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It was several years ago when I spent a summer with a beautiful family in Edmonton that I met the very first dog friend of my life. Prior to my arrival, I was told that the family had a young female dog called Nika. To confess the truth, I had never had a dog in […]

When I was six years old, my family moved to the suburb, and I was transferred to another kindergarten. I felt very sad about the move, since I had to leave behind all of my close friends and playmates. Especially after the loss of my younger brother, the last thing I wanted was to be

This is a story that I heard from an old family friend, who was also a fatherly figure to me. One evening, the whole family was having dinner around the table when he started to tell this story. He was a college student in north England. As a young student, following the trend at the

It was when I was about nine years old. One afternoon, I was visiting a shopping mall in town with my mother. After a long shopping, we went to a bakery located at the basement of the building. I was quite tired by then. Looking at all kinds of tasty-looking bread that my mother was

Two years ago, when I visited Rome, Italy for the first time, on the very last day of my two and a half months stay, I decided to go to the famous Trevi Fountain to throw a coin so that I could come back to this beautiful city that I had come to love so

The year when I turned three, my younger brother came into the world and I became an elder sister. It was late June, during the rainy season in Japan. Hydrangeas were blossoming everywhere. One rainy morning, I stood in front of our house with my grandmothers and my friends’ mothers, seeing my mother and father

I was eight years old. That summer, my father and I visited his college friend. We took a bullet train, a local train, and then finally a bus to reach his house. I was excited because this friend had four children around my age. I had met one of the girls a few years earlier

I have a friend whom I meet every Friday. During the summer, our favourite meeting spot is a quiet park by a riverside. There is a willow tree that we are both particularly fond of, and when there are not too many mosquitoes, we love to sit on the bench under the willow tree. One

When I first visited Toronto, it was many years before I started living in Ottawa. I was a young college exchange student from Japan. One early October, my friend and I decided to make a weekend trip to Toronto. We took a night bus from Montreal, excited for our very first trip in Canada. Our

Two years ago, I had the luck to live and work for three months in Rome, the capital city of Italy. My stay was from October until Christmas time, and people who had been to Rome before told me how lucky I was to be able to be there during the most beautiful time of