The Blog Quetionnaire

I did a survey of 5 people in my class about our blogs. The foolowinf is the result I asked Tomoyo, Yasuhiro, Yuka, Mai and Mayuko. Thenk you for cooperation!

1.Which topic do you like the best?
★Movie:3 ★Festival:2

2. How many links did you make in your blogs?
★11-20:1 ★21-30:3 ★more:1

3.How many links in English did you make?
★1-10:2 ★11-20:3


4.What is the most important point when you make your blogs?
★contents:3 ★color:2

5.How many comments do you usually lwave on your friend's blogs each week?
★1-2:2 ★3-4:3

6.How many friends do you have in your blogs?
★1-5:1 ★6-10:3 ★7 or more:1

7.Do you search the Internet in English?
★Yes, Always:1 ★Sometimes:4

8.How many pictures do you have in your blogs?
★5-10:2 ★11-15:3

Friend's Blog from Other Class

I chose the best 3 blogs from other class.


1st:Th3.012 Ki＊3

Her blog has many pictures, links, so it is easy for me to understand. I am interesterd in her blogs. Especially, I like her blog's title and design!!


2nd:Tu4.312 Attention Please!

I love her blog title! And I like her design, so I chose her blog. I think her blog is very intelligible for me.


3rd: TH4.705 Oops!!! I'm hungry...


This blog is coclorful, so it is wasy for me to look. I like the blog title very much! It is very interesting!!

Friend's Blogs

I chose 3 friend's blogs I think they are very good. They are...

1st: Yuka
Yuka's blog has many beautiful pictures, so I can understand well. It also has many links which are big and colorful letters. I like her layout.

2nd: Mari
Mari's blog has many beautiful pictures and links! Especially I like a picture of Canada's Blog. I became to be interested in things which Mari writed and want to know about them in detail.

3rd: Ayaka.Y
In Ayaka's blog, there are intelligent explanation, so it easy for me to understand well. And her blog's color is easy to read. I like her blog!

The reasons why I chose these blogs are that their blogs have many links and the explanation are very intelligible for me. I was very interested in many words which have links, I learned a lot of things I didn't know.

I want to make good blog like them!

Speech of New Zealand

Hello, I’m Miyu Kimura. I’ll talk about volcanoes in New Zealand and Japan.

First, in New Zealand, there are famous volcanoes in the Tongariro National Park. At there there is Mt.Ruapef, Mt.Ngaruhoe, and Mt.Tongariro. The highest mountain, Mt.Ruapefu is 2797m high and erupted in 1995 and 1996. But people can enjoy skiing and hiking at there.
In Japan, Mt.Fuji and Ontake-san are famous. Mt.Fuji is 3776m high and erupted in 1707. At Mt.Fuji, we can enjoy mountain climbing.

When you enjoy some activities, I recommend you to know about each mountain well and obey the rules.

Volcanoes in New Zealand

In New Zealand, there are the Northern Island and the Southern Island. Some volcanoes are in the Southern Island, because under the South Island, the Pacific plate tectonics is striking the India and Australian plate tectonics. Therefore in west of the Southern Island, they made volcanoes.

In one of the most famous national parks, the Tongariro National Park, there are three big volcanoes. They are Mt.Ruapefu (2797m), Mt.Ngauruhoe (2291m), and Mt.Tongariro (1968m). These volcanoes are active volcanoes, but people enjoy skiing and hiking. Are they dangerous? To keep safe, watch systems check these mountains.

From ancient times, Maori have believed and treasured that volcanoes erupted by sacred mountains which sent from hometown over the sea. But they thought that these mountains might be deprived, so head of Maori gave to Australia in 1894. It became one of the World Heritage Site in 1994. This park is famous for The Lord of the Rings.

Geography of New Zealand

New Zealand has glacier, fiord, steep mountains, plains, hills, primeval forests, volcanoes, white beach. What a strange!

New Zealand consists of two big islands,South Island nd North Island. In north Island, there are 9 volcanoes. In South Island, Southern Alps and Mt. cook which is the highest mountain of that. Its official name is “Aoraki” which means “cloud of peak” in Maori.

New Zealand extends on two plate tectonics, the Pacific tectonics and the Australia tectonics. This tectonics has moved, and earthquake and upheaval often happen, so there are a lot of natural dangerous. On the other hands, it makes hot springs and beautiful physiognomy.

Now there are about 150 hot springs in New Zealand, especially they are in South Island, because under the North Island two plate tectonics strike each other.

Speech of "Kichigai Matsuri"

Hello, everyone! I’m Miyu. We will talk about two “Kichigi “matsyri”. First, Yuu and I will tell you about “Kichigai Matsuri” in Japan. next、Daichi and Mayuko will tell you about it “Kichigai Matsyri” in Belgium and Texas.

Japanese “kIchigai Matstri” is held in Otsu city in Shiga in October. In fact, this festival is called “Nogamisai” by local people. Why do they hold this festival? It was in Kamakura era, there were Nitta Yoshisada and his wife. He was a commander. When his wife heard his death, she went mad and died after him. People think, “Let’s to the memory of her and imitate to be crazy like her!”, so they started to held this festival.