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We bought a big pizza like last time. After we got home, I cut it into some pieces and wrapped them, respectively. However, the freezer had already become full of meat we bought at Costco. There weren’t any spaces for pizza in the freezer. So I kept the pizza in the fridge until today for over one week. Though raw squid and raw shellfish on the pizza may be in spoiled, we baked them and ate them for today lunch. We may have a stomachache soon!

Although he wants a freezer to store a lot of food, I think it’s better to buy a very big fridge with a big freezer than the only freezer, because I don’t want to place two appliances in my house.

Posted at Sat Mar 24 05:37:42 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1380347 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1380347 wanko Sat Mar 24 05:37:42 UTC 2012 After that he was judged whether passed or not at a professors meeting. I had waited for his call with pounding heart for a long time.

I hadn't got a call yet after 7 in the evening. I tried to send him our dog’s picture by mobile phone. However, no response. I couldn't bear to wait for it any longer and I called him. However, my call got cut off.
I thought maybe he didn't pass. I almost gave up.

At last, I got a call from him on that night. Luckily he had actually passed. He told me he was too busy to answer the phone at that time.

Anyway, we were happy.

He studied for 11 years at university since he graduated from high school. So he got a doctorate in agriculture. From April he will be enrolled at university as a post-doctor. However, I heard the position carried a salary of twenty thousand yen. It is impossible to live not only single but also a couple. He wants to marry his girlfriend. He is twenty-nine years old.

There's no end to our worries.

Posted at Tue Feb 21 04:37:20 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1326083 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1326083 wanko Tue Feb 21 04:37:20 UTC 2012 The other day, I ordered an original book of the audio I’ve been listening to now to the Amazon site. The book seems to be shipped from overseas, so I have to wait for the book for about fifteen days. It’s too long!
That’s why, I want a Kindle Touch.
When I wan to read a book, I can always get the book in a moment by downloading from the Amazon site in spite of the midnight. I heard A Kindle has a reading function as well.
The news said “Kindle Touch” would be released in this April in Japan. It seems to use the line of docomo or a wireless LAN for downloading books. The connection charge for downloading would be included in the prices of e-books.
I look forward to launching of “Kindle Touch" in Japan.


Posted at Mon Feb 13 04:47:10 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1312797 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1312797 wanko Mon Feb 13 04:47:10 UTC 2012 Last Sunday, my husband and I went to see them. At that time, we encountered three people in front of their house. One man was a definitely foreigner, the others looked Japanese women. They gave a quick bow to us while getting on their car. They were strangers. I thought why they were around here. Because this place is an old village which has the problems of declining population. There are no stores, no amusement facilities. It's really quiet around here. There is only nature.

We entered our aunt’s house and told her that we met three strangers.
Apparently, recently they bought an old folk house next to my aunt’s house.
One man, from America, has been working for a Japanese company in Kobe. He can speak Japanese.
The other woman is his wife. She can not speak Japanese at all. Because she was born and brought up in America. Maybe she is a half blood.
And the old woman is his wife’s mother. She is Japanese. Though she was born in Japan, she lived in America for a long time. So she speaks without fluency.

They come to this old folk house by car from Kobe only weekends and holidays.

Two weeks ago, when my aunt’s son, my cousin, came back home, my uncle and aunt invited the new neighbors to their house. My cousin had lived in America for ten years, so he can communicate in English.
My aunt told me that they had a good time then, and then she told me she would introduce me to the new neighbors next time.

I’m forward to seeing them next weekend.


