It sounds like you want a studio apartment with a kitchenette.
Do you want it furnished?
If you want to experience the American way, you may want to try your hand at a yard sale.
Except once, when I went to a yard sale a couple of years ago and complimented the lady of the house on how nice her ground cover looked.
She was ecstatic and went to her garage, grabbed a shovel and an old flat cardboard box for soda.
────────────────────────────── kitchenette, キチネット、ミニキッチン ────────────────────────────── A kitchenette is a small kitchen, or a part of a large room that is used for cooking.
-ette は小さいという意味のようですね。
marionette
そして
vignette！
とか
────────────────────────────── furnished, [形] 家具付きの ────────────────────────────── A furnished room or house is available to be rented together with the furniture in it.
ex) Eleanor moved into a small furnished apartment.
────────────────────────────── try your hand at something, やってみる ────────────────────────────── If you try your hand at something, you try doing it in order to see whether you like it or whether you are good at it.
ex) In his latest book, he tries his hand at fiction.
────────────────────────────── ground cover, [園芸] グラウンドカバー、地被植物（地表を覆う植物） ────────────────────────────── [ODE] low-growing, spreading plants that help to stop weeds growing.
────────────────────────────── ecstatic, 有頂天の、夢中の ────────────────────────────── You can use ecstatic to describe reactions that are very enthusiastic and excited. For example, if someone receives an ecstatic reception or an ecstatic welcome, they are greeted with great enthusiasm and excitement.
ex) They gave an ecstatic reception to the speech.
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4/22/2008 05:31:00 午前