Today, I had my first lesson with Michiko. We studied, using Hiragana and Katakana, where I was born and where I lived beforre I came to Hawaii. I was born in North Carolina and spent a good amount of my life in Boston…Go Patriot’s!
I was a bit stumped with the, “R”, sounds so I will study more on how to speaking them. All of the other pronunciation I guess I verbalized pretty well. I’m looking forward to my next lesson.
This weekend the county hosted a bar-b-que festival at the fairgrounds. The festivities started early Saturday morning and were expected to go through Sunday evening. We went on Saturday. I had something to do for work Saturday morning. Once I was done, the family and I headed to the festival. There was plenty of free parking, and we even received a discount on our tickets to enter. We encountered so many people at the entrance. The event was outdoors, and it was a very nice day to be outside. The weather was sunny with a small breeze that made it cool enough to wear a light sweater. We made our way through the crowd looking at all the vendors and trying to decide what to eat. The food all smelled tasty. The prices seemed a little high for what was being offered, but maybe we were just comparing it to Texas bar-b-que because Maryland is more famous for its crab than bar-b-que. We finally grabbed something to eat and sat on the grass to listen to a live band. Aleria had fun dancing to the music and running around chasing a balloon. We had fun watching her. We stayed a little while longer before returning home.
Hello,Cedric.
Michiko-san told me you can’t read comments on iPhone.
So I am writing an answer for you, on this blog.
I also had a dog, her name was Fan, she was so cute.
But she past away, two years ago.
I still miss her,so much..
All of my family miss her, so we can not have another dog.
My favorite movie is … I can not decide..！！
But I watched ‘Good Will Hunting’, recently, I was moved.
And I got to like Matt Damon.(^ ^)
My favorite serial TV drama is ‘Bones’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.
These medical or scientific drama are exciting for me, because I work at an emergency hospital.
I have a question.
What kind of story , you write？
Do you understand my English？( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ
理由は、色々あります。例えば、英国の雰囲気が好きです。英国人は、みんな、ゆったりした、気楽な気分が好きみたいです。例えば、殆どのレストランは、ランチタイムの後、ディナータイムまで、店を閉めます。私はこのシステムが本当に好きです。アメリカも、このシステムを取り入れるべきだと思います。英国の町並みも好きです。英国の町並みに歴史を感じます。静かな落ち着いた感じが好きです。英国では、みんな、英語を話します。彼らの話すことは、勿論、全部分かりました。英国人はアメリカ人が嫌いだと思っている人が多いかも知れません。しかし、英国で会った人が、「一度、英国に来れば、英国人がアメリカ人を好きだと言うことを実感出来る」と言っていました。全く、同感です。私が英国に行った時、まず、ドルをポンドに両替しようと思いました。そこで両替店に行きました。店の人は、今日はドルは安いと言いました。そこで、私は、「ブッシュ大統領を責めたい」と冗談を飛ばしました。店の人は、大賛成だと言って笑いました。英国人は、アメリカ人が好きだけれど、アメリカ政府は嫌いなのかも知れません。ところで、私の妻も一時、英国に住んでいたことがあります。彼女も英国が大好きです。私たちは、運命の糸で結ばれていたのかも知れません。
昨日、主人の同僚のお子さんの学校へ行ってきました。
May Day Festivalを見学するためです。
この行事は、日本では馴染みがないように思いますが、ハワイでは、幼稚園児から中学生まで、毎年恒例のイベントになっているそうです。
メインイベントは、学年別に踊るダンスでした。
ハワイならではのフラダンスから、ヒップホップまで、様々な踊りを披露してくれました。
写真でその様子が少しでも伝わればと思います。:)
裏庭の楓の木に下げている冬用の小鳥のえさにオレンジ色の鳥が来ました。初めての事です。
ボルテイモア オリオールだと思います。
急に気温が下がったので、いつも食べる（果物が好物）食物がなくなり遠出せざるをえなかったのかもしれません。
写真は拡大したのでちょっとボケでいますが、色はこのとおりです。
５月に入ったとたん、雪が降りびっくりしました. 黒雲が現れたとおもうと、まず、霰がぱらぱらと落ち、次いで、雷鳴がとどろき、氷のまじった雨は夜には雪に変わり一晩中降り、翌朝は銀世界。地面は既にあたたかくなっているので、雪は直ぐに溶け、今日は町中霧に包まれています。
雲（くも）、霰（あられ）、雷（かみなり）、雨（あめ）、雪（ゆき）、霧（きり）と短時間に雨冠の漢字が６つ勢揃いしました。
今日、取り上げる四字熟語は、「起死回生」です。辞書には、「絶望的な状況を一気に打開して、良い方向へ持ち直すこと」と記されています。例えば、「今、直ちに、起死回生の策が必要です」と言うふうに使います。１５年ぐらい前、ソニーはビデオゲームの分野に進出しました。それから、約５年後、マイクロソフトも進出しました。この二つの巨大企業は、この分野で大きな成功を納めました。先行組のセガと任天堂は、起死回生の策を考える必要がありました。任天堂は成功しましたが、セガは失敗し、今ではちっぽけな会社に成りました。
Today’s yoji jukugo is kishikaisei. It refers to cases when everything is desperate, but one is able to overcome the circumstances and get back on track. When you fall into crisis, a kishikaisei strategy is necessary.
One might apply this term to companies – for example, in the videogame industry. Fifteen years ago, Sony entered the industry, followed by Microsoft five years later. These two large companies had great success at winning over customers. So, Sega and Nintendo, who were the main companies until then, had to think of kishikaisei strategies. While Nintendo succeeded, Sega has now become a smaller company.
Flash back Card 3
Today Michiko & I practiced answering various questions. I am feeling more comfortable with understanding how to answer by including various particles and ending with です。We then reviewed my story in entirety several times. Michiko stated that I am sounding more “natural” as I speak. She then asked me questions about my story & I was able to answer them in Japanese. Finally, we practiced counting minutes and hours in order to tell time, as well as saying the days of the week. I need to memorize those names for next time.
Up to this point in my life my two worse things were moving and doing my taxes. Now taxes have fallen to third place and in second place is having your house fumigated or “tented”. Last week my land lord had the house that I rent fumigated. The house was built in 1936 and had already been pretty well attacked by termites but my land lord decided to do it anyway. My wife and I had to move out all the items that were either consumables or would go into one’s mouth, like toothpaste. We were given special bags by the fumigation company but there were not nearly enough. Finding someplace to store the food that needed refrigeration was very hard but we managed. We also had to book a spot at the pet hospital for our dogs and cats. Finally, we ended up booking a hotel room for the night and after days for moving all of our stuff and the outside plants we were ready to go. The day arrived and after about an hour of work the fumigation company had to cancel because the house next to ours, also being fumigated, had bees! It is a state law that there can be no fumigation if there are bees because it makes them go crazy! The only insect it actually kills are termites and mice. So we had to re-schedule everything and two days later the fumigation was done. My wife was very sad because of all the beautiful plants that were killed on the side of the house. After one week there is still a lingering smell of the gas. If I ever can have my own house it will be made up entirely of stone!
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