BR 2-15: The OC the Misfits

'Stop it!' cried Marissa. 'You're frightening me!' 'Good' Ryan shouted. 'Because you're frightening me.' 'If there's drinking, crying, and policemen ... then I guess it's Christmas,' he said, calmer now. 'I left all these problemin Chino. I'm not doing it again.'
(Josh,2007, p.54)

This is the conversation by Marissa and Ryan. Marisa and Ryan are friends, but they are not good relation this time. Marissa is in hard time, and she drinks outside the Christmas party.Vodka though she is not adult yet. As soon as he finds her, she trys to escape by her car from him. He stops her, and they go to driving by him. They were asked by policemen, but were don't arrested. Then, he throw away the Vodka bottole and they says this each other.

I had watched this TV drama only the first episode of the season 1. I had been interested in their love going. I had not anticipated that Marrisa becomes such crazy. Ryan was a bad boy at the first episode, but I find that he became better than before. He can advice Marrisa to be good for their situation. In this episode, I can the scene which he keeps his anger not to fight. At the first episode, he fights with other bad kids as soon as he gets angry. He took up by his lawyer Sandy. Sandy brings up him as his son in spite of his wife's opposite. I understood Sandy's feeling from this change of Ryan.

Josh,(2007), The OC, Scholastic

254/11696

Our Favorite Chinese Restaurant

After school of December 8, I went to Chisese restaurant with my friend. We  often there, because it is nearby this school, law cost and delicious. I oudered shyoronpo, and toritendon. Toriten is like chicken nugget. There were so delicious. We like Chinese food. My best favorite Chinese restaurant is in downtown in Kumamoto. I want to take my friend to the restaurant someday.

64/11760

BR 2-14 Nelson Mandela

Mandela's meetings with de Klerk were very difficult, but at the end of 1993, Mandela and de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. The two men were not friends, but that didn't stop them. They worked for a new South Africa.
(Coleen, 2001, p.21)

This is the story about the time when Nelson Mandela got the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a very famous prisident of former South Africa. He fighted for the black people. He had been fighting when he was younng, he arrested about treason. He studied a lot though he had been the prison for twenty-seven years. He never gave up however hard situations he was in. After his punishment, he became Prisident of the ANC, got the Novel Peace Prize, and became Prisident of South Africa.

I had known his name. I studied him at high school rather than TV program, because I was a child when he played these activities. I have never heard another people who fight for the black people besides him. I think he is the representative person in the long world history who fight about apartheid. I don't feel racism in these days. I think it is because I am Japanese and I have been to foreign country not so much. Indeed, I have never seen racism in front of me, so I don't know about it not so much. However, I guess the racism had decreased than at the time before his actives. Japanese are happy because we don't feel rasism. However, I think we need not to forget this problem of rasism.

Coleen Degnan-Veness, 2001, Nelson Mandela, PENGUIN READERS

269/11442

BR 2-13: Kylie Minogue

She doesn't always want to live in the world of show business. She often likes being quiet, at home with her family. She likes playing games and making clothes. She likes visiting friends. Perhaps there are two Kylie Minogues. One is a world famous singer, and one is a quiet family girl.
(Liz, 2008, p.19)

This is the last texts about Kylie Minogue. She is a big actress and a singer in the world. She is from Austrralia. This story starts about the time when she had a cancer. This is the biggest happening of her life. She had cancer while her would tour. The tour postponed until she gets better. However, her funs had been waiting her. When the tour started again, very many people came. She was loved by a lot of fun. She works and works, but she cherishes not only her works, but also her family and friend.

When I found this book, I had not known her. I read this book because I was interested in her. I found she is a big singer who sings "I Should Be So Lucky" and "Rocomotion." they are my favorite songs! I get to more and more interest about her, and read this story all. She taught important things to me. When I am busy at my studies or works, I don't touch and spend time with my family and my friends so much. She is more busy than me, but she makes time to meet her family and friends. I thought I should cherish the times when I meet my family and friends.

