Thanks for all your hard work today!
We made a good job, didn't us?
There were some eager auduence at our session,
who took notes of a lecture, using their IC dictionary!
( they were all men.)
I'm happy to get a chance with you, friends.
Today became a best day of my life.
So, let's have a meeting to review our session next time!
good bye and good night!
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Hello, Plum and friends.
Aichi Seminar was over.
I was very glad to see Bev and Jonathan in the classroom to listen to us. I wonder if my presentation could meet their expectation. This was the fifth time for me to participate in this annual meeting but I really felt how difficult to draw everybody’s attention while talking. However, the following phrase always encourages me when I feel depressed of my result. “Practice and experience are what it is all about.”
I’d like to thank you for everyone to give me a big stage to perform a challenging task in English. I had a feeling that I really learned a lot how to make a powerful and effective presentation from you all. Thank you my friends.
sunflower
Dear Cherry and friends,
What an exciting day!
I enjoyed listening to your presentations.
It is a great encouragement to find my friends take a lot of efforts to achieve similar objectives.
Personally, I have a lot to say, if I reflect on my presentation.
But I don't do this here.
There were some problems about it, so fixing the problems is my homework.
Yesterday, I became interested in the Ainu issues while I was writing speech manuscript. I was not able to sleep because I started to google.
After I slept for a few hours, I had to leave home. This morning, mother and I left home together. We parked the car near Toyokawa High School. From there, a high school teacher gave us a ride to Nagoya. Mother has been attending samasemi for 10 years. She helps a teacher of enameling, shippoyaki. A teacher of magic was our companion, too. We reached the school before the first period started. We brought two kilns and materials to a science room. Although the science room was on the first floor of the main building, stuff members told us that the building was locked. We were told to enter from another building, go upstairs, walk through a roofed passage between the buildings, go downstairs, and walk toward the end of the corridor. So we walked all the way to the science room with heavy loads. What we found there was an entrance at the ground level. The building was not locked. It was literally open. I wonder why they made things complicated. We murmured.
After helping the preparation of the class, I checked where our seminar room was. I had a lot of time before our presentation. And it was impossible to find a quiet to place to practice. Meanwhile, I happened to find a lecture on the Ainu language and culture. I listened to the lecture and asked some questions about its culture. One of the lecturers said his father is Ainu. Last year, he attended UN working group on minorities. I could hear his interesting ideas.
June 23, 2007 0:45 JST
Dear Cherry and friends
We have done a good job yesterday, haven’t we? All of your presentation were very nice and attractive. Every speaker finished their speeches on time. To our delight, we got attending of Jonathan and Bev-sensei, and several visitors who are not our acquaintances. One man gave us an advice, commenting that all speeches were very impressive, so it would have more persuasiveness by using visual aids such as a power-point. Why don’t you we challenge to use a power-point next year?
I am very glad the discussion time got into swing thanks to incentive questions and comments from Jonathan and Bev-sensei. Bev-sensei said that discussion was very enjoyable.
Cherry, thank you for taking photos and a video. We are looking forward to seeing them.
Thanks to your effort, absentees can enjoy it later.
Alice, it is an amazing coincidence to your encounter with a class of Ainu language on the spot. And it is a surprise for me that there is a group studying about Ainu in this area, not Hokkaido.
Hi, everyone.
Last year, who knew I would talk in summer seminar next year, thanks to Plum's instructions.
I am empressed with power of Plum or human beings enlightening such an adamantly lazy Oba-san.
I appreciate your earnestly listening to me. Thanks to Cherry and Cosmos for your efforts.
For a while, I will read Time and listen to CNN.
I like BBC. Yesterday, It featured power of art. Since the Roman era, A powerful dictator made use of it.
This man is, in a sense, genius.How smart!! It was succeeded to by Pope or Hitler. Now we can appreciate outstanding works at Vatican or Louvre ect. We owe which to these tricky people.
Hello,Cherry, Plum and my friends.
On Sunday I gave a 25-minute presentation about an amazing Meiji woman, Hatsu Yuasa, at Aichi Seminar.
I’m going to summarize my speech on this. It would be wonderful if you are interested in this story.
Maybe Hatsu Yuasa (1860-1935), is unfamiliar to you but she is a big sister of Tokutomi Soho, a journalist and historian. If I say she is a mother of Yuasa Hachiro, the first president of International Christianity University, you may have a vague idea what she is like.
What I admire Hatsu most, is that she thinks for herself and has her own opinions rather than submits to other people’s opinions. Her way of life still glitters beyond times. She lived more than a century ago but her positive attitude toward life is still fresh and attractive to me.
Born in the Meiji era (1868-1912), she had a highly Western education. Through Western learning, she touched the teaching of Christianity. She sought Christian ideals on the actual way of her life. Then she supported the idea of monogamy in the Meiji period when polygamy was generally accepted; a rich and powerful married man was allowed to keep one or two mistresses besides his own wife. Japanese traditional marriage did not attracte her. She would like to be independent and work as a teacher of a kindergarten. The concept of the kindergarten was very new in the Meiji era.
She married when she was 26. Her husband, Yuasa Haruo was 36. He also got a great influence of Christianity and Western learning. A Christian himself, he supported the practice of monogamy. Their marriage was based on Christian belief. The married relationships were equal based on a mutual trust and love. When Hatsu married, her husband had already four children from his first marriage. She gave birth to 8 children, so she brought up a total of 11 children. They had six sons and five daughters. The first son became a Western style painter, the second son succeeded his father’s miso and shoyu brewing industry, and the fifth, Hachiro, becae the first president of International Christinaity University. Theie daughters were well married with persons of some importance.
The great thing for her was she participated in the Japanese Women’s Christian Temperance Union: the WCTU), founded in 1886. Monogamy, temperance and the abolition of prostitution were fundamental to a spirit of Christianity. Her husband was willing for his wife to participate in public life.
It was a great surprise to me that there lived a woman who could have a higher Western Education, and fought for monogamy based on the spirit of Christianity, that is “in God’s eyes, men and women are equal.” I respect her challengig attitude and accomplishment of her life.
Thank you for reading!
My daughter’s family will come to see us tomorrow, from July 25th to 29th. I have to prepare for their visiting. I'm going to become an extraordinary busy and happy granny.
Keiko
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