Where am I?

This frog is somewhere in my office.
He is one of the members of my office, too.
Have you even seen him here?
He wants you to find himself every time.
I like such animal character goods.
It heals me very much!

Fireworks Show

Today we have Fireworks Show of 葛飾 in 柴又.

Five years ago I went to see it, and I was very excited.
At that time, that was my first year after I came to Japan.
So I was very very impressed with it.

The level of fireworks in Japan is really really high all over the world.
Last year I went to see the show of 江戸川&市川.

Unfortunately today I can't go to see it because of my work.
Every Tuesday I work, also every Saturday I work, too.
Recently fireworks show is held on Saturday.....

Luckily I found a fireworks show held on Sunday.
Then, I'm going to go to see it with one of my non-Japanese friends.
He is really interested in seeing it, so I will take him.
He must be impressed with it.

Summer Vacation

I am planning to go to Kyoto this summer.

My best friend lives in Kyoto now,
and we haven't met for almost six months.
Until this Feb he lived in Tokyo but moved to Kyoto.

I'm planning to go there in my car little by little.
I like to visit several places on the way to Kyoto.
So my final destination is Kyoto.

However, Kyoto in summer is very hot, especially humid.
In addtion it is very crowded.
Should I change the season to go there?

My parents' cellphones

I have made a contract to buy a car,
so I have to undertake about my father's cellphone.

Several years ago, one day my mother suddenly said,
"I want to try having and using a cellphone."

At first my mother got interested in cellphone.
My father wasn't very inretested in it.
but they bought two cellphones and started to use them.

After a while, my mother probably became tired of it,
and she stopped using it, decided not to have it, and cancel it.
My father has been continuing using it.

However,they aren't familiar with those recent items,
so my father pays hign monthly fee even still now.
One day I went back to their house, I noticed it.
And I suggested them to change the plan to save monthly expense.

They can't do that by themselves,
so I have to do it instead of them,
but I had been too busy with many things
to help them for several months.

This time, I am less busier than before,
so I am going to visit them and help them to save,
in my new car.

How hot!!

I am going to recommend this cup-noodle tonight.

I bought this at ピカソ this month.
Have you seen it or have you eaten it before?

The original Ramen is from the Ramen shop in 石神井公園.
We can eat this there, and this is very popular.
So they started to produce cup-noodle version, too.

I like spicy food, such as Korean, Salsa, and Mexican Chili.
It makes me excited. How about trying buying it and eating?

Let me hear your feeling after you eat this.

I have decided

I have almost decided what car to buy.
This morning I went to the dealer and tried taking the cars.
It made me able to decide which car to buy.
I am getting excited little by little.

Buying a car

I noticed I hadn't renewed my blog for one week.
I have one reason.

Now I am planning to buy a car.
Expecially now buyers can receive tax credits
for purchasing hybrid cars or other eco-friendly cars.

They say the deadline is Sep 30th,
but after the goverment finishes using budjet before Sep 30th,
this tax credits must finish, even before Sep 30th.

I really think this system is good but strange too
because some people will not be able to receive tax credits
even though they buy a car before Sep 30th.

So I also have to decide wheather I will buy or not soon.
I am going to decide withing this weekend.
Then I have reaserached a lot of things
about the cars which I want to buy.

That's why I could not renew my blog for more than one week.
Sorry.......

To read books

Recently I have to read this book
“The Phantom of the Opera” because of my work.
I enjoy reading this novel.

In the past, especially when I was a child,
I didn’t like to read books.
Many teachers and my parents told me to read books,
however, I didn’t start to read books.

In Japan, people often say,
“It is the best way to read a lot of books
if you want to improve your Japanese skill.”
I really agree to this idea although I didn’t believe it in the past.

My English skill at elementary school or junior high school
wasn’t good because I didn’t read a lot of books then.

However, to read books became interesting little by little
when I was a high school student.
Then, my English skill also became better and better.

Every Japanese person knows or understands,
“Reading a lot of books is the shortest way
to improve Japanese skill,”
but very many Japanese people don’t read books in English.
This is very strange for me.

I strongly believe that
learners’ English will become better
if they read not only one book but a lot of books.

One-day pass

This is an one-day pass of Toei bus service.
I like this ticket very much, because it is only 500 yen,
and we can go to a lot of places with this ticket.

I wrote about the Korean restaurant in 赤坂 this week,
but I took a bus a lot of times and arrived there.
Before reaching 赤坂, I dropped in 豊洲, 有明, お台場, 浜松町, 新橋,
but it cost only 500 yen.

Of course we can go to farther places,
such as western Tokyo or so on, but it costs only 500 yen.

If we pay 200 yen more　(700 yen),
we can get an one-day pass of 都営バス, 都営地下鉄, 舎人ライナー, and 都電.
Don't you think it is great?

I also like an one-day pass of Tokyo-Metro which costs 710 yen
an one-day pass of JR(Tokyo's 23 wards) which costs 730 yen.
These are also reasonable and can take us to a lot of places,
although we can't take a bus...