I got a Starbucks' drink ticket.
I can order any beverage whatever I want with the ticket.
Though there are many variety of drinks there, I usually have the cheapest one, their house coffee.
I like the coffee, but this time, I'd like to have something special, I mean, more expensive one!
I probably am penny pincher.

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I learned those words;

Matrix grid　碁盤の目

prospectus　願書

desertification (ﾃﾞｨｻﾞｸﾌｨﾁｨｹｲｼｮﾝ）砂漠化

to pocket something　/ to embezzle　着服する

to sell something on the black market / misappropriate 横流し

appropriate ふさわしい

inappropriate　適切でない

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Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata / YL5.7 / 44,202words TOTAL 1,944,352 / ★★★★★

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スターバックスの飲み物なら何にでも引き換えられるチケットをもらった。
普段は一番安いホットかアイスしか頼まないから、そのチケットが宝物みたいに見えるよ（笑
何を飲もうかな〜　フラペチーノ？ チャイティラテ？
もちろん一番大きいサイズでね^^




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I received an envelope. There was a photo, taken at a wine party last weekend, in it.
Yeah, my husband and I joined a wine party. The reason why I didn't tell you was.. I was so drunk that I lost some memory.

It had happened for the second time in my life. When I was younger, I drunk very much, sometimes had bad hangover. Then I learned of my limits from those experiences. I thought that I knew the amount I drunk without any hangover.

I didn't think I drunk too much at the wine party. But we drunk only wine, contain alcohol in large amount.
I really enjoyed the party and the organizer who send us the photo asked us to join next sake party. However, I shamed my bad behavior and also afraid to do that again.

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A time to kill / John Grisham / YL5 / 24,000 words Total 1,589,357 / ★★★★☆

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I had received an e-mail from my English teacher. He was going to be late the lesson because the train had temporally stopped.
I stared in surprise what he wrote the last, "Bear with me."


Bear??






I had heard some news that many bears came to town for foods. A bear made the train stopped and stayed with him!

hahaha.
Anyway, I hadn't known the meaning and after he arrived I asked him that.
"Bear with me" means "endure me".
Aha, I was relieved he hadn't been caught by a bear.

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The Great Gatsby / F. Fitsgerald / 22,000words Total 1,417,415words / YL5 / ★★★★★

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These are last photos of Malta, Mdina and Blue Lagoon. Both of them are very famous as sightseeing places and I went there for school activity.
The school offered us these short trips everyday, usually the fee are cheap and they pick us up at the school gate after class. School activity was very convenient.

Mdina was an old capital. In the prosperous time, the city was attacked by pirates many times.
The citizens builded their house with no windows in the first floor and made the city like a maze for defense from the pirates.
The city was destroyed by an earthquake. Many citizens moved to new capital city Valletta and now Mdina is called Silent City.

The other day, I went to Blue Lagoon by a motorboat. The view was remarkable but I prefer something old, like Mdina.


















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The Last Flight Home / Mariko Hayashi / Ladder Series level 5 YL5 / ★☆☆☆☆ / 41,760words Total 1,151,346words

Our company has intranet website. When we want to throw out unnecessary things, such as PCs, desks, we put on a message for reuse. I found an announcement and got a drawer. I thought that it would be the right size for a space between desks. I brought the drawer by my self with a dolly. When I opened a door, some colleague immediately stood up and helped me.
By the way, there is a coworker in his late 20's in our group. He had been doing only his own work. He had never helped us if we wouldn't ask him a help. I thought that our company was his first place to work and nobody taught him how to behave as a member of company. I thought he just didn't know.
However, he was different today. He helped me to move the drawer. I was glad like his mother:)

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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler place / e. l. konigsburg / 70,000 (35/3*26*290*0.8) TOTAL 906,648 / ★★★★★

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CORRECTED
Q : "Do you believe in character classification by blood type?"
A : I don't believe in the relationship between character and blood type. I don't think that people of similar blood type have same personalities.
Talking about myself, I was a slow child and then as I have grown up, I became a punctual person. Did my blood type change? No. In addition, each person has many personalities. I think someone try to find character in themselves which matches their blood type.



ORIGINAL
Q : "Do you believe in character classification by blood type?"

A : I don't believed in the relationship between character and blood type. I don't think that same blood type people have same personality.
Talking about myself, I was a slow child and then I have grown up, I became a punctual person. Did my blood type change? No.
In addition, each person has many personality. I think someone try to find character in themselves which matches their blood type.

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Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata / 1-4169-1045-X / 49,000words (28/3*25*244*0.87) Total 447,648words / ★★★★★

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