Why am I watching"吉本新喜劇”.

I can't stand watching Japanese Comedy!

In this case "something" could be everything.

For example, job, frined, relationship, community......

If you want to find something that you're looking for,

"Gum tree" might help you out in Australia.

Gum tree is one of the most famous social network in Australia.

People who are in Australia always use Gumtree when they are looking for something.

I think I can say they are addicted to Gum tree.

I am also the one.

In fact I found some friends through gum tree and I am going to find the job through it.

How you find information is so easy that you can use it without someone teaching you.

When I moved in this area, I didn't have any friend around me,which means I have many friends who I think difficullt to come here easily. So I used gum tree to find some friends who hang out with me. I got 7 replies. Four of them were not  I'm looking for. I didn't write my gender on my post, so they asked me about that, and after that they never replyed to me. They must have through I was girl and had a relationship. The fifth person looked good man but I realized that he attempted to take advantage of me to find Japanese girlfriend. So he ask me to introduce some Japanse girl to him. But the rest of them are fortunately really good guys. So now I'm keeping in touch with them and someday we are going to meet.

So what I want to write today is if you use Gumtree, the odd that you can find that you are looking for get risen. If you don't use it, it sounds like you are jeopardizing your life.

For example, can you explain ”向く” in English?

"Look at"? "Head toward"? "Turn"?

Can you explain the difference between 行く and 向かう?

I haven't find proper answer yet.

Anyway, today's topic is "Don't translate too much"

As you know, we are learning English through Japanese, which means when you see new words that you don't know,you will probably check them out though translateing them into Japanese. But when I restarted to study English, right off the bat, I found it kind of wrong just because I didn't use that words in appropriate situation.

For example, I used to see "use" and "take advantage of" as same meanings as "使う" because I learned them through the way that I said above. But, truth is, there are some differences. Use is used when you do something with a machine,a way and stuff like that, for example, You use computer. ( I am sorry to use "use" when I explain the meaning of  "use".

"Take advantage of" is used when you are in appropriate situation to do what you want to do, for example, I took advantage of today's good weather to dry my wet clothes.

I can also say same thing as "proper" and "appropriate","think"and"reckon".

Now I'm concious of studying English through English and making sure when I can use this words and I'm wating the time to use "the words" that I learned. I'm definitely taking advantage of my situation that I am in Australia and live with my native friends.

Few months ago, We had a comedy festival in Melbourne and I watched some comedy shows. But unfortunately I couldn't understand not only because of my lack of listening skill but also because they were laughing when I was not laughing and vise versa.

So today I tried to find the defference and I am going to explain it.

What I did today was watch Australian comedy shows on You Tube and dictate what they said and just discuss them.

I watched (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDC-K4pzQA)

So I don't know if what I dictated is exactly what they said.

But I picked up four of them.

1. I had the key to good comedy routine. it is start strong and finish strong.So I wrote two good jokes.(laugh) That was the first one.(laugh)

2. I used to piss my pants everytime I had a stand-up in front of third grade my class and it cost my teaching career.

3 I was able to kill two birds with one stone but I was able to injure a person.

4 I tried to join the army but they said they didn't need to win the battle badly

So as you watch or read, this is not so funny.

I can't understand the point of laughing and I can't even understand why such a boring guy was joking in such a big venue. But I found one thing which might be the key.

I think Australian people tend to laugh at someone defining things in unique way that someone else have not used so far. Japanese people tend to laugh at someone defining things in unique way that someone else already used in diffrent situation, which is so complecated.

Over all, Australian's sense of humor is more simple than Japanese one but if you want to make Australian people laugh, we need to have unique and outstanding way.

There are many history of comedy in Japan and they alreay did a lot of ways. So what Australian people need to do to make japanese laugh is study Japanse comedy and reuse them in appropriate situation.

Thank you.

I little bit regret writing today's blog because I don't think it understandable.

I hope someone will be able to understand or make fun of me with a big smile.

 I want to think I am on the way to get another job but I should think of an altarnative plan at the same time, otherwise I can't get over this situstion that I can barely live in Australia.

So I have to decide on priorities first before thinking about that.

What made me came here are enhance my English skill and find my vitality.

I think this surrounding is the best to achieve them.

But the problem is the possibility that I can't find a job.

If I can't get a job it means I have to go back Japan.

The alternative plan is move back to city and find another place to live.

But the problem is I have to give up the corrent surrounding and the possiblity that I can't achieve my purpose.

Do you understand what I am thinking about?

My ideal is find a job around here and keep kiving here.

I really hope I can got a job, I really hope

Anyway yesterday I went to the shopping centre near my house to submit my resume.

What I want to write today is the way of finding a job in Australia is completely different from japanese way. In Japan if you want to find a job, what you need to do is find hiring information first and call the the place and they are interested you will call you to arrenge the interview. But in Australia usually there is no hiring information so what I have to do is submit my resume directly.

It was so hard and embarrassing for me enough to make my stutter come back.

"Hi. How are you? Are you currently hiring? Could I please leave my resume?"

Mostly they say "Not at the moment but if we need you we will call you"

So all I can do now is just hope.

"Be confident and brave" I said to myself over and over again.

But I realize it is kind of ridiculous to feel such a emotion because it is a natural way in Australia and they are already used to being asked if they are hiring. 

So I should have said "Be natural" to myself instead.

I hope they will call to me. See you.

Before I worked, I was a little bit nervous not because I was worried about my English, but just because of the first time. I think anyone feel nervous when they do something new or that thay have never done before. So I felt nervous like that. But I also felt exicited to work because I thought nobody expected I work in another country, even me.

So I proved they are wrong including me.

I work in Melrose, which is called "reception centre" in general. So Any kind of party are held in that place. Yesterday's party was a auction party. Compare to Japan, I think Australian people tend to wear a dress or suit in a party and look suductive.

Anyway fortunately the work wasn't so really hard for me because what I did was kind of similar to what I used to do in my previous job in Japan. Even though I didn't know anything, the speed of serving and tecnique of  mine was difenitely better than my co-workers who were in same position (and I know this is my bad charactaristic....).

On the whole that was a good experince but I realized my co-workers didn't concentrate on their job. Usually it was unforgivable in Japan to play game on the mobile phone instead of working . That was little bit annoying because I was tired and I did what they had to do( and I know this is also my bad charactristic.....).But It might be bad to jump to conclusion that they are lazy. I think they are influenced by their culture, that is to say...they don't think they are lazy. So I want to be the person who can take advantage of their personality.

All right. I think it's time to finish my blag today because my hands is getting tired.

Thank you.