The American Eating Habit

I think that the American food that we imagine is hamburger, hot dog and the like of the fast food. There is image that the American fast food has much quantity, and can easily make it. We have such images therefore I examined about the American eating habits such as Americans really usually what they eat, and there are what kind of relations America and Japanese food.

The fast food is immediate for Japanese. The fast food came in Japan in the 1970s. It is easy, convenience and cheap, so since then the hamburger and the like of the fast food is necessary for the now Japanese. In addition, convenience food and the frozen food came out, and the simple junk food became natural in Japan. But even then it is important for Japanese to home cooking. The convenience food and the junk food became general custom in Japan, but slow food is in the spotlight now in Japan because such situation made progress. However, the vegetarian doesn’t establish in Japan such as America, for Japanese has imagine that vegetarian diet, life that eat vegetables thoroughly and so on. Therefore the vegetarian doesn’t popularize in Japan that America

The hamburger, hot dog and pizza are called “Three main fast food” in America. For example, according to the data of 1995, about 5 billions hamburgers, 16 billions hot dogs were consume in America, and there are 36% to the American eating a pizza for breakfast once a month. It is important foods for the American “Three main fast food” as much. However, there is a lot of home cooking. For example, meat loafs, mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, chicken soup and the like. Such the American home cooking is base rich taste. There is food called “Comfort food” in America. There are people giving the American home cooking and a snack such as potato chips, but there are many people giving sweet food such as the chocolate and ice cream.

Japanese food is getting more and more popular in the America, and sushi is especially popular. But the sushi which Japanese and American imagine is different. The sushi which American imagines California roll that rolled avocado, crab and the like. It seems to be the thing which a Japanese sushi craftsman made for an American having opposition to raw fish. It became standard sushi in the America. Also, the tofu became popular now. The tofu was made for material of sweets, so the tofu became popular in the America. However, the American tofu is different from Japanese tofu. The American tofu is hard than Japanese tofu, so it is easy to cook, but it is not tofu of a mellow flavor such as Japanese.

There are many vegetarian people in the America. There are people becoming a vegetarian for various reasons such as macrobiotic foods orientation, religion, and the environment. There are people of various kinds in the vegetarian. The vegetarian is the people who don’t eat meat and fish. Above all, “Vegan” is the people who don’t eat an egg, dairy products and animal food at all. There is “Fruitarian”. “Fruitarian” is a diet of only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant. However, there is “Semi-vegetarian”. They are eating chicken and fish. In addition, the America has many vegetarian foods, and there are many people eating the foods are contained additive and artificial sweetener, so it is the eating habits of the junk food, but there are a lot of people of such a vegetarian. It seems that such things are causes that vegetarian popularize in the America.

I thought that Japan and America affected it each other. Life of the fast food, the junk food and the like became natural in Japan and America now. However, the other side of the coin is that the both countries make points of the life of natural foods and the slow food. Moreover I understood that American was different from Japanese in consciousness for the food. The American has sense of value to easy and convenient to eat. Therefore there seem to be more few home making cooking in American than Japanese. In addition, I understood that Japanese is different from American in the consciousness for the food, but they affect it each other, and there is the food now. I examined American food, the eating habits and so on, and I understood various things. Therefore I was interested to American food, and I want to know more about it.

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Firework in Tamana

The festival took place in Tamana on August 7. Firework is very beautiful every year in the festival of Tamana. I was going to go to the festival with my local friend, but she couldn’t go with me, because she had work. Therefore I went there with my club’s friends.

We went to festival place, and we bought some foods at first. There were a lot of people there. We were looking for the place where we can watch firework. I saw many friends then. We sat there, and while we were eating it as we watched firework. We watched fireworks near, so the fireworks were edge, were big and were very beautiful. We bought shaved ices with syrup on the top after fireworks finished. We saw my club’s seniors when we were eating. We took the picture together then, and we came home.

My friends stayed at my home. They came at my home for the first time. We looked a lot of pictures and we talked about many things. Then it was morning when we noticed it. My friends are very kind, fun to be with and cute. They are important friends for me. I had good days with them. I want to go to watch the firework, and I want to hang out with them.

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Summer vacation!!

There was a camp of my club at Amakusa for three days last week. I had something to do in the first day, so I took part in the camp from the second day. My friend and I went there with my seniors. We went to Shiraturuhama in Amakusa. There was a long way from the Kumamoto city, and it took about four hours by car. However, it was a fine day and the sea was very beautiful when we arrived there.

I played volleyball with my friends, seniors and juniors on the beach, and I swam with them in the sea. We prepared for a barbecue afterward, and we had a barbecue on the beach. It was so delicious. After that we shot off to display fireworks, sparkling fireworks and so on there. And the stars were so beautiful at night. I had a good time.

Next day, we got up early that morning. The sea of the morning was the most beautiful. We clean the room where we stayed. We took the pictures on the beach everyone afterward, and we came back.


