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How do you spend your quarantine ?

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One of the things I’ve been enjoying during this quarantine is cooking. I wouldn’t say I hadn’t cooked before, but it was just easy to buy something from the deli at the supermarket or eat out on working days.
Recently, on top of cooking regular meals, I started baking!! I’m usually not so strict about my diet, but last week I baked some cake with rice flour, which doesn’t have gluten. When it comes to ingredients, I like to use healthy alternatives!!

☆ワンポイント英会話
“Make 〜　from scratch.”
(〜を0から作る) 手作りという意味です。

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Yuki

Activities for kids at home #3

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Kids fashion show.
Get the kids to dress up in various outfits. Try some serious ones, some funny ones and maybe let the kids choose some from some boxes randomly.
You could lay out all types of clothing especially things they have never tried on before. Or you could put a bunch of close in a box and the kids have to randomly choose. Have a box for tops and and other for bottoms. One for hats and one for socks. Depending on age you could add make up and jewelry…
Set the stage
Set up a kind of runway. Something simple is fine. A carpet or just some lines put down in tape.
Add music
Something fun/popular.
Alternatively, you could use pets!
Nik
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Friends: My Favorite TV Show Of All Time

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Back when Dave and I were roommates, we used to watch Friends episodes over and over. (At the time, we didn’t have Netflix so we used to watch the limited number of DVDs we had multiple times.)

I think we seriously watched the whole TV show at least three or four times…maybe more. And so you know, the 10-season show had 236 episodes! That’s a lot of TV watching, ha ha!

Well recently, over the last couple months, I’ve been inside more often so I started watching Friends again.

For students, I think it’s one of the best TV shows to study with. They use everyday English, the show is super funny, and it’s a great story that spanned ten years.
Check it out if you haven’t seen it! I still love it.
Kelly
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Mud Bowl

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One semi-popular summer event that a lot of people don’t know about is the Mud Bowl! In most
places, a mud bowl is a like a sports day, but you play in a big, muddy field. Usually, a school, church,
or businesses host these competitions in the summer when it’s just too hot to play normally. Most of
the time, people play American football as the main activity. But, if football is too rough for you, you
can also play soccer and volleyball. Like most American sports events, there’s a lot of food and cold
drinks. So, if getting covered in mud doesn’t sound like fun, you can just watch and eat some
barbecue, hamburgers, or hot-dogs!

Marshall
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Activities for kids at home #2

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Indoor scavenger hunt

Make a list of things that the kids can look for and collect in the house. Of course places tend to be smaller in Japan so make the object something they have to think about.
Example
Find something that becomes smaller the more you use it (could be soap, eraser).
You could make a point system.  Some items are worth more points than others.
Example:
Something that makes your teeth cleaner = toothbrush 10 points
Something that we use to send a message to another place = envelope 30 points
You could make a time limit.
Example:
You have 30 minutes to find these things.
What you need
A list of items to find, items around the house (hiding sharp items).
A timer on smart phone
Nik
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How many can you get?

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A friend sent me this image to challenge me and see how many I can get right. It contains some abstract images of famous movies and TV shows characters (mostly cartoons & animation). Now, I am challenge you on How many you can get?  (Again…Do not google it!! Ha ha ha)

Please write down the answers, but only the number of the image you could guess.

Diego
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Doctor Jesse

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I get a lot of questions about what I do on my days off. One thing that we like to do at my house is play games. This classic American game, called Operation, is keeping us busy these days. It’s a fun skill game where each person gets to operate on the patient. The best surgeon is the winner!

Jesse
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Activities for kids at home

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If you need some indoor activities for kids check us out we will give you some ideas every week.
Idea 1
Box Road activity – You can open and flatten out a box and draw a road and city things in markers, crayons or pencil crayons. Add blocks, trucks and other toys for kids to build a city on. I remember doing this when I was a kid and using my Star Wars figures to take a bus on the cardboard city road.
Fun times!
Nik
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Stroller Shopping

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So just before we did Charlie’s Omiya Mairi, we went shopping for a stroller for him. The store had so
many different types of strollers, which made choosing difficult. Along with a bunch of accessories, there
some baby dolls to test out the strollers. These ‘test’ baby dolls looked like they had been doing their job
for far too long. Maybe it’s time they moved onto a different job. What do you think?

Mark
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The Purple Cow

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One of the things I miss about my hometown Little Rock is the food, especially one of my favorite
restaurants, The Purple Cow. It’s a diner-style restaurant with a big dessert menu, and they’re most
famous for their purple milkshakes. But, don’t worry; it just tastes like normal vanilla! My family and
I went to The Purple Cow for birthdays, after my brother’s soccer games, or anytime we wanted a
cheeseburger or chicken sandwich. I just checked their website, and it looks like they’ve opened
three new restaurants since I moved to Japan; so you know its good food! Next time I go to the U.S.,
this is going to be one of the first places I go.

Marshall
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