Hi, everyone!
Azalea, Sunflower, I'm interested in your Sumo issue.
I agree with Azalea's view that adopts pro-baseball as national sports.
I think Sumo are not overly popular in younger generation, because of its antiquity.
Young Japanese dislike such strict apprentice system. So, I feel pity for Asashoryu as a sort of victim.
By the way, they say a prohibition against women from stepping up into the ring is due to uncleanliness of women. It sounds strange, doesn't it? it's a men's selfish logic.
It has been humid day today...
I will go to bed early. See you tomorrow, good bye.
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi. How are you?
It is unbelievably hot today, isn't it? We still drink iced coffee and iced tea every day. Every night we make black tea and put it in the fridge. By doing it, we can have iced tea in the next morning.
Yesterday I had lunch with some friends. Every Thursday morning they study English at a local community center. Formerly, Mrs. Sanada taught us English interpretation there on Thursdays. She is the teacher who introduced Plum's tutorial to me in 2003. She got to know about the tutorial through Mrs. Kakisaka.
Several years ago, Mrs. Sanada had to quit the class because she became not able to walk very long. She has had pain in her knee and lower back after she had her knee operated. The pain has agonized her since then. I feel sorry for her when I think about her pain.
Her students were eager to continue to study and made a self study group. Each member becomes a teacher one by one and coordinates a training session. I used to be a member, but I haven't attended the class for a few years. I quit it when I decided to go to Canada.
Yesterday I promised to meet one of the members to get back books from her. And other group members joined us and had lunch together. They have been very fine and as cheerful as before. I didn't feel I haven't seen them for a while.
Plum, thank you for telling us about “tips for ESL students.” It is quite useful for me. I need to follow this instruction before Bev sensei notices that I am a student who makes the same mistakes every time and doesn't learn much. Let me see what I should get now. I have friends to ask to read my writing. I have a thesaurus which Plum recommended. I have an IC recorder to record my voice. All I have to get are 5 colored pens.
Enjoy long autumn evenings.
Hello, Cherry and friends
Today, we had Jonathan’s class and talked about Christianity again. He brought an article about an article of the failure of Nova English School’s management and he encouraged us to think if there are any points in common between the Christianity and English. I think there are a lot of common points. They have invaded Japan since the Meiji Restoration and influenced Japanese people. Japan had an inferiority complex to the modern advanced western countries, and really wanted to catch up with them and learned a lot enthusiastically. Of course English was indispensable tools to gain the western knowledge and Christianity was also important tool to understand the Western culture. Now it is said that Japan is the second economic power in the world thanks to diligent efforts to learn from the Westerns. However even now, Japanese have no self-confidence and vague good image toward the Western. That’s why so many English schools could collect many students and earned much money. That’s why almost teachers are Caucasians appealing to Japanese. Actually the first motivation of many Japanese Christians was to learn English through a bible in churches managed by foreign missionaries. Some became real faithful believers and some forgot the teachings gradually.
Today I found Jonathan is a very moderate Christian. He grew up in the Christian society and culture and his backbone is CHRISTIANITY.
Thank you for reading. I’ d like to write about Sumo issue next. See you soon!
Hello, everyone.
I enjoyed talking about Christianity with Jonathan and I realized that he was really a good person regardless of being a Christian and an English teacher. He has a well-balanced thought, so he can criticize Christianity and English education in Japan as well. When I found his different phase in playing in his band with Hula girls at Goya Moon in Irinaka last week, I envied him that he could enjoy his life in many societies. He looked so happy and enjoyable, singing and playing the Ukulele. I wish I had such talent.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you doing?
I am very glad to hear that you enjoyed talking about Christianity with Jonathan at Cosmos’ place. I enjoyed reading Magnolia’s comment about his personality. Yes, he is a nice person, isn’t he? He is very helpful and willing to help his friends and other people. I haven’t seen him for a long time. The last time I saw him was when we got together for his seminar at the university and had a chat at the coffee shop after that. That was before Sunflower and Alice went to Canada. Oh, it was a long time ago.
I