About My Self!

I was born in Hyuga, Miyazaki. I don't remember what I was doing when I was a little kid. However, I remember I had been practicing piano after I came back from kindergarten and I didn't like it. My grandfather of my mother side was a music teacher at junior high school and he was also principle of school. That's why I forced to play the piano.

I was practicing the piano until elementary school. After I entered junior high school, I had decided to join baseball club. The first day of the junior high school, my friends and I were going to visit the baseball club. However, the friend's older sister was in a brass band, so we had to visit there first. It changed my life.

After I started playing the musical instrument, I started to feel the fun of music. It is because I have to play it with lots of people. I was practicing at home and at school. Then, I made my mind to go to the United States for learning music. I was always saying that “I want to go to the U.S. for music”.

I entered Senshu Univ. Tamana high school after I graduated the junior high school. The reason why I went to the high school is that I just wanted to keep playing the musical instrument, and wanted to join a marching band. I was the first student from other prefecture at the time. It was also first time to live out of house, and I was very worried about living there by myself. However, there were a lot of upper grade students who are very kind, and the feeling was gone soon. I could concentrate on playing musical instrument, and practicing the marching band. Still, I had a plan to go to the U.S. for music. I asked some advice for my plan to my high school teacher, and he always said “No way!” However,I couldn't gave up the plan, even if my teacher said so. My father said "yes" when I asked him to let me go to the U.S. My father was always saying that “If you have something you want to do in the future, just do it. Even if you couldn't achieve to your goal, it dosen't mean nothing.”

I was in Narita Air port, and my father and mother were there to say good bye to me. I had a ticket to the U.S. My dream came true. I entered the University of Montana, and I took the music performance major. It was the greatest moment for me, playing trombone everyday, joining the big jazz festival, and making a lot of friends. I did all what I wanted to do there. After that, I made a new goal, become an English teacher and also direct a brass band in Japan, for my life.

I came back to Japan after I spent two and a half years at there, and took the entrance exam for this college, Kumamoto Gakuen University. Now, I am taking some class for getting a teacher’s license, and I also give a lesson to high school marching band, junior high school brass band, and elementary school brass band. There is no happier life than my life.

My life till now was always with music, and it will be the same until I die. There is only one chance to make my life great. I will do my best to make it, with music.

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