Hi, everyone!
Dear friends, I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed discussion about Christianity.
It seems very meaningful for you, and I’m also interested in those issues.
I’m just reading now a part of Christianity in the book ‘Sophie’s world,’ but it is hard for me to understand. If given a chance, please let me know about them.
Alice, I feel respect for your eagerness to improve English, in spite of many works to do.
I was surprised when I looked at your blog, which have many, many difficult technical terms. You are a hard worker, aren’t you!
Plum, I found a feeling of familiarity to you, when I read your comment ‘life is hard.’
Even almighty Plum gave a sigh, it is unbelievable for me. But is it a life?
I just hope you will take a rest as soon as possible.
From tomorrow, a long holiday again.
Have a nice weekend, and see you!
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Hi, everyone.
Fatigue prompts to lower the immnunity against diseases.
Zinc is effective. Seeds of Yuzu bear zinc.
You are tired from anxiety. Your works blocks to disperse your worry about your sister. Maybe meeting her is the first and fast medicine for you.
In the prairie, if you are swooped by a predator such as a lion or a cheetah and you desperately run and run, how much is your stress?
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
I found an article about the history of Sumo.
Do you know when the Grand Sumo Tournament began in Japan?
According to the paper,it began around 1751 in Japan. Women were not allowed to see the bout and they could not go up the Sumo ring, which is called “Nix Woman”. This unfair and biased tradition against women was established in the middle of the Edo period. However, in 1872, the Meiji 5 year, ladies were gradually able to watch the Sumo game. The fact that they could not have a freedom to see it for more than a century came as a great shock to me.
Yet,“Nix Women, which is the dominant, unbroken and deep-rooted traditional Sumo rules, has still NOT been reformed for these 256 years.
On the report of this article, 62.6 percent of spectators at Sumo agree with "Nix Women." (女人禁制). About 59.1 percent
of them thought that women should NOT come to the ring when the ceremonies was hold. It seems that fanatics of sumo must be traditionalists and misogynists.
What do you thinki?
Hello, dearest friends!
We have three consecutive holidays again and even now hot days of summer-like. I would prefer staying home to going out on this hot day.
Well, I‘d like to talk about SUMO, too.
Sunflower, I laughed to read the sentence including the words of “misogynist” and “traditionalist”. I never think the members of Sumo Association Committee are misogynists and let alone sumo-wrestlers. They love women and actually they are always surrounded by beautiful women, the so-called TANIMACHI, hostesses of Sumo Association. On the contrary they are phylogynists. They think that Money and Women are given as rewards for victories of hard fighting. I expect Makiko Uchidate, the first nominated and only one female committee member reform the innate characteristics. But it will never be done soon. It is sure to take a long time. Traditional prejudices are deeply ingrained in our thought and feeling, so it is impossible to remove them at one stoke.
Anyway I like Sumo because its rule is very simple. Once any parts of body except feet touch on the ground, that means “defeated”. So even infants like Princess Aiko can enjoy Sumo as well as the aged.
Please have nice holidays, everybody. I am going to watch Sumo match on TV today and tomorrow. Bye.
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
Cosmos, I enjoyed reading your interesting comment.
I learned that the members of Sumo Association are phylogynists personaly. Yes, sumo rule is very simple as you say. I'm happy that you like sumo. I like Hakuho. I wish he could win this tournament.
I challenged to summarize Jonathan’s meeting last Friday.
Five of us joined and there are two new faces, Kuniko Takase and Reiko Watanabe.
We all took active parts in the discussion.
First we discussed some topics related to NOVA’s fraudulent business practices.
As is usual with him he asked us questions.
Why so large numbers of students want to study English?
English is important skills to communicate and we have been benefited from English in this global society. Cosmos said that English learning is extremely addictive so I cannot stop it.
However, in the name of English education, Novas and its institute administrative authorities have been practicing wrongdoings and pursuing profits. For example, there are plenty of more qualified and better non-Caucasians but we have been ingrained that English teachers must be Caucasians. It’s a kind of racism and came from ignorance.
The reality of English education is poor and biased. It is a misnomer.
(We learned a new word,“misnomer”. (内容が伴っていない)
We think that we know Christianity, but actually we don’t have any tight knowledge about Christianity. We studied the history of Passover and the general idea of an Old & New Testament. In the end he told us about his faith to God. He seemed to be a very good man.
I’m sorry I could not summarize well. But thank you for reading.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
Cherry, thank you for giving me a compliment. To be honest with you, I need to look up dictionaries quite often. Vocabulary and spelling are my weakest points.
I have happy news today. I attended a gender studies meeting held in the library of Aichi university. After the meeting, I saw Pomniche today. She has classes on Saturdays at Aichi. All the old members know her. Yes, she is a tutorial member who wrote an essay for our Essays 2006. She looks fine. She said she enjoys reading Cherry's blog and our comments.
Doesn't this sound encouraging?
Probably, Cherry's blog cheers her up, too.
Although she seemed very busy, I asked her to give us a short message. It is likely that she will put a comment soon.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you? Are you enjoying yourselves?
Probably you have misunderstood me, Cherry. Of course, I am not almighty. I am timid, easy to get sacred, horrified and panicky, and always worrying about something. I am really a coward. I hate myself all the time almost pathologically. Pity, isn’t it?
But I am feeling much better today. I got some time to spare this afternoon and so watched one of the DVDs I bought at an ABC shop in Sydney, which is a chain-shop selling DVDs produced by BBC. The DVD I watched today is called One Foot in the Grave; yes, it’s a British comedy series aired, perhaps, a long time ago, I guess. It is considered as a classic British sitcom, and it’s very funny. I like Fawlty Towers, and Yes, Prime Minister, both of which are also British sitcoms. I could see British detective TV series in Japan, namely, on Mystery Channel, but there is no channel specialized in British contemporary comedies in Japan. It’s a shame, really. Japanese and British people share some sense of humor, I believe, and so we can enjoy British sitcoms more than American ones, which are so nonsensical and of terribly bad taste.
I also bought Bleak House and Vanity Fair, which were TV series on DVD, I suppose. (I do not have time to watch them yet, but I assume they are so, and I think I saw them on TV or video tape almost ten years ago when I was in New Zealand, but I could not clearly understand them, coz there were so many characters appearing in these dramas that I could not keep up with the stories. By the way, Bleak House was dramatized based on an extremely long novel, which has the same title, written by C. Dickens while Vanity Fair by W. M. Thackeray. I am really looking forward to watching these DVDS when I have the time.
I got a call from Peach a couple of hours ago, and she said that her computer was broken and could not write in Cherry’s blog until she got it repaired. She was very sorry about it, and so was I. The computer is fantastically useful and I am grateful to the inventers of this brilliant machine, but at the same time we tend to rely on our computers too much, and so when it is broken…Ahhh life is hard, isn’t it?
It is getting late without my noticing it. (I have just finished talking with my sister, who calls me at this time of day almost every day.) I will talk to you tomorrow, my precious friends. Goodnight to you. Have sweet dreams…
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