I enjoyed the camp. The sea was very beautiful, and I spent good days with my club member, so I want to go to Amakusa with them again.

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Essay 1-03b: Relations of family, friends and others

As I watched Stitch, Lilo, Nani and character in the movie Lilo & Stitch, I realized that family and friends to help each other are very important. I’m going to write about how important family, friends, to help each other.

At the beginning of Stitch was alone. He judged violent, and he escaped from the space to Hawaii, so he didn’t have friends and he was alone. He met Lilo and Nani there. Also, Lilo was alone, too. She lost her parents in an accident, so she lived on only two people with her sister. And she was seemed a character from her around people, so she was didn’t friends and she was lonely.

When Stitch began living with them, at first he broke various things, and he troubled them. However, he was lonely, so he caused trouble. At first Lilo, Nani and Stitch were in good with each other. They didn’t live together cause Stitch, so their family almost became apart.

However, they realized important about family, so they got over various problems. No matter though family is part, family was links each other, but family is happy always go together none the less.

Lilo didn’t have friends, so Nani gave Stitch for Lilo. They were in good with each other. Such as things happened, so they realized important about each other. Nani’s boyfriend also was getting along with them, so they became getting along more than before, and they got over such as things. It is important for us to friends. We can get over our difficulties if there are friends.

I believe that important to help each other when we are in trouble. There were a lot of such as things with them, but they helped each other. They were answer to such as things and they live together happily at the last.

Finally, we watched this movie, and we can learn about relations of family, friends and others are not easy to in good with each other, but very precious for us. In addition, we should help each other when there are worry, trouble and son to us. We were given to think that about family, friends and help each other are very important.

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Essay 1-02b: Not my university life

I usually commute to university by the train and the bus everyday. I have a driver’s license, but I don’t commute by the car. I think that there are good points and bad points about commute to university by the car. Therefore I will write about commute to university by the car.

First of all, the car is very convenient, because you don’t need to care the time. If you commute to university by the train, the bus and so on, you have to need care the time and you have to adapt the time to act. If you commute by the car, you don’t need care the time, so you can act freely. When you like it, you can go to the various places. These is very good point.

However, there is bad point about commute to university by the car, because the car costs money. It costs gasoline charges first. Besides, there aren’t parking area in Kumamoto Gakuen University, so it costs the rate of the parking area, too. And sometimes when the car can’t park in the parking area. These are bad point about commute to university by the car.

There are these points about commute to university by the car, but there are many students commute by the car in Kumamoto Gakuen University. They think that such a thing, but there are many students think that the car is very convenient. Therefore, many students commute to university by the car.

I also think that the car is very convenient. I want to commute to university by the car everyday, but I don’t have much money, so I can’t commute by the car everyday. It is convenient for students to commute by the car. However, if we commute to university by the car, we have to think that these good points and bad points.

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BR 1-12: “The Gingerbread Man”

I chose the book of “The Gingerbread Man”. This story is about the gingerbread man run away from everyone.

The gingerbread man was made by the old woman. She heard a little voice from the oven, and she opened the oven door. And the gingerbread man jumped out. The old man and the old woman ran after a gingerbread man, but he ran very faster. He went on running. Soon he saw a cow. The cow said ‘Come here! I want to eat you.’ But the gingerbread man didn’t stop, so the cow ran after a gingerbread man. Soon he saw a horse. The horse said a thing same as the cow, too, and the horse ran after a gingerbread man.

The gingerbread man ran and ran. Just then he saw a fox, but the gingerbread man ran away. The fox said ‘I don’t want to eat you. I want to talk t you.’ Then the gingerbread man saw a river. The fox said ‘I can help you.’ And the gingerbread man and the fox crossed the river together, but the gingerbread man was eaten by a fox afterward.

This book’s picture was very cute. And I had enjoyable while I read this book.

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BR 1-11: “STUART LITTLE Stuart Hides out”

I read the book “STUART LITTLE Stuart Hides out”. This story is about Stuart played hide-and-seek with the family cat, Snowbell.

Stuart Little’s family went out, so Stuart and Snowbell played hide-and-seek. Stuart became seek and Snowbell became seek. Stuart saw a flower vase high on a shelf. He climbed up onto the shelf and slid down into the vase. He hid in there, but it wasn’t very comfortable for him in there. So he thought that he wanted get out in there, but he couldn’t reach the top of the vase.

Snowbell fell asleep all the time. He woke up afterward, and he didn’t think about Stuart and he thought that he wanted got to get out. Stuart thought he have to tip the vase over so he can crawl out then, but the vase fell over and began to roll toward the edge of the shelf.

Snowbell thought he want to have snack before going out, and he went back then. Snowbell found Stuart, and Snowbell helped Stuart. Stuart thanks for him.

Stuart and Snowbell are cute. I want to read Stuart Little’s other book.

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