11/01/2006
Noelle's Language development
Noelle's language skills are developing rapidly. She is making more and more complete sentences. And I am so happy about it. But at the same time it makes me a little sad. Why? Because she just isn't learning English. Her thinking is in Japanese. When she does speak English it is normally English words in Japanese sentences or in Japanese grammar patterns. Last night she said "hotです". Mixing the Japanese verb "desu" with the English adjective "hot" to make the sentence, "It's hot."
10/23/2006
久しぶりのランニング
今朝10日ぶりに 10キロを走ってきた。少し寒かった。霜が降りてた。心肺機能が弱っている。体重は変わっていない。10キロはやっぱりちょとつらかった。本当にフルを走り終わってから続けて走ればよかったのに走らなかったのはちょと反省している。でも10日間もっと柊と涼と時間が過ごせてよかった。
もっと日本語の練習をしなければならない。でもここでパソコンを使っ入力するのはもちろん練習にはなれるが、やはり自分の手だ字を書く練習もしないといけないね。
もっと日本語の練習をしなければならない。でもここでパソコンを使っ入力するのはもちろん練習にはなれるが、やはり自分の手だ字を書く練習もしないといけないね。
A Run in the Morning
I went for a run this morning. It has been 10 days since I ran last. I am recovering from a cold. But that is not why I haven't been running. I just have been taking time off. Spending more time with Ryo and Noelle. But today I set my alarm for 5 and got up and was running by 5:30. It was cold. There was a think frost on the windshields of the cars. Taking 10 days off was nice but it was just too long. Running felt good for the first 1km. After that it got harder. Mostly for my breathing. Now if I can just keep running. I don't plan on running hard. It won't be easy to run very much as winter comes on and Ryo doesn't like washing my running outfit cause it takes up so much space our small washing machine. We use a lot more water and gas when I'm running in the winter because of the washing and me taking a shower in the morning.
8/23/2006
A Change in Noelle 20 months
The other night a friend came over for dinner. Ryo made a wonderful dinner of porkchops and gravy, salad and crunchy fried potatoes. We also had cake with vanilla ice cream. Oh that was just delicous! But I am not writing to tell you about our dinner or the fact that my friend came over but something else. Something about social blunders. Taboos.
Noelle is 20 months old now. We were all eating dinner and talking and Noelle was having fun and enjoying the change of pace (having a guest for dinner) when it happened. Noelle was getting excited and she accidentally lost the piece of porkchop that she had in her mouth. It came flying out and landed on the saucer of porkchops. She was surprised but my friend was even more surprised. He seemed a little bit disgusted. Perhaps that is too strong of a word but he did not think it was cool to have her half chewed food back out on the table. He has shown through his actions before that he really likes his food clean. Through raising Noelle we have lowered our standards a little as to what is clean enough food to eat since she often dumped her plate into our laps or on the floor. Anyways, his reaction to her losing her food onto the table was strong. What happened next is the interesting part. Noelle, upon seeing his reaction, got a cloud on her face. She wrinkled her eyebrows together and looked down. Her mouth was half opened and her lip began to quiver. We could see that she was trying to hold back tears. She was trying not to cry. She didn't know what to do or how to react to his reaction. She realized that she did something that was not acceptable. All three of us had to work to assure her that it was alright. Or friend did his best to get her smiling and giggling again. What we saw was that she realized, for the first time, that some things are not acceptable in "society". I amlost certain she wouldn't have reacted that way if the person reacting strongly to her behaviour was one of her close family. But I could be wrong. Another possibility is that she is starting to learn to control her emotions. Her trying not to cry, instead of just bawling out like normal, shows her trying to control, trying to deal with her emotions. Her having those feelings shows her developing socially. Of course, I really have no idea what I'm talking about but it was obvious to Ryo and I that she was showing a new area of development that we had not seen before.
Noelle is 20 months old now. We were all eating dinner and talking and Noelle was having fun and enjoying the change of pace (having a guest for dinner) when it happened. Noelle was getting excited and she accidentally lost the piece of porkchop that she had in her mouth. It came flying out and landed on the saucer of porkchops. She was surprised but my friend was even more surprised. He seemed a little bit disgusted. Perhaps that is too strong of a word but he did not think it was cool to have her half chewed food back out on the table. He has shown through his actions before that he really likes his food clean. Through raising Noelle we have lowered our standards a little as to what is clean enough food to eat since she often dumped her plate into our laps or on the floor. Anyways, his reaction to her losing her food onto the table was strong. What happened next is the interesting part. Noelle, upon seeing his reaction, got a cloud on her face. She wrinkled her eyebrows together and looked down. Her mouth was half opened and her lip began to quiver. We could see that she was trying to hold back tears. She was trying not to cry. She didn't know what to do or how to react to his reaction. She realized that she did something that was not acceptable. All three of us had to work to assure her that it was alright. Or friend did his best to get her smiling and giggling again. What we saw was that she realized, for the first time, that some things are not acceptable in "society". I amlost certain she wouldn't have reacted that way if the person reacting strongly to her behaviour was one of her close family. But I could be wrong. Another possibility is that she is starting to learn to control her emotions. Her trying not to cry, instead of just bawling out like normal, shows her trying to control, trying to deal with her emotions. Her having those feelings shows her developing socially. Of course, I really have no idea what I'm talking about but it was obvious to Ryo and I that she was showing a new area of development that we had not seen before.
6/28/2006
十勝健康マラソン
この間の十勝健康マラソンに参加しました。この大会を狙っていい成績を残したかったけど、ペースが遅かったか、1：37で完走しました。その前の週の小樽運河ロードレースで1:30で完走したので、今回は1:29がほしかった。風邪のせいか、暑さのせいか、単なるペースが遅かったか。わからないけど、小樽よりもずっと厳しかった。終わった後もしばらく具合が悪かった。吐き気がしました。暑さが原因だと思いますが。自分の友達も暑さで完全に倒れていました。救急車で運ばれました。やっぱり、俺の日本語はまだまだ足りないところばっかりです！自分がいやになる。今週末のピンネシリ登山マラソンの完走だけを目指しています。完走できるか！？
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