2008年8月21日木曜日

Aug 19

writer: Risa Iwamoto

From Tuesday 19th, we started to have oral presentation. Three groups presented their proposals. Their topics were "One day Relaxing Cruise Tour for Women", "Aussie Native Tours"and"Short break". Even though they didn't get much time to prepare for it, their projects were fun to listen to and I could tell they put effort on their works.
The next day was our presentation day, so me and the other members checked our "Space Tour" again and practiced again.

After school, I went back home early and cooked stew and miso soup for my host family. When I cooked it, I found the potetos were very big. There weren't good size of bowl for miso soup so I just used mug for the moment. My host family looked happy and said "We'll make Aussie pizza next time for you". Now, I'm looking forward to having home made pizza!!

2008年8月20日水曜日

Aug 20

Today, we went to the building which near to the Macquarie Uni after school and touched some animals such as snake, birds, rizards, and so forth.
After that, my friend, Taisuke, his room mate, Lee (Chinese student), and I went to the city and had some drink.
Tommrow, I will do a presentation so I have to prepare for it and finish homework.
It is very short diary but to sum up with today's story, I had a wonderful time with my friends!

Aug 18

Writer Momoka Koda
Our last week started…
In the class, we learned how to do the presentation and practice the presentation especially introduction.
We had an International conversation class after the class. It was very good opportunity for me to learn English and to know the thinking that the other country’s people have for Japan. Through that class, I was very surprised that men who have studied Japanese only for 6 months could talk with me with Japanese! I have studied French for 6 months in Rikkyo University, however, I cannot speak and talk .I think people who study Japanese in Maqcorry University feel more interest in Japan than I feel it in France. I was also surprised that Japan’s cartoon is very famous all over the world. One of the student I talked with liked Japanese cartoon and the reason why she started studying Japanese was that she wanted to watch and reed Japanese cartoon or comic. I don’t know Japanese cartoon is very famous.
We had a good time! I want to have a class such as today’s International conversation class more.

2008年8月15日金曜日

Aug15

Writer: Risa Iwamoto

Yesterday and today, Yusuke was absent from school because of sick. It has been cold since we got here and weather easily changes in sydney. I'm worried about him and hoping that he may get well soon.

Today we got a chance to go to the computer room in class, so that we could finish our written proposal. My team was suffered from a computer a little though we were fine. We could finish it in time. Now we are going to prepare for oral presentation as groups. I want to do my best.

After we finished using the computers, we went back to class and had a small presentation. It was practice for our final presentation. It's not that easy to describe something not in Japanese but English, but we all tried hard and did good job today. In final presentation, I want to keep eyecontact with audience and use louder voice.

We have only a week left before we go back to Japan, so I want to enjoy my stay in sydney!!

Have a good weekend. See you soon.

2008年8月14日木曜日

Aug 14

written by Takuto Yamada

Today, there was an excursion of Sydney Harbour Cruise. We could see the beautiful scenary from the cruise!!!
We took a lot of pictures of great views from the observatory deck.
The cruise took approximately 1hour and after got off from the cruise, we were free to spend time in the city.
In the city, we bought souveniers at central shopping center and also we had dinner near to the Opera House.
The night view of Opera House and Harbour Bridge was so nice!

Then, we returned to our homestay independently.
I could have a great time!!!

2008年8月13日水曜日

Aug 12,13

writer momoka koda

Yesterday we learned about the advertising and had a activity about 7P.
So,we could understand well about advertising and 7P .
There was not any trouble in our class.

Today we learned about outdoor advertising and how to do the presentation.We also had the listening task.
And we could have the time which talked about our presentation ,so we advanced our presentation which will take next week.
After the class we went to the Sydney tower.There was a cheerful atraction which we rode.The view from the Sydney tower was also good .So we had good time .
Our class room was changed today,and the room have big windows so we can see the great scenery . It is not good for me because i can't concentrate well .
Tommorow we will go to the city and have the cruising activity.
We can stay the city until night ,so I can' t wait !

