Hi, everyone!
Sunflower, I also remembered when Jonathan came to our meeting,
and said 'castration'.
At that time I couldn't understand his opinion all,
and so I'd like to read that paper.
Would you send it for us?
"oyakusho no okite"(in Japanese) gave me many suggestions.
Plum, I'm also sorry for Ulala-san's trouble,
and I hope she will be well soon.
She and her husband must be reassured by your great help.
By the way, I read an article about Mary Wollstonecraft, and was very impressed with her powerful life.
I have great respect for her many courageous behavior, especially a refutation against Rousseau, a well-known thinker.
I have heard his problematic statements in his nobel Emile, but never heard her resistance.
One of my high school teachers used to say in public, "women have to please men and to bear their children," and gave me angry at that time.
I was disappointed in many people thinking so in their heart, but she gave me a strong power to fight against.
Thank you very much, Plum.
So, I have to cook, good bye, friends!
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Hi, everyone.
I am sorry for Ulala-san's suffering from headaches.
I suppose rest is a medicine.
Dear Cherry and friends,
How are you, everybody?
How is your daughter today, Plum? I hope she'll get better soon.
This morning Nancy went back to Canada. Nancy was an English teacher at a junior college. Some of you might remember her. She came to listen to our presentations of summer seminar a year before. She has been in Japan for 5 years. I met her in Toyohashi in 2004. She was a teacher at Aichi university then. She was also a volunteer teacher. My nieces attended her class for a while. She was so good at entertaining kids that my nieces learned some easy English words. She kept kids moving. When they played games, my younger niece often said to us, “I am too small to play the game.” The 5-year-old always had Nancy piggyback. While piggybacking, Nancy ran with other kids.
She is going back to school. She got a masters degree in French literature before she became an English teacher. She first taught in Taiwan. From September, she takes a special course for teachers of French immersion programs at a university in British Columbia.
“What's French immersion?” I asked her.
In French immersion programs, students study all the ordinary subjects such as math, social studies, and science in French. In Canada, some parents send kids to French immersion schools. They wish their kids become proficient both in English and French. Almost ten years ago, there were few such schools in Vancouver. One of my friends researched for her kid's education but she was told that either parent had to be able to speak French at that time. Nowadays, French immersion schools are increasing in British Columbia, non-French speaking families are allowed to make kids attend French immersion programs, and more teachers for the program are demanded.
Next year, Nancy will finish the course. She doesn't have any problem in using French because she is from Quebec, where people speak French. She has enough career as a teacher. It's highly probable that she will get a full time teaching job after finishing the course.
We had lunch together yesterday. I promised her to visit her in the future, hugged each other, and said good-bye.
August 22, 2007 16:55 JST
Hi, everyone!
Cherry, my first impression of you was that you are very moderate placid person. Now I have seen another aspect inside of you. You are very diligent and positive person with the spirit of inquiry and influential with us. You always gets in touch with information from Plum right away. I haven’t read articles about Mary Wollstonecraft, yet. But I will soon.
Well, I have bought a new computer and a printer. I must set up the new ones. My daughter set up the former computer, but I think I’ll try it by myself, though it might take a lot of time. I hope I can do well.
Hi, everyone!!!
How did you spend your day today? Was it a lovely day to you?
Thank you so much for your kind and sweet concern and consideration about Ulala’s headache and welfare. We really appreciate your thoughtful and affectionate comments.
Yesterday she was still suffering from her terrible headache and stayed in bed most of the time, and I was extremely busy running around in the flat looking after her and the baby from dawn to dusk. I was still busy as a bee in the evening until Yoji came home at around midnight. Then, I went straight to bed and fell asleep instantly.
Today her headache was totally gone, and she was fine and happy as if nothing had happened. I was greatly relieved, but I was nonetheless busy and had no time to sit down and take a rest. Now I realized I did not have time to take off my pajamas and get dressed, and wore the sleep-wear for two consecutive days. Tomorrow I would like to take a shower first thing in the morning and get refreshed. (My daughter has to go to the immigration office tomorrow, and probably I will have another hectic day. But it’s OK with me. )
The baby has a hormonal rash all over the face and head as well as neck, which is quite common to new-born babies. But we bathe him twice a day, which makes us terribly busy, but that’s what the baby’s mum wants to do, and I just let her do it. He is getting bigger and bigger and already grew out of the clothes for a new-born baby.
I hope everything is going well with you. Have a good night, my dear friends. I will talk to you again tomorrow.
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