Welcome to E-com's Monthly Podcast. It's already March.
Seems like all the parties are over, but has everybody started to settle down?
March has a lot of interesting events, but the key word here is green and eggs.
What does that mean?
So, the key word green comes in terms with St-Patrick's Day.
St-Patrick's Day is an Ireland celebration that happens.
Have you ever heard the word 'melting pot' in the United States?
This is a lot of cultures come into the United States and they melt in and they blend in.
So, this Ireland culture has kind of blended in with the American style, so now in March,
you have to wear green on St-Patrick's Day or you get pinched by people.
So, I kind of remember going to school and you're kind of counting down the days 'til March
and you wanna make sure in March, on St-Patrick's Day, you wanna be wearing green.
Maybe a green hair color, a green earring or anything small, but you want green on you, so you don't get pinched.
Because, what happens is, if you're not wearing green, your friends will come and pinch you.
So, I remember my friends who forgot to wear green, what they would do is they would get a leaf
and they would, like, stick it in their hair.
So, when you ask them, 'Where's your green?' they will point to the leaf on their head.
Pretty interesting, but it's very important.
So, if you're in the States, don't forget green is your key color here.
Also for St-Patrick's Day, we also eat corned beef with cabbage.
Now, this is very delicious.
Sometimes you see at restaurants in celebration of St-Patrick's Day they serve corned beef and cabbage.
So, next time you're in the States, look out for green and corned beef with cabbage.
Now it's time for Japanese English.
Now, have you ever had an experience, you're talking to your native American friend
and you say something and they don't understand you.
Perhaps, that is Japanese English.
So, we're covering the category of clothes today.
Number 1, have you ever used the term 'no sleeve'?
This is actually 'sleeveless'.
So, during the summer, many people wear sleeveless tank tops or sleeveless shirts.
Another one is, have you ever used the word 'order made'? I had my suit order made.
This is actually 'custom made' specifically for you.
The last one, many people say 'running shirt'.
This is actually sometimes referred to as 'wife beaters'.
Now, what I've heard is a lot of people who used to beat their wife and get arrested,
they're, they get arrested in the white tank tops, which gives the impression, or the meaning,
of wife beaters wear that kind of shirt.
So, it might not be too popular, but you might want to keep that in mind.
Thank you for tuning in to this month's monthly podcast.
Were you able to enjoy it?
Now, before we leave today, I wanted to share with you the custom of how we celebrate Easter.
How do you think people celebrate Easter?
I know many people may think eggs, which is exactly right.
What we do, is we boil eggs, maybe about... if you have a big family, maybe about 50.
If you don't have a big family, maybe about 20.
And what you do is you color eggs with paints and crayons.
And what the parents do is they hide the eggs everywhere and the kids have to go searching for the eggs.
So, I remember there was a time when I went Easter-egg hunting with a lot of my friends
and the person who found the blue egg, got to choose a chick, a baby chicken, to take home. So, that was the prize.
And to my surprise, I won the blue egg and out came the chicks and guess what color they were?
They were green, red, yellow, purple, so you see little chicks in different colors.
So, I took home the red chick.
It grew up to be a chicken, but there are different things like that we do for Easter.
So, one thing we always did was have eggs for the next entire week,
because of so many boiled eggs we had to finish eating.
So, maybe next time if you're not too busy, how about enjoying this type of Easter with your kids.
Take care! See you next time! Bye-bye.