tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37261028722317608502024-02-19T19:34:41.425+09:00Miami TodayMr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.comBlogger812125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-28053721612988005582021-10-30T12:31:00.004+09:002021-10-30T12:37:03.420+09:00ブログ休憩<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMyvlzpNN-_-NFz6XfBkaiacu6CJPdUur8S56S4r7Em5J6I8hyphenhyphen84QaVf86FVVnVJKSS_H6WbVVjb8AalMakAfbYw5lx5mPI6D3yJwIjTU-tDz-v6WtnLxNVTdOmh-sPUkYIAtjCrIgfI/s1200/Blog+Break.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMyvlzpNN-_-NFz6XfBkaiacu6CJPdUur8S56S4r7Em5J6I8hyphenhyphen84QaVf86FVVnVJKSS_H6WbVVjb8AalMakAfbYw5lx5mPI6D3yJwIjTU-tDz-v6WtnLxNVTdOmh-sPUkYIAtjCrIgfI/w427-h640/Blog+Break.png" width="427" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-22863230435699219402021-10-27T04:00:00.000+09:002021-10-27T04:00:00.203+09:00Movie Quotes #4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EUYChRtS3jPLNP2RWCiyBrg24cmeMI6kQJgTX_TZw4Ot-6rIhqEn6Q03AwTFn8DT5NhtZcgheIX82TDzZve9KXiiiO6Y6pOLzNK6cT36_7fAbP2Pp1Wdf7fytBKOQjNqFdDqOaAa8jI/s1200/MK013-BG03.4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EUYChRtS3jPLNP2RWCiyBrg24cmeMI6kQJgTX_TZw4Ot-6rIhqEn6Q03AwTFn8DT5NhtZcgheIX82TDzZve9KXiiiO6Y6pOLzNK6cT36_7fAbP2Pp1Wdf7fytBKOQjNqFdDqOaAa8jI/w426-h640/MK013-BG03.4.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-33085632593179195672021-10-25T18:45:00.000+09:002021-10-25T18:45:31.238+09:00 #749 Quarantine<span id="docs-internal-guid-c96f7e26-7fff-114f-7600-178c2fa1b77a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I was not looking forward to the next two weeks. I don’t understand why when I actually had corona, I only had to stay home for 10 days. This time I was told I had to stay home for 14 days. The good news is that since my father’s house was in Alabama, I could come straight home. If I had stayed in Florida, I would have had to pay to stay at a hotel for 3 days in Tokyo before coming back home. Florida is the worst state for Corona in the U.S. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Luka my cat had gotten bigger. Before, she looked like a little child, but now she seemed like a teenager. At first, it seemed like she had forgotten me. She ran away from me and just peeked at me from around corners. But then she came to me and took a sniff and seemed to remember my smell. We were friends again.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-67956983317328445152021-10-22T17:37:00.002+09:002021-10-22T17:37:18.437+09:00 #748 Back in Japan<p> <br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2bcf828a-7fff-57e4-a06c-68a1909bb6dd"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj010C8o8nceIigNoIt6anvKtoAwNxaRfUQvOx4wHXIAMFD-uIKo22-RBO_NrFte7KTEWRXu5XZR2nthtzCG5Vti1eXTd1a9SXnd5RGjURQYIuwtHZ4-SDPptDGl5RTgZuO6yDI78ovBeI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="647" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj010C8o8nceIigNoIt6anvKtoAwNxaRfUQvOx4wHXIAMFD-uIKo22-RBO_NrFte7KTEWRXu5XZR2nthtzCG5Vti1eXTd1a9SXnd5RGjURQYIuwtHZ4-SDPptDGl5RTgZuO6yDI78ovBeI/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #e85925; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tracking app 追跡アプリ</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roll down the window 窓を開ける</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turn up the music 音量をあげる</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step on the gas アクセルを踏む</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that I was free and clear of customs, the next question was, how do I get home? I was not allowed to take a train. At the airport, the staff made sure I installed tracking apps on my phone, so they could check my location at any time. I could take a special taxi that would have cost more than 50000 yen. Instead,I decided to rent a car. Even though I was tired from my long flight, I enjoyed the drive home. The weather was beautiful and so I rolled down the window, turned up the music and stepped on the gas. The car rental shop was about 4 or 5 kilometers from my house. First I drove home and dropped off my luggage. Then I dropped off the car. Finally I had a long walk home. It took about one hour, but I was happy to be home! </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGIgRwRL_mHVksVEOZ38wgRTNf3y2jQs98tOBEMODDNkw5atVuFrzcadYUBksTGQOs_jO-WGyTlfKW02aMfHwNW0pPdnOFQvgDouQDb34bA8Kht2LAqiEV2KDGWomImu4O2UdaCyqHqGk/s1600/1633682086631037-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGIgRwRL_mHVksVEOZ38wgRTNf3y2jQs98tOBEMODDNkw5atVuFrzcadYUBksTGQOs_jO-WGyTlfKW02aMfHwNW0pPdnOFQvgDouQDb34bA8Kht2LAqiEV2KDGWomImu4O2UdaCyqHqGk/w640-h160/1633682086631037-0.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">みなさん、こんにちは。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">フロリダ渡航記もそろそろ終盤、コロナ禍で長い自粛生活を送っていた私達にとってジョン氏のアメリカ滞在記は新鮮で感動したりハラハラしたりと、多いに楽しませてもらいました。まさにAmerican culture のたくさん詰まったお話でしたね。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">さてMiami 英会話のカリキュラムも刷新されました。マイアミ生徒の英語力を効果的に更にアップさせようというジョン先生の意欲を感じる内容だと思いました。まずは受講してみて、意見、疑問、不安、不足を率直に尋ねられたら良いと思います。私も先日 、現地参加し、久しぶりにクラスで皆さんにお会いできてとても嬉しかったです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">同時に皆さんも緊急事態宣言解除以降, 活動が活発になった事とおもいます。私自身もだいぶ忙しくなりました。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">楽しくブログ翻訳をさせていただいてきたのですが、上手い日本語を考える時間と余裕がなくなりそうです。雑な翻訳になる前にretire することをジョン氏に伝えました。応援してくださったマイアミの皆さんありがとうございました。Especially , Akiko san , thank you for responding to my 2cents . 私宛にコメントくださった方にお返事できずごめんなさい。しばらくは翻訳が付くかと思いますが、poor な日本語訳なしでジョン先生のブログをぜひ堪能して下さい。classの授業 同様、大変英語の勉強になります。また時間の余裕ができたら時々お手伝いさせていただきたいと思います。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you all ,and see you again!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good Luck ! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yaeko </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-31253060268786820882021-10-20T04:00:00.001+09:002021-10-20T04:00:00.246+09:00Movie Quotes #3<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrG0fWGsM55nOydb9XDd1u5Cr_bbkfKYfAc1RTt8wW0Pq3cEk7zwIIlMe5ZDFwVMgINIg9B0yQNjqkCJiV7PZk-9Df-EIPzv6mdL9YOhipHesgQ1zLEysmQrh6Ny8ItPeLAfgIMgNSZM/s1200/MK013-BG03.3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrG0fWGsM55nOydb9XDd1u5Cr_bbkfKYfAc1RTt8wW0Pq3cEk7zwIIlMe5ZDFwVMgINIg9B0yQNjqkCJiV7PZk-9Df-EIPzv6mdL9YOhipHesgQ1zLEysmQrh6Ny8ItPeLAfgIMgNSZM/w426-h640/MK013-BG03.3.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-65590056438651590202021-10-18T11:05:00.000+09:002021-10-18T11:05:06.431+09:00 #747 Test Result<p><br /></p><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-50d27af4-7fff-9d36-4ede-ee67aac937ed"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 153px; overflow: hidden; width: 206px;"><img height="153" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/JtcP2jZudOeQ-Cr2gWOPGfmpLWnTWx96kAoBC3i3LDM1CHFlCZSZJQAE5YEkpdLXD5IaWD25Tkn3PCB7qgsqn1sNgERmXk6AjhVnEBsRzp2ux34wOPvr2uHJKK4oNq-MJabuHgjL=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="206" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #e85925; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All in all -大体に於いて/大概</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carousel 回転式コンベア/ 回転木馬</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To be clear of something</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maze 迷路</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All in all, the whole route was about 5000 steps. The last station was a waiting room to receive my test result, and luckily it came back negative! They gave me a certificate, and I continued on to passport control. I picked up my luggage at the carousel, and I was surprised to find an ANA lady waiting for me to help me find my luggage. ANA is great! The last stop was customs, and I was free and clear! I made it! I felt like a mouse that made it through a maze without getting eaten by a cat! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgznBb8113dFLauSYnEERqxfaZP7xTFEKJ3M1kLvMDSpL1oWN_1UHZjLExWL7Vo7xWV4Mcr1CkQYSog1gxIqJdZiWvoZBSBfRAbujoktGdDQtUXRlMFb9X2AhBZmUIRe6mJ4kbfb9I2nJI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgznBb8113dFLauSYnEERqxfaZP7xTFEKJ3M1kLvMDSpL1oWN_1UHZjLExWL7Vo7xWV4Mcr1CkQYSog1gxIqJdZiWvoZBSBfRAbujoktGdDQtUXRlMFb9X2AhBZmUIRe6mJ4kbfb9I2nJI/" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">まぁ、大体そのルートは5000歩といったところです。最後のチェックポイントは検査結果受取の待合室になっていて、幸い私の結果は陰性でした! 証明書を渡さ、れ、入国審査の方にさらに進みます。回転式コンベアーで自分の荷物を取りましたが、驚いたことにANAの女性が私の荷物を探す手伝いをするために待っていてくれました。ANAは最高です!最後は税関です。 何の問題もなくクリアしました。やりました!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">猫に食べられずに迷路通過に成功した、ネズミの様な気分でした!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Yaeko's .25 cents:</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations,Jerry 🐭!