Posted at Mon Nov 07 03:11:47 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1172719 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1172719 wanko Mon Nov 07 03:11:47 UTC 2011 My ears aren’t in very good condition. So I had the observer changed my seat forward from the end of line.
The audio equipments for listening test clearly differed from that of previous time. They have been changed much better. Previously, we used to hear from the small CD player put on the desk in the front of the classroom. However, this time two big speakers had been set up on a high tripod. Tripod has three legs and it is used to keep a generally camera high.
The Listening test from one place came into every classroom at the same time

This time, in advance, I bought an official exercise book and took two mock examinations. I intended to challenge it over and over again until perfect score, but it ended to learn only words.
The words I memorized were actually on the test.
I tried to read and answer quickly, nevertheless, I couldn’t reach the end of the test. The last parts of the test consist of long sentences. It took a long time to read them. I ran out of time as the previous time. I couldn’t make use of my past experience. I must reflect it.
What do you think what I should do to reach until the last question of the test?


Posted at Mon Oct 31 07:30:58 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1163243 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1163243 wanko Mon Oct 31 07:30:58 UTC 2011 In the result, I was diagnosed as loss of female hormone. So I got the hormone ointment from the hospital. After taking a bath, I apply the ointment to my belly every night. However, my dizzy didn’t get better.
One day, I watched a TV program, ためしてガッテン. It said about the same symptoms as me.
It is migraine. Migraine is a painful on one side of the head and not serious disease. When I was young, I often used to have a terrible headache. At the same time I saw flickers of light in my sight and felt a sense of spinning and then I used to throw up every time.

However, these days I got to feel less and less pain. I hardly have a headache. The TV show said that in spite of the fact of causing migraine we will have no pain as we grow older and the only dizziness without pain occurs.

It makes a lot of sense to hear that to me.
That's it exactly.

I have clear mind because I could know the cause of dizziness.


Posted at Tue Oct 18 13:29:53 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1145731 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1145731 wanko Tue Oct 18 13:29:53 UTC 2011
The Thai home that she stayed at was very rich. So when she came back to Japan, they gave her many various and expensive things as souvenirs.

And this time, a Thai girl came to Japan as an exchange student. Now this girl is the child of home that my friend’s daughter stayed at in Thailand.

The Thai girl stays at my friend’s house now.

In other words, a Japanese girl and A Thai girl exchanged at home each other.

The Thai girl gave the Japanese host family each souvenir. For example, a silk scarf for host mother, mother, a brand tie neck for host father, two expensive bags for two daughters, and I don’t know what she gave to other host family members, their son and grandmother.
My friend said to me “Anyway the amount of souvenirs that she brought from Thailand is very high.”

She asked me what to give the Thai girl and her family. She’s ready to give a yukata set for the girl as a souvenir. A yukata set costs about 10,000 yen. My friend is going to buy something to the girl’s family members.

I said to her, “I think you don’t have to give an exchange student expensive presents as an souvenir. You should help her to make a good memories instead of expensive presents.”


Posted at Wed Oct 05 05:23:05 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1125858 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1125858 wanko Wed Oct 05 05:23:05 UTC 2011 When I restarted learning English I got started on the Net to keep a record of that.
In the beginning, I struggled with reading aloud. I read each article　approximately two hundred times, and wrote down the number of reading times on the Net.　However, my skills showed no improvement.　Soon after, I got tired of reading aloud. So I indulged in browsing.
It spent six years since then. I wondered what on earth I had been doing all that time.
Now I switched my mind. I should have a specific purpose. Let’s take the TOEIC!
I began to have learning time for three hours a day. It’s not that learning time is proportional to English skills, but I’d like to keep it up.



Posted at Tue Sep 20 00:49:05 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1104850 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1104850 wanko Tue Sep 20 00:49:05 UTC 2011
A tiger mom is a person who educates her children with Spartan education.
Amy Chua is a Yale law professor. It is beginning that she named herself “Tiger mom”. She was raised by a strict Chinese father.

She forced her daughter to practice the piano for a long time. She didn’t allow her to take a break and even go to the bathroom until she mastered the piano piece. She called her elder daughter “garbage”. I don’t know why she called her like that.

The two talking about Tiger moms were not mothers and not Chinese either. So I think they were highly disagree with her. However I think opinions are divided all around the world in this case.

