📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

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1月6日〜7日

Materials:
:white_large_square: TODAI
:red_square: 地球星人

I fit in a little reading on Thursday before bed by reading an article on TODAI. It was about a company in 埼玉県 using the frozen water from a lake on a mountain in 長瀞町 (ながとろまち) to make かき氷. They cut the ice out and slide them down wooden boards into trucks. They plan on doing this until the end of the month. Then, it will go in storage until the summer, when the local stores will be able to use it to make and sell かき氷. :yum: :shaved_ice:

Today I read four pages from 地球星人. 奈月 finally made it to her grandparents’ house, where she’s bombarded by a lot of different relatives. She doesn’t quite remember a lot of these people.

I thought this line was so relatable:

いとこたちはいつも夏休みには一緒に過ごし、親友のように仲良くなるのに、一年間会わずに次の夏になると、また少し距離ができている。

It really reminded me of visiting my mom’s friends and being around their kids. We got along pretty well, but there was always that awkwardness at the start. Honestly, I still feel this when I meet up with friends I haven’t seen in a while. :sweat_smile:

Vocab 地球星人

見覚え [みおぼえ]: remembrance; recollection; recognition​

見覚えがあるような、ないような年配の女性だ。

いまいち: not quite (right); not very good

年に一度しか来ないこの場所で、私は大人の顔をいまいち見分けることができない。

やっちまう: to screw up, to do (esp. something one regrets)

「なつこさんはね、腰やっちまってね、今年は来ねえっつうんよ」

ぴくりと: with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip/a bob/a flutter

てるよしおじさんの言葉に、思わずリュックを背負った背中をぴくりと動かしてしまった。

しがみつく: to cling​

サキさんの足元にしがみついている女の子は、去年赤ちゃんだった美和ちゃんだろう。

ならう: to imitate; to follow; to emulate

私は母にならって、新しい人物が登場するたびに深く頭を下げた。​

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