Break

This weekend was the first weekend I could spend calmly and relaxedly since this session started because I was away almost half of this session and while I was here, I had to catch up with classes. However, on this mid-term break, I enjoyed sunshine Vancouver.

One day, I went to a beach with my host family in the evening, and my host mother was swimming in the ocean and I was taking pictures. It was very peaceful time. After her swimming, we had dinner at the beach, and some neighbors came over. I really like beaches in Vancouver since there are so close to houses.

At the beach, I met a lifeguard who spoke Japanese. His story why he studied Japanese was silly. He had a Japanese girl friend, and spending time with her in Vancouver for two years, they decided to move to Japan. They were planning to get married; however, two months after they went to Japan, they broke up. So, there was no reason for him to stay in Japan, but he didn't want to go back to Vancouver so soon; therefore, he stayed in Japan for eight months. This was his story.

Because he still wanted to study Japanese, he asked me to teach some Japanese, and he could teach me English in turn. It is good oppotunity for me to talk to a native speaker, so everytime I go to the beach, we decided to Japanese and English lessons :)