Adding your own decorations can help make a room feel nice. Here are two decorations you can use. First, flowers. Flowers can be placed in a vase on a desk or hung out to dry. They have natural beauty, which adds color and life to the room. Second, string lights. String lights can be hung around an entrance or wrapped around a post. They give the room a secluded, cozy feeling. These decorations make a room feel nice. Q. Tell…
You should see this place in the evening. The evening is a special time in the neighborhood. In the evening, everyone is coming home. Parents are coming home from work. Children are coming home from school. Everyone is happy to be coming home. In the evening, everyone is getting together in the neighborhood. Neighborhood moms and dads are playing pickleball or talking together outside. The kids are riding their bicycles. The evening is a good time for walking in the…
Open space is valuable. Open space can be filled. But keeping open space empty is also valuable. In the country side, there is a lot of open space. I like lots of cafes in the city, however I also like seeing no cafes. On the weekend, you have free time. You can fill it with fun plans. But then you may also be missing the unexpected. Open space is valuable. Nowhere and nothing is something. Q. Do you drink coffee?…
After I got a bicycle, I found a bridge over a canal. I went across it, and this is what I discovered. On the other side of the bridge, it is greener. There are rice paddies and trees. There aren’t many buildings or traffic. On the other side of the bridge, there are fewer people. There aren’t cafes or restaurants. There is open space and the sound of insects. It’s odd how different it is on the other side of…
Cau ben tuong Bananas look so cool growing on a tree. I grew up eating bananas, but I never saw a banana tree. All our bananas in America come from Ecuador. But bananas are originally from SE Asia (chicken too). Going on long walks is a good hobby because it is activity for your body and mind. I like to go on long walks in this city because everything here is strange and new. The air quality is really bad…
Safe to cross I can hit a pickleball at a motorbike. If it drives onto a pickle ball court, then it is playing pickleball. In the mirror I can see them coming. If they don’t slow down, then neither do I. Pickleball! If you want to play pickleball with me, then come out and play. Q. Do you know how to play pickleball? Do you play it? Tell me something that you are good at.Q. Speeding on a motorbike is…
Jealous of attention My coworker got a haircut, and everyone at work was excited and made a lot of noise. But nobody noticed when I got a haircut last week. It was a beautiful event when the trees shed their leaves. I was excited. Maybe there should have been a lot of noise and a big party with cake and everything. Q. When did you last get a haircut? Did you receive any compliments? Did you like the haircut?Q. Tell…
I was going to do homework today, but instead I went for a long walk. It was worth it. It was worth it because I needed a break. I’ve been thinking about work a lot, and I needed to just put it out of my mind for a while. The long walk felt good. The weather was just lightly raining all day long. I listened to podcasts on my headphones as I was walking. Putting off work was worth it…
The word ‘blank’ comes from the old French word ‘blanc’, which means white. The following examples give a sense of how the word is used. A blank stare is a facial expression which shows no thought or emotion. “The patient does not respond to anything. He only stares blankly at the wall. His mind is somewhere else.” A blank slate is a fresh start, a new beginning. “The criminal wants to leave his past behind. He completed his prison term…
Cheese and warmth I’m happy to be in Vietnam, and I almost don’t miss anything at all about the USA. But there are just a couple things which I miss a little bit. I miss cheese. Sometimes I feel hungry but don’t want to eat rice. I just think about biting a big piece of cheese. It’s hard to feel satisfied without it. I also miss the cold, I think. Not that I like being cold, but I remember things…