All of your responses to any student should go to: Keiko Nakata My students wrote self-introduction in English. Please excuse their mistakes in writing English. I do not correct them. We are very happy that we can communicate with your students. Thank you. Keiko Nakata --------------------------------------------------------- Hi. I'm Ayae Endo. Nice to meet you. I'm a member of art club. My hobby is classical ballet and Kendo. I go to ballet lesson once a week. Kendo is a very hard sport but it is fun. I went to a kindergarten this summer. I did volunteer work. I helped kindergarten teacher. Bye-bye, Ayae - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Sumi Fukui. I am 16 years old. I like to watching soccer game. I went volunteer work in a home for the mentally handicapped during summer vacation. I exercised and played softball with them. And did easy work . At first I was surprised at them, but as I got used to them and I could hear their language. I learned a lot of things, and I could do very good experience. Bye, Sumi. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Tomoko Furuta. My hobby is playing tennis and Japanese traditional dance. I am interested in international understanding. I am one of the Asians but I know very little about Asia. I will study about Asia, And I want to make friends who live not only in Asia but also all over the world. It is my dream. I went to do volunteer at a home for the aged this summer. There was a bet ridden old people and elderly people in wheelchairs. I worked there and I clean the elderly people's room and around the bed, help shaving, and I help elderly people to eat lunch. I went to a summer festival of the home for the aged. I enjoy it. I want to go there again. bye, from TOMO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. Hello. My name is Maya Hamaoka. I'm 16 years old. My hobby is playing electronic keyboard. For 13 years. I like jazz music. I'm a member of art club. I like Alphonse Mucha's picture. I sent my latest work to the exhibition. I like oil painting. How about you? I'm interested in education of kindergarten. In Europe, sexual crime happen. I investigate sex education. See you later! Maya - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. Nice to meet you. My name is Hitomi Hori. I'm 16 years old. I'm a number of tennis club. My hobby is shopping, swimming and ski. I want to Nurse. I like small children. bye-bye, hitomi. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Yuki Itano. I'm 16 years old. My birthday is June 25. My family is seven peoples and keep two birds. I study about guide dog. I went to volunteer work in summer in the nursery. I talk to nursery school teacher and I leaned a lot. Children are very cute. They're like angels. I took care of 4 years old children. I read stories, played with toys, and helped them eat lunch. It is very hard but I had a very good experience. bye, Yuki - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi, my name is Rieko Kato. I am sixteen years old. I like English very much. I want to speak French, Italian and German in the future. My dream is staying in France. I study French or Italian food and I want to have my restaurant there. I am studying about braille. I want to translate a book into braille for blind people. During the summer vacation, I did volunteer work an establishment for mentally handicapped people. I talked to them for the first time. I am glad that I had a precious experience there. Now I am interested in becoming an international volunteer. bye, Reiko - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. Ｍｙ name is Emi Miyoshi. I belong to the badminton club. It has passed for four years since I began to play badminton. I enjoy it very much although I am not good at it. Someday I would like to go around the world to see as many countries as I can. The theme of my study is "discrimination". There are many kinds of discrimination. But the one I am going to study about is discrimination against women. Is there a discrimination against women in your society? See you. Emi. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Chisa Noda. I'm in the 10th grade, which is the first year of high school here in Japan. I have three sisters and I'm the third. I enjoy playing tennis with my friend after school every day, but I like swimming best. My hobby is tap dance and planing the piano. It is a lot of fun to go to tap dance lesson every Friday. I'm studying about volunteers who help persons with AIDS. Now, I'm collecting materials for my research. I'd like to compare Japanese volunteer activities with foreign volunteer activities. See you later, Chisa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Junko Suzuyama. I'm a 10th grade and 15 years old. I'm interested in foreign languages. I study English a lot,and I want to be able to speak English well. And I will visit many foreign countries. I have liked animals since I was small. But, nowadays, problems of forest destructive are getting serious, and a lot of animals have been killed. Do you have any ideas about protecting wild animals? Let's think about it together. Good-by. Junko - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi, my name is Sakiko Okazaki. I am 15 years old. I like to listening to music, traveling, playing volleyball. I am studying about "gun control volunteer group". Here in Japan the general public is prohibited by law from owning guns, but America doesn't. I hope guns will be vanished from homes and we can make world a really safe place to live and travel. Do you agree with me? or not? I love America very much and I go to America as an AFS exchange student next summer. So if you have time, I'd like you to tell me something about American students' life or topic of conversation. In the future, I want to teach Japanese to foreigners. Bye, Sakiko - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Saori Nagaya. I'm sixteen years old. My hobby is watching movies. My future's dream is to be a nurse. In the summer vacation I went to the hospital to experience nurse's work. The department I went was pediatrics. I gave medicines to patients, and bathed babies. By all mean I would like to do it again if I have a chance. It was hard work because some old patients have become senile. They don't remember anything. But I like to take care of people, so I want to go again. Bye, Saori - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi. My name is Reiko Watanabe. My hobby is listening music and playing the guitar. I have just began the guitar, so I want playing it more better. I am studying the old problem. Japan is longevity country in the world. And there has a lot of old men and women. and there are several Social problems. Everybody hold out to study. Let's work together. Bye, Reiko - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi! My name is Naho Fukuta. I'm tenth grade. My hobbies are watching sports and shopping. My favorite subject is English. I did a volunteer activity at a home for the mentally handicapped. We played sports together. As I got used to Handicapped people, I enjoyed talking about many things with them. I learned to see handicapped people differently from the way I did before. It was s a very nice experience. See you later. Naho. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -