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Things that I recommend,   Apple Computers                 It is more secure and easier to use than Windows.                  If I assume Apple Computers as cars, it would be an automatic car.  Japanese green tea                          Of course, it is absolutely healthy!   Canada (traveling or even living)                          Calm and Peace   Sorekara (And then) by Soseki Natsume                          *I'll write about the reason next blog.   Things that I recommend avoiding, Windows (especially Windows Vista)                          I have to install a security softw...

今日は月１の買い出しの日。 コストコに行く途中に美味しそうなハンバーガー屋さんがあって、 前から気になっていた。で、帰りにそこで夕飯をした。 Today was the big day for monthly shopping. I found a hamburger shop near Costco. I had been interested in it. So finally I had dinner there this evening! フライドポテトがカリカリしててすごく美味しかった。 ハンバーガーのパンもちょっと甘くて美味しかったので、 このハンバーガー屋さんはおススメ。 French fries were so good, crunch and testes were so nice. Its bread was also good, it was soft and sweet. I can recommend you the shop. ところで、私、今、どこにいるか分かります？ 日本？アメリカ？それともカナダ？ By the way, do you know which country I am in now? Japan? US? Canada?? どこでしょう？ Please guess where I am. Add caption

This is my today's lunch. After working, I had this in a restaurant in a shopping mall near my workplace. This is a very unique pancake. Vegetables and  slices of ham with pancake. It is very good! Pancakes are sweet but the combination with vegetables and ham matches sweetness of the pancakes. Anyway, in the restaurant, I was reading my classmates' essays and writing some comments. I also read my classmates' comments to my essay. To my surprise, they were interested in what I didn't expected. The part which they got interested in is just introduction. So I didn't describe it deeply, but they want to know exactly that part more.  So it means that I have to share my dark side of my life with them. But it is good. Because now they are becoming to closer to me as good friends even though I haven't met them in person. When I finish eating, reading and writing, I closed my laptop and then, paid the bill and was about to get change, a young cashier (he was...

I woke up at around 6 am.  But I couldn't sleep but I don't think I got insomnia, but I was excited.  Just because I would like to read my classmates' essays and their comments about my essay.  English is never my mother tongue, but I've been trying to write things with my words in English.  Yes, I would like to do it with my mother tongue, Japanese. But so far, I keep writing English, because it has power to bring me many chances to meet people. I didn't expect that I would become to love to read others' essays. But now I really like it.  Before I joined the course, I had felt dull and sleepy. But since I started the course, something like switch have been turned on my mind.  Wow... it is amazing.  It's Friday today, instead just killing time and doing nothing in a cafe, I'll do read my classmates essays and rewrite my essay which my classmates gave me comments and advice. 

今、私はニューヨークに拠点を置くライティングの学校でエッセーを書くコースに在籍している。ここに在籍した理由は、『自分の意見を言葉にして伝えたい」という単純なものであった。別に日本語でも意見は言えるかもしれないけど、なんとく「これはいわない方がいいな」とか色々考えてしまい、結局、何も言えないままで、しかもそれが溜まってしまい、最後に爆発ということが多かった。だから、自分の意見をしっかり言っている欧米の文化で「自分の言いたいこと」を思う存分いうのはどうかな？っていう発想だけで、入校した訳である。 I enrolled the writing course based in NYC. But my course is online. I am writing essays. What made me to write? Because I want to speak out my opinions. Here, in Japan, we don't say our opinions so often. Maybe writing essays in English is easier for me. 一応、英文学を収めているから、英語は分からなくないけど、いざ始めてみると、文法の間違いやニュアンスの違いなどなど、悩みは一杯だった。（今もそうだけど）結局、校正してくれる人を雇うことにした。それは正解。お金はかかるけど、勉強にもなるし、自分のアイディアをより上手く伝えることができるから。 I can communicate and read English but not perfect.  So I decided to have someone proofread my essays. Thanks to my brilliant proofreader, I can focus on thinking over ideas of essays more. 今取り組んでいるのは、「グローバリゼーション」について。無謀な計画だけど、中学のときに習っていた茶の湯を世界に広めたいと思ったこと。でも、すでに色んな人がやっていて、時遅しという感じ。だけど、日本人しか持っていないあの感覚・・・、「わび・さび」というのを伝えられたらって思う。しかも、高尚なレベルとい...

What if communication might be possible without languages? Do you agree or disagree? I agree with that. When I was 3, my relatives came from California. It happened in 1972 or 1973. The time was when Japanese industries were rapidly developing. We welcomed our American relatives and had a big dinner on the top of the 70s stylish restaurant. I can tell what it was like from some photos. I was sitting next to my mom wearing favorite dress. I am not sure exact when my relatives had immigrated to the USA from Japan. But I can say that it was long time ago. The people who visited us from California were second and third generation of Japanese American. As I mentioned just before, in the time of 70s, Japan was still under development. So we had a dream to catch up with the USA, which was more advanced, more fashionable, cooler, richer, or whatever. I loved watching Sesame Street on TV when I was a child. It was amazing because I could see variety of people and felt friendly to them...

＊＊回の誕生日、私は超都会、東京で過ごしました。I spent my birthday in Tokyo. ロンドンに留学した時にできた友人、そしてその旦那様から素敵なプレゼントをいただき、その上、誕生日イブにランチまでご馳走になりました。本当に特別な日でした。 My friend and her husband came to Japan from the UK and took me to a fantastic restaurant and gave me wonderful birthday presents!! I will never ever forget this birthday! Thank you!!! その後、彼女から「特別なことを一緒にしよう」と、ネイルサロンへ行き、私は生まれて初めてネイル体験をしました。実は、自分の指にかなりコンプレックスが有り、悩みでした。なので、爪をカットする意外、まったく指の手入れをしないで過ごしてきました。 After lunch, my friend suggested that we go to a nail salon. In fact, it was first time for me to go there, or even decorating my nails. In fact I didn't like my fingers which look strong and bony not like feminine. So I didn't take care of my nails at all except for cutting. 今回、ネイルサロンへ行って、すごくよかった！本当に友人に感謝、感謝です。ネイリストの方に丁寧に爪を塗ってもらっているうちに、やっぱり、いくらゴツゴツの指でも、自分の指だから大切にしなくちゃっていう気がしてきたのです。それに何より、大切な友達と一緒に特別なことができたのが最高でした。心の底から幸せを感じました。 But thanks to my friend, as I was observing the nail artist's dedicating work, I came to realize that  I must...