Golden week plans　ゴールデンウィークの予定

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2016.04.27

Hello everyone,

Golden week is almost here! It begins this Friday with “Showa Day”, followed by “Constitution Day”, “Green Day”, and finally “Children’s Day” next week. These four days in a row mean that it gets very busy when travelling around Japan. Sometimes the motorways have large traffic jams and the airports become extremely busy. I’ll be travelling this Saturday! I’m a little anxious about how busy it will be, but hopefully I can make it to Narita Airport and travel to Ireland without any delays. At this time of year,

Ireland’s weather usually gets warmer. This year however, it hasn’t happened yet. It was quite cold this week (about 13 degrees) and there were even some hail showers! I hope it warms up a little by the time I get there. I’m really looking forward to catching up with my friends and family back home. My wife and daughter are already there having travelled last week. My parents are having a great time with their grand-daughter. We’re planning to visit Dublin Zoo if the weather holds up. I’m not sure how much she will remember, but I’ll show her around her father’s home city.

At Hario this week we are giving our students the sheets to write their speeches. They have the holiday to think up an interesting topic for the speech. I’m looking forward to seeing what they write about. Have a great Golden Week everyone, see you in two weeks!

Alan

みなさんこんにちは。ゴールデンウィークはもうすぐそこですね。今週の金曜日の「昭和の日」から始まり、「憲法記念日」、「みどりの日」、「こどもの日」と続いていきます。これらの連休に旅行をするのはとても込み合います。高速道路は大渋滞し、空港は大混雑です私はこの土曜日から旅行に出ます。どれだけ混雑するのか少し不安です。成田空港まで、そしてアイルランドまで遅延なく行けるといいんですが、どうでしょうか

毎年この時期のアイルランドの気候は暖かくなります。しかしながら今年は違うようです今週もかなり寒く、(約13度）あられやひょうも降ったようです。わたしが着くころには少しでも暖かくなっていてくれればいいのですが。向こうで家族や友人と話をするのが楽しみで仕方ありません。奥さんと娘は先週出発しており今はアイルランドにいます。私の両親は孫と一緒で楽しんでいることでしょう天気がもってくれれば、ダブリン動物園に行こうと思っています。娘がどれだけ覚えられるかわかりませんが、娘にお父さんの生まれ故郷を見せて回りたいと思います