TOEFL

TOEFL is "Test of English as a Foreign Language." People outside north America have to take this test if they want to enter a university in the U.S.  Full score of TOEFL is 120. TOEFL consists of 4 section, reading, listening, speaking and writing. Each section has 30 points. It is needed to get score higher than at least 100 if you want to enter top universities such as Harvard, MIT and so on. My last score was 89. 25 for reading and listening and 18 for speaking and 21 for writing. As you can see, my biggest problem is in speaking section. I think I have a plenty of opportunities to speak English because I have friends who can speak English and I speak with them almost everyday. In addition, I speak with Filipino almost everyday using skype. It is an online English scool called rarejob. My teachers are all very kind and highly-motivated to teach English. All of them speak English very fluently and I think their pronunciation is almost perfect even though English is a second language for them. I don't know how much effort they have made ever and how much effort I have to make from now to acquire same  level of command... As I mentioned, I speak English almost everyday. However, I found that I need a special training for TOEFL because it doesn't examine conversational skill but logical skill. And it is difficult to get this skill without special training. Now I'm thinking of going special school for TOEFL. It seems that they teach how to get high score. Their method is very simple. They give us several templates of answer. What exam taker do is to list key words in preparation time and fill out templates with those key words. It sounds easy even though I doubt how it will be helpful after you start your life in the U.S. I'll definitely post articles about TOEFL in the future.

A tennis game

I belong to a tennis club of my company. Our team belongs to tennis league where we play against other companies' tennis club. Each league has five teams and we play agains 4 teams. If we can be first position, we can move up to a higher league.  There are 10 grades of league and now we are in 7th league. Last Sunday, I lost first time this season, and today I lost again... I know that one of the reasons that I lost is that I didn't practice enough. But still it is sad when we lose... But I don't have a time to practice... Ummm, what shoud I do...

A suitcase for a trip

I came back to Japan from a trip to Hawaii last Friday. After arriving at the Narita airport, I looked for my suitcase but I couldn't find it. Yes, my suitcase was not delivered to Japan properly! The day after an arrival, a flight company delivered it to my home. However, my suit case was broken! A handle was lost... I'm a little bit happy about this incident coz I can buy a new suitcase. It is a good reason for me to buy a new suitcase. I have been wanting to have Samsonite Oyster suitcase because I think it's design is cool although it was first released on the market a few decades ago. I believe that good design never lose it's brilliance. Unfortunately, we can't buy Samsonite Oyster here in Japane no longer coz they stop manufacturing it. I searched the internet and found out that I can get it in the U.S. through online store. However, it seems that they don't ship it to Japan. Can anyone ship it for me ? :P  Just kidding. There are many companies which receive items you order from online stores in the U.S. and the companies ship them to you. Of course those companies have offices in the U.S.

First Post!

I know I am a person who can't keep writing diary even for a few days but I decided to start blog. First reason is that i think it is helpful for learning English, especially writing skill. Yes, my English is poor so you may feel strange about my Engilsh... Second reason is that i can keep track of my daily life. After several years, if I can keep this blog, this blog will remind me of my past days.

As for the title, it doesn't have any deep meaning. I just like a wallaby coz they are peaceful and lazy animals. In addition, this title has a good rhyme, i think, even though I'm not a rapper..