A stamp vending machine One day, I went to a WHSmith post office in Brighton, UK, because I had to buy stamps to send picture post cards to my family in Japan. 'Excuse me, where is an post office?, I said to a shop asistant in the ground floor. ' It's in the basement', he replied.'Thanks!', I went down to the basement and found a post office soon. On the left were a lot of people in a queue in front of a counter and this place seemd to be specialized for money exchange. 'OK. I know there are many foreign tourists like me', I tought and looked on the right.' What's that? Oh my goddess! It must be a stamp vending machine. I've never seen a machine like that before in Japan', I was slightly paniced. ' Calm down! I should ask a post office staff about the machine. It would be a easy way', I said to myself. There was only one staff except ones behind the counter, so he seemed to be very busy though, I said to him 'Excuse me, but could you tell me how to use this machine,please? Of course, he explained abou that. However I couldn't understand what he was saying, because he spoke so quickly.I could catch just the words 'Push that! Push that! Push that! It's done'. 'What a shame! I've been learning English for several months. Is this intermidiate plateau?', I was disappointed with myself. When I came back home, I told the story to my host family and they laughed a little. And then I eventually found my negative feelings like shame or embarrassment were gone.Yes, I know evreything is experience for me in the UK and also my journey to master English has just begun.