In Japan, there is an old saying, “Strike while the iron is hot.(鉄は熱いうちに打て)”　or “You can't teach an old dog new tricks.” I think it’s no problem if Mothers do that with unwavering beliefs and strong affections for their children.


Posted at Mon Sep 12 03:41:45 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1093923 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1093923 wanko Mon Sep 12 03:41:45 UTC 2011
For example, when the household equipment I picked up from the catalog was a very different from my expectations as the renovation in my house, I got a shock. I was obsessed about my failure.

One other thing, on website message boards, the comments I posted and replies to me, they worry me. I excessively suffer from a feeling of anxiety.

Perhaps, I think they are attributable to hormonal abnormality from menopausal symptoms. At the moment, I’m receiving the medication
treatment.

I understand the best way for me is to keep the distance from the net.

I’ll dedicate myself to TOEIC for a while, without visiting several websites as possible.

Posted at Mon Sep 05 06:49:10 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1084967 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1084967 wanko Mon Sep 05 06:49:10 UTC 2011
The book’s title is “Genshiro Jigen Bakudan”, written by Hirose Takashi.
I read almost of all. Even though the first impression was published before March 11th earthquake, his researches of earthquakes and nuclear power plants accorded with the fact that occured in Fukushima.
The contents of the book go back to the Earth's origin and Japan island’s origin. About big plates under the sea and why a massive earthquake would occur in the near future, at that time,　what effect that would have on Nuclear power plants.
Those researches are very great.

After I read it, next I will read the book “Genpatu no uso”, witten by Koide Hiroaki.


Posted at Tue Jul 05 15:00:01 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1000380 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/1000380 wanko Tue Jul 05 15:00:01 UTC 2011
On the very day, my mother-in-law stayed at my house from the previous day. So the three, my mother-in-law, my husband and me, could watch her singing.
Although the TV program where she appeared was on the local television, we enjoyed her sing. I was not sure she was a singer until now, however I believed it after that.

I will support her by buying her CD.


Posted at Tue Jun 28 01:57:12 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/990206 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/990206 wanko Tue Jun 28 01:57:12 UTC 2011
Actually they are a family of six. However their three children are grown, so they lives far apart from their parents. Now three people live in a house, a man, his wife and his elderly mother in her 80s.

At first, the wife and her mother-in-low had a bitter battle. I heard many abusive words of the wife to her mother-in-low. Next, the husband participated in the battle. It was the couple versus their elderly mother started.

Now I call the wife “Oni-yome(鬼嫁)”.

Actually they have quarreled one another since before. However, the elderly mother started to go to 朝起き会 in the past few years. 朝起き会is a sort of religion, she learned to appreciate everyone and everything without having complaint there. So she has attempted to say only a few words ”ありがとう” ”ごめんんなさい”. That’s why, the number of their quarrel was decreasing. These days, I hardly heard them.

However, apparently the elderly mother lost her patience.

She can’t go into the kitchen because an Oni-yome is there, so she goes to the convenience stores to buy breakfast and lunch every morning. I’m not sure, but she can eat only dinner, the Oni-yome cooked, alone in her room. The Oni-yome calls her mother-in-low “anta(あんた)”, never call “mother(おかあさん)”. We don’t call our mothers “Anta”, I think it seems like looking down at her.

I feel disgust her attitude to her elderly mother and her abusive words.



Posted at Tue Jun 21 05:41:06 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/980902 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/980902 wanko Tue Jun 21 05:41:06 UTC 2011 However, a man recommended to read a story of Liblivox to me. The story is Beautiful Joe, a dog story.

I started to read the book because I love dogs.
However, the story is very cruel. The cruel owner of Joe cut off Joe’s ears and tail close Joe’s body.

It’s so dreadful that I couldn’t read that. I was depressed. I blamed the writer and the man who recommended to read it to me.
However, I knew it was a real story. Joe without ears and a tail was alive 100 years ago.

Knowing Joe was a real dog, I can’t help continuing on reading it.

