Really strained!
■TOPICS My only son will marry Rie-chan who lives in Ehime prefecture next April after three year's of seeing her. My wife and I will go there and have to exchange greetings with her parents. We have never met each other until this time. This is the first time. My wife talked with her mother on the phone several times after receiving souveniors. We got a lot of things, eggplants and tomatoes that were grown in her grandfather's small farm. Many boxes of rehydratable noodles - her father's working at the noodle factory. We sent three bottles of sake, Kubota, Hakkaizan, etc. and Taiwan tea, called "Takayamacha", which was planted on the high mountains in Taiwan in return. My son sometimes brought a few peaces in the wooden box that were appeared a kind of expensive. He's been working as a sales staff at the auto dealer company in Okayama prefecture - Okayama is famous for delicious peaches. When it comes to going there, we will come to feel really strained. What should I talk, what if being bad manners, what if be humiliated, etc.. Anyway, Rie-chan fell in love with my son, not us. Easy going, easy going! From Oct.16th to 18th, there'll have a big festival, "Taiko Matsuri", in Ehime. We'll arrive at the Matsuyama airport on Oct.16th. My son said that he would look for the place where we meet with her parents and relatives. But, I'm afraind, it seems that most restaurants are planning to close temporarily during the festival there. Could it be that we meet at her family home first? Really strained! (^o^)/Nick■STUDY 1. "Norwegian Wood"(Haruki Murakami) --- 60 min → Extensive reading 2. "Client"(John Grisham) --- 1 hours → Extensive listening 3. English Composition --- 30 min