Tastes and Preference.

I used to take lessons in various fields.
For instance an abacus, swimming, a drawing, play the piano, and so on.
This time I write about an abacus.


When I was a primary schoolchild in the third and fourth grades, I started learning it.
The abacus school which I took lessons was especially strict.
I have to go there four or five times a week.
I was sick of studing hard at first though people of the same generation played with their playmates.
I was only a child at the time, so I disliked commuting.
However, my friends gradually went there since the school had a good reputation with our parents.
So I could engoy going there and studying abacus.

After a long time, my teacher proposed opening a class of arithmetic another abacus classes.
We disliked this idea, but our parents were glad of it.
So, we have to go there five or six times a week.


Unexpectedly, the class of arithmetic was interesting a little.
Sometimes my teacher took an extracurricular class.
I could remember about studying "a meter".
We made actually a meter string outside.

Thanks to the teacher, my school record was good.
I dropped out of there when I was in the sixth grade since I prepared for an entrance examination to a private junior high school.
I could be easy to understand, maybe I went this school.
I deeply appreciated my teacher.