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dodging Tom 😾, you finally found a way out of the Maze !!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You deserve big cheese🧀! Bon appetit!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-49703169251864794272021-10-15T16:05:00.005+09:002021-10-15T16:05:49.416+09:00 #746 The Maze Pt. 2<p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3cf8974-7fff-8849-1a0b-2970306eecfb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Baloo Thambi", cursive; font-size: 48pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE PCR TEST</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 200px; overflow: hidden; width: 266px;"><img height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/bebIvbfrXgPZhzQTIXhOGE4XnsMW8X2VzeuJeYGHjhmvHs9S8_0lkEYgV_MPOxQxbgou0LkMyZyjykn6RpSfvu5fJTjLW1actgpSdpOQH4YG5tGAooxyUonQAyPhHeF9FWXjCa6I=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="266" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a matter of fact 実際</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saliva 唾液</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasal 鼻の</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swab 綿棒</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grab 掴む、ひったくる</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cf. grab lunch さっと昼食をとる</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now came the big test...another PCR test as a matter of fact. Why did I have to take a PCR test before I got on the plane, and then another one here? Oh, well. At least this one was a saliva test and not a nasal swab test. This will have been my 5th PCR test this year! There was nothing like this when I arrived in the U.S. I just got off the plane, grabbed my luggage and went! After submitting my saliva, I continued along the route and at last found...a bathroom!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">いよいよ大きなテストがやってきました。実は、二度目のPCRテストです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">なぜ搭乗前に受けてまたここでも受けなければならないのだろう?やれやれ。でもまぁ、ここのは唾液による検査で鼻に綿棒を刺す検査ではないし。 これで、今年5回目のPCR テストになります。アメリカ到着時と全く様子が異なります。(アメリカでは)ただ飛行機から降りて、荷物をさっと取っていくだけでした! 唾液を提出し後、またルートに沿って進み、そしてやっと最後にトイレを見つけました!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 110px; overflow: hidden; width: 440px;"><img height="110" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AN-OjQ7pyDtz-rm7DIGXXViJcNxSllpAb9NZTCKoeVzUijlGvpp0CNpWOytLvnr101CYNdsDxy_cWIqe9xqNWRLwCNPx6J5TNupuP3zwuVuclKtQx8o-Ijh8nuK0dQiskzzaxA0u=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="440" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**maze**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a long way to find a bathroom! Otsukaresama</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These few days I felt like I was in MAZE,too . Because I had left my cell phone in a taxi. TripleOMG!!!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My iPhone was moving around the city in the taxi. SoftBank was searching for it by GPS. It was like ‘catch and run’ : Police officers, taxi companies, SoftBank operators, Station employees … I really appreciated their kind support for finding my phone. It won’t ever happen again!!! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ここ数日私は迷路の中にいるようでした。携帯をタクシーに置き忘れたのです。📱は市内をタクシーに乗って移動しています。SoftBankがGPSでおよその位置を報告してくれるのですが、追いかけっこをしているようでした。たくさんの方の親切なサポートは本当にありがたかったです。二度とこのようなことがないようにします。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-48684413815817459772021-10-13T04:00:00.002+09:002021-10-13T04:00:00.231+09:00Movie Quotes #2<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVN02u6BmRL-CEZ6EMCRBu-pINaxRagRltQKRdV2a3JjNuhR9Ur1rwyII-SPH81Dp8K0rUNQ1bN8VfmvVCt09ONFb4A1BgAUF23BRwVW6bOXb1Ic2_z07ZHHcC0RJAeRGyJL7fH9pDSqs/s1200/MK013-BG03.2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVN02u6BmRL-CEZ6EMCRBu-pINaxRagRltQKRdV2a3JjNuhR9Ur1rwyII-SPH81Dp8K0rUNQ1bN8VfmvVCt09ONFb4A1BgAUF23BRwVW6bOXb1Ic2_z07ZHHcC0RJAeRGyJL7fH9pDSqs/w426-h640/MK013-BG03.2.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0Tokyo, Japan35.6761919 139.65031067.3644074582455694 104.49406060000001 63.987976341754432 174.8065606tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-65631108091754529512021-10-11T10:10:00.002+09:002021-10-11T18:27:22.744+09:00 #745 The Maze Pt. 1<p> <br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e29b00bc-7fff-09f9-235a-772d435dc530"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeZc8Uuz24g7Wu1Nw4TPm5AVxf3ReFy0jKuw8d2iL5DdA_hbSXW7Xrk2zTNx_J6Ba0UnrICxsUkrR4YxDevRojO0yHMFRMBscvCzkIjsGW9L-zuVYBtvzmu6h0wad-8fNqUpJRpfs_Dc/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pee おしっこ</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not allowed 許されていない</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check a document 書類を確認する</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So far, so good 今のところ順調</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps Application software アプリ</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My paperwork was in order 私の書類は適切だった(ちゃんと書かれていた)</span></p></li></ul><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am lucky that I peed before I got off the plane. Immediately after we stepped off there were two routes which to choose from, one was for Olympics staff and athletes, and the other was for me. I was impressed when I saw a couple of Athletes walk by me. The route that I went was a long one. It went around the terminal, down a long terminal to the next terminal, around that terminal, and back again. The bathrooms were closed and we were not allowed to enter. Stations were set up along the way. At each station, someone checked a document required for entry. At one station, I had to sit with a member of the staff and install tracking apps on my phone. So far, so good I thought. All my paperwork seemed to be in order, but...when can I use the bathroom????</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">飛行機を降りる前にトイレに行っておいてよかった。飛行機から一歩踏み出したそこには(平行に)二本の通路があり、片方はオリンピック関係者や選手団用、もう一方は私が行く通路となっています。私の横を歩く何組かの選手たちを見た時には感激しました。この通路はターミナル中を巡っていて、ながーいターミナルから次のターミナルへとぐるぐる回ってまた元に戻るように続いています。トイレはクローズされていて、利用することができません。通路の所々にはチェックポイントが設置されています。それぞれのチェックポイントで入国に必要な書類審査が行われています。そのうちの1カ所で私は腰掛けてスタッフの1人が私の携帯に追跡アプリを取り付けるの待っていました。今のところ順調です。私の書類に不備は無いようです。でも….いつトイレにいけるのかなー。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">**pee**</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 287px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 384px;"><img height="287" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/xuEWMVo4IB1ouGWfkJ455u1A4GOOvtEt-3YYBQe5f9CLwEeig5AaSrWGW3-gquY_4h5Lyvlappb8JHHbLNx_CoW3SBU68NfnuS93_guhCSipAHP0vBYljo-MIuAZzoQB5OtRTbhQ=s0" style="margin-left: -127px; margin-top: 0px;" width="511" /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">英語には日本語のonomatopoeia オノマトペ(擬音語、擬声語)のかわりに単語そのものにその様態を表す音が含まれていて、またその単語が動詞活用もします。</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">pee pee やpoo pooの発音からもイメージが可愛らしく変化して伝わりませんか?辞書には幼児語とありますが、カジュアルに大人も使うようです。しかしはたして私がこのblogでI am lucky that I peed before …. と言えるかなー?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07bd85e8-7fff-4572-8438-56c4d4f51444"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">映画プリティーウーマンで売春婦役のジュリアロバーツがopera house でエスコート役のリチャードギアにオペラの感想を尋ねられてI almost peed in my pants. と答え、慌てたリチャードを思い出します。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-31123483576476471372021-10-08T17:34:00.000+09:002021-10-08T17:34:51.407+09:00#744 Touchdown, Haneda!<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br></div><div>Let’s get started!</div><div><br></div><div>Key Words & Phrases:</div><div>Touchdown 着陸</div><div>Low enough that… ….できる程低く</div><div>Anxious 心配</div><div>Be left to a fate of…されるままに/ 運任せにされる/ まな板の上の鯉</div><div><br></div><div>I looked out of the airplane window and was surprised to see my house! Really! The plane was flying over Miura Peninsula, and was low enough that I could make out the Kurihama Ferry! The weather was nice, with the airplane casting its shadow onto a cloud here and there. I grew a bit anxious. Would my PCR paperwork be ok? Would the staff at the airport give me the big X with their arms and send me back to the U.S.???? Would I be left to a fate of eating junk food, watching old TV shows and getting fat? The answer would come soon…..</div><div><br></div><div>飛行機の窓から私の家が見えたのには驚きました!本当です!機体は三浦半島の上空を三浦フェリーが目視できるほど低空飛行しています。天気は良く、飛行機は雲のあちこちにその影をおとしています。少し心配になってきました。私のPC R検査の証明書類は大丈夫だろうか? ダメ〜🙅♂️とアメリカに戻されてしまうんだろうか、そしてまたジャンクフードを食べ、昔のテレビドラマをダラダラと見て太るに任せて</div><div>その答えはまもなくわかります…</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*****</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>**A Carp on a cutting board**</div><div><br></div><div>今回の課題はwould I be left to fate of ..?