Hi, everyone!
Cosmos, Happy birthday to you!!
How did you enjoy today?
I vividly remembered you, when I met you for the first time.
I think your name Cosmos go perfectly with you, cute and clean.
Thanks to you, I managed to come here with all of you.
Thank you, Cosmos, I hope you will enjoy more and more.
Plum, I was happy to hear that you also like TV drama Desparate Housewives.
I love all housewives, but Bree gave me a most deep impression.
I don't know my feeling mean "fantastic," (Doesn't this mean a good?)
She had a nice husband, who was a doctor, and two healthy kids.
She did her job everyday as a housewife perfectly, but ended in a tragedy.
Though Susan didn't have any sense for good housewife, She looked like happy.
I want to talk more, but I will later.
Today, our blog had two months!
I am really enjoying this blog and hope you also enjoy.
So, good night and see you!
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First,congratulations to
two-month blogging!
I think you manage this blog
perfectly.
And then, I reallized that
an atmosphere of this blog is
exclusive a little bit.
So, if you want I would not
comment in this blog.
Anyway. Congratulations again.
Dear lithenium,
Hello.
I think they don't care your comments. Our comments may sound exclusive. It's because we have already known each other.
There is another reason. We use this website to exercise informal English writing. So we don't discuss a topic deeply. Some of us even don't read what others write. We just write what we want to write, which is the basic rule of this website.
This is experimental. I think this is a good idea.
Dear friends
Cherry, thanks for your great efforts, our members can have a space and a chance to write in English. I think it is impossible to exchange our messages so frequently if we write in Japanese. English has a magical power to relieve our mind from sorts of restriction. Let’s keep on together!
Lithenium, please don’t hesitate to write down your comment. We can write freely what we want to write here. Our goal is to improve writing skill in English. Even if we don’t get any response to our comments, we don’t care. We are enjoying friends’ comments and have a fun to express ourselves. We welcome you and expect your message.
By the way, I mentioned that I was born in China. All our family came back soon after the end of the War. My father had worked with National Railroad Company in China until the end of the War. (He had never had an experience of a soldier.) My parents never spoke ill of Chinese. On the contrary they often said that Chinese was generally kind and tender with broad-mindedness. Some Chinese showed very generous support carrying food to Japanese even after the defeat of Japan. On the other hand, my parents were ashamed of oppressive Japanese Imperial soldiers who were domineering over poor Chinese citizens. They saw very often Japanese soldiers threatening Chinese with force as a daily occurrence. So, nowadays many Japanese have a bad image of Chinese such as piracy, contaminated food etc. through media’s coverage. But I don’t have a bad impression so much. Of course I think almost all Japanese are kind and tender, too. But once a war happens, it can easily change human’s minds and makes persons two types, the oppressors and the oppressed. So we never cause a war again.
Hi, everyone!!!
How was your day today? Were you happy or sad today?
I went out to the city to see Hitomi san today. I left home at around noon, and it was raining quite heavily. I really hate rain in Sydney, since I had a terrible time on a rainy day many, many times in the past here in Sydney. .
I went into an ABC shop in Queen Victoria Building near Sydney Town Hall, and looked around mainly at the shelves where UK TV drama DVDs were displayed, and found North and South which was based on the novel of the same title written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published in 1854. I read it in the 19th century women writers course at grad school in Auckland. It was a feminist reading class, and I tremendously enjoyed the course.
North and South is a social novel in the mid-19th century, and presents a contrast and conflicts between the old agricultural gentry of the south of England and the new industrialists of the north, as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South.
As the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester, Elizabeth Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas.
I couldn’t find the price, and so I didn’t buy it. Anyway it was almost the time we were supposed to meet at the statue of Queen Victoria, and so I rushed there. The rain was still falling, and I saw some Asian woman going up to someone and talking to her, and she came up to me, and asked, “Are you Nancy?” I said no, and she went away. Then I saw that someone was looking at me, but I am nearsighted, and she was about 10 meters away, and so I couldn’t see her well. We looked at each other for about 2 or 3 seconds, and we realized that we were looking for each other.
Hitomi san, as you know well, used to have long hair, but now she got her hair much shorter, but anyway she looked fine and terrific and gorgeous. We went up to the second floor and sat at a small table on the corridor, and she ordered cappuccino and banana bread and I café latte and French omelet with cheese, and then we started to talk in an orderly and serious way. (Actually no sooner had she realized that it was me than she started talking what was happening to her.)
She is going back to Japan toward the end of this year temporarily, maybe, will stay for a year or two, and she said that she would like to see you members of Nagoya Women’s Studies Group. Isn’t that great?
I think I got home at around 6 after doing some grocery shopping at Coles on my way home. When I got this flat building, the elevator was out of order, and so I went up the stairs to the 4th floor. Oh, it was so exhausting.
Tomorrow Yoji goes to class, and I will have another hectic day. (It was my day off from work today. I am a live-in maid.)
I had a lovely time talking with Hitomi san. I hope you had a lovely day too, my dear friends. Good night... I am pleasantly tired and going to bed a little earlier.
Dear Cosmos,
Thank you for telling us your memory of China. Your parents sound like you. You have never spoken ill of others.
I heard that although many people had to flee from China when the war ended, most Chinese people didn't attack Japanese people.
What surprised me was Jakucho's story. She was in China at that time, too. She saw billstickers which said, "let's repay enemies with kindness." That's, I believe, the Chinese people's spirit and the heart of the continent. We should remember such a spirit.
I hope for peace in the world forever.
Hi, everyone.
I read all of comments every day. I am looking forward to reading respective commnets every day.
I can guess or speculate what is your personality, tendency or idiosyncrasy. If you don't mind, let me talk about your impressions.
Alice, you are straightforward, sharp but cute.
Cherry, you are placid and warm but you have a principle.
Cosmos, you are discreet, I feel as if I was in the library when I read your comments.
Magnolia, you are amiable and natural.
Plum, you have affections like a sea and you are impeccable.
Sunflower, you are full of affections, reminding me of universal mother.
Hello, Lithenium.
What kind of flower is your name?
Your comment suggests you are a manager.
I think my guess is not far off the point.
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