Introducing myself

Hi, my name is George. I have been taking ESL course here in New Paltz since last summer, June 2009. New Paltz is a wonderful place to live, study, and play. There are a lot of natures and animal that haven't seen before and it is very quiet to study. Also, I can go to New York City by using bus which takes only about 1.5 hours.

Before I came here, I was born and raised in Japan. As you know my name, it is not a common name for Japanese. It because my father is American who came from the United States due to his profession. Therefore, I was born and raised in Japan until when I was eighteen yeas old.

I am planning to study in college in United States. Thus, I am preparing and studying English that I can adjust easily in the college in America. I am interested in psychology and sociology. I also want to study some economics, music, international relations and philosophy. I might change my mind after a while, but these are the areas that I am interested.

My hobby is reading books, listening musics, surfing the net, playing some "intelligent games" such as mah-jong :P I like reading mostly Japanese books. However, I listen variety of music from various places in the world. I listen classical such as Wagner or Bruckner, I also listen rock music like Nirvana or Radiohead. I am also a "Queen Freak."I know a lot of songs from 60's and 70's rock music era including The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, King Crimson and so on.

These are my brief self-introduction. I would like to be known a lot about my self and I hope that you are going to have a nice time during this semester taking a same ESL Reading and Writing class.