BR 2-04; The Dinosaur Who Lost His Roar

<~Reason why I chose this book~>

Speaking of the dinosaur, they will roar with laughter. But as to the book cover, a dinosaur looks like timid and minding about his throat. He is a untypical dinosaur, I thought. Also, he's body is pink!! It's cute. Therefore, I chose it.

　<~Charactors~>

Sid, Ross, Ollie, Spike, and Rex!

(*All of them are dinosaurs)

　<~Interesting points~>

1.The hero in this book is Sid. He loves to romp around, anyway. Crashing, climbing, splashing etc. So such his crazy behaving is one of the highlight of this book.

2.When Sid's throat hurts, to cure it he eats a spoonful of honey, drink some warm water, and go to bed. It's funny because his act is indeed the act of human getting a cold. This scene is the highlight, too.

3.In the climax, Sid's friends are captured by SOMEONE. Then he tries to help them alone. What is the way...?

　<~The plot of story~>

　1.Once upon a time, a rowdy dinosaur Sid lived in a big forest. He liked crashing, climbing and splashing. But most of all, he liked scaring other dinosaurs to play a prank.

One day, he saw Spike picking berries. But Spike didn't see him. Sid crept up behind Spike, and gave a ROAR!! Spike's berries was squashed at all. "That's not funny, Sid!" said Spike. Sid just grinned and stomped on his way.

Sid played such pranks on his friends Ross and Ollie after another. All of them got angry. But when Sid got home, his throat hurt.

　2.The next day, he tried to play the same pranks as he did yesterday. But he could only CROAK...

Spike laughed and said "Ha, ha. You've lost your roar. You can't scare me any more!" Sid went in the red face, and went away.

It was the same result also about other two friends. So they all laugh at Sid.

　3.Sid hated like being laughed at. Also he hated like having a sore throat either. Then he ate a spoonful of honey, drank some warm water, and went to bed early.

The next day, Sid's throat was better. He decided to visit Spike, Ross and Ollie. "I'll say sorry for scaring them," he thought.

　4.He looked for them throughout the ground, but they were not anywhere. when he though "It's funny, strange...," he saw some footprints. The footprints were too long to think they are Spike's. They were too wide to think they are Ross's. And they were too deep to think they are Ollie's.

Sid followed the footprints. They led to...a huge dinosaur, called Rex!!

　5.Rex had taken all of Sid's friends for his dinner. Sid wanted to scare Rex. So he had only one way to do so. You know, That is..., Sid crept up behind Rex, and gave his biggest, strongest, loudest ROAR!!!!!!

"Wooooooooooahh!!" Rex was terrified.He ran off and didn't look back. "Three cheers for Sid!!" "Hurray for Sid! His mighty roar saved us from that dinosaur." cried the others. The four dinosaurs all got along. So all is well.

　<~Feeling~>

　I admire Sid's braveness when he scared Rex. Because Rex's size and rugged looks were do not rank with other dinosaurs. Only at last, Sid was a man among men, I though. Because of that, the early he looked foolish all the more.

I wish Sid will be more good dinosaur little by little. And I want him to save his friends again and again when they are in danger.

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ES 2-04; A big magazin's model ~Secret of Kumamoto~

Do you know "SLAM DUNK"? It's the most popular Japanese comic of basketball. A lot people read it had started to play basketball. Because basketball wasn't popular in japan before the comic was published. The comic is loved not only by Japanese, but the nations of the world. Of course, I love it best!!

Its heroes are "Syohoku(=翔北) high school basketball team", and the coach is "Anzai(=安西)". He looks just like Mr.Kernel of KFC!! The character is so charming and kind, but secretly really strict like a devil! His wise is so famous among alomost Japanese athletes, that is "When the moment you give up, the game is over."

Surprisingly, there's a rumor that the model is a former basketball's coach in Kumamoto Kokufu high school!! I don't know who started such a rumor, but it's a well-known story.
However, I have never seen him. Also many my friends. So it seems to just a gossip.

The cartoonist is from Kagoshima. And he also used to play basketball for a long time. When he was a high school student, he acted as a captain of the basketball team. So I guess that he saw the coach when a basketball much was held, it seems. They say that among kyusyu area, Kumamoto is a prafacture where is the site of a hard fought battle. I think so, too! Actualy, I have seen a lot of great babsket players in Kumamoto, when I was on the active list.

I guess that in Kumamoto, there are more many models who are basketball player in this comic. I hope so. And I need to see the Anzai sensei's model someday.
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Diary 2-15; Take over my late grandfather's work

Last Sunday, my father took over his late father's housework for the first time. That is to prune down a tree.

My home's garden is surrounded with many kind of plants, but it's by no means large one. The garden is regularly trimmed by my mother and my late grandfather. However he was advanced age, his work was so hard. Climbing the tree, and cut off some branches by a handsaw. I used to respect him.

He was gone now, so then my father tried to do the work. I was gazing at him climbing, cutting and the end, while praying that he doesn't be hurt.

He became skilled in that little by little, I felt relieved.

Therefore, I took some his pictures! I kept saying "You are cool dad!! Whew!!" while he was working. He grinned. The pictures are here. What do you think? It's nice, right?

After that, many branches cut off are collected. My mother and I carried and burned them. A lunch after the work was really delicious!

I understood that how much hard the work, and my grandfather used to work for us. He was so great. I think that we have to take over other his works, and keep them for our happiness.

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