I’ve a message to pass on you that I tried nopal as a salad following the receipe taken from the internet. It’s very tasty. Though I’had to suffer the pains of its thorns as being a new one to deal with it. I tried it for three consecutive days and I liked it, especially because of its high nutrient value. I’ll take nopal quite often as it’s available in my garden.
I’ve taken photographs of the nopal grown in my garden. But I’m still not used to uploading the photographs in the forum. I’ll try to upload soon and hope to let you show the nopal picture.
Don’t worry! I’m quite at ease in shaving the nopal leaves now. Actually no pains, no gains! It’s due payment I had to pay for acquiring the desired experiences.
Nopals are very delicious and nutritious, indeed!
Wishing you a grand success in your online course,
Don’t imagine that I could forget you. Never. But my time is so limited. To-day I have to do lot of household chore. While I was doing I try to translate my tasks, the name of the objects but I always told myself : this I don’t know, that I don’t know either.
I should use a paper to write these words because after I forget them.
In the morning after breakfast my husband began to talk to me. You know I used to teach children with mental development disorder. And there will be an exposition of their drawings, and my husband is an artist painter so they ask him to open the exhibition. The sent the reproduction about their drawings and he began to talk to me about these drawings. He looked for an answer why these drawings so beautiful. He is disposed to philosophize, and try to develop that so serious mentally handicapped children how could make so beautiful, artistic drawings and statues.
Some words about chore:
Pancake is a thin, flat round cake made from a mixture of flour, eggs and milk that is friedon both sides in a frying pan usually eaten hot with sugar,jam etc idiom: as flat as a pancake = completely flat
For exp: The country around him as flat as a pancake.
I copied from English Oxford Dictionary .I’ve checked it. It is written in this way only I added to it one word: frying pan. And after both sides there is a comma, so would I have put a comma after frying pan? This would be the problem?
Explanation of “Chore”: noun a routine or tedious task.
– origin C18 (orig. dial. and US): var. of obs. char or chare (see charwoman). wordreference.com/definition/chore
I laughed at myself a big one. I am very sorry because I know very well what means chore. Every housework, even cooking also is attending with domestic chore. We decided with Jessy to write to each other expressions about house work because when we meet these expressions very rarely and when we want to speak about it we don’t find these very “simple” expressions.
You are right that it was ambiguous if somebody didn’t read our previous letters. Moreover, I didn’t write about chore only frying pancakes.
Frying pancakes without a helping person, you have to do lot of chore. If you fry 40 pancakes, you are standing at the cooker and you are frying them. You are all of a sweat;
When the first pancake is frying you prepare the things which you need to fill up the pancakes: Jam or sugary cocoa-powder or ground nut with sugar - very quickly- because you have to turn the pancake. Afterward the first pancake is ready you have to keep an eye on two things:1. the frying pancake and meantime 2.you fill them up. You continue till the last one will be fried.
In the meantime different pots will be dirty so you have to wash them up. At the end you have to wash the worktop/ counter, the cooker also -because it will be spattered with oil. When you are ready with the pancake and these cleanings, you have to mop up the floor if you don’t want to make the whole flat dirty
That’s why I wrote chore, and I thought of the domestic chore which the concomitant of every housework.
Jessy,please read these letters above that I received and draw a lesson from it. I had been misunderstood because Ozzy and Bez believed that I think of pancake is chore.
(Oxford English Dictionary = OED, afterwords if I write OED I quote from this dictionary)
"1. Chore = a task that you do regularly
-doing household/domestic chore (OED)
2.an unpleasant or boring task
-Shopping is a real chore fore me. (OED)"
If these sentences are true I can say that frying 40 pancakes is a real chore for me. Isn’t it?
“Of all household chores, I hate ironing most.” (OED)
Till now I thought that only attached work that I have to do when I am cooking, cleaning etc. it can be chore.
Bot according OED every house work can be chore if it is an unpleasant, boring task for me.
Ozzy I didn’t want to dispute your advice. And I am very grateful that you pay attention to what I write.
I think chore is a very expressive word I don’t know similar, so snappy expression for this existing task in any language.
Construction of my letter was mistakable because I forgot that I should mention the antecedents.
If you speak French you can see what I saw in this link.
To do chores =faire le ménage ; what means I do everything washing-up, ironing, cooking, cleaning and everything it means I do chores.
Take care.
Warm regards:
Kati
the (household) ~s = les tâches ménagères;
to do the ~s = faire le ménage;
My first thought was when I read your letter if you lived within easy distance I would invite you for a pancake-diner.
I am writing these lines while I am cooking in the kitchen. Now there isn’t problem I have few minutes but some times ago I left the soup on the cooker and boiled over my cooker was full of soup. My husband had put a paper on the cooker hood " never leave the food on the burner/gas ring if it is turned on". I looked up the underlined words because till now I never met them.
