My Ideal Road trip

I am studying in the University of Mississippi in the State of Mississippi. Since I am on summer vacation, I am going to plan a road trip. My final destination is Niagara Falls which is on the border between the State of New York in the U.S.A and Canada. I am planning to see it from New York side. On the way to go to Niagara Falls, I will stop by some famous places. Here is my road trip plan!! I start from Oxford, Mississippi and I take route 30 and go up to north to Nashville. At Franks Town, I change the rout to rout 45 and go up to north. After that I change the route to 64 and just keep going and I face route 65 so I take the route. If I go up to North along route 65, I arrive at Nashville. I enjoy the city of there and go to country music’s bar because country music was born in Nashville. I also enjoy the restaurant there. After two days of stay in Nashville, I start my road trip again. If I go on route 65, I go through the State of Kentucky. Kentucky is famous for horse races so I stop by Kentucky to watch a horse race. I stay there for two days and start my road trip again. If I go up to north I face route 71 so I change the route to 71 and keep going up to north. If I go up to the north on route 71, I go through the State of Ohio. I think that I drive too much until I get there so I stay in a hotel for one night. The hotel is near the Lake Erie. The Lake Erie is one of the great lakes. On the following day, I take route 90 and go through Pennsylvania. Before I get to Niagara Falls I would like to stop by the State of New York. Since New York is the state next to Pennsylvania, I can easily visit. I have a friend who lives in New York so I visit him and meet his family and hang out. I go to Manhattan to see famous places, for instance, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty and Empire State building etc…. After enjoy my stay in New York for four days, I head for Niagara Falls again. I take route 80 and after that I take route 90 and just go up to Niagara Falls. If I go on route 90 to north, I finally arrive at Niagara Falls. I stay there for three days and enjoy the view of Niagara Falls from the side of America. After I enjoy my stay there, I go back to Oxford, in Mississippi.

Last winter vacation, I went to New York to visit my friend. I stay there for three weeks. It has been one of my aims to see Niagara Falls because it is one of the biggest falls in the world and it has tremendous view. I was planning to visit Niagara Falls in my stay in New York since I had enough time to visit there. However my friend’s step father told me that if you go there in winter it is going to be no fun. The place is very cold and the fall is frozen so I had to quit going there. That is the reason why I planned this road trip here.

A VIce Advertisement

This is an antidrug advertisement which could be shown in my country, Japan. We always say” Drug is bad. Drug is bad”. However we also use drug in good way, for instance, to cure our body. Drug can be very helpful for us but once you misuse it, drug can destroy your future. We can find drug in any country nowadays although it is illegal in most of countries. It is not illegal in some county. Why it is illegal is that drug can not only kill you but also can kill other people. In China, if you just hold some marijuana, there is a possibility that you can get capital punishment. This occurrence happened recently. When some Japanese men tried smuggling some marijuana to Japan from China, they were arrested and got capital punishment. Holding marijuana is also big crime in Japan, too. If you hold just a little marijuana, you have to be in a jail for about two years. You may be killed by drug if you addicted by it. If you addicted, of course, you won’t be able to control your body. Imagine what will happen next!! You may commit suicide. You may drive a car with uncontrollable body and you get an accident and die. It is no problem just you get problem and just you suffer from drug. However the consequences of drug make your family sad and even can kill other people. If you are found when you hold drug, of course, you will be arrested. Police come to your house with handcuffed you to investigate your house. Your family absolutely won’t be able to stand watching that you. Since you go back to your home with handcuff and police, your neighbors will notice you did something wrong and they spread your gossip to their acquaintances and you will be famous in your local area in bad way. Since you become famous in bad way, you won’t be able to live in that area any more. Drug use can destroy your future and can make your family sad. Even worse, you kill other people. For instance, if you addicted drug, you may commit murder with uncontrollable body. If you drive a car with uncontrollable body you may crash into other people and kill them. As I told you here, using drug is very dangerous. It can destroy your future and can make your family sad and even can kill other people. For those reason, you must not use drug under no circumstances.

I picked up drug because it is very serious problem not only in Japan but also around the world. I designed this advertisement for everybody who lives in Japan. In general, those kinds of advertisement in Japan are very descriptive and stated very serious problems. For instance, “If you do this, this is going to happen as a consequence.” It also has pictures which show something bad for a vise. Those advertisements are put up everywhere from in school to at the station.

