Worst day of my life

I think that the worst days of my life is days in the spring two years ago. It was when I came to the United State first from Japan. When I got to the United State, I had a bad cold. I could not stop coughing. In addition to being in bad health, I suffered from jet lag. The time difference between Japan and Los Angeles is seventeen hours. I also got tired with the mental side. I did not have any friends at first. I also could not speak English very well. Because of those stress, I had a poor appetite. At the first day when I came to the United State, I could have just an apple.

Until I decided the room I can live in, I stayed at hostel for two weeks. And yet, I could not go out from there. I was very scared to go out and talk to people. I had three days until the school started. I did not have anything to do and did not know what to do.

I did not think that it was home sickness at that time. When I came to think of it now, I think that I perfectly got homesick. However, I did not think that I wanted to go back to Japan. I told myself many times " I have to do my best. My parents sent me here. I must not let them down."

Those days were the worst days for me. Even though, I learned a lot of things from that. I was realized the importance of family and friends again. When I told myself that I have to do my best and strained my mind, my family and a lot of friends in Japan sent a lot of mails and letters to me to cheer me up. I read them and the strain I had been under was relieved. And always tears almost spilled my eyes.

I have learned a lot of things since I came to the United State. I was also helped by a lot of people many times. When I got depressed, they stayed by me and listened to me. I appreciate them a lot. They are important existences for me. Even so I have a lot of bad experiences, I got a lot of good and important things. I really think it was good that I came to the United State.

Favorite famous person

My favorite famous person is Audrey Hepburn. She was active in the movies.

She was born in Brussels which is the capital of Belgium.When she was five years old, she entered in a boarding school in London. And when she was ten years old, she emigrated to Holland. During the Second World War, she engaged in the Resistance for anti-Nazis. She was the same age as Anne Frank. After the war, she got to know Anne Frank and she was very pained by that. Afterward, she got an offer of a part of Anne for a movie of "the Diary of Anne Frank". However, she declined it because she was afraid that she might remember her bitter past. She learned ballet in London and lived some countries in Europe. For that, she has a wide knowledge of English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.

Before her Hollywood debut, she played supporting roles in movies and on the stage in Europe. And she played the sister of the leading part in the movie of "First Love". When she visited to France for shooting movies, she was picked out by Collette who is a writer and visited to the same place as her for the Broadway stage play of "Gigi". She was picked out for the leading role of Gigi. And she got the role of Ann princess for movies of "Roman Holiday". She made her debut in the screen in America. For that movie, she became famous at a bound. And she also won an Academy Best Actress Award. After that, she appeared in some movies. She retired as an actress after she appeared in the movie of "Always" in 1989.

In her last years, she was active as a goodwill ambassador to UNICEF and went to India, Somalia and so on to work for poor people. She passed away because of colon cancer on January 20th, 1993. Even so more than ten years have passed since she passed away, she was loved by a lot of people all over the world. The reason why I like her is, of course, she is a good actress who has very attractive aura. And one more reason is that I like her way of living. She had very strong convictions and lived on the way what she wanted. I want to be a strong and beautiful lady like her.

The history of one American holiday

Thanksgiving Day is one of national holidays in the United State. It is the forth Thursday on November in America. On Thanksgiving Day, the family and relative meet together in one place. They enjoy to watch the football and parade by relay and eat the standard food for Thanksgiving Day such as roasted turkey, mashed potato, cranberry sauce, squash and pumpkin pie.

The origin of Thanksgiving Day goes back to the twenty century. After Columbus arrived at the Continent of America, the countries of the Europe called the Continent of America "the New World" and carried out a colonial project at there. At that time, in England which a storm of the religious reformation blew hard, the separatist Puritan escaped from oppression by the state church and fled to the Netherlands. However, because they got distressed by the hardships of life, they decided to go to the Continent of America to live as they like on the basis of their believes. They are called Pilgrim Fathers, and they arrived at the State of Massachusetts in America from England with the Mayflower in the winter of 1920 and developed the Plymouth Colony. It was the first colony in New England.

