Hi, friends!
How wonderful a blue sky after a typhoon has passed was!
Alice, I am always impressed by your lively writings.
I must have made many mistakes in my writings,
but I couldn't check them out.
For a long time, I don't go a restaurant or a bar with friends at night .
So, I dream of enjoying a night life(!). Is it funny?
Plum, I'm happy to meet your comment!
How are you?!
I'm keeping to write EVERY DAY!
Please enjoy your blessed time with your family,
and especially with your angel.
So, see you, tomorrow!
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Dear Cherry and friends
Cherry, thank you for your encouraging comments. I hope my writing will deserve your words. Let's keep practicing together.
Yesterday, a friend of mine, A-san, sent a message to my cell phone. She made a blog site recently. I found she wrote both English and Japanese. I just read through her English diary last night. I was impressed. Her topics are intellectually undemanding, because it seems that she chooses topics from tabloids and her English sounds just cheerful. She sounds like a foreign teenager who are always surprised at Japanese phenomenon.
A-san and I met at a meeting held by JALT about ten years ago. She was a graduate student. JALT stands for the Japan Association for Language Teaching. I used to be a social chair of its Toyohashi chapter. It sounds like a honorable job, but I was only a tea girl. I resigned it when I went to Canada with Sunflower. Since the Toyohashi chapter wanted members, learners like me were allowed to become members. I met English teachers and eager English learners. A-san was one of diligent learners. I will try to give English comments to her blog sometimes.
July 16, 2007 1:50 JST
Hi, Cherry, and friends
Typhoon passed away but it left my house a big damage. The bath boiler was broken. So-long pouring rain damaged it because it is outside. Another reason it was old enough to be vulnerable. Anyway I need extraordinary expenses.
Plum, thank you for nice information from Sydney where it is now winter, opposite season in Japan? You are happy to escape from muggy Japanese summer. I spent ten days in Sydney around ten years ago. I recalled the unique designed opera house, nice seafood restaurants along Quay, Hard Rock cafe, monorails running over the streets, an aquarium IN sea, fantastic small museums and etc.. The atmosphere of the city is rather Asian than Western. I love the city. Someday I’d like to visit there again.
By the way, I became a member of Tokai Toast Master’s Club last year, which has a regular meeting once a month. We members give an English speech in front of others.
It is a tough but stimulant activity for me. Last night was the regular meeting day of July. Jonathan attended the meeting as a guest and was welcomed by everybody. After meeting we had enjoyed having a nice meal and drinking at Okinawa food restaurant. Jonathan promoted his hula dance party held on July 29th. He looked happy to have nice responses from girl’s members. Anyway He will be sure to listen to our presentations in Aichi seminar. Let’s do our best! See you soon.
Hi, everyone!!!
Did you have a good day today?
It’s Monday today. Mrs. and Mr. Kondo left for Gold Coast, hoping that my daughter will not deliver her baby while they are away. They are incredibly adventurous. At least Mr. Kondo is so. He is quite bossy and demanding and takes his wife about as he desires. My father was not so male chauvinist as he is, nor is my brother. He is a good-looking (extremely handsome for his age) middle-aged fellow human being and knows how to behave himself to others except one. Who has made him such a ‘devilish’ man? The answer is his wife.
But she didn’t do anything. She did what she had to do. Without asking herself what she was doing, she kept doing what she was supposed to do. What’s wrong with it? Almost all their neighbors would suppose that she is a kind, gentle and warm-hearted woman, perhaps, though feeling sorry for her, implicitly, somewhere in their heart. Some, or just a few might think it should not be like this.
She is an unmistakably affectionate, motherly middle-aged Japanese woman, while her husband is categorically a spoiled, childish Japanese man in middle age. They are a perfectly NICE couple to all the Japanese, who might give them a lot of smiles, though enforcedly. ‘Cause they act as Japanese society expect married couples to act in their mid-life and they are thoroughly complementary as ‘mother’ and ‘child’. So what? you may ask. This is Japan, isn’t it? Yes, you’re right. That’s the way it is. I know that… This is Japan, Japan, Japan…
Please do not overreact to my message. It is just what I am thinking to myself.
I have to cook dinner. Yoji will be back at around eight tonight. Bye, bye, my dear friends.
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