Opportunity to speak in English

     When I got into a junior high school 35 years ago, I studied English as a subject of the school. In those days it was almost only through cassette tapes that I could listen to English conversation between native speakers. Fortunately, there were several Fathers in the priest's house adjacent to the school, because my junior high school was established by a Christian group. The Fathers were Spanish. They taught me English at the class, but I didn't have any interest in the English class. If I had been interested in English at that time, my knowledge of English would have been better now.
     Now I have many opportunities to hear English, even in Japan. I'm writing this over CNN. However, I seldom speak English in my daily life. In order to get opportunities to speak English, I'm attending an English class for working people. Various people are in the class. It is kind of fun to attend the class. One of the members got married last month, so we are going to have a party for her. There is a serious rule for the party. You know, we must keep talking in English only, never Japanese. However, the more alcohol gets in the body, the more broken my English gets.
     The photo shows today's class, in which a member is listing the Top 5 news stories in the world and in Japan.