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- 2008/08/21 18:15Festival and Yukata
- We have Awaodori festival in our town this weekend. It has become ver
y famous now and many people come to see from various places every yea
r. For stallkeepers, it surely is a big business chance. So, in the e
vening, there are various fair stalls at and around the shrine. When
I was young, the thought of the fair stalls always made me feel excit
ing. I enjoyed going out for the festival with my [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/16 20:23Belly Dance
- I experienced belly dancing for the first time in my life today. Some
movements were similar to those of my jazz dancing, so I could do them
well, I suppose. But others were a little difficult to move.If I pra
ctice them several times more, I'm sure I can dance today's choreograp
hy much better. Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot. [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/06 08:56Thunder and Lightning
- We have unstable weather these days. Even if we have strong sunshine
and cicadas are chorusing outside in the morning, the sky suddenly bec
omes darkish grey and we start to hear thunder rumbling. And then we
have heavy rain with lightning. This lightning often makes trouble.Th
is afternoon, trains were delayed because of a lightning strike. I st
ayed at home all this afternoon, so that didn't bo [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/05 15:09Back From School Camp
- Nagisa came back home from his school camp yesterday evening. I'm sure
he enjoyed the swimming-in-the-sea camp fully because he got tanned s
o much.He spent 2 nights and 3 days there, so he brought back much lau
ndry. This means I have a lot of washing to do today. When I usually
have to do a lot of laundry, I'm reluctant to do that. I suppose most
mothers may agree with me especially when we have [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/04 20:46Naruto Vol. 43
- At the very end of today's English lessons, one of my boy students gav
e me a very important information."Sensei, do you know Naruto Vol
. 43 has been already released ?" This boy knows I'm a big fan o
f Naruto."Really? I didn't knew that," I answered feeling
glad to hear that. " Then I'll buy it on my way home. Thank you
for telling me that." And now, Naruto Vol. 43 i [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/03 21:07School Camp
- Nagisa has been staying at Iwai, Chiba prefecture, on his school camp
since yesterday. He's there for 2 nights and 3 days with his school te
achers and friends. The purpose of the camp is to swim in the sea. He
doesn't have any swimming-in-the-sea experience, so he had been lookin
g forward to it. Actually, he had another school camp last year. At th
at time, he started to have a fever on the second [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/20 15:24Swimming
- I swam yesterday for the first time in three years. In fact, I didn't
"swim". I just "floated" in the water and "pr
etended to swim." I used to swim frequently. But after I started
learning dance 3 years ago, I had less time to swim. And after I got m
y leg broken about two years ago, I completely quitted swimming. That
was because I had three ugly scars which were left [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/11 22:08Light String
- How do you turn off the light when you go to sleep? I always read so
mething in my futon before going to sleep. So in order to turn it off,
I used to bother to get out of my futon and pull the string hanging f
rom the light. The problem was the string was too short to pull for me
lying on the futon. I'm lazy and Chama knows it very well. So he boug
ht a long assistant string the other day and connec [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/10 20:28Destroyed Blog （ブログ炎上）
- It sometimes becomes news when blogs are destroyed by its visitors. I
think there are some people who enjoy posting harsh words on someone's
blogs. Those bad words surely lead to another harsh words from other
people. And exchanging these bad words often end up destroying the blo
g. Then what will happen next? The owner of the blog usually decideds
to close the blog. That's too bad.I had such simil [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/08 22:11Childish Behavior?
- LAWSON sold "Naruto Ramen" for a limited time last month. So
I bought a dozen of them. Nagisa and I ate half of them already. The
ramen claims to have a special sticker of Naruto's main character in i
t. We already got stickers of Jiraiya, Kakashi-Sensei, Sakura-chan, Sh
ikamaru and Sasuke. Every time we eat the ramen, we are looking forwar
d to getting the character's stickers. The other d [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/07 23:56"Miles Away" by Madonna
- When I came back from work yesterday, Yuiboh was practising singing &q
uot;Miles Away." This song, sung by Madonna, is very famous now i
n Japan because it's the theme song for a TV drama "CHANGE"
starring SMAP member, Kimutaku. Yuiboh enjoys the drama every week and
she has come to like the music.She liked its melody at first. While h
earing it at the end of the drama every time, she ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/01 00:32Back to Work
- It's the last day of June today. During this month, I went back to wor
k for the first time in 2 months. Every Monday and Friday, I teach Eng
lish conversation. The students are from babies to junior high school
students, and sometimes their mothers. Most of the kids are good learn
ers. They enjoy my lessons and never act up. And most of their mothers
are so enthusiastic in English that they lead the... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/26 22:09Bus
- It's said that buses are very convenient transportation when you move
around in a city. You only have to get on the bus at the nearest bus s
top on the street. Then it takes you easily wherever you want to go. A
ctually, I know some elderly people who use buses willingly.But I don'
t like taking buses. The main reason is that buses are hardly on time.
