Letters from the far east にほんじんのブログ

Remade covers

shuchiki — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:58:03 +0000

New Home

shuchiki — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:58:51 +0000

I started to live with my girl friend at new home in Yokohama. Yokohama may sound to you a big city, but our place is in a rather rural area, called Ichigao. As you see in a picture, our room has a nice veranda next to a neighbor’s vegetable garden. There are hen houses somewhere around and I hear cries of chicken sometimes a day.(I haven’t seen it yet)
Just after we moved in, I bought a new bike so I can go around shopping and to a station. Now I am unemployed and have to do house job, I go to a grocery and cook everyday for my girl friend. I am enjoying doing this, learning new dishes.

I went to Miyagi, one of the most Tsunami-impacted place.

shuchiki — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:36:07 +0000

I’ve just come back my home from Miyagi, one of the most tsunami-impacted place, finishing volunteering work.
I will write a detail after posting some pictures now.

Off to Miyagi

shuchiki — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:38:10 +0000

I am going to Miyagi to do volunteering tomorrow. I will write about it in a week.
Take care!!….well, I am the one who take care of myself there.

FUNNY!!!!!!!

shuchiki — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:46:07 +0000

Volunteer in a impacted place.

shuchiki — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:37:58 +0000

I just applied for a volunteering job in Miyagi, one of the most impacted place. There might be a selection of volunteer stuff and I am not sure if I will really go there. I felt as if I was trying to reach a ticket agency to get a premium ticket for a rock concert by redialing many times. I managed to access their web site to apply 30 min after they started accepting applications. They closed it just after I did application.

I will be there for 7 days if I am accepted. I think I will never change my mind for this.

Tulip

shuchiki — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:48:36 +0000

Who could make Vlogs?

shuchiki — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:45:05 +0000

Staying up late, out of nowhere, I decided it could be interesting to videotape my self talking in English as if it were a v-log. Without preparing a script, I had started doing so before I found it too hard to make it long. There are two reasons to think like that.

First, there is of course a language problem. I stumbled through my talk looking for the next words. This is more due to my attitude to make sentences grammatically perfect than lack of vocabulary. Probably, unconsciously, I knew I would be disappointed when I reviewed the video and found my English unsophisticated. In fact, in studying a foreign language this attitude may be a major obstacle to develop the language.

Second, well, before all, I am very poor at making speech in front of people. Then how could I do well in front of a video camera even when there’s nobody to watch me? I tried to pretend to talk to the friends in Canada but in vain. I think it will take time to get used to doing this.

I wonder who can do v-logs in such ways as watched in Youtube. It must require you to be very confident of yourself and need a big deal of presentation skill. This time I stopped making a video on the way after all but I thought it would be helpful to my English if I continue this from now on. Maybe I will upload my v-logs here sometime here.

Crocus to bloom

shuchiki — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:05:29 +0000

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crocus

shuchiki — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:53:33 +0000

Orange pretty crocuses have bloomed in our garden. Tulips in the back will bloom in a month and I am looking forward to that.