This trip makes me recognize my English improvement. “DEGUCHI Method” didn’t betray me. My motivation for language learning strongly came to me again. I thought that the traveling expenses were extremely cheap compared with the coming moti…

Seattle is so small that I can walk around. I found a big book store, “BARNES & NOBLE,” where I bought many English books. A big store always gives me satisfaction.

Seattle is very well-known to Japanese, because Ichiro plays in the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Seattle also has the first coffee shop of Starbucks. I can’t find why such a small and ordinary coffee shop becomes a worldwide coffee shop…

As “Let’s go abroad for reading” is my trip’s motto, I always have to bring heavy bags with many books. It is one of the most suitable places for me to read books in the airplane. If I buy an interesting English (or German) book at the des…

It takes nine and a half hours from Kansai to Seattle and 11 and a half hours from Seattle to Kansai. The westerly winds blowing up in the sky make two hour difference. When we go to Europe, outward journey is much longer than backward jou…

I took a five day trip by myself to Seattle in the U.S.A. The reason why I went to Seattle is that there is a direct flight from Kansai airport. Though there are many flights to Asian cities, we find only three direct flights to the U.S.A,…