The summary of Song for Megumi

Situation: The worldwide famous American singer,Paul Stookey sings about one Japanese girl who was abducted by North Korea in Nigata prefecture, Japan in 1977. In the song"Song for Megumi", He speaks to everyone's heart instead if Megumi's mother Sakie Yokota.

Conflict: Megumi's mother,Sakie loves Megumi from bottom of the heart. She is dying to see Megumi and wants to let Megumi go home because Megumi was abducted when she was only 13 years old. Megumi was dissapeared in front of her susuddenly without saying anything. No time to say good-bye,no word to be spoken. Sakie's heart influences whole this song.

Struggle: Sakie speaks to Megumi even through she doesn't know where Megumi is alive in. She believes that Megumi is definitely still alive and returns from North Korea. Megumi's dream was broken, so Sakie is sad.

Outcome: Finally, she speaks to Megumi to go home again. Sakie believes that her voice and desire will be sent to Megumi's heart and lead her home. She has a strong desire, temper and sadness at the same time.

Meaning: I think that this song has strong power to speak to my heart about Megumi. I know her circumstance on TV news and I have given presentation about her at Japanese university before. If the important person dissapear or be abducted by somebody who I don't know, I will be panic and feel as if I lost everything on my life. However, this song includes both Sakie's anger about the abduction and desire for Megumi. The most important thing is to believe ourselves,have a desire in our mind even if there seems to be no hope.

Talk about myself

My name is Nana Utsumi and I am an exchange student from Kansai University of International Studies, Japan. My goal of this writing course is to develop my writing ability and to be able to write in English academically. Also I would like to improve my TOEFL score. So in this class, I will put all of my energy for writing and get along with my classmates.

Let me talk about my goal of life. I want to develop my English and Chinese skill and master at least two different languages. I know it is not easy for me to achieve this goal. In fact I have a Chinese language problem. I can't speak it well so far because pronounciation is very difficult and letter is so complicated but I never give up to be a good speaker of Chinese.

My dream is to be an interpreter. I want to be a person who can unit people between different culture. I love speaking English and I'm willing to make my language skill use of my job after I graduate university. In my Japanese university, I'm belonging to the Department of English Education. In my departmet, there is distinctive rule. It is S.E.O. That stands for Speak English Only. Wherever I am, I should speak English with my friends in the department. Now I am in Taiwan. I really think that I wish I could speak Chinese. If I can, I can communicate and make friends with more people in Providence. So I'll pranctice Chinese and English. As long I keep practicing, I believe I will be able to speak Chinese.

Finally, this is my first time to come to Taiwan. At first, I was a bit anxious because I got to this country alone and have a language problem but I've wanted to visit Taiwan for a long time. I love Taiwanese people, food and TV drama. People in Taiwan and Providence are so friendly. As long as I can't speak Chinese, English always helps me to communicate with other students. I appreciate English. Recently I have been trying new things like a food. I have tried stinky tofu. It is very new taste for me especially the smell is so strong.

By the way, I think Taiwanese dish is big to eat. Taiwanese people eat a lot but they are so slender. Why? Anyway I always taking courses alone because other Japanese exchange students have different major. Howver it's great because I can make lots of friends in Providence. Some of my friends are in the out side of Japan. They are also exchangestudents. Two of them are in Thailand, another two friends are in Korean. One friend are in China. Furthemore other friends are going to Thailand and Phillipine to studey English. Studying abroad is very precious and amazing time for me.