We’re Moving!

Oh.

That person lives upstairs.

Hi. He's taking us to see

the house now.

Smells funny.

This is the first place we're looking at.

There's a bathroom,

sink, entrance,

and there's 3 rooms. There's this room,

and there's a kitchen, and a

Japanese-style room.

And this is the second place. I think this

place is a lot better than the last one.

Look how big the living room is, and it's

so much brighter.

There's 2 places that we've decided on,

and there's one that I like and one she

likes. The one that I like is here because

it's quieter, but it's a bit further away

from the train station, so she doesn't

like it. Look, there's fish!

What do you think? Do you like it?

It's so quiet here.

And this is the second place that,

that she likes. I don't like it because it

feels kind of suffocating. There's lots of

buildings packed right next to it.

At least there aren't crows here.

I don't know, it's just this area feels

kind of tacky. Look at that building,

it's all dirty, and there's

all these kids over there shouting. If I

had to choose between crows cawing and

irritating kids shouting, I'd choose

crows. I can just imagine little

kids running around outside here. Look at

this place, it's kind of like, um, a

family area where there would be young

kids. Look at those shoes, they look very

tiny for little kids. You can imagine a

bunch of kids running around out here

screaming and shouting. Look at this

place, looks like it's falling apart. It

looks like it was built 100 years ago and

they just left it to rust and rot away.

Do we have to live here? Look at this car.

The hell is this car? It looks like a toy

car. Fits one person. This must

be a toy. This can't be real. Look how

small it is. It's just the right size for

you. That's a

weird car. Look, see, I told you there's

kids everywhere. There's a park right down

the road. It's just swarming with kids,

look.

What did we do today? We looked

at the new apartment. Hey,

so yesterday we went to the real estate

agents, um, to look at some places. You

can see I'm boiling some potatoes in the

background. You'll find out why later.

Anyway, so we went to the real estate

agents yesterday and we saw a few places,

and there was one place that I really

liked and one place that my wife really

liked. My wife liked this place that was

closer to the train station, but I didn't

like it because it was in this cramped,

ugly neighborhood full of screaming kids.

And the place she liked had 4 rooms, and

the place that I liked has 2 rooms plus

one really big living room/kitchen. And I

prefer that place because it felt more It

felt more open, it felt bigger, and it was

in a nicer area. The area was quieter,

less cramped. But the only problem with

that place was that the, um,

the real estate agent guy said that during

the evening there might be a lot of crows

and it might be a bit noisy. So I decided

that I would prefer to live in an area

that has noisy crows than an area that has

noisy kids. So I managed to twist my

wife's arm and convince her to go for the

place with the big living room, and I

think it's a lot nicer. I don't usually go

anywhere, so I don't really care if we

live a few minutes closer to the train

station, but my wife uses the train

station every day to go to work, so, um,

living close to the train station is kind

of important to her. But we did a little

test walk from the train station to the,

the place that I liked, and it only takes

a few minutes extra to get there. So she

said okay, and she agreed to the place

that I liked, and that's where we're

moving into in December. We're going to be

moving in December, sometime in December,

before we go to England for Christmas,

and I can't wait. It's going to be really

nice. We're finally moving house into a

bigger place. This place just feels kind

of cramped now, and it's just going to be

really nice to have separate rooms and a

big space to put something like a desk for

my computer and maybe a sofa so we can

actually sit, sit down instead of

squatting on the floor all the time. This

is the place we decided on. As you can

see, it has a very large LDK. I'm not sure

what LDK stands for. Maybe it's living,

dining, and kitchen. And it has

a very big balcony. Hopefully the crow

situation isn't too bad and it's not too

noisy. Yeah, I know my wife wanted the

other place and I had to twist her arm a

little bit about it, but she only has to

walk a little bit further to get to the

train station, and look what we get. We

get a much better place. We get a huge

living room, and it's right next to a big

river that's filled with garbage. Look at

all the rubbish in the river. Look, all

those people saying Japan's so clean—

really? That's how

clean it is. Look, there's an orange

fish.

You see, that's the problem with Japan.

They have this crow problem. They're

everywhere.

Hello and welcome back to Cooking with

Daniel. Today we're going to be making a

shepherd's pie. I know this is a bit more

advanced than our usual cooking lessons on

the show, but I thought I would try

something else, something a bit more

interesting, a bit different, and we're

gonna give it a bash. So we have some

potatoes, 2 potatoes,

some mixed vegetables, sweet corn,

green peas, and diced carrots, and we

have some minced meat.

After you've finished peeling and slicing

your potatoes, put them in some boiling

water, and it should take about 10 to 15

minutes until they go soft. And they're

Next, I'm going to show you how to make a

really good mashed potato. So you need

butter, salt, and black

pepper, and some basil.

Mm-hmm,

tastes like shepherd's pie.