Hi, everyone!
Sunflower, thank you for your detailed introduction of Sumo issue. ‘Nix women’ is really steeped in our society. I think many women regard them as quite natural, and don’t doubt about reasonableness at all. Actually, because of those difficulties, the more we try to learn those subjects, the less we will want to change them, as Plum mentioned before. There are long, long path in front of us.
Cosmos, I couldn’t find the word ‘phylogynist’ on my dictionary. I’d like to know it.
Thank you again for showing a summary of Jonathan’s meeting, Sunflower.
I enjoyed them, and to my regret, I can’t attend the next meeting for my work.
Plum, I greatly appreciate your message for informal English. I will follow a course of your plan.
So, I have to wash dishes…Good bye, see you.
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Hi, everyone.
Today, I bought a big crab. It seems Dungeness crab or Cancer magister caught near Boston. It was caught in Okayama pref. I was very happy. Which did I eat, male or female?
I ate the male crab. The inside was filled with meat of crab.
From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., I was something like a farmer. I sowed two kinds of radish, native chrysanthemum of Mediterranean Sea and green onion. I worry about arid soil. Every day, sunshine is glittering. I will have to sprinkle water. If sprouts come out of the soil, grasshoppers will eat them. I expect a shrike to wipe out them. Today it looked to be engaged in collecting food for winter.
Peach, I am waiting for you, take it easy.
Hello, dear friends!
Cherry, I am sorry I misspelled the word. I correct it “philogynist” which is opposite of “misogynist”, that is, a person who like women.
Sunflower, I appreciate your summary of Jonathan’s class. It became a good review of what we did.
By the way, there are so many places and situations of “nix women”, I am wondering if there is a place of “nix men”. I cannot find the place and situation except OOOKU in Edo Era. But it was the shogun’s harem. The place was not overall “nix-men”, Shogun was a MAN. Oh, I have hit on one place, “Takarazuka”. Sorry again for my stupid comment.
Have a nice holiday! See you again. Bye!
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you doing?
It is September 23, the Autumnal Equinox Day, the first day of autumn this year. Each day is getting shorter than the last. The hot days of summer are cooling off.
Do you like autumn? In a way, I do. Autumn always reminds me of the days when I was working as a baby sitter for Danny, a two year old little boy son of an American dentist who lived in Tokyo. I was a university student, and Mrs. Johnson, my English tutor, introduced me to his wife, and I began to work twice a week at their home somewhere in Nerima Ward, or something like that. It was the beginning of autumn, just like this time of year.
My baby sitting work started at around 6 in the evening, and when I got to their house, they always looked hectic getting ready for going out to their Japanese lesson held in Chiyoda Ward, the real center of the megalopolis right after their quick dinner. I got into their place through the kitchen door, and the kitchen was still filled with the delicious smell of their dinner, which made me so hungry.
Danny was, most of the time, crying terribly, running after his mother. He was just two years old, but since he did not stop crying, his mother, who was around 23 years of age, got so irritated, and shouted, “Do you wanna spank?” and started spanking him, which sometimes horrified me, a naïve Japanese young woman, 20 years or so of age.
Anyway I was told that he was taken to his room for sleep at 8 and until then I had to look after him, bathing him and reading some books to him, mostly, religious books for children, since they were serious Christians.
I was also told never to open the door of his room no matter how hard he cried before he went to sleep. Oh, poor little boy, Danny, I always thought to myself. And, always, always he cried a lot before he went to sleep.
At around 9, or, maybe 10, his parents came home, and then I said goodbye and walked to the train station, which was quite far from their place. I remember this babysitting work of mine in those days very clearly, because the days were getting shorter, and at the same time it was getting cooler and then quite cold at night, and I felt homesick many times.
Autumn is a wonderful season. I like it. How about you? Do you have any memories related to this season, everyone?
Now it’s getting dark. It’s almost time to have dinner. Goodbye, my precious friends. I will talk to you again tomorrow.
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