mix and match(着回す）

着こなす：dress well/stylish

マストアイテム：must/musthave

ブランドもの：designer goods

流行の：in style/fashion

流行遅れの：out of style/fashion

古着の：second-hand

衝動買い：impulse purchase

To our surprise,

Yesterday's afternoon, I attended the cooking class in Kanayama and
I met two ex-corworkers by totally accident!

I go to the school for more than a year but
it was a trial lessen for them.

Actually I met one of them in the underground shoppoing area in Nagoya station about a month ago also by chance,
but I met her and the other co-worker today.
It's a very surprising thing.

We worked at the same company before but none of us continue working there and
we didn't meet again after we quit that job.
Yesterday, we met again after 3 years.

We'll have the chances to meet at the same cooking school
if they decide to go there.

As for cooking, I baked cheese cake with orange flavor and
they baked some breads with salted cod roe spiced with red pepper.

Business trips to Tobisima village

I took this picture in front of our head office in Tobisima.

I have to say for the people they don't know about me well

that I work at a branch office in Nagoya city.

Tobisima is a small village near Nagoya port and these days I have to go there to receive the bisiness trainnings.

Last week, I went there twice. At the first day, I took some lessons in a meeting room but the second day, I spent almost a day in a trailer with a woman driver.

She is very nice person and she acted very kindly to me.

She explained about her job and she also talked with me a lot besides topics about the business.

So we could spend very fruitful time.

When the time we had to say good buy, we felt so sad that we didn't say the things like

'take care of your health, du your best and good bye.'

Just we said,

'See you next time, thank you so much!'

A Green Park

I went to the Green park close to my house and saw beautiful flowers in the greenhouse.

■おけいこ関連ボキャブラリー
見学　：observation
資格　：qualification / certification / licence / title
修了証書：certificate
入学金：admission fee
受講料：course/school fee, tuition
資料請求：request a brochure

Viewing cherry blossoms

桜前線　：the beginning of the wave of cherry blossoms
開花する：bloom
花見シーズン：cherry blossom season
つぼみ　：bud
３分（５分）咲き：one third(half) of the flowers on the tree are in bloom
満開　　：full bloom　しだれ桜：weeping cherry blossom tree
花見客　：cherry blossom viewing　花見酒　：drinking sake under the cherry blossoms
花見団子：eating sticky rice balls on a stick under the cherry blossoms
桜吹雪　：a storm of cherry blossom / a storm of flowers
夜桜　　：night time cherry blossom viewing
場所取り：reserve a spot
花見の名所　　：cherry blossom viewing spots
どんちゃん騒ぎ：party/bacchanalia
酔っぱらい　　：a drunk
go cherry blossom viewing with～（～と花見に行く）
The cherry blossoms are in full bloom.（桜が満開だ）

It's me.

This picture was taken in the house which named 'the
country documents house'. And it's me!

If I extended only the length of the picture, I would be skinnier.

Actrually I did. ha ha ha^^*

When you sit on the wooden velandah and take a rest,
you can relax and foget all nasty things.
It's very comfortable place especially in the spring.^-^*

This picture is the exterior of their house.

Museum Meiji-mura

I　visited the Museum, Meiji-mura with nickey and This room is used to be the study of Natsume soseki and Mori Ogai. They were great Japanes writers.

Otitis media (=tympanitis)

Otitis media is the name of disease. I've got inflammation of the ears last month.

Originally I often see the otorhimology doctor because my ears and nose are sensitive and easily become inflamed.

This time, this disease was caused by high-speed elevators in our bilding.
We use them at least 4times per day and this actions are bad for ears.
And one more. this type of higl buildings tend to be dried the air for protecting computers and other mechineries.

To avoid disease, we shouldn't use elevators excessively and have to take water more than usual.

Working in new high-building makes our feeling good,
but at the same time, we have to be careful for our health.
I didn't notice it until I got 'Otitis media'.

Midland square

I visited Midland square, which is new building in Nagoya.

This picture isn't one but the other buildings in Nagoya.

I could see them closely from the highest floor of Midland square.

There is kind of a platform and we can view the scenery from three directions.

These days many high buildings have constructed and some are now under construction near Nagoya station.

