reward for my hard workout

On Tuesday, I went to my friend's house to workout together.

She and the other one have kept at working out at home every day for several months under covid-19 situation and both of them get good results.

When I heard it, I respected them from the bottom of my heart.

Although I had posted several articles about those workout programs, the truth was that I've rarely done them.

At the middle of August, one of them said to me on facebook "why don't we do workout together?".

To tell the truth, I wanted to say no, but I answered yes relactantly.

And after that, I started to exercise. 

Because I'm an execise trainer, I didn't want to show that I'm not good at working out.

I had given it my best shot about for ten days in order not to lose face.

On the day, Tuesday,  my effort paid off.

I could give them several advice and they were glad to accept it.

I was relieved and enjoyed myself with them very much.

After enjoying exercese, we went to have lunch.

The cafe we chose was named "gym cafe", providing healthy food and drinks.

That is a shop for women and athlete, indeed.

And furthermore, there was a musclar and burly man.

I couldn't help saying to him "You have big muscle!".

And then, some people around us said "He carries you like a princess!"

We were shamed but at last two of us had it done.

My friend was lifted up like a princess, and I that is taller and heavier than her, was lifted up to his shoulder.

That was my first time!

I was so excited that my mask was about slipping down.

We were moved and motivated to go the extra mile. 

【リスニング】クイズ - 0027● 「北欧の野生動物 -No.01」

The dead mountain hare has attracted the attention of some Siberian jays. In hard winters the boost great Central Europe once seen  the harvinger could  This time there are out of the look and driven off Golden eagles can kill animals weiging up the fifteen kilos three times their own weight.  In winter the king of air depend on the carrion animals like this hare help the eagle survive the chillest time

問１　harbinger

問２ some Siberian jays シベリアカケス

問３　

問６　15 kilos 3 times their own weight　彼ら自身の３倍ともなる１５キロの

問７ the king of the air 空の王者

問８　hepl the eagle survive イヌワシが生き延びるのを助ける

問９　the chillest time of the year 一年のうち最も寒い時期を

learning strategy

The other day, I learned a new strategy for improving listening skills at the web forum.

When we were taking a listening quiz, there was an expression that we understood "stands from".

However, the correct answer was "stems from", Okino san gave us a clarification on the issue.

Actually, that expression could be listened "stands from".

It was due to the way of speaking characteristic of the speaker.

However, if the expression was "stands from", it didn't fit in with the context.

In a situation like this, he seaches an expression that has similar sounds and fittable meaning.

He call this strategy "あと解釈".

I must check the expression that I listen to if it fits in with the context or not. 

I always do that because I usually don't have confidence what I hear.

However, it was unusual for me to be confident and I was off guard at that time.

Anyway, it is important both to listen carefully and to grasp the context correctly.