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Blog|更新日:2020年1月27日/月曜日
Blog|更新日:2020年1月26日/日曜日
みなさんこんにちは。
毎年春休みを利用して行っている「スプリングブレイク・イン・アメリカ」の出発前研修がスタートしました。
自己紹介や日本の紹介を英語で練習したり、アメリカや今回訪問するアメリカ南部についての勉強会も行っています。
今回の研修では、普段学校で勉強している英語だけではなく、現地で使う英会話の練習をしたのですが、
「日本語のニュアンスを英語で伝える」ということに苦戦している生徒が多くみられました。
日本語をそのまま英語に変換しても、意味が通じない文になってしまう事が良くあります。
そのため、日本語にとらわれずに「相手に何を伝えていのか」と考えられるようになるための練習をしていきます。
学校英語とは違うナチュラルな英語を覚えて、現地でたくさん英語を使って欲しいと思います。
Blog|更新日:2020年1月24日/金曜日
For Thanksgiving, I made my family’s famed pumpkin rolls. They are delicious and wonderful in every way. But they take absolutely forever to make. They are a huge amount of labor, too.
Luckily, not all breads are so labor intensive. Peasant bread, for instance, is very simple and easy to make! So I made some recently, to very happy results.
Peasant bread is super simple. It’s just yeast, sugar to feed the yeast, warm water for the yeast to live in, flour, and some salt. Also, butter to grease the pans. (If you’re vegan, you could use cooking spray. It’s really quite versatile.) And that’s it! Honestly, while they take, like, four hours to make, almost all of that time is just sitting around waiting for the yeast to bloom, waiting for the bread to rise, waiting some more for the bread to rise, waiting for the bread to bake, and waiting for the bread to cool enough to cut and eat. So, yeah, it’s all about the yeast. It’s a very needy ingredient, what can I say?
But I really enjoyed making this bread the other day. It makes a perfect two loaves. Perfect for thoroughly testing one for poison and donating the other to some hungry soul who appreciates homemade bread and is willing to take it off your hands so you don’t eat ALL of it yourself. It really is the perfect bread.
So that was a good day. If anyone wants to try their hand at baking bread for the first time, peasant bread is a great starter!
Blog|更新日:2020年1月24日/金曜日
Hey y’all!
Over the two week winter break I once again made my way back home to Texas. However, this holiday season my family started a new tradition. In years past, Christmas was always spent at my house. Family from both sides would head on over to exchange presents, eat prime rib and a large assortment of delicious desserts. Well, as the years go by, things change, children grow up and move away. In March of 2019 my brother took a job in Columbus, Ohio to sell Porsche’s. That meant we were spending Christmas in Ohio… Overall, the change was unusual but we all had a wonderful time! We went to the zoo, did a lot of shopping and of course ate a tonne of amazing food! In fact, the whole ordeal was so great that we already planned the same trip for 2020!
I hope all of y’all had a wonderful Christmas and are glad to be back at school!
See y’all in class!