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Our little trip in winter

I've spent about two weeks lazily lying around because I couldn't escape from the feeling of winter holiday.

By the way, I went to travel to ski from the 14th to the 15th at Rusutsu Resort Hotel at Hokkaido.
There was a lot of powder snow, and my daughter and I had a great time.
I've heard that there are a lot of foreign visitors in the Rusutsu area recently.
Yes, indeed.

I had a chance to talk with some foreigners in English, but I lacked the courage to speak to them.
What I talked to foreigner were suggesting that I should take a picture and telling about the monorail was coming.
Ummmm.

Enough about that we skied and skied.
Although skiing on the powder snow made us tired so much, it was so amazing. There were various slopes of which compacted snow and not compacted it at the mountain. We preferred to ski at non compacted ones.
Slopes of non compacted snow had more heavier friction than another slopes had, so we often felt down in the snow and, of course, we had to stand up as a matter of routine.

Rusutsu resorts hotel has a amusement park in the ground, and we can ski in the amusement park in winter.

I was glad to make my daughter happy to take this trip.
We are going to Niseko to ski as a birthday present for my daughter in February. :)
I'm looking forward to go there from this time.

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Love skiing!

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Yesterday, I went skiing with my daughter.

It does not snow much these days, due to global warming.
few years ago, I could go skiing at an earlier time. In addition, it has not rained recently either.
feel sad.. ;(

Anyway, I was glad to see and touch the loving snow after suc a long absense.
We went to Sapporo International snow field which is near my house.
got up early in the morning and cooked lunchand then we drove to the mountain.
It took about forty minutes to arrive the mountain by car

There were so many people who wanted to skiand parking areas were so crowded so I had to park my car at the farthest place.
Oopsmy new skis were very heavyso was my daughter's. 

We managed to carry our skis to a ski lodgeand at last we could ski. I love powder snowLove it!
It was minus two degrees Celsius thenbut we didn't care such s temperature.
We jumped a snow hump and skied downhill.
It was amazing!

Today, I have heavy sore muscles but my daughter doesn't have any pain.
I can't complete with time but I'm going to go skiing next weekend. :)

Note: my daughter's picture

Interview about school life

Today, I went to my daughter's school to meet a daughter's teacher.
It was interview about my daughter's school life and studies.

The teacher said that my daughter couldn't study arithmetic very much but she had cheerful and friendlypersonalities, and also he said she was very funny.
Yeah, I know that my daughter isn't good at studying arithmetic.
Although I hope that she study well, I believe she has ability and possibility to do something in the future.

There were a lot of HAIKU words on the classroom's wall, and I found my daughter's HAIKU on it.
It described about the winter.

YUKI FURISHI GINSEKAI NIHA KOGA ASOBU
"It's snowing, children play in the world of silver." 

I thought it was amazing.
Who knows it was written by eleven years old girl?

I'm very happy to be my daughter's mother.

Worries about the way of learning languages

I worry about ways of learning English.
I don't know whether my choice of the ways are really right or not. 
Do I use too many ways? Is it better to use just one way?
But studying languages needs reading, speaking, writing and pronunciation at least.
Hmmm, I don't know.

Yes, I love studying English very much but I don't feel that my English skill is better than before.
When I take English conversation lessons, sometimes I can speak well but sometimes I can't speak at all.
Why?

I took a TOEIC exam on October, but my score was more worse than before. I was so disappointed.
Especially listening section was.
My purpose of learning English is making friends all over the world and to use English at work.

When I see a person who speaks and writes English well, I can't help but envy the person.
I'd like to be a person like that.

I know my personality that is impatient, and I know that I don't need to rush.
I have to be more patient person.

Feeling of frustration drives me crazy.
Hmmm..