Day 16
Apr 16
I finished Ch. 3-4 of 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん! Did 1 chapter in the morning, and 1 chapter on my way to friends’ home. I shared the “wisdom” from the grandmother with my boyfriend, and we all laughed about it 
I get a hold of some of the 佐賀 dialect, which I shared in the weekly discussion thread. But I think the story is a little bit thin from Chapter 2-4. A lot is about the art of living stingy. I hope the story will be developed more in later chapters.
Words of the day:
下駄ばき: 下駄＋履き
いかだ：筏。a raft
泥んこ：muddy
筋金入り：hard-core、頑固
天日：てんぴ sun
信心：しんじん。faith. In Chinese, this word means “confidence” instead