Please read my diary at a natural speed. :)
Here's how I read it:
http://www.voiceblog.jp/yoko61/1325113.html
Any comments or suggestions on my recording are highly appreciated. Thank you in advance! ^^
I used to keep ALL the letters I had received in the past, but that's not the only thing I had a hard time getting rid of. It also took me a while to let go of these little notes that my friends and I used to pass around during classes in junior and senior high school! :P
Every time I read even one of these, I couldn't stop reading one after another. I noticed that we had some kind of a secret code or something that I, as an adult, couldn't decipher what it meant anymore.
Moving on to the next photo, which is absolutely embarrassing, but I thought you might enjoy trying to read what I wrote in my schedule book in January, 1999, when I was 14 years old. :P Apparently, I really liked MJ and Yuzu (a Japanese popular music duo), and when it comes to boys, I liked a guy called Shin-chan. lol
We were in the same orchestra club, where he played the clarinet and I played the oboe. Aww, the way I wrote things here sounds very young and hilarious to me now. lol
Here's one of my favorite songs from Yuzu. This is the very first song I heard by Yuzu and I totally fell in love with the beautiful harmony they created with their voices! I used to sing their songs with my friends all the time no matter where we were. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAZiCLbc0U
The lyrics are so touching as well. Check them out here:
http://yellowyuzu.atspace.com/lyrics/lyricame_to_namida.htm
(The lyrics are written in katakana, English and Japanese!)
As for the last photo, I had my belly button pierced soon after I graduated from high school. You can actually find some Purikuras my friend and I took on the day we went to a clinic to get our piercings done. I bought these little navel accessories while I was studying in the U.S. for a year...
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What in the world was I studying in the States?! xD
I've never seen this kind of flirty (? lol) accessory in Japan. Haha. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to wear these again, but they are cute so I'm not gonna throw them away just yet! :P
Just in case, you know! ;)
Hope that's useful! Your pronunciation is already quite good as it is.