I love gyoza!  We call them dumplings or pot stickers in America.  Sometimes at our house, we cook somewhere between 150 to 200 gyoza at one time, and eat just a lot of gyoza for dinner.  We always have leftovers, so we eat them for breakfast the next day.  The main ingredient in gyoza is hakusai, or Chinese cabbage.  Chinese cabbage is a winter vegetable, so we often have to wait until winter to make gyoza so we can get a lot for a low price.

Last winter, we used our hotplate at a neighbor’s house to eat yakiniku.  The next time we wanted to use our hotplate, we couldnt find our power chord!  That means we can’t use our hotplate to make gyoza any more!  Oh no!  We looked all over the house many times, and talked to our neighbors to see if they knew where the power chord was.  It was nowhere to be found.  Sad story.  We didn’t use our hotplate all the way through the next  year, but now winter is here again and we really wanted to eat gyoza.  We ordered a new power chord so we could make gyoza again.  It was finally time to eat gyoza again after a year of waiting.  When I opened up the box to the hotplate….there it was.  The missing power chord.  We looked everywhere except inside the box!  You see, we always hang the power chord on a nail on the wall, not in the box!  I felt pretty dumb for not looking inside the box.  Unbelievable.  

We made delicious gyoza and now we have two power chords.  

Happy New year!

2019年が始まって6日が経ちました！

明日から学校がスタートする人が多いのではないでしょうか。

宿題、終わっていますか？僕はギリギリにやるタイプだったので、学校が始まる前の日は大変でした。

明日から始まるのは学校だけではありません。ハローズの授業も明日から始まります！

今年も元気に楽しく、英語を勉強していきましょう！

Catching a cold is one of the common events of winter. Viruses can navigate the cold, dry air easily, and people spend lots of time indoors in close contact with one another. This makes winter the perfect season for cold epidemics, putting a damper on many people’s winter holiday celebrations.

Have you caught a cold this winter? I got a bad cold last month that took more than a full weekend of rest and self-care to conquer. Of course, there’s lots of medical advice and folk remedies floating around. It’s common sense that you should hydrate a lot, eat hot, simple, nutritious foods, keep your body warm, and get plenty of sleep and bed rest. But what other things can you do to fight off colds?

I personally like to drink lots of tea and hot soups loaded with veggies. I have a Polish friend who recommends eating lots of garlic and putting sliced onions in rooms where you’ll be working or sleeping. I’m not sure such a fragrant folk remedy is quite to my tastes, no matter how poorly I’m feeling! Do you have any advice or folk remedies for people battling colds this season?

Ryan

あけましておめでとうございます。

2019年になりましたね。

年が変わったという実感がいまだにありませんが、

気持ち新たに今年も過ごしていきたいと思います。

ということで、今年の目標を１つ決めました。

かれこれ４～５年ほど

「運動しなければ」と思っていました。

しかし今まで実際に行動に移していませんでした。

2019年の目標は「運動をする」ということに決め、

1年間過ごしていきたいと思います。

Hey y’all!

   Over the last two weeks I ventured back to America to celebrate Christmas and New Years with my family! I wish I could write and tell you that I went on tons of adventures such as hiking and sightseeing, but mostly I just ate. A lot. From the time I woke up till the time I went to bed, I was stuffing my face with BBQ, hamburgers and most importantly, everything Mexican. Tacos,  nachos, enchiladas, quesadillas, chips and salsa. You name it, I ate it. For the most part, I feel that you can get any cultures cuisine in Japan, but not Mexican food. At least, not like it is back home. Other than eating I did get go shopping, go to a basketball game and even go to a few parties. However, just being home with my family was the best part of all.

   Overall, the break was so much fun, but it is really nice to be back in Japan. I’ve missed all of y’all and can’t wait to see y’all in class!

       Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Sam

My brother and I 

My dog, Dude and cat, Samurai

GO SPURS GO!

Samurai looking very angry…