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My name is Aya Akizumi.  I just became seventeen years old.  I’m in the second grade of Hakuoh University Ashikaga High School.  There are only eighteen students in my class.  But I’m enjoying every day and I like my classmates very much.  My homeroom teacher is an ardent, very good teacher.  I like her too.  I belong to student government and chorus club.  I have good seniors and friends there.

    There are five persons in my family. It’s my mother’s parents, my parents and me.  Sometimes I feel a little loneliness because there is no brother. This is the picture taken when I went to Disney World in Florida nine years ago. I like Disney very much.
  This is the picture taken in the concert of ballet when I was seven years old. I danced “Dance of Naples” of the Swan Lake.  I had been doing some lessons since I was little.  It’s classical ballet, piano and calligraphy that continue still.  Doing both the practice and study is hard. However, I can do because I like them.  Other my hobbies are listening to music and sewing.  I want to find what I want to do because future dream has not been decided yet.


This picture was taken in the concert of ballet when I was seven years old. I danced “Daybreak” of Coppelia.


   The image of United States is that it has deep relationship with Japan.  It also has a good meaning and bad meaning. Its influence in Japan is strong.  The sacred ground of the movies, Hollywood and Walt Disney whom I respect are also imagined.
    My image of Afghanistan is that their life may be hard as there seem to be a lot of wars.  I head that innocent people had been killed by wars.  I think if we support them, people in Afghanistan may have lived peacefully.

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