Vocabulary consisting only from characters you are able to read
八日
jouka
eight days, the eighth (day of the month)jlpt5, toki
先ほど
sakihodo
some time ago, not long ago, just nowmix
貝
kai
(1)(uk) Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, (2)(abbr) spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)