Even if the bus schedule says that it'll come at ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/25 10:52Newspaper Inserts
- Just imagine that you have no newspaper inserts. How do you feel? Is
it OK? Some people may say, "No problem at all. They'll become p
aper scrap after all." But I don't think so. I had a chance to sp
end one week without newspaper inserts a few weeks ago. And that made
me find that they were necessities to me because I'd got much informat
ion that helped me. Of course, I know some inserts a [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/24 11:30New Jeans
- Yuiboh bought a new pair of jeans. It's bootcut-style and fits well fo
r her waist and legs. It makes her look handsome. Actually, that was t
he first time for her to buy jeans by herself. Till then, I'd chosen i
nstead of her and ordered on the Internet. Those jeans were not so bad
, but they were not stylish.This time, she looked around to find what
she liked and bought it.In the jeans, you look the... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/24 08:56English Message 6
- Your English will improve steadily with practice. (練習すれば あなたの英語はどんどん上達します）... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/23 10:46Brain Training
- As we get older, we forget things easily. This bothers us a lot. So, t
here're various books which claim to "train your brain" at b
ookstores on the streets. Some have calculations, some have puzzles, s
ome have Kanji and others have history and geography.In fact, I've bou
ght this type of books about a year ago. The book had many puzzles usi
ng shapes. Just as I saw the book, it made me want... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/23 09:11English Message 5
- Keep in mind that your all effort will be rewarded. (努力はすべて報われるということを忘れないでください）... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/20 14:29Cellphone Battery
- I'd been talking with one of my friends on my cellphone the other day.
Just when we warmed up, my cellphone was suddenly cutted off. The bat
tery died. I was sure that was due to Nagisa. He uses my cellphone to
take some pictures and to play some games. After that, he used to leav
e it on my desk. So I warned him many times to charge the battery afte
r he used it. I nagged him so much that he seldom ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/20 09:19English Message 4
- If you can do it now, don't put it off till tomorrow. (今できることを明日まで延ばしてはいけません）... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/19 16:47Tight in the Toe
- I bought a pair of shoes in April. That was just before I had an opera
tion for my right thigh bone. I thought I would need a new ones I coul
d put on and off easily for rehabilitation. When I tried them on at t
he shoe store, I felt they fitted well. They were easy to put on and o
ff with Magic Tape. They claimed they were waterproofed, breathed well
, and never get damp. I liked them so I bought.I'v... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/19 16:46English Message 3
- It's always better to practice now than later. （あとで練習するより今練習するほうが いつだってよいのです）... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/18 11:33Precious Sunshine
- If I remember correctly, it's the fifth or sixth sunny day in a row he
re in Tokyo. According to a weather report on a newspaper, the weather
will be getting gradually worse from tomorrow. We are in the rainy se
ason now, so I think this continual sunshine must be very precious for
all of us. I welcome this sunshine because I can do the laundry and h
ang them out. This morning sunshine seemed to dry ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/18 10:22English Message 2
- Don't put off till tomorrow the practice you have to do today. 今日しなくてはならない練習を明日まで延ばしてはいけません）... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/17 20:41Food Allergy
- Yuiboh has an allergy to some food. One of them is sesame. I told abou
t it to her school teacher, so school has got rid of sesame from her l
unch.Now she's visited Kyoto and Nara on her school trip. This afterno
on, I got a call from her class teacher, Mr. Kawadoko, from Nara park.
That was a quite unexpected one. And as soon as I heard his voice, I
was afraid that something bad happened to her. Acc [続きを読む]
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