Perfect Language Schools

For Homework Week 11, I created three perfect language schools with my group mates. One is a language school in Chile and one is a language school in Japan and one is a language school in America. The school in Chile would be for high school students. Location would be Santiago which is capital of Chile because Wladimir from Chile would like to put the school in a city not country side. If he puts it in a city many students can come to the school. One class would have about 25 students. The school would have huge library which has a variety of books and internet access. One teacher would be in a class. Teachers may bring an assistant teacher. The school would also provide us field trips. The school would have own slogan to advertise. School rules would depend on students. What students would like to do would be rules. There would be from 1 to 7 grades. 5 is acceptable and sometimes 4 is ok. For disability students, everybody has to try to help them. If a student made a problem, they would get punishment. The punishment would be giving more homework because it can be helpful for students. All teachers don’t need to be native English speakers. Teachers can chose whatever method they want to teach. Parents sometimes have to participate in field trip to get closer with their children. School schedule would be from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It would be trisemesters. Holidays and important days will be respected. Tuition wouldn’t be expensive. Sometimes, government gives money to students as scholarship. The class contents would be basic skills, reading, listening, and writing. Homework due would be one week after given. Punctuality would go to their grade. This is their responsibility. We also created a language school in Japan. The place would be in Osaka. Osaka is the second big city in Japan. The biggest city is Tokyo. I think if we put the school in Tokyo, it would be no place to go as field trips because there are just so many buildings in Tokyo. Comparing to Tokyo, Osaka has much more place to visit as field trips although it is very big city. If we put a school in a city there would be more opportunities to use language then country side because we have to use language in a restaurant, train station and shop etc… There would be 10 students in a class because if we have small class, students can have more opportunities to practice speaking. Attendance would be the most important part to gain grade. Students have to respect teachers. Teachers have to wear suit in a class. Student can wear whatever they want in a class. Parents sometimes have to participate in a field trip to get closer with their children. School schedule would be from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students wouldn’t receive a lot of homework but they have to give it to their teacher in time. The language school in America would be private school. The classes would be held after regular time classes. It would be in a big city, Las Vegas, Boston or New York. Memphis would be big enough size. Even and Elizabeth from America would like to put language school in a big city since few people would come to a language school in a country side. There would be from 10 to 20 students in a class. Elizabeth prefers men and women are separated. The classes are divided by language level. It doesn’t matter how students perform in their class since the school is after regular time class. Classes would be held from Monday to Thursday from 4p.m. to 6 p.m. Parents may also go to the class because they also would like to improve their English skill. Teachers would be crazy in attendance. Grade would depend on each student’s progress. It is possible to kick students out from the school if students cause trouble to other students.

The Way to Compliment and Insult

With my group mates, I acted in some situations. For first A of 1 we had to say something to the person who insulted my dinner date or be said something. Most of us said almost the same thing like “What are you saying? She/He is my date. Don’t say anything about her/him.” Then, the person who was said in that way responded like this “I just said what I thought.” Nobody apologized about what they had said. For B of 1, we go out to eat with my best friend and find a man or woman who looks a lot like with our fiancé. All of us agreed with what we would do if we were in the situation. We would just leave from the situation as soon as possible without saying anything. For B of 2, we are invited to boss’s house and his wife gives quick tour and we had to compliment. Here, an interesting difference appeared. I, Japanese, just kept saying “Nice!!” or “Great!!” without adding any word but my group mates from America said “Nice!!” or “Great!!” and added detail information about the place why it is good. For B of 2, we are brought to a company party and we meet our coworkers and our boss. We had to offer a word of appreciation and a compliment word when we were about to leave. Everybody would also say the same thing. “Thank you for inviting me to this party. This party was great. I enjoyed very much” For A of 3, we had to congratulate a friend although she is not a pregnant. I and Evan acted in the same way. Soon after we noticed that she is not a pregnant, we just apologized about what we had said. Elizabeth form America acted in a different way. She twisted her word and she made it her friend’s fault. For B of 3, we meet old friend from college and the friend says about my pregnancy although I’m not pregnant. All of us acted in the same way. We just flowed what she/he had said like “It’s ok!” and left from the situation. For A of 4, we had to motivate a student as a math teacher in the hallway. Evan and Elizabeth motivated the student seeming strictly as a teacher but I just complimented the student with some words. Even and Elizabeth explained more detail point than I did about what the student achieved before. For B of 4, we are students who are taking advanced calculus and get a compliment in the hall way. Evan was a little bit embarrassed and said “Thank you very much!” Elizabeth and I just said “Thank you very much!!” happily. In Japan, women describe more detail than men does. If the person is our friend, we insult in sarcastic or direct way. If the person is not our friend, we insult indirectly. I think in the United States people insult and compliment anything more directly than we do.