Good afternoon, everybody!
Plum, you always look very happy, but had a sad story.
I was impressed your frank talk.
How did you survive those hard days?
I want to know a key to overcome severe condition.
Azalea, I really envy you!
Your garden vegetables must be delicious.
My veranda is so small that I can't raise any garden products.
But gardening keeps us lively, and I want to try it someday.
Walking in the rain also may be healthy, right?
I don't feel like doing my housework at rainy day like today,
even though I have many works to do.
Please tell me how to enjoy rainy days!
So, see you~
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Thank you for reading my message. I enjoyed reading yours. (By the way I am not so strong or patient as you think I am. I am a coward, really.) I just laughed about your watermelon story, Azalea.
Do rainy days make you feel down? Is it very hard to get up and do something on rainy days? Yes, I do understand how you feel on rainy days.
I went though a lot of hardship in my life, and I know how hard to live in this world. Especially, on rainy days I was very unhappy. Just a small accident made me feel so sad when I was in Christchurch, Auckland and Sydney. At one time, I got the wrong bus and got off at a stop in the middle of nowhere, and I had to walk in the rain without knowing where I was walking, to get to the university. I don’t know how long I walked, but at last I got there and I was very, very tired. At another I went to the library, and while I was copying, I had my umbrella stolen, and I had to walk home in the heavy rain without my umbrella. I got soaked to the bone and I was terribly depressed.
Our feeling is so synchronized with weather, isn’t it? I went to a meeting with my friends to discuss our new project in the morning. I really don’t know how it is going to be. Could end up a failure? I always have a big fear when we plan this type of project… My fear doubled due to today’s weather.
Good evening, everybody.
I see rainy days make you feel down. It limits your radius of action. As Cherry said, I used to decide the rainy day was off. However, do you recall you went out in rubber boots with an umbrella in your childhood? I enjoyed the days very much, but my mother didn't. My clothes got dirty and puddle was dangerous.
I was scolded so often. Now, I would not be scolded, even if my clothes got dirty. You see landscape is different as you usually see in the sun. Then you can hear literally background music. Sometimes it sounds sad and hurt, or it sounds talkative, or sometimes it sounds vehement. You can enjoy it. An important thing is you are ready for when you are wet. Why not try it!!
Cherry. My vegetables are good as you imagine. If not, I don't raise them because they are God blessing.
Plum, I think your hardle is set high. It is surprising you think you are a coward. For Japanese women, you are a pioneer.
It was a very busy day today.
In the morning I went shopping with my husband to buy things I was asked to purchase by my daughter who is now in Sydney. She had given me a list in her email. And in the afternoon I went to a chanson concert in which the singer sang some Edith Piaf’s songs. Actually I was asked to go by a friend of mine, otherwise I wouldn’t have gone. The concert itself was quite interesting. I used to go to a concert, mainly a pop music or a jazz concert, with my son when both he and I were in Christchurch as well as Sydney. I seldom go to a concert, musical or opera in Japan.
A couple of days ago, I discovered that Monamie (my pet cat) had got a skin problem. I thought that I had to take her to the vet, and thus I went home as soon as the concert finished. But when I got home at around 5, I was very tired, and then, asked my husband to take her to the vet, which he did. (The vet said that it was likely that she was allergic to something. We are going to take her to the vet again next Saturday.) Then I realized that the kitchen was quite messy, and things were scattered around in the lounge. I began to put them away, and cleaned up the kitchen. It did not take a long time, but it exhausted me. Then I packed two boxes with the things I bought for my daughter, so that my husband could take them with him when he came to Sydney in the middle of August to see the baby, who is due in July.
The other day I got an email from my son-in-law’s mother who lives in Mie. She is a kind and gentle person in a traditional way. She and her husband are arriving in Sydney a few days earlier than me, and it will be their first visit to my daughter in Sydney. She said that she was very excited about seeding her son and daughter-in-law, who is my own daughter. They are staying with them, and therefore I am staying at a lodge, which is near UNSW, and, maybe, a 15 minute drive away from their place. The price for one night is $100, but a weekly rate is 500 something. I made a booking online. So no worry.
I hope everyone had a good day today. Yes, I had a relatively good day today. Goodnight, everyone.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Plum, Wii you drive a car in Sydney? If so, did you get a driver's license when you stayed in Australia before? If so, did you sit a paper examination? Is it a right handle there?
On TV program which is a drama about Korean 17c maybe, I was shocked that people suffering from leprosy were dangerous because they were likely killed by people ignnorant about the disease.
Thank you for your interest in my message, Azalea.
In Australia, cars keep to the left, which is the same as in Japan. And I supposed that cars with a wheel on the right-hand side, in which a driver’s seat is on the right and a passenger’s one on the left, would be preferred.
I got a driver’s license in California a long, long time ago, and, returning to Japan, I applied for a Japanese license submitting a copy of my American one and got it. I drove when I lived in Kasugai, but after I moved to Chikusa, I forgot to renew my license (simply because I did not drive and couldn’t find it when I needed) and lost it.
I am just wondering whether all my friends are well and happy. I really hope so.
GOODNIGHT, EVERYONE…
Hello, everyone.
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Hello, everyone.
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From Sunflower
Hi, everyone!
Hi, Sunflower. Welcome to Cherry's English Study Group!!!
