#4 Homework

1. Time is money.
Certainly. To earn money, I think that time, physical strength, and willpower are necessary.
According to circumstances, it can be said as wasting of it money to waste time.

2.A stitch in time saves nine.
This word strikes me deeply. I do an unpleasant thing to the extension ahead inadvertently.
However, it grows serious at the end if those problems are straightened.
The effort is accumulation of every day.
I want to straighten out that problem even little by little every day.

3.There's no time like the present.
This is an important word for me.
When this word is hit on for me who moves by intuition, it is the end.
It is stopped by nobody.
Say very much by whoever, I will begin to move.

4. Fashionable late.
It is a welcome proverb for me that it is a lot of immediately before late.
I think that it is not necessary to gather fit at time if it is things except work.
But except work!!!

#8 Homework

It is difficult to hold a large-scale wedding in Japan. However, the problem is not a scale. I think that it is important that those who sponsor it and the invited guest be satisfied.
My wedding has not been imagined. However, the ideal is to hold a small wedding only putting on a simple strapless dress, and privately if forced to say.
The reason why the dress is simple is that I like simple. The reason that was not a wedding large-scale was written up.
And I thought teacher's wedding was very wonderful.

About Superstitions

I don't think it's not important to talk about superstitions. Because I am groundless, I don't believe it.
So I cut my nails at midnight. But my parents don't like it. My mother frown when I cut my nails at night.

Homework #3

1. Do you judge people according to what they wear? Why?

Sometimes I judge people. Because I think that the clothes shows liking, character,
their living standard. If someone wear fancy clothes. I may think that the person must like
vintage clothes. And someone always wear brand name-goods, I think that someone must
be rich or brand-conscious. Because The rich people can spend much money
for clothes because they well of.


2. Do you think Japanese society puts an importance on clothing
when judging other people from another country?

I would feel funny If I were foreign. Because many young Japanese people dress up 　　　　　　
　 anywhere, anytime. For example, I saw one young couple in the theme park.
She was wearing high heels so I gazed at her! Even Japanese,We sometimes feel
strange. `Japanese is strange.'


3. What colors are you wearing now? Do they reflect your mood?

I wear the clothes with black. I can calm down when I wear black clothes.
Particularly, I usually wear black clothes during the winter.

Homework #2

1. Death and Funerals

a: Yes, I have. If my international friend's family member died,
I condole with the family, and encourage. And I will talked about the memory of deceased.

b: I have not never been to a foreign funeral. But I have seen the scene of funeral in the movie.
Then, I noticed one difference. We, Buddihist don't go to the grave if someone died. At least
40days, we keep putting ashes near the buddihist altar in the house.
On the other hand, some foreign countries burry a coffin into dust.


2.The language of Clothes

a: I have one idea though I don't think crazy about clothes. These days, many Japanese women don't marrige soon, work few years after graduate university. While they work, they enjoy themselves life. The salary is used for own hobby, deposit by them. Especially, they spend
the money on designer label's clothes or brand-name goods. Therefore, some designers label
are targeted for a career women such like that.

b: I think that the meaning of this sentence is anything had better not judge how it looks.
For example, I think that I shoud't to judge a person how they looks. But sometimes I do
impulse buying when I find nice clothes. So, I feel deeply moved by this sentence.

Home Work # 1

1. "wrapping"

I usually wrap the lunch box with the napkin or print cloth.

From now, I will show you how to wrap the lunch box with napkin.

First, I unfold the napkin and put the lunch box on the napkin.

Next, there are 4 corners in the napkin. I lift one corner and the other side.

Third, I knot one corner and the corner opposite. And I knot two corners of napkin together again. There is an important thing that should take care when making a knot. It is important to make a knot twice though there are two process of making a knot here. Because it is not easy to untie a knot with the thing connected twice. Japanese call Catamusbi this.


2. "Death and Funerals"

a : I go to my house when I die. Because I seems that I could settle down to die.

b: Because many people believe in buddhism in Japan. Buddhist tradition has established a ritual series of memorial services. Especially the 77days is called the 49th or manchu-in and assumed to be an especially important. India has the thought of transmigration of the soul and
the people have the idea that to which world it is reborn as follows on 49 days after person's death is decided.