Book Review 2-10

I read the book"Picture Puzzle". I tell about this story.
It was a fine summer morning. Pete was a college student. He wanted to something exciting to happen. He went to a large shopping mall to get the Stephen King book. Then something exciting did happen. A girl ran through the crowd of people in the mall. Suddenly, she ran up to Pete and pushed something into his hand. Pete tried to talk with her, but she disappeared into the crowd. Pete looked at the thing in his hand. It was a film cassette. A minute later, Pete saw a man pushing through the crowd. He was a fat man and wearing a red shirt. He was in hurry and finding something. Pete thought that he was looking for the girl and she was afraid of him. Pete decided to solve the puzzle by himself. First, he developed the pictures on that film. There were only six pictures in it. Five of the photos were pictures of the girl with her friends and a young child. The sixth photo was a picture of two men. One of them was tall and thin. The other man was the guy he watched at the mall. In the picture, the two men were standing in a churchyard. A small part of the church was in the picture, too. When he saw the tall man, he remembered seeing him in the City News, which was the city's evening newspaper. Pete looked at the clock in the shopping mall and then had to go to college. However, he thought the girl was more important than college. He went to the City News office to find the newspaper about that tall guy. At last, he got to know him in a newspaper. He was Ronald Thurber and a lawyer of Donald Zetter, who had killed James Black. Pete thought that the big guy was a member of Zetter's gang. Next, he tried to find that churchyard. Two hours later, he found the same church as that picture's. Pete walked up to the church and he opened the heavy door. There was a priest inside. Pete asked him about the two and the girl, but he did not know either of them. It was lunchtime and Pete was hungry. There were some shops in the street near the church. One of them sold sandwiches and drinks, so he went into it. He ordered a chicken sandwich and a coke. He also asked a clerk about them. The moment he asked, a woman at the back of the shop came and talked about her. Pete got to know about her well. She was Amy Bates who lived in a flat near the shop. And then he went to her flat, Richfield House. There were six bell-pushes by the big red door. There was a name next to each bell-push. One of the names was Amy Bates. Pete put on the bell-push and rang the bell. Pete waited and looked up. He saw a man who leaning from one of the windows. It was the big man. Pete greeted and asked him about Amy. Then he asked Pete to come into his room. He told Pete that Amy would come soon. That's why Pete came there and sat down. Suddenly, the guy asked Pete about the film and there was a gun in his hand. Pete gave him the photos. When Pete gave him the film cassette from his pocket slowly, the guy held out his hand. Suddenly, Pete turned round and threw the cassette out of the window. There were some people in the street below the window. A woman saw the film cassette and pick it up. When the guy looked down into the street, Pete jumped towards him. The two men fought and the guy fired the gun. The people in the street heard the sound of the gun. Pete pushed him. He fell on the floor. He tried to kill Pete, but Pete moved quickly and then he fell out of the window. Pete ran to the bathroom door and helped Amy. Amy told the policemen about the story of the guys. According to her, they wanted to help Zetter from prison. The policemen found ￡50,000 inside the envelope. After they left the house, Pete and Amy walked away together.
Though the book is level 2, it is so easy to read. I coould read it soon, but I was lazy to type review. I took a long time to review this story. Anyway, I was happy to finish. I will find books like this again.

Late birthday cake

Today I wondered why my father bought a cake. It looks a big cake in the photo, but in fact it was a small cake. My father seldom buys cakes. It was amazing that he bought it to my sister. She was more lucky than me because she got two birthday cakes. Speaking of cake, my favorite cake is Gateu chcolat. The next time my birthday comes, I wanna eat it!!

Durian Candy

Today I attended English lounge and then I got a candy. Its flavor was Durian. One girl who did not know what it was tried to eat one in front of us. The moment she ate one, her face turned yucky and spat it out quickly. According to her, it smelled in her mouth. I was afraid that I ate it in front of everyone then. I brought it home and shared it with my sister. I tried to eat it, but it was not so bad to me. I could eat it all. My sister also could do that. We felt that the smell was similar to gas. I wanna eat it again and recommend many people to eat one!

Japanese Lounge

Today I became a private Japanese teacher at the library in the second period. My students were two Chinese women. I met them through my Japanese lesson. Though I pretended to be a Japanese teacher to them, we just enjoyed chatting in Japanese. Of course, I did not receive money. I like teaching Japanese to foreigners, so it is fine to me. It was so hard to teach Japanese. I often got confused teaching Japanese. Though I was a Japanese teacher to them, I learned some Chinese words from them and asked them to teach me more. We had really good time together. I wanna teach them Japanese next week again!

