Giant cucmubers

My husband harvested the giant cucumbers yesterday morning.

I had checked whether there was a giant cucumber every day because I wanted to harvest it before it became too big.

But I didn't notice these cucumbers because they were under the big leaves.

I made salad using one of them, it was very nice than I expected!

It tasted like a melon.

I think it is not so bad that I sometimes harvest cucumbers after it grows bigger than usual.

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Preparing for the second stage exam of Eiken Part 2

I took an online English lesson to practice for the second stage exam of Eiken Grade Pre-1 two days ago.

I wrote about the second stage exam in my previous post :
https://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2016/06/preparing-for-second-stage-exam-of-eiken.html

I tried narrating the four-cell comic in English, but I couldn't remember appropriate words to describe the story.

As for the four questions to answer, since the topic was not related to me at all, I couldn't make it well.

I was disappointed.

When I study English, it often happens that I am about to be discouraged.

I often feel the high wall that I can't get over.

When I was a high school student, I was majored in English.

But the class level was too high for me, so I didn't enjoy studying English.

I gave up studying English.

When I was a college student, I had a valuable opportunity to stay in Canada for a month.

I took an ESL class at the college and studied English again.

But after I came back to Japan, I didn't have any opportunities to speak English, so I stopped learning it.

This time, I started studying English again about two and a half years ago.

I don't want to give up again.

I want to get over the wall one by one.

I would like to concentrate on preparing for the exam, so I will write my blog after the exam ( I sometimes might write it.)

 
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My mischievous 6-year-old daughter

My 6-year-old daughter turned the black lucky cat toward the aquarium of goldfishes.

I couldn't stop laughing to look at this.

Surely the goldfishes would be scared because the black cat was stearing at them!

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A missing boy

My children and I visited my parents' house.

My 7-year-old son told us:

"Let's play hide-and-seek! I am good at hiding!"

We sometimes play hide-and-seek inside the house.

It is usually easy to find my children.

My mother and I joined in hide-and-seek.

First, my mother was it.

She could find us easily.

Next time, I was it.

"Ready or not, here I come!"

I started looking for them.

"I found you, mom!"

My mother was hiding behind the bathroom door.

It was easy to find an adult because we are big enough.

"Next, my son!"

I heard the sound that indicated he went up to the second floor, so I went there.

"Where are you?  I am going to find you!"

I said to him while looking for him.

But I couldn't find him.

He was not under the bed or behind the curtains.

"Oh, where is he?"

I looked for him inside the closet and under the hanger racks, but he was not there.

I asked my father who was on the first floor:

"Do you know where he is? I listened he went to the second floor."

"He is on the second floor. Maybe he is hiding under the hanger racks, isn't he?"

He answered.

"But I looked there twice!"

"He is good at hiding. OK, let's look for him together. He is definitely on the second floor."

My mother said.

We went up to the second floor and started looking for him again, but we couldn't find him.

I was beginning to feel as if my son had been spirited away.

My mother said:

"We give in to you. Come out!"

"Here I am!"

He came out from under the hanger racks.

I was surprised and said:

"I looked for there twice, but I didn't notice you!"

"I was hiding well, wasn't I?"

Since children are small, they can hide well.

As for my 6-year-old daughter, she doesn't like hide-and-seek because she is scared to hide alone.

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The result of the first stage Eiken exam

The results of the first stage Eiken Grade Pre-1 exam was announced on their website yesterday.

I accessed the website and opened the page where I could get the results.

My heart was beating.

I could see the word of "Pass"!!!

This was my score.

Reading   634 / 750
Listening 605 / 750
Writing    673 / 750
Total      1912 / 2250

The writing part was the highest score.

I think this result proves that writing this blog is effective at improving my writing skill.

(Of course I still often make mistakes when making the sentences and spelling, so I need to improve more.)

And I was surprised to see the result of listening.

It was really difficult, but I got a better score than I expected.

As for the reading part, I concentrated on studying that part the most this time.

In fact, I was lucky because some questions of the reading part were very similar to those which I studied before.

Anyway, I am really happy to be able to pass the first stage exam.

The second stage exam, the speaking test, will be held on July 10th.

I am going to concentrate on practicing for the remaining two weeks.

I hope I will pass the exam!

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Power Yoga

I ordered a Power Yoga DVD and I received it yesterday.

I tried it with my 6-year-old daughter.

It was really nice.

I was able to do it and it made me relax.

I felt better than before.

10 years ago, I went to the Yoga studio once or twice a week.

I sometimes went there before work.

I chose one of the easy programs which I feel up to doing.

It was for about 21 minutes.

I wrote about my indefinite complaint in my previous post, but I feel like I can recover from it soon.

I have been pessimistic recently, but I feel like I can think positively.

I feel like I can get an awareness of myself.

I think to stay fit is one of the most important things in our age.

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7-year-old boys

Two of my son's friends came to our house after school yesterday.

They had promised to come since last week, so my son was looking forward to it very much.

I knew why his friends wanted to come to our house, so I warned my son:

"Don't go to the secret base with them. It is not a playing room, but only a storeroom. I don't want your friends to climb up the ladder. It is dangerous."

I wrote about the "secret base" in my previous post: http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2015/09/my-hideaway.html

It is an storage attic.

My children love it in there, so my husband installed a small room light there.

They brought their favorite things in there, and made a small notice, on which was written "Say the password to enter here".

He boasted about the room to them and they wanted to see it.


"What? Why?"

He was disappointed to hear that.

I explained the reason:

"Because I don't want you to show them inside of there. It is only a storeroom. And the ladder to the room is a little dangerous. I can't take responsibility if they fell from there and get injured. And the room is narrow for three boys and too hot there."

"Well, OK. I will take a photo in there and show them."

He agreed with me unwillingly.


When they came, they wanted to go to the storeroom as I expected.

My son told them:

"Mom said we can't go there, so I will show you the photo."

"What? You said you will show me there!"

One of his friends seemed to be disappointed.

My son showed them photos, but they didn't seem to be satisfied.

I thought they would go there while I wasn't looking.

I decided to give up because I thought they would not want to go there if they knew what was in there, and I thought I should watch them.

I told them:

"OK, let's go to the secret base, but you can go there only once, OK?"

"Really? Wow!"

They were glad to hear that and ran up to the second floor.

"Look, my dad installed the room light here."

My son told them proudly.

They were surprised to see inside the roof.

"Wow! There are a lot of wooden beams!"

They were excited.

"Open the window, it is too hot there, right?"

I told my son, and he opened the window.

My 6-year-old daughter wanted to join them and she climbed up the ladder, then one of his friends said:

"Sorry, the room is now ours only. It is too narrow."

She came down unwillingly.

I couldn't stop laughing.

"Come down and let's go downstairs!"

They came down and seemed satisfied.

They are still young and adorable.

I think it was good for my son to be able to make such good friends.

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