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ペットにしたい動物は？

私がペットにしたい動物。それはもちろんネコ。　昔は犬だとおもっていたけれど。何年か前までネコを飼っていて、あのツンデレの態度が、なんともかわいくて、癒しだな！と思ったものです。　そのネコは娘がなんの...

Busy days

I’ve had several jobs in my life. I’ve been a tractor driver, an archaeologist, an illustrator, and...

ANNOUNCING my 2022 Holiday Season - Christmas Variety Lesson

Hello Dear Students!I hope you are doing well.  I am announcing my 2022 Holiday Season - Christmas ...

更台一點#2 營養午餐 [A1~A2]

「更台一點」是介紹台灣的生活、時事、文化的系列文章。 透過閲讀，你能更了解台灣。更多文章：https://note.com/kaihong/   TOCFL分級：A1~A2   ▼學習重點 ①  知...

Cats and Carp don't mix

I like all animals, but if I were to choose a pet, I'd choose a cat. When I lived in the UK, I had ...

What pet would you like?

What pet would you like to have? In terms of my own preferences, this is not such an interesting qu...

Have You Had the Chance to Travel this Year?

Last summer,  I had the opportune time not just to visit my bestfriend in the East Coast, my brothe...

Happy Idiom to be used in Daily Conversation

On Cloud Nine Use one of my coupons and take my Idiom Lesson to learn more fun idioms.   See the ...

My Trip to Heaven

My Lord I feel desperate with alienation As much as I join as much as I feel fragmentation   As muc...

My mother and sewing

While eating lunch, I like watching TV programs. Until last week, I enjoyed watching “The British s...

Have you had the chance to travel lately?

Like many others, I've avoided travel for a few years because of the coronavirus. Even so, after al...

20年前の職場へ戻ってみた話。

Hi, there!みなさん、こんにちは。Meg.Sです。今回のテーマ「今年旅行に行きましたか？」についてお話しします。This year, the only trip I had was goin...

A cure without remedies…………….

Afterwords, I realized that the vegetable world, the animal world, and the mineral world were all i...

Science and Religion; where is the interspace…..?

He didn’t ask me to find the truth; He asked me instead to seek the truth… He didn’t ask me to be c...

Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks

To welcome this year’s Thanksgiving, I thought I’d write about being thankful.  As humans, we tend...

Don't say メリークリスマス！

Every year in Japan; many people say to me "Merry Christmas", but because I'm not Christian and I d...

Positive Idiom to Use in Daily Conversation

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade! Origin:  The phrase was used by the writer, Elbert Hubb...

A Lullaby that shades about my childhood nostalgias...

Heartbreak...grief...helplessness and depression...These were just totally invisivible and cloaked ...

更台一點#1 行動支付 [B1~B2]

    「更台一點」是介紹台灣的生活、時事、文化的系列文章。 透過閲讀，你能更了解台灣。 更多文章：https://note.com/kaihong/   TOCFL分級：B1~B2   ▼學習重點...

”Nothing to write home about" どういう意味？

イギリス人は「Is it any good？」と「Nothing to write home about」をよく言います。この2つの便利な表現を知っていますか？もし興味があったら、動画を見てみてくだ...

What kind of a kid were you?

I was a stubborn, reticent little girl. Since I was born as an only child, I often drew pictures, r...

Have you had a chance to travel this year?

  Have I traveled this year? Yes and no. There is a war in my country. I am not able to travel, eve...

I'm back teaching full-time! フルタイム教員に復帰

Dear Cafetalk Community,In the last post, I announced that I was going to be away shooting a Canadi...

The Netherlands and Its Wonderful Museums

This year I had the opportunity to go to The Netherlands. I visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The H...

Ghostly Prank

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I believe in ghosts.  I grew up in a relatively spiritual an...

Have You had the chance to travel this year?

Have you had the chance to travel this year? I can’t say I’ve done much in the way of travelling th...

Aimlessly Walking

If you are "aimlessly" doing something, you don't have a goal or a plan, you are just doing it. It ...

My Favorite Season

       Greetings,  Do you want to know what tutors' favorite seasons are?   Well, I can't say for a...

Hello winter!

It seems like winter has arrived in Toronto! It snowed all day yesterday and all night, and this wa...

My favorite season and why I like it

Well, summer is my favorite season and here's why!The main reason is because I don't have to cancel...