Saffle Says --- Lessons for English Learners

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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

My Sister's Wedding


My sister got married last month in Aburn, Maine. Maine is on the top East side of the United States. Only Alaska is farther north. My sister and her new husband both live in Portland, which is the biggest city in Maine. I love visiting them a couple of times a year. In America, it is traditional to give the happy couple a wedding gift. Traditionally these gifts are items that will help a new couple when they move into their house. Gifts like glassware, plates, silverware are all traditional gifts. I decided that I would be un-traditional. I gave my sister and her husband a Nintendo Wii game machine! They can use it in their new house and it is a lot of fun. I had so much fun playing Wii bowling that I want to buy my own now!



Michael

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Do you like to go bowling?



My friends and I love to go bowling. When I lived in Maryland my friends and I formed a team and joined a bowling league. We called ourselves "Justice League" and gave each other superhero nicknames. My nick name was "The Thing" who looked like this in the comic book (Do you think we look alike?) :

Our team did well that year and in the future I will add more videos to my YouTube page where you can see more videos of mine.

Michael

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Friday, July 06, 2007

Do you know what an iPhone is?



This is a video that pokes fun at the new iPhone, the $500.00 cell phone (mobile phone if you are in the UK) that just was released in the US. Most people think paying $500 or $600 for a cell phone is crazy. But there were a lot of people who lined up at Apple stores all over the US to buy one. In fact, over 500,000 iPhones were sold one three days! Wow!

Now I Japan, I assume most of cell phones are much better than the ones we have here in the States. What kind of cell phone do you use and what can it do? Let me know!

Michael

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