</div><div>でした。いくら調べてもさっぱり意味が掴めず、fate が「運命」なので、leave … to fate で「…を運に任せる」かなとも思いましたが、納得できる例文はみあたりません。be left to one’s fate で「まな板の上の鯉のようなものだ」とweblio さんは説明しています。??? いきなり鯉はないでしょうと頭を悩ませましたが、どうやら、成り行きまかせにして、アクションを起こさない、受け身で、起こせない状態のようです。アメリカに強制送還されたらジョン氏はポテチを食べ過ぎてまるまる太ったまな板の上の鯛になってしまうというお話でした。今回はquicksand ではなく、cutting board ということになりますか?</div><div>笑えたら座布団一枚下さい😉</div><div>英英辞書によると、</div><div>leave something to fate/ chance </div><div>.. not try to influence how something happens / to not act or to not do something</div><div><br></div><div>This time, I was at loss around the phrase</div><div>‘ leave … to fate’ . There was no good example sentence in the dictionary . </div><div>It just said まな板の上の鯉( a carp on a cutting board) for the phrase . It took me time to understand the idea of it in the sentence of this blog. </div><div>Maybe the image that a fat carp(Mr.John) on the cutting board helps you to understand the meaning of this phrase’ leave to fate’. The carp kept just eating junk food and watching tv and got fat on the cutting board … Iol</div><div>Mr.John was afraid of becoming a fat carp if he was deported to the States. </div><div><br></div><div>********************************************</div><div>ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</div><div>のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</div><div>寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</div><div>**********************************</div><div>www.miamieikaiwa.jp</div><div><br></div>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-51782361105608953112021-10-06T04:00:00.002+09:002021-10-06T04:00:00.200+09:00Movie Quotes #1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgHxDPvXIVZ5j26ZwonYksLTMOeyHnAefhyphenhyphenwecnrrCX_UPlGfZyuL7xeWhovMPOcYXmHAnFEDea9AyUInf33_jmvtbmW6VvRKSeJUE0ge-U4yGgy6Q4VaxDe7jpR2H5veZhzAI15OCj4/s1200/MK013-BG03.1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgHxDPvXIVZ5j26ZwonYksLTMOeyHnAefhyphenhyphenwecnrrCX_UPlGfZyuL7xeWhovMPOcYXmHAnFEDea9AyUInf33_jmvtbmW6VvRKSeJUE0ge-U4yGgy6Q4VaxDe7jpR2H5veZhzAI15OCj4/w427-h640/MK013-BG03.1.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com2Tokyo, Japan35.6761919 139.65031067.3659580638211537 104.49406060000001 63.986425736178845 174.8065606tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-68261718589732264532021-10-04T08:33:00.000+09:002021-10-04T08:33:06.568+09:00 #743 The Miracle of Flight<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9G4rLq1GGhsxOkC6n7aMVM5XvFJt8DI5dSSSdmPzGAiALzU8JaSlfn7H-OpPg8hWPZTrMnfBTp5bayuj4uk8ycDUCSetjdyt6J0Lgz6IloJX_6L2LaWDmPyPbK3j74ffHqP4CpwXHaGU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9G4rLq1GGhsxOkC6n7aMVM5XvFJt8DI5dSSSdmPzGAiALzU8JaSlfn7H-OpPg8hWPZTrMnfBTp5bayuj4uk8ycDUCSetjdyt6J0Lgz6IloJX_6L2LaWDmPyPbK3j74ffHqP4CpwXHaGU/w400-h225/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2e90c052-7fff-cff3-8ae1-f223012dd3df"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole idea of…本来の趣旨/その考えそのもの</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...is nothing short of…全く… にほかならない/ ほとんど(奇跡) だ</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On top of that….その上、そこにもってきて</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some might call me simple minded, but I find the whole idea of flying in an airplane nothing short of a miracle. Think about it. You are literally sitting in a chair that is above the clouds and moving faster than anything on Earth. On top of that, you can eat a meal, drink champagne, and be entertained with movies...all while sitting in a chair above the clouds! Every time I fly, I find it amazing!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️What simple, ordinary, everyday things impress you? Leave a comment and tell me about it!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">単純だと言われてしまうかもしれませんが飛行機(の中)で空を飛ぶという発想自体、私には奇跡だと思えてしまいます。考えてみてください。文字通り雲の上にある椅子に腰掛けて、地球上のどんな乗り物よりも速く移動しているのです。更には、食事をとり、シャンパンを飲み、映画を楽しんだりもしています。雲の上の椅子に座りながらです。飛行機に乗るたびに私は、これって凄い事だと驚きます。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️毎日の単純な普通の生活のなかに何かあらためて感心したりする物や事がありますか? 是非、コメントして教えてください。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">translation*****</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Come to think of it , it’s really amazing to sit on the chair( in the plane) on the clouds ! I’ve never thought that way .</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being in an airplane is just a painful thing to me. If possible I didn’t want to do it. So when I heard ‘Have a nice flight !’ It sounded a little strange to me.( Do we say it in Japanese? ) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, after going through this pandemic , if I have a chance to fly ,I will appreciate it more and enjoy being on the clouds. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">考えてみれば、雲の上の椅子に座っているわけですから本当に凄い事ですよね。今までそんなふうに考えてみたことがありませんでした。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">飛行機に乗るのは私には苦痛でしかありませんでした。できるもなら利用したくない乗り物です。なので、旅立つ前に’Enjoy the flight ‘なんて言われても、どうもしっくりきませんでした。(enjoy できる人なんているのかな)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語で飛行を楽しんでねとはあまり言わないとおもうのですが。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">しかし、この長いパンデミックから解放されて、飛行機を利用する機会に恵まれた時にはきっと、好きなところにいけるありがたさとともに、雲の上の飛行を楽しむことができるようなきがします。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-43684224326862085762021-10-01T13:43:00.002+09:002021-10-01T13:43:27.427+09:00#742 ANA Service<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvnvqR77Ngcb4jWUED2h5cwAgzKaTYSkUw9qnObZVNEe0GVXerS6pi6Y3lpPxz6CnMccE12Q9IuEfR9a4XtHjgRodIj0Xwjt9UIvj7yaLscAUdhyphenhyphenwWojRSKccC_MT1pLITVhOotSjXe0c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvnvqR77Ngcb4jWUED2h5cwAgzKaTYSkUw9qnObZVNEe0GVXerS6pi6Y3lpPxz6CnMccE12Q9IuEfR9a4XtHjgRodIj0Xwjt9UIvj7yaLscAUdhyphenhyphenwWojRSKccC_MT1pLITVhOotSjXe0c/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are the nice ANA employees who bowed at the plane. Amazing!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDSUZroL7d4i1icZ5x3SHnP2XKcgFNEM9_VqY8JDk8FTFor9y5QFQjUEkJEyRWzCVOrs7KeMic39vODtK3G8BEJyszeC8ClBJjx9WGQ6YIGqksGHwpSq5kCCdCG9uvuYTZ0v2toNXoC4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDSUZroL7d4i1icZ5x3SHnP2XKcgFNEM9_VqY8JDk8FTFor9y5QFQjUEkJEyRWzCVOrs7KeMic39vODtK3G8BEJyszeC8ClBJjx9WGQ6YIGqksGHwpSq5kCCdCG9uvuYTZ0v2toNXoC4/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love ANA!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJXkl1Yqecr1utawFOm-4awzIUEar5zI-19yJDjmZ1Zy0rKdgwxYzlsfSV74btdX4VxSJSRoT1CJrvVNOKwxyR9Kkr1XjKRc_hMwPREayg2x9rVNUDlKtaSD6EJzwrmwFgEco4B8RGoI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJXkl1Yqecr1utawFOm-4awzIUEar5zI-19yJDjmZ1Zy0rKdgwxYzlsfSV74btdX4VxSJSRoT1CJrvVNOKwxyR9Kkr1XjKRc_hMwPREayg2x9rVNUDlKtaSD6EJzwrmwFgEco4B8RGoI/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA5AS7NyYBldXtAL3X4fGHDpQ2Po0zVNXp6lZfOWz4EtXVqiy87FjZBtgVTtpa04rADttTuyk13E5JLRa-GxvosW4mk6iVlX0YZwpAynytG8UBvaeuGt-Z6q0tiNKyAOJfBMbetzM3Hw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA5AS7NyYBldXtAL3X4fGHDpQ2Po0zVNXp6lZfOWz4EtXVqiy87FjZBtgVTtpa04rADttTuyk13E5JLRa-GxvosW4mk6iVlX0YZwpAynytG8UBvaeuGt-Z6q0tiNKyAOJfBMbetzM3Hw/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I could see my house from the plane! Should I jump out here?</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDX_Ji0WXu2z1gitOEDQYo5QNIJYW_hCmcE_AGH4Zupc2oTgTWu4PPtypJHaf4Y8txQX31hGYw3Eah1KezxnI0FDFAlql0M-JKXWAP_XSmxXuCwRcNgMDzwDchYJsnHUrbelkjvqB9HbM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDX_Ji0WXu2z1gitOEDQYo5QNIJYW_hCmcE_AGH4Zupc2oTgTWu4PPtypJHaf4Y8txQX31hGYw3Eah1KezxnI0FDFAlql0M-JKXWAP_XSmxXuCwRcNgMDzwDchYJsnHUrbelkjvqB9HbM/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Maborikaigan and Monkey Island</div><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-25542270-7fff-da95-be87-3a732d75197c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Representative 代表•代理•担当者</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paperwork 手続きに必要な文書</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incredible 信じられない</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why are Americans so friendly, but so bad at customer service? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just arrived in Germany, and I was surprised to find an ANA representative holding a sign that read “ANA TOKYO”. He looked at me and said, “Mr. Matsushima?” He came to show me the way to my connecting flight and remind me to be early to verify my paperwork. I thought, “What nice service! This, I love about Japan!” What was even more surprising was when the plane arrived at Haneda, I looked out the window and saw the ground crew wearing uniforms and masks while bowing at the plane. I thought to myself, wow, this is incredible!