Vivinavi : Los Angeles : (United States) Los Angeles

• チャプター
• 2025/12/20 (Sat) 21:35
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？ What do you do with your children's English books when you go back to Japan for long periods of time, such as summer vacation?

The library near my parents' house has almost no English chapter books and I couldn't borrow them, so I guess I will have to bring them next year, but they are so heavy. I feel like it's kind of a waste of luggage to bring it back to the U.S. after reading it.

How is everyone else doing ？?

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/22 (Mon) 18:24
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#4521 Chapters,

It's only been two days and I haven't seen any "responses".

Since the subject is about your child's "English education", even those who have ideas about it may not come to this category.

You might want to start a "Topic" by itself.

. In my case, long, long, long ago, I met my present wife in this area, married and had my first son, who is now in his 50's. We have two grandchildren and a granddaughter. He is now in his 50's. We have two grandchildren, and my granddaughter is now in college. So I didn't have the same problems as Mr. Chapters.

I guess it must be very difficult to educate your children when you eventually return to Japan.

My oldest son ・ and my second son are both LAUSD teachers for some reason.

• チャプター
• 2025/12/25 (Thu) 22:37
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Thank you.

I have no plans to return to Japan for now. If I go to Japan, I can find books in Japanese, but not in English. I can't buy a lot of chapter books for early elementary school children because they don't read the same book over and over again, and moreover, what a task ？ to bring them back to Japan and then bring them back to the US

Last time I brought 10 books and finished them in about 5 days. I was in trouble because I didn't have any more books to read. I feel like I've been away from English since I have zero English books left for the rest of my summer vacation.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/27 (Sat) 10:16
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Chapters,

＞ Is there any way to have the students read the books in order again

after they have finished reading them in about 5 days and have no more books to read?

If they have run out of textbook books, maybe give them an English magazine or other English books or magazines that have nothing to do with education.

If you run out of English sources completely, you can "give up".

Children will find something they are interested in even if their parents don't give them anything.

If parents take care of everything, children will grow up without pioneering spirit.

• 青丘
• Yesterday 14:21
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Is there any in the library ？?

• ムーミン
• 2025/12/22 (Mon) 11:53
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I entered the country from LAX this July, 20 days before my GC expired. I applied for renewal in February and brought the letter with me, but when I entered the country, I asked the officer if I could have the extension letter. When I asked the officer if I needed an extension letter, he said "No, it's not expired, so you don't need it. I was told "No, it has not expired, so you don't need it.

Worst case scenario, you can have someone send the letter to Japan. It takes about a week to get it after you apply for it.

• サーモンサンド
• mail
• 2025/12/24 (Wed) 19:17
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I was able to enter the country normally even though my GC had expired.
They didn't ask me any questions.

• ウリちゃん
• 2025/12/26 (Fri) 09:53
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The immigration officer must have missed it.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/27 (Sat) 09:36
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＞ I was able to enter the country even though my GC had expired

That's also great.

The long queue was so long that even the examiner didn't check the "details"

He just thought "OK, I have a card" and said "Yes, the next person is OK". I wonder if it was a "yes, the next one".

• ウリちゃん
• Yesterday 10:08
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It doesn't seem to say when, so it must be before the Trump administration.

• ペイロール
• 2025/12/27 (Sat) 12:26
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You have already completed the Online Application ？ First you apply online and then you get an Interview.

https://secure.ssa.gov/ossnap/public/adultOlder18


The company has proof of your eligibility to work, so you should have no problem getting hired without SS. it says to provide the employer with a receipt for the application for the SS number.　Maybe the reason they need the number now is to pay the first paycheck, but if you have a knowledgeable payroll department, you should be fine as long as you have the number by the first quarter payroll report.

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• 米びつ
• 2025/12/10 (Wed) 21:33
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I also had to think about storing the dried soybeans. I heard soybeans are good in the dark, so the protein container is perfect 😆

I appreciate the spoon that comes with it is just right. I have been putting rice in the rice cup properly since I lost mine and measuring the water with my finger.

