The 4 th skype session was held

Hello, everyone, how 're you going?
I am doing alright. My back is still a bit sore but I am coping with it. This morning my leg was sore too, I wondered why.. I think that's because I didn't walk yesterday. My back has been sore so I thought skipping one walking routine or two might be good for my back since it would get some rest but it seems like it worked the other way round(^^;)

Yesterday was the day when the 4th English Skype session with my usual friends from the online English club was held. In the last session, we decided to have a discussion day and non-discussion day alternately from that day on so yesterday was the first non-discussion day.We started with catching up on news of each one of us, which took us more than 40 minutes. Considering that there were three members attended, which was not so many, we might have spent too much time on it. We might want to make some rules about it ( I wonder). Anyway, after that, one of the members gave a performance of ondoku( reading English out loud), which was very good. I couldn't believe that she just started her Ondoku practice with the English material a few days ago! She is so pumped and very keen on it so I bet she will be very fluent at it in no time! Good on her! After her performance, the other member had a question about ondoku and shadowing so we talked about it. Seems like she is up for it as well. We agreed (×on )that all of us would give an ondoku presentation next time. I wonder which material I will read,, maybe an Aussie news item or something?

Next, we played a game called 'Making up stories'. We took turns making one or two English sentences one after another and created one story. We created a very strange story, which involved the police and a private detective but it was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to the next time.

After the game, we had a little talk about future sessions in Japanese.We confirmed the contents of the next session. There was something I had had in mind for a while about the other member's attitudes toward planning sessions and other stuff. I was kind of doing almost every work about sessions by myself,,which was a bit of hard work. I have much more free time than the others so I am handling it at the moment but things can change. I am getting more serious about share trading, which requires lots of study and research. So to be honest, I thought I would be very grateful if I could some help from other members so that I can put more energy and time on the trading. I didn't know if I should tell them or not because this is kind of a complaint or even criticism. But I didn't want to stress about it any more and I believe that all the members are very nice people so I thought that I should open up and get some help. I got up the nerve and told them. I was worried about their reaction at first but now I am glad that I did it.Thankfully, they understood me and reassured me that they would be more cooperative from now on. I am relieved and also I feel that we have one step come closer to each other, which feels good!

＊This article has been corrected by Gori.

I like the study for discussion sessions!

Hello there.

Yesterday afternoon, another Skype English session was held. There were supposed to be three members joining the session but one of us got sick and had to cancel it (><) I feel very sorry for her because she was very motivated for the session so obviously she was looking forward to it.

We started the session with a small talk in Japanese then moved on the discussion. Yesterday's theme was ' Japanese English education system' . Since I had been interested in the topic and had plenty of time to prepare for it, I was able to come up with my ideas and opinions thoroughly . When I do some study for a discussion session, I always pick up some articles from some websites which are relevant to the topic and learn the background and current situation about it. Then I print out the articles and paste each of them onto a page of a notebook. After that, I wrote down new words and expressions from the articles. I read the articles and words out loud over and over again. After I finish it, I get to form my opinions. I really like this learning process because it is very educational and fun! I feel that I am really studying! It feels as if the time has (×had) gone back to the school days. The more I study, the more I can tell my knowledge is increasing and I am becoming more knowledgeable(×smarter)!

I had a very good time at the session yesterday. We had a lively discussion there! I am going to attend another session of the same topic on Saturday. We are expecting a new member there, which is very exciting!

*This article has been corrected by Gori.

I've joined an online English club

It's been a long time since I made the last entry. (AGAIN!)
I've been just slack, sooooo slack. I've been keeping my Japanese blog up to date, which is good but this one...(^^;)

Anyway, I've made my goals (or say, to-do-list) for English study for this month.And one of them is to write at least 15 English diaries or articles this month. This time I mean it. I WILL keep this promise! I am on fire!!


Last September, I joined an online English learner's club called Virtual English Club. There are lots of inspiring members who are pretty serious but enjoying their English studies in the club and they always give me a lift and more motivation for my English study.

I took the initiative in holding an English speaking session on Skype, which I had wanted to do for a long time and so far we've had 4 sessions . We have day time sessions and night time sessions and both sessions' contents are basically the same. We are going to have another ones on Wednesday and Saturday. We discuss various kinds of things during a session. We decide a theme and questions(× for a theme) beforehand so that each member can prepare for the discussion. The next discussion theme is Japanese English education which is very controversial and since I myself have been (×gotten) involved in the English education as an English-language tutor, I am pretty interested in it. I am looking forward to the next session.

＊This article has been corrected by Gori chan.