Book Review 2-9

I read the book "MR BEAN IN TOWN". I will tell about Mr. Bean before I summarize this story. Mr. Bean is a character of British comedy program starring Rowan Atkinson. Rowan also wrote the stories himself. I review the story about Steak Tartare.
It was Mr. Bean's birthday. Mr. Bean put on a clean shirt and his best coat, trousers and shoes. Then he drove to a restaurant in the center of town. He arrived at eight o'clock and went inside. It was very nice restaurant. Everybody was wearing their best clothes, and there were flowers on every table. The manager met him at the door and took him to a table. The manager pulled the chair away from the table. Then he waited for Mr. Bean to sit down. However, Mr. Bean did not sit down and looked at him. When the manager went away, Mr. Bean sat quietly. He took a birthday card and an envelope out of his jacket. Then he wrote something and put it on the table. After a minute or two, Mr. Bean pretended to see the card for the first time. The manager arrived with the menu and gave it to Mr. Bean. He realized that everything was very expensive. He put the money on to a plate and began to count up it. Finally, he ordered Steak tartare. After that, a waiter arrived at Mr. Bean's table with a bottle of wine. The waiter put some wine in Mr. Bean's glass and he had a drink. He smiled and waiter tried to put more wine into the glass. He didn't know about wine manners and he quickly put his hand across the glass. The waiter looked at him strangely. Then Mr. Bean took the knife and started to play with it. The woman at the next table looked at him angrily. He also played with his napkin. A minute later, the waiter arrived with his food. There was a large cover on the plate. Mr. Bean couldn't see the food, but he gave the waiter the money on the table. Customers don't usually give a waiter money when he arrives with the food. The waiter didn't say anything and took the money. Mr. Bean was happy because he thought that he was doing everything right. When he saw his dish, his smile disappeared. He thought they didn't cook that meat and could not eat it. He wanted to change his dish, but he couldn't ask the manager. He was afraid that people thought he was stupid. Then he thought he would never ask for steak tartare. The waiter asked him whether he was all right or not. He smiled and pretend eat some meat. He tried to hide the meat in any ways. He had an idea. First, He put the meat into the mustard pot and put the cover on it. Next, he took the flower out of the vase. He then put some meat into the vase and pushed the flowers in on top of it. He also pushed some of meat inside the roll. Then, he put more meat under the small plate and into the sugar pot and so on. Finally, he put some meat into a violinist's trousers. He thought everything went well. When the waiter walked past with some plates of food, he fell over Mr. Bean's foot. The plates fell on to Mr. Bean's table and on to the floor. The moment the people looked up the waiter, he got an idea. He pretended to be very angry and blamed the waiter that his meat was spread around his table by him. The manager came and apologized him. He invited Mr. Bean to another table. The violinist began to play "Happy Birthday" to him. Mr. Bean smiled. The waiter put a plate in front of Mr. Bean. The manager smiled and took off the cover. Mr. looked down and stopped smiling. There was Steak tartare in front of him!
Recently, I got to like Mr. Bean. He is a good comedian like Charles Chaplin. I can enjoy with his joke, but I think reading his joke like this is not interesting at all. Then I found his movie about Steak Tartare from You tube. You should watch it than read my review.

Happy Birthday to my sister

Today was my sister's birthday. She became 23. We didn't have a party because we celebrated her before and did not have much time to do that. My sister has an important test soon, so she went out somewhere to study. My parents also went out during daytime. I spent all day at home.
←This is a Tsuruya-udon.
Tonight my father bought my favorite udon (Japanese noodle) for me. It is Tsuruya-udon. Tsuruya-udon comes from the shop name "Tsuruya". I like it very much since I was a junior high school student. There were two Truruya shops in Kumamoto, but one of them was closed. It was near my house, so I would often visit there with my family. I love Truya-udon. There are tempura shrimp, meat and wakame (soft seaweed) in Truya-udon. Though it contains them all, it is 400 yen. I think it is cheap. The shopkeer sometimes misses putting wakame to Tsuruya-udon for takeout. As you can see, the Tsuruya-udon was missing wakame. I was a little shocked.(> <)　
←This is a Curry-udon.
My father likes Curry-udon very much. Perhapses, my father visited the closed shop more than me. We do not go to another Tsuruya shop because it is too far. Today my father happened to get a chance to visit there. According to my father, he met the old shopkeer there and then he gave him the Curry-udon for free. My father and I really like Tsuruya's udon, so tonight we felt happy. I want to eat Tsuruya-udon again!!



Anyway, today was my sister's birthday! Happy birthday to my sister Yoko! I will do something for her someday!!

My sister's birthday Eve

Tomorrow is my sister's birthday. She will be 23 soon. That's why today was not special day especially. Now she is busy studying for her work. We family have already celebrated her and eaten birthday cake before her real birthday. (> <) I don't know that we have her birthday party tomorrow again. Anyway, I want to have gorgeous dinner!!