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From a What do you think? conversation:

I: Kaori and S: Sayuri, my partner

I and my partner, Sayuri talked about next vacations.

I said...
I'm going to work hard (do my part-time job) during winter vacation to get much more money than usual. Now I have two purposes to earn money. First, I use my father's computer at home, and I want to get my own computer. I will get note-type one. And second, I save money for studying abroad next year. Actually, fortunately I was selected as a exchanged student and I'll go to study in U.S next year. During staying there, I can't do part time job, so now I have to do it.

Sayuri said...
Congratulation! Where will you go in U.S? And what are you majoring in there?

I said...
Thanks! I'll go University of Massachusetts. I 'm majoring in linguistics here at Nanzan 3rd and 4th grade, so maybe I'll also take linguistics classes in U.S. Oh, I want to listen to your vacation plan now. How are you spending this winter vacation?

Sayuri   said...
Maybe I'll work hard like you, and in spring vacation I'll also work. But I want to travel abroad, if possible. I 'm interested in Australia now. When it's cold in Japan, Australia is in warm season, so I don't need to bring my coat or sweaters.

I said...
Sounds good! I' m also interested in Australia so much, so I'd like to visit someday. If we go to Australia, we have no jet lag, so it must be comfortable trip.

We talked about this topic for over 10 minutes. During the recording, there was a small trouble to my cassette ( I recorded all of the side-A of the tape, so I had to turn over it to keep recording on side-B.). But anyway, I enjoyed this conversation and Sayuri seemed to be satisfied.

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