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We've got a message from Sarah-san.
Sarah-san?
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Sarah-san.
Hello.
Hello.
I'm Sarah from the podcast club in Kevin's English Room.
Thank you for always being there.
Podcast club?
Podcast club.
I'm Sarah.
Like a club activity?
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah, yeah, like a soccer club.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Podcast club.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I guess not.
No.
I live in the United States.
And I had a discussion about November in English class the other day.
I had no special image.
I could only give my elementary school students my opinion that it was going to be cold and dark soon.
I remembered the image of the spring in the TikTok of Kevin's English Room.
The American teachers and classmates in other countries have a lot of memories of Thanksgiving or Veterans Day.
Yeah, Veterans Day.
It's like a holiday.
Ah, holiday. Okay.
I was surprised by the difference in the memories of the happy month when Christmas was prepared.
In particular, he said that it was a month in which he was strongly aware of gratitude.
Yeah.
Kevin-san, do you have this image?
I'm glad to hear that you have a special image of November even though you live in France or Japan.
I'm rooting for you with all my heart.
By the way, Kevin's English Room Podcast Club is...
Okay.
It's a name given to a group of Kevin's English Room podcast fans who mainly communicate on Twitter.
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Wow.
We are working to make it fun for as many people as possible to listen to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
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Oh my god.
We share our impressions on Twitter and teach each other things that English people couldn't hear.
Oh my god.
Wow.
I really need to do Twitter.
Yeah.
I'm glad you two accepted this opportunity.
Of course.
Yes.
I...
Is it the message?
Yeah, it's finished.
Okay.
This is a very different...
One of my goals I need to do...
Last time we talked about goals.
Yeah.
One of the goals I need to do is I got to get more serious with my personal social media.
I have not been tweeting on my personal account for a very long time.
I haven't even opened it yet.
So I should...
I really...
I should get on that and check that out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You should.
Wow.
Podcast Club.
Oh.
I'm hoping that could be like a kick-kake for me to go back on Twitter and be active again.
Yeah.
Because I will be active.
Yeah.
Mark my words.
I will be active on Twitter.
Oh, cool.
Yes.
And...
So about Jui-chi-gatsu.
Oh yeah, right.
You know, I was...
Since I was...
I was in the US, but I was in a Japanese household.
You know, my parents are both Japanese.
We have a Japanese culture.
We...
No, we didn't do Thanksgiving.
We didn't do any of that...
Any of the Veterans Day stuff.
Whatever they do.
Which I do not know.
Yeah, I think I'm more of the Japanese side of like...
I really don't have a strong image of November.
The TikTok that she mentioned.
It's about how spring doesn't have a very strong image in the US.
In Japan, there's a lot of things.
There's a lot of things. Deai, Sakura.
Yeah.
Right?
New Year.
Yeah, New Year.
Right, exactly.
In the US, we don't really have an image.
A strong image towards it.
So...
Right.
I don't really have that much of a...
Like a numb...
Numb month.
Which is nothing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Do you?
How many?
I do.
My...
It's my brother's birthday.
Oh, okay.
So when I listen...
When I hear "Juichi-gatsu"
That's the only thing that came in my mind.
Oh.
But...
Other than that.
Nothing special.
Yeah.
It's just...
Beginning...
Getting cold.
Yeah.
That's all.
I can imagine that in the US.
It's a time where you get ready for Christmas because...
Yeah.
You know.
The Americans, they love to celebrate their Christmas.
Yeah.
It's like a huge thing.
A lot of preparation time.
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Yeah, I mean.
It's so...
Really like, too...
You know, early.
Yeah.
Well, not too...
You know.
You don't want to get them pissed.
Yeah, I mean.
You know, it's a...
It's just exciting.
You know?
It's exciting.
Yeah, I know.
They're excited.
It's like planning a really big exciting party.
Right?
You want to be perfect.
Right?
You want to be on point.
You like everything, you know.
Straight and...
What do you...
You know, they take their time to get it all done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For like two months.
Yeah!
Yeah.
One or two months?
I mean, that's...
You know, the Christmas day is like 25, 24.
Mm-hmm.
On December, right?
