hey! long time no see guys!

you know, I've been to Spain for 8 days and spend woundful time there. Spain is amazing country. I felt as if I were in the musium. Especially, I loved Sagrada Familia and Alhambra palace. Spain itself was infuluensed by Islam and of course Islam culture so alchitecture, and designed threr were filled with originality. I wanted to show pictures I took but my photo-post equipment was something wrong and I couldn't post them. I'll try again, but I don't know when it will be.

At last, the day comes!! To trip to Spain!!
I'm on my way (’U’)/　see-ya!

Graduation

On March 1, I graduated my high school. I enjoyed my all high school life with good friends, teachers and environment. I never disliked my friends; in come cases, I looked one with dislike, but soon, I found one’s much better point than the bad point.

My high school is girl’s school and seemed as if I were in green house, so leave high school was really sad. But, for my good friends are to attend same college, move to near my hometown and live in my hometown, I’m not so sad at that point.

Anyway, now is the time to change my mind to the next step at university.

Ema's spring holiday

March seems to be really good month. There were no better months than this March.
From March 13 to 20, I plan to visit Spain for sight seeing with my friends, and Kyoto from 27 ro29. I’ll be talk about it later!

say, Kuriimu and Earade, your mother languages are Spanish, aren’t you?? Why don’t you tell me some easy Spanish?

P.S I’m happy to visit your home country (not exactly but…). Earade!!

Surprise medal!! Well done Shizuka!

Shizuka with Gold medal!!


Shizuka Alakawa

Hey, did you see the Ladies' Figure Skating conpetition??
Japanese three beautiful women, Humie Suguri, Miki Ando and Shizuka Alakawa,did really well!! Especially, Shizuka!! She won the first prize!! I can't believe that Japanese woman won the gold medal at Olynpic.

I was really happy Shizuka's wining and wanna say to all of three,"Thanks for showing such a excellent performance."

I need your help!

From the movie, LEON

Man1: Yeah what?
Tanto: It’s Tanto…downstairs.
There’s a guy wants to talk to you.
Man1: What’s he look like?
Tanto: Serious.
Man1: Tell ’im I’m coming up.
Tanto: He’s coming up.

I can’t recognize what is the meaning of “I’m coming up”.

Is this the meaning just approaching the people until they are standing close to him?
Is this the meaning that he goes up?

In Japanese script, it says that he goes up, but do you remember? Tanto says “It’s Tanto…downstairs.” and there, at downstairs, is a guest for him whereas, Man1 says “I’m coming up”.

In my guess, the meaning of “I’m (he’s) coming up” is “I don’t wanna see you”, for there is a contradiction, up and down.

Or is there any other meaning in it? I mean that two guys who is buying and selling drugs, not usual men but a kind of mafia held this conversation. So I wonder whether it is slang or not.

What's cold call?

I never thought you guys don't understand what I meant, telephone apointment.

In fact there are a lot of Japanese-English (The words that seem to come from English, but actually, it isn't.) , like Fight!. In Japan,"fight" is used when we cheer people doing a game.

Anyway, I explain telephone appointment (Japanese English),cold call ←I used dictionary.
There are so many kind of cold call. What I did is that I telephoned people randamly for canvass to change their telephone company, NTT to KDDI.
Oh, NTT and KDDI are Japanese Telephone companies.
Like , salesman, you know.

So I had to not only call people but also contract with them.
But, contract is really difficult. Most people never listen my words; they pretended they were busy now. I know their feeling, because whenever I take cold call, Ido the same thing.
This experience is a little bit shockking news, but I never mind, haha:)

job

Hey what's new!? then what's new for me?? I was fired two weeks ago. In fact, that was my first time to do part time job, and I was enjoying it.

The job is a kind　of cold call (telephone appointment テレアポ）. There were no norm, but if I couldn't get any appointment in office hours, staff said "Zero means there was no mean that you were in here"

My score "zero" continued 4 time and, at last, the staff said "please find the job that suite to you"

hummm that was a bad start as my job career

I loved it!!

Asako

Asako, one of my school friends, gave a pumpkin & cheese cake and biscotti to me. Once, I introduced her cake that was, of course, made by her. Did you remember? Anyway, her cake is always delicious!
Actually I can’t cook; precisely, just I don’t. (But I love eating! haha)If I see the cooking book or recipe, I will make it. However, I think it’s really bad for me not to cook at all because I’m not a child. I become a University student in this April. I should try to make something, not so difficult. Practice some recipes; I’ll prepare a lunch box at university. It’s my dream, little dream.

Today, I’ll introduce one site that has a lot of recipes and appetizing photos.
→Ellen's Recipe Blog

Horst Janssen

-Lamme-Horst Janssen

I went to see Hoeston Janssen A Look Up To Hokusai at Yume musium. Actually I had known nothing about him, but when I saw the poster of the exhibition, I thought I'd have liked to see it. However, all the thing I can say now is that I can understanf his spetial talents and tequnics, but can't understand his arts itself. It was too abstract!

A girl in the street can't understand works of genious.

Ummm...

What I thought about English is that how difficult it is. If your mother languages are English, you will soon find my English is not written in comfortable way. You know, I don’t care about grammar; Microsoft “Word” has my spelling corrected. Surely, there are no problems if I use English only on my web log because there are a few people who come to see me (and everybody are kind). BUT, I’m about to be a University student, and use English as an official language at there. Wrong English is no more accepted on the reports. Especially, I hate preposition and right word usages Dammmn! If I could learn English more seriously!

How did you spend your new year’s holiday?

12/31 I saw Kouhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦), annual NHK sponsored year-end men versus women singing contest.
1/1 I went to my paternal grandmother’s house.
1/2 I went to my maternal grandmother’s house. At there, I met my cousin, aunt and uncle. I hadn’t met them since I met them last new years, so I was really looking forward to see tem.

This holiday was nothing spatial, I think, but I could be relax and spend good holiday.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Best wishes for a happy new year.

EMA