I had a day off today. This morning, I joined the daily English Zoom meeting. After that, there was a certain leisure time for me therefore I chose to join the extra one on Zoom to enjoy practicing my English, too. At the latter, each participant shared their resolution. I told them I wanted to try to read Souseki Natume's works. At the near end of that meeting, the host taught us the word "compliment" which is used frequently in English conversation. I suggested the word "flatter", even though I had thought I needed to check this word's definition with a dictionary again. She said it could be used casually, and I shouldn't get too sensitive about making mistakes (I should try to face the people in front of me and ask about what I have thought). Oh, I'm very thankful for this lesson.
After that, I went to the library to borrow (and refresh/ease my mood because these two impressive meetings made me exhausted). I borrowed Souseki Natsume's "The Three-Cornred World [夏目漱石『草枕』]", Kiwamu Sato's "Tezcatripoca [佐藤究『テスカトリポカ』]", etc. After that, I went to AEON. At there, with various so-called "AOR" music such as The Doobie Brothers and Boz Scaggs, I wrote some notes on the memo pad in English.
This afternoon, I went to the main house of my group home to receive certain money for the coming week. After that, the admin said to me that now in that main house the picture I had drawn last year. "How would you want to do?" He asked me so. It was very difficult for me to answer properly/clearly at that moment, and also I had wanted to greet, so I went to the book café after that meeting, where I talked about this issue to the owner, then he gave me advice. Of course, I'm feeling very thankful for him, or THIS connection I can rely on with many staff/friends.
The owner showed me a Japanese great novelist (who had won the Nobel Literature Prize), Kenzaburo Oe's book "A Quiet Life [大江健三郎『静かな生活』]". It reminded me of the precious youthful days I had had as a college student, because at that time he had won that prize. After returning to this town, I had to spend my free time without having any job (in Japanese, we call it "neet") so I tried to read several of Oe's novels, even though they were too profound to enjoy. Anyway, life goes on. After dinner, I read a book about Fernando Pessoa's life.
