banira's entry (213)
When I was little I lived in a rural area and I wanted to move to a city because I wanted to enroll in a better cram school in order to e...
I really hate the cold.
ほんとうに寒いのが嫌い。
So if I could live in a foreign country, I wouldn't be in a colder one.
だからもし他の国で生活するとしても寒いところは...
I arrived in New Orleans yesterday. I watched the women's World Cup soccer game in a restaurant. Japan's team beat the U.S.A. Congratulat...
Do you know the meaning of 持っている? It is a popular Japanese saying now. One meaning is, of course, "possess." Like "Do you...
Janice,
Thank you very much for your kind response. I am glad that you seem OK and are well prepared to Good Samaritan hospital’s a...
Lately we have lots of noise in my city. That’s because of the upcoming election of members for the city council.
In Japan, we have a...
Lately a certain kind of TV commercials is being broadcast repeatedly. In the commercials, a lot of celebrities give us the message, “If ...
Today I seem to have a cold. I have a runny nose and feel tired. I have a pain in my eyes somehow. I haven’t caught a cold for about ten ...
In Japan, Facebook isn’t so popular, but I know it has spread out all over the world and had a big influence on things like protests.
...
Yesterday was April fool’s day. I read that some search engine sites provided us with some great jokes yesterday. For example, Google gav...
What is the difference between “from now on” and “from here on out”?
In my profile, I say “Let's do our best from here on out.” I copi...
Lately, some TV commercials are being repeated because of the earthquake. Almost all Japanese companies are refraining from broadcasting ...
Today I watched a TV program.
Ranking the irritation that husbands feel when something is said by their wives:
夫がいらっとくることランキング
1...
In Japanese, we have a word called “雑学.” (Do you have any words like this in English?) Im guessing that they are not taught in schools, b...
After we experienced a big earthquake, we found good points and bad ones. The good point is that TV programs all over the world have been...
http://ameblo.jp/mizutani-jun-blog/archive3-201103.html#main
I’m a huge fan of his. He is a pro table tennis player and has won the ...
The earthquake that struck in Japan this time was really big and the number of people who suffered from it was almost three times as that...
Ever since I was little, I wanted things to be fair. I wanted my teacher to be fair to everybody in my class and my parents to treat my s...
Last night, another big earthquake happened in Japan in the Shizuoka prefecture. An nuclear power plant in the Fukushima prefecture caugh...
Thank you for praying for our safety, my friends. I feel very sorry for people in the area where the earthquake struck.
In Japan, ever...
