2011

It is already third of January. I have not done anything last two days, because I am not well. My tongue is still strange and recently my stomach is also unhappy. 
However I am a bit well now from good sleep last night.

I have felt homesick, because Japanese new year is very similar to European Christmas. I have not done any event from my culture for a quite long time. 
Now I have remembered about my childhood. Japan changed a lot since I was a kid, but we still keep going some of our New Year events that "Oh-souji"(clean the house property by the end of the year) " Osechi" (Japanese traditional New Year food) or New Year decoration around house.

And I missed "Rice cake" very much. It is called "Rice cake" but it is not sweets. 
I love it! We do not eat it usually, we eat it particularly new year. 
I am looking for the ingredients here but have not found them yet.
The rice cake is made from a kind of rices.

By the way, I have to read more books this year, because my English writing skill does not improve at all since I stopped to visit my tutor. 
Recently, when I had organized my stuff, I found a heaps of papers that were for English grammar study from my previous tutors.
And I realized they had never worked.
Because, for me, they were as same as Japanese grammar to Japanese students who already can understand basic or foundation of Japanese. 
Japanese grammar teachers teach Japanese grammar means the students can built up their  grammar skills.
However I did not have foundation of English language.

It is not from text books at all. I mean babies learn their language from their parents, family or people around them.
So I might can write an essay for a difficult topic (even though I make many grammars mistakes), I can not say very easy things, for example "Put it away" or "Can you take that for me?" Because English text books for adults never tell us such easy things for using dairy conversation often.  

I might talk with people more than read books. I have known it since long time ago but I still can not get many opportunities for the talking.
Somebody say, learn new language skill is depends on good ears.
I am listening the radio often, but it is difficult to pick sentences from there.
It means I have not good ears!?
Anyway my learning takes ages and ages. I will study this year too.