My name is Rara Fujimaki. I'm born in Japan and I live in Thailand now. I'm staing in Japan during summer break. I finished 8 grade, so I'll move up to 9 grade next year.
I go to International School of Bangkok (ISB) I went to Bangkok on last December, so actually I don't live there very long. But this isn't the first time I went to international school. I was in India for 3 years from kindergarden to 2 grade. I was in American Emmbacy School (AES) for 1 and 2 grade. I think I have standard level of English, but I just started to speak english for 6 months ago and I didn't speak English for long time (about 8 years!) My parents told me I spoken English very well when I was in India, but now on, I don't remember so much. In thailand, I'm in ESL class.
I came to this summer school to engage my self. I want to skill up my English. During June, I went to ASIJ's summer school, too. I have 2 months for summer break, but half of them will disapear for summer school. That's really bad for me. Because I want to play with my Japanese friends. But I want to study more english, so I'll push my self. I hope I have fum in this summer school.
My strong point of English is listening. I can understand what the native speakers are saying even I don't know the words. I was really suprised that my ears are still working if I don't speak for 7 years. When I took the listening test in my school, I got 99% correct. I'm very proud about that. That's my storngest point, but most of the time I don't exactly understand the each of words the people are saying, so I should study more vocabulary.
My weak point is speaking. I'm really bad to do presentation and communicate. I'm not really good at speaking with someone who I met first time. Like this summer school. I couldn't speak it so much. I always try to talk with someone. but I feel very nervous and finally I don't talk. Any short program like this summer school, I always be friends with others almost last few days. When the program ends, I always feel Why didn't I talk to them more early? If I talk to them like the first day the program, I think we could hang out more. I always feel like that. I want to stop that in this summer school. At presentation, my voice will get really really small. Curttenly, I had some presentation in ISB and my voice got nice and clear than I was in Japan. But I think it's still not enough. In this summer school, it seemed to do a presentation. So I think I could speak more strongly and more effectivly. If I could, I'll include some bodylanguages, too.
