Blog Assigmment #67 by Ayaka

Today's theme is Challenges! My challenge is make an active effort to talk to American.I couldn't understand English very well,so I was a little afraid that I talked in English.I came to be able to talk now than before but I still don't talk very much.The study abroad is only two week.I have to talk a lot! Latery,I talk with a roommate well.She came to see our dance in I Fes.In I fes,I talked with the people of many countries.When before I coming here,I said, I make fifty friends.I could make many friends.I want learn English and other country's culture.So It is very good for me that I could make friends with the people of other countries.I have to learn more.I want to keep trying to improve myself.

Blog Assignment #67 by Tsukina

I really wanted to learn American culture and wented to learn English grammar. When I live in Japan, I loved America, because America is attractive. For example everything is colorful and pop. I love there things. But it was just my image maybe these are different from my image I think. Some my images were different from real, but almost all my images are real. I can find these point because I live in America.

Also my English grammar was so bad, because I didn't study hard. Also I didn't know how to study English. After I came here, I have studied basics English grammar. My English class helped my English grammar also. My goal is to study correct English grammar and become good English speaker. I am not good English speaker yet. So I have to study English more and more. 

Blog assignment #67 by Ayana

Hello. I want to write about my two challenges which I had to overcome this semester. I try to talk with other people who does not know about him. I think most of Japanese is to be afraid of strangers. I am a person whom it is easy for to become bashful in front of strangers. I try to read the paper which is written in English. I like to read in English. I am not like to read English. It was so different from Japanese. Kanji is easy to suggest to relate a meaning of a word to a word of an unknown meaning. I sometimes strain the meaning of a word. I think that it is important to guess the meaning of unknown words from the context. I had a great time here. I will never forget what happen here. I want to keep it in my mind.

Blog Assignment #67 by Kanae

Today, I’m going to write about two challenges that I had to overcome this semester.
Firstly, I had to understand English. I came to America to learn English and to know American culture. I’m the worst at English, so I want to develop my English ability while I’m in America. I was able to accomplish it a little. I think that I’m able to understand English better in comparison with I had just come to America.
Secondly, I had to get over being shy. Many Japanese are shy. Of course I’m shy, too. I thought that I talked to many people, because I get over being shy. However, I’m still shy. I’m told a lot that I’m shy. It was hard to talk to many people for me, but I was able to talk with some people, so I had some new friends at UAFS. It’s pleasant to talk with people who isn’t Japanese! It was very interesting to felt the difference with Jaoanese. I was able to enjoy this semester very much!

Blog assignment #67 by Akari

I think I'm not shy in Japan but I'm shy in America. American people are not shy so they speak a lot and they speak loud voice. So I think my challenge is speaking English more. I hadn't my roommate so I hadn't more opportunity than other international students. But I made friends at cab camp so I should have talked many times! 

I also have to study English grammar and vocabulary. I can't speak English well because I haven't confidence. So I have to study English more and I want to have confidence. I I studied English slang this semester so it become my part of confidence. I want to study more. 

I went to the church on Sunday last weekend. This was my first time to visit the church. I didn't know the church is near here so I wanted to go to the church more! Because the church is good place to learn American culture,English,and conversation. People who visit the church are very kind so I could talk many things. 

Blog Assignment #67 by Sai

I am going to write about my challenges. I was shy when I came in the America, but I thought that I became not shy. I thought that I became talk a lot. I was silent in japan. I seldom talk myself in japan. I have some friends in university. I hear the talk in many cases. However, I couldn’t hear the talk someone, because I could not understand the talk. So, many people asked some question for me, then I have to answer question. There are many opportunity since I answered for question. I thought I became not shy. And, I became laud voice when I talk with people. I was small voice when I talk or announce something, but American were very big voice when we talk. In cafeteria, there are many American were big voice to talk. We couldn’t hear the talk, sometimes. I thought I overcome two my challenges.

Blog Assignment #67

Topic	Challenges! (50 points)
# of word	Minimum 150 words, no more than 200 words
Due Date	11:59 pm on Friday, November 21, 2014
Assignment	What are two challenges you had to overcome this semester? How did you overcome them? Did somebody help you overcome them? How long did it take you to overcome those challenges? *** Don’t Forget! *** Also, I would like each of you to comment on another friend's blog post. It can be an old blog post or today's blog post. Follow the link “How to post a Blog” in resources to see how to make a new post. Draft this assignment into Microsoft Word or similar software and make sure you do not have any spelling mistake.
Additional resources	Spell check in Word (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SKJYVE9eE How to post on blogger https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41378?hl=en