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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Advanced Audio Blog 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
11 Responses to “Audio Blog #83 - Burglar”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
みなさんこんにちは、美樹のブログです。
みなさんの家には、泥棒が入ったことはありますか?
実は先日、私の友達の家に泥棒が入りました。どうやら夕飯を食べに外出している間に泥棒は侵入したようです。
泥棒は現金三万円と銀行の通帳、印鑑、時計を盗んでいきました。部屋は荒らされた様子がなかったので、泥棒が入ったと気がつくのに少し時間がかかりました。泥棒が家に入ったことに友達はショックを受けていましたが、盗まれた通帳の残高が五百円だったことは不幸中の幸いだったと思います。不幸中の幸いとは不幸な出来ごとの中のせめてもの救いという意味です。
私の家には泥棒が入ったことはありませんが、私はよく自転車のサドルを盗まれることがあります。誰が何のためにこんなイタズラをするのかわかりませんが、とても迷惑です。
私は座ることができなくなった自転車の目の前でどうしようと考えました。スーパーからの帰りでたくさんの荷物があったため、どうしても座りたいと思いました。何かサドルの変わりになるものはないかと買い物袋の中をのぞいてみると・・・ブロッコリーがありました!ブロッコリーの茎の部分をサドルの代わりに差し込んでみると、ピッタリでした!
私はブロッコリーをサドルの代わりにして帰りました。
みなさんは泥棒に何かを盗まれたことはありますか?
それではまた来週!
Wednesday at 10:07 pm
はははははははは、おかしいイメージですなー!
美樹さん、本当に頑張りましたね!
Thursday at 12:40 am
Hello Miki san , wow that was something
i have to say this is the funniest story in your blog
you know i dont like broccoli but i’ll look at it in a different way
you are very resourceful
i wonder what happened …never mind
Thursday at 1:31 am
僕は息子に4万円を盗まれた。けど銀行はお金を替えました。息子は罰によって知恵を受けるかもしれないので不幸中の幸いかな。
Thursday at 11:29 am
美樹 の レッスンは、いつも たいへん 面白い!
It is always very interesting!
One mistake in the Kanji sheet:
救い = bicycle (X)
救い = rescue (O)
Thursday at 12:42 pm
Spidey-san,
Thank you for letting us know the error in the Kanji PDF.
I fixed it.
Thursday at 8:59 pm
物知り に なりりたい。。。
S
Saturday at 12:09 am
My 不幸中の幸い story goes like this:
When I lived in New York City, my apartment was broken into and I lost 4,000 dollars worth of electronics. BUT one of the cops who came to my apartment was really cute! He made the incident a bit more tolerable.
UNFORTUNATELY (This is another 不幸 in this story), the cop’s partner (whom I didn’t find attractive at all…) kept coming back to my apartment multiple times that night, trying to get “acquainted” with me…It was really obnoxious!
Saturday at 8:16 pm
What is 不幸中の幸い(ふこうちゅうのさいわい) ?
“It could have been worse”
私の不幸中の幸いは、
何年間も日本に住んでいたけど。。。
日本語あまり上手に話せない。
だけど。。。JapanesePod101の勉強はたいん楽しく
て助けります!
s
Sunday at 10:09 am
不幸中の幸い。My friend had an experience that would fit this situation. She had been ill for some time and had been seeing a doctor at a prestigious teaching hospital. While under the doctor’s care she had not gotten any better and had returned for a follow-up check up. On this day her doctor was out and an associate doctor examined her. Upon looking at her, the doctor asked her a few questions and took a look at her lab records. Based on her records and the examination she was able to quickly give my friend her diagnosis. She had an uncommon but well known disease known as Addison’s disease. Her previous doctor had misdiagnosed her. In fact her lab results indicated that some of her blood chemistry values were critical and that she could die at any time. So while it was unfortunate that she was sick and missed seeing her regular physician, she was lucky that the associate physician examined her and made the correct diagnosis that saved her life.
Monday at 10:02 am
とても 驚かす。。。美樹さんはKim Jong Ilの呪物がありそう!
What a strange fetish!
本当に大丈夫ですか?
hmmm。。。。
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