My hometown is Joetsu

I’ll talk about my hometown.  My hometown is Niigata prefecture.  I’d like to introduce two my favorite places.  One of the my favorite places is the ocean.  If you visit Niigata in summer, you can go to the ocean and beach.  The smell is salty.  The view is so good.  We can see Sadogashima beyond the sea on a clear day.  There are a lot of people on the beach and in the sea when the start of the swimming season.  It is so fun to play beach volleyball and to do toy sparklers while talking with family or  friends.  We can also see fireworks at night in the summer festival.  This is a big event in the summer.

While if you visit there in winter, you can ski.  In winter, a skiing ground is always bustling because a lot of snow in Niigata than other prefecture.  I’m proud of the amount of snow.  It’s very cold and inconvenient to traffic, but the amount of snow is also a feature of Niigata.

Sometimes, the tournament of snowball fight is held in skiing ground.

These picture are garden of my house.
            

 

In conclusion, my hometown is a good place not only in summer but also winter!

Basketball Circle

I belong to basketball circle in TIU. The name of team is SKYKIDS. We usually

play basketball at Chiyoda gym in Wakaba on Sunday and Thursday. We usually play mixed men and women because there are not enough number of women. It’s rotation games.  Everyone in this circle is so good at basketball, so I desperately keep up with them every time.

Sometimes there is a tournament.　All participants are older than college students except us.  So they are very strong!  In participants, some mothers of children.  We lose every time but we don’t give up and challenge many times.  


 


Why do I play basketball?  Because It can take away my stress while I am playing it!  Although I want to play it at least three times a week, there are two or three times a month.  I think that it insufficient for people who love basketball.  I want to play more.  I think everyone in this circle thinks the same thing with me.









To people who usually don’t exercise at all, I recommend sports because you can relieve stress!

English Lounge

I’d like to introduce the English Lounge and LEAP.  Lounge is so useful for us.  There are many JSP students and TIU students in Lounge.  So we can talk to not only Japanese but also foreigner.  In this article, I’ll research about what does everyone always do in the Lounge?  Why are there only school of language communication students in the Lounge?  Why did you decide to establish a place like this? 

 

They are in the Lounge to take a rest and to talk with JSP students.  We can use the Lounge anytime.  The purpose of using whatever is OK.  For example, talking, taking a rest, doing homework and so on.

  Other faculties students are hard to enter because there are many native speaker in the Lounge.  School of language communication students always learn English so we are no resistance to entering the lounge.

  Someone established this Lounge to school of language communication students be able to contact with English more familiar.