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Blog|更新日:2023年5月27日/土曜日
Blog|更新日:2023年5月26日/金曜日
Hey y’all. I hope everyone’s doing good.
I’d like to share this photo I took during a trip with my best friend.
We went to Shirakawago. People usually go there in winter but we decided to take a glimpse of what it looks like without the snow covering everything.
It was breathtakingly beautiful! I took this photo just with an iPhone but I am very happy with the output. I want to go back to take more pictures!
Blog|更新日:2023年5月26日/金曜日
Our current topic in S6 class is “seasonal events,” and this is something that I think is great for students to talk about. Japan is famous for its various festivals and traditional events throughout the year, and giving students the opportunity to talk about their own culture in another language is very important. Festivals in particular are very interesting to me and I wanted to experience one the first time I came to Japan. Luckily, when I came to Japan for the first time in 2005, I was living in Kyoto. That summer I experienced my first festival when I went to Gion Matsuri with some friends. It was a lot of fun to see such a massive festival in person.
When I asked my students about their favorite seasonal events, the answers were mostly about local festivals. With Ogaki Festival having just happened, we got to talk about that and it sounded like a lot of fun. A couple weeks ago, my neighborhood’s local festival also happened, and we had a great time. Here’s a picture from that event. What’s your favorite seasonal event?
Blog|更新日:2023年5月25日/木曜日
アメリカでは地下鉄はsubwayといいますね。イギリスではundergroundになります。特に、イギリスの地下鉄は「Tube」と呼ばれています。ニューヨークの地下鉄に乗ったことがある人経験したかもしれませんが、薄いカードを縦にスワイプしなければいけません。うまくできなくて地下鉄を通れなった生徒も過去にはいました。イギリスはというと、Oyster CardなるTOICAやSUICAがあり、タッチで通れます。だからそのカードを購入しなければならないと思ってしまうのですが、チャージをしなければいけないですし、余った分を使いきれないこともしばしばです。実は、日本のクレジットカードでも通れるのです。もちろんタッチ決済可能なタイプでしかダメなのですが、普通に通ることができるので、これからイギリスに行く人はぜひ日本からタッチ決済のマークのあるクレジットカードやデビットカードを持っていくといいと思います。ちなみに料金はすごく高いです。日本の倍くらい払う覚悟でいてください。