ネイティブが教える英会話のジェムスクール☆Teachers☆

With a long drive to take my wife to work, we've been listening to a lot of audiobooks on CD this year. Mostly, I have been choosing books that will interest my children. Here are a few that I remember:

• The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit by Octavia Spencer
• The Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series by Brandon Sanderson
• The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Recently, we started The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher. It's a much longer book written for adults, but my kids like the talking cats.




I've liked Butcher's other books, and I'm a big fan of steampunk, so this is pretty much my favorite book of his.

What's the best book you've read lately?

Thanks for reading!  

A shark in the pond?! No, as you can see, it's only a spider!

On some of my very first visits to Takinomiya Park in Niihama, I was surpirsed to find LITERALLY HUNDREDS of these GIANT yellow and black spiders EVERYWHERE. I thought they were so scary at first, but now I am getting used to them. Why do I call them "GIANT"? Well, where I'm from in the North of the United States we usually only see little spiders. I've never seen a spider as big as these in Niihama back at my home in the United States. But here in Niihama, there's even some of these big yellow and black spiders in the stairwell at my apartment!

Have you seen these spiders around your home or at the park? Do you think they are scary?

P.S. I saw wild boars again at the park, but this time I saw two of them in the same spot as last time. I made a whistling noise and they ran away, so maybe they are not so scary after all. However, we should all continue to be careful!