Rookies

Today, I want to tell you about my favorite TV Drama that I watched in Japan last summer.

The name of the drama is "Rookies" and it was broadcast ed from April to June 2008.

That drama was made by Japanese comics named "Rookies" that was published from 1998 and the writer was Masanori Morita who is one of the famous comic writer in Japan.

I've not read the comic but as my friend who was reading that said there were some difference between drama and the original comics.

And also there are many famous and popular actors on the drama.

I was interested in the storyline, so I watched on TV with my parents.

Now I'll tell you about the storyline for this drama.

The drama is about the high school students who played baseball.

In the beginning of it most of the baseball players fought each other and broke down glasses everyday at their school, because of their bad experience that the senior player knocked the head of the other team's pitcher by a bat.

But one day a new teacher came to their school to give some dreams for those students.

After he came, those baseball players started to change their minds by his words and bravery, and all players came back to the baseball team.

And they started to aim for Koshien which is the highest level baseball tournament for high school students in Japan.

I cannot tell you after they overcome their mind's problems, because I want you to watch this drama on TV and your computer by yourselves.

The movie of this drama series will open on May 30th this year!!

That will may be about the student's last year at the school and their graduation.

This is may be the final story of "Rookies", so I'll go to the cinemas in Japan during summer vacation with my friends to see.

I am so exiting about the movies!!!!

↓the casts of "Rookies"

Lacrosse Home Game

On March 18th, there was the boy's lacrosse game at the field of Manhattan ville college.
Keio NY against with Keio High school which is located in Japan.
Most of the players of Keio NY are 9th and 10th graders, but Keio student came from Japan were 11th and 12th students.
So the sizes of their bodies and height were different.
I have never watched lacrosse game since that day, so I was interesting about the game.
For example how to start the game and how to get some points.
That was fantastic game!!!!
I have never knew that boy's lacrosse is the dangerous sport, they were beating each other by their sticks that have a pocket.
As a result, Keio NY lose that game, but may be they could learn about playing a lot.
I think that was a nice experience for them.



Now I want to tell you about Lacrosse a little.
10players may play in the game at one time, and there are some different positions.
Each of the different position's player have different shaped or size cross.
The team that shoot the ball into the goal , that team gets one point in each goals.
The role of lacrosse is similar to the rule of American football and ice hokey.






I want to cheer them on for the season games start in April!

i-pod touch

Today I want to introduce about i-pod touch which is the music player made by APPLE.

That was sold by APPLE which is one of the most largest computer and high technology company all over the world.

I was bought i-pod nano 2nd generation in December 2006 by my parents for my Christmas present.

But it has a smaller screen, and the users cannot use the Internet by this player.

So I want a new music player like i-pod touch.

I-pod touch isn't the newest music player, but it has a very big size screen.

And also we can use the Internet, and keep the movies and dramas for 8 hours!
The most interesting point of this player is we control the player by touching the screen.

I've never tried that kind of machine, so I am so interesting about that.

Another music players made by APPLE are also great.

The newest player is i-pod shuffle which is shuffle the musics in the player by itself.

So if you don't want to choose your music on each time, you must buy it.

It is so smaller and lighter than the others.

I-pod nano is also great player.

There are many kinds of color such as orange and purple.

It is small and it can keep musics in the player a lot, and cheaper than i-pod touch.

But it hasn't the large screen like i-pod touch.

I am negotiating with my parents about i-pod touch.
If they let me buy that, I'll go to APPLE store in White Plains on the weekends with my friends.

Keio NY rugby team had a home game(scrimmage) on last Sunday.
That was the first time to see live rugby game.
Keio won that game very easily, but they looked so tired after the game.
I have watched some rugby games on TV in Japan with my father, because the rugby team of my father's college is good at rugby.
So I know about some rules of rugby.
Keio University has the strongest rugby team in Japan and many professional players who are playing in Japanese League were the graduates of this team.


Today I want to introduce the rule of rugby.
Players cannot throw behind the player, they have to throw a rugby ball behind the player.
That is the biggest difference between rugby and American football.
Players make good passes and run to the goal where the Poul is standing to get points.
That is called TRY, and the team gets 5 points by TRY.
After TRY, the kicker let kick the rugby ball to the Poul.
If the ball go throw between of the Poul, the team gets 2 points.
There are 2 types of positions, forward and backs like football, and each players on the field have different job to get the score.
And 15 players can play one at the time.
The other difference between rugby and football is the protectors of each players.
In football, all players must wear the helmet and they put on thick and heavy protectors in their uniform.
But in rugby, the players do not wear the protectors like football, they wear thinner protectors than football in their uniform.
And also the shape of ball is rare shape like this picture.

I want to see home rugby games next time with my friends.

Sky Trip

We have 4 days break from 2/28 to 3/3 because of the entrance exam.
During this break, many students went to Killington, Vermont for skiing.

We took a bus from Keio to Killington hotel, and it took about 5hours.
I have been to ski since I was 11 years old, so I was so exited to ski there.
There were Meany courses for biginner and professional skier.
I took some lessons there, and I learmed how to ski easily and also how to warm up our bodies when the outside is cold.
The instractor of this lesson took a video that we were skiing, and in the afternoon the students of the lesson checked out the form of our skiing.
I have never seen my skiing form, so it was so precious exparence for us.

I went to the peak of Killington Mts with my friends, the view from the peak was so beautiful.
There were a lot of another mountains that are covered with snow.
Many skiers that have the high skill for skiing skied there, and I was afraid to ski the moutain.
But it was very exiting and safty course, so after I skied there me and my friends wanted to try the same moutain again.
On that day, we skied the mountain for 3 times.

Some other place that we were impressed was the shop that sold waffles at the bottom of the moutain.
The waffle of that store was so delicious, and we ate them once a day during this travel.
I want to eat it again when I will go to there next year.

I want to visit there with my friends next year, and we would like to try another moutains that have more sharpness.