特別ポスト：White Rooms and Secret Stories (Part 6)

Hello!

How are you? This is Part 6 of the collection White Rooms and Secret Stories. This is more of the great writing you did on unique, strange, and interesting scenarios. 

I have enjoyed reading your stories, and am uploading some more examples of your great work here. 

Here's one: 

Beautiful place

A long time ago, this place was very beautiful, the sunset, ocean view, clear sky, and forest. The sunset reflected on the ocean. So it was fantastic. I hoped this beautiful place was kept a guarded secret forever. 

However, a few years ago, advanced technology in the modern world reached this beautiful place. A developer team has transformed this beautiful place. They came at midnight because they didn't want anyone to find them. So they came while we and animals were sleeping. 

Many poles were standing and stretched wires all over the places. The sky became so unbeautiful. No one could see the blue sky, big clouds, or the sunset. We could never see the clear sky how we did before. The forests were cut down. The animals were kicked out of the forests. They lost a place to live.

We an the animals living here were angry. The white tiger in the forest was the king and attacked the people who came to develop this place at the limit of our patience. As a result, people who came to develop this place ran away. We and the animals won! We kept this place. We are going to revive this beautiful place. 

A great story! Here's the next one:

Fantastic gift

The little girl was always crying and timid. She didn't laugh, so most of everyone didn't her smile. She liked being alone. But she always hoped to be bright someday.

In the evening, a white tiger felt so hungry. He looked up into the sky. he jumped and at all the clouds. So there was only a moon up in the sky. A little girl looked the view through the window. She felt a little afraid and closed the curtain soon. But after a while, she thought that is strange, but very beautiful. She opened the curtain, then the tiger stared at her through the window. She was surprised but also stared at him. Suddenly, he began jumping and spinning. She looked the view her eyes opened to. He turned into an airplane and went away to the moon.

Then, she woke up and realized that it was all a dream. She heard big sound of engine from outside. She opened the curtain and looked up in the sky. The airplane was flying freely but so powerfully. The figure was as a tiger. She was crashed on the view. The airplane was making a vapor trail. It drew the shape of a star. She was impressed and at last she smiled. She decided to be stronger and smile more. After, she always smiled and became more bright. She had many friends and did many things willingly. Maybe, that dream was a message for her to change her life. 

That was an inspirational story about change! Let's look at another one: 

My surprised things in travel

One evening, I rode on a train and I went to the airport to go to Thailand by airplane. When I was riding on the train, I could see the beautiful sunset. The sunset looked burning red. 

After I arrived in Thailand, a beautiful woman came to me in the airport. At first, I didn't know her, but I realized that she is my old friend after she approached me. She told me she was getting married, so she invited me to her wedding. She gave me a place to stay for me while I was there. The room was clean, so I was happy, but it felt strange, because she knew I was surprised. 

First, when I opened the closet, I saw a gray closed curtain. I thought this curtain was strange. As soon as I opened it fearfully, I heard the sound of a tiger roaring. I thought I looked at a big tiger's face, but I found that the face was a figure. There was a music player under the figure. Consequently, I thought she must be set in it and she was playing the sound of a tiger roaring. I got annoyed easily, but I laughed. It was glad for me that she didn't change after I couldn't see her. 

A very interesting experience! Here's another:

Strange experience

This is the story of the state of my dreaming. 

At first, I was in unknown room which was a white door. There was no one but me. The room was very big and silent. I thought, "Where is here?" Then, I heard human voice from behind the door. I couldn't believe my ear, but I heard it. "Come here." I was led by the voice. When I opened the door, there was one tiger. I was very surprised and lost consciousness.

When I woke up, the tiger looked at me with concern. I inquired "Why can you speak?" The tiger said to me "I was changed into a tiger by strange man, so please help me. I thought it was Narnia. I couldn't believe it because I felt that can't be true, but the tiger talked about his life in earnest. I believed the tiger and decided to help him. 

I asked him what I should do. He said, "I want you to take me to California. There is some medicine there." We went there and got it. He took the medicine, then he became a black-hair woman. She said "This is really me, thank you very much." 

As a result, I could help her, but we couldn't find the strange man who changed her into tiger. Although I decided to find him, I woke up from the dream world. 

Now that was a strange experience, in a dream! Let's look at another strange experience, in a life: 

Her strange life

There was a beautiful woman in black clothes. The woman looked like a cat when she posed. It was beyond anyone's imagination. One day a tiger jumped out of the black clothes which the woman wore. Is she a human being of the cat family? 

She trolled in the track, and she found the beautiful setting sun and admired it. A train passed it to admire the setting sun. It was dark, and it was hard for her to know where to walk, and she was not able to move from the place. Then suddenly, a huge and long train came through and ran her over. 

