Explanation Challenge about Japan 1: Abashiri Prison

Abashiri Prison is a famous prison and the nothernmost tip prison in Japan.
In Meiji era, the government relocated prisoners who commited a felonious crimes to the this prison to have them work.
Because The prison was located in Hokkaido where it was so cold and people had to put up with the hard labor in cold climates.
Therefore, it is said that many people died.
The prison was said that to be the most difficult to break but the most famous prison breaker, Yoshie Shiratori, showed otherwise. could 
The way was to break and get rusted handcuffs and iron bars by using Miso soup that was served as part of a meal, including salt.
Now, a new prison in Abashiri was built, while the old Abashiri prison is opened to the public as a museum.

I've been there once, but it's a little bit scary.
Because the prison remains had a bad smell and there were some dolls wearing prison duds in it. prison 
But after that, I could see beautiful flowers extending all around surrounding the prison. 
So, because of that, became I had good memories of my visit to the prison.

よくできました！＾＾

I will go to Australia next month.

I will go to Australia next month, 
so I need to learn English.
and I think about having an my English name, 'Colin'. 
It isn't awkward man name? It isn't an awkward male name, is it?
Please reply.

<em>No, it's not an awkward male name. It's perfectly OK for you.
Do enjoy your time in Australia! (:</em>

Working at in a cafe

I've started to work at in a cafe located nearby the Gwanggyo lake park. It's a really cozy place. I like working at this place here because the owner is a pretty nice woman and the atmostphere atmosphere is fine. This cafe begins started out to be very full with attract a lot of customers in warm spring and summer because the Gwanggyo lake park is a really nice place to have a walking or a stroll around as well as for a date. So Hence, many people visit this cafe. Today is too cold so few people visited shortly. Very few people visit this cafe today because it's too cold. I expect to have serve more customers in next week.

Do you like coffee??? Yes I do! ^^

My first day in Italki

I´ve done my own presentation in English and Spanish as well.
If someone could help me correcting to correct the English part, I shall will be greatful.

ENGLISH

My name is Gabriel and I was born in Valencia in Spain, where I studied Administration, Accountancy & Commerce and Computer Systems Administration. Both are Certificates in Higher Education (HNC).

I´m currently living in Manchester in the UK where I´m working in a restaurant, and in my free time, I study English because this is the reason why I came here.

I´m looking for a new job which is related to my studies, where to practice the I am able to make use of my English which I have learned so far, learned so far and gain professional experience in my profession.

My reason to be in Italki is teach Spanish to others and learn and practice English in my spare time.

I hope you feel encouraged!! Best regards!!

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ESPAÑOL

Soy Gabriel, nacido en Valencia en España donde estudié Administración e Informática de Sistemas.

Actualmente vivo en Manchester en Reino Unido donde trabajo en Hostelería y en mi tiempo libre estudio Inglés, pues este fué el motivo por el que vine a UK.

Estoy buscando un nuevo trabajo relacionado con mis estudios, donde poder practicar el Inglés aprendido hasta el momento y adquirir experiencia profesional en mi profesión.

Mi motivo por estar en Italki es enseñar a los demás Español y poder aprender y practicar Inglés a la vez en mi tiempo libre.

Espero os animéis!! Un saludo!!

It's first time my note It's my first time writing a note
 

I have just started using italki. I can't don't understand how to use this site. *If I do something strange, please correct it*.

''If I do something strange, please correct it'', if translated into Japanese, is 「もし変なことがした，いつでも直してください」, which doesn't make sense.

I think that what you wanted to say was ''If there are mistakes in my English, please correct it'', which, if translated into Japanese is 「私の英語が間違っていたら，いつでも直してください」（：

Anyway, welcome to italki! People here make use of this site to improve their language by writing notes (just like you) and making friends to practice speaking their foreign language :D



 

I'm back!

Hello everyone. How have you been? I messed up for a while and I was not able to post on italki. I found that my last post was on December 25th, so this will be the first post in two months. Today, let me talk about what happened to me while I was away.

I caught the a flu on the first of January and was in bed all week. I was suffering form down with a high fever and felt like throwing up all the time. It was so awful;( What's worse, a something bad (infection? growth?) was found in my body. I had to have surgery because of it and was in hospital hospitalised for about a week. This happened on the first of February. Although I knew that it wasn't going to be a difficult complicated surgery, I was very anxious because I had never had surgery before, not once. I'm really relieved that it successfully ended was a successful surgery. I'm not familiar with medical terms in English and this is not something that I want to talk about in detail, so I won't go any deeper about this topic. I'm sorry.
But don't worry. I'm totally fine now ;) A doctor told me that I'm I've completely recovered.

It seems that my English has had gotten kind of gone stale and I have somewhat forgot forgotten how to talk/converse in English because I didn't use haven't been using English for the past two months. I will put lots of efforts into learning English again.

See you soon!

*Just for your information: In addition to how I would say that I have a fever, I can also say,

I have (got) a fever.
I was down with a fever.
I'm running a fever. 
I'm running a temperature.

よくできました！英語はじょうずだよ！がんばって～！（＾－＾）