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your favorite airline? Leave a comment and tell me about it!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">あんなにフレンドリーなアメリカ人がなぜ接客になるとこんなにひどいのだろう?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ドイツに到着してすぐに私はANAの(代表)担当社員が[ANA 東京]と書かれたプラカードを持って立っているのを見て驚きました。彼は私を見て「松島さんですか?」と言いました。近づいてきて乗り継ぎ便への案内をして、早めに搭乗手続き書類に記入しておくことをおもいださせてくれました。’なんて気の利いたサービスなんだ、日本のこういうところが好きだな’とおもいました。さらに驚かされた事は、飛行機が羽田に到着して、窓の外を見るとグランドスタッフがマスクをつけた制服姿でこの飛行機に向かってお辞儀をしている姿が見えました。Wow 信じられない! と思いました。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **customer survive**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I agree that Japan is quite good when it comes to the spirit of hospitality. It is still fresh in our memory that the word ‘Omotenashi’ is used to win the bid to host the Olympic Games . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess nobody feels uncomfortable when they get good service or well trained manners . But I am sometimes taken aback when I get a low bow with both hands laid on the stomach at the cash register in the supermarket. That’s how they are taught and trained I suppose. But I said to myself ‘ you don’t have to do that far …’ In contrast, when I take a taxi , I am always a little bit nervous. If the driver sounds friendly I’m relieved and can enjoy small talk with him. When the driver gives a blunt reply, or rough driving , I feel quite restless. Taking a taxi is something like a bet for me … The other day the driver was a young woman , she was kind enough to open the door for my husband and even asked if the inside temperature was ok or not … I was so impressed with her polite manners and heartfelt hospitality. Whatever their jobs are, I like people who work professionally and put their heart in their jobs. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe the older I get , the more I am conscious about the quality of service.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本が接客サービスにおいてかなり良いという点は同感です。この度のオリンピック誘致で「おもてなし」という言葉が使われたのもまだ記憶に新しいと思います。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">訓練されたマナーや良いサービスを受けて不愉快に思う人はいないと思いますが、私は時々スーパーのレジで面食らうことがあります。精算した後、両手を揃えてレジの店員さんから丁寧にお辞儀をされる時です。そのように、社員教育を受けているのでしょう。そこまでしなくてもいいのにとおもったりします。それとは対照的にタクシーを利用する時、私は少し心配になります。運転手さんがフレンドリーだと安心して少しおしゃべりをすることもありますが、ぶっきらぼうだったり、運転が乱暴だったりすると居心地わるく、落ち着かなくなります。タクシー利用は私にとっては小さな賭けのようなものです。先日は若い女性の運転手さんでしたが、わざわざ車から降りて夫のためにドアを開けてくれました。それに車内のエアコンがキツくないかまで聞いてくれました。礼儀正しい優しさに感激しました。職業が何であれ、私はプロ意識とそこに気持ちをいれて仕事ができる人が好きです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">こうしたサービスの質が気になるようになり、年取ったのかなーーと思うこの頃です。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-20384713238122829042021-09-29T11:47:00.003+09:002021-09-29T11:47:43.319+09:00Hawaiian Phrase of the Day #6<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IYyYOI1Hxz-DdQdrnwyDD3H1x2ksaPjh_br77nbi4ulXnEfzgQG-VZEZ2zLCUsPZwtFhjiyYzSc8bUyc7iaWYqzBQa_2EI4yxrs0LFTSBoZEerf9jBr72mhVhDezVw5KY4AbMHi463Q/s1200/MK005-BG02.6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="760" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IYyYOI1Hxz-DdQdrnwyDD3H1x2ksaPjh_br77nbi4ulXnEfzgQG-VZEZ2zLCUsPZwtFhjiyYzSc8bUyc7iaWYqzBQa_2EI4yxrs0LFTSBoZEerf9jBr72mhVhDezVw5KY4AbMHi463Q/w506-h760/MK005-BG02.6.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-54764282453822929222021-09-27T09:09:00.000+09:002021-09-27T09:09:03.407+09:00End of Summer Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBYvu9jJOubHoKHipp-Zl1YqSUGkS2P9v6vQ2tn_9bMiFaazToFc81bVhY3AzM2jZM1vgUWhzAXuiWitWycN4AdzK55BZYXhxuwpUkcxgAnQyebndFQZ3E54IBSLihaXiMgzBDKRMewk/s2000/MK028.a5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1409" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBYvu9jJOubHoKHipp-Zl1YqSUGkS2P9v6vQ2tn_9bMiFaazToFc81bVhY3AzM2jZM1vgUWhzAXuiWitWycN4AdzK55BZYXhxuwpUkcxgAnQyebndFQZ3E54IBSLihaXiMgzBDKRMewk/w450-h640/MK028.a5.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-90866830352530478702021-09-27T08:06:00.004+09:002021-09-27T08:06:47.120+09:00 #741 Thank God for Earplugs<p> <img height="360" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6xBxzjNue6tDu2jH3CvFbxOk00t5p2G4SBZbzhxBc2OMq26S28XZ8-cMPyRRctPPLqZblg0Q2kokvM342TQpToutuAmDR9pt0P6Ka0Z7gWZznKGwieeONLEVLb5Ah9paX2BFxpMo=w640-h360" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="640" /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0303788f-7fff-3bff-3148-37561a1a0204"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank God for…. … を神に感謝! </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t stand it can’t stand …. …に我慢できない</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driving me crazy 私の頭をおかしくさせる/ イライラさせる drive :駆り立てる</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The flight across the Atlantic from Chicago to Frankfurt was accompanied by the harmonious crying of 2 noisy babies. Actually, they weren’t babies but maybe 3 year olds? Whenever one cried, the other would stop crying and it never seemed to stop. Don’t they ever get tired, or hungry, or sleepy? They were driving me crazy. Eight hours of noise!!!!! ARRGGGGGHHHHH! I thought I couldn’t stand it, but then I thought about their parents and felt sorry for them. Oh, yea...I found my earplugs!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What drives you crazy? Leave a comment and let’s talk about it!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">シカゴからフランクフルトへの大西洋横断は、二人の赤ん坊の泣き叫ぶやかましい協和音を伴った飛行となりました。実際その二人は赤ん坊ではなく三歳位? でした。必ず一人が泣くと、もう一人のほうは泣くのを止めるのですが、その繰り返しが延々と続くのです。一体、この二人は疲れたり、お腹が空いたり、眠くなるって事がないんだろうか? 頭がおかしくなりそうです。8時間ぶっ通しですよ!!!! アァァガァァ!! もう我慢の限界! この二人の親には同情してしまいます。あーっそうだ…耳栓を見つけました!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1682aaf9-7fff-044f-fb0f-8ed73136f749"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 128px; overflow: hidden; width: 511px;"><img height="127" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/5PrBEGCJzXtmTZeu41XTPHbUEqamoetWt5HnRxNNPJHBqYsyRp7X1yBoX-BHcomddN0sEI7a-llpaq1wiwrSeYpkvYjgqCpQdPVvEYrKVb2qyCa1ruBBpatipMIEvyN08s0Leu04=w506-h127" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="506" /></span></span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh, my ! For eight straight hours? Thank God I’ve never been there . It’s a torture!!! There was no way out on the plane , I’m sorry… </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m now in a hospital waiting for my husband’s name to be called. Every seat is filled with elderly people . Next to this word on the floor is obstetrics. There are just a few pregnant mothers and their kids . And these two brats are running around without masks shouting and screaming… . OMG!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Old people’s eyes are all fixed to the two brats.But no one says any . Just watching . If it were in the restaurant the kids would be kicked out … or not , I don’t know. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yesterday was Respect-for -the- Aged Day. The news said that the elderly population is the highest ever , 29.1 percent of the total population . While the birth rate is declining five years in a row.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a mixed feeling about that…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other news I was surprised and sorry about was that 67 post officers including postmen at Isogo Post Office in Yokohama were infected with the Coronavirus. Haven’t they got the vaccine yet? I think those who can’t work remotely should have been prior to getting the vaccination…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope the day will come soon . The day we could say TGIF…Thank God It’s Fled away . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8時間ぶっ通しなんて!幸い私にはそんな経験がありませんが、拷問ですよね。飛行機の中では逃げ場がありませんから。お気の毒でした。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">私は今、病院で夫の名前が呼ばれるのを待っているところです。順番を待つ椅子は年配の患者さんでいっぱいです。同じフロアの隣の診療科は産科で、母親🤱とその子供👶が数組いるだけです。そしてこの二人のガキんちょがマスクなしで奇声をあげながら走り回っています。オーマイガー!!順番待ちの高齢者の目はこの二人の悪ガキに釘付け、誰も何も言いません。見てるだけです。これがもしレストランだったら放り出されているかも、いやそうでもないか….わかりません。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">昨日は敬老の日でした。高齢者人口は過去最高となり、日本総人口の29.1%とニュースは伝えていました。一方、出生率は五年連続で低下しています。複雑な気持ちになります。 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">もう一つショックなニュースがありました。横浜市磯子郵便局🏣の配達員を含む職員67名( 9/24現在77名)がコロナに感染。ワクチン未接種だったのでしょうか。リモートで仕事ができない職種の人達のワクチン接種は優先されるべきだったのではと残念に思います。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">コロナが退散して、TGIF と喜び合える日が早く来ますように!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**TGIF : Thank God It’s Friday 花の金曜日 ——これをもじりまして、It’s Fled away としました。Itは鬼👹demon / Fled はflee 逃げるの過去分詞… 鬼が逃げて良かったねー ちょっと無理がありますか?