Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Today we did some debates on our essays. I was in the same group with Yuga, Shantonu, Saori, and Natsuko.
Shantonu's topic was about economy and it was difficult for me to understand because I don't know much about economics...:( However I think we did good, active debates today. And thanks to them, I felt that my three reasons for my thesis statement got stronger.

I'm so hungry now and I really need to find more English sources.....

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Oh I forgot to write blog posts on Friday and Monday.

On Friday, we worked on our own essays and Rab helped us with giving advices. I need more English sources and have to search more about law. Law... I don't have any interest in them but I think I have to write something about it to make my essay more convincing.

On Monday, we discussed OMS. Rab told us that Hemingway was a conservationist while he loved hunting. That's kind of a contradiction but someone in my discussion group said that Hemingway loved hunting only in his youth and later he became a conservationist. In the last half of the class we discussed animals and the nature. Since I was just writing a report for my Life Science class about animal testing on drugs and cosmetics, it helped me think a lot. Actually I watched Earthlings yesterday and it was very shocking. I really felt bad watching lots of animals being killed. I thought that everyone should watch them to recognize that animals feel pain as well as humans.

Today we discussed OMS again. It was really difficult for me to find Hemingway's political views because I felt that the story had nothing to do with politics. After the discussion, we did some debate on OMS. I really really enjoyed debating with Shantonu, Kana and Tomoya. We talked about whether the story is a happy ending story or a sad story. I never felt that OMS is a happy ending story but Shantonu was different. Anyway, it was very interesting to discuss that topic. Exchanging opinions is interesting and fun!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

PWT test is over!

We had our class outside on Wednesday because it was a beautiful sunny day. We learned and discussed Hemingway and The Old Man and the Sea. I'm very interested to find how the story is connected to his biography or the history of Cuba.

Well, I was quite shocked when I knew that Hemingway wrote that the sea is like women because it sometimes can't control itself. I was really shocked to hear that women didn't have their rights to vote because they get crazy once a month. I know women gets crazy once a month and I found that Hemingway didn't have good relationships with women. But I think it's important for men to understand these things and help women as possible as they can. aaargh I can't express my feelings exactly in words but this is the reason why I am interested in gender studies.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Today Rab told us that we should start reading The Old Man and the Sea. I actually have tried to read it in Japanese about one year ago but I gave up in 30 pages because I thought it was boring... Well I think it's easier to read it in English. I hope I won't give it up!

Rab also told us our PWT test scores. I was glad that the score which the teacher gave to me was not so different from the score which I gave to myself. I saved Rab's time ;)

We worked on our essays in the ILC building for the rest of today's class. I think I have to do more research on my topic. Well I have to do the 3Bs on OMS first. Good night!