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Good evening everybody!
A new week will start soon and this means my blog will end soon too. So I would like to reply as many readers as possible.
Dear Amy & Ana Paula> My favourite Onigiri / KimPab is salmon frake, plum, or kelp flavoured with Soy sauce and sweet Sake for seasoning! However, the best seller in Japan would be Tuna with mayonaise, I guess. I like noodle too! Soba is always my favourite!:)
Captineconomist> Thanks for the comment. I also thought he exaggerated what I said. However, he was really conservative, so he said it by heart. well, he is my boss so I do not want to have an unnecessary fight!
Wencan> Thanks for shooting a comment to me. nice to meet you!
Trang>Oh, were you sad before you read the blog? I would like to say the word which my grandma told me : 'The dawn is always breaking. You can't go against but you can do your best.' I did not wanna make this comment too serious though. Anyway let's brush up English for both of us!
Mauricio> I agree with you! I like to live in a big city but hate noise and many people! Today I went to Shibuya, where it is alwasy crowded with many school kids, and totaly fed up! It is nice you live in a place you can hear the voice of birds. Good place for living.
Wisarut>You live in Northeast? I only know Chennai for the name of the northern part of Thailand; I've been to Thailand and loved the beautiful sea & nature. It's also interesting to see how lively Bankok is. Take care x
Pilar> Thanks for the wish for my trip:D) Actually,,,, I still did not talk anything about it with my boss. But I already booked! hehe, I think it is the best way to
ask days away from the company and achieve my holiday! haha.
Tony> Here is the quick reply for me. Apologies for short sentense. *1: my English-English dictionay has the sample sentense : She is busy practising for the school concert. *2:This is conversational word. Please look the dictionary by yourself. *3:Please look my previous entry and you can find 'get out of'. I intended to emphasize the phrase. *4: I did not find 'foreignal' in my dictionary. 'foreign' is adjective so it was correct.
Ahmed> Thanks, now I understood how the sentense works. Your explanation is certainly correct and it is same as Amy told me. Thank you so much.
Ernesto> Thanks for the comment. Many people said I was in between Yukari and Yuriko. Nowadays, yes, three children here are really rare. Average birth rate, which shows how many childeren a woman in Japan have, is 1.3!! Scary.... How about the situation in Chile? Does your country also have Japanese-Chile people? Regards.
Zerdor> Thanks for the comment!
Adriana>Would you like me to explain Manga culture? or Do you have any specific question? In the blog, I wanted to say, I sometimes found people who like manga so much were a bit odd and crazy. Because I cannot imagine people over 20 years old like manga so much, do not care about their appearance, and buy figures or dolls of the characters! Can you understand what I am saying?? Anyway, thanks for the comment!
Sevinas> Answering your questions, these days we are good in relationship but when we were young, we sometimes had a fight like usual children. Having two sisters is nice, and I appreciate it to my parents,, BUT! I wanted to be younger one, not eledest child. I am not gealous of anything..We just wanna be taller than how tall we are now! I am 152 cm and think too small!!! Regards.
trantrungkien>Vegetarian means the people who avoid eating any meat. I do not think it is popular in Viet Nam though.
Sherzod>It does! Please help us studying how we can fortell disasters here. ig: Earthquake, Tsunami, or Eruptions....hehe! What do you precisely study/work for?
Adek>To be honest with you, I was not in a good mood last week, as I was busy and got stressed by work. Now I am good -- totally ready for new week! hehehe---. It will be Monday so Cheer up for both of us!
Tu Anh>Thanks for the comment. Well,,, I am not sure if our customs of the food are healthy. Because these days we eat lots of meet and, I think, Japanese like alcohol so much! I also heard the Vietnamese foods are healthy, using many kinds of vegetables. Regards
Liza> Thanks for the comment. Russia is located in cold area so I think there's no wonder that Russians eat meets very much especially for nutrition. I like the russian tea-- tea with jam!
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Hi Yumi! It´s really nice you have answered our comments. Wow! I can´t believe this is your last week as a student blogger! Time flies fast. However, reading your blog is a great pleasure to me:-). Best wishes, Ana Paula.
In Indonesia it's morning and I am working now. I am a teacher. For the last two weeks we had several holidays, the one is our Independence' Day. This week with no holiday, it makes me not very excited.Thank you.I am a new blogger
How was your day ? At this stage dealing with your work,I hope you will clear all your task already. First of all I would like to thank you for your kind replied saying how you feel like interesting with a big trip when you have a chance to go here,Thailand. I am always happy and appricate with all group tours to drop in my country especially Japan tour. Next time if you have a good opportunity to be here, I would like to say warm welcome and give a big thank in advance. See you around .
Hi Yumi, I haven’t been very active in your blog. Even if I have skimmed it regularly but couldn’t take part actively. As I was in holiday in July, in August I had too many tasks and problems to solve at the office. Then I spent, again, a week in Northern Ireland. I see, even if you “fright” a little bit, that you can manage and organize events by your own. If I understood well you got a promotion. Congratulations. Have a nice holiday in Korea. Antonio
Dear Yumi Congratulations for the success of your business dinner. I'm sure you were the perfect hostess. About your questions. Today the birth rate in Chile is 2,2 children per woman, high in comparison with Japan and most european countries, but low for latinoamerican standards, and is falling in every census. 20 years ago, when I was in the high school, most of my classmates, as myself, had at least one brother or sister. Now by now, there are many cases in which most students are unique sons or daughters. Regarding to your second question. Chile never had a strong japanese immigration, as Perú or Brasil had. However, in Arica, the city where I live, several japanese come in the period of 1930-1935. They were workers suffering the consequences of the 1929 economic crisis. They arrive with their savings, looking for a new beginning and a new life, and started small business, in agriculture and commerce. They were well received, as hard working and honest people, and later they married chilean women or bring their japanese girlfriends to the country. But then world war 2 started, Chile was technically in war status with the japanese empire, and the japanese community was put under close surveillance by the authorities. Perhaps that was the reason why those immigrants choose don't teach japanese to their children, and live according chilean traditions, in order to make easier for them to integate themselves in our society. As a result, we have here families like Sakurada, Abe, Notoy, Ishihara, Fujito, and others, formes for the sons and grandsons of those first immigrants, but the only japanese things they have are the names and tiny eyes, in everythig else, they are completely chileans. Nowadays, there are a small community of recently arrived japanese people, but they are mostly executives send here for their companies to work. Those are not people who want to stay in Chile. They'll be here for some years and then return to Japan. Good bye
thanks alot for being helpful to us.
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