Everest

The title of today's blog is 'Everest' but it doen't mean that I climbed up the mountain!  I watched a movie 'Everest'. 

This movie was based on the real story!  The story featured that many guys who gathered from all over the world tried to climb up the Everest and made it, but on their way down they got troubles.
It was not only a scaring and thrilling movie but also touching and heartwarming one.  The freindship and the family bonds were described in this movie.  I highly recommended this and I think worth watching!

One thing I would like to know is how this film was shot, for the snow and the beautiful scenery didn't seem like CGI.  I think all cast went to the mountains(I don't think they actually went to the Everest) and they shot this movie.  There was an avalanche in a one shot of the movie, but I don't think they shot a scene when an avanache occured because it's too dangerous.  So, I wonder if this film used CGI or not. 

Anyway this is one of the most stunning movie that I've ever seen!!

What I Want to Do Before Internship

In two mounths times, I am going to start my internship in Australia.  Before getting cracking, I have a few things that I'd like to do.

The first thing is that I would like to go the Gold Coast.  I haven't been there since I came to Australia, but I've heard from some friends of mine that Byron Bay is a great beach spot with crystal-like water and shiny white sand.  Beaches shows the images of the typical Australia, so I can't miss it!

The second one is watching movies a lot.  From time to time, I feel my listening ability has improved greatly because when I watch sitcoms or radio programs, I'm able to understand what they're saying.  At the first three or four months, I didn't enjoy them and even catch English.  However, six has passed now and then I have a little bit confidence!  So, I would like to try how my listening adapt English in movies. 

What I really want to do is to go to Urulu, but actually I'm unlikely to go there because I didn't plan during this semester break and I have no long holiday.  I might get a break after final exam and before the internship.  If so, I really want to go there!

UQ Life

The weather having been getting warmer and warmer, I feel spring is just around the corner.  For me, the lifestyle was dramatically changed during last two months.  I might say ' Out of the frying pan into the fire'.

About two months ago, I finished the programme at ICTE and then started the undergraduate course at UQ.  I've heard from friends of mine that studying at UQ is like living in a hell but at that time I didn't take any notice of what they said so much.  But it is true.

I have a lot of pre-reading materials and one course requires me to answer mini quizs every week with writing a pretty short eassy(250-300wrds).  Most of the lectures are similar to Kansai Uni's but what is total different is that almost all lectures have a tutorial after taking the lecture, which is new sensation for me because Kansai Uni doen't introduce that sort of system.  In a tutorial, all students are required to get involved with in-class discussion or group works.  These excercises are really practical to deepen the understanding of the lectures.  In a class, the courses I took are for international students so that we have a different nationality(I don't go far as to say that we have as many nationalities as ICTE).  We've got Indian, Indonesian, Filipino, Franch, German, USA, UK, Scandinavian, a few Australian and so forth.  Of course, their English proficiency was extremely higher than I'd expected even though some of them aren't native English speaker.  Until a last few weeks, I couldn't contribute the discussion because they speak English so fast, but gradually I got used to the tutorials and said my opinion a little.

From last week to this week, I had a big report which covers 40% of the total assessment, which I've already submitted and this Saturday I have a mid-term exam.  So I spent and will do a busy time......