Hello. The winter session has begun. I have been placed on new level class this session, so contents of the lessons are much harder than the last session. As mentioned before, the level of Queen’s university is high class in Canada, and people who want to go this university need high level academic skills. Queen’s university, School of English introduce academic English contents to meet our level of which we lack; our subjects are Core, Spoken, Lab and ECCO. Now, we primarily work on annotated bibliography, critical summary in core class. We work on impromptu speech in spoken class and watching/listening to CBC news, radio and several categories of lecture in lab class. ECCO stands for English Communication Comprehension Online, and we should follow online instructions in English; it helps students to become aware of online resources and peer leaning. My class is made up of Japanese and Chinese students. Actually, I’m only Japanese student in the class, and other students are all Chinese students! Everyone, except me, hope to get into Queen’s university and I’m overwhelmed and stimulated by their motivation, energy and passion.