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-11477743386878727402021-09-24T07:52:00.000+09:002021-09-24T07:52:00.255+09:00 #740 COVID Scam<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYtv9lfUE4JX0WXkkRncvvqV6wDtjegr-UYyFgXUQEg6OED7ztc9tzyLs02eP_UEIP1v0tsPuOQkng5uO_CO_lUH5vw3Bz1ZNHx0oMXSEGBQRwjuoJr4ExJf3TDPxs44CtyH8nptvh6E/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1154" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYtv9lfUE4JX0WXkkRncvvqV6wDtjegr-UYyFgXUQEg6OED7ztc9tzyLs02eP_UEIP1v0tsPuOQkng5uO_CO_lUH5vw3Bz1ZNHx0oMXSEGBQRwjuoJr4ExJf3TDPxs44CtyH8nptvh6E/w400-h225/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ee41bf7-7fff-b679-fb8a-c7f56fe30072"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scam 詐欺</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In advance of …より先に</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hard to find 見つけるのが困難</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administer 実施する</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bang on the door ドアをバンバン叩く</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Storm off 嵐のように立ち去る</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was cheated out of…だまされて…を取られる</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the nick of time 間一髪で、ギリギリ間に合って</span></p></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2j29SMiyX6myIOch2sG-BK20-M1ooZsmIwtqlENDxkyM1Op97XAOckyQciftikdDjLeQuTLiiCqgwKUY-JtUAiz4yb5Lr-Vq3I0xwNYx3CtZr4QZsMQpt3KHjb1K0QQeNsqh-wqaQ8Lw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1154" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2j29SMiyX6myIOch2sG-BK20-M1ooZsmIwtqlENDxkyM1Op97XAOckyQciftikdDjLeQuTLiiCqgwKUY-JtUAiz4yb5Lr-Vq3I0xwNYx3CtZr4QZsMQpt3KHjb1K0QQeNsqh-wqaQ8Lw/w400-h225/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where are my PCR results????? I yelled at the woman in the trailer in the parking lot of the shopping mall. I needed to get a PCR test 72 hours in advance of my flight. It was so hard to find. Most clinics just give rapid tests, which are different from PCR tests. I found this place on the internet called COVID CLINIC, which guaranteed a 2 day turnaround. I did the test on Monday, now it was Thursday morning, my flight was in two hours, and I still had not gotten the results. I realized that this place was a scam. I think they were just taking advantage of people in this COVID situation with a fake testing facility. Many places that administered Covid tests were like this one. People drove up in their cars, a nurse would come out and give you the test. It took about 30 seconds and cost 150 dollars. The morning of my flight, Charlotte drove me there to get my results, which were supposed to have been emailed to me. There were 3 or 4 cars ahead of us, but I was very angry, and had no time to spare. I jumped out of the car, ran to the trailer and banged on the door. A worker yelled at me through the window, “ Get back in your car”. I yelled back that I wasn’t going anywhere. Finally, someone opened the door. I yelled back and forth with another woman who wouldn’t help me, I gave up and stormed off yelling at the people in the cars waiting that they should go home because this was all just a scam. I was cheated out of my money, and had to race to find another doctor to help me. Luckily, I made it to the airport in the nick of time. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you ever been a victim of a scam? Tell me about it in the comment section!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">私のPCRの結果はどこだー!!!! ショッピングモールの駐車場のトレーラーの女性に、私はこう叫んでいました。飛行機に搭乗する72時間前にPCR検査が必要で、検査をしてくれる所を見つけるのはとても大変でした。たいがいのクリニックで行っているのは簡易テストでPCRテストとは異なります。COVID CLINICという名のこの場所 をインターネットで見つけたのですが、ここは検査所要時間を二日間と保証していました。私は月曜日にその検査を受けたのですが、今は木曜の朝で、飛行機は2時間後に出発をひかえています。なのに、検査結果はまだ届いていないのです。私はようやくこれは詐欺だとわかりました。コロナ禍の人々の弱みにつけ込んで偽装テストを行なっている集団だったのです。ここと同じようにドライブスルーでコロナ検査を取り行っているところは他にもたくさんあります。車で乗り入れると、看護師がやってきて検査を行うのです。所要時間は30秒ほどで値段は150ドルです。フライト当日の朝、私の検査結果を受け取るべくシャーロットが車をだしてくれたのですが、この検査結果はEメールで届いているはずのものでした。私たちの前にはまだ3、4台の車がありましたが、私にはもう時間がありません。怒り心頭していたので、車から飛び出してそのトレラーに走って行き、窓をバンバン叩きました。中の従業員がトレーラーの窓から怒鳴っています。「車に戻れ!」私は「ここを動かないぞ」と怒鳴り返しました。ついに一人がドアを開けました。私を相手にしようとしない女性と怒鳴り合いの応酬を繰り返しましたがとうとう私は諦めました。怒ってその場を立ち去り、順番待ちしている他の車に喚きながら知らせました。「みんな家に帰ったほうがいい!ここは詐欺だから!」私はお金を騙し取られた上に、大急ぎで助けてくれる医師を見つけなければなりませんでした。幸い、私はギリギリ飛行場に着く事ができました。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">🦩皆さんは詐欺被害に遭った事がありますか?体験談を聞かせて下さい。コメント欄にお願いします。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**scam**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The word Scam is more casual than the word, Fraud . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Telephone frauds are still going around . They are also called ‘It’s me scam’. Be aware of the scams !!! I almost fell victim to an online scam (fraud) recently … Oh well … </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">詐欺scam は、詐欺fraud よりカジュアルな言い方だそうです。 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">電話詐欺もいまだおきています。オレオレ詐欺は文字通りit’s me it’s me scam だそうです。気をつけましょう。私はつい最近、もう少しでインターネット詐欺に引っかかるところでした。やれやれ…</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*訂正: #738 key words & phrases</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No room :「余裕が無い」に訂正します。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-46267305195972263852021-09-22T08:05:00.000+09:002021-09-22T08:05:07.859+09:00Hawaiian Phrase of the Day #5<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UE09zTBfUmwkh0QuMcsPCUhytZHIJOJbyAKvqDlLY4TxJG9niZcXp1BcybAoK0MHBG59pv8u2TKv1oYEeOayB2rn6J-JRy-VgiKfp5g2Pr4JesabahgHq0oCuF9E-tEyxkno6Bk20Eo/s1200/MK005-BG02.5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="899" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UE09zTBfUmwkh0QuMcsPCUhytZHIJOJbyAKvqDlLY4TxJG9niZcXp1BcybAoK0MHBG59pv8u2TKv1oYEeOayB2rn6J-JRy-VgiKfp5g2Pr4JesabahgHq0oCuF9E-tEyxkno6Bk20Eo/w600-h899/MK005-BG02.5.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-60314161369094080492021-09-20T16:45:00.000+09:002021-09-20T16:45:31.374+09:00 #739 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/crgtWomWg90" width="320" youtube-src-id="crgtWomWg90"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-42307fbf-7fff-c29a-1295-9a1232d0d9f1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Song by: Willie Nelson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the twilight glow I see</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue eyes cryin' in the rain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we said goodbye and parted</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I knew we'd never meet again</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love is like a dyin' ember</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only memories remain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the ages I'll remember</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue eyes cryin' in the rain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some day when we meet up yonder</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll stroll hand in hand again</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a land that knows no partin'</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue eyes cryin' in the rain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue eyes cryin' in the rain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue eyes cryin' in the rain</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><a href="https://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com/stories/john-kenneth-brown-sr,112974?" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Kenneth Brown, Sr.</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 17, 1946 - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aug 20, 2021</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-27358951882928089712021-09-17T17:24:00.004+09:002021-09-17T17:24:53.197+09:00 #738 I miss MIAMI<p> <br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d05ff12b-7fff-316f-262c-e1975cf2b9a4"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNYB_Gab_HaGaRVXeYgnt6fzNbCr_puqo0TrD1FU0tyRFwouDQoZT3yHLLFuIABAf2wXs8VnkrkdWoWPCIUqGGt2hBy5LfN3tpiLFGHrNc6mbpEJOAptL69gczCBU92L5R9foIrprb5A/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="224" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNYB_Gab_HaGaRVXeYgnt6fzNbCr_puqo0TrD1FU0tyRFwouDQoZT3yHLLFuIABAf2wXs8VnkrkdWoWPCIUqGGt2hBy5LfN3tpiLFGHrNc6mbpEJOAptL69gczCBU92L5R9foIrprb5A/" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No room 余裕 余地</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The day is coming for me to return to Japan. It is so peaceful and quiet here, so much nature, the people are so friendly, and it is so comfortable. I miss my students and my friends at Miami and I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. I am sorry for not being able to bring souvenirs for everyone, but I only brought one suitcase, and I have no more room in it. I hope you can consider this blog as my souvenir for you. I want to say thank-you again to Yaeko san for translating my blog. She has been working so hard. I hope you enjoyed it. Let’s continue at Miami! