Journal B My future

13111208 Ogata Sumire

April 4th, 2012, I celebrated my twentieth birthday.  At the time I stood in the ground among all of softball club.  Everybody sung to birthday song for me.  I had a wish to want you to celebrate my birthday at a ground.  So, I nearly wept for joy.  This year, I was a student in the second year of a university.  I got used to my university life and studied English.  In summer vacation, I went to Australia for foreign training.  I stayed there for a month.  I visited a lot of spots and very interested.

The second Monday of January, its Coming-of-Age Day.  I wear a long-sleeved kimono and celebrated own with local friends.

Two years later, I was a student in the fourth year of a university.  Our club won the championship the national athletic meet in summer.  I was glad of that.  Finally, I graduated from Kumamoto Gakuen University.  And I became a flight attendant.  This was my dream that I had been holding from my childhood.  One day, I had a fateful encounter there.  He is a pilot.  I associated with him, three years later; we held a wedding ceremony at Hawaii.  Then I was twenty seven, a baby was born to us.  The baby was girl.  Moreover, I had baby boy two years later.  Now, I’m forty nine. I’m living happily with my husband and two children!

Journal A " How to bow"

     I will tell you how to bow.  The bow is one of the Japanese culture.  In Japan, this has three kinds of bow.  One is deep bow that a hand reach a knee.  Two is slight bow that a fingertip drop a little.  And the middle is general bow for us.  Remember to express your respect for a person.
     Also, those are changed to suit the occasion.  If you offer tea to your guests and you go through a person, you need to bow lightly.  I would have a good impression if you did such a thing.  Next, then you were indicated by your superior, you ordinary bow.  you go in and out at the reception room, too.  If you had someone be nice to you, you should convey the feeling of thinks by bowing deeply.  Your posture must keep 90 degrees then.  But, there is the exception, too.  For example, don't stand up and you have to do rules of manners to be observed when seated on tatami.  Don't never sit before bowing.  It is to want to learn these for Japanese.
      Finally, what do you do when you angered somebody?  Let's kneel on the ground then!  I think that bowing is very important for us when we appeared in the society.