A young man going by the cruel man’s house heard Joe’s screams. At last Joe was rescued by the young man.

I’m also happy.
I read until a quarter of the book so far. Now, I can’t stop reading it. I appreciate the writer and the man introduced it to me.


Posted at Tue Jun 07 10:02:50 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/961300 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/961300 wanko Tue Jun 07 10:02:50 UTC 2011
How many dogs?



I bought an i-pad version 2. about sixty thousand yen for the 64GB with Wi-Fi and a smart cover.

The smart cover is very amazing! As if it were a bathtub cover. It folds in all the right places, so the cover forms triangle, looking at from the sideway. The i-pad leans against the triangle formed cover. It’s comfortable.

Opening the cover, the i-pad wakes and closing the cover, the i-pad sleeps instantly. We need not push the button.

I think it depends on downloading good applications whether we make i-pad valuable or not.

I downloaded three applications. One is mobile twitter, others are a Tap English and a VOA application. Tap English is that we can look up English words we don’t know in the dictionary on the web if we tap words and phrases. VOA broadcast is the web news for English learners. When we use the VOA application, we can listen to and read English and Japanese scripts at the same time.
If i-pad doesn’t have good applications, even if we have a latest i-pad, it will end up to be junk.



Posted at Sat May 14 05:25:02 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/928122 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/928122 wanko Sat May 14 05:25:02 UTC 2011
A macro-anomaly is the experience of an extraordinary sensation before a massive earthquake occurs.

For instance, like the following phenomena
1 noise in the ear
2 vertically long cloud
3 Red moon and red sky
4 The light going on and off.
5 A lot of worms coming up out of the ground.
6 Birds chattering.
7 Dogs and cats behaving abnormally

One professor was devoted to the study of earthquake prediction, after he experienced the Hanshin earthquake　in 1995. Especially, he focused on air ions. He set up the sensor devices in several places in Japan and the data is uploaded on his website.

I live in Hanshin. So I check the data there every day. This past week, the data indicates an abnormality in air ionisation.

I fear that a massive earthquake might occur in my town.



Posted at Tue Apr 26 04:35:31 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/904048 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/904048 wanko Tue Apr 26 04:35:31 UTC 2011 After this past earthquake shook, we received a letter from the mother of a girl my daughter made a friend at Swiss school. She was worrying about us and another Japanese woman.

The Japanese woman is her pen- friend.
When she was a child, she had corresponded with a Japanese girl. When I saw her, they didn’t already quit it.

I had her showed some letters she had kept on treasuring in Swiss. After coming back to Japan, I looked for her correspondent, and at last I found her. The correspondent’s name is Kyoko.
After that, the Swiss family came to Japan. They stayed at my house for about a month. We invited Kyoko too at that time.

That’s why, she was worrying about us and Kyoko on the letter.

Several weeks later after the massive Tohoku disaster, I received a call from Kyoko. To my surprise, she and her husband were victims of the disaster. Their rooms are on the thirteenth floor of an apartment building. Though their rooms didn’t collapse for the strong structure, all the furniture in their rooms fell down, and all the glass products, dishes and everything broke into pieces. They didn’t see Tsunami, but they were exposed to radiation from Fukushima nuclear plants. Apparently Kyoko has a disease since before. (Not for sure, but slight leukemia) Therefore, they moved to Kyoto by car with little gasoline, to escape from radiation.
they live in an apartment offered by Japan’s government in Kyoto.
She told me to let the Swiss family know she is well. Because she doesn’t remember English at all.

I would like to help her as I can.






