2004/8/19（Thursday） Two days later, on Saturday morning, I had to vacate the comfortable Kirkland House that I had grown accustomed to for nearly two months. As one of the preparations today, I exchanged phone calls and emails many times…

Wednesday, August 18, 2004 In the English training program, Level B, which I am participating in, as a finishing touch to the workshop, teams of 3 to 4 people were assigned to give presentations for 20 minutes each. Each team should choose…

2004/8/17 (Tue) Mr. C and I, who were given the theme of "De Revolutionibus", after going through initial confusion and misunderstandings, set goals for this presentation: (1) simple composition, and (2) using our own words as much as poss…

2004/8/17 (Tue) In order to better understand the Harvard University professor's lecture on the theme of "Nicolaus Copernicus" in the Plenary Lecture Series, the instructor set nearly 10 themes related to "Nicolaus Copernicus" and listed t…

2004/8/16(Monday) Last night, I searched the web for materials related to the Cold War-era tensions that I was planning to incorporate into my solo presentation on the theme of "The Kennedy Library and Museum" on the afternoon of the 18th …

2004/8/13/ (Friday) Tonight I received an email from the summer school authorities to let me know that I am fully qualified for Harvard Summer School. We still have two presentations coming out next week. In addition, a feedback questionna…

2004/8/12/ (Thursday) Even though it's not as hot as in Tokyo, it's hard work preparing for two upcoming presentations in my room in a dormitory without an air conditioner, enduring temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius. The rental fan at…

2004/8/11/ (Wednesday) At the workshop in the afternoon class, it was decided that one team would give four presentations as a finishing touch. Each team consists of 3 to 4 people, each team has 20 minutes, and presentations on the four th…

2004/8/9/ (Monday) A Japanese woman in her 30s who was with me in the afternoon workshop class had disappeared from the classroom. Rumor has it she dropped out. She lived in Paris and she had a job in Boston at the right time, so she was a…

2004/8/8/ (Sun) There are two weeks left of summer school, and I've been falling asleep more and more due to lack of sleep and accumulation of fatigue. Especially on Thursday and Friday last week, I had a lot of homework and submissions be…

2004/8/6 (Friday) The topic shifted to class scenery, and Mr. T gave an interesting story as a breakthrough. According to Mr. T, even though we are all at the same level as B, the M instructor's class to which I, Mr. K and Mr. C belong is …

2004/8/6 (Friday) After class in the afternoon plenary lecture series, I was invited by a Japanese Mr. K in the same class to talk at a cafe near Kirkland House where coffee was reputed to be delicious. Others are Mr. C, a Taiwanese man in…

2004/8/6 (Friday) This afternoon's lecture in the Plenary Lecture series was a speech by a fairly enthusiastic professor looking for books by Nicolaus Copernicus in every corner of the world. I was drawn to the professor's extraordinary re…

2004/8/5（Thursday） With only two weeks left in the summer school, weekly presentations have become a major issue for me. The presentation is given by a team of two or three people, and the team members change for each theme, so it takes …

2004/8/4 （Wednesday） When I was given a lecture by an authority on international law under the theme of "Due Process of Law and Captured Enemy Combatants," I first learned that prisoners of war during war or armed conflict had human righ…

2004/8/4 （Wednesday） Taking a lecture on "The New Politics of Higher Education", I learned for the first time that the United States does not have a national university. At the same time, the United States does not have an institution th…

2004/8/4 （Wednesday） Every Friday afternoon, a "Plenary Lecture Series" was organized in which students from all levels (E to A) of English training programs gathered together to receive a lecture in their specialty from a Harvard profes…

2004/8/3 (Tuesday) After school today, I met my classmates in the courtyard of Kirkland House and headed out to Chinatown. There are a total of 6 people, including Japanese male language student K, Taiwanese businessmen E and C, Japanese f…

2004/8/2 (Monday) After deepening my reading comprehension by writing, I further deepened my reading comprehension through discussions in small groups and the entire class. As already mentioned, the Level B Integrated Skills Class students…

2004/8/2 (Monday) I was very impressed with the program in the morning integrated class, which uses a whole novel to combine writing and discussion to deepen reading comprehension in multiple layers. Perhaps Japanese schools wouldn't do it…

2004/8/1 (Sun) After dinner today, I decided to practice pronunciation at the Language Center in the annex of the Ramond Library on campus. That's because, in my presentations, my classmates have repeatedly pointed out that my pronunciatio…

Thursday, July 29, 2004 Tomorrow afternoon's class will only listen to the presentations of other teams, so I'd like to take a break today and spend a little time relaxing. Besides, this morning I have a cold because of the sudden drop in …

2004/07/27 (Tue) At this afternoon's workshop, Mr. C and I gave a presentation on "Ralph Nader". This was a result of deepening the "Civil Rights Movement" through VTRs and group discussions at last week's workshop, and as a finishing touc…

2004/07/25 (Sun) Last night, a social gathering for Japanese students attending a summer school was held in the meeting room in the basement of Annenberg Hall, where the cafeteria is located. Most of the participants were Kirkland House st…

2004/07/23 (Friday) Recently, in the afternoon workshop, we have deepened through VTRs and group discussions on the theme of the civil rights movement, but as a final touch, we will give a team presentation on the theme of "civil activitie…

One morning in an integrated class, the instructor imposed a "Three-Minute Essay" on the students. "Three-Minute Essay" means that the students fill out the prescribed form after the lecture, "what they understood," "what they did not unde…

2004/07/22 (Thursday) There was the first "PEER EDITING CHECKLIST (PARAGRAPH)" program in the integrated class this morning. "PEER EDITING CHECKLIST (PARAGRAPH)" is a team of two people, each of which has a short English composition assign…

2004/07/21 (Wed) In general, I thought that preparing a presentation by a team was a collaborative effort, but Mr. X thought it was worthless to act with me, who lacked thinking ability. From the stage of the tour of the "Attorney General"…

2004/07/21 (Wed) There are students in the class who want their surroundings to recognize themselves as excellent. And Mr. X, an EU male college student I teamed up with in today's workshop presentation, is typical. He speaks fast-spoken E…

2004/07/18 (Sun) My Boston-based friend MS. T is worried that I've had the opportunity to stay in Cambridge for two months, but never go to Boston across the Charles River. Her concern was justified, and my initial vision was to live in he…