• シュワちゃん
• 2025/12/20 (Sat) 23:17
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I'm not sure if they deliver AMAZON to post office PO boxes ？
I think it's usually just USPS deliveries.

• リセット
• 2025/12/22 (Mon) 08:50
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People who want different results but can't change their ways
Relationships have a huge impact on your life
Who you commit to makes a huge difference in your life

• あられちゃん
• 2025/12/22 (Mon) 22:14
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↑
The person posting that post is mistaken about the USPS people using taxpayer money for something that is not FEDERAL EMPLOYEE, and maybe Amazon delivers to 7-11
boxes or PHYSICAL ADDRESS, and the post office PO
box will not accept it. I don't think I'd accept it in a Box. BTW, UPS/FEDEX should not deliver to USPS PO boxes either.

• ななしのごんべい
• 2025/12/26 (Fri) 14:26
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No driver brings a 20lb package and brings it back without leaving it for delivery.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/04 (Thu) 13:07
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Tonight is the day when you can see the "super moon".

A supermoon is a full moon that appears larger and brighter than usual when the moon is at its closest "perigee" to the earth

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The last supermoon of the year, concluding three consecutive months

https://www.cnn.co.jp/fringe/35241218.html

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/06 (Sat) 09:23
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The super moon of the day before yesterday was nothing to write home about. Just a full moon.

I took out the super-zooming camcorder I used last time and the batteries were not charged.

The charger is in a junk box, so I smashed the whole box on the bed

I looked for a special charger for the camcorder, but *** nay.

So I gave up on the video camera.

"Why didn't I prepare it earlier?

Peachy, peachy, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku, tentsuku...it's all over now 。。。。 Misora Hibari

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/08 (Mon) 15:46
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I wonder if it will be erased if I put URL

Hibari Misora

♪ Festival Mambo - Hibari Misora ♪

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIY2oB3YGIs list=RDqIY2oB3YGIs&start_radio=1

August 15, 1952

I guess I did when I was in elementary school. My next-door neighbors were pachinko and smartball parlors

I'd remember the song even if I didn't say a word.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/19 (Fri) 10:25
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Once a week, there is a yoga class at the Multipurpose Senior Center, which is managed and operated by the City of LA.

In addition to yoga classes, there are painting and other hobby classes, and free lunch is available, but of course the taste is not good at all. I used to be the only Japanese person who went here before Corona, but back then there used to be 15 ～ 20 people there every time. Now there are at most 8. I was almost the only man. The members who used to come before Corona no longer come. Some of them were over 90 years old at that time, but I think they are no longer in this world.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/21 (Sun) 20:27
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Today, after a long time since Corona, my wife and I went up to the mountains or hills or highlands to the north of our house.

The area around there is called O'Melveny ・ Park, a series of bald hills that get higher as you go north. If you take State Highway 5 north of here, you will see

Six ・ Flags ・ Magic ・ Mountain
Six Flags Magic Mountain
https://www.sixflags.com /magicmountain

. It is called the "Disneyland" of the north with many attractions.
Next time young kids from Japan come to visit us, I will take them to this magic ・ mountain.

• 更新なし
• 2025/12/20 (Sat) 21:21
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No renewal just means they didn't want to pay ？ How can someone who retains but refuses to pay be a citizen

I have a simple question.

• ウリちゃん
• 2025/12/21 (Sun) 09:44
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It has been 40+ years. I wonder if the immigration officer at the
airport will have any distrust if the photo on the
card is different from the person in front of him who submitted it, even though it is a great thing that does not need to be renewed.

• GC
• mail
• 2025/12/21 (Sun) 10:50
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I'm afraid I've lost the purpose of the response and the post.
As for the GC with no renewal, it is legal. You can check it on the Immigration website. So I have never had a problem with custom to enter from overseas including to/from Japan.

Double Kim Man, 70+, I agree with the part about the benefits of citizenship. A long time ago, citizenship was not a benefit and I was not particularly interested in it because I am not rich enough to vote, jury duty, and taxes at the multi-million level, but I honestly feel that the Trump administration's mandates regarding GC retention are a hassle ↪Lo_V162↩(sweat).

• ウリちゃん
• 2025/12/21 (Sun) 12:10
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An "unexpired green card" is an older type of U.S. Permanent Resident Card issued before about 1989 （ I-551 ） that does not list an expiration date and is still valid in principle, but is highly recommended by the Citizenship and Immigration Services
USCIS ） to be updated with a
Form I-90 due to inconvenience in traveling and using certain services （ such as Global Entry Due to inconvenience when using Form I-90, it is strongly recommended by the USCIS （ USCIS ） that you update your card to the latest version with Form I-90.
If you do not update your card, you run the risk of longer identification times at the airport, card reading errors, and you may also need a Re-entry Permit （ Re-entry Permit ） for long-term stays abroad.

Are the passport photo and the 40+ year old Grin Card photo the same photo?

• GC
• 2025/12/21 (Sun) 18:06
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Uri,
Thank you again for your response. I would appreciate it if you could understand that my topic is not about GC without renewal, but about the future policy and its direction.

• 高いのよ
• 2025/11/23 (Sun) 08:51
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For some reason, swimming lessons are ridiculously expensive in the U.S.

• K
• 2025/12/08 (Mon) 21:24
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The LA park recreation center does classes and they are inexpensive.
https://www.laparks.org/discover-activities?filters=category.Play_LA

PLAY LA twice a week for a month ＄ 10.
There is a test the last week to determine if you can move up to the next level.

In the US, outdoor pools offer swimming classes only during the summer months, while indoor pools offer swimming classes all year round.

Near Park La Brea is the Pan Pacific park pool, which is outdoor and does not offer classes in the fall and winter.
Then Eleanor G Roberts Aquatic Center is about 10 minutes by car and has an indoor pool with classes all year round.

My son used to take a few times ＄ about 150, but he rather enjoyed PLAY LA.

But the American swimming classes are short, about 25 minutes per class, so it's just a little too short.

• Sango Sunny
• 2025/12/18 (Thu) 22:21
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Thank you for the detailed information.
It was very helpful to learn about the prices and class descriptions at PLAY LA.
I will look into the other facilities you mentioned.

Thank you so much for sharing the information based on your real experience.

• うらやましい！
• 2025/12/19 (Fri) 01:29
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Sorry for the sidebar ！

Do you know of any in OC ？ I heard there are about 150 a month in Irvine ＄ but I'm looking more around Fountain Valley and Garden Grove than Irvine. I'm not sure if I'm looking in the wrong place or not, but I can only find private ones.

• .倍金萬
• 2025/12/05 (Fri) 20:55
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https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E5%86%86%E7%9B%B8%E5%A0%B4&rlz=1C1VIQF_enUS1146US1146&oq=%E3%83%89%E3 %83%AB%E5%86%86%E7%9B%B8%E5%A0%B4&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjE0MTU2ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I checked the above site for now.

I think it is more disadvantageous to convert "Yen" to "Dollar" in this country than in Japan. Maybe........

I have converted dollars → into yen at Narita Airport when I went to Japan for a trip a long time ago,
but I did it because I needed it for my trip to Japan, so I did not care about the market price at all.

Sorry for the useless response.

• 円欲しい
• 2025/12/06 (Sat) 06:30
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I would like to say 😭 I will exchange my money because every time I have to pay a Japanese bank to convert my money to dollars → yen for a fee.

The conversion rate is important, but I try not to carry cash in the US, so I think it's better to come all the way here in Japan. I think it's better to come all the way from Japan. After exchanging money, there are a lot of cases where people think you have money and follow you and rob you. I don't know from the airport yet, but it seems to be common in banks. I think it is better to exchange money in Japan and carry it safely.