When you travel in Nagoya, chek them out.

The season of hay fever>.<

■Let me review...

sneeze：くしゃみ
teary eyes/watery eyes：涙目
itchy eyes/nose：かゆい目／鼻
runny nose：鼻水
stuffy nose：鼻づまり
mask/face mask：マスク
pollen：花粉

・I sneeze a lot.（よくくしゃみが出る）
・I can't stop sneezing.（くしゃみが止まらない）
・My eyes are so itchy.（目がかゆい）
・I have a runny nose.（鼻水が出る）
・I have a stuffy nose.（鼻づまりだ）
・When I go outside, I wear a mask.（外に出るときはマスクをしている）
・I take hay fever medicine.（花粉症の薬を飲んでいる）
・During hay fever season, it's better to hang the laundry inside.（花粉症の時期は、洗濯物は室内で干したほうがよい）
・I always brush off the pollen when I go in the house.（家に入る前に花粉を払い落とすようにしている）

I'm gonna・・・

I'm gonna go travelling in Paris via Shanghai in the comming July with a friend.
We've already applied for a tour but it isn't hundread percent.

I'll write more detail when the day gets near. ^-^v

Ｓｗｅｅｔｓ♡

I don't know the reason but these days, my mother never runs out of sweets in our house.

So I can enjoy eating them and comparing which sweets are more delicious etc.

Chocolates in the shape of hearts and candies of milk taste are shown in this picture.

In the mean time, I must be still tired because I slept much more than 10 hours today.

I should sleep off my fatigue of one year.
I was keeping busy for a year and two months by juggling two jobs, which is a teacher and an office worker, you know.

I quited to be a teacher at the bigining of this month and now I have more time to relax than before.

But you know, when people are extremely busy, they never feel tired but
on the contrary, when they have time to take a rest, they feel fatigue.

Basically I might not so tough ??
I don't know, but anyway I need to relax to release the fatigue for more than a year.


I'm not sick, so don't worry about me so much.
Thanks^-^/

For ENglish study (about your type)

I like the supportive type. 包容力のある人が好き。
I like the kind of guy who shares the same values. 私は価値観の合う人がいいな。

ちなみに、「理想の人」は英語で、dream man/woman、
「一生のパートナーにふさわしい人」はright man/womanと言います。
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■理想の人について尋ねてみよう！ 　
Ask people "who's your dream man/woman?"
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What kind of person are you attracted to? どんな人に魅かれる？
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■理想のタイプを表現してみよう！ 　
Describe your dream man/woman
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I like the kind of guy/girl who doesn't complain. 文句を言わない人がいいな。
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■Body type
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skinny　:細身 medium　:普通 chubby/stout　:太め muscular/hunky　:筋肉質 stocky　:がっちり体型 glamorous　:グラマー athletic　:スポーツマンタイプ
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■Personality type
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kind/gentle/sweet　:優しい decisive　:決断力がある honest　:素直な loyal　 :誠実な cheerful　:明るい sociable/outgoing　:社交的な open-minded　:偏見のない empathetic　:人の気持のわかる creative　:創造力のある attentive 　:心遣いのできる

I've got a cold

I've got a cold for more than 2 weeks and I'm fed up with it.

I want to recover comletely!

Overtime work

All at once, I became very busy form last week and now
I overwork 4 hours on average.

But probably this condition'll continue at least a few months
coz one of my co-worker who work as a temp staff will go into retirement
at the end of next month and I'll have to take some works over.

Pls cheer me up!

Happy Valentine's day!

How's your plan of Valentine's day this year?

In my case, I didn't buy any chocolate last year but

this year, I bought a lot. I can say that I bought the most in my life!

Because I have been less interested in this event before. I thought department stores and chocolate companies want to sell lots of choocolates and make use of this day for business.

I was very cool girl.

I have never know how exciting the Valentines' day is until this year.

When I went to a department to buy some chocolates, there were so many kinds that I bougut more than I expected.

Even if I was just caught in a trap of the business strategy,

it's okey because I'm enjoying the event !

KUSAMA YAYOI

When I saw this picture in the first,
I thought they were badges but I found them cookies!