こんにちは！
Hellos and welcome, dear readers!
まだ木曜日が始まったばかりで
振り返ると言うほどのこともなく
天気のお話しでもしようとしてる
タカペンです！
Thursday's only beginning, so it's definitely the end of the week, and there's really not much that happened this week, so yours truly will mainly be talking about the weather. How drab. lol
つまり数日ブログさぼった為
書く内容が溜まってしまったための
ただのタイトル詐欺ですね☆
So although the title says "Looking Back" as if there's something of importance, there's really no meat to it. So it's basically click-bait. :P
それでもお付き合いいただければ嬉しいです♪
I'd appreciate it if you would still kindly stick around. :)
先週末 / Last Weekend
先週末は生憎と天気が
ぐずついてまして
天気予報アプリと
にらめっこしながら
よし、この時間なら
雨降ってない！
もしくは振ってても
気にならない程度！
The weather wasn't so great this past weekend, unfortunately. So I kept on checking my weather app to check when it wasn't raining, or at least not enough to be a bother.
と
時間を見計らって
お買い物に出かけたのでした
And so, I timed it when I went to go out to do my grocery shopping.
お買い物の量が多いので
傘持つ余裕ないので必死です
There was a lot I had to buy and there was no way I'd be able to hold an umbrella, so I had to be careful.
冷蔵庫の中がからっぽだったので（笑）
My fridge was pretty much empty. lol
そしてそのときの空模様がこちら
So anyway, below are the pics of the sky from that outing.
お店を出て空を見上げた途端
The moment I stepped outside nad looked up
あっ三角形！！！
Wow! A nice triangle!
雲の切れ間でちょうど
空が逆三角形に切り取られていて
面白い！ 写メ！！
The clouds had an opening that was shaped like an upside triangle, so I was like omg I gotta take that pic
って思ったのですが
or so I thought but...
電線やら木やらが多くて
どっから撮ろうとしても
あまりうまく撮れませんでした＞＜
all the treetops and the utility poles and lines got in the way no matter how I tried.
なので悔しくてとりあえず
空模様を撮りまくってました
飛行機とか月とか（笑）
Since I wasn't able to take a good pic of the triangle, I also took pic of other stuff like the plane and the moon.
霜 / Frost
そして今週に入って
出社の日の朝
今日は何を写メるかな～
とお外に出たら
At the beginning of this week, I was looking forward to getting out and taking pics.
さぶっ！！！
And boy, was it freezing!
そして車の窓と言う窓が
霜だらけ！！
All the glass on my car was frosted all over!
２枚目がフロントガラスの写メです
必死で霜を取ろうとしたのですが
氷なので…
The 2nd pic is of the frost covered windshield. I was trying to scrape it off but...
氷かき？ で削ろうとすると
あの、黒板を爪でひっかくような
音がして… ＞＜；；；
Whenever I tried to make a dent on the frost with the scraper, it was making sounds like scratching the blackboard with fingernails.
ぎゃああああああ
身体痛い、無理、取れない！
とにかく暖房つけて
溶かそう！
To say the least, the sound was unpleasant enough to the point it was painful, so I blasted on the AC heater to try to melt the frost a little.
と、少し待ってる間に
霜の降りてる
芝生の写メを撮ってました（笑）
And while I was waiting for the frost to melt, I was taking pictures of the frosted grass on the ground.
綺麗ですね♪
They did look pretty. :)
日中 / During the Day
その日は日中のお散歩でも
スマホを持って出たので
少し木立の写メを撮ったりしました
That day, I took my phone with me when I went for my little walk outside.
なので夜の写真と
日中の写真が
ごちゃまぜです
So the nighttime pics and daytime pics are mixed in.
日中の写真は
散歩中にある木立のです
I took the daytime pics in the little wooded section that I go to during my walks.
いつだったか前、
謎の木の実のお話しを
しましたが、その実が
なってるのが見えたので
写メっておきました
（３枚目ですね）
A few weeks ago, I mentioned some kind of tree nuts falling every autumn. I saw those nuts on the trees, so I took a pic of that as well. (The 3rd pic)
その時の記事はこちら
「オマケ」の部分に
木の実の写メをあげてます
The blog entry mentioning the tree nuts with a pic of one is below. It's under the last section, "Just One Thing."
他には空とか空とか
撮ってました
So anyway, other than the trees and treenuts, I took my usual pics of the sky.
４枚目と５枚目、
並べると面白いな～
と思ったのが
The 4th and 5th pics I thought were kind of interesting.
なんかまるで２枚とも
太陽みたいな明るさで
写ってるな、と
５枚目は月なのに
It looks like they're both pictures of the sun, even though the 5th pic is of the moon.
そして全体的に
なんかとても
光がにじんでる写真が多い！
And for some reason the pics of the sun and moon were blurry. Not blurry due to my hand shaking, but the lighting? made them blurry.
空気中の水分が多い日
だったのでしょうか
Maybe there was a lot of water in the atmosphere?
今週は木曜日の今日になって
やっと少し太陽が見えますが
それでも雲が多いです
It's already Thursday today, and the sun's out just a bit, but we still have a lot of clouds (no more rain, though, thankfully!).
って本当に天気だけの
お話しになってしまいました・・・！
And wow, I've really spoken only about the weather all this time..!
と言うことで一つだけ
天気関連ではないオマケをば
So let me put in a little something that's not about the weather...!
スセミ / Susemi
先日ツイッターに
とある写メをあげて
質問をしてみました
The other day, I posted a pic with a question on Twitter.
大分前に韓国食品店で
使い棄ての、スポンジになる
ロール？っぽいのを
買ったんですよ
A while back, I'd gotten a disposable what looks to be a roll of flat sponge sheets.
お掃除に使える！ と思って
I was going to use this to clean.
平べったいけど
取り出せば膨らむやつだと
思ったんですね
I thought the sponge sheet would inflate once taken out.
なんか説明書きの絵に
ロール＞スポンジ
みたいなイラストがあったので
Everything was written in Korean so all I could do was hazard a guess based on the pics, and there was a pic that looked like the roll would turn into a sponge.
でも取り出したところ
ただのざらついた
ひらひらしたシート
だったんですよ
But once taken out, it was just a very rough flat sheet of something.
膨らまない
ざらついてる
Doesn't inflate, and it's got a rough surface.
あれ、なんか思ったのと
大分違う・・・？？？
Definitely not what I was expecting.
と思って
多いので、誰かわかる人いないかな～
と思って質問を出してみたのですが
うんともすんとも反応がなくて
So I kind of panicked and tried asking on Twitter, hoping that someone who spoke Korean might take notice of the tweet and respond, but nada.
まぁ、そりゃ韓国語じゃなくて
英語学習の人たちしか
フォローしてないし
お角違いでしたね（笑）
Come to think of it, after all, I'm mainly following people who study English, not Korean, so that was like a DUH moment for me. lol
と言うことで、
すっかり忘れてたのですが
うちの職場で聞けばいいや
と会社で聞いてきました
So, after a good night's sleep, I recalled that I can just ask at my work place.
リモートワークになってから
他の部署の人と交流することが
なくなってしまったので
オフィスには他にも人がいると
言うことをすっかり忘れてました（笑）
Once the pandemic began and we started working remotely, I almost never interacted with people from other business groups, so I'd forgotten that there were also other people in the office other than my group. lol
うちの職場だと
韓国語、中国語、スペイン語
そしてポルトガル語
までなら誰かしらに聞けます
多分ここら辺の地域だと
最初の三つは英語以外では
主体の３言語ですね（笑）
At the physical office location that I work at, there are people that speak Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. The fhirst three languages are pretty major in the area where I live.
で、韓国人のおじさんに
聞いてみたところ
何やらひたすら
スセミと言われました
So I showed my Korean co-worker a pic I took of the label for the roll of what I was hoping to be sponges. He kept on saying that this was susemi.
この方の経歴もまた複雑で
ポルトガル語と韓国語を話すのですが
英語量が少ないので
手振り身振りの会話になります
His first languages are Korean and Portuguese, and English is his second language so there's a lot more of hand gestures that take place.
で、とにかく
食器を洗うものだ
と言われて
He insisted that the susemi is used for washing dishes.
あれー浴槽を洗いたかったのに
ダメなのかしらん
I was hoping to be able to wash the bathtub...!
と一度「スセミ」を
持ち帰ってぐぐってみたら
韓国のタワシと出てきました
So I googled susemi once I got home in my the hopes that someone would say it's also good for scrubbing down the bath tub. Apparently, susemi is a Korean scrubber sponge.
そうか
And.
タワシで浴槽ごしごしは
よくないのかな・・・
It's a type of scrubber that's pretty rough, so probably not too good for the bath tub...
でもアメリカは
ディッシュウォッシャーが
あるのがデフォルトだから
食器を手で洗わないのです…
But, the apartment comes with a dishwasher, so I don't do my dishes by hand...
あう
Darn...
と言うことで
手元に
どうしたら良いのかわからない
キッチンペーパーの
ロールみたいな、
スセミのロールが
残されたのでした
So, I was left with a whole roll of abrasive scrubbing sheets... It's about the size of a roll of paper towel, so... it's a lot...
優しくこすれば
浴槽にも使えないかな
と今でもたくらんでますが（笑）
I'm still hopeful that I can still use it on the bathtub if I rub very genty. lol
以上タカペンの一週間でした
終わってないけど！
And so that's how my week went! Although the week's not even close to being over yet!
今回もここまでお付き合いくださり
ありがとうございました！
Thank you as always for reading this far!
あと数日したら英語版の
Wishの英訳の説明記事を
あげる筈です
Planning on uploading in a few days the English article explaining my translation process of lyrics for Wish, the Berserk ending theme.
また次の記事でお会いしましょう！
See you in my next bog entry!
ではではっ！
Taka, out!
