Rainy days
Lately, we’ve been having lots of rain. In Japan, we have a rainy season in June and it’s moist and muggy. I don’t like rainy days because I cannot dry my clothes after washing, and because I cannot ride my bike to go out. When it rains, I usually watch TV and rent some videos. I am fairly active, so I am bored sitting at home. And then I start playing video games …
I don’t enjoy my life very much during the rainy season. I like playing tennis, talking with friends, going out and so forth — and I am poor at spending time alone. So I want to know how others spend their time on rainy days. Listening to music? Doing hobbies? I can’t bear being alone in my room.
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When it rains, I usually watch TV, read magazines and write letters to my friend. I like writing letters, but I sometimes give up writing when I’m very busy. A rainy day is, I think, suitable for recollecting the events that have happened recently and thinking about what to tell to friends. In addition, I don’t feel like writing a letter on a sunny day. On such a day, I’d rather go out and enjoy cycling.
I also clean my room when it rains. For example, I arrange the books on the bookshelf. After cleaning, I feel refreshed even if it is raining outside.
Thank you for your responses. Yukiko, I would like you to come home and to help me clean my room. But I have lots of things, so I cannot throw my belongings away. I try to write to my boy friend in Osaka … or my parents.
I, too, find rainy days quite depressing. I’m not used to rainy weather (I didn’t even own an umbrella when I was a student at the University of California, San Diego), and I feel trapped when it is raining outside. Recently, however, I bought a car, and now I think rainy days give me a nice chance to take a drive! On a sunny day, I’d rather ride my bicycle or do something active. Before I bought my car, I would spend my rainy days reading (mostly soccer) news on the internet.
I am hoping to find some one who might help me find a good school and/or teaching situation for my daughter. She has a BA in English from a University in Montreal, Canada. She would like to come to Japan. I am concerned about her being in a large city.
Dylan, thank you for your comment. I have my car, too, so I will drive on rainy days if I don’t have to do anything.
Sarah ette,
>She has a BA in English from a University in Montreal, Canada.
What is a BA? I do not know what it stands for.
Hello Sarah — a BA will not allow your daughter to teach at a university but she should be elegible to join the JET programme, which recruits foreign nationals as assistant teachers at Japanese high schools.
Among the regulars who frequent this Web site, Graham, Kevin and Oli were all on the Jet programme at one point in the past.
If your daughter wants to enroll in an MA programme at a Japanese university, a level of proficiency in Japanese will be required. Somebody at Mie University’s Center for International Students will probably be able to tell you more about this.
For more specific questions, please contact me privately — I might be able to put you in touch with people better suited to answer them than me.
Ayumi-san, BA stands for Bachelor of Arts, bachelor being the first academic degree you can earn before going on to become a master and, finally, a doctor.
Hint: to look up an acronym such as, say, MySQL, simply type “define: Mysql” (without the quotation marks) into Google. That will give you a fairly good place to start from.
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Yeah — it’s a bit like last year when the miserable weather started long before the rainy season was due and destroyed the rice crop in many parts of the country. Let’s hope this isn’t going to happen again.