Hello, friends!
I was transfered there about 2 years ago from Osaka,
and I become familiar these days.
I don't like hot summer in Nagoya,
but People who I met with were always nice.
Sunflower, you must have had many good memories at Osaka and Kobe.
I also love my hometown, but only recently I have realized this.
Osaka has a strong personality, right or wrong.
Nagoya may be a steady and gentle city.
How about you, friends?
There was a strong wind coming up.
Please take care, and good bye, everyone!
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Dear Cherry and friends
Typhoon will hit this area tonight. I'm a little hyper. We went to an Italian restaurant in my hometown this evening. We gathered in the pouring rain. This restaurant is fashionable in spite of the location. The chef is very particular about foodstuffs. We listened to a description about each piece of dish. The food was proudly served one by one. Not to mention about organic vegetables from local farmers, they announced where the food came from. For example, we ate pasta with sea urchin tonight. We were informed that this sea urchin was caught by woman divers in Owase, Mie. The taste was good. Everything was good except for hard pasta. We agreed the pasta was harder than al dente.
Let me join the discussion about Nagoya. Recently, I read an interesting article. The title was Dai Nagoya Ron written by Mr. Susumu Sakurai. He argues that Nagoya has been a very artificial metropolis. In his theory, the redevelopment led by Toyota and the space created by Aeon (Jusco) and Tsutaya enable us to exist at the same place without communicating each other. Nagoya used to allow multiculturalism and accepted uniqueness. However, the recent redevelopment of downtown area symbolizes global capitalism. In fact, skyscrapers alienate people. Nobody would think that they belong to this city when they see the tall buildings.
As you know, I am from Toyohashi. Toyohashi is not a big city, so it's a bit different from Nagoya. I first encountered Nagoya culture when I entered university. In those days, students from Nagoya seemed snobbish. They seemed to behave as if they knew everything about Nagoya. But I had the same feeling when I first went to Tokyo to live there. People in Tokyo looked very snobbish. So now I convince myself this is a kind of feeling any stranger feels in unfamiliar places. Do I love Nagoya as a place? I don't know. I have never thought about it. At least I can tell Nagoya is a significant place that gives me chance to know a lot of interesting people and matters.
July 14, 2007 23:34 JST
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you?
Is everything OK to you?
I appreciate, from the bottom of my heart, your congratulations on my first grandchild. Also I am grateful to you all for your warm words about my little baby. I hope she will grow to be a kind, polite and understanding person.
I told you to talk to you on Thursday in my previous message, but I missed Cherry’s Blog on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It’s Sunday today and at last I got an internet connection.
I read Cherry’s Blog and the comments that I had missed, and I am very pleased that you all are absolutely enjoying writing what you want to say in English.
Last night Ulala, Yoji, Mr. and Mrs. Kondo, Yuko-chan, who is Nao-chan’s younger sister and is now studying English at a language school near Bondi Junction, and I, went to Arun Thai, a Thai restaurant at Potts Point near Kings Cross. According to a guidebook, the restaurant is one of the best in terms of the taste of the dishes. But it was, rather, sort of, a highly stylish and trendy type. The amount of food on each dish was so small that we had to order a lot of dishes, which cost a lot of money, didn’t it? Anyway that restaurant was not my choice, but my daughter’s. However, Mrs. and Mr. Kondo and Yuko-chan appeared to be enjoying the dinner party. So, it was good. That was the main thing!!!
It is a bit cold here in Sydney, but this cold is bearable.
I hope you all had a lovely weekend and have a fresh start on Monday.
Good-night, my dear friends.
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