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which blog post did you like the best so far? Leave a comment!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本に帰る日が近づいてきました。こちらは自然豊かで、安穏としています。人々もフレンドリーで、とても居心地が良いです。マイアミの生徒さんや友人が恋しいです。皆さんとの再会をとても楽しみにしています。皆さんへのお土産が用意出来ずごめんなさい。スーツケース一つで来たのですが、それもパンパン状態です。フロリダからのこのブログをお土産と思っていただけると嬉しいです。改めて八重子さんに、このブログの日本語訳のお礼を言います。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">一生懸命やってくれました。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">皆さんに楽しんでいただけたら良いのですが。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">続きはマイアミクラスでご一緒しましょう!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️皆さん, 今までのどのブログを一番気に入っていただけましたか? 是非コメントして教えてください。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">🦩🦩WELCOME BACK TO MIAMI ,JAPAN !! 🦩🦩</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">🎁🎁🎁John’s Florida</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal #715 〜</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"># .miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-23149684804825362021-09-15T07:55:00.004+09:002021-09-15T07:55:53.759+09:00Hawaiian Phrase of the Day #4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVNxGcCQ7ifaeZaHT83nvE7tT-r3BFcnddufiJ_WPs9lEMOvHAL3whAsFxj3kzGatpaV1s5og5Cx8HhHzOeBC1YYhyphenhyphenS-OpfHKpePhAa8_xeJxNtNPGlJwDykbWj5dSErodadfbHKDXA8/s1200/MK005-BG02.4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVNxGcCQ7ifaeZaHT83nvE7tT-r3BFcnddufiJ_WPs9lEMOvHAL3whAsFxj3kzGatpaV1s5og5Cx8HhHzOeBC1YYhyphenhyphenS-OpfHKpePhAa8_xeJxNtNPGlJwDykbWj5dSErodadfbHKDXA8/w427-h640/MK005-BG02.4.png" width="427" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-7586733912228019812021-09-13T09:21:00.001+09:002021-09-13T09:21:55.627+09:00 #737 A lazy day<p> <br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7c9d6c8-7fff-c377-96a5-6db65e3dce34"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsw047AW5-I7hMAK_f4a8ZBZnrdgI0mm-vgWcWIkC2mARKTktWgIAVbqTFNXZ7x76-KQRQzaiQZ-7Yu_-DT0sTNEDgfguFKHHk9GJQbzQGrkyqUZCX2Gr9194IowBggPlEwLeKIKzit8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="199" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsw047AW5-I7hMAK_f4a8ZBZnrdgI0mm-vgWcWIkC2mARKTktWgIAVbqTFNXZ7x76-KQRQzaiQZ-7Yu_-DT0sTNEDgfguFKHHk9GJQbzQGrkyqUZCX2Gr9194IowBggPlEwLeKIKzit8/" width="218" /></a></div><br /><br /><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn't think anything of it その事をなんとも思わなかった</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sinuses 副鼻腔</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Killing me ひどく痛む</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the plane from Haneda, there was a woman sitting two rows behind me sneezing and sneezing. I thought to myself that I was surprised that they had let her on the plane. I didn't think anything else of it until I found that I had gotten a sore throat. Do masks really work??? I never took off my mask, and washed my hands of course, but still somehow caught a cold. After I arrived, I spent one whole day out of it because my sinuses were killing me. I stayed home all day and watched old TV shows with my dad. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you gotten a cold recently? Leave your answer in the comment section!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">羽田からの飛行機で、私の二列後ろに、立て続けにくしゃみをしている女性客がいました。よく彼女を乗り入れさせたなとすこし驚きましたが、それ以外あまり気にもなりませんでした。自分が喉の痛みを覚えるまでは。マスクってほんとに効果があるんでしょうか。手洗いはもちろんのこと、私はマスクを一度も外しませんでした。それでもどういうわけか、風邪をひいてしまいました。到着後は丸一日ぼーっとしていました。副鼻腔の痛みでどうにかなってしまいそうです。日長一日、父と古いテレビ番組を見て過ごしました。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️最近皆さんは風邪をひきましたか?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">コメント欄に皆さんの答えを書いてください。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3ReMIPipBTRYf_H9ApP-8YQuoNVn-BXSwGdbxMvJuEFxeKriXk5c11esbGwPps58hfycaEaiS9oFG42DfhQtPSq0W6xc0cyNAdc-uePGxVLbXrJvL37jgR4FhH8rDgaYnGkOgX5H7Eg/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">;) Yaeko’s 2 Cents------></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*** lazy ***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In another John’s blog , I learned a word ‘lazy-boy-chair’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like Kotaysu ? Once you sit there you don’t want to get out of it and don’t want to do anything. I remembered the word ‘Lazy Susan’ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a turntable or revolving plate for food or seasoning bottles etc. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The image of ‘lazy’ is a negative and unwilling attitude . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been wondering what Japanese ‘mendokusai’ is said in English. Troublesome ? Unwillingly ? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think I can say , ‘ I’m too lazy to take a shower.’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How about this?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spent a lazy afternoon reading a book.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">本を読んでのんびりと午後を過ごしました。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ah, another lazy day 今日も暇だなー</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lazy white clouds ゆっくりと流れる白い雲</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lazy river ゆっくりと流れる川</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wow ! Lazy has a lot of other nuances! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then how about this one … I spent a lazy summer afternoon watching lazy white clouds in a lazy boy chair </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it Quicksand or the New Smoking, Ms.Ritzy ? (#732)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Mr. Google !!! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**lazy**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lazy といえば、最近のブログにlazy boy chair( #732)がありましたね。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">一度座ったら、怠け者になっちゃう🦥、なんだか炬燵に似てます。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ところで、Lazy Susan ってご存知ですか?昔一時、日本の家庭でも見かけた</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">調味料なんかがのったあれです、くるくる回る台。中華料理店の廻るテーブルもlazy Susan と呼ぶそうです。(ほんとかな?)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ずっと面倒くさいって英語でなんていうのか、気になってましたが</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">こう言えばいいんです、ね。I’m too lazy to … </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">他にもリラックスした、のんびりしたといったニュアンスをふくんで’時間’を表す言葉とともに使えるようです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lazy は又、slow movement ゆっくりとした動きも表せます。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">擬人化したような表現になりますね。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spent a lazy summer afternoon watching lazy white clouds in a lazy-boy-chair …</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">気だるい夏の午後、ゆるりゆるり流れる雲をみてのーんびり</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">すごしました。なーんていいですね。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">今日もMr.Google に感謝</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-59718788458848195152021-09-10T18:54:00.001+09:002021-09-10T18:54:18.329+09:00 #736 American Ninja Training<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUPxR5Skq5BiokLbTJi6vuOOoN58UIjfZSNMUiGnqeEe8dxJo4tOQpNP1cPfcwMGVBkTX4peDX2AcM8qxPK7gxyvJ9gS9qa7jg2k3EaS7-JY6_8nmWh3DchrHxFynC-XmE4ItEvaLC6E/s2048/PXL_20210727_194156371.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUPxR5Skq5BiokLbTJi6vuOOoN58UIjfZSNMUiGnqeEe8dxJo4tOQpNP1cPfcwMGVBkTX4peDX2AcM8qxPK7gxyvJ9gS9qa7jg2k3EaS7-JY6_8nmWh3DchrHxFynC-XmE4ItEvaLC6E/w400-h225/PXL_20210727_194156371.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-75bd52fd-7fff-bea9-61b3-4875c568bc91"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A mood change 気分の変化 for a mood change 気分を変えるために</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weapon of choice 好んで使われる武器</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Took me out 私を外に連れ出した</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">make sure to… 忘れずに(必ず)する </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FWO5fOK59uXOMYM6GoWiPu4mycZOlmy0q9CC9FW_rB0WTeeHsxBmbv009YZ_R9llFzcyIuRPlZa_Z4riNxLSaN07G8mYFbYBjIA7LrKCdeq1b6HtAXc46OjwlJFwSzMuOneT0t6LKgU/s2048/PXL_20210727_212405345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FWO5fOK59uXOMYM6GoWiPu4mycZOlmy0q9CC9FW_rB0WTeeHsxBmbv009YZ_R9llFzcyIuRPlZa_Z4riNxLSaN07G8mYFbYBjIA7LrKCdeq1b6HtAXc46OjwlJFwSzMuOneT0t6LKgU/s320/PXL_20210727_212405345.