Hong Kong was wonderful, actually except the air pollution. Especially the food was nice. So we were always full with Dim Sum, delicious desert or many other things.The scenery was good too. We watched the illumination show of the buildings from the ship. How beautiful it was! Watching it, I felt the powerful energy of Hong Kong.

Unexpected experience also waited for us. It is soooo many Japanese products! The first time I entered the supermarket in Hong Kong, I wonder, ‘am I really in Hong Kong now?’Honestly, you don’t have to bring Japanese things as a souvenior at all when you visit Hong Kong. 

Moreover, the funniest moment was finding Daiso, the Japanese shop that everything is available at 100yen. When my friend bought a wallet, I didn’t know how much it was. Because the tag said 100yen. What do you think about this? The answer is………..36pataca. (The shop was in Macau.) It was very strange that buying a Japanese thing with Macau money at Japanese store in Macau. yeah…. It is very international, isn’t it?

On my way home , there were a lot of rice field. At the beginning of June, I thought the time was so, rice were planted. They were very short sticking their head a bit from the ground left the same space between them. And when it breezed softly, they all together waved pleasantly. It was so beautiful scene as a picture. 

Then, someone lives in there! Do you know who? They were very attractive for us children because they transfigured themselves a little every time we meet them. Yes! They are tadpoles!! When we found them in the water of rice field, we put off our bags and squatted down over the water to see them closely. And we dipped our hands into the water silently wondering if they notice us. Feeling the comfortablenss of the cold water, we waited the tadoples came over our open hand. The moment they do, we got off our hands abruptly from water. The tadopples swam around our hands. Maybe they were in panic! That is one of my memory on my way home.

 With Podcast, we can study listening English with our own sentences. This is very significant. If we don’t know about Podcast, we have to look for someone who can speak English like a native speaker and ask he/her to spare me the time. It must be difficult!!!  Futhermore, we can listen as much as we can, so we don’t need to bring the recorder to he/her.

Listening the sentences we ourselves wrote must be a lot of fun! That makes writing English a lot of fun too!!!

Students can be interested in English adn foreign cultures at an early age.

There is a hypothesis that we can never acquire English as a native speaker after the critical period.

Students can improve their aural oral skills.

Students will not hesitate to speak English.

Disagreement

If students have a couple of English classes in a week but have no chance to speak English outside the school, they will not be good at speaking English

Unless we change the ways of studying English at junior high school level, it makes no difference even if they start studying English at the elementary school.

Some people acquire native- like proficiency in English after the citical period.

Students should study Japanese rather than English at an elementary school level.