Satomi’s Neighborhood

My last post was written in August?? Wow! So many things have occured since then.

Not the time to say more from the time being though, sorry! But soon...

Languages...I eventually am able to work more with English as I was used to be. Even though, it is not enough according to me, if ever one day I find this enough ;) Anyway, I love working with languages. It has become my passion.

Not only English, but also my own language which is French and I have begun to learn Spanish for several day. I have many goals that I want to reach and am working toward them...slowly but surely. It is used to say that it's better not to say too much before it is reached so, when it is the time, I say more.

Here is links towards items in French that I shared on LingQ. I hope you'll appreciate them:

Apprendre avec LingQ : http://www.lingq.com/learn/fr/store/38156/

Votre aventure dans l'apprentissage du français : http://www.lingq.com/learn/fr/store/40975/

Améliorez vos écrits : http://www.lingq.com/learn/fr/store/41112/

I would appreciate to hear from you. Give me your feedback :)

My colleague attended a party last week, and won whole roasted chicken by bingo game. She lives alone, so she can't eat it by herself! She decided to have a small party and invite me this weekend. I'm really looking forward to the party.

I went to a Korean restaurant with my mother, sister, brother-in-law, and niece. But I came back home soon because of my stomach ache. I'm terribly sorry that I couldn't enjoy dinner!

Our dog Koro, which is 16 years old, seems demented lately. He is always walking in the garden, and often gets stuck everywhere and barks. It was rainning yesterday, but he walked soaking wet.
At night, we diaper Koro and have him staying in our room. I wonder if Koro can live until the end of the year.

I have a stomach ache now. I guess it is because I went out for dinner two days.

Last month, I didn't write my blog so often. So I decided to write it everyday, at least in December. It is really tough for me, but I'd like to try, even though I can write only one sentence in a day.

Recently, I started to read the scripts of VOA Special English Web site.

VOA has some features, is written with limited words and easy grammars so that non-native Speakers of English can understand, and the audio of VOA is read out more slowly than normal speed as well.
Despite of that, it’s difficult for me. I import the scripts of VOA into the LingQ site, and then I read them on LingQ, while looking up words and phases that I don’t know in the dictionary. After that, I memorize vocabularies with flash cards test system.

I intended to read them carefully and understand them well. However I couldn’t remember the contents. Though I can remember what I read in Japanese, I can’t remember what I read in English. The contents that I read in English tend not to remain in my head. I need to read them over and over until I can explain the summary.

I had a flat tire of my bicycle. I was going to ask a repair shop to fix it, but usually it takes about 1,000 yen. So I tried to fix it by myself. The tube inside the tire seemed too old, so I thought it should be replaced.
It was really tough work to release the tire from the frame because of the rust. But I managed to do that.

It's been a while since I wrote on this blog last.

To tell the truth, I have spent the toughest time in my lifetime: my father was diagnosed as having cancer. His cancer is in its terminal stage and cannot be removed in the operation.

No one in my family noticed his illness until he said he was so tired that he stayed in his car while we went shopping together.

He was so shocked to hear that and so was I.  I could do nothing but cried everyday.

so tough... and so much tears...

I couldn't write how tough it was.

However, after a long struggle, I have come to appreciate the time we are given.

I am very busy taking care of him in my parents' home. (as I live next to their house, I can stay with him any time.)

I am very happy to do so.  Actually I feel happiest in these ten years or so.

I will write on this blog again.  This blog will be a wonderful memory.

I'm really tired since I met my friend from UK on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a nice and enjoyable time.
I'm going to write about that soon.