Hi, everyone!
I can hear the singing of insects outside, which really makes us feel relieved, doesn't it?
Do you like novelist Haruki Murakami?
I've had no special thoughts about him, and I've read only two novels of him,
'Noruwei no mori,' and 'Umibe no kafuka.'
But the other day, I took TIME in my hand and tryed to run through it,
in which a news about Murakami appeared. It was very interesting for me.
At that time I wanted to try his novels, and so I rent 'Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.'
When I finished one of the three volumes, I regreted reading it at night.
At first, I felt a comfortable light touch with it, but finally "the horrifying narrative of a soldier
in World War 2 Manchuria"( from TIME) made me really sick.
That shock was so hard that I can't start the rest of it yet.
His novel's image was very light and amusing for me until now.
But it must be different, and so now I'm interested with himself.
Do you have any favorite writers ?
So, good bye and see you!
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Hi, everyone.
Alice, you are very funny. I was not seriously shocked by my goof but I was tired. During visit of my mother, nephew and my daughter, I was always pushed for time, on the first day, they came later than I expected. We went to the department store for shopping, then went to sushi restaurant and left it 30 minutes before the concert began at 6 p.m.. On the second day we were in the stabbing sunlight in the Little World in Gifu pref. and next day we went to a bank, a security company and the Justice office in Kariya. They took a long time to deal with what we asked them to do. I was in a hurry, because before darkness, I had to manage to make two people come back to houses in Tokyo and Chiba.
My mother implanted an artificial knee, if she trippes on one of the stairs in the dark, it is very dangerous. Her doctor told her never to trip.
I like historical novels, including The three kingdoms, Kou and Ryuho or the good earth.
Hi, everyone!!!
I just want to let you know my introduction message, which I have written recently. I don’t know whether it is interesting to you or not, but it is just what I am.
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Hello, everyone.
My name is Shizuko Aoyama. I was born and raised in Kumamoto, Kyushu, and educated at one of the Christian schools for girls. After I graduated from there, I went to Tokyo and studied English literature at university. I got married and went to California to study English composition and creative writing for a half year. On returning, I became an English teacher at a secondary school and a disk jockey on the radio in Kumamoto. Then I moved to Aichi in central Japan and had two children, a daughter and a son.
I studied English again in a serious way after my children started kindergarten, obtained a national interpreter-guide license, and began to work as an interpreter and translator in my very early 30s.
I published my first book, which was a translation of a novel, at 39, and following that, I wrote several books in Japanese and had them published by publishers in Tokyo. My most recent book, which was about an American female missionary who came to Kumamoto and founded a school for girls, was published by Domesu in Tokyo, 2006.
In my late 40s, I entered graduate school in New Zealand and studied 19th and 20th English literature, feminist readings, English linguistics in the first two and a half years, and conducted research into feminist theories and the condition of women after the end of the Pacific War (1941-1945), for the following few years at school in Australia, and finally wrote a thesis on the theme.
I am interested in various academic topics but my main interest at the moment is studies on the evangelist activities, especially those for social welfare and education of girls, of female missionaries from England and the USA stationed in Japan prior to the Pacific War. At the present time I am working on three female missionaries who made efforts individually, though in different places in Japan, to improve the physical well-being of Japanese Hansen's disease patients in the 1890s and 1900s.
I love classical music, British detective TV dramas and comedies, gardening, botanical art, and walking. I am also fond of knitting, crocheting and dressmaking. I have two cats at home at Kakuozan, Nagoya. Presently I live alternately in Nagoya and Sydney respectively for a few months at a time.
Currently I am the chair of Nagoya Women's Studies Research Group and give lectures and tutorials on feminist theory, Japanese society and culture, and missionary studies in English or Japanese, from time to time, at home in Nagoya.
I also teach English at Aichi Gakusen University Library and TCLC in Sakae, Nagoya.
Hi, everyone!!!
It is Thursday, 30th of August, today. Tomorrow is the last day of August, and then August will be gone. I just cannot believe time is going so quickly, leaving me far behind. I am struggling to catch up with the time…in vain. Anyway, I will put everything which is not so important, behind me, and make a brand new start in September. That’s the way it should be, isn’t it? Otherwise we will be overburdened and collapse easily.
Azalea, I am very sorry to hear that you are suffering from physical pain. Is that neuralgia or some other pain? The other day I went shopping and found various types of arthritis cream which were, according to their how-to-use note, effective in relieving arthritis pain, and I bought one. I apply it a few times a day and I feel better, I suppose. (The improvement is so subtle that it is sometimes really hard to tell whether it comes from the cream or not, though.) If there is any medicine which I could find in Australia, please let me know, and I will try to find it for you at a chemist’s shop.
Do you remember that the other day I mentioned about the lasagna I ate in the shopping complex at Bondi JCT, and I also said that I would like to cook it someday. Today I cooked it for supper and it turned out quite OK. (I was trying to get a recipe, and found it on the web. I just paste the website just in case you might be interested in it: Lasagna with Feta, Spinach and Pumpkin Recipe, http://www.vegsoc.org.au/recipe_details.asp?RecipeID=412)
I did not eat it, because I had a lot of caramel and macadamia nut ice cream at around 3 or 4, and I simply could not eat supper. (But tomorrow morning I will eat the dish.) Someday I would like to invite you to lunch at home in Shiroyama and cook this lasagna dish for you.
Cherry, thank you for telling us about books written by HM. I do like HM, and read some of his novels and travel journals. He is sometimes compared to Kazuo Ishiguro, a contemporary British novelist, and I would rather like KI. The other day I watched Oliver Twist on DVD directed by R. Polanski, which was marvelous and fantastic, and today I rented the DVD The White Countess scripted by KI. It is fairly hard for me to find time to watch it, but I think I could manage to find the time, I hope. The movie is set in Shanghai in the 1930s. The venue is OK and the time is OK. I really like novels which are set in the time before the start of the Pacific War (1941-5), such as this one.
Cherry, please read The Mother written by Pearl Buck, who received a Nobel Prize for Literature for her novels set in China which is in turmoil before the start of the Pacific War, when you have time. The heroine is amazing and marvelous, and I just love her.
I hope you are enjoying yourselves and the heat is letting up. I am OK.
Goodnight, my dear friends.
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Hi, everyone,
I was so amazed with the lively comments. Engels is very hard to understand, I wonder how much I can understand. It is very interesting to understand the biginning of marriage, though. I found a lot of comments about food and books.
I am tired of Asasyouryu, a sumo wrester's upheaval. Sumo does not attract me these days, though is is a national sport.
Hello again, everyone!
Thanks to alice, I could send this comment to you. Alice came to adjust my PC in spite of heavy rain today and I also enjoyed talking to her. I hope to write some comments continuously from now on.
Plum, I'm surprised to know your versatility. You worked as a disk jockey and liked dressmaking.
And you are also interested in cooking, aren't you?
I'm looking forward to your lasagne in the near future. I like Italian cuisine, so Alice and I went to Italian restaurant near my house today and I had ravioli with creamy spinach sauce, which was very tasty, and alice had gnocchi with tomato and basil sauce.
Have a nice weekend!
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