Thursday, September 24, 2009

Timeline -Google-

I was so amazed by a Google tool called "Timeline".
I didn't know there were so many options for Google search.
By using timeline, you can search things in the history.
For example, if I put "Brian May", who is my favorite guitar player,
I can immediately see his biography!!
And when I put the name of country, like "Mongolia", then you can make and see
its history in a moment.
Isn't it awesome!!?? I think it is.

Thanks for this class that I found new tool for better searching!!

My progress

My progress on ELP readings is Reading Speed.
Before, I was reading the text sentence by sentence, word by word. But I noticed I couldn't read in that way
to do ELP's crazy amount of reading.
So I tried to just catch the topic, what the author wants to say and grab the rough meaning.
And then, obviously, reading speed went up.
One more thing, now I can usually guess the meaning of words which I don't know from the context.

This term, we have a lot more readings than Spring Term.
So I hope we'll be much better at reading stuff.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Rice

Hi, my name is Chiharu Yamamura,
section BJ.
Everyone in our section is individual, but we are on good term with each other.

My favorite food is Rice. I love eating Rice.
Every morning I eat rice, miso-soup and natto.
Yesterday I ate oyakodon for lunch and curry rice for dinner.