Thanksgiving Day is generally believed that it is from the event which commemorates the first harvest for the Pilgrim Fathers. Because the winter in 1620 when the Pilgrim Fathers arrived at Plymouth is very severe, a lot of people died. However, some of them could survive with the North American aborigines Wampanoag's, who settled in their neighborhood, help. On the next fall in 1621, because the Pilgrim Fathers especially had a good harvest, they invited Wampanoag to dinner. They thanked for a great blessing and had dinner together. That is actually believed the beginning of the Thanksgiving Day.

However, England settlers and Wampanoag also have the tradition which celebrate a harvest in fall. That is why, this year's event was specially not assessed at Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving which was first celebrated at Plymouth Colony in 1623 is a religious event rather than a dinner party. They worshipped in a church and gave thanks to God.

Apart from the truth of this history for Thanksgiving Day, it is very important to be thankful to the food we can get. And I think that it is also good thing that the family and relative meet together and have dinner together.

Shold baseball be televised?

Should baseball be televised? My answer for this question is yes, of course. I like to watch a baseball game but I can't go to a baseball field to watch a game so many times. I know that It is much more fun and exciting to watch a live baseball game in the field than watching a game on TV. I have been to a baseball field a few times. When I went there first, I did not know about baseball at all. Even so, I had got very excited under the influence of the excited people around me. I could enjoy myself very much. But it is difficult to go and watch a baseball game every time for most of people. Of course, it does cost money to go and watch games. And the people of today are very busy because of their jobs and schools and so on. They don't have time to go to a field and enjoy a game. That's why, most of people don't go to a baseball field and like to watch games on TV. People also can watch a game which is playing in a faraway field from their places if the game is televised.

However, some of people don't like it that baseball is televised. Actually I can understand their feeling well. In Japan, it often happens that the baseball game is extended and the broadcast for the game is also extended. At the result, some of shows start late and sometimes they are even carried over to next week. I, myself, have been disappointed many times that I couldn't watch my favorite shows although I was looking forward that. At the case like that, I have thought that the baseball game need not be televised.

But, basically I think that baseball games should be televised. I mean that for not only baseball, every sports games should be televised. It is very fun to watch sports. But as mentioned above, it's sometimes very difficult to go and watch a live sports game.

Some sports might be boring for some people. And if we have a big tournament or something for sports, we will can't watch many shows. That might be disagreeable for some people. Even so, I'm sure that watching a sports game will benefit people's lives.

Online learning - advantages and disadvantages

I have never tried the online learning, so I don't know what it is exactly. But I think it is just the way to learn something with Internet.

The advantages for it is that we don't need to go to the school for learning something. We can learn that anywhere if we have computer which is connected to Internet. It is good for people who can not go out easily. There are a lot of people who need someone help to go out. The online learning helps them learn something a lot.

And the online learning is also good for people who is very busy. When we are busy, we feel that it's like a waste that we even have to take time to go to somewhere. They can save their time with online learning. One of my friends used to use the online learning for learning English. That is the program by the English school which she went to. She could use that program anytime in all day at home. All she had to do was just turning on her computer.

On the other hand, if they use online learning, it will decrease contact with people. They might meet people with computer but they won't talk to people face to face. I heard that the number of people who become a stay-at-home is recently increasing in Japan. They, of course, don't go to school. And they will choose to learn things with computer. They don't like to get out of their rooms and meet anyone. They even find friends with online network. But I think if they use a computer for learning things, they don't need to get out of their rooms. It means that they will become to have no chances to meet people more.

I think that it's very important to meet people and talk to people face to face. Of course, it's possible to talk to people and see their faces with computer. But we can not know their true feeling with it. I feel that the more popular the machines like computer become, the more difficult the communication between people is. Some of people can be in communication with people only with computer. I think that the online learning is very convenient. But we have to use that well.