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Hello, my name is Hikari Ikeda. I'm 19 years old, but I will be 20 years old this summer. "Hikari" means light in English. When I was born, my parents wanted me to be a warm and kind person. So, they named me "Hikari". I like this name very much.

There are 6 people in my family. My father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, an older brother and me. My father is an official worker and he is very sincere. My mother is a homemaker and she is good at cooking. I often go to shopping with her. My grandfather is very kind to me. He is good at pruning. My grandmother is a very active person. She learns a Japanese dance. My older brother studies legislation at Kagawa university, so we do not live with him. He is very smart so I respect him. I love my family very much.

I like dogs better than cats, so I have two dogs. Their names are Robin and Azuki. Robin is an Azuki's mother. They are Labrador Retriever and black. When I come back home with a tiredness, I am healed by them. They like sea so we often go there with them. I want them to live a long.

I went to Kumamoto Daini high school. It is a very good school. First, my high school's friends are kind and very intelligent. I often admired them. Then, I liked my club activity. I belonged to a badminton club, and like to play it very much. It was sometimes hard for me, but often made me cheerfully. And I liked the time when I went to McDonald with my club's friends after the club. The memory of my high school days are precious for me.

I have two treasures. The one is a racket of badminton. I used it without destroying during my high school days. I played at my last game with the racket, so it's a very memorial racket for me. The other is a my car. I used most of my savings to buy it. Before I drive, I clean it. From now on, I treasure them too.

I like music. One of my hobby is playing a piano. I learned it from 3 years old to 16 years old, so I like it still. I relax when I play a piano. I also like to go to Karaoke with my friends.　I go there once a week. I often sing songs of Yuki. She is one of my favorite singer. She is very cute and her songs make me happy. Anyway, I like music very much.

I like to eat foods very much and I am big eater. Chinese noodle and ice cream are parts of my favorite foods. I eat Chinese noodle once a week and I often eat two ice creams in a day. So I am liable to be fat.

I like to eat, but I have some foods I hate. I do not like bitter foods and drinks. For example, coffee, herbal medicine, beer and Nigauri. Nigauri is one of famous vegetable in Okinawa. It is very bitter. I want to be able to eat them because I will be 20 years old.

I went to Osaka with my friends in my spring vacation. We enjoyed a lot of attractions in Universal Studio Japan. My favorite attraction is Spider Man. It was very exciting. We ate Takoyaki. It is a famous food in Osaka. I liked it very much and I ate a lot of them. We had a very good time there. I want to go there again.

I work on juku school. I teach math, English, Japanese and science to junior high school students and high school students. It is very hard to teach but it is very instructive. When my students understand their weak points thanks to my class, I feel happy and I get a sense of achievement. So I want to go on with this part time job and the hourly wage is very good.

I like Kumamoto Gakuen University. I got a lot of friends here. Particularly, I have a good relationship with Eibei friends. I often go to eat dinner with them. The time is very happy for me. I have a good life in this university.

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Typing 12; About blogging

I have to write a blog because it was my homework for getting my writing's credit. First, I thought that it was very troublesome homework. But now, I think that blog benefits me very much. Before I wrote blog, writing English was one of my weak point. So, I refused to write it. But, I began to write a blog and I did not hate it. In fact I became to like it very much. I became better at writing English than before. And it did not take more time to write English. I think that my efforts bear fruit. I decided to continue it.

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Book review 13; The Baby Day

I read this book. The tittle is "The Baby Day". This is one cute baby's story. Her name is Jasmine. There was one new girl who came from a much bigger school. She was Clare. And she did not think much of her present school, her new teacher and her new classmates. But one day, her thinking changed thanks to Jasmine. Jasmine was one of Clare's classmate's younger sister. First, Clare was cool to Jasmine. But gradually she thought Jasmine very cute. Jasmine was a very rogue baby. Everyone laughed by her pretty mischief. And Clare laughed too. Finally, she liked Jasmine and her new school. I thought that it was very pretty story.

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Essay4;My memories

One of my memorial day is my high school days. I went to Kumamoto Daini high school. It is one of clever school in Kumamoto. So I studied very hard when I was a junior high school student. I was happy when I just scraped into the high school.

I enjoyed a lot of school event. For example, a field day, school festival, walking day and Sotai. I belonged to the cheering club at the field day. Our club was composed of only women and we cheered for students with long pleated culottes-like Japanese trousers. It was very hard but challenging for me. School festival was my favorite event. Especially, I liked arrangement days for the festival because it was youth that I worked hard to succeed at the festival with my classmate. The walking day was very hard. We had to walk about 30 kilometer. I ran the way with my friends to make last memory of our high school days. Then we reached our goal in first place in schoolgirls. I was happy and I got a sense of achievement. Finally, my best memorial day is Sotai. Sotai is big event for high school students who belong to sports clubs. It was the final game for the third students. I belonged to a badminton club and I like to play it very much. It was sometimes hard, but it often made me cheerfully. When I finished my final game at the event, I had a good cry with my club member. These memory are precious to me.

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☆Shopping☆

After I took today's first class, I went to shopping with my mother. I got a sandal and a rucksack. I liked them very much. We often go to Hukabijin. It is a sweet cafe. Today, I ate a mango and caramel cheesecake. It was very very delicious!! I contented today.

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Book review 12; Hansel&Gretel

I read this book. The tittle is "Hansel&Gretel". It is one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales. Characters of the story are two pitiful siblings, their father, the spiteful stepmother and a dirty witch. The older brother's name is Hansel and the younger sister's name is Gretel. They were left by their stepmother. they found a house of sweet and ate them. So, a old woman entertained them kindly. But the woman was a dirty witch and it was her trap. She conspired to eat Hansel and Gretel. But they noticed her plot and they overthrew her. Then their father broke up with the stepmother and he came to look for them. Finally, they live together with happiness.

It kept me in suspense. I relieved that finally they were happy. I want to eat a house of sweet.

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