５月の下旬にイタリア　ベネチアの運河が緑色に染まったそうです。

聖パトリックデイでもあるまいし、人気の観光スポット、リアルト橋付近が

入浴剤を入れたような不気味な色に染まったそうです。

水の都ベネチア・・・

お兄さんが美声で歌ってくれたゴンドラ

自然が汚されるのは嫌ですよね。

未来の子どもたちが、今ある美しい風景を変わらず見ることが出来る様

何が出来るか考えたいと思っています。

These last couple weeks a lot of my C3 students have been going on their school trips.  For the most part, Ogaki-area students have been going to Tokyo it seems, though some of my students also spent a couple weeks in England.  School trips are always exciting for students, and it’s always great hearing them talk about their trips in English in class.  Many students had different experiences in Tokyo, and hearing them talk about their time there has made me really want to go and visit the city.  

I’m also very thankful to my students for bringing back great souvenirs from wherever they went on their school trips.  A couple of my C3s know that I’m a big Pokemon fan, so below you can see a couple of my favorite souvenirs!  I know that there are still some school trips to come this year, and I hope that everyone enjoys their time with their friends and classmates.

ベトナムのハノイで食事をしました。旧市街の雑多な町の中でいくつか食事をしました。路上にテーブルやいすを出す店が多く、客引きもすごいです。どこも写真付きの大きなメニュ表を見せて座れ座れ問います。この写真は、おそらく地元の人しか食べないような食堂だと思います。よく見ればプラスチックのいすやテーブルがわかりますか？多分みんな家では食事せず、これを外食というのかはわかりませんが、朝も昼も夜もみんなこうして食べているようでした。

今年も6月に入り、一年の半分が終わりそうですね。

6月といえば梅雨のイメージがあり、ジメジメした感じがしますがいかがでしょうか。

私は雨の降っている景色や音が好きなので、雨が降ることは嬉しいと感じますが、洗濯物が乾かないことが厄介ですね。

どんよりした天気の日でも、良い点や雨の日にできる楽しみ方を見つけてみてください。

Hey y’all! 

Although my birthday was quite some time ago, I thought I would share this photo of me from 27 years ago. This was taken at my first birthday party, and I’m apparently chewing on a pink, plastic, party cup. My mother told me that as soon as I got my cake (a cake made with a hard type of icing called “royal icing”), I took my whole faced and smashed it into the center of the cake. Once I was done eating/playing with it, my parents then had to take the garden hose to me to wash off all the cake… I was a crazy mess as a baby and as adult! Some things just don’t change… 

see y’all in class!