Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning
I am a native Japanese speaker who used to teach Japanese in a university somewhere on this planet. Currently I don't work but stayed in my house in Northern part of JAPAN. I hope that you could enjoy reading my posts and know what life in Japan is like.
If I cook for my mom, it would be the best in order to keep her health. And that is what I have done during this winter break. But I cannot continue to cook for her because the spring semester is about to start within a week.
Eating snacks is not good for health by any means. But I thought they could be a solution for my mom to avoid low nutrition.
Tomorrow I am leaving Niigata for Narita Airport. I have to say good-bye to my hometown.
Now the end of the winter break is coming. I have to pack my suite cases up and prepare to move to Narita Airport. But the problem is that I am not ready for the classes in spring semester. I have been working through the break except yearly income tax filing. I have completed the preparation for the composition classes for the second year students, but it took too many days. I don’t have enough days remaining for preparation for the listening classes for the first year students.
Tomorrow a shipment company will come to my house to pick up my suite cases for Narita. I don’t have time, and I am not sure if I can teach good classes for my students in coming spring semester.
A photo in JR Niitsu Station in Winter (NOT NOW).
Summer is almost over. What was good in this summer was not as hot as last year.
I got off an airplane in the Narita International Airport.
Having finished the formalities for entry, now I am in the land of Japan.
My funny habit is to get on a train of Keisei Line every time I go to and back from Narita Airport. If I got on a JR train, just one ticket should have brought me to my hometown with cheaper fare. But this time, too, I got on a Keisei train for Ueno.
It was a short walk from Keisei Ueno station to JR Ueno.
Bullet train (Shin-kansen) platform is in deep underground.
A view from Shin-kansen window of Niigata plain. This is a place for paddy fields.
Now the local train is approaching to my little hometown.
There is a Smoking Booth near Bandaiguchi-Exit on JR Niigata station. Oh, but let me tell you, I am not a smoking person. I have never ever smoked even a single cigarette through my life of more than a half century. Passive smoking was terrible when I was a young company man, but I have already retired from company work. Now I am free from smoke of others.
Anyway, I took the photo above, and then I walked to the other side of this smoking booth. What I found there was…
It reads;
BAN on Smoking Outside This Facility;
A lot of complaints are coming (to the City Office) due to part of users with bad manner. If this situation continues, this smoking booth would need to be demolished. We ask you to smoke only inside of the facility.
As if these big letters indicate how the Niigata municipal government is angry with bad smoking people.
And I thought that, if there are a lot of complaints, it would not be “part of users” but it might be “many of users”.
Thank you for taking a look at this post until the end. Good day,
It took more than one and a half hour for me to cook tonight’s supper.
Actually, it was a little stinky with fish smell. I should have poured some olive oil before wrapping it. I regretted not doing so.
The left board says that droppings from a dog shall be disposed properly by the dog’s owner.
The right board says that, when you play in this shrine area, do not break anything, do not make anything dirty, and put in your mind that we all have to keep the shrine clean.
But I can tell you that there is no longer any single kid playing in the shrine area. There are no kids around there because Japan’s society has already aged very much.
I have been busy for so long. That is all for today.
Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning 