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Lost at the grocery store

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Lost at the grocery store

Aug 29, 2022
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Lost at the grocery store

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Hi again. Niko here.

This week’s prompt

You’re at the store. Your spouse asked you to buy some ちくわぶ (not ちくわ). You’ve been looking everywhere, but you can’t find it. You decide to ask one of the store staff for help.

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Last week’s corrections

You just saw on TV that domestic flights in Japan are really cheap this month. You decide to text your friend to see if they want to go somewhere.

I saw something like this on TV just the other day, and I was daydreaming about all the places I want to go.

In this conversation, maybe I’d just take a screenshot of the cheap-flights campaign, send that to my friend, and write どうする? (What should we do?)

That’s a lazy response to the prompt, of course. ^_^ I see that all of you put much more work into it.

Here’s Satoko with everyone’s feedback:

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