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What were you surprised to find out recently?

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What were you surprised to find out recently?

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・I’m feeling prices increasing recently. When I went shopping at the supermarket, the price of cheese milk and chestnuts had increased.

・What I was surprised to find out recently is that in Japan they say “kosutoko”, but in America they say “costco”.

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  • I was surprised to learn from TV program that there is a marching band competition in Japan and that is very popular. Teams of high school students were featured on the program. The performance while playing the instruments was so wonderful!

    • I am also very impressed with the high school marching bands in Japan. I know that they practice many hours every day and sacrifice a lot of their time while others are on vacation in Japan. I once asked an English student “why are these bands comprised of mostly girls?” Answer: “Brass band is not cool, so boys aren’t interested.” I disagree. I think it’s very cool!

  • Finally my grandson’s summer holiday finished .My daughter found that her older son has not finished his homework. There’s a lot of things on his desk piling up. He said” I don’t know where my homework is “My daughter got angry and said “How many times did I say to do your homework “ I felt sorry to hear that. I don’t think homework is necessary in summer holidays.

  • What I was surprised to find out recently is that Giant-Baba was baseball prayer before the professional wrestler.
    I was surprised!

  • The other day, I asked an Indonesian staff member,
    “Are you busy at work?”
    His answer was, “I’m bored.”
    When I asked him what “bore” meant, he told me it meant not having work.
    This was a joke, of course.

  • Although I’m not surprised because he is “the king of baseball,” Shohei Ohtani joins the “40-40” club. That is 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases this year (so far). He is amazing and a joy to watch!

    • I think so too.
      I envy talented young people.
      I’m over 50 years old.
      I think of a poem:
      “Do not go gentle into that good night,
      Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
      Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
      from the movie”Inter stellar”
      But when I become an old age,
      I want to take it easy.

  • I was surprised that Shohei Ohtani hit a walk-off grand slam. In that game he achieved a 40-40 record (40 home runs and 40 stolen bases).

  • An adventure race set in nature. The top teams sometimes don’t sleep for three days.
    I was surprised that there were various races.

  • There was a bird‘s nest in a tree in my backyard. There were two chicks in the nest. Before I knew it, they were gone.

  • I was surprised to hear that rice had disappeared from stores. Because there is no fact that rice harvest is bad, and rice is much in demand,

  • A junior from my school days participated in NHK’s singing contest Nodo Jiman. I was surprised to his challenge spirit.

  • Yesterday, I walked along Karasuma Dori from Shijo To JR Kyoto Station. I surprised there were many foreigners in spite of high temperature. I wondered if they enjoyed their travel.

  • I was surprised to increase the price of cacao and coffee.
    I’m worry about my finance because I like to take a break with chocolate and coffee.

  • I found out long later that the government had issued a warning about the Nankai earthquake. I don’t watch TV and hardly Google and use SNS.

  • I red a book recently that was writen about a trip by four women in her 50’s 200years ago.
    They walked about 40km everyday to go to famous shurines and temples in two month.
    I was so suprised to find out that they had so much stamina and their strong legs.

  • I was surprised that the word “dummy” includes bad meanings. I didn’t know it and used the word simply to express “a replacement of a real thing”. I thought I need to get such knowledges and take care which word to use.

  • I heard that there are 2,000 or more active faults in Japan.
    I was surprised and I thought that It’s import to prepare for earthquakes.

  • I was surprised to find out recently that my coworker actually wrote some programs by using chat GPT. Technology is evolving constantly.

  • What I was surprised to find ovt recently is that the super typhoon Yagi was landing on China and Vietnam. They say that the maximum instantaneous wind velocity was 70 meters. Japanese people were a little bit relieved when we heard that gt veered to the west.

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