What I did yesterday...
I would like to tell you my story of yesterday. We had the electricity cut off from 8 am to 4 pm. It rarely happens in our village, almost 2 or 3 times a year. I do not know the exact reason why we had the electricity cut off. In this modern life we cannot live without electricity. Yesterday I could not do the housework, I could not use the PC so I felt that I was restrained. I could not do anything so I decided to arrange some important things in town. In the morning we went to the hospital with my son because he needed to see his doctor. Do not worry, he is not ill, he only needed to go for controlling. Two days before in the hospital there was a false bomb warning. Fortunately, the authorities were on high alert, they checked everything in the hospital; ill people were evacuated and so on. So, yesterday the hospital was still under police supervision. I think people felt still intimidated because there were not as many people what we as would normally expect. We finished quite early, Peter went to school and we went home.
Of course, we still did not have electricity cut on so I went in the garden .To tell the truth my garden was full of weeds recently because I have neglected it since I have started blogging. I weeded my flowers and vegetable, I hoed, raked and so on. But time went very slowly yesterday. When I had done my work in the garden I went inside and started to read the book “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte in English. This book is not the original but it is rewritten in easy English for English learners. I thoroughly recommend these books for everybody who wants to spend time with learning English and have fun at the same time.
Finally, at 4pm we had the electricity back so I had a shower and I was in a hurry to take my first English lesson this year.
Our teacher is a young, kind, friendly person who loves teaching. He said a Chinese proverb: ”Tell me and I forget, Show me and I remember, Involve me and I understand”. He said that he teaches on the basis of this proverb. He comes from Ireland. There is 8-10 of us in the group. We are learning from an upper-intermediate level textbook. Yesterday we did not have book yet so he brought some photocopies and we read a story about the unique albino gorilla, Snowflake, who lived in the ZOO in Barcelona, Spain. Then we played a mime play. I think I will enjoy my English lessons again.
After my English lesson I prepared dinner for my family, I was able to wash up the dishes at last and I wrote my blog.
In conclusion, I would like to ask a question. Do you have any favourite words in English? If yes, what are they? I have a few words that I like such as lady bird, sunflower, butterfly and poppy seed. I have just noticed now that my all favourite words are related to nature.
I look forward to reading your comments. Bye, bye
Anita
Comments
My favourite word is cathedral, don't ask me why.lol
I really do not have any favorite words, but my grandfather's is "ersatz" which means unsuitable substitute. Anita, I'll be on the road tomorrow; thus, I probably won't be able to comment on your post tomorrow. However, I wish you all the best. Thanks for sharing with us your life this last month.
my favourite words in English are 'never mind,snowdrop,rainbow and jasmine.have a wonderful weekend!!!!
Hi Anita, My favorite words are for example feeling, really – there are of course many others but at the moment my mind has gone blank. I also have a ‘great respect’ for those words which have amazing potential to be used in so many different contexts, or those one which haven’t got good equivalents in Polish – if you try to translate them it takes a lot of clumsy words. Anita, it was so nice to be your guest at your blog, at your home... Many thanks and I hope to see you from time to time as a commentator of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ blog. Good luck
Hi Anita, here in my town, electricity sometimes goes dead when a big typhoon comes and cut electric wires. This tells me how much our modern life depends on electricity as you write in the blog. When I have to spend a night without electricity, I phone one friend after another, play the guitar, listen to audio books through a battery-powered cassette player or go to bed early. Oh I don't like to fail to answer your questionnaire. My favourite English word is celestial. This word is used as follows; "You look celestial in this photo." ;) Thanks for your one-month-long blog. I've enjoyed it fully. Bye!
Hi Anita, I feel so fortunate to live in Singapore where we never face any electricity cut off. I understand your difficulty because I came from a small city somewhere in Indonesia where we had to face electricity cut off and even water. But I think hard life does not mean bad life because I can appreciate my current stay in Singapore. Well, my favourite words are daffodil, cloud, blue sky, I Love You. Thank You
Hi anita! My favourite English words are sunshine, waves, horizon and... time
Hi Anita, I appreciate your daily life. My favorite English words are wisdom, blossom, feel free.
hello Anita , my favorite words in English are those that are very rare like maroon (a very severe punishment consist on left a man in an island alone with a loaf of bread and a pound of powder). I have read it in a book edited in 1960
Hello, my favorite word is flexible. By for now.
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