2008年8月12日火曜日

Aug 11

Writer: Risa Iwamoto

In the class, we listened to the tour conductor, Katsuji Tochino talking.
He is Japanese though has lived in Australia more than 10 years and aims at more Astralian come to Japan.
When he talked, he gave us a lot of information about what factors affect tourism
and I thought it is important to analyze when you plan tours.
I got some information from him so I think I'm going to use it for our project.
Japanese tourists go overseas are gradually decreasing, which fact surprised me.
Having trip is still popular, however people in Japan recently prefer to use their
money for mobile phone or something like electrinc stuff.
I've learned it's important to get information when you make new products.

It was on Monday, so I enjoyed to listen to my friends what they did on weekend.
See you.

2008年8月11日月曜日

Aug10

writer Takuto Yamada

Yesterday, I woke at 8 o'clock. Using a bus and trains, I went to Bondi junction St. and Bondi beach with my friends. There were a great deal of people at the beach and I heard from my host family that the marathon competition was held at that time and the goal of marathon was at the Bondi beach.
Therefore, it was very crowded. We took some pictures and after that we went to the restaurant to have a lunch.
We ordered 4 pizzas and they were so delicious!!!(But, they were expensive...)
Then, we walked back to the Bondi junction St. and hanging around from it. We watched some clothes, shoes, and so on.
I was surprised that there was "Bonsai Shop" in Bondi area.
Then, we said good bye at the Central St.

I had a great and wonderful day!!!

2008年8月9日土曜日

AUG 9

writter yusuke ikeda

today, I wake up at 9:00am because today is saturday,it means there are no shcool !!
After breakfast, I played with my hostbrothers Jaydon and Ashton. They are 6 and 5.
At 12:30, I met my friends momoka and ayaka and dai, so we went to the City by train.
We arrived at Central station, and walked to Liverpool St. We had lunch at Thai resturant.
I ate coconut curry and rice, but it was so hot that I couldn't eat a lot.
We went to St mary's church after lunch. It was so beautifl.
I and dai sad good bye momoka and ayaka at 6:30, we went to the restaurant to have dinner near the Opera House. It was very cold because of winds, But it was a great fun of me.
That's all what I have done. See you next time.

2008年8月7日木曜日

August 7

writter momoka koda

Today we listened to presentation which was done by Jake Chiem . He is in student travel service at Macquarie University. Content of his presentation was marketing about travel service. After the presentation our class went out the class room to experience “free services”. Out of the class we got map of Sydney ,a doughnut and original MQuni diary for free.After that we came back our class,we discussed about the Jake’s presentation and talked about what had been interesting about his presentation. End of the class we separated the own groups and discussed about our presentation “new traveling project”
I think we participated in class well. Because, all of us stated own opinion about his presentation. We have not some trouble but our teacher was change .so our teacher’s name is Kaye Carter not Paul.
After the class we ate lunch on the grass . And after that we went to the Macquarie Center and did shopping.
Tomorrow we’ll go Manly ocean world, so I look forward to go there!

2008年8月6日水曜日

August 6th

Writer: Risa Iwamoto

Today at school, we had presentation about layout of zoo. Each of us got a chance to speak in front of the class. Afterwards, we talked about what we should do and do not to give a fantastic presentation.

After we had a morning break, we did some quiz about marketing. It was a little bit hard and took us longer time to finish.

We got a team project to do. It's a written proposal, we discuss, reserch and design a proposal for a new tourist service or product. We separated into group of three and did some brain storming for the project.

We got free afternoon today. Now, I'm going to the library and get some books to read.

We are all doing good.

2008年8月5日火曜日

Aug 4

Witer Yusuke ikeda

Today, we introduced ourselves, and made presentation of "layout of the zoo"

We were separated two class, my teacher's name is Fatma.

After lunch, we went to Sydney Harbor, wachted Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge.

We were going to go on a ship, but we didn't.

I don't know why, but my teacher said "we canceled our reservation becouse something happend"

Anyway, I participated in today's program actively and enjoyed.

This is what we did. See you tomorrow.