway. I am going to take some vacation after all.
Now, I am just worried about how's final exams turned out. Well, I just study for finals until I take them so I will get some good grades :-)

I just need to have good weekend before final start and need to have some kind of prepare things.

Oh wow, shouldn't forget about my projects and so on!

Well I hope everything is going well

April 20th, 2011

Today, I found my friend comment and message about ECU. That is a great thing to read from who were at ECU and left from here. Also, that helps people to understand what kind of things, and what would be a great things at ECU. However, that message was not only good things, but need to have all over things. Good things are good for people to know, but they need to know all things.

here is my friend's website you can take a look at

http://www.naruto-u.ac.jp/information/07/003001002.html

I like that ECU is good place to study. In fact that we have a lot of things are going on, and people should know all that. Well, if people knows all of stuff maybe not really be ok. But just looking at good things are not helping all the time. sometime you know and understand of bad things that helps for preparing to coming here too. I learned a lot of things during staying here in Greenville, NC, and I am thinking that it is not much different from Japan. When you are getting used to living here, that would make you to think same as where you lived.

I am sure only few months to one year would not hurt to come here and spend time, but if you live more than 3 or 4 years, you will know the differences between Japan and USA, but also you know similar things too!

I really think that is a good thing to living another country for long time and know people around where you live. Also that helps your life to expand your thought anyway.


Well, I just want to post about ECU below with pictures!

football stadium at ECU

ECU students and people

this is art building at ECU

I thought I have some more pictures but I don't think I have here on this computer, and maybe I will post more on later today or tomorrow.

I got new Fire King

I got new Fire King from my friends, and that was my 10th years anniversary living in America!

This is Fire King Cherry Blossom 

Fire King Snoopy
"AE TIMES LIFE IS PURE JOY!"

Fire King Candle Custard Cup

Fire King Kimberly Bowl and Cups

Those are pictures of that Fire King.

I really like them and Thank you so much my friends!

I found a picture where I helped my tutoring kids who is my newest student in Greenville, NC now.

This was presentation about Japan when my friends
presented at Winter Green Primary School

I am so happy to see this picture! Because actually shows my student and I were trying to teach something to his class during presentation about Japan.

I am hopping to do this more and more soon!


Here is my dear friend's blog! if you have time please visit there too!
quatrografo.com

THANKS!

TODAY IS an Important DAY!

Today is an important day for me. Because 10 years ago of today is my first day to arrive in the USA. So it's meaning 10th Anniversary of living in America and today is really good day of my life. I can not believe that I have been living in the USA for 10 years! YAY it's a really great thing, and I am really waiting for this day is coming to me. Tomorrow will start 11th years of living in the USA, but I hope I will live in America for long long long time.

I am hopping to get a job after all my graduate study finish, and still live in America somehow. It is a good thing that America is welcome to people from outside, and it is great opportunity for me to live in here. Also, I like Japan where I came from, but I really like the US more. when I first came here, I felt I am home. I don't think that is not right thing to think about it sometime, but I am sure that was what I first thought about arriving here 10 years ago.

Now, I have basic living system and things in here, and I am really having a great time with my friends. I don't think I can go back to Japan, and build up friends, social communication, and so on. I can not image that go through.... I am Japanese still, but I feel like I am becoming an American, and I want to be become an American after all. I just really wish that I can have Green Card or something permanent to live in the US.

I will finish my degree soon, and will go get a job I hope and I'll try to get one anyway. Also, that would make myself more and more being in here and allowing me to be here. I just don't know yet what kind of job position I can get yet, but I am sure I will work somewhere and somehow. I don't care to live in big city and get a job there. However, it is a good thing that would happen to me.

I am trying to know what kind of thing will be my future job. I am good at teaching or working with students. Also, I really like working and spending time what I am good at.
I love reading books and make my knowledge growing every time I read something. This will make my future job and comes to me somehow. I am sure my future vision is a lot more goes on. Now, I am going to get a job in here, but I am still a graduate school student. But it is a good opportunity that I can work something like Graduate Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, or Graduate Research Assistant at university.

If people want to come here, I would recommend that any kind of job opportunity you have you take it.
That way, you can improve yourself, and also you will make yourself better.

Well (hopefully), anything you do that makes your future is a good way and making you to be a better person anyway.

10 years of living here is great thing.

Hope I will continue to live in America next 10 years, 20 years, and so on.

this is silly me but this year picture!

this is myself on April 18th, 2011

Tomorrow is...

