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英語と文化
2018年9月25日
One of the things I miss most about England is the food. Luckily there are many places around Yokohama that provide traditional English food. One dish in particular makes some foreign people squeamish. Namely steak and kidney pie. When I was a child I hated it. Now I’m older I really enjoy it. So what exactly is it? Steak and kidney pie is a savoury pie that […]
2018年3月6日
One of my favorite places in England is Avebury, a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to p […]
2017年12月12日
Xmas greetings to one and all. I hope everyone is enjoying the Yuletide cheer as the run up to Christmas begins. It’s a great time to spend with love ones basking in the night illuminations that have sprung up around Yokohama and Tokyo. I had the good fortune to take my wife and daughter to Shibuya to see the “Blue Cave” situated near the station. The lighti […]
2017年11月8日
Although my family moved every few years when I was a child I spent my formative years in Kent where I went to secondary school and then college. Despite the fact I’ve lived in Japan longer than I lived in Kent, I feel compelled to answer the question “Where are you from?” With “I’m from Kent.” Anyway, here are some facts about my adopted home town. Kent is […]
2017年9月26日
Hello everyone! This is my first blog for Bridges, so I thought I’d write about where I came from! I grew up in a town in Arizona called Scottsdale. Arizona is located in the southwest United States, just to the east of California and right above Mexico. It’s a desert, meaning it is very hot in the summer and there is lots of sand and cacti. In J […]
2017年7月12日
People in Japan are often surprised at how often I BBQ. Barbecuing in Canada is much more common than in Japan, and is more like a form of cooking than a special event. Most houses have gas lines connected outside, on the deck or patio, so that we can hook up our BBQ to it. It is much more convenient to cook using a gas BBQ than a charcoal one, and cleanup i […]
2017年4月12日
It’s coming up to Easter time. When I was a child I always looked forward to Easter because children would always get chocolate Easter eggs from relatives. I’d never thought about the history or meaning of Easter until recently when asked by students. So here you are. In the UK Easter is one of the major Christian festivals of the year. It is ful […]
2017年1月17日
A word to add to your vocabulary list “Humorous”. So what does it mean? Well let me explain it with an experience I had teaching an English class with a student of mine a few years back. I asked the students to name an animal that begins with an “E”. One boy said, “Elephant.” I then asked for an animal that begins with a “T”. The same b […]
2016年11月23日
Mr. B here. Recently, I got an orange pumpkin at a local supermarket we’ll call R-mart. This was a pretty big deal to me, as orange pumpkins seem to be extremely rare in Japan. As a foreigner, I’ve occasionally gotten a hold of one, but I always had to know a guy that knew a guy, like some kind of black market. But finally, sitting there at R-mart, I saw the […]
2016年10月19日
Recently I watched the movie The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio, who mistook the sudden warming, brought on by Chinook winds, as global warming. This got me to thinking that many people don’t know about this weather phenomenon unique to the North Western U.S. and South Western Canada. Growing up near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Chinook winds were common. The […]
2016年10月19日
A car boot sale is to England as a garage sale is to the United States. Car boot sales involve people coming together to buy and sell unwanted and new, or second-hand, items in a public space. The phrase car boot sale comes from the habits of sellers who fill the boot of their car― in American English, the trunk ― with items to sell. These items can range fr […]
2016年10月19日
As we embark on a new year. And a new year of learning. I would like to share a great lesson from my grand dad. It related to driving and learning how to drive. He was a great teacher and taught me a lot. But the most important piece of advice in terms of learning that he passed on to me was “you never stop learning and if you think you know every […]