A famous person from your country who went to America
Ayado Chie was born Osaka in1957. She graduated high school in Osaka and soon after she went to America. Her parents like jazz music so she interested in it. Jazz was born in America. The best jazz musicians in the wold are in America. So she learns it in Los Angeles. She didn't think she become aproffessional jazz singer. She likes playing piano and sings a song in public. She married there with an African-American. He was jazz musician too. She has a son. But she got a divorce because of domestic violence. She came to Japan in 1991. she debuted in Japan in 1998.

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12th December

My topic is taking lessons outside school. I asked 6 classmates these questions.
Have you ever been to take lessons?
Yes (6)
No (0)
When did you start to take lessons?
3-5 years old (6)
6-10 years old (0)
11-17 years old (0)
What kind of lesson did you take?
Amusements {draw a picture, play the piano etc} (3)
Studies {academies, conversation in English classes} (3)
What are the reasons?
At families’ suggestion (4)
At own will (0)
Your friends started it (1)
*There are one person wrote both.
Did you develop a special ability?
Yes (1)
No (5)
I was surprised that everybody took lessons, and everyone started taking a lesson at 3-5 years old. One person said that she is taking 3 or 4 lessons. She started when 3 years old, and keeps up now. I had a lot of lessons, when I was 8 years old, but I had many more than her. I don’t take a lesson now. The reasons are that I don’t have any time and I have to work part-time job. I went to many lessons outside school. I think this isn’t good, because I was very busy then. But my mother maybe wanted me to have many experience, and she maybe wanted me to have many friends. At that time I was shy in front of strangers, so my mother was worried. Even if we start to take many lessons since childhood, almost all the people didn’t develop a special ability!! It is very wasteful. They are very young so they don’t know what they want to learn, I think.