Today is one day before my an important day, and it was very nice day after all.
I am so happy that today was not like yesterday and it was a great day. I can not believe that we had Tornald Warning.
(今日は、自分にとっての一番重要な日の前日です。そしてすごくいい一日となりました。今日がいい天気で本当によかったと思いました。昨日と違いとてもいい日でした。昨日の竜巻警報が嘘のようです。)

I am hopping to so something tomorrow and do spend time something really a good time. I need to have one day like this. But I am not sure what I am going to do yet. I can not believe something like this day is in my life, and it is and will be the most important day in the year.
(明日は何かをして過ごしいい日になるといいなぁと思っています。私にはこのような日が必要な気がします。しかし、何をして過ごすかといことはまだ決めていません。それにこのような日が人生の中であると思っていたとがなかったからです。でも必要な日になるのは確かです。)

Tomorrow's post is a good thing.:-)

I have funny pictures....

I usually go to a school on Friday and teach some middle school students at Chocowinity. It has been pleasure to teach and doing research them this past few months, and last Friday which yesterday was the last day to visit there.

this is where I go and doing teaching there.

this is funny picture is no where just way to go school

and see this 

Here is some pictures I took around there and way go there.

Fire King Mug

Today, I wanted to post some Mugs of Fire King. I got some Mugs from several places, and it is not around here in Greenville, NC. However, it is nice to have all of them. (今日はファイヤーキングのマグについてのせようと思います。マグカップを数個手に入れました。でもここの近くでかってきたという事ではないのですが、やはり使いやすく日本人の方にはちょうどあった大きさのカップではないかと思います。)

This is Fire King Kimberly Orange Mug

This is Fire King Kimberly Blue Mug

This is Fire King Kimberly Mugs

This is Fire King Bird Mugs

This is Snoopy Fire King Mug

"I'm not worth a thing before coffee break"

This is Fire King Sonnies Mug

This is Fire King Mugs Collection

These are just part of Fire King Mugs, and I have just like that much and won't be able to buy all anyway. But Fire King Mugs are total more than 300 different things.... so I think no way to get all anyway. I like most of Snoopy Mug. Because it has some kind of writing back of cup, and snoopy is cute character. I really enjoy having that mug. I think I will get one more Snoopy Mug if I possible to buy one.

GOT BETTER!

Finally, I am getting better and good health condition. But still having some fever left over.... But it's just need to get some sleep.

Oh tomorrow, I will go back to school like one week from last time I am in school. I can not believe that much sick I got for past week. I haven't been like this sick before and first time ever I got this. I wish I were not sick during this time of year.

Oh well, I just need to study study for final exams coming soon!

Hopefully, I will be ok.

I hope everyone have a great week and weekend!

Greenville, NC

Today is not much warm morning to start, but weather says supposed to high temperature rise up to 86F(30C) Degrees. It's cloudy outside and not really good weather.
(今日はあまり暖かい朝の始まりではなかったのですが、天気予報によると86°F(30℃)まで最高気温は上がるという事です。でも、外はどんよりとした雲に覆われたいい天気とはちょっとほど遠い感じです。)

I still have little bit fever from Wednesday last week, and I am not sure why I still have it. Also that is why I didn't write down anything on here since last time I update. I wish this fever go away from me as soon as possible since I have a lot of things going on tomorrow. I don't like being sick and going to school, and I have to a lot of things need to catch up this week anyway. Hopefully, I will be able to do all of them.
(私は先週の水曜日からの熱がまだ少し続いています。一旦良くなったのですが、また悪くなり寝込んでいた状態です。それでここに書き込みができない状態でした。最後に書き込みをいれた時に熱があると書いたのは覚えてるのですが。。。熱が下がって体調が一刻も早く万全になってもらいたいものです。なぜかというと今週はいろいろな事があるからです。明日は大事なプレゼンテーションがありますし、明後日から金曜日にかけては先週できなかった事をやらなければならないのです。すべてがうまく行く事を祈ってますぞ！)

Getting better...

I was sick yesterday, and it was really bad. Because I had fever around 102.8F (39.3C) degrees. I couldn't move much other than I took my roommate to school and pick him up. only that time my fever was gone because of medicine. (昨日は病気で寝込んでいました。しかも、かなり悪い状態でした。熱が102.8F(39.3C)度になる程のものでした。動く事ができず何もできなかったのは久しぶりでした。ただ状態がいい時にルームメイトを学校に送っていったくらいです。薬は助かりますね。)

Today, I didn't have anything to do today either since my sickness is still with me and I don't think I will do that anything until I get back well enough.

This is my first blog....

I posted all my blog from previous one from 2005 to 2008.

I found that one long time ago started but I have no idea how to combined together until tonight! ahaha

enjoy!