She died. However, she was really alive, and she noticed herself becoming a cat. She spends a second life as a cat from now on. 

She has spent a free daily life since becoming a cat. Every free day is fun. However, she cannot speak like a human. Living like a cat is also boring. She was walking along the roadside thinking about such a thing. 

When she was walking, it was evening. It is the same scene as that day. There is a big truck that came to her with tremendous speed. She thought that she would die at that moment. 

She was at home somewhere when she realized. She was saved by a human. When she woke up, the family of the house there was looking at her with very warm eyes. She was relieved. She was taken over by the family and became a member of the family. She lived happily with them. 

What a life! What a story. 

These stories are great! What do you think of them? Which ones did you like in both Part 1, and this Part 2? 

I've been proud to have had you as students. I will miss you, and hope you will keep writing. 

Take care and have a great break, and hope you have a successful and happy second year here at Daito Bunka. 

See you around!

Images: Top - personal photograph/door - "Empty Wall With Closed Door" (courtesy of master isolated images)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
All rights reserved for personal photograph. 

特別ポスト: White Rooms and Secret Stories (Part 5)

Hello and Happy New Year!

How are you? Here is Part 5 of a collection of unique and strange stories I have been gathering up by students over time - I call this collection White Rooms and Secret Stories. I have gathered the best stories and am showing them here. 

Read these and tell me what you think. I have not shown any names of students. When you're finishes, go to the comments section and write some comments on the stories you think are the most interesting. 

Have fun with these! Here's the first one:

Dear my father

While the evening sun is shining brightly, the man proposed marriage to her. They looked up at the sky having no clouds floating. And then she answered, "Yes." They looked happy. They got up, they noticed that it is real things. The man pleasured, and he tells her. "I love you. Where do you go? You want to go anywhere. It is our first traveling called honeymoon!!"

Many months later, they hold a banquet. They are wearing a great white dress and suit. It is a very big one, and many relations celebrated with them. But they understand that married life is hard. So, they think "welcome to the tomb of life." The man and his wife still looked happy. They planned their future. At last the banquet, the woman throws a bouquet. Many women called. "Please give me!!" "No, give me!!" Finally, she throws the bouquet to a little girl. The girl is happy and she is smiling. may good luck come her way! 

One day, they sent me a letter. They went on their honeymoon. Where did they go? Australia, Hawaii, Guam, Italy, or Spain? They look happy now. Ah…, their letter enclosed a picture. There are three people. Man, woman, and baby! 

Then I noticed something else on the letter. "I want to spend a good time with your family." It was from your father in heaven. The letter had been on his tomb with sunflowers.  

Wow! A great and powerful story. Let's see more: 

The ghost story

One day, a couple held a wedding party in their house. They look like they were so happy. Everyone was congratulating them there. Friends and relatives were coming there and the groom's best friend was coming from abroad by the plane. They haven't met for three years. But he didn't attend their wedding because he has a tiger and it ran away to the neighbor's house. 

The bride's name is Kary. She is a perfect woman and is beautiful. The bridegroom's name is Jey, who is a womanizer. They were mystified how they got married. They thought he was reformed in his heart for her. He doesn't know what scary thing will happen to him. 

At the wedding party they planned a game where they did hide-and-seek in their house. It was Kary. She joined Jey and some kids come to the party. Kids were hiding behind the curtain. Bridegroom was hiding in the bathroom. She said, "ready or not, here I come!" On the way, they listened to something hit a voice in the bathroom. They thought about what happened, so they went to the bathroom. Then, the bathroom's door was suddenly hit. They were very surprised when they opened the door. There is a ghost woman. However, they can't see her so well. Jey's body was nowhere to be seen. She is in front of his girlfriend who killed him. The reason was he was a womanizer so she bears a grudge against him. Kary said, "hi sister." 

As a result, no-one knows what has become of him…

Ooh…now that's a scary story! Let's read another one: 

The way to meeting lovers

I am flying on an airplane, but it is too crowded. I wanted to get out of the airplane as soon as possible. But when I was on the airplane I could see the dark moon. Everyone felt that dark moon was beautiful and everyone was watching, and everyone in the airplane went to sleep while looking at the dark moon. 

I woke up from my sleep, and the morning sun came into sight. It has already been seven hours since I got on the airplane. I noticed that in the morning. So I began to eat breakfast and I began to sleep again till arrival to my destination. It will take another six hours to go to meet her by train. 

It was evening when I arrived there. When I looked at the sky with a lot of electric wires, I saw a very beautiful sunset. Then my girlfriend came to pick me up. Thanks to my lover's coming, my fatigue has gone away. We went to various places and had a happy time to have a meal and ride a Ferris wheel. It was the day I felt I wanted to stay more with my lover. 

