Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

How do you do? My name is Kayoko Ohwada. Please call me kayo.

I'm a sophomore at Chuo Gakuin University and a member of Dr. Ichiro

Shiina's seminar.

I started my study of accounting there last year.

I have four people in my family..

My father is gentle with my family.

My mother is a good cook.

My younger brother is a member of the soccer team at his high school.

He is a goal keeper.

My hobby is playing the piano.

I hope do my best to be good this class.

Sincerely yours.

Kayoko Ohwada.　

Dear Kayo,

　Thank you for The first message sent on Date: 15 May 98 16:03:19.

Every week I will send your message back to you.

My corrections of your English will be under your sentences. I will

usually rewrite the whole sentence.

I will also make comments on what you tell me each week. I will try to

keep my comments short!

Each week we will send a new lesson. The lessons are usually about

accounting in the U.S. However, this week the lesson is about

technology. I use Netscape Navigator as my Internet browser. I use

Word97 to type documents. This message has two attachments.

The attachments are identical. One is sent as a Word97 file. The other

is sent as plain text. Please tell me if you were able to open the

attachments. If yes, please answer the questions. If you can open both

attachments, please answer only one set of questions.

　Your brother has a hard job as goalie for his soccer team! They must be

always watching and ready.

What piano music do you like to play? How many years have you studied

piano?

　This is an attachment to the first message. Please tell me in your next message:

1. That you were able to open and read this plain text attachment.

2. What Internet browser do you use?

3. What word processing software do you use for

a. English documents?

b. Japanese documents?　

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

　 Thank you for your message sent on.

I'm sorry that my first message was full of spelling and grammar

mistakes.

I was to decrease my mistakes.

I answer your question about my introduction.

I will answer your question about my introduction.

My mother cooks many foods, but my special favorite is beef stew.

It has a very good taste.

I studied piano for ten years, starting when I was five years old.

I usually play the classical music on the piano but sometimes play

the popular music.

My favorite composer is Chopin.

I like play his tune.

I can open the plain text and read it.

I use Netscape Navigator as my Internet browser.

I use Word97 and Ichitaro as word processing software.

Word97 if for English documents and Ichitarou is for Japanese documents.

Sincerely yours. Kyo.

Kayo, I already sent you a message that told you where to find the new

lesson for this week. It is on a web page at the University of

Delaware. This is the site:

http://udel.edu/~38555/lesson2.html

This is Memorial Day weekend. Please see the plain text attachment for

more about Memorial Day.

Memorial Day

This is Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day is a national holiday. We remember friends and family who have died. We especially remember those who died in a war or were soldiers some time during their lives. Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Mo

　Many towns have parades. Many families have picnics and family gatherings. Our town has a parade, but we do not go to it. The streets are too crowded. It is too hard to see the people on parade. Instead, we stay home, and cook hot dogs and hamburg

This site

http://members.xoom.com/web_lady/memorial

tells something about Memorial Day. I like this site because the music in the background is a group of patriotic songs. You do not need to read this page.

Here is another site about Memorial Day.

http://www.dcpages.com/Memorial/index.html

It has some excellent pictures.

Memorial Day began at the end of the last century. It was a way of honoring those who died in the U.S. Civil War. The cemeteries were cleaned. Flowers and U.S. flags were put at the gravesites.

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

Thank you for your message and English corrections.

Memorial Day is a very interesting thing.

We Japanese have a similar event.

This is O-bon, in the middle of August.

O-bon isn't a national holiday,

but the days are during summer vacation

and almost no one goes to work.

Many people return to their home towns from all over the country.

Then the trains and roads are very crowded.

In this period family members get together.

And then, people clean up their families' graves.

We offer incense sticks and flowers.

I'm looking forward to O-bon, because the O-bon Festival

is held in many places.

We sometimes wear Yukatas.

A Yukata is a simple kimono.

We are from different races, but we have a similar culture.

I can find 53 categories and 3,086 sites for accounting.

　Sincerely yours,

Kayo

Dear Kayo,

　Thank you for your third message sent on > Date: 29 May 98 16:08:33.

This is the second of two messages from me this week. Both messages are

my reply to your third message.

About O-bon:

Thanks, Kayo, for telling me about O-bon. I have never seen the

festival. I heard about it, though. One of the faculty members at

Villanova returns to her birthplace sometimes to celebrate O-bon. It

sounds like a wonderful festival.

When you celebrate O-bon, Kayo, are you in your hometown? Is that the

same town where your parents grew up? Do you always visit the

gravesites when you celebrate O-bon?

In the US, we do not always visit the gravesites during Memorial Day

weekend. Often, our relatives are buried far away from where we live.

My cousin is a three-hour car ride away from the family cemetery. She

has the tradition of planting new flowers at the family cemetery every

year. I am glad she does that. My sister and I each live more than ten

hours away from the family cemetery. We cannot make the trip.

About Yukatas:

Some people in the US use yukata fabric to make quilts. I have seen

pictures of the quilts. The fabric is lovely.

About your search engine:

Which search engine did you use to find the hits on "accounting?"

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

Thank you for your message and Englis corrections.

About O-bon

I celebrate O-bon in August 13, 14, 15.

I return to my hometown.

My hometown is Hitachinaka City in Ibaraki prefecture.

Ibaraki is located in the Kanto area.

Both my parents and I grew up there.

I go to our family cemetery every year.

My family cemetery is a fifteen-minute car ride away from my house.

Japanese often go to ancestors' graves, but O-bon is a special event,

because we believe that the spirits of our ancestors return at O-bon.

Sincerely yours,

Kayo　

Dear Kayo,

　Thank you for your fourth message sent on > Date: 05 Jun 98 12:07:13.

　Thank you for the explanation, Kayo. Now I know more about O-bon.

This year has given us much strange weather. Part of Pennsylvania near

here had a tornado. That is very rare here.

This website tells about tornadoes:

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4232/

If you click on "Photo Gallery," you can see several pictures of

tornadoes. The photo gallery loads very slowly, however. It has very

many graphic images. The tornado pictured as the background of the main

page is scary enough for me!

This page shows how tornadoes start:

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4232/whatisit.htm?!

The intensity of a tornado is measured by a "Fujita scale." This page

tells about the Fujita scale. It should load relatively fast, because

it is mostly text. The Pennsylvania tornado was probably an F2.

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4232/fujita.htm

Sincerely,