Essay 1-02b: Extended Uni. Life essay

This essay is about university life. Students get to school by various means, for example, by car, bicycle, bus, moped, train, or on foot. Some students take long time to get to school, but other students take short time to get to school. Students live in various areas in Kumamoto.

Students decide to set their goals for the future. Many students who study English maybe want to be good use of English to work because they study English every day. They have a skill of English. But they will need more high level skill for the future if they work. Generally speaking, it will be use of TOEIC score to work. Also, some students want to study abroad. It's hard to live in foreign country, but it's good experience. Some students want be a ground attendant in airport. Students whose mother is worked in airport as ground attendant of cabin attendant hankered for her. Some students want to become the teacher of the child English conversation class.

Students are majoring English, and students are usually attending school Monday to Friday. Some students don’t have class in Friday, but some students take classes to be a teacher, and they have more classes than usual. Some students take a Korean class. It's exciting! They take a lot of classes so they can study many things. Some students’ favorite class is speakingⅢ because students are able to have English conversations thanks to the class. Some students think that speaking skill is most important skill than other skills, for example, listening, reading, and writing.

Students became sophomore this year and they have more homework than last year. Students have a lot of homework every week. In writing class they have to post book reviews, dairy, essays and so on in my blog. Last year almost students took writing Ⅰ and Ⅱ, and they wrote journals and they became to be a nice writer. In speaking class students have to practice at English Central. At first they thought that it's hard for them, but these days they became to enjoy practice pronunciation. It's good for them to improve their pronunciation. They will do their best!

Some students’ favorite teacher is Mr. Tomei because he teaches kindly for all students. Also he is good at use computer so they respect him. There are many other teachers in this university. Especially students who study English are often meet native teachers in classes. They are more high tension than Japanese teachers. Maybe some students will be nervous when they first meet native teachers. Some students fear to fail. So they avoid taking conversations with them. But native teachers like questions from students. When they make a mistake to speak English, teachers say “no problem!” Maybe native teachers can understand and help them. All teachers of this university are very good teachers.

Some students had only some friends in university when they entered this university. However, they have many friends now. They always have lunch with their friends and it was a lot of fun. They really enjoy spending time with their friends while talking. There are many interesting friends around them. In school, they always be with friends and there are sometimes senior. They worried at first whether they can shake down in class. But, now they an academic discipline is so fun.

They spend their free time with friends. They usually watching DVDs and they saw DVDs of the library enough. They use a library and a bakery many times. Some students study to do their homework at library in their free time and other students are chatting with their friends.

This university has great facilities, for example, library, school cafeteria, e-campus center. There are many books in library. It is amazing, and there are about 840,000 books in there! Students usually use it to lend for book review of writing class's homework, and they use it to investigate for report. Students use school cafeteria when they eat lunch with their friends. It is large and rich of lunch menu. It is everyday crowd at many students. Some students use e-campus center when they want to use computer. There are new computers, so it is very useful.

Many students join in club. Club like big family! They really enjoying. They usually have activity in every Wednesday. They do anything. For example, do takoyaki and nabe party, drinking party, do sports, go to karaoke, and so on. They drinking party is so crazy.

Students have vacation in spring, summer and winter. They want to go travel with their family and their friends. Favorite places are Tokyo, Okinawa, Kyoto, Hawaii, America, and so on…

Some students like to travel. Almost students want to Tokyo Disney Resort this year because Tokyo Disney Land became 30th anniversary year, and it’s happiness year. Some students have never been there, and they want to go there this year.

Some students have part-time-jobs. They work at various places, for example, hot spring of near house, Japanese pub, and cram school. They are busy and tired on ordinary days because they have to go to school and they have to take a class. So some students work three times a week on only weekend. It is hard for them but they can earn money thanks to it. Also they can learn how to wait on customers. It is maybe useful when they get a job. They want to continue to working while they are students.

Some students are doing after school's activity. Some students go to English conversation school once a week in after school because they want to be to speak English well. They think that they don't have enough opportunity to speak English at university, only in speaking class. They want to grow up their English conversation skill for the future. And some students often do their homework in after school. Some students have part-time-jobs after school, and some students go shopping after school. Their after-school is too busy.

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