-Facebook, Yay or Nay?-

Hello.

Today, I’m going to write about my opinion about Facebook.

Recently, one MSN site is becoming popular. The name of it is Facebook. I think many people have heard about it already, because it is the most famous MSN site all over the world. On Facebook, we use real name. We also use our own picture on it. It is really easy to take contact the friends who haven't met long time or living in far place. However, Facebook can cause many problems.

The first problem is fraud. According to the Facebook rules, we are required to use our own name and picture. However, there are many people who don’t follow the rules. Farther more, some people use different picture or information to get other people’s information. The aim of it is for using the information for crime. The people who are using Facebook need to know well about the privacy setting and not to accept the add message from unknown person.

Next, Facebook’s slung affect many students to use wrong spell words. For example, on Facebook, we usually use ASAP or TTYL. ASAP’s meaning is “as soon as possible”. TTYL’s meaning is “talk to you later”. They are easy to write and save time, but people should keep in mind that they are slung. Being careful about the difference of the slung and collect word can reduce the number of students who fail on their assignment.

Finally, using Facebook too much can influence people to be an outsider. People could west their time to spend with their friends in real world. In my opinion, the most important communication is face to face. It’s not sure that people can take communication on Facebook can communicate with real people in real world. We take communication in work place too. It is very important in our lives, so we should not lose the chance to improve our communication skill.


In conclusion, facebook could be harmful if people don't use in collect way. Everyone needs to be careful while they use Facebook or not it is able to be in trouble and affected their life by it. By using Facebook in collect way, people can enjoy it as much as possible.

-Diana-

-When I lied-

Hello.

Today, I’m going to write about the story when I lied to my parents.

It was when I was secondary grade of elementary school student. At that time, I was used to going to cram school after I finished my classes at school. One day, when I was going back from cram school to my home with my friend and my brother, an accident happened.

I was hit by a car. It was my brother’s fault because he stopped me while I was passing the road that doesn’t have traffic light. The driver asked me many times if I’m okay or not. My brother was just standing near of the car without saying anything. I was trying to show them how I was fine smiling, but they seemed scared, so I decided to keep it secret. We neither called police nor did we call ambulance.

 Actually it was really hard to hide about the accident because my foot was broken and it had nice pain. I was hiding it by keep talking, but finally I couldn’t stand the pain. I said to my mother that my foot hurts. She saw my foot and surprised. It was purple and swollen.

 We went to a hospital immediately. My parents and a doctor asked me what happened to me, so I lied to them. I said them that I kicked a big rock when I was kicking small one like a soccer ball. Of course the doctor was suspicious about me, but I didn’t change my saying and I just continued to say same thing. At that time, I felt really bad, but I wanted to finish it just as my fault.

 I haven’t say the truth to my parents yet. Some of my friends know about it, but not my parents. The doctor might notice about the truth but maybe he considered why I lied to my parents. I don’t like to lie to people, but maybe I’ll keep it secret forever to my parents even they might noticed about it… :( I’m so sorry, mom and dad… (＞_＜。)

-Last Saturday-

Hello.

Today, I'm going to write about my first snowboarding.

1 week ago, on Saturday, I had an activity to go to snowboarding and skiing at my English Learning Program, IEP. We went to Falcon Ridge. At the first, we met up at University at 9:00 a.m. and got into the bus to go the place. It took around 2 hours to get to the place, so during I was on the bus, I tried to sleep, because I'm not good at rides and also I was so tired because at the one day before, I went to skating as an IEP activities.

It was my first time to do snowboarding, so I was so exciting about it. Actually, I didn't have snow wear but I went to buy it one day before. After we got ready to snowboarding, my friends and I took lunch, because we wanted to continue snowboarding without break.

Shiho; one of my friend, taught other 2 friends and me, because we are all beginner except Shiho. She taught us how to attach the board and boots, how to stand up and how to go ahead. When we went to near of the hill, I thought that the hill was not high. I even thought that it is really low, but I was wrong. Just to get to the top of the hill, it was really hard. Using the lift was much hard than go up by walking. I couldn't stand to hold the rope, so at the middle of the hill I let go of the rope and I couldn't go to up. I even fell down and my friend; Mei, helped me to stand up. After that I went to the top of the hill by climbing.

When I saw the view from the top, I was so scared by it. I thought I'm going to die, so I was sitting there for a long time. At that time, the stuff of the place came, so I asked her to teach me how to go down the hill. She taught me, but I couldn't follow her. The thing that I learned from her was "Break the snow", but I didn't know what the break’s meaning is...  I even didn't know in Japanese, it was really difficult to understand in English.

I think the time that I was sitting on the top of the hill was much longer than doing snowboarding... :(  Some people taught me how to go down the hill, and repeating many times, finally I became able to go down the hill.

Because I bought ski jacket and my brother will give me a snowboard, I’m almost ready to go to snowboarding after I go back to Japan :) I hope someday I’ll be able to enjoy snowboarding from the bottom of my heart… :D haha