How did you spend your day today?
I spent most of the daytime sitting at the desk and doing my writing. You probably think it is very boring to sit at the desk all day. But not so boring to me. I sometimes talk to Monamie because she comes close to me and talks (she actually pulls a sleeve of my shirt with her right paw or bites me in the arm, though her bite is tremendously soft and does not hurt me at all, to get my attention, a strange cat, isn’t it!!), occasionally daydream, and even talk to myself.
Last week I was extremely busy, but in the first half of this week it is not likely that I have much to do. It is a big relief.
Sometimes I come across a very good movie or a tremendously funny one on cable television. The other day I saw Duplex, which was just an indication of American stupidity, but at the same time it was a stubbornly funny film like A Very Bad Wedding.
I happened to see Hakai which was an old Japanese movie produced based on Toson’s novel of the same title. The time was set before the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), I assume. The story was a terrible tragedy, though with a happy ending. I was so moved by it that I could not sleep well on that night.
I sometimes just wonder why I was born in this time, in Japan, and live this kind of life. No answer, I know. Have you ever had this kind of thought? No,...OK. Anyway it is not a serious matter. I can accept what I am.
Sweet dreams, my friends.
Hello, everyone.
Sunflower, I have waited for you!!!
I appreciate your scrupulously corresponding to my asking, Plum.
Today, I went for a walk as usual, there I was asked by an staff of the information magazine 'Pippo' to be taken a picture. She said to me,'in front of the hydrangea, please walking' My looks was like a NekoHiroshi wearing a straw hat. I politely declined such an offer.
Welcome, Sunflower.
I wonder who she is. But please don't say your name on this blog. Give me some hint or tell me on MSN bulletin board.
I did a lot of things on Sunday. It was a refreshing day. We had a monthly study session. Plum always gives us power. Don't you think so?
After the tutorial, I visited Nancy who lives in Yagoto. We have been friends since she was teaching in my hometown. She cooked dinner for me. We ate tuna, steamed white and brown rice, edamame, and tuna with chopsticks. She even offered seasoned seaweed.
We talked about our future and our current life. We found I knew one of her colleagues. I recently got to know this woman. They are teaching at a junior college in the suburb. That's an interesting surprise. We live in such a small world.
Thank you for welcome me as one of your members I'm very glad to see nice words from you.
Today I sent a shirt and jacket as a birthday present to my father, 86 living in Kobe with my mother, 79. I chose a light blue color for him. I wrote some messages on a card, saying please live longer and healthier as much as you can. I added that be kind and helpful for my mother.
She had some troble with walking, so he sometimes goes shopping to get things they need.
It's lucky to have elder parents who are healthy and live long.
Next month will be my mother's birthday.
They seem to be happy to have some kind words and little presents from their children.
June 25, 2007 11:43 PM
Dear Cherry and Friends:
Sunflower, just a few minutes ago, I sent a stupid message for you on MSN without knowing you have already put some messages here. I thought you were still in trouble. Sorry.
Recently, I am terribly sleepy because of my lack of sleep. When I am sleepy, listening to lectures is a torture. The event called “Cultural Typhoon” will be held on the coming weekend. We get machine-gun e-mails every day to make sure everything is prepared perfectly. I have been involved in this project since this March. I have to handle some of the queries. It is quite time consuming.
2007/06/26 18:52 JST
Hi, everyone!!!
Thank you for telling us about your parents, Sunflower.
It is bliss that your parents are healthy and live long in a charming way, as you mentioned in your message. You must be very happy about it.
My parents lived long, but my father began to senile when he was in his mid-seventies. And, I assume, it was unbearable for my mother to see him acting so strangely. My father studied engineering at Tokyo Imperial Uni. and physics at Kyoto Imperial Uni, and got a doctor’s degree in science from Kyoto Uni, taught physics at a national uni., and therefore got a decoration from the government when he retired from his work, which was my mother’s treasure. He put on his hat and jacket when he went out for a walk only in the neighborhood…just like a ‘gentleman’.
My mother did not have much information about senility. (He was ten years older than her.) Thus it was a tremendous shock for her to see something terrible happening in his brain, and she did not know how to treat her deranged husband properly. His senility progressed quickly and he became totally out of her hand when he was in his early eighties. He was a very intelligent person, but now he had lost his cognitive faculty, being tragically insane, talked nonsense all the time when he was awake.
My mother got depressed so many times, and was hospitalized from mental fatigue, and my eldest sister put him in a hospital, in which he was placed in the special ward for the insane with a locked door. He was tied to his bed all day, asleep and awake, in order to make him unable to move around. The only thing he could do was to yell, shout and cry loudly. Actually he was crying all the time until a few weeks before his death. When he died in his early nineties, my mother was still in hospital and could not come to his insane ward to see him. (She came to see him just once while he was there for a month and a half.)
My mother did not get senile and died just from old age when she was in her early nineties…again a long life.
I always think from my parents’ experience that it seems very hard to have a quality life in one’s old age. Of course, I know there are plenty of lucky elderly people, though.
So, please, please treat your parents warmly, Sunflower.
May all my friends be well and very happy every day.
P.S.
I am very sorry about your lack of sleep, Alice. Take a good rest next week!!!
Hello, everyone.
I am glad the mountain is decorated by some flowers.
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