All systems are go!

We can use this when a team has been working together to prepare for an event. Or when you and your family are finally packed, ready to leave on your Golden Week holidays.

When everything is prepared, it's "All systems (are) go!"

Note: "are" is optional.

"Get on" or "Get in"

It's easy to confuse using these phrases.
We can get on the train, an airplane, a bicycle, a horse, and so on.

We can get in a car, a taxi, a private airplane, etc.

So what are the rules?

If we sit on top of it (bicycle) or can walk inside it (airplane) we can use get on.

If it requires some effort or sitting position only (taxi) we use get in.

Hope this helps....

Bitter-Sweet


We say something is bitter-sweet when there are both positive and negative points. For example, if we are leaving Sapporo to start our life in another city there is the "bitterness" of saying goodbye and the "sweetness" of the excitement of a new adventure!

April Fool

This week the Internet company Google played a joke on their users by releasing two new services: google treasure maps and google nose. Many people were tricked by this harmless joke on April 1.

If you got fooled by this joke, you are an April Fool!