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Rie

My Worst Nightmare

People dream whenever they sleep. But it’s not a certain thing whether they remember what they had at night or not. For example, I can’t remember almost any of my dreams every day. But let me tell you my worst nightmare. It was when I was a little child, around seven. In my dream, one of my friends and I were walking in a large desert. While we were moving with no purpose, she disappeared from my vision suddenly. I was looking for her for an hour, and then at last I could find her. Surprisingly she was in the house of ant-lion and had been sucking into it quickly. Because I liked her, I made a big effort to help her from the suffering. Though it was a small nest, I couldn’t pull her up because of my lack of power. I guess she was dead, unfortunately. That’s it.


Rie

Bargaining and Supermarket

A negotiating situation is often seen in a supermarket in the evening. When you go near the area with uncooked food such as meat or raw fish, after around 5:00pm, you can find the clerk sealing tiny circular seals on the goods. The seals show a discount rate like “50% OFF”. So, buyers put the food that became cheaper into their baskets. Of course, it is getting worse to eat, less delicious as time goes by. But it’s possible to buy lower prices than in the daytime. That may be an original habit in Japan. But it helps many people who want to save money.


Rie

Buying things in the U.S.

When we buy some things in a supermarket, there are some differences between the U.S. and Japan. People living in the U.S. use a big shopping cart and put food in it directly without a basket. This action is not seen in Japan, because we make use of a basket to stock food and goods on a cart. Then we carry them to a cashier and put just the basket with stuffs before her/him. In this situation I found the second difference. The American supermarket usually has a conveyer on the cashier’s desk. I was surprised at this. That machine is very useful, but on the other hand, it wastes energy. Compared to using peoples’ hand to check goods, it does not take as much time. That is the difference I can feel in a grocery.

Rie