Would someone correct grammar and advise for natural English? My little enjoyment at evening is listening to the radio. Mainly I set channels on Japanese comedian's shows. I was using it as a BGM when I study, but I found it's not suitable for when I have to concentrate as the sounds distract me by its funniness. Now the radio has become my bedtime friend. Sometimes it makes me fully awake (it's too funny!), but most of the time I instantly fall asleep. I mean I can't finish the radio to the end though :P

Reykjavik trip 1 Last March, I went to Reykjavik and stayed there for 9 days. It was my first solo travel to abroad in my life except I've been living in the UK since last year. I didn't even think of going to Reykjavik because I didn't know even the name of the city until I came across it at work. But the vastness and the beauty of its nature that I saw online was enough to attract me who finally made a decision to go there. Even the view from the plane was really amazing. The black rocks and the snow stretched out as far as the eye can see. I felt like I was landing on another planet, and I still remember I was excited a lot. I would say the feeling of astronauts might be like that. What I was surprised in Iceland at first is the unique weather. I'd heard the weather changes quickly like at mountains, however it was quite quicker and more frequent than I expected. Hailing, sunny, raining, sunny, snowing... every 10 minutes the weather changed. Also the wind! How strong it is! The strongest in this trip was in Black Sand Beach where located in the south coast. I thought I was used to strong winds as I grew up in Japan where a typhoon comes several times a year, but I found it was my vanity when arrived there. Sometimes I couldn't keep standing up because of the badly tough winds otherwise I would have be blown away into the rough sea! Still in this condition, the large basalt columns were amazingly fabulous. The heavy winds and the columns together succeeded in overwhelming me and I was impressed by their powerfulness and beauty.

What my frustration is I talked with my coworkers today about how to improve my English. They said my English is enough at least but too simple, and need to speak more details. I totally agree their opinion. When it comes to write something in English, I have enough time to make sentences and brush up it as much as I want. On the other hand, there is no time when you talk with someone. I need to make sentences quickly and response them. It's impossible to me such thing for now. That's why my English could be very rough. And also I think describing or explaining something is quite difficult. Generally it's required long sentences and I can't remember appropriate words immediately. They advised me to output and speak more, but basically I am a listening person. I'm not good at speaking about myself and I don't really express my opinion. Then they gave me another option, to write down a diary as compensation for less speaking. Furthermore, actually I can't understand a lot what people speak. Continuing conversation would be difficult if you would't understand what people speak. Someone regards me as the person who understand English, but actually I just guess the contents from their reaction and the words that I caught up. When I talk with 3 or more people, I feel like I can understand English, but when I talk with someone as only 2people, I always become mute. The people who are around me are very nice and talk to me a lot in English to improve my English, but my frustration that I can't reply them well has been filing up in my mind and I feel guilty about them. However this feeling brought me good motivations. I'd like to improve my conversation skill step by step.

What I found I moved to London recently with working holiday visa. Before I came here, I really worried about the living like 'Can I get a job quickly?' or 'Can I speak English well?'. But once I came here, I found that my anxious was too much. Fortunately I got a job, and I can communicate with British people. Of course I don't speak well, and I don't understand what they said accurately. But the thing that I found is there are many people in London who have different background, country and religion, and maybe they were the same with me at first. I think that's why they are very tolerant of others. I'll try everything with no hesitation, and I'll enjoy my London life more.

These days I quitted my job recently because of moving to the UK. When I was working, I couldn't see the sun shine especially during a winter, because I departed my home early and left my work place late. Now I can go out anywhere, anytime that I like with taking the brightly sun shine. It seems nothing special, but for me, it's really happy thing. I enjoy doing that I couldn't do in woking days. To breach my hear, do my nails, walking around in a day time, and etc... I'm really excited everyday like "What can I do today!". Living in the UK would not always be fun, so I'll enjoy and relax the rest of the days in Japan.

Practice - No longer 1. I can no longer wait her in this terrible weather on outside. 2. I could be no longer patient with his selfishness. 3. The clothes are no longer wet by the good weather. 4. The milk was no longer milk, it was already yoghurt. 5. Nancy is no longer my girl, she's got married.

This week This Monday and Tuesday, I had 2 days off in a row. Monday, I went to a visa centre to submit some papers that relates working holiday. It took about 45 minutes. I hope it would be not rejected. After that, I met my friend and took lunch. I saw her for the first time in 3 years, however I didn't feel the distance. We were chatting whole the time for 6 hours. We couldn't stop talking. My cheeks hurt from laughing too much. Tuesday, I went eat Thai food with my 7 coworkers. Because of the number of members, we was able to order many various foods. All foods were very tasty, and not spicy too much, so it was easy to eat for us Japanese. I spent good time with my friends this week.

Read Winnie the pooh I started to read Winnie the pooh for studying English these days. The reason why I choose it is it's one of the my favorite story. When I was a child, I was watching the Disney movie many times again and again, I could speak all of the quotes. Then what I realized is the stories of the book and the movie is different little bit. The book's is, I feel, the all characters are kind and tender. On the contrary, the movie's are also tender basically, but sometimes they look spiteful. For example, I hadn't liked Rabbit for a long time until I read the book, because in the movie, he was annoyed about pooh (and visiting to Rabbit's house). But in the book, he was not. I think, spite is needed for making a story funny. And also I don't think it's a bad thing. But the book's story makes me more heartwarming, so I liked this one than the movie's.

Took a English test Last Sunday, I went to take a English test "TOEIC". That day was an inclement weather due to typhoon, so I was terribly wetted with the rain. I hoped if the test was putted off to another day. The test was for 2 hours. Before the test, I thought it's very long and I can't concentrate on the test such a long time. But the 2 hours were passed in an instant. On the contrary I needed more time. The result will come in about 1 month later. I'll continue to study English, whatever the score, and I'll brace myself for living and working in the UK.