2011年11月8日火曜日

What do I want my obituary to say?

Natsuki Shimizu, resident of Honolulu, Hawaii, passed away on November 1, at the age of 100, at her house in Honolulu.

Natsuki Shimizu was born on October 5, 1991, in Hitachi, Ibaraki. She was an active child. She played basketball, soccer and tennis. She loved her parents, older sister and her family very much and her happiest time was to be with them. She graduated ICU in 2014, and when she was 25 years old, she moved to Honolulu, Hawaii with her parents. The main theme of her life was ‘’slow life.’’ She felt relaxed in seeing the ocean view and lovely sunset from her condominium. She got married at the age of 28. She had two daughters and had a wonderful time with them.
The funeral will be held at Ala Moana Beach Park with her favorite healing songs. Please come to see her.

Thank you.

What did I learn/discover during this course?

I was not so interested in writing before taking this course. I had imagined that writing was a more academic thing. But actually, it was not. I found that there were so many writing styles and genres. Through this course, I thought that we need to think about several important things when we start to write something. For example, the important thing is that every word has a ‘’spirit’’, that is they are all meaningfulness, and we need to create writings which make people think or feel something. I also think that it is really significant to be understandable and attract readers.
In this course, I wrote a letter for first publishing, poem for second publishing, and haiku for third publishing. I wanted to write more unique and creative pieces if I have an enough time. But I could not. I thought I should have managed time for writing more efficiently during this term. And now, I feel like creating more and more stories, letters, poems, haiku, or other writings personally even after finishing this course. Therefore, I want to try creating pieces and blush up my writing skill.

Thank you:)