Introduction

My name is Maiko. I'm in the third year. I'm taking English Literature as my major.



I am from Ibaraki prefecture. It is more than 2 hours away from here by car. I like there but I like Tokyo as well, because I get to go to a lot of places, could meet a lot of people here. Living in Ibaraki is so different from living in Tokyo. For example,every time when I go out, I need to drive a car instead of taking a train. There are a lot of places to go around to kill time or hang out with my friends in Tokyo, but Ibaraki has much less places to go. The best reason why I like Ibaraki is that I can relax in Ibaraki. That is because it is where I was born, where I grew up, got to see my precious friends and also because of the environment there. There are river near my house and it only takes 10 minutes to go to beach by car. No one cares about me even if I walk in my pajamas with my dog around my house. People living there are more friendly than people in Tokyo and living their own ways.


My hobbies are body boarding, going shopping, relaxing at home and listening to music such as R&B and House music. As for body boarding, I just started, but I'm getting into it. I got to know about it when I went to Guam last summer. I used to go shopping very much before, but now I don't have a part-time job, so I can't go shopping as many times as before. And I got to think saving money is more important for me than spending all of money for clothes and other things. Because if I save money, I can travel abroad whenever I have time. Every weekend I like to stay at my house and sleep as long as I want. I used to go out everyday, but now it is so easy for me to get tired every time I go out. So just staying at my house and watching movies is the best way to spend weekends. I sometimes ask my friends in America and Australia what music is out and popular in their countries. I prefer listening to music from other countries to that from Japan.



I like travelling abroad. Wherever I go, I prefer being near the ocean. I used to like getting tanned, but now I care about my skin. I have been to Australia last year, I stayed there about for 3 weeks. I went to the beach almost everyday. The beach was much clearer than the one in Japan. I really liked the beach in Australia. I realized that it was so hard to stay in another country with different language.


I would like to learn about a lot of themes in " Media English" class.