About 20 years ago, I bought a bowl at a 100 yen shop just for the time being, but I broke it. Even though I never liked that color or size, I feel a bit sad now that it’s gone.
On the 24th, which is the Midsummer Day of the Ox, I planned to eat eel at an eel restaurant and drink sake, but I couldn’t finish work in time to go while the restaurant was open. Instead, I warmed up a frozen udon and ate that. Udon also starts with ‘u’, so it works too!
When I told a foreign colleague that English is difficult, she said that Japanese is harder. In our advertising-related work, we sometimes use onomatopoeia, but she can’t understand the subtle differences in Japanese onomatopoeia.
Studying English on iPad is going well. I use the GoodNotes app to create summary notes for English conversation class and import exercises into the app for repeated practice. I just bought a Chiikawa notebook set, but it seems I won’t be using it much…
The banyan tree of my third son, which I introduced in this blog, lost a lot of leaves and became sparse during last winter.
Even in summer, the leaves remained sparse, so I googled how to deal with it and found the advice to “put it outside.” Despite the scorching heat, I followed the advice, put it outside, and gave it plenty of water every day. As a result, the leaves have grown dense again.