From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

At our branch, we are scheduled to take a toeic test from tomorrow, so I'll take toeic tomorrow. Recently, many company and school are using toeic test and japanese people likes toeic test very much. I think toec test itself is not bad because we can get english skill efficiently throught such test studying. But for me, score itself is meaningless because Englisht is just a tool. English itself is not a purpose. I think English is just a tool so if we learn a basic skill at junior highschool and high school for 6 years, that's enough. And afterthat, just use it. The reason why I think such things is that when I was a graduated student and in my twenties, I often travelled abroad by myself and thought english was just an tool, so studying for test score at school is meaningless ( of course, for people who want to say I have such title ...

Potatos which we harvested came into bud so we planted them. Cauliflower and broccoli was grown. String bean blossoms are out. It took about 2 hours to plant and harvest vegetables, but today is very warm and sky is blue so it is enjoyable.