Co-Co-Ichi

The other day, I went to “Co-Co-Ichi” to eat curry and rice with my close friend Boo-chan. We can choose the degree of the hotness of the curry, the various kinds of topping or the volume of the rice.

I ate the first level of hotness (it had normal hotness) with fried chickens and bacons as toppings. But Boo-chan was a challenger. He ordered the fifth level of hotness curry!! Oh my goodness! It had twelve times as hot as the first level curry. Can you believe it? He was dripping with sweat when he was eating it. He managed to eat it up and said, “It was not hard for me to eat fifth level of hotness though I feel as if it made a hole in my stomach.” His eyes filled with tears…


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My grandfather's hat

My grandfather likes hats and caps. He has many. He often wears a cap when he goes fishing, plays sports or works. When he takes a trip or goes shopping, he wears a hat. Of course, he wears a hat to shade his head from the sun or to dress up himself. But there is another reason. He always says, “I looks ten years younger when I wears a hat.” Maybe it is because a hat covers his thin hair.

He leaves his hat everywhere. He has left it at my house many times. The other day, he joined a meeting at a hotel near my house and left his not there. He called my sister and told about it. She went to the hotel by bike. She will take it to grandfather’s house by car tomorrow, because she will take a day off. Oh no! Not again!


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Book review # 11 (LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE)

Lilly, a girl mouse, loved school, because she loved her teacher Mr. Slinger. She wanted to be a teacher like him in the future.

One day, Lilly went shopping with her grandmother and got a new pair of movie star sunglasses, three shiny coins and a purple plastic purse that played music when it was opened. That next morning, Lilly went school with them. She was so happy and she wanted to show them everyone. Mr. Slinger told her to wait until sharing time, but she could not wait. At last Mr. Slinger said to her “I’ll just keep your things at my desk until the end of day.”

At first, Lilly was very sad. And then she became angry. She drew a picture of FAT Mr. Slinger with bad things about him. Then, she sneaked it into his bag. After school, Mr. Slinger gave Lilly her purple plastic purse back. On the way home, Lilly opened her purse and found a note from Mr. Slinger. It said, “Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.” There was also a small bag of tasty snacks. Lilly felt awful. She ran all the way home and told her parents everything. That night, Lilly drew a new picture of Mr. Slinger and wrote a good story about him. Her mother wrote a note and her father baked some tasty snacks.

The next morning Lilly got to school early and handed the story with a picture, her mother’s note and her father’s snacks. She said, “I’m really really …………… really sorry.” During sharing time, Lilly did a little performance using her sunglasses, shiny coins and purple plastic purse. Mr. Slinger joined in. After school, Mr. Slinger served Lilly’s snacks to everyone. Lilly was very happy. Mr. Slinger was right. It had been a better day.


Feeling
Lilly is innocent and simpleminded a tipycal child. She was in high spirits with her new things and she couldn’t control her desire to show off them to everyone. It was just like a child.

She got angry about Mr. Slinger’s discipline although she loved him. It was also childish. Probably everybody has experience that they felt repelled by their parents or teachers. It is difficult for us to reflect and apologize even if we had known our falt. Lilly knew her mistake by Mr. Slinger’s warm note. She was very sorry about her behavior and apologized to Mr. Slinger from the bottom of her heart. Then she could enjoy her school life again.

There are proverbs “To err is human.” And “It is never too late to mend one’s ways.” I remember them after I read this story.


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