Search from various English teachers...
Profile
I'm from London, UK and came to Japan, as many do, to experience an alien and mysterious culture. I work as an English instructor to kids and would like to learn Japanese so I can function independently without needing translator apps or colleagues to help me understand everything around me. I'd like to find language partners to learn and practice with and develop friendships too.
Learning
Japanese
Language Skills
EnglishNative
Lesson Feedback
Lesson history
 Last monthLast 3 monthsAll time
Completed lessons000
Attendance rate100%100%100%
Teacher reviews
No record
Activities
  • Corrected

    13/12/2015

    Hello
    I moved to an apartment recently. There are 2 Koreans who are very good people!! I'm happy I came to this apartment.
    I lived at a hostfamily's house before; there, the host mother made meals for me but now I have to cook by myself. When I was in my county, I scarcely cooked so I almost cannot cook (or can barely cook)...!! But I think that its quite a good opportunity to practice. I made pasta a few days ago. It was a very easy recipe... I just boiled pasta and added a carbonara sauce. It was delicious... haha
    Today I'm also gonna cook pasta for dinner because there is still pasta and another sauce and I'm gonna add asparagus. I went to supermarket earlier and I bought asparagus. I don't know why I bought asparagus. I had no idea haha

    I have a day off tomorrow after a long time without one by the way. I'm gonna go to gym(which is the first time in my life!!)
    and open a bank account and then I will see a friend.
    I should finish.
    Thank you for reading. I hope you guys had a good weekend.
    Bye

    0 voted
    December 13, 2015
    0
  • Corrected

    Could you please correct my transcription?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34742994
    At the entrance of the hospital, you get a hint of the tough conditions here. This is the biggest health facility serving a remote and hostile region in Northeast Kenya.
    In the maternity ward, I found Ibrahim with her premature infant. She tells me her baby was dropped unexpectedly from her womb in the early hours of the morning. She was 4 hours away from the hospital and all alone.
    She said, "Later I got a break and I called for help; neighbours took me to a hospital in a taxi. That's the way I could see a doctor."
    She and her baby are lucky to be alive. More women died giving birth in Mandera. It's worse than any other parts of the world. It has nothing to do with harmful practices like early marriage and female genital mutilation.
    The head of nursing at Mandera Hospital said, "Women don't allow men to deliver them. So women or maternities are likely to be delayed. And most of the ladies are not educated enough, so it's kind of our culture. They are delivered by TBAs, traditional birth attendants."

    Mandera hospital serves about 200 women every month, but that's a drop in the ocean considering that it is the only hospital serving a vast region in Northeast Kenya.

    And a couple of that in for for so many of these women it's very difficult to get to the hospital because of the poor network. (Not quite sure what you are intending to convey. The sentence doesn't read well...perhaps writing: It is also very difficult to reach the hospital because of poor road networks, would be better) 

    Getting well trained health workers has also been a big challenge. In December, three employees of the hospital were among 29 people killed by alshuberg?? Militants as they traveled by bus to Nairobi Kenya. Many of those who survived were too frightened to return.
    Now organizations like the UN are helping to focus more attention of Mandera and with it they hope more health care resources.
    A UN member said, "The best weapon I feel against dealing with the issues of the security is the weapon of development; it's the weapon of peace and the weapon of health. Once you start addressing the value of basic services, everything falls into the place because people become the safety guardians of those services." 

    The region is one of the least developed in the country, but with some investment in health care and other social services now taking place, it looks like the lives of people living here will finally be improved and hopefully that will make Mandera a safer place, not just for mothers but for everyone.

    0 voted
    December 12, 2015
    1