maiko-san

A week ago I was walking down undergraound shopping arcade (Osaka Whitey) on my way back home. All of a sudden a strange man in his late 60s approached me and spoke to me. "Wow, it's YOU! We haven't seen each other for the last 20 years. Oh, it's a pity that you have become such an old chap!" At first I had a feeling I knew him, but his name didn't occurr to me. I thought he was also working for my former company, one of my colleagues. So, I asked him, "Excuse me, but were we working together? He said somthing to the effect that he was not exactly working with me in the same company. But he was responsible for delivering goods for my former company. He was getting impatient and insisted, " Yuck, Don't tell me you forgot me. Do remember me, please." In the course of time I felt guilty that I forgot him. I thought if we'd talk each other a bit, then I would remember him. I asked him, "Why don't we drop in a coffee shop around her...

Good morning, everyone. Recently I set up a German Book Reading Club with one of my frineds named Hidenori. I rent a seminar room in Ekimae Third Building. The book is entitled "The Diary of a Young Girl" or in German "Anne Frank Tagebuch". How are we going to organize the meeting? I suggested Hidenori that maybe we should adopt the method of Harry Potter Book Reading Club. For starters each of us reads the designated page in German and then translates into Japanese. On the 7th of October the Harry Potter Book Reading Club was held. We are now reading "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Seven participants read their own part in English, then translated into Japanese. Including a small talk, we read three and a half pages within the time frame of 1 hour and 20 minutes. I told Hidenori about it and he agreed with me. I am glad to hear that because we can read only two pages within timeframe of only an hour. Now I'd like briefly touch on An...