S3-1 Refreshed Start

Welcome back and thank you for your patience, Mates! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year holiday and a great start of this year. I had fun in Japan and came back to Cairns, Australia. Let’s make 2024 another fulfilled year! In this episode, I talk a bit about my holiday in Japan. It’s the beginning of my souvenir story from Japan. This episode's vocab list: 無事 safely 気持ちを新たに with a renewed spirit 再開します。I will resume 4週間以上5週間未満 more than 4 weeks & less than 5 weeks その間 during that period 私の準備不足でした  I wasn’t prepared enough. 環境 environment 3分の１ one third 実家 my house where I grew up ペンキ塗り painting 修理 repairing 親孝行 Conduct by which children honour and serve their parents well 満足 satisfaction 残り the rest あちこち here, there, everywhere 予定外のこと something I didn’t expect 地震 earthquake 元日 the new year's day 震源地 epicentre of an earthquake 横に side-way 揺れました。It shook. 揺れ a shake 途中 in the middle of the event 雪の影響 で新幹線のダイヤが1時間遅れました。The bullet train timetable was delayed by one hour due to snow. 体験する to experience 新幹線が遅れるほど雪が降っている it’s snowing as heavy as the timetable is delayed. 想像できますか。Can you imagine? 切に思ったのは、what I was keenly aware of is … 一泊する to stay over night 空港に向かっている to be heading to the airport 日本の土産話 Souvenir stories from Japan