Sports Trip

My son came home from a table tennis trip with his high school team mates. He left home on May 2nd. 

First, he headed to Gifu prefecture. He visited Asahi university there. He played with college top players. 

He went to Kanszawa next. He visited Yugakukan High School. The team is the top 4 high school team. 

And the last day, he went to Osaka-Toin high school. 

He said that he had a good experience. He will take part in the qualifier for Inter High School next month. It would be a big event for him. I'm sure this experience will help his performance at the games.  

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My Son's Trip

My son came home from a week of table tennis trip. He went to Fukushima and Osaka. The National High School Table Tennis 

Team Championships was held in Fukushima. His school advanced to the top 16. He was not a regular player, though. A local high school table tennis tournament was held in Osaka. He could take part in the tournament.  

It was the first time he traveled such a long time. He looked tired, but it might be a good experience for him. 

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Table Tennis Journey

My son will take part in a national high school table tennis tournament in Fukushima. After the event, he will move to Osaka for another table tennis tournament. The seven days journey would be so much fun for my son. 

I hope he will enjoy the events and perform well as much as he can. 

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A Trip for a Tournament

My son has traveled to a distant city for three days. He is talking part in a high school table tennis tournament. This is his first match in high school. He would be excited for the trip with his teammates. 

It is not easy to win the tournament because he is only a freshman and there are many competent players there. I hope he performs well as much as he can. 

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Volunteer Guiding

I've thanks to joined an English volunteer guide group in my city, Matsue, without taking any English tests since last year. I also wasn't asked my TOEIC score or Eiken grades. Looking around the other members, there are many retired English teachers or majored in English. I have to study English and the castle more. 

Our main work is guiding foreign visitors to Matsue Castle in English. Yesterday was the last time this year because we are off in the winter. I was at the information desk almost once a month. But in my turns, I didn't have any opportunities to guide a visitor to the castle. Of course there are lots of foreign visitors here, but many of them are come from Taiwan, Korea and China. 

Matsue is an inconvenient city to come from big cities in Japan because of lack of traffic facilities. But other than that, my city is a good place to visit. We have historical remains, buildings and tasty food from the Japanese sea, Lake Shinji and farmers around the city. 

I would like to do something to increase the number of visitors here from around the world. What should I do for that?

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Happiest Childhood Memory

What is your happiest childhood memorie?

My happiest childhood memorie is a family trip to Hiroshima when I was in the sixth gread at elementary school. That was a special travel for me. 

It was not only the first family trip for my money but also the last one for my family.

Shortly before the trip, I was supposed to go to Hiroshima for school trip, but I couldn't. That was because I had a high fever at that time, so the doctor didn't allow me to go to the trip. I was really disappointed. My parents felt sorry for the absence, so they gave me a family travel to Hiroshima instead. 

Before the travel, our family went trip several times, but since I was little I wasn't able to remember anything about the events. The travel to Hiroshima was a special memory for me. 

A little about my city

I live in Matsue, Shimane prefecuture. The population here is 150,000 so Matsue is not a big city. You can easily find convinience stores but we have NO starbucks here until this year. Because of the few population we don't have good pubric transportation. Many adults own a car even very old person.
 Here, we have the sixth largest lake in Japan, called Lake Shinji. The lake is famous for beautiful sunsets and yamato shijimi, a kind of clam, and its water is brackish.
Matsue also faces the Japanese sea. Many kinds of fresh fish are sold at local fish markets. You can eat tasty sashimi or other sea products here.
Our city has a 400-year-old Japanese style castle called Matsue-jo. This castle is the second largest, the third tallest (30m) and the sixth oldest one in Japan. You can tour the inside of the castle and see the whole city from the top floor. In Spring, you can see beautiful cheree blossoms there.
If you like tasty sea food and are interested in old Japanese castles, why don't you come here!