Hi, everyone!
I just came back from Osaka today.
I feel it was cooler in Osaka than in Nagoya.
When my family went to lunch at a hotel in Osaka,
many high school students were there, who all had a sports bag, signed
their school's name.
Some came from Hokkaido, and some from Ibaragi.
Yes, they would go to Koshien, the high school baseball championship.
The sight made me feel hot.
Dear friends, all your comments are very interesting and
full of lessons for me.
Just reading yours makes me happy, but I always have difficult in writing.
Magnolia, thank you for your advice.
I 'll try to thank my husband and tell my kids how happy they are.
(It seems pretty difficult...)
Azalea, I sympathized with your friend.
I also think in my heart, 'where can I be relaxed?'
Is it possible for a housewife to has her own room for relaxing?
So, it is late.
Good night and see you !
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. Have you ever heard of mixi?
Mixi is one of the social networking sites where people make friends on line and they communicate each other. You can keep diary there like other websites for blogs. Blogs are usually open to the public, so everybody can see them. However, in mixi, you can restrict access only to your friends.
A few years ago, one of my friends who lives in Chiba invited me to mixi. Since then, I'm a member of mixi. Now I have several friends there. These friends are called my mixi, maimiku for short.
My profile says that I'm a feminist. A woman whose nickname was Naomi was interested in my profile ,introduced herself and invited me to her mixi. I accepted her offer and joined her mixi. She lives in Tokyo. I was in Canada at that time. I was interested in her, because she was aware of women's issues and had a lot to say about them. She is the first person I have made friends with on line. I had never tried to get to know somebody over the Internet.
Last March, we met in Tokyo for the first time. She is tall, cool and beautiful. A lecture was going to be held at Hosei university. We decided to attend it together. We had lunch before the lecture and enjoyed chatting. On that day, Heidi Gottfried, a visiting professor of Ochanomizu University, talked about a comparison between Japanese woman workers and American counterparts. A few weeks ago, she informed me of another lecture by Catherine MacKinnon. This sounded really interesting, but I had another plan on the day. Later, she summarized the lecture on her mixi diary, so I sent some comments on that.
I'm sure she will let me know interesting lectures and events in the future.
It's time for lunch.
Have a good afternoon.
August 13, 2007 13:39 JST
Hi, everyone!!!
What is happening in your life?
It is Monday, and it was a bit chilly here in Sydney.
We went to a huge shopping mall at Bondi JCT, and did some shopping. The reason we went there was that my daughter wanted to get something for her mother-in-law’s birthday, which is probably coming soon. She said that she wanted to buy a botanical drawing for her but we could not find any good one, and so she bought a handbag produced by Country Road, which is a big brand name in Australia, instead. We came home at around 6, and no sooner had she got home than she said that she had a terrible headache, probably caused by exhaustion, and her baby became grumpy and cried a lot, although he was fully breastfed. She is still in bed with Yujin on the stomach, otherwise he would start crying. (It’s really hard to be a mother,, isn’t it?)
Alice, I am very happy that you made fiends with someone who has something in common, in your case, feminism. (I am especially delighted to know that you have great interest in it.) It is extremely hard to happen to see or become friends with someone whom you can talk with regarding a subject which you have intellectual curiosity about. I also know it is quite risky to try to make friends online, which sometimes turns out to be deceptive.
On the other hand, the Internet is really convenient and has already become part of our life, and without it I just cannot think of what my life would be like. My daughter and Yoji as well as my husband appear to have a good time writing in Mixi, although I have never tried it.
It’s almost 11 at Japan Time, and I think I will go to bed now. Goodnight, my dear friends. Sleep tight…
Dear Plum
As you told us before, feminism is a kind of philosophy.
I buy this statement the best among all that have been suggested in the feminist world.
Encountering feminism was a paradigm shift for me.
It changed how things looked, relieved me from social stigma, and made me think about social norms critically. Feminism always teaches me how unreasonable anger inside me can be reasonable, and worth considering.
We can't solve all the problems immediately, but the important thing for me is that there are always some people who can share the same problems and that solidarity can give a woman power.
Good night.
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