My Notes May 2024 Week 3

Thirty-one-year-old Laura Bird set the record for fastest marathon carrying a household appliance.

She raised about 1,333,000 yen by finishing a marathon while carrying a fridge.

Jackie Scully, 42, and nine others completed the marathon while wearing a 10-person costume.

2024 marks her 10 years of being cancer-free from breast cancer.

Her goal is to raise 19,140,900 yen to support the organizations that saved her life. 

May 20 is National Bee Day.

Bees pollinate about 75 percent of our food crops.

Some of the most common pollinators are bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and bats.

In 2022, US beekeepers lost about half of their bee population.

There is a strawberry farmer in Japan who raises bees to pollinate his berries.

Bee colonies around the world have disappeared, probably due to climate change and pesticides.

“A diehard” is “a person who strongly supports something.”

I am a diehard Seahawks fan.

"Best of both worlds" means “having the benefits of two different things at the same time.”

He has the best of both worlds; he has a high paying job and works from home.