忘年会 / year-end party

忘年会の季節、昨日は火鍋。企画した頃は、そろそろ寒くなっているだろうと思ったが、全然寒くない・・・でも美味しかったし意外と男性陣から好評だったので、良しとしよう。火鍋は、半分はむせるくらい辛いが半分はマイルドで、スープとして飲める。薬膳鍋なので身体にも良くて、みんなで沢山飲んで健康になった。

英語の習得には、反復横飛び的な学習が必要な時があると思うのだが、面白くないからめげてしまう。50 English という本を使ってみんなで英語の筋トレをやろう！と月一で集まっているこの会は、自分が学習不足だと参加したくないなぁと思うのだが(自業自得のくせに)、行くと刺激を貰えるしやる気を足せるので、結局行ってしまう。何より、気持ちのいい仲間がいるということは、とても重要だ。続けていればついてくるものがある、といってくれたリーダーの言葉を頭において、ゆるく長く、続けていきたい。

To improve my English skill, I belong to a learning group.   The members join to the session to learn English based on a text book "50 English".  

Yesterday, we had a year-end party with "Hot Pot" after our educational session. The pot was devided to 2 tasty soup; hot and mild.  We put veggie, meat, fish ball, tofu and so on to the soups and enjoyed them.  If you have a chance to have hot pot, please enjoy drinking its soup as well!  It is very tasty and good for our health.  Please remember to drink mild one, not hot one.  Otherwise you will get heavy caugh ;-)  Anyway, we had a very enjoyable time.  

I believe to learn language is a kind of similar to training our body.  According to the text book, we're trying to memorize and practice short phrases vocaly again and again.   It must be effective to improve our English skill especially for oral communication, but boring, indeed.  So we get together and learn it in a circle to encourage each other.  That's why the buddies for learning are very important for us.  I'm very happy to join this group because the members so warm-hearted and helpful.  

In addition, the leader of our group advised us to continue learning will lead us somewhere good.  I bet on his words and would like to study how to communicate in English continuously.  

火鍋@天府(桜木町)