Posted at Fri Apr 08 05:39:51 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/878955 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/878955 wanko Fri Apr 08 05:39:51 UTC 2011
Thank you for introducing this video, even though it’s not this 2011 earthquake.
This video was taken in Kobe in two weeks after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck on Jan. 17, 1995, I know that from the Japanese narration of this video.
The narration says that a mother dog, Pochi, came wandering in this vacant lot three years ago. The dog trapped under the rubble was Rocky, a puppy instead of big body. The two dogs had been cared for kindly by the neighbors. However, the next house came collapse into their lot by the earthquake. Pochi was able to escape, but Rocky was not. They reunited two weeks later.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8kNot64Y84&feature=player_embedded



Posted at Sat Mar 26 06:03:56 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/861940 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/861940 wanko Sat Mar 26 06:03:56 UTC 2011 I wasn’t devoted myself to the story because I couldn’t clear my head about the characters.
Especially, I can’t listen to the character’s English name.
So I wrote down the character’s chart. It made my head clearer. In the aftermath, I started to take dictation of the CD.



Posted at Wed Feb 16 04:31:46 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/811957 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/811957 wanko Wed Feb 16 04:31:46 UTC 2011 He says there, “Did you study English until vomiting up blood? If you didn’t do so much that, you should not say that you don’t have any ability in English.”
When I read this, I was deeply moved.
Actually, I don’t put an enough effort and time. I think my English ability has been less than that of other subjects since school days, so I give up improving my English skills. However, now, his words were encouraged me.
I will make three times as much effort as other learners.


Posted at Mon Feb 14 03:17:36 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/808823 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/808823 wanko Mon Feb 14 03:17:36 UTC 2011
At first, I had neglected it I only registered a year ago. However, recently I often enter the site. And I followed several news sits, for instance, like VOA, CNN, also some people as Cesar Millan(dog whisperer) and Victoria Stilwell(dog trainer). You know, because I ‘m a dog lover!
So I can see their English news timely. There users’ tweets are only a few lines. The direction words on a few lines enable me to read easily.

I want to improve my writing skills by tweeting in English.


Posted at Tue Feb 01 04:31:50 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/790306 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/790306 wanko Tue Feb 01 04:31:50 UTC 2011 Instead, a current system “smart.fm” for free will stop providing at the end of March.
In other words, “smart.fm” will switch to “i-know”, and we will have to pay 1000yen a month from April.

If I have the capability to complete a lot of task, I might feel it’s cheap. In fact, I see many people who complete many task in a short time in “smart.fm”. As far as I know, they are high levels. By contrast, actually I’m incapable of doing it. Thus, I will feel 1000yen for it is too expensive. At least, I wish it would be including social networking service system. Because many followers’ comments have encouraged me.
Anyway, I will wait for a while and see. Maybe I will leave the new site, and walk on LingQ.


Posted at Sun Jan 30 06:47:15 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/787677 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/787677 wanko Sun Jan 30 06:47:15 UTC 2011 Though my daughter goes to a university in Tokyo now, she is supposed to go to a graduate school in Kyoto after graduation. So we went to see a condominium which my husband’s colleague owns. He bought it because his daughter went to university from there. However, she already graduated from school several years ago, so now nobody lives there. The condominium is with a Japanese style bedroom, a living room and a dining kitchen, it’s too spacious for a girl. Also it’s old and dirty.
We canceled the contract, and went to a letting agentアパマンショップ　to look for another condominium for a single. At last, we contracted a studio apartment for 45000yen and 2000yen as common service fee.


Posted at Mon Jan 24 04:59:50 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/778829 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/778829 wanko Mon Jan 24 04:59:50 UTC 2011 After the start of the year, I was required to repair three parts of each apartment.

First, the wooden floor in the toilet in an apartment is damaged by water because a child who lives there spills some water when he gets out of the bath.
Next, water in the kitchen in another apartment wasn’t going down the drain, and then it flooded onto the first floor of the apartment.
Third, the toilet in the other apartment was blocked up.




Posted at Fri Jan 14 15:36:08 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/765430 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/765430 wanko Fri Jan 14 15:36:08 UTC 2011 A house burned down.
The residents in the house were three. One was a 91-year-old man, he wasn’t able to escape from the burning house and he died. The others were my English teacher's parents-in-law.
The burned-down house was very old and wooden one. Though the real fire cause is still not known, I heard that seems electrical leakage.



