１年生、４年生チームスがあるまで印刷します。

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5/13/2024 (#3 this year)
How are your legs feeling? Are you ok? You are much younger than me, so you areprobably ok. My legs were fine on Saturday and then they slowly started to hurt. Haha.
The long walk was wonderful, though. Did you have a good time? I walked up to Es Con
Field with the junior high school. We walked up the cycling road, which is a lovely place
to walk. Walking slowly and chatting with all of the students was so nice. The weather
was absolutely perfect. It was my first time going to Es Con Field. I didn’t see how thehigh school did, but I’m sure everyone did well. Was 20 km too far? Do you think weshould increase1 the distance next year?
12 differences
Last week’s answer(I’m sorry. I used thewrong picture and there
were only 9 differences)

Something you didn’t know about cats
1. We domesticated cats 9,500 years ago. They wanted the rats and mice that camefor our food and we wanted them to kill the rats and mice that came for our food.
2. Cats can jump over 6 times their own length. That would be like me jumping 10 m!
3. Cats have rough3 tongues4 so they can clean themselves and lick meat off bones.
4. When a cat is rubbing5 its face against your legs, it is putting its scent on you. They
have scent glands6 in their cheeks.
5. Dogs wag their tails to show happiness. Cats wag their tails to show anger.
6. A housecat can run at about 50 km/h. Much faster than us and the average housecat
is faster than the average dog.
2Couple Accidentally Mail their Cat
A couple in Utah last month
accidentally posted their cat. Luckily,
the story has a happy ending. The
couple are called Carrier and Matt
Clark. They have a brown and white
cat called Galena that they love. The
cat is very friendly, but also very
quiet. Mark ordered some shoes
from Amazon and when they arrived
he realized that they didn’t fit. He
contacted the company to return7
the shoes and printed out a label.
While he was printing out the label,
Galena climbed into the box with theshoes and went to sleep. Mark tapedup the box, took it to the post office,and posted it. He never knew that
Galena was in the box. The post
office sent the box to the Amazon
returns center8, which in in California, 1,000 km
away! There are a lot of boxes that are returned
and the staff can't open them all straightaway9.
They opened Galena’s box 6 days after she had
been posted. She was dehydrated10, hungry,
and scared, but she was still alive. The staff
couldn’t trace the box because of Amazon’s
privacy rules, so they took her to a vet. Luckily,
Galena had been microchipped and they couldcall Carrier in Utah. They were very happy
because they had no idea what had happened
to their cat. They went to pick her up and drove
her home. Galena is happy to be home andvery healthy now.
1.increase 増やす 2.domesticate 飼いならす 3.rough ザラザラした 4.tongue
舌 5.rub 擦り寄せる 6.scent gland 臭い腺 7.return 返品 8.returns center 返品センター9.straightaway すぐに 10.dehydrated 脱水状態

An Unusual Job

World record
How strong are you? I have strong legs, but my arms are not very strong. Alex and Joe areboth freakishly1 strong, but I don’t think they would be able to break these world records.
This week, I’m looking at powerlifting2 world records. There are three types of lift when
you are powerlifting. The first type is the squat. You lift the barbell off the frame, squat,
and then lift the barbell up again. The second type is the benchpress. You lie on your backwith the weight over your head on the frame. You lift the weight off the frame, lower it
to your chest, and lift it up again. The third type is the deadlift. The barbell is on the floor
in front of you. You hold the bar, bend your legs, stand up and lift the barbell to yourwaist, then put the barbell back down again. So, what do you think the world records are?
Let’s look at men’s and women’s. The record for the squat is 490 kg for men and 300 kg
for women. The record forthe benchpress is 355 kg
for men and 207 kg forwomen. The record forthe deadlift is 501 kg formen and 289 kg forwomen.
Thoseareincredible. Do you want totry? You have to start
training now.

Professional Sleeper
This is a job I think I would like to have. Do you like sleeping? If you do, thenthis might be the job for you. When you go and stay in a hotel, what do you
think about the beds? Are they comfortable3? What about the lighting andthe temperature4 in the room? Is that ok? How about the noise from outside
the hotel? A professional sleeper goes to a hotel and tests all of these things.
They sleep for a night in one of the rooms and then they write a report about
their experience5. The next night, they sleep in a different room. I don’tknow about in Japan, but in America a professional sleeper makes about $40
an hour, which is 6,223 yen. That’s quite good for just sleeping. If you reallylike lying down, then NASA might have a job for you. They are looking forpeople who can stay in bed for 70 days. They want to test the effects of6
lying still for a long time because they are planning on sending astronauts7
to Mars in the future. If you don’t mind staying in bed for 70 days, they will
pay you $12,000, which is 1.9 million yen. What do you think?

"I do not try to dance better than anyone
1.freakishly 奇妙に 2.powerlifting 重量挙げ 3.comfortable 居心地がいelse. I only try to dance better than myself.” い 4.temperature 温度 5.experience 体験 6.the effects of～の影響— Arianna Huffington

7.astronaut 宇宙飛行士