Las Vegas, 2003

パリじゃない。ラスベガスですよ。変な所ですね.。

出身ちょっと違います。でも両親と兄弟住んでいます。私も住んでいました。三十年以後住んでいました。

いまはラスベガスがぜんぜん違います。今は大きくてきれいけどとても変所ですよ。

Generally Speaking

Paris it ain't. It's Las Vegas. What a strange place!

It's not really my "hometown" even though my parents and most of my brothers and sisters live there. I used to live there, too...thirty years ago. Las Vegas has changed a lot in thirty years. It's much bigger, and it's actually prettier. But one thing hasn't changed. It's still the strangest place on earth.

質問とコメント

1. Wow. I stop thinking in Japanese for a week or two and I completely forget how to do it. So, I beg your pardon if my grammar and idiomatic expressions fail to communicate. At least you can see some of my vacation photos. 2. Usually, when I visit my family in Las Vegas, I avoid the Strip. But one night, Joseph and I went with my youngest brother Matt to act like tourists. It was lot's of fun. Neither the Bellagio or the Paris were open the last time I was in town. 3. Las Vegas has changed a lot since I live there. Sixty percent of the town has been built in the last 30 years west of what used to be the western border of the city. The new sections of town are all nicely landscaped with wide roads that a Japanese or an English person would find hard to believe. I thought they were huge, and I'm used to big down here in Texas.