Chinese Fishing Boats Invade

Over 200 Chinese fishing boats have invaded Japan's EEZ to steal coral illegally. I watched some videos on TV about the incidents. There were many rusty iron boats searching and stealing valuable red coral. 

How many miles do they travel for the coral? I don't know they can get enough money for the fishing. 

Japan's coast guard's vessels are too busy to arrest them or make them away from the area. 

I think they come to the area not only for stealing coral but also for the will of Chinese authorities' to annoy Japanese government. Japanese government should enlarge the number of coast guards for protect Japan's sea areas. 

Congratulations, Hawks!

Fukuoka Hawks won the baseball Nippon Series against Tigers. Congratulations, the players, fans and of course head coach Mr. Akiyama!

Speaking of the Hawks, I sometimes went to see baseball games of the Hawks when I was a college student. I didn't go to Fukuoka Dome, but Osaka stadium. Yes, I watched Nankai Hawks' games at Osaka stadium. 

I was not a fan of Nankai Hawks at that time. I just wanted to kill the time. When the bottom of the fifth inning finished, we could watch the rest of the game for free. So, I never bought any tickets for the games. 

There were hundreds of people, literally some hundreds, including kissing couples watching the games. I could hear drunk fans shouting some indecent words. It was a nice memorie for me. 

Pronunciation

I'm making word cards for expanding my English vocabulary. While I make the cards, I check phonetic symbols. I'm so disappointed that I have memorized a lot of wrong pronunciation before. I need to be more carefully when I try to memorize new words otherwise no one can understand what I'm trying to say. 

Word Cards

I've decided to make word cards for extending my English vocabulary. It's not an easy work to make them, and of course hard to memorize them. I hate my poor ability to memorize new words, but I have to over come it. 

This way of vocabulary building is a very traditional way. Many learners recently use PC or some of other IT devices for memorizing new words, but I believe using paper cards is still an efficient method of that. 

Score Card

My TOEIC score card has arrived. It says I've improved grammatical knowledge a little and my level of grammer became obove the average for the first time. I've been studying English sentence structures and it works well. 

I got 840 this time, and I'll try to get over 900 next time. I need more practice indeed. 

Miyajima

I went to a world heritage site, Miyajima in Hiroshima. This was the first time I visit ther. I supposed to be there for school trip when I was in elementary school, but I wasn't able to go there because I had a high fever. It was one of my sad memories. 

There I studied guiding for foreigners with a volunteer group I join in. The teacher was a professional tour guide. I had a great day today. 

Go to Miyajima

I'm going to go to Hiroshima with volunteer guide members tomorrow. We will take part in the Miyajima tour with English guide. We can learn how to guide in English there. 

After that we will visit Hirishima Atomic Bomb Dorm. I've been there several times before. I feel really sorry for these victims. The atomic bomb attack was definitely against humanity. I just feel angry when I think about the tragedy.