hi hi hi my name is Yasuyo Sawaki what is your name my name is Tomomi Koizumi To = Tomomi Yes how are you today fine thanks and you I'm fine thank you okay thank you for coming okay eh I know you are a student yes would you tell me about school school [?] mhm I go to Showa Women's Univeristy mhm and I'm now in junior year mhm and I'm studying English literature okay and what kind of classes do you take erm my major is eh.. communication so I have many communication classes like interpreting or intercultural communication mhm I see could you tell me about an interpretation course oh okay < laugh > eh it's very hard for me erm in eh in everyday in every every classes erm each two students have to mm = have to speak have to have two minutes speech in front of.. the class classmates and after that mhm we listen to CNN news and we have to interpreting we have to do interpretation from English to Japanese mhm I see so do you like it yes < laugh > great great okay erm what about your family please tell me about your family eh okay there are four people in my family my father my mother and my brother and myself but now we live separate because I'm living by myself in Tokyo and my parent and my brother lives in Ibakraki prefecture mhm I see.. tell me about your single life single life [ [ okay eh on this on last april I start I started to live by myself.. so now I'm er I'm adjusting the new life and almost everyday I cook my meal and.. mhm.. I mm.. I have to clean my room by myself but it's fun mm I see great and what do you do when you do not go to school [ eh [ do any hobbies yes I have hobbies I like playing the piano and I like mov I like I like watching movie but usually. I have a part time job mm and I go working I go to working mm I see what kind of part time part time job do you have eh eh I teach English and Japanese to.. junior high school student [ at private [mhm school mm tell me more about it [ < laughter > [ < laughter > okay eh twice of a about twice a week I go to private private school and at one time I have to teach English for three students and I sit down next to them and if they have a question they have to ask me [ teacher and I also have to give the exact answer or sometimes [ mhm I have to explain the structure or.. word meaning mhm I see so how did you get interested in teaching teaching ... I don't know exactly but I'm interested in Japanese teacher for foreigners so maybe I like teaching something to [ people [ mhm so and of course I can get much [ money [ mhm through the job mhm I see so would you like to: a talk a teaching job in the future .. uh I don't think so why not because .. ehm.. because I have a eh future dream so it's diffi = different so teaching English for students is just my hobby hobby mhm.. just my job mhm so eh in the future I want to speak English or use English to.. not only the students but also many different people mhm I see so what is your future dream if I can [ [ okay I wanna be a flight attendant in the future great okay great good luck [ thank you [ okay now I would like to do two things with you today okay the first thing is about this there are three topics and then I would like to talk a small conversation about one of the topics so please look at these topics and choose one okay and please try to speak for three to five minutes about the topic you choose ready [?] yes okay go ahead okay I choose Topic [ Two [ uh-hm and umm last September I visited the United States it was the uhm. second time for me to go there but uhm.. the first ti = in the first time I went there with all Showa students to Boston but in that in this time I went there by myself and I went to the language school and and I visited the Sun Francisco and I stayed in uh.. < X > club and the most interested thing for me was making many friends from many countries uhm.. since that the trip was ah second trip for me uhm I can adjust myself uhm.. more easily than that the first time but in this tim = in this time I have to speak all day in order to communicate with many people from other countries and I met some European friends and at first time she had a stereotype for the Japanese or uhm Asian people and when I heard about that I really sh I really I was really shocked because I am Asian people but gradually uhm she umm.. she can understand me she can communicate with me or other people and finally she said I'm interested in Japanese I'm very glad so we were in the United States but we had a great experience in the United States so of course I met many American people and I like them but uhm.. same as American people I like European people I can I could find I like uhm.. people so.. uhm.. uhm.. it was a great experience for me I see great thank you now I have some [ questions uhm.. you said your [ uhm friend [ teached regarding her stereotype of Japanese people but how did you [ yes uhm.. communicate her about Japanese people oh uhm.. at first time we had a same class but we separated uh we sit = sat separate = separately but one day teacher said to the class = classmates you should change the seat every time so one day I could have a time to sit next to her and suddenly she asked me tell me about your Japanese words something and I'm very glad and I told some Japanese word some easy word like ohayo or itadaki-masu and especially itadaki-masu was uhm.. fascinating word for European people because they don't they don't use the word before uh meal and also I asked her tell me about your country's word she is from Germany and I I learned about some easy Germany word and we can get to know each other more than before and after school we went to shopping each other or we went no we played the table table tennis we had a good time I see great thank you your welcome okay now I have one more things to do with you okay[?] this is a picture story this goes one two three four so please make up your own story and when you are ready please tell me the story okay are you ready yes okay okay there is a woman whose husband is an artist and one day he is painting his wife and she is a model and she is sitting on the chair after she he finished the paint.. he finished the painting she looked at the painting and she she got angry because sh uhm it looks angry and she said to her husband this is not me < laughter > so her husband has to.. has to paint again and sh he uhm he was he is painting her smiling after he finished the painting she was really glad and she invited her friends and she introduce that them this is me and this is beautiful I see great it's a good story now I have some questions wha = why did you see this is a wi = a wife and a husband um. pardon [?] I I think you said that these are a couple yes yes two people are a couple why did you take so uhm.. uhmm.. because I think.. he is an artist so he likes [ painting only [ uhm his favorite [ people or only his relatives or family so I [ guess [uh-uhm [ I see great okay uhhmm.. what about you do you like painting or do you like to go to museums yes I like go I like to go to museum but I I'm not good at painting uhm.. could you tell me about your favorite museums favorite museum uhm.. my favorite museum is.. Gardener Museum in Boston why do you like it uhm.. because even the si. the mu.. the size of the museum is very small compares with other museum they have ah great great work and also uhm.. a few years ago some some paintings had stolen by somebody but the.. but we we can we could feel the [i:] atmosphere at the same time before the.. painting was still [ there so I like the [i:] atmosphere [ I see I see great [ thank you this is all [ yeah [ your welcome [ yeah so how did you like it how did you like the interview interview < laughter > uhm.. it's fun oh good good I'm glad you you had a you had a good time okay thank you for your time thank you this is all thank you very much thank you 1