Ordinary Japanese Life

An English Learning Lazy Japanese office worker Write About Her Lazy Life And Try To Describe About Ordinary Japanese Life.

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42 years old housewife, used to be a system engineer. a cats and dogs lover and also comics lover.

Monday, April 28, 2008

"Golden Week"

"Golden Week" is obviously Japanese English and it means a week which continues public holidays between 29th of April to 5th of May.
*29th of April: "Showa no Hi (hi means day in Japanese)"
It's used to be Emperor Hirohito's(previous emperor) birthday and after he past away the name was changed. Show is years name of his reign.
*3rd of May:Constitution day
*4th of May:"Green Day"
I think this public holiday was set straight public holiday, because the public holiday was started from 1988.
*5th of May:"Children's Day"

I'll just lay back during the week.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Are you sure you can speak English?

Today, my boss had guests from a foreign country and he looked for somebody in our office who can attend to them to a railway station. He said jokingly (cos, permanent staff must speak English usually) " is there somebody who can speak English and attend them?" nobody replied. Every body seemed to be busy, and I know my colleagues don't like him so much. At that time, I wasn't busy, so I said to him "It doesn't include my contract, but if you want, I'll do it." He said " Are you sure you can speak English?"
Excuse me? why I have to say that voluntary, if I think I can't speak English?.....Am I fool???Obviously, he looked down me, because I'm hired as a support staff. He should know every body have secret abilities:)
I took his guests to the station by a taxi, helped them to buy tickets, took them to the ticket barrier and said good by. I don't know what the guests think about my spoken English. Actually, I haven't spoken English long time, so I couldn't speak English more than I thought. Oh, it's a excuse...regret always comes after, that's true,that's ture.

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