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a mood change, Charlotte and her husband took me out. She had a friend of hers look after Dad, and we went to a local bar. The interesting thing was that instead of throwing darts, we threw knives and axes. REAL knives and axes. It was crazy! Is this safe? After you throw your weapon of choice, you have to make sure to pull the ones out of the board BEFORE you pick up the ones on the ground. If one falls on your head….</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpi4H8Xrj9_1KLFRhjl-tAD1kaMd_zSHyPhSTdC5-kTKl2sRw6_0Iavo7p5Y9mxI6t8K1hxagwsJL4fOGr9Rh9J2gLlHhb1BECFWx0sPNmBCKWvIVjUUN8EVS6IhLXEE1z8axqQthZBlc/s2048/PXL_20210727_195128592.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpi4H8Xrj9_1KLFRhjl-tAD1kaMd_zSHyPhSTdC5-kTKl2sRw6_0Iavo7p5Y9mxI6t8K1hxagwsJL4fOGr9Rh9J2gLlHhb1BECFWx0sPNmBCKWvIVjUUN8EVS6IhLXEE1z8axqQthZBlc/s320/PXL_20210727_195128592.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t know if I want to be around many crazy drunk people throwing axes and knives. But, at this time in the afternoon, we were the only ones at the bar practicing our ninja skills. It was so much fun! The next time you visit the U.S., please try it!</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlCEaOH9q0NWVYjXK8maiGSGgly8AB-vbFfm6fgeyuJSUOOeMOrXs1VKgW-fIOVu2agGsVa8snNZh_bm7jDEi8pkvSRrDDzL_4WtrDwIqm1VNsZXw6ajLmyU9s4B46k0kWU4lmba4cEE/s2048/PXL_20210727_201303749.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlCEaOH9q0NWVYjXK8maiGSGgly8AB-vbFfm6fgeyuJSUOOeMOrXs1VKgW-fIOVu2agGsVa8snNZh_bm7jDEi8pkvSRrDDzL_4WtrDwIqm1VNsZXw6ajLmyU9s4B46k0kWU4lmba4cEE/w400-h225/PXL_20210727_201303749.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you visited Florida, would you like to try this? Leave your answer in the comment section!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">気分転換に、シャーロットと彼女のご主人は私を外に連れ出してくれました。シャーロットには彼女の代わりに父の面倒を見てくれる友達がいたので、私たちは地元のバーにくりだしました。そこで興味深かったのは、ダーツの代わりにナイフや斧投げをする事でした。本物のナイフや斧ですよ。Crazy としか言いようがありません!危なくないんだろうか? ( 注意しなければいけない点は) 好きな武器を投げ終えたら、必ず先に板に刺さった斧やナイフを引き抜かなくてはいけません。床に落ちたナイフや斧を拾い集める前にです。斧やナイフが頭に落ちてきたら大変なことになりますから。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjiYK55lMFUk21oo89IMdlR_uVgPwELEhEn2lV01pGw6ovhyphenhyphenMKdyh_fr6hyphenhyphenugphGKu239ylEEP0PEN6BnFvTBaD52_fJ7-fij3FJpXr9_kVcUPXR8TxVldY1THzjqvDZCRo-u33GEHIs/s2048/PXL_20210727_212336497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjiYK55lMFUk21oo89IMdlR_uVgPwELEhEn2lV01pGw6ovhyphenhyphenMKdyh_fr6hyphenhyphenugphGKu239ylEEP0PEN6BnFvTBaD52_fJ7-fij3FJpXr9_kVcUPXR8TxVldY1THzjqvDZCRo-u33GEHIs/s320/PXL_20210727_212336497.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">斧やナイフ投げに興じる、大勢のクレージーな酔っ払いをそばでみてみたいかどうかはわかりませんが、バーの昼間の午後、この時間に忍者技を練習していたのは私達だけでした。凄く面白くて楽しめます。今度アメリカに来る機会があったら、是非試してみてください。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">皆さんがフロリダに来る事があったら試してみたいと思いますか? コメント欄に回答を書いて下さい。</span></p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyOKxrDFVYJhNtOND4e8tS2_USfsq1WEF3lw32B4GGd34EI4XarlKgzeGGDv3YD1ZDWmF_JfT3yLJkVyiW9dA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcwP0eNFlTsLET45zS4k6DvYihjdi0yWcMebE7UIGbkHLxumntzRd1htYTAu7VOQkEEQq7T9NuUUG4X-UAUj9M0TC9YKgBhmFkIuLZ8OmhlKNP0g3W0vOrY_GVpQ9lEHN1RUWzNr0wTY/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcwP0eNFlTsLET45zS4k6DvYihjdi0yWcMebE7UIGbkHLxumntzRd1htYTAu7VOQkEEQq7T9NuUUG4X-UAUj9M0TC9YKgBhmFkIuLZ8OmhlKNP0g3W0vOrY_GVpQ9lEHN1RUWzNr0wTY/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*** 🗡🪓 v.s. 🥷 ***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of darts , knives ? ok… I can imagine, as long as there is no woman on the board… it’s ok. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Axes?!!!!!! Nameless Crazy play ! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do southerners live in the Robin Hood era?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If they call it Ninja practice , they would get a fierce Shuriken attack from Ninja freaks ! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ダーツ🎯の代わりに、ナイフですか? まぁいいでしょう、想像できます、ターゲットの板の上に美女がいなければですが。あのナイフ投げですよね。ですが、斧🪓でダーツプレイ? なんともはや言いようのない狂気の沙汰! まるでロビンフッドの世界! 忍者修行なんて言ったら忍者ファンから手裏剣の猛攻撃を受けますよ〜</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">🗡🪓と手裏剣対決、どっちが速いですかね?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ………..いやいや、あぶない、あぶない。</span></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGEnFHJ__M_rJDpDOGIXcEG4NbsJA2WTiq4Qi70KhJqyN5QuY2hcr5bhg34tURaUiqc6HorvjWJmK0AfdbQQCC8O8uMS-aJ7pwKGMEdbdW2jd7Gh_qinxwiAL4TBtMKxnK14P8o51CUkM/s2000/MK005-PF03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div>Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726102872231760850.post-91163143636309762162021-09-08T14:54:00.000+09:002021-09-08T14:54:06.361+09:00 #735 The COVID situation here<p> <br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-faf1d308-7fff-616e-d90a-ccf7886680bd"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XgWKdbbP_ZRDmzHCPe417zj33xhCXPsjImKfa7cs6g_bW9-BG-VSv6YrF91U7JwSmqrDbzC46aJlu8QNdd_W5YjADPuKhb_GQ0mhxhMODudBN6F_41ixAk0hnKXhFH6nJrVE_8O3ifc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XgWKdbbP_ZRDmzHCPe417zj33xhCXPsjImKfa7cs6g_bW9-BG-VSv6YrF91U7JwSmqrDbzC46aJlu8QNdd_W5YjADPuKhb_GQ0mhxhMODudBN6F_41ixAk0hnKXhFH6nJrVE_8O3ifc/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get started!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A big push for……に対して強力に推し進めること</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Political 政治的</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There is no `I` in Team” team という言葉にはI (私)という文字はない。 個人プレーではなく、チームへの貢献、利益、ニーズに焦点を当てて行動せよ</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lot of people support, and there seems to be a big push for the vaccine. I wonder why people don't feel the same about masks.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There seems to be a lot of confusion, and I blame it on the leaders. Some government officials say you don’t need a mask if you have gotten the vaccine, and others say you do. To wear a mask or not to; to get the vaccine or not, have become political. I hate it. In Japan, as you know, nearly every store and restaurant has signs about COVID, and it is on the top of everyone’s mind. But it isn’t like that here. I didn’t see so many signs about it, people don’t do social distancing, nor wear masks ‘(a few do). I wish American people could have more of a spirit of team effort like Japanese people do. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD2XmEkB5_mTtJQSYMxY_h9pvDgT9e17NQqbvtURHzWDV6zkVyd5ozk9ZrQaFPEEsgf35pO3PZ_b5NAf6AK8Rr3O1LFNrLFZyKRtuK8zlxfRAgITMdkBQEk05_X0ts3NOY8RKr_NDdA0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="415" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD2XmEkB5_mTtJQSYMxY_h9pvDgT9e17NQqbvtURHzWDV6zkVyd5ozk9ZrQaFPEEsgf35pO3PZ_b5NAf6AK8Rr3O1LFNrLFZyKRtuK8zlxfRAgITMdkBQEk05_X0ts3NOY8RKr_NDdA0/" width="320" /></a></div></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">こちらでは多くの支持のもと、ワクチン接種は強力に推し進められているようにみえますが、マスクに関してはその限りではないのが私には不可思議でなりません。多くの情報が入り乱れ混乱してるのはリーダーに責任があるともおもっていますが、ワクチン接種済みならマスクの必要はないと言う役人もいれば、いや、必要だとする意見もあります。マスクをつけるべきか否か、ワクチン接種を受けるべきか否か、今や政治的な領域にまで発展して私は嫌悪感を抱きます。日本では皆さんご承知の通り、お店やレストランにはコロナの注意喚起や対策が掲示されています。しかしこちらは日本のようではありません。それほど多くの掲示を目にすることはなく、ソーシャルディスタンスを気にしている人もいません。一握りの人達を除いてマスクを着用している人もいません。アメリカ人にも日本の人たちのような、みんなで努力してやっていこうという精神がもっとあったらと思います。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!******</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7kouFQsdMH3x4WyCPiFbEOatVgZqHxzs62oAEjsW0GfruZQWcZY2vCBl1Ve09b-BSzAp2mrH91YnBPfsSaSxJCl-Tt4ckC54FixizNpg2duzz30FmIggs_U9fXhnWoiRppk3TU7h9Ow/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7kouFQsdMH3x4WyCPiFbEOatVgZqHxzs62oAEjsW0GfruZQWcZY2vCBl1Ve09b-BSzAp2mrH91YnBPfsSaSxJCl-Tt4ckC54FixizNpg2duzz30FmIggs_U9fXhnWoiRppk3TU7h9Ow/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**** There is no I in team****</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wonder if we Japanese people act in the spirit of a team in this pandemic. Apparently wearing masks , avoiding closed areas , washing hands etc have come here to stay to some extent . In a way, we get used to the new normal. And maybe it was brought on by team spirit efforts. But we have seen a lot of contradictions and nonsense as well. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point, the word , Mask police .. was even born. People are watching over each other . People pay attention to the masks first instead of cheerful greetings . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for the vaccination, I was one of them not to jump on the bandwagon to get the vaccine . Then I felt awkward to hear some saying that she was taking a vaccine for society, not only for herself. A doctor said it is kind of a duty as a nation to get a vaccine .They call it,‘obligation with effort’. To me, it sounded like the trend that drove Japan into the previous war. To me, that is more scary than the Corona virus itself. On that point I felt I could understand the people who object to being forced to wear masks or vaccines in Florida or elsewhere. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the way, I saw an odd scene the other day out of the window in the car. There was an electronic bulletin board held up on the street . It said ‘Refrain from going out unnecessarily’. And above the sign, many ropeways were running ! New ropeway in Sakuragicho. I asked my husband what kind of people NEED a 5 minutes ride on it ?”He just answered. “ commuters in an emergency” hahaha… I felt the scene was odd. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway there seems to be no choice but to wear masks and get vaccinations against the Delta strain at present. But until the Corona puts down I’d like to keep a good spirit to respect others and maintain our humanity. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s really 2 cents worth of my 2 cents. Sorry .. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">****チームに私という文字は無い ****</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">はたして私たち日本人がこのコロナ禍で、チーム精神のもとに行動しているのかは甚だ疑問に感じます。マスク着用、密を避ける事、手洗い等はだいぶ定着してきているようです。ある意味、新しい生活様式になれつつあるともいえそうです。それはチーム精神がもたらした努力の結果と言えるかもしれません。しかし同時に私達はこれまで多くの矛盾や馬鹿げたことも見聞きしてきました。お互いを監視するようなマスク警察などという言葉まで生まれた時期もありました。明るい挨拶のかわりに、まず、相手のマスクが気になりました。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ワクチンに関して言えば、私自身はワクチン予約に敢えて乗り遅れた一人でしたが、その事で気詰まりな思いをしました。ある人はワクチン接種は自分のためだけでなく、社会の為に受けるんだと公言していました。相談した医師は, ワクチン接種は国民としての一種の義務だからと言いました。そう言えば「努力義務」とも謳われていましたね。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">私にはそういった言葉が、どこか先の戦争に追い込んだ時代の風潮と重なるように感じました。そして私はそういった風潮はコロナウイルスそのものより怖く感じました。その点では</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">強制的なマスク着用、ワクチン接種に反対するフロリダや他の地域の人達の気持ちも理解できるような気がします。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">そう言えば、先日おかしな光景を車の窓から見ました。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“不要不急の外出は控えましょう”という電光掲示板が赤赤と点滅していましたが、その掲示板の上に桜木町に新しくできたロープウェーが何台も走っていました。私は夫に尋ねました。「どんな人たちが必要があって乗るのかな〜、5分間」夫は真面目に「緊急事態のための交通手段」と答えました。笑うしかありませんが、なんとも違和感の残る光景でした。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 今のところ、デルタ株への対策としてマスク着用とワクチン接種以外、選択肢は無さそうです。コロナ終息に近づくまで、せめて</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">お互いを尊敬し、思いやるといった、精神はコロナに犯される事なく持ち続けたいものです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">( 文字通り2セント価値のmy 2 cents でした、すみません💦</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Words & Phrases:</span></p><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DRUNKER THAN COOTER BROWN. ひどい酔っ払い, 大酒飲み</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The (American)Civil War アメリカ南北戦 争(1861-1865)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Binge はめをはずして何かをすること、大酒を飲むなど</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inebriety 酩酊、大酒を飲む事</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metaphor メタファー、隠喩、比喩の一種</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simile 直喩 比喩の一種</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eligible. 適任で、的確で be eligible for … …に適任な、資格のあ る、対象となっている</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military draft 徴兵</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">draft (v) (軍隊に)徴兵する</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Measure against … と比べて優劣を測る</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 6pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s post was written by Charlotte! Enjoy!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHO IS COOTER BROWN?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cooter%20Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #134fe6; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooter Brown</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c353c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness, mostly in the southern United States. Cooter Brown supposedly lived on the line which divided the North and South during the American Civil War, making him eligible for military draft by either side. He had family on both sides of the line, so he did not want to fight in the war. He decided to get drunk and stay drunk for the duration of the war so that he would be seen as useless for military purposes and would not be drafted. Inebriety has been measeured against </span><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cooter%20Brown%27s" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #134fe6; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooter Brown's</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c353c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> extended binge ever since by use of the metaphors "as </span><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drunk%20as%20Cooter%20Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #134fe6; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drunk as Cooter Brown</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c353c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" or "drunker than Cooter Brown."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"> </p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">本日の投稿はシャーロットさんによるものです。 どうぞお楽しみ下さい。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">クティブラウンとは誰でしょう?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooter Brown は「酔っていること」を比喩的に表わす時に用いられる人名で、主にアメリカ南部で用いられています。Cooter Brown はアメリカ独立戦争時代、分断された北部と南部の境に住んでいたと言われ、彼は両軍の徴兵の対象になっていました。しかし彼には境界の両サイドに親戚家族がいたので、この戦争では闘いたくありませんでした。そこで彼はこの戦争の間ずっと酔っ払っていることにしました。酔っ払っていれば軍は彼を役に立たない無用者とみなし、兵役を免れるだろうと考えたのです。inebriety( 大量飲酒)はこの長期にわたるCooter Brownの飲酒量と比較され、その比喩的表現として「 Cooter Brown と同じくらい酔っぱらっている」あるいは「Cooter Brownをしのぐ酔っ払い」というように、以来使われています。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******Thank-you, Yaeko san for your translation!*******</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqPXvbTcsZgT6Trj6VRvwiAy5yMq_8QNzbX01UthqWKIke0IiVEPKN10cUGpi-maxX1TlUsLbEY43yhQSjl_t_uYhcZrWtEVdCicWWOUBzdvllGYSnlCLcNzheiyQhZ0GbMVp9Ssp8Zc/s3547/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="3547" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqPXvbTcsZgT6Trj6VRvwiAy5yMq_8QNzbX01UthqWKIke0IiVEPKN10cUGpi-maxX1TlUsLbEY43yhQSjl_t_uYhcZrWtEVdCicWWOUBzdvllGYSnlCLcNzheiyQhZ0GbMVp9Ssp8Zc/w640-h160/Yaekos+two+cents.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I learned about metaphors and similes at John’s class a long time ago … </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let me make sure about metaphors and similes again . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">metaphors (隠喩)vs. similes (直喩)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metaphors and similes are types of figures of speech. Generally they are called Hiyu in Japanese. While both are used to compare, the differences between the two come down to a word. Similes use the words </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to compare things. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">メタファーとスィミリーはどちらも修辞法の一種です。日本語では一般的に比喩と呼ばれています。どちらも比較する際に使われる手法ですが、その違いは使われる言葉に表れます。simile 直喩はlike やas と共に「…のような」といった比較表現になります。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">——</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life is like a box of chocolate .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metaphors directly state a comparison . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">———Marriage is a battlefield. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metaphorは「…だ」と言い切った形となります。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">くどくどとかきましたが、見分けかたは簡単。like やas が入ってるか入っていないかだけです。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ではこちらはどちらでしょう?S or M ? </span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charlotte is an angel. ( )</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is as meek as a lamb. ( ) </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t want to look like mutton dressed as lamb ( )</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ぜひ、みなさんも検索してみて下さい。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">笑える比喩がたくさんあります。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">一部引用</span><a href="https://www" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.grammarly.com</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ブログをご覧いただきありがとうございます。 是非、お友達にも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">のブログをご紹介ください。そして、あなたご自身のコメントも</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">寄せ下さい。今日も素晴らしい一日となりますように!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.miamieikaiwa.jp</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Mr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898950464738436112noreply@blogger.com9