One day, one of my friends asked me to teach English. She can already speak and understand English, of course. On top of that, she teaches English to kids. Then, I answered, " Wow! thank you for asking me, but I can't teach English to you because you CAN already speak, read, listen and understand English. So, if you don't mind, what do you say we have some time to study English each other? I'm willing to prepare texts for "US"." We agreed to the idea.
This morning, I visited her house to study English together. I was lucky today because usually, it takes about 30〜40 minutes from my house, but it took 20 minutes or so today. ( I think, I wasn't stuck in a traffic jam and almost all of the traffic lights were green when I was heading for her house.)
On arriving there, we got started on the lesson. It was very valuable, I felt. At the end of the lesson, she tried to take a few listening test I had prepared. I picked them up from a text book for TOEIC and a CNN-English Express, which is a magazine for English learners.
We studied English for 2 hours. It passed by like a flash.
I hope we'll keep doing from now!!
I had some English time 2 days in a row. Although I was supposed to visit his class this morning( it's a day parents are allowed to visit school ), I couldn't do that because he was supposed to have a swimming lesson today( during the lesson, parents could see them this time), but due to a slight case of the middle-ear infection he couldn't take part in the lesson. So, I wanted to visit, but I was compelled to give up.
Then, I decided to visit one of English clubs to have an English conversation time this morning. There were 3 of us and a native speaker today. It was lucky to me because I could be talkative and talk to my heart's content. I mean if there are many visitors, I can't talk in a one-sided conversation as all of them want to practice speaking in English.
Anyway, it was like the end of term today as the native speaker will take a summer vacation from tomorrow to the middle of next month. So, I talked and talked talked in English to my heart's content! ;D
Having a whim to watch a DVD, I went out to rent some DVDs with my son in tow.
My son said, " Mom! Hurry up, hurry up!. " As I said before, my son loves power rangers such as ゴーオンジャー, 仮面ライダー and so on.
Well, on arriving at a rental shop, he directly headed for shelves where there are power ranger-DVDs. While I was looking for an interesting DVD, he came over to me with a smile. Yes, he could find a DVD which has been released recently.
Now, the DVD aside, a certain DVD interested me. The title was
" Two Weeks Notice". The story falls into a love comedy, I think. The hero is
Hugh=Grant and the heroine is
Sandra=Bullock I like her because it's not hard to catch her speaking. When I watched
" Speed " and
" The Internet ", I liked her very much, not to speak of her performance.
As for the story, I felt that it was a little difficult for me to listen to their lines because they were talking fast, but it's not as hard as I had to give up. Rather than that, the conversations were very funny and showed many jokes. I'll try to watch it again without any subtitles.
Anyway, about the actor? .....Of course!, he's very very very sweet!!! If he asked me out, absolutely I would go.....I wish...I wish....XD
I've written about my son's sickness recently, but I'd like to do this time, too.
This morning, I took my son's temperature. At that time, he didn't have a fever. As he has been suffering from a high fever and a bad cough, especially during the night, I was relieved...But, as I wrote yesterday, I took him to a family doctor just in case.
Although we arrived there earlier than I had made an appointment which was 9:30 a.m, many moms and their kids had already been waiting there because it was Monday morning...
While the family doctor was consulting him, he didn't cry although he seemed to have been scared a little bit. After the consultation, the doctor suggested to me that he take a blood test again to be safe. The first test showed there weren't any problems, though...Of course, I agreed to it. One of the reasons I've stuck to something of examinations or consultation for his sickness is that a day when his school breaks up at the end of term ( a closing ceremony) is just around the corner, not to speak of his health. He's eager to go to his school even if he has a high fever...
Well, I'm going to take him to the hospital to take the second blood test the day after tomorrow. I hope he'll pull through by the day.....
Since my son came down with a cold last Thursday night he has been out of shape and has had a fever. He has taken medicine and a suppository; nevertheless, the fever hasn't subsided yet. On top of that, he started to have a cough and a sniffle. So, this morning my husband and I took him to a hospital. To be honest, I wanted to take him to a family doctor, but as it was a non consultation day today, we went to an emergency hospital near my house.
After examining him, the doctor suggested to us that he take a blood examination to consult carefully. To get well soon, we agreed to it. To my surprise, he didn't cry at all during the examination. ( We guessed he would probably cry, though..) Rather than that, he said, " Mom! I didn't cry!! Am I great? "
Anyway, the result of the examination was that there weren't any problems. But, the doctor said ," he has a slight case of bronchitis and tympanitis.
I'm going to take him to a family doctor tomorrow just in case. ( The doctor suggested this, too.)
