TOEICとか英検には役立たないけど・・・アクアリウムの英語サイト読む時に使うんですvvv

I grow mainly pipeworts and toninas in this tank.

pipewortは、これ。

学名は、Eriocaulon。
Pipeworts inhabit in sharrow fresh water.

Toninaは、日本のお店で「トニナ」として売ってるのは、これ。

They are called "Tonina Belem" in English.
学名は、Tonina sp. "Belem"。

手前の草が、ホシクサ科。
お店では「スターレンジ」として売ってます。
・・・が

They are called "Tonina fluviatalis"!!
学名同じです。

I know that both belong to Tonina family, but I learned this time that foreign aqualists categorize them as one species.

I hope I must improve my English to write this kind of entries all in English.
全編英語で書けないことが恥ずかしいです・・・
でも、英語で裁けるとこだけでも英語使わないと実感できないんで、あえて日英混ぜて書きました。

I brought our pack-away table to my children's school for my children's school bazzar.
But my mother is so worried that our table would be taken away by a stranger for it must be the newest of all that were offered for November 8 school bazzar.

I believe it won't taken away because all the tables and chairs have owners' names on them.
But she is still worried and tells me to get it back quickly.
Is she so suspecious?
Or is she so uninterested in community activities??

「エコ」をスローガンに掲げた、今年の小学校のバザー。
箸やスプーンは持参。包装袋なし、校内にゴミ箱も置かず、ごみは来校者持ち帰り。
「みんなが、環境をよりよくするために、ちょっとずつ苦労することを厭わない」ことを目指したのだそうだ・・・

今年は、ちょっと大変だったけど、慣れれば、経費もかなり節減できて、利益も上がってごみも減って・・・で、一石二鳥三鳥それ以上の効果がありそうなんだけど。。。

「とにかく自分ちのことさえしっかりやってりゃいいのよ」とどこかで思っているゴッドマザーの視線が、心なしか痛い。
いつも痛いけど、いつもに増して痛いかも。。。

Yesterday evening, I left Mito a little before 10:00 p.m. for Kashiwa.
There was my junior high school reunion.
It was clear that I was not able to get to the assembly site on time, but I couldn't stop my yearning for meeting old friends and teachers in junior high.

I arrived at Kashiwa at midnight.
It took me a little time to recognize my old friends, but I enjoyed myself very much in a pub.
It's my greatest pleasure that my homeroom teacher at that time dropped in on us.

My junior-high reunion is coming on this Saturday.
It's impossible for me to attend it on time, but I still don't give up on meeting my old friends.
Many of them are away from Kashiwa now, but there are pals coming from further distance than I.

We are around forty, some of us have had their 40th birthday already.
So I feel that it might be the last chance I meet some of them, I would regret a lot if I didn't go to Kashiwa on Saturday.
I do want to go however late I get there!!!

My laptop is broken and now under repair, so I use a desktop my husband assembled about six years ago.
It's the host computer in my house.

I decided to keep my music library in it for a while, I launched iTunes and when I connected my iPod...

My suspended CNN podcasts are updated!!!!

What was wrong with my laptop???
Anyway I'm happy to enjoy CNN's podcasts again....

Now I'm using my iTunes on my husband's desktop until my laptop will have been fixed, I need to copy my favorite music files, so that I can save my favorite music.
But that's not easier than I expected!!
I had to add my old music file folders one by one manually....

I understand there are some people who stopped using iPod and get other MP3 players instead...

It's been almost two years since I stopped subscribing to CNN English Express.
I got my iPod instead at that time...

I think I can make much of it so far, but since this May, my iTunes has never accepted the latest CNN's episodes!!!
I don't know why...

...but today I may find the answer.

We're required to buy Quick Time Pro (shareware) to download CNN's programs....

My Quick Time player is a free version...

Luckily I have Real Player in my laptop so I can download CNN's video clips one at a time...

But............

the clip is not played..............

Please someone who're subscribing to CNN's podcast programs tell me how you get the latest episodes!!

I renewed my audio blog at the interval of six months!

Last year I started podcasting my diary entries in English, I thought it tough but very useful for improving my English.
But this year, I feel something in my life has changed drastically, in other words, I feel as if someone invisible would take English and me apart....this feeling has make my study of English so difficult.

The more in depth I'm into English, the harder time I have to spend in my REAL life surrounding lots of people less interested in learning English, for example, at the PTA meetings and parents' meetings of my children's sports teams and my younger daughter's school bands.
At the same time, I often think there is something more important than English, which I must take more time for.....

To make things worse, my elder daughter spends more time at home than last year.
That means the internet traffic in my house has become busier...and it also ruins my PC-oriented study of English.
She enjoys watching animes and playing with her digital pets on the net, that's not bad itself, I can hardly use my PC in good condition!!!

My mother hates me working with my laptop in the dining room and often scolds me that I should take it away to the computer room.
As my elder daughter always use her PC in the daytime, especially while she is watching anime clips, my laptop often fails to log onto the net!!!

Soon I have learned to check my emails and update my blogs with my cell phone, but it made me more difficult to update this EigoTown blog...sigh
Typing English with a cell phone is unbelievablly rough!!!!!

Should I get a small keyboard for my cell phone to type English more easily without a PC?
My husband has one already, he feel a little funny when using it though.

Anyway....I was..relieved...to update my audio blog!!!
I hope I can start recording my entries in English again.