Responsibility at Home(2)

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sophomore (n) 대학 2학년생 / dust off 먼지를 털다 / segregate 분리하다 / kick back 긴장을 풀다

Templates

1. It's a totally different story on weekends though.
It's a totally different story on -. : - 한 경우 상황은 완전히 달라진다.

2. As for my responsibilities, I do the laundry.
As for -. : -에 대해 말하자면,

3. It takes me roughly 3 to 4 hours to finish washing, drying and folding all our cothes.
It takes me roughly - hours to + V - : -하는 데 대략 -시간이 걸린다.

Question

What are your responsibilities at home? How do you normally handle them? How often do you have to do them?

Answer

First of all let me tell you that I live in a three-bedroom apartment with my wife and our two lovely children. I work as an engineer and my wife is a bookkeeper. Our son is an 18-year old high scool student and our daughter is in her sophmore year in university. As you may have guessed, the four of us are all busy on weekdays. So from Monday to Friday, we don't normally do any house chores. It's a totally different story on weekends though. On Saturdays, my children are in charge of sweeping and mopping the floor. They also dust off the furniture. My wife does all the cooking and she washes the dishes after breakfast and laungh. As for my responsibilities, I do the laundry and It takes me roughly 3 to 4 hours to finish washing, drying and folding all our clothes. Once I'm done with that, I get rid of our trash. I have to segregate the garbage, and put them in the right waste bins. In the evening, it's my turn to wash the dishes after we've had dinner. You know, sometimes I think Saturday at home are busier than weekdays at work. It's a relief that we have Sundays to kick backand just relax.

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First of all, I want to get you noticed that I live in a two-room apartment with my wife. One is bedroom and another is just spare room. We all have jobs each other. As you may have noticed, we are all busy on weekdays. So on normal weekdays, we do only minimum chores like cooking and washing the dishes. My wife does a cooking and after we have dinner, I wash the dishes. It's a totally different story on weekends though. While my wife does sweeping and mopping the floor, I do the laundry. It takes about 1 hours for a laundry machine to finish washing. After the clothes get washed, I hang these to dry. If there are clothes being dried, I fold them. You know, house chores are very annoying but we can't help doing them.

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accountability 책임, 의무 / rebellious 반항적인 / bickering 말다툼, 언쟁 / petty 사소한, 하찮은 / brawl 싸움, 소동 / grounded 근거가 있는

Templates

1. Good thing his boss started laughing out loud as if to save my father from further embarassement.
as if - : 마치 - 인 것처럼

2. Nedless to say, my brother and I failed to clean the house and we were grounded for a week.
Needless to say, : 말할 필요도 없이,

Question

Do you recall a specific instance as a chid when you were asked to do a house chore and you did not do it? Provide details as to what you were supposed to do, what happend in regard to this situation. and why you could not complete it.

Answer

Sure! Just thinking about it makes me laugh and feel embarrassed. Several years ago, I was an immature 13-year old kid who had no idea what reponsibility or accountability really means. One day, my mom asked me and my younger brother, who was 10 years old at that time, to clean the house because we were going to have an important guest. After our parents left to go somewhere, my brother and I started sweeping the floor. Everything was going well until we started arguing. Looking back, I can't really remember what we were bickering about, but i'm pretty sure it was something petty. Anyway, the argument broke out into brawl. We pushed and threw each other around the house, and we broke a lot of stuff. The house was a disaster! Before we knew it, the front door opend and there they were- My parents and my dad's boss. Good thing his boss started laughing out loud as if to save my father from further embarrassment. Needless to say, my brother and I failed to clean the house and we were grounded for a week.

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In my childhood, I was raising warms that would become a mos as a summer vacation homework. What I had to do was cleaning their house and feeding leaves to them. But that days I had a little  responsibility and no idea about importance of a life. Furthermore, It seemed that the bugs were growing by themselves. I was getting being lazy and taking less effort to take care of them. Needless to say, they were being dead one by one. At last, only one was  survived until it was grown up then became a mos. Looking back, I feel sorry for thoes warms.