Tomorrow I will participate in a 100km walk from Korakoen to Shizutani School and back to Korakoen. It will begin at 10am and there is a 24 hour time limit.
I will try to post some updates on this blog as a I go, so please check back here tomorrow!
Do we have any Marvel fans at NEO? I have been a fan of comic books since I was a kid, and I enjoy seeing them come to life on the silver screen. I think the Marvel movies, such as Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, have been especially good. I’m a bit of a Marvel geek.
On Friday, April 29th, the next installment in the series hit screens in Japan. This one is called Captain America: Civil War, and it features many of the heroes pitted against each other. If you watched the Avengers movies, this is an exciting time.
There have been 13 Marvel movies so far, including Civil War. Below is a timeline that shows all the movies and TV shows that are part of the universe so far (you can click it to make it bigger). You don’t have to watch them all, but you should try one or two and see if you like them!
Vocabulary:
silver screen: movie screen
geek: fanatic
installment: part of a series
hit screens: came to movie theaters
pitted against each other: fighting each other
It’s finally spring, which means that students in the United States have spring break. Spring break is about the same length in America as it is in Japan, about a week and a half.
American spring break is usually planned to be at the same time as the Easter holiday, since that is a time when many families travel to visit family or just for vacation. Because it is right at the beginning of spring, families have a lot of choices on what they can do with their spring break. Some families go south to Florida or the Caribbean to have fun in the nice warm weather, but my family usually went to Colorado to go skiing for a week. It is very popular for college students to go to Mexico or other warm places to have a week of fun in the sun.
Students in Mexico on spring break
Students in Canada on spring break
Students usually don’t have any homework during spring break, or if they do it’s far less than normal.
What about you? What did you do for spring break when you were a child?
Let me put up an blog post in English this time.
I have some friends living overseas, and I occasionally send them a care package.
It's not that they can't get anything Japanese there, but things are overpriced.
Besides, it's always nice to get something from home!
So I recently sent a package to my good friend in the U.S.
She's raising three children and doesn't have time for herself, not to mention that buying Japanese food for a big family is expensive.
I packed something small for her kids, but other things were mainly for my friend.
Some books to read, a magazine to flip through, a bag of Japanese-style chocolate snack.
Things she could get over there, but wouldn't for sure.
But I was too dumb that I had totally forgotten about the quarantine inspection on food coming into the U.S.
It has become much stricter.
Any food containing "meat" or even "extract from meat" will be confiscated.
Can you guess what was taken away from the package I sent from Japan?
Some food that almost all Japanese people like.
They took all three boxes of curry sauce blocks from the package.
The curry sauce blocks contain beef extract.
I have sent Japanese curry to the U.S. in the past, and not even once had it been taken away.
Gee, I learned my lesson in the hard way.
The officers can recognize the Kanji 肉！
This week, Dave will be on Radio MOMO. He will be on with Chiaki Kamibeppu in 「Let's Enjoy English!」. The program is about 15 minutes long. Chiaki and Dave will practice some basic English conversation talking about カタカナ英語.