Posted at Thu Jan 06 05:00:08 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/753685 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/753685 wanko Thu Jan 06 05:00:08 UTC 2011 They are piled up as mountains of waste in the five rooms on the second floor. In addition, he often brings home a lot of things someone threw away at the garbage dump. Basically what he brings home is tables, desks, bookshelves and so on.
His wife wants to keep their rooms neat. However their rooms filled with many things are messy.
She always gets very angry at him. However he doesn’t try to throw away them.
I think if his wife dies, he will make a garbage-filled house.

By the way, do you know the word “断捨離Dansyari”?
Dansyari is to dispose most of our personal articles and to dispose our desire for things.
The other day, I found the web site of Dansyari. It was more amazing than I first thought.
I want to let him look at the site.


Posted at Mon Dec 13 15:34:08 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/727570 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/727570 wanko Mon Dec 13 15:34:08 UTC 2010

This time he was surprised to look at the remodeled room.
The room is viewed from the garden. So he remembers the previous room. Once was two Japanese style rooms. We used to call them “zashiki”. They were used as guest rooms. So we kept them clean always without using, for when guests coming. Now the two rooms were merged into one big living-dining-kitchen room for ourselves, not for guests.

He trimmed a variety of trees to make them look better, mainly pine trees.

Previously, I didn’t like Japanese pine trees. However, now I like to look at them. Because I can view a big pine tree in the garden through the window during cooking, watching TV and drinking tea in the big room all day. The tree he trimmed is a very artistic shape and distinguished-looking for looking from the room.
I’m enjoying looking at my garden from the remodeled room.


Posted at Mon Sep 27 15:02:39 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/636931 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/636931 wanko Mon Sep 27 15:02:39 UTC 2010 She sometimes goes to dig the bones of dogs cats and a variety of animals from the ground.
The other days, when she came home, she asked the hunter who lives next door to my house to give the bones of the animals that he hunts. For example, deer, swine and birds.

A couple of days later, he hunted a crow to eliminate, so he vacuumed pack it in a plastic bag and froze it. As soon as I got it, I sent it to her without looking at it in a box.
I heard she and her companies boiled gently it in the big pan and only bones remained. That’s the way they will make animal specimens.
They compares the specimens to animals bones they dug for research.

I have three dogs. My daughter also cares for the dogs. Though she wants the bones of dogs, she told me she can’t make the specimens of them. It’s no wonder.


Posted at Sat Sep 25 05:13:36 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/633775 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/633775 wanko Sat Sep 25 05:13:36 UTC 2010 She is in the fourth grade of university in Tokyo. After her graduation in next March, she intends to go to graduate school of university where she goes currently. Tokyo is very far from the Kansai area where I live.

I miss her, so I asked her to change to university in the Kansai area. But she didn’t accept my proposal because there aren’t any courses she wants to study. I had given up since I heard that. However, a few days ago, she dropped in at my house. I didn’t know the reason why she came home. Apparently she came home after taking the entrance examination of graduate school in the Kansai area. She already passed the first-stage test. Now, all that remains is to wait for the result of the second-stage test. I’m very glad that she took the test whether she passes or not.

She seems to find the course that fits her perfectly in the Kansai area.



Posted at Fri Sep 24 15:15:15 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/633284 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/633284 wanko Fri Sep 24 15:15:15 UTC 2010
She is very kind to me. She gets up very early, and then she does all the housework. Vacuums, mops, cooks, takes care of my dogs, and so on, before I do them.
There is no room for me.
There is no room for Vacuum Cleaning Robot roomba as well!

Our relationship is not bad.　Rather it's good. Though I get along with her so far, I feel mental fatigue because we are together in one room most of the day.

How do you say "姑に気を使う" in English?





　




Posted at Fri Sep 10 05:27:07 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/616973 http://www.lang-8.com/13518/journals/616973 wanko Fri Sep 10 05:27:07 UTC 2010