私はクリスマスの日に午前6:３０時に起きました.

ストッキングの中にオレンジとあめをいれりました。

Blogを読みました。

8:30時にアレキセとシャンドンはおきました。

クリスマスの音楽を聞いて、フルーツケーキを食べて、プレゼントを開けました。

私はアレキセに MacOS 10.2 をもらいました。（よかったわね。）

アレキセにスリッパを上げました。（彼の足はとても寒いです。）

アレキセはシャンドンにコンピュータをあげました。

二人でこれを作りました。本当。写真を見て下さい。

9:30時にクリスマスディナーを作りました。

こんどしちめんちょうは小さかったです。

焼きするは三時間だけです。

午後三時にたべました。

六時から八時まで友だちを会いました。

クリスマスの日わ楽しかったですよ。

Generally Speaking

I got up at 6:30 on Christmas Day. I filled the stockings with oranges and candy. I read y'all's blogs. At 8:30, ajm and S. got up. We opened our presents while listening to Christmas music and eating fruitcake. I received MacOS 10.2 from ajm. (Yeah!) I gave Alex some house slippers. (His feet are always cold.) He gave his son a computer which they built themselves.

At 9:30, I began making Christmas dinner. This time (as opposed to at Thanksgiving) the turkey was small (only 8 pounds). So it took only three hours to roast. At 3:00, we ate dinner. In the evening, from about 6 to 8, we visited some friends. It was a very nice Christmas Day.

質問とコメント

1. Wow. This was a long entry for me, but I had lots of time today, because we are just eating leftovers and relaxing. Also, this is one of the sentence patterns we had in school: "Daily Activities". So I hope it was easier to understand than my entries normally are.

2. Almost all the other presents that "Santa" brought (that is, that we gave ourselves) were books, DVDs, or CDs. One of my favorite movies of all time, Roman Holiday just came out on DVD (I've been waiting and waiting for it). I also got The 7th Voyage of Sinbad which fascinated me as a child in 1963. The special effects (by Ray Harryhausen) were amazing in its day and are more still interesting to me than most of CGI effects in 2002. The movie is pretty corny, but I get very nostalgic watching it.

3. Christmas dinner included turkey, dressing (my great-grandmother's recipe), cranberry sauce (homemade--not that nasty stuff from a can), baked vegetables, potatoes, and gravy. To drink, champagne. And, of course, desserts.

4. We don't have a separate dining room, so we eat in the kitchen. I don't set a very "elegant" table. I don't even have a tablecloth! My nicest dishes are from Japan. And, yes, we served the dressing using rice paddles and put candies and cookies in Japanese tiered bento.