From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

On 2 March, We went to Syokoku-ji temple to see a exhibition of maruyama okyo. ( see map ) At first, we went to "hamac de paradis" which is one of doushisya university's restaurant to eat  lunch. from demachiyanagi station at keihan train to doushisya university. lunch at doushisya university cost \500/person, cheap & taste good ! then go to Syokoku-ji next to doushisya-university Shokoku-ji was one of the 6 zen temple and nominated top rank between 6 temple. I'm surprized kinkaku-ji and ginkaku-ji is shokoku-ji's branch temple. And there is tensyoukaku museum inside shokoku-ji and we watched exhibition of maruyama okyo , who was  a japanese artist at edo-era. There are some his memo and it is very tightly written with small letter which seemed to show his character. There are painting of Ito Jakuchu and it seemed to have some relation between two person.. then walking in the doushisya then go back

At our branch, we are scheduled to take a toeic test from tomorrow, so I'll take toeic tomorrow. Recently, many company and school are using toeic test and japanese people likes toeic test very much. I think toec test itself is not bad because we can get english skill efficiently throught such test studying. But for me, score itself is meaningless because Englisht is just a tool. English itself is not a purpose. I think English is just a tool so if we learn a basic skill at junior highschool and high school for 6 years, that's enough. And afterthat, just use it. The reason why I think such things is that when I was a graduated student and in my twenties, I often travelled abroad by myself and thought english was just an tool, so studying for test score at school is meaningless ( of course, for people who want to say I have such title