I’m really sorry that I didn’t reply you earlier . I’m quite busy these days , even have no time to straighten my room or buy some clothes for myself .
Glad to see you describe your daily life in English ,so I will tell you something about my daily life , here is the begin :
Today I woke up early and get out of my bed at 6:15 , after washed my face and brushed my teeth I sit before the desk and switched on my laptop computer to make a plan of this week . I have a lot of work to do, I believe planning and proper management of my time will make my job more efficiently . Making the plan take half an hour ,and then I drink some milk and switched on the TV to see if there are some up-to –date information .
I went to work at 7:30 before that I spent 15 minutes to make up myself. I go to work by bus, It’s a 5 stops distance between my place to my office building ,so I’m a short distance commuter .
I start my work at 8:30 and we have one and half an hours break at noon , I spent 30 minutes to have lunch at the staff dining room so I have one hour to have a nap. I finish my work at 6:00PM , I back to home about 6:40PM ,then I make dinner for myself .I finished my dinner at 8:00 PM .
After washing the plates ,I straighten my room and wash clothes ,then I open my laptop computer to login on this forum to write this letter to you . I haven’t come to this forum for awhile . I miss all my friends here .
I think the pancake must be very delicious .
Have a nice day ,
Jess
Hello Kati,
I read all of your letters . I agree with your opion , making pancake is a housework (chore). In China , we call the women housewilfe who is not work and only stay at home , and they do houework at home , all the things they do , cooking ,washing , straighten room and mop the floor are called housework .
I was very happy that you wrote how your work-day pass. You really have a little free time. I admire you, that you are able to do everything. Afterwords, I don’t wait for your letter but if I think of you I will write to you and you can answer when you want.
Today I was very tired and I made lot of bad things. Tuesday and Friday is very difficult for me because my grandchild here and I learn with him afternoon. These days I make always a better lunch.
Today I almost set our flat on fire. I wrote to Ozzy that my husband put a paper on the cooker hood " never leave the pot on the burner if it is turned on." I put on a water with olive oil and I thought while it begins to boil I look at my laptop. I thought I was in the room for a few minutes and when I came back to the kitchen it was very burning smell. So my water boiled away. I take off the pot and as there was on it a very good lid it didn’t receive oxygen. I put off the lid and immediately a flame of 1 meter shot up.
I think that I became very pale from the the fright and luckily I remembered that for the oil I can’t pour water. It was a handled pot and I turned over for that it can receive oxygen. When I turned over the flame became smaller. After I covered it with a towel and I managed to put out.
Of course the smell remained in the flat. And luckily my husband wasn’t at home.I made a cross-draught /draft (US)/ for hours. When my husband came home he became aware of the the smell but I could say to him that you smell the burning flat’s smell which really burnt out 2 days ago. I didn’t dare tell him the truth because he would have been very nervous. But I really I resolved to never leave anything on the burner.
Thank you very much for thinking about me while baking the pan cakes, I really appreciate that.
It is a pìty that distance parts in this case.
At the moment the online course is absorbing many hours, but gradually they are finding their way and I don’t get so many unnecessary questions anymore.
Jess, I haven’t seen you much on Skype lately, I hope you are busy AND happy in your new team. : - )
I hope all of you are doing fine . I haven’t seen you for ages .
Kati , I think you were very busy but pretty happy to learn with your grandchild and you made many delicious food for him . But it’s very dangerous to do other things while you’re cooking ,luckily you’re safe. We are belong to the same type ,very dedicated to one thing a time , so we can’t do two things well at the same time . When I’m watching or walking I often can’t hear what people say evern they say hello to me .
Your husband is very kind and dote on you .
Ozzy , you’re right , I’m pretty busy and happy in my new team . I’m handing over my old work these days and have taken over my new work already . I always feel my time is not enough to use .many new things waiting me to learn .
Mujibur , really sorry I broke my words ,I didn’t show up for awhile . I always find the insight myself and say to her . Busy is not a good excuse , you must chat with your friends and keep on learning English every single day ,but I’m failed . I’m too tired and even don’t want to switch on the naptop after work , I think this situation will be improved in two months,then I can come here often .
You can’t imagine how many times I think of you. I say to myself I should write this to Jessy. But I get letters from the Forum from strange people and I try to answer them for practice the language. I had been nabbed by my husband, because he saw that I cleaned the pot. You can’t imagine how much he scolded me. And he was right because this was very dangerous. He was very desperate that he couldn’t rely on me.
I made a very severe resolution : I never let anything on the burner!!!
I am very sorry that you are so busy. Many thanks for your letter.
noun a routine or tedious task.