Liz Kilbey, (2008), Kylie Minogue, PENGUIN ACTIVE READERS

275/11173

BR 2-12: The Clever Woman

"Thank you so much for your help," he says. "Now I can sit down on the sofa and read. And I can relax for the very first time!" Linda McCormack smiles at him as he rides back home to read his book.
(Herbert, 2007, p.24)

This is the last scene of the book. Sean Murphy is a father. He wants to relax at home after his work, but there a lot of noise in his house by his family. He annoys that, and is reccomend to get advice from LInda McCormack by his friend. She advise him bring two chekens into his house, two gooses, and two goats. He confuses that, but does what she tells. However, there happens more noise in his house. He becomes not to be able to endure that, and visits her again. She advises him to return the animals to the hen house, the yard, and out of the house. His house is noisy yet by his family, but he don't omind it. At last, he can relax and read the book.

This is a story of a wit, and we can anticipate from the tittle. I could't come up with the way how to solve the problem as Sean Murphy, because his hous becomes more noisy gradually by her advice. However, she was thinktng it conversely, and solve the problem. I will also imagine worse situation,if I come across bad situations. She is indeedly a clever women. The stories of wittes such this story are like tonchi stories in Japan.

Herbert Puchta,(2007), The Clever Woman, HELBLING LANGUAGES

265/10898

BR 2-11: Marcel and the Shakespeare Letter

'Marcel's a detective,' he thinks. 'It's going to OK. He knows his job. He does this every day. Yes . . . it's - going - to - be - O - K.'
(Stephen, 2000, p.12)

This is the words by Henry. This is a little adventure story by two mice. Marcel is a detective, and lives in Paris. Henry is his friend, and lives in London. Marcel visits Henry, and they find a woman who storen the Shakespeare letters from Henry's neighbor. They look for her, and find. This is the scene Henry walks behind Marcel, and closes to her bag. Henry tells himself that it' OK and believes Marcel because Marcel takes bold actions continuously.

I like Shakespeare. I chose this book, because I interested the content of the letter. However, this story doesn't tell the content of the letter. This story is different from my anticipate. This is adventure story by a detective. They are very smart mice. I thought they also storen the Shakspeare letters from their interests, but they return them to Henry's neighbor's house. They are good mice. I like this pictures better than the story. I like Peter Rabbit, and this pictures are like their pictures. Peter Rabbit is also a story in the U.K.

Stephen, (2000), Marcel and the Shakespeare Letter, PENGUIN READER

212/10633

BR 2-10: Ugly Betty

But she is very old now and she thinks Betty is Rosa. 'You have always been in my heart,' Yolanda tells Betty. 'Go with Ignacio. Fight for the man you love.'
(Jane, 2009, p.38-39)

This words is by Betty's grand mother. Betty sees her grandmother for the first time at this scene. Betty wanted to meet and was looking for her grandmother because Betty didn't know her mother's family in Mexico. Betty accidentally arrives at her grandmother's house. Her grandmother can't hear because she is old, and she thinks Betty is her daughter by just looking. Then, Betty's father comes there, too, and the grandmother says this words to her daughter's husband and daughter. This is the scene that some kinds of Miracle happens at the same time.

I like this foreign TV drama,'Ugly Betty'. This is the most impressive scene in this first season for me. A lot of character appears in this drama. The main scenes is in Betty's office, but I like the scenes of her family better than Betty's office, because members of her family, Ignacio, Hilda, and Justin have tender heart. Her mother already past away. She wants to know about her mother's family, and asks her father Ignacio, but he tells her that she don't need to know that because her mother's family does't like him. but Betty looks for her mother's family and Ignacio chases her. At last, they meet Betty's mother and she admits her daughter's marriage and eloping to the U.S. while blurring. Betty's grandmother has been thinking about her every day. I think Ignacio is sinful man. What a kind scene!

Jane Rollason, (2009), Ugly Betty, SCHOLASTIC

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