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.
Now it’s already 9p.m. I don’t have time to write a post about Japanese Learning tonight.
I found them on the shelves of a local grocery store today. 220 means that two hundred and twenty Japanese Yen.
I think that those two were disappeared into my stomach within three minutes.
I am a little tired to write a post for “Japanese Learning” tonight.
If I took pictures today, it would have been more beautiful because the sky was clear today. But I had been working on my field.
As of April 1st, It was declared that Cherry flowers had started blooming in Niigata.
I got up at 5:30a.m. this morning. I had to attend my mother because she was going to move to another hospital today. Since the end of February, she had been hospitalized because of cerebral infarction. Now it is the time for her to move to the next hospitalization to get rehabilitation. I got on a train at 7:30 and a bus at 7:57. I quickly gathered her belongings in the hospital, and we left there at around 9 by a taxi modified for transporting sick people. All through the morning after we got to the new hospital, I got a lengthy explanation, did consultations, and signed on a lot of documents. I left the new hospital at 12:20 by the free shuttle bus of the hospital.
Getting off a local train at my village, I went to a supermarket and bought packages of Sushi and fresh sardines. I took my late lunch at 1:30, eating Sushi. Then I just wanted to take a short nap on the bed to get rid of my fatigue. But it couldn’t be a short one. I found that it was already 6 p.m. when I awoke from the nap. I got out of my bed and I called to two uncles to let them know that my mother had moved to another hospital.
Then, I started to cook sardines.
It was terrible that I couldn’t find a function to rotate an image 90, 180, or 270 degrees on the editor of wordpress. I had to rotate images on my computer and upload them again.
It has been a tough day.
It happens in winter. If I expose my finger in cold air for some time, my finger skin gets crack. This time, I got it on the tips of thumb. Every time I touch something, I feel stinging like ache. I need to wash foods and cook meals using water, these cracks are annoying.
And, snow fall; if the ground is covered with snow, it makes me reluctant to work on my field.
January: I was living in the residence for foreign teachers. This photo shows what I put on steamed rice. It’s “Furikake” in Japanese.
February: I had been in my house in Japan during winter break. It seems that there was a lot of snow fall at that time.
March: The spring semester had started at the time of this photo. There was still ice on the surface of the pond in the campus.
April: Some plum flowers were blooming in the campus.
May: Iris flowers around the pond
June: When I was in the campus, I cooked all the meals myself except lunches in weekend. This is a typical dish which I ate for weekend lunch.
July: Though the final examination had ended, I was still in the campus, cleaning the room, and packing my belongings into suitcases to come back to my country, Japan.
August: Summer in this year was quite heated. This photo was taken on the way to a mobile phone shop.
September: Rice were becoming yellow at the beginning of September. Some were already harvested, and some were still green.
October: Japan’s “Susuki” and “Tall goldenrod” from foreign country were competing each other.
November: Iide mountains of altitude of 2000 meters had got snow.
December: Snow has come to low altitude area of Niigata.
Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning 