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Hello, everybody! And Duane, I watched your neighbourhood's pictures in Picture Gallery. All of them are nice! I suppose your neighbourhood have many tall trees, beautiful flowers, large gardens, and wide roads. And above all, I envy the sunshine! Because Japan is in the rainy season now. Anyway, my neighbourhood have no tree, narrow roads, and small houses. But let me tell about a garden in my house. My grandmother who lives with me loves doing the gardening. So our garden is very beautiful. I want to show you it. Please have a good summer, everybody! See you.

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Hello Duene and Jo. I looked at the Duane's five pictures in Jo's picture Gallely. When you got it? Spring or summer? The flower is so beautiful. I can find a lot of green near the houses. That is good thing. Near my school has a lot of green too. I like this environment. By the way I think this place has not to hight building. (Becaouse there is no center of a city? ) In Japan, many buildings anywhere. There is not only company but also apartment. Japan is many buildings of apartment. But your pictures is no it. I like this pictures town. Because they always can see the sky, aren't you?

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Hello , Duane! I looked your neighborhood's picture . Thank you . It is very neat and it must be very large house . When I watched "American movie" , we can know the street of US , what is from movie . Thinking about our street , I think you will feel that Japanese street is cramp and crowded . I heard that it is said that Japanese houses are like " a rabbit house " . But Japan is not big ,you know , also houses in Japan are not needed BIG dimension . Thank you for reading and take care of yourself! See you .

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Hello, Duane. I go to Jo's picture gallery and I looked at the Duane's five pictures. It was very beautiful. The sky is clear blue and fine. Probably it is comfortable. Now, Japan is the rainy season. So, It is almost rainy day in Japan. I want a rainy season to finish early. There are many trees and flowers in Duane's neighborhood. I think from a kind of tree that it is warm climate there. And a flower's color is very beatiful! I like the white flower of middle especially. If I live in near, I will want to take a walk in there everyday.

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I looked at Duanes's picture. Sky is cleared up and very beautiful photographer. A house and a road and overall are larger than Japan. It looks like a big park and tourist resort. I want to go to this picture's place. Flower is very pretty! What kind of flowers? There is also very much green so air is clear. There is no parking. Since a car parks each house's front. However road is not narrow. Japan likes no feeling of oppression and that is relax feeling.

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Hello Duane,

Nice to talk to you again. I have really missed you all during the past six weeks. In fact I still took some time to read your messages.

I really enjoy driving in the countryside with some lovely relaxing music, especially, in the Summer time. If it has air-conditioning that would be even better. Unfortunately, it is not a very popular thing in England. I do pass lots of beauty spots. I had a very awkward situation near Christmas, I worked on one Sunday, when I have one and half day pay, when I drove pass a very beautiful hill top in the afternoon and I felt a bit hungry as well, so I pulled over somewhere, where I could view down onto a big valley. I turned off the engine, but I kept the heater, radio and the refrigerator on, after I finished my pack lunch, some drinks and a rest. I did enjoy the time very much, but I couldn’t restart the engine again. I called my manager and he arranged a recovery van to come down to help me, but I needed to sit there for another two and a half hours. However I really did not mind it, because they still paid me one and a half per hour for the time I just sat there, listened music and had a beautiful view.

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Hello Jo,

I already finished the CAE exams and the course as well. It was a very difficult course and it needed a 60% pass rate. I don’t think I will pass it this time. Maybe I only studied a three hours a week part time course, compared to the full time students, who have 20 hours a week. Our part time class really didn’t get enough time for it.