STARBUCKS

There are a lot of fashionable cafés nowadays and many people use them to spend free times. One of my favorite café is STARBUCKS CAFE. (This is the English one)I can concentrate in STARBUCKS CAFÉ and I can do many things at there. I like reading books or think about my graduation thesis, my future plans of the holiday. Many good ideas came to me with relaxing space and nice coffee. Why don’t you go to STARBUCKS and spend a time for you. I recommend STARBUCK to you for two reasons but I also have a bad point about it.

There are 14 STARBUCKS CAFES in Hiroshima. The shops have sofas and velvety lights and these made us very relaxed and we want to stay for a long time. The service is pleasant and friendly for customers. The STARBUCKS CAFE which I often go is in Hondori near the Parco. It is a three storied cafe and there are big sofas and the desks we can study or read books, so we can relax by ourselves.

There are many kinds of drinks in STARBUCKS, and the various unique drinks were sold every seasons. Now, the new coffee is Espresso and cream frappuccino. I tried it once. It was very nice. I recommend it to people who do not like the sweat coffee.
My favorite drink was a caramel frappuccino but I have a cafemocha lately. What is your favorite drink? Have you ever had foods of STARBUCKS? When I go to STARBUCKS CAFE, the foods lined showcase looked very nice, and I feel like having one. I always fight with such desire. I like a chocolate scone. We can enjoy many various kinds of food and drink at there.

Have you cared about the paper cups and the plastic cups in STARBUCKS? It offers the coffee with the disposable cups even if we have drinks at the shop. Especially the plastic cups are used the very precious petroleum resources and these advance the global warming. Other cafes offer the coffee with cups or glasses. I can't understand why STARBUCKS use the disposable cups. To solve the problem, we should use the mugs or tumblers at there. If we use our own tumbler, we can buy the drinks cheaply. There are many lovely mugs and tumblers in each shops, so should use it for our eco life.

Although there are some negative points, I think STARBUCKS always offers relaxing space. If you are tired with the part-time jobs or classes, why don't you go to STARBUCKS and have a break richly. It's very good to have coffee at there for presents to you worked hard. It's important to spend a time in luxury for yourself.

Ayumu Takahashi

I have many people who I respect to. Takahashi Ayumu is one of a person who I respect and long to be like. I like his life which like a roller coaster. It’s hard to tell you about him in one word. He was a bartender who had own his shop or an author or chairman of a publisher in Tokyo and N.Y, but sometimes, he was a nomad who traveled all over the world. He is a dreamer but he let his all dream come true. He enjoyed his life a lot.

When he was a young, he always worried about his life, and thought what he wanted to be, but he found his dream when he was twenty years old. He was influenced by the movie "Cocktail". He wanted to open a bar the moment he watched the movie. He started to work part time at American bar and went through special training in bar tending. Then he brought together some of his friends and they planed to have their own place. They were out of money so they worked very hard but also they spent day and night in training to become bartenders. Finally they had their own shop and named "Rockwell'S". Surprisingly, he was 20 years old then.

Afterward "Rockwell's" became a company, and he decided to start a new thing. he was very interested in the books and he had been dreaming to publish his book. He launched new business of publisher and wrote his autobiography about trouble story of his life so far. He published it from his company, but the book didn't sell at first, and he was deeply in dept. However he published the books, these weren't sell at all. At the time he was 22 years old. It was very small company so he didn't have a lot of money. However, funny and stormy story of his life was admired by young people, and his books became a bestseller in a moment. Since then many various books have published from the company.

He has other companies. He founded a company called BEACH ROCK VILLAGE to make a village to stand on their own feet in Okinawa. He plans to makes cafes or restaurants in all over the world which his favorite place where he found while he traveled. It's called PLAY EARTH. He also managed to make schools for poor children.

He tried everything what he wanted to do. Every time he started doing them, he met with various troubles, he but never gave up. He said in his book that what necessary is not courage but determination. Make a decision and start doing what you want to do and do not give up until you succeed. If you finally succeed, all previous failure will be the experience. I like his way to live. If you interested in him, check his web site or read his books.

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1. Was it easy to set up this blog?
Yes, a little.

2. Have you ever read people’s blogs before?
Yes, i have. I sometimes read my friends blogs.

3. Have you ever written a blog before?
Yes, I wrote the blogs in the cross cultural communication class.

4. What are some of your favorite Internet websites?
you tube! It's amazing!

5. How often do you use the Internet?
almost everyday