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In my free time I like doing many different things. I like reading and listening to music, and watching movies. Today I’m going to talk about movies.
Whenever possible I like to go to the ciname to watch movies. Recently I saw the Bourne Ultimatum and The Brave One. The Brave One starred Jodie Foster and it was about a woman who saw her fiancé murdered, and how she reacted to this tragic event. The Bourne Ultimatum is the third movie in the Bourne series. It follows on from The Bourne Iderntity and the Bourne Supremacy. It stars Matt Damon, and is very very exciting. (105)

Skyrider books are a new series available from Thomson/Cengage. In addition to a few nice stories, the series includes some good non-fiction books.

Have you seen the Bourne Ultimatum? I recommend it!

This is a presentation by George Siemens from Slideshare. I was trying to embed slide 8 (Snowden's 4 Ontologies) and slide 14 (learning ecology) only, but it seems individual slides don't have URLs any more.

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Over the last week or so, we have been watching Romeo & Juliet in class. The one I chose for watching all the way through was the Olivia Hussey/Leonard Whiting version directed by Roman Polanski. This is a very famous version, but less well-known by young people in Japan than the newer Leonardo diCaprio/Clare Danes version. Finally, we watched a few scenes from that newer version for comparison.

By watching two versions, I hope that everyone realised that the words have meaning and that there are various different ways to express them. The common point is that each actor is trying to express something. And I hope many students learned some of the very famous phrases from Romeo & Juliet, such as "What's in a name?" and "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

I'm looking forward to seeing the performances in class!

After juppun ha juubun, let's start work on one of our major assignments for this semester, Presentations about Kumamoto. In a group of 2-4 people, I'd like you to make a PowerPoint presentation of at least 10 slides about Kumamoto, and post the presentation to each group member's blog, using slideshare.

It is a good idea to choose a narrow topic: if every group does a general presentation about Kumamoto, with Kumamoto Castle, Suizenji Park, and karashi-renkon (or Aso, Kikuchi, and Kumamoto City), that won't be very interesting!

It's also very interesting if you can include some of your own photos, as well as things you can find on the Internet.

Remember that requirements for regular book reviews and other blog posts are the same as usual!

If necessary, I'll show you how to use Slideshare next week. But you might want to try it out this week, by joining (=Sign Up), making a very short presentation, and uploading it to Slideshare. You can delete this presentation later, when you have uploaded a newer one.

Today, you need to decide your groups and then decide your topic together. You should each write a short post announcing your partners and title of the presentation. Please use the short names of your group members, linked to their blog. (For example, if Hidetoshi Nakata was one of my group members, I would write Hidetoshi N.) Later, if necessary, you can change your title, and update your post. If possible, you should also decide today how to work together: for example, if you need original photos, will you go and take them together, and when?

If possible, I'd like you to upload your finished presentations on November 30th. Remember that these presentations will be very public, so you should try to help each other correct the sentences in the presentation.

I DON’T HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF FREE TIME these days, because I am so busy at work. But when I do have free time I like reading, listening to music, watching movies, playing the koto, hiking, cooking, and so on. My favorite kinds of music are Japanese modern, and progressive rock. I read all kinds of novels, but I guess I like science fiction and fantasy best. Recently, I bought the first book in L.E. Modesitt’s Corean chronicles, a series that has been praised widely. Cooking is something that I used to do all the itme but now do very rarely. It’s lots of fun and quite relaxing, but does take some time. I would like to travel a bit more if possible. (124 words)

I’m so busy at my job these days that I don’t have so much free time. But there are many things I like to do in my free time. I like playing the koto, listening to music, reading, hiking, and playing tennis. I also like watching movies. I always read at night before going to sleep, nearly always a novel. Now, I am reading Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Often, I read science fiction or fantasy, but I haven’t read the 7th Harry Potter book yet. Have you? These days, I almost never play the koto. But I do see movies sometimes. Recently, I saw the Brave One, with Jodie Foster, which was a great movie. All her movies are good, I feel, though I wish she appareaed a little more often. Another one I want to see is the (140 words)

Today's typing topic is Free Time. This will also be the topic next week and the week after.

The rest of this lesson is a catch-up session. It's a good chance for you to ask for help with LibraryThing, labels, links, photos, uploading your slides to Slideshare and embedding them in your blog, etc., if you didn't understand when we did them in class before.

If you're up to date with all these things, just write anything you like on your blog, add the books you have read to your LibraryThing account, comment on other blogs, etc.

Remember: If you still need help, try to go to Mr Tomei's Computer Office Hour (Tuesday 12:10-1:00 Room 1448).

Location of Kankyou Kyousei Gakubu:
32.80596115788772
130.7663905620575
data from: http://jtomei.net/lat-lon.html

Kumamoto has lots of nice places to visit. In the south, facing Nagasaki, is the archipelago of Amakusa, a collection of about 100 islands, which are very beautiful. The biggest 2 islands are Shimoshima and Kamishima. Kamishima is made of paper. No, not really. Kami means upper, and this island is near mainland Kumamoto. Shimoshima is the place with the biggest cities, Hondo and Ushibuka. and also the most famous places such as Ooe and Sakitsu churches. (77 words)

This movie looks very interesting! It is the Ten Commandments, with Ben Kingsley.

Last week, I enjoyed two music events, both on the same day. In the morning I went to my daughters' primary school music festival. I was very proud of my daughters because they performed well, even though they don't like music so much. All the perrformances at the festival were very good.

In the evening, I went to my teacher's koto recital. One of my PUK students also performed, and Kazue Sawai came down from Tokyo as a special guest. It was very exciting.

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I like Amakusa. This is the church where I got married.