英会話レッスンで取り扱う話題の１つを毎週掲載しています。
（国内か海外どちらでもーあなたが初めてした旅行は何でしたか？）
12/01/2009
| English Jump-off Question, English Study, English
Hello again, everyone. I hope you had a good week and a good start to December.
Please take a look at this week's vocabulary list first since they might be a little difficult.
This week's vocabulary:
shore: 河岸、海岸
bologna: ボローニャソーセージ.
a haze: ぼんやり
例：そのことをぼんやりとしか覚えていない｜I have but a faint [hazy] recollection of it.
silly: ばかばかしい, ばかげた. ⇒FOOLISH[類語]
a silly person｜良識のない人
Don't be silly.｜ばかなこと言わないで
It was a silly thing to do.｜ばかなことをしたものだ
rabbit ears: うさぎの耳（ここで使われている意味は、ピースサインをした片手を人の頭の後ろにつけて、正面から見ると頭から耳が出ているようにすること）
teacher’s nightmare：先生たちにとっての悪夢
decent：〈ふるまい言葉などが〉慎み深い, 上品な, 礼儀にかなった（⇔indecent）；〈顔などが〉魅力的な, 風さいのよい, きれいな
decent language｜品のよい言葉
be decent in conduct｜ふるまいが上品である
heavenly: 天国のような；喜びに満ちた；美しい；｟略式｠すばらしい, 魅力的な.
on a sugar high：シュガーハイ（砂糖の過剰摂取で、異常に行動が激しくなる状態になること）
OK, this week's question is:
Domestic or international—what was the first overnight trip you ever took?
（国内か海外どちらでもーあなたが初めてした旅行は何でしたか？）
The first overnight trip I remember taking was when I was I was in 5th grade or about 11 years old. It was a school trip from my hometown of Saint Paul, to Duluth, a northern Minnesota city on the shores of Lake Superior.
I remember very clearly that I couldn’t sleep the night before the trip because not only was it my first overnight trip without my parents, but it was also the first time for me to ride a train. At that time, the only way I ever traveled was by car or school bus. Another reason I couldn’t sleep was because my mother had packed a special lunch for me—a bologna, cheese, lettuce and mayonnaise sandwich (my favorite back then), potato chips, a can of soda (I can’t remember but probably Nehi grape), apple slices and two chocolate cupcakes. This was not a healthy meal but trust me, it was heavenly for a 11 year old boy. it was a spectacularly delicious lunch!
The train ride was mostly a haze, kids yelling and running around and acting silly—like any young boy’s dream so I don’t remember too many specifics. However, I do have a picture somewhere in one of my old boxes in Minnesota that was taken that day. I don’t know who took the picture but it is of one of my good friends at that time,
Timmy McIntyre and me. And I of course was looking particularly silly because I was wearing a pair of GIANT SUNGLASSES (they were called, “funglasses” back then) and I was making rabbit ears behind Timmy’s head. I am sure I was a teacher’s nightmare—a relatively decent kid but completely out of control, on a sugar high and overly excited to be traveling on a train for the first time!
I don’t really remember many details about Duluth since soon after we got there, it seemed we were back on the train heading back to Saint Paul. Little did I know the next time I would ride a train would be when I lived in Tokyo—nearly 15 years later.
How about you? Can you remember anything about your first trip?
I will look forward to hearing your thoughts and memories.
Be well,
Keith//
Please take a look at this week's vocabulary list first since they might be a little difficult.
This week's vocabulary:
shore: 河岸、海岸
bologna: ボローニャソーセージ.
a haze: ぼんやり
例：そのことをぼんやりとしか覚えていない｜I have but a faint [hazy] recollection of it.
silly: ばかばかしい, ばかげた. ⇒FOOLISH[類語]
a silly person｜良識のない人
Don't be silly.｜ばかなこと言わないで
It was a silly thing to do.｜ばかなことをしたものだ
rabbit ears: うさぎの耳（ここで使われている意味は、ピースサインをした片手を人の頭の後ろにつけて、正面から見ると頭から耳が出ているようにすること）
teacher’s nightmare：先生たちにとっての悪夢
decent：〈ふるまい言葉などが〉慎み深い, 上品な, 礼儀にかなった（⇔indecent）；〈顔などが〉魅力的な, 風さいのよい, きれいな
decent language｜品のよい言葉
be decent in conduct｜ふるまいが上品である
heavenly: 天国のような；喜びに満ちた；美しい；｟略式｠すばらしい, 魅力的な.
on a sugar high：シュガーハイ（砂糖の過剰摂取で、異常に行動が激しくなる状態になること）
OK, this week's question is:
Domestic or international—what was the first overnight trip you ever took?
（国内か海外どちらでもーあなたが初めてした旅行は何でしたか？）
The first overnight trip I remember taking was when I was I was in 5th grade or about 11 years old. It was a school trip from my hometown of Saint Paul, to Duluth, a northern Minnesota city on the shores of Lake Superior.
I remember very clearly that I couldn’t sleep the night before the trip because not only was it my first overnight trip without my parents, but it was also the first time for me to ride a train. At that time, the only way I ever traveled was by car or school bus. Another reason I couldn’t sleep was because my mother had packed a special lunch for me—a bologna, cheese, lettuce and mayonnaise sandwich (my favorite back then), potato chips, a can of soda (I can’t remember but probably Nehi grape), apple slices and two chocolate cupcakes. This was not a healthy meal but trust me, it was heavenly for a 11 year old boy. it was a spectacularly delicious lunch!
The train ride was mostly a haze, kids yelling and running around and acting silly—like any young boy’s dream so I don’t remember too many specifics. However, I do have a picture somewhere in one of my old boxes in Minnesota that was taken that day. I don’t know who took the picture but it is of one of my good friends at that time,
I don’t really remember many details about Duluth since soon after we got there, it seemed we were back on the train heading back to Saint Paul. Little did I know the next time I would ride a train would be when I lived in Tokyo—nearly 15 years later.
How about you? Can you remember anything about your first trip?
I will look forward to hearing your thoughts and memories.
Be well,
Keith//
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