Yeah.
So, if you start preparing from the first November...
Uh-huh.
That means you have like almost two months to prepare.
Right?
True.
What are you going to prepare for?
Yeah, I mean...
What's there to do?
There's no one...
Well, first, illuminating the house.
That takes a long time, right?
Oh.
Like, you got to get the edges and everything.
Well, not that I've done it before.
Yeah.
Our family, we don't do it, but you know, the illumination shit.
True.
Right?
And...
One or two days.
Yeah.
Probably more.
Really?
More than that?
I think it's...
I don't know if it's one or...
I don't know.
I'm thinking it's like four days.
Okay.
Four days, yeah.
Okay.
Uh...
Uh...
Christmas shopping.
Christmas shopping, yeah.
Right?
You know, like the decorations and shit, right?
Yeah.
Like the ornaments and like the little zaccas.
Yeah.
Of course.
Right?
These things.
Yeah.
Christmas shopping.
Yeah.
And Christmas presents.
True.
Looking around, strolling around town.
That's part of enjoying Christmas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
You have to do that.
Okay.
To enjoy Christmas on Pitch Up.
That's important.
You need a build up, right?
Yeah.
And...
So that's three days now.
Well, a little more.
A little more?
You have to think of what to buy for the present and then go on Amazon, see if it's how the
price is and maybe enjoy buying it at the mall.
So that takes more than that, right?
Yeah.
Cooking.
Cooking, yeah.
Right?
By the ingredients and stuff.
Yeah, of course.
Right?
For the Christmas day and Christmas Eve, right?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So one day.
You have to organize everything, right?
You have to organize like with your family, you know, like when are we going to...
Oh, the party itself.
Can you come?
Can you not come?
Yeah, yeah.
And everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, you're not doing it every day.
It's just you have to start thinking.
You have to be in the Christmas mindset from November 1st.
That's all it is.
That's all.
You're not doing 24/7.
You're not applying all your energy on Christmas, right?
You got work.
You got school.
You got homework.
Okay.
Okay.
So you need the time.
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Yeah, you're doing it chunk by chunk.
Okay.
Okay.
That's all you're doing.
Okay.
So you need two months.
You're definitely not going to finish it and then two days before Christmas, right?
Definitely not going to...
You can't pull it off.
Okay, okay.
True.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, that's a huge part of your life.
The Christmas for you.
Oh, for me?
Yeah.
I mean, I don't do the decorating in Japan.
I don't have families coming over there in the US, right?
But yeah, I do enjoy Christmas.
You know, the atmosphere.
I love listening to Christmas songs.
The Christmas cake is a huge deal for me.
You know, I go online.
Check the Tokyo hotels of what Christmas cakes they have on.
And by the time I'm in action, they're all sold out.
That's a part of Christmas.
So now you are like really enjoying the Christmas time.
Oh, yeah.
As we're in like on December, like two weeks.
Yes, two weeks from now.
Yeah.
That's the peak moment.
Yeah.
And all the illuminations, it's close to my house.
Yeah.
It's so exciting.
Yeah.
Have you been to some places like typical illuminations places?
Tokyo Station.
Oh.
Omotesando, they're illuminated.
Odaiba, I've already been there.
Yeah.
Skytree, I've already seen their illuminations.
Shiodome.
Shiodome?
Yep.
Oh.
Wow, you enjoy so much.
Oh, yeah.
How about you, man?
About Christmas?
Yeah.
I mean, Christmas to me is on 24 December and 25 December.
So I, yeah.
You're not doing anything.
But I actually am making a song for Christmas.
That's cool.
That's cool?
But as it's still not finished, you know.
You're not in the enjoyment mode yet.
I mean, it's not finished yet and it will take some time before releasing.
So it will be like maybe.
You're not going to make it on Christmas?
After Christmas Day.
Oh, God.
So that's one concerning.
Well, still, I mean, it's exciting, right?
Yeah, about having.
Making Christmas songs.
Yeah.
So some movies to, you know, learn stories.
But, yeah.
But I enjoy the, you know, sceneries.
All these illuminations and that's happy.
Okay.
Yep.
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Thanks for listening, guys.
