A double tooth

One of my proud things is that I have even teeth. A dentist said that your teeth alignment looked like the best example. However, it didn...

Premium User and My Notebook

I love Lang-8. It is necessary for me to learn English because I study English myself. When I have something I don't understand, I alway...

Charlie is sick

I have something to tell you. I have a dog and his name is Charlie. He is a minuature Dachshund. He is always doing well, but it was wron...

Pigeons

Do you like pigeons? I don't like them. I used to live in the center of Hiroshima city because my university was there. Hiroshima city is...

The movie: Back to the Future

I don't know the reason, but I wanted to watch the movie "Back to the Future" after so long. This movie is consist of three epi...

Funny Face

There are a lot of islands in Japan. When I say four big island from the north, they are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. I live in ...

A Magic Jar for soup

I pack a lunchbox every morning. I don’t like cooking very much, so I want to buy a new lunchbox to cheer up my motivation to pack lunchb...

Lunchbox

My son will start a high school life next week. His school has a cafeteria for the students, but they don't serve enough meals for all th...

Trip to Takehara, Hiroshima

I went back to my hometown, Hiroshima with my family last weekend. We planned to go to a hot spring in Mihara, which is located in the ea...

J Culture: Sempai, a senior student

I have a friend who lives in Hokkaido, the north part of Japan. He is a professor of Management. He came to Fukuoka to get a Ph.D. It is ...

Question: a classic riddle 'What is the best use for pigskin?'

I am reading a word book called “Word Power Made Easy” to build up my vocabulary. I learned a new word ‘dermatologist.’ The ‘derma’ is a ...

Question: ingenious and ingenuous

I’m planning to take an English test in June. It is called “Eiken 1 kyu,” the Society for Testing English Proficiency (STEP) the first gr...

J Culture: Recycling milk cartons

A milk carton is made of paper, so we can recycle it. There are recollecting boxes in supermarkets and local government branches to recyc...

Jisho biki: looking up words in a dictionary

I found an interesting way to learn Japanese for my daughter. I am good at math, so I can teach her math myself, but I don’t have confide...

I bought a scanner: ScanSnap S1500

I am teaching my daughter math because she wants to go to a private middle school next year. She has to take an entrance examination. She...

Question: to feel one's knee give

I like watching dramas very much, but I hardly watch Japanese dramas because Japanese dramas don’t last for a long term. They usually hav...

Question: "What did you weigh?" or "What do you weigh?"

I think English is a language which cares about "tense". I wrote about my daughter's birth in the previous journal and I found ...

I feel relieved because I don't catch a flu

I caught a stomach flu last Friday. I went to the doctor to infuse me. The nurse told me to sit on a sofa for infection disease patients ...

Sick in bed

I’m very sorry I can’t reply the previous journal. I have been sick in bed for three days. First, my daughter threw up at school last Wed...

Anime: Death Note

You would think I am childish, but I enjoy watching an anime called “Death Note.” I knew the title because mu husband watched the movie v...