March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day in America, when Irish-Americans and many people celebrate by wearing green. If you don’t wear green on this day, you will probably be pinched! We Americans want to have the “luck of the Irish” and we honor our Irish immigrants on this day. A typical St. Patrick’s day party [...]
My company sent me to our subsidiary factory in America for a temporary assignment. I worked with many American people. Of course Japanese people working there had to speak English. Sometimes I could not understand what Americans told me due to my poor comprehension. One day I attended a conference. There were a couple of [...]
Before Pope Gregory introduced the new calendar for the Christian world in 1562, the start of the New Year was April first. Some people didn’t hear or believe the change in date so they continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April first. People played tricks on them or sent them on some foolish errand [...]
I traveled to India with my friend. We visited Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. The historical buildings were so beautiful and I was shocked at the big differences between poor and rich people. We were taken into the room of a souvenir shop by a “volunteer” tour guide and the door was closed and locked. The [...]
We want to publish your stories. If you have traveled somewhere and English helped you or if you have had an interesting experience using English, please write it down and give it to your teacher. Either the teacher or the director will help you correct your story so that we can print it in our [...]