A great, honest, heartfelt story! Let's see more:

Evening sun

The evening sun is about to go down. If the evening sun go down, the sky will become dark. It's like the end of a day. In the evening it is the time when work or school ends. Train's home rush begins. I finish doing the day's work. 

Seeing the sun, I feel relaxed and I look back on the day. But somehow I feel lonely when I see the sunset sky. If there is something unpleasant or something unlucky, I would like the day to pass sooner but if it is a day I had fun, I will feel lonely that they day will end soon. 

The time seems slower when there are disgusting things. I think that it will pass sooner as it is fun. But the flow of time is not slow or early. It depends on how people feel. I will be such a feeling from evening to night. 

After the day breaks, the sun will appear in the sky again. So a new day will begin. Then expose dazzling sun light and see the clear blue sky, I get a new feeling. I like the sky in the morning it makes me feel brighter this time only. I will be more lively for that time. 

Great! Here's one more: 

Wonderful gift

A wedding was held in December 7th. After this, they started to live together in a new house like a castle. The time they arrived there was midnight but they were excited to live together in the house. So they walked around in the house as if they did an adventure. A few minutes later, they came in bathroom. Then, suddenly, they found someone push a hand to its door. They were surprised and became scared. They also shouted loudly and escaped from the bathroom. At that moment, they heard the woman tell them that she wanted to wait and hear her story and its door opened. They found there was a beautiful woman who was about 25 years old. They stopped to escape and decided to hear her story. They all went to the living room together and she started to tell them about herself. 

When she woke up, she was in the forest with a white tiger. Then she lost her memory and didn't know why she was in the forest. She also didn't know why the tiger took to her. But suddenly, the tiger started to run to somewhere. Then she thought the tiger only knew herself. So she chased the tiger but of course, she couldn't catch up. Then she found she lost herself. After she walked for an hour, she found the house and entered because no one was in. Then she met them.

She told them that she would stay only this night and leave next morning. On the other hand, they asked her what she would do after that. She answered she would look for the tiger. After considering for a few minutes, they decided to look for the tiger together and let her stay here until she found the tiger. She was glad and said "thank you" again and again with tears. 

However, no one found the tiger after a week, a month, and a year. As a result. they had lived with her for a long time, so they thought of her as if she was their child. Therefore, no one ever found the tiger. Perhaps she was the one who might be a gift from God. 

That was an incredible story! Some good writing here. 

This is Part 1 of this collection. Part 2 will be next. So check it out! 

Images: Top - personal photograph/tiger -"White Bengal Tiger Face" (courtesy of anankkml)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

All rights reserved on personal photograph.

後学期の期末作文/2nd semester final writing assignment

Hello and Happy New Year!

How are you? I hope you had a great New Year's break! In this blogpost, I'll tell you about our final writing assignment for the fall semester (後学期).

Project
You have three (3) choices about your final writing project. Choose one (1) of them:

1. Write about a real unique, interesting, or special experience (経験) that happened to you. 

In the 6th writing assignment (作文6), you wrote stories about imaginary (想像上の) experiences that were unique or strange. 

For this topic choice, write about a unique, interesting, or special experience you really had, like a school trip or a holiday. It can be about any time of your life - it could be when you were a child, or it could be from when you were in high school - or even something that happened to you this year. 

I am gathering writing on this topic into a book called Places and Traces.  

2. Write about a unique, interesting, or special song, album, movie, or TV show. 

For this topic choice, write about a unique, interesting, or special song, album, movie, or TV show that you like. It can be about any kind of music, movie or TV program. Write about something that means a lot to you. 

For music, I am gathering writing on this topic into a book called Words on Music, and for movies and TV shows, I am thinking of a new book to gather them into - one I don't have a title for yet! 

3. Write about a special person. 

For this topic choice, write about a person who is special in your life - it could be your mother or father, or brother or sister, but it could also be someone who has influenced (影響した) you - a teacher when you were in elementary school (小学校) , or junior high school, for example. It could also be a famous person, like a singer or actor, or a sportsperson. 

I am gathering writing on this topic into a book called The Small Book of Big People. 

How much to write
How much do you write? I would like you to write as much as you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both this blog and in the books I talked about in class. 

I would like to see 3-4 paragraphs - and I would like to see you try to write the most that you can. Try to make your paragraphs longer - make each paragraph as long as you can. 

Deadline (締め切り)
Next week (1/18). Today, you can get to work on it in class, and keep working on it outside of class. 

Print it out and hand it in when you are finished. 

IMPORTANT NOTE
I want your file correctly formatted! Please see the handout I gave you about formatting your writing. Please check about formatting your Word file on your formatting handout.  

Good luck with this! I hope you can have fun with this, and enjoy writing!

Images: Top and bottom - personal photographs of public art in Nakano Ward, Tokyo. All rights reserved to the artists.