Lesson 11
Dear Prof. Sue Garreis
Thank you so much for replying and correcting. This time is eleventh
messages. My reply is in Bookman Old Style.
Dear Mei,
Thank you for your eleventh message. My comments follow in Lucida console.The grammar corrections are in italics.
Sincerely,
Prof. Sue Garreis
⇒It is very clever of you to change the font instead of the color. Great idea!
I don't know how long they are yet. I guess three professors will examine me. I'm very scary and nervous as you say, but do my best!
⇒I'm very scared and nervous, as you say, but I will do my best!
Good luck with the orals.
All my oral is in Japanese.
⇒Good. That should make things a little easier.
Oh! So hot! My area wasn't quite as bad as your area. It was not so hot as your area, no matter how hot I felt.
You have a similar custom, don't you? I watched link whose you gave to me. As there are many means each month in your country, I was surprised. Though September is writting about harvest, my country also has the similar mean.
I understand. When I get it done, I will inform you the URL of my homepage.
⇒I am really looking forward to seeing your page!
Homework
1. I enjoyed reading your homepage in which you mentioned your summer vacation. Happy 65st birthday!!! What do you want to do for the future?
I envy that you had a marvelous party.
⇒It was the best party of my life. My daughter really knows how to throw a good party! I doubt that I will have another party like that one. You asked what I wanted to do in the future. Staying in good health is certainly a focus of my life now. So I eat less junk food and more healthy stuff. Well, much of time. I ate six donuts today! There was a fund-raising bake sale at my church. I couldn't turn that down! ("Couldn't turn it down" is an expression that means one could not pass up that opportunity.)
You take care of your relative. In Japan, our connection with our relative may be thin. So I feel that your relation is so good.
2. I studied English for TOEIC over the summer. I went out with my friend to Shinjuku recently. Shinjuku is a city in Tokyo. http://www.shinjuku-omoide.com/It's a buck street called "Omoide Yokochyo" in Shinjuku. Omoide is memory in English. Yokochyo means side road. There have an atmosphere of good old, though Shinjuku is downtown. You can read this web in English. When I went to there, there were many tourists from abroad. And many people from abroad live in Shinjyuku.
⇒When I went to Japan in 1987, I went to Shinjuku. It was very nice! By the way, we say the year as follows: nineteen eighty-seven. The current year is pronounced two thousand ten by many. Others say the current year as twenty ten.
3. a . http://www.toeic.or.jp/
b. This web is about Test of English for International Communication. TOEIC is a common test to estimate his ability in English. It is a common test in all of the world. It estimates by score. In Japan, the average score is about 500 points.
UNIQRO(It's a firm of clothing in Japan) requires new graduates about 700 points. So I suppose I should get over 700 points. But it is so difficult for me.
⇒Thank you for the web site.
⇒Thank you for showing me the TOEIC web site. Have you taken the TOEIC Bridge test already? I wondered whether many people end up taking both tests.
4. a. http://recruit.tohmatsu.co.jp/
b. This web is about a firm of external auditor called Tohmatsu. I want to be a USCPA for the future, so if I get the qualification, I want to work as an external auditor in Japan. But it is not easy for me to join such firm because I don't have the qualification of CPA(of Japan). So I am looking for an office of licensed tax accountant. In fact, I don't find my job yet. It may be easy to join there than a firm of external auditor. But many offices of licensed tax accountant also are unstable because of depression now. So I am very anxious every day.
⇒Tohmatsu is a very good firm. I hope you are able to work for them someday. Stick with your dreams. They may come true sooner than you think! I am sorry that you have to find a job in this bad economy. Keep persisting. Something good will come from this. Do you have to be a CPA of Japan before you can be a US CPA? Does Tohmatsu expect you to be both? I think the Japanese CPA is harder than the US CPA.
Have a nice
weekend!!
Sincerely,
Mei
⇒Mei, this week's lesson is about the Statement of Cash Flows: http://msgarreis.com/cashflow10.htm. This is the third financial statement.
⇒This past week
was an interesting one for me. It was full of the joys of home ownership. There
is a lot of sarcasm in that last sentence! We got a lot of rain from Tropical
Storm Nicole. On Thursday nine inches (twenty-three centimeters) fell in a
twenty-four hour period. That was the most rain in one storm in quite a long
time! The ground became saturated. Since it had no where else to go, it leaked
into my basement. Fortunately, I happened to walk down to the basement and
discover the puddles on the floor. This is not the first time the basement has
flooded. So I hooked up the wet-dry vac (a vacuum cleaner that can suck up dry
dirt as well as water). It enabled me to keep ahead of the water flowing into
the basement. Most of the stuff in the basement was up on shelves with wheels.
I could move the shelf out of the way to get at the water underneath. There is
a dehumidifier (a wonderful machine that removes the water vapor from the air)
and it worked constantly! After the rain slacked off and the flow lessened I
put towels near the hot spots to soak up the water as it entered. Today my son
drove down from Delaware to apply some patch material to the basement walls
where the water leaked in. It is raining again, but the patching material is
largely holding. The towels are sufficient to soak up the drops that come in
from one place in particular. Whew! It will rain tomorrow also. Then I hope it
stops for at least a week. The weather is crazy now. We go for such long spells
without rain, and then we are pounded with more than we can handle. Global
warming, perhaps. Have a great week.
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