[Columbine]

Originally Posted by yumyumtimtam

cute! a penguin?
my favuorite one was a cat, but I remember I used to pad all the stuffed toys and dolls I had before going to bed, cos I didn't want any of them to think "I wasn't chosen, she didn't like me".
Do you call them(ぬいぐるみ) stuffed toys?
hahaha! now in my head, a group of おじさん　keep saying it and bowing each other.

お久しぶり！（w）先週北イギリスに旅行に行きました� �I used to do that too! I'd move my toys every day so that they each had a turn 'sleeping' at the top of the bed, so no-one felt left out. In the UK we mostly call them "cuddly toys" or simply just "toys" as most people guess that if you say "I had a robot" you mean something like a plastic toy, or if you say "I had a toy rabbit," you mean something like a ぬいぐるみ。

Originally Posted by yumyumtimtam

yep! our door was very heavy and we had to push a little bit hard to close it properly, so we call it がっちゃんする.

I really enjoy the onomatopoeia in Japanese language. I'm told that I make up a lot of noises or onomatopoeic words when I talk sometimes too! I don't even realise I do it. :/

Originally Posted by yumyumtimtam

columbine ちゃん
I am writing this at an internet cafe in 青森.
I have been travelling north part of Japan for 7days now.
Have you been 北海道 or　青森?

私がいた事はありませんがある友だちが北海道にWWOOFし� ��した。WWOOFについて聞いた事がありますか？北海道は� �っちゃすごくそうです。絶対行きたいんです！

I went to the Lake District on holiday. Have you heard of Beatrix Potter? She wrote a famous children's book called "ピーターラビットのお話”. I went to see her house and her art gallery. But even though it's only four hours away from where I live by car, sometimes it's hard to understand the dialect in the north of England! I learnt Tokyo Japanese too, so when I lived in Osaka, it was hard to understand some people. 私のりょう父は濃い関西弁で話したし、いつも茶色のス エータを着たし、留学生のみなさんで「くま父さん」と 言いました。He would greet me in the morning, but I could hardly understand his accent, so it always sounded like 「あ、おだまきさん、。。。くまくまくまくまくま〜』

I found people in Japan were quite kind about giving me directions and things, especially in Tokyo. My parents were helped a lot, because they don't speak or read any Japanese they found it difficult to find places, but often people on the street would stop to help them, without even being asked. ：）