TOEFL IBT

The day after tomorrow, I'm going to take TOEFL IBT at Kyoto venue from 10:00am to 4:00pm, but I will have to be the place half an hour before starting, so I'm going to wake up early after a long time. This is the first time taking TOEFL, because I have only been focusing on TOEIC up to now. I looked over a difference between TOEFL and TOEIC, then I caught that. First, TOEFL is the foreign-oriented and TOEIC is business-oriented. Next, TOEFL has 4 part, reading, listening, speaking, and writing, on the other hand TOEIC has only two part listening and reading, so I feel the former is more difficult to get better score. Then, TOEFL IBT is held on a designated computer, which causes a serious eye-drought, and TOEIC is paper test, additionally the hour is shorter. Lastly, the cost of TOEFL is steep, compared to TOEIC, it' more than 10^4 yen, although it has speaking and writing part. In the mean while, I try to stuff a lot of major words into my heart.

Umemoto

responce for No straw No beverage

Yes, definitely I have. I have also such this case. When I went to buy a new comic to a big bookstore, I was disappointed at the nylon bag, which a comic was contained in. This was awfully fragile, so during my way home, it was broken off, I hung it bicycle grip though, and dropped down onto ground. The comic was terribly damaged.

Umemoto

toku toku noodles

I went 'toku toku udon' Yesterday. Udon means noodles made of wheat flour. Yesterday was May 19th. I could eat noodles at half price as often. Because toku toku udon take special canpaign on 10th and 19th every month. 10 is called 'to o' in Japanese and 9 is called 'ku'. So 19th is 'toku' and 'toku' means value. Hence The noodle restaurant 'toku toku udon' serves menu in special price.

How about going that restraunt in 'tokutoku days'.

Takuro