How would you like us to spend our holidays?
Western teacher
Since most of our student study hard all the time and go to a lot of academies, I hope they will enjoy their break just rest and not doing too much work. So that the day that school starts, we will be ready to work hard.
Chinese teacher
I want guys to spend simple and save the holiday. I hope guys will be able to do something that you would like to do. At the same time I also hope you guys don’t forget to study. You don’t have to do extra works but you have to do some works that you should do or you didn’t understand well before. Let’s “supplement”. I hope you guys will enjoy it.
Our parents
I hope you would spend substantial, organized and delightful spring break. I don’t want you to get up too late. You will be able to help me to walk the dog or make breakfast if you get up early. It will be a great experience for you and it is also good for yourself. Don’t be lazy. Spend your time effectively. You can have a rest but you also have to create a plan. Follow your daily life rhythm. At last, I wish you would spend a healthy and meaningful spring vacation!
Students
How would you like to spend your holidays?
~I want to meet my friends and play with them all days. ~
~I want to play every day and have a good rest. I’ll go to academy, so I also want Good study and make progress every day! ~
~I hope I can sleep all day and eat a lot of good food. Of course without homework. I want to go many interesting places and having a lot of cats and money to play. I wish the spring holiday will continue 3 months and I dream I would meet lots of stars. Of course, I don’t want to sick. ~
~I want to eat a great number of different flavored potato chips. I want to play all day. I would like to play billiards, go to the KTV, the theater and the beach with my boyfriend. ~
Western teacher
Since most of our student study hard all the time and go to a lot of academies, I hope they will enjoy their break just rest and not doing too much work. So that the day that school starts, we will be ready to work hard.
Chinese teacher
I want guys to spend simple and save the holiday. I hope guys will be able to do something that you would like to do. At the same time I also hope you guys don’t forget to study. You don’t have to do extra works but you have to do some works that you should do or you didn’t understand well before. Let’s “supplement”. I hope you guys will enjoy it.
Our parents
I hope you would spend substantial, organized and delightful spring break. I don’t want you to get up too late. You will be able to help me to walk the dog or make breakfast if you get up early. It will be a great experience for you and it is also good for yourself. Don’t be lazy. Spend your time effectively. You can have a rest but you also have to create a plan. Follow your daily life rhythm. At last, I wish you would spend a healthy and meaningful spring vacation!
Students
How would you like to spend your holidays?
~I want to meet my friends and play with them all days. ~
~I want to play every day and have a good rest. I’ll go to academy, so I also want Good study and make progress every day! ~
~I hope I can sleep all day and eat a lot of good food. Of course without homework. I want to go many interesting places and having a lot of cats and money to play. I wish the spring holiday will continue 3 months and I dream I would meet lots of stars. Of course, I don’t want to sick. ~
~I want to eat a great number of different flavored potato chips. I want to play all day. I would like to play billiards, go to the KTV, the theater and the beach with my boyfriend. ~
Interview students about their spring break
~Chica’s holiday~
This holiday, she went to Japan. Actually, she just visited Japan 2 months ago. This time’s visit was for her brother’s class reunion. They hadn’t met each other for 3 years. She stayed in Oosaka for 3 days then went to Hyogo and stayed there for 2 days. Her most exciting experience was going to the amusement park with her and her brother’s friends, about 16 people. The amusement park is called Universal Studio Japan, one of the most popular amusement parks in Japan. She stated that the park was too crowed because it was the spring vacation in Japan too. They had to wait for 3 hours to take a ride. Therefore, they had enough time to make conversations. Also, she played riddles. The boring waiting became interesting and impressive. The most exciting memory was the roller coaster. When she got off, she felt a little sick. However she enjoyed that travel. “If one word is required to describe this April spring break, what would it be?” Her answer that it must be “joyful”. Because she met her old friends and was able to go to the amusement park with them. They had a great conversation and wonderful entertainment.
This holiday, she went to Japan. Actually, she just visited Japan 2 months ago. This time’s visit was for her brother’s class reunion. They hadn’t met each other for 3 years. She stayed in Oosaka for 3 days then went to Hyogo and stayed there for 2 days. Her most exciting experience was going to the amusement park with her and her brother’s friends, about 16 people. The amusement park is called Universal Studio Japan, one of the most popular amusement parks in Japan. She stated that the park was too crowed because it was the spring vacation in Japan too. They had to wait for 3 hours to take a ride. Therefore, they had enough time to make conversations. Also, she played riddles. The boring waiting became interesting and impressive. The most exciting memory was the roller coaster. When she got off, she felt a little sick. However she enjoyed that travel. “If one word is required to describe this April spring break, what would it be?” Her answer that it must be “joyful”. Because she met her old friends and was able to go to the amusement park with them. They had a great conversation and wonderful entertainment.
~Emily’s holiday~
In this vacation, she also went to Japan. She went to Fukuoka and stayed there for 3 days. The most impressive thing for her was visiting Nakadake volcano in Aso Mountain. There was a very big lake in Nakadake Volcano. It was a very beautiful and colorful lake. It was really amazing the color is like gray and blue and green mixing, it was very good. To her surprised, all of the cars, even the trucks were very clean. Also Japanese people were very quiet. She felt that Japanese people were shy and it seemed they don’t like going out. There is another thing made her surprised that was tableware. When they eat food, in Korea they use spoon and chopsticks and even folk but in Japan, they just use chopsticks. She felt a little wired because when they have soup, they don’t use any tool even spoon. It was like just dink the soup. According to these things, she learned Japanese culture and also enjoyed the difference of Korean or Chinese culture. She chose “amazing” to describe this travel. Because before she went to Japan, she didn’t think Japan is a big or beautiful city. However when she arrived Japan, there were so many huge things like volcano. It was very amazing.
In this vacation, she also went to Japan. She went to Fukuoka and stayed there for 3 days. The most impressive thing for her was visiting Nakadake volcano in Aso Mountain. There was a very big lake in Nakadake Volcano. It was a very beautiful and colorful lake. It was really amazing the color is like gray and blue and green mixing, it was very good. To her surprised, all of the cars, even the trucks were very clean. Also Japanese people were very quiet. She felt that Japanese people were shy and it seemed they don’t like going out. There is another thing made her surprised that was tableware. When they eat food, in Korea they use spoon and chopsticks and even folk but in Japan, they just use chopsticks. She felt a little wired because when they have soup, they don’t use any tool even spoon. It was like just dink the soup. According to these things, she learned Japanese culture and also enjoyed the difference of Korean or Chinese culture. She chose “amazing” to describe this travel. Because before she went to Japan, she didn’t think Japan is a big or beautiful city. However when she arrived Japan, there were so many huge things like volcano. It was very amazing.
Introduce my spring break
I didn’t have any plan for this April spring break. My mother wanted me to make a study plan, and she encouraged me to make that almost every day before the break. Even though, I didn’t do that. Because I’ve never succeeded in completing my study plan which is made by myself, which means that it never works on me. Therefore I didn’t make that. That was a terrible because when you get up you don’t know what to do. Study? No, I don’t want to do that. Watching TV? There is no good program. Go outside? My great-grandmother doesn’t recommend me to do that. I was fighting with myself to figure out what to do all the time. Then I realized there was something that I have to do, that was about English! Therefore I decided to read an English book. I thought it wouldn’t be boring like studying other subjects but would help me improve my English. Actually I had a lot of fun and acquired many new words by doing so. However, it was also very hard for me. Reading 20 pages took me almost 2 hours. Although, when I finished reading, I was very satisfied. Because it was my first try and I had completed it!
I didn’t have any plan for this April spring break. My mother wanted me to make a study plan, and she encouraged me to make that almost every day before the break. Even though, I didn’t do that. Because I’ve never succeeded in completing my study plan which is made by myself, which means that it never works on me. Therefore I didn’t make that. That was a terrible because when you get up you don’t know what to do. Study? No, I don’t want to do that. Watching TV? There is no good program. Go outside? My great-grandmother doesn’t recommend me to do that. I was fighting with myself to figure out what to do all the time. Then I realized there was something that I have to do, that was about English! Therefore I decided to read an English book. I thought it wouldn’t be boring like studying other subjects but would help me improve my English. Actually I had a lot of fun and acquired many new words by doing so. However, it was also very hard for me. Reading 20 pages took me almost 2 hours. Although, when I finished reading, I was very satisfied. Because it was my first try and I had completed it!
During the whole break I stayed at home except one day. That was my greatest day. I went outside with my best friend. At first, we went to a coffee shop next to igo. The whole coffee shop was very quiet and looked much undisturbed, which made us talk a lot. We were talking about our dreams, our school lives, our classmates, and so on. We hadn’t seen each other for a long time. We had many things to tell each other. The most impressive topic was about our friends. We were graduated from junior high school and most of our friends had already gone back to Japan. Because we came from a great number of different places of Japan, we would never meet some of them again. Honestly, I really miss them. What made me happy was that another best friend of us sent her an e-mail. She shared it with me. The e-mail was very long. In the letter, she said that she missed us a lot. She was afraid that I can’t use e-mail, so she hadn’t sent one to me. At that time I decided to send her an e-mail, and tell her I do use e-mail. I remembered a lot of interesting time which we spent together. We miss them, so do them. I hope someday we will be able to meet each other again. |
Then we went to Marina City to eat shaved ice, as you see, it was so big. It had red beans, mung beans and so on. Also, it was very delicious. We ate it very fast and tried to make a tunnel but unfortunately, we failed. Then we mixed all of them up. However, it tested much better. In the end, I got a stomachache because I ate too much and too fast. She ate as much as I did but she was all right. With a smile, she told me that she had once eaten two of them with our old classmates. That scared me. Two of them, how big were their stomachs!
At last, we went to a very pretty shop on the lower floor outside Marina City, called dejili(得吉利). It was a kind of a stationery shop. The most exciting thing was that the prices were cheaper than other shops. I bought a hair-bound. It was very pretty and cheap. My friend also bought the same hair-bound but of different color. If you have chance to go to Marina City, I recommend you to visit this shop! You will find a lot of interesting things not just stationeries.
This is my holiday. I saw my best friend and completed reading an English book. It was a good holiday. However, I didn’t do enough study. Next spring holiday will come soon. I hope I’ll be able to get rid of my lazy habit and find a new self!
Misato yoshida
This is my holiday. I saw my best friend and completed reading an English book. It was a good holiday. However, I didn’t do enough study. Next spring holiday will come soon. I hope I’ll be able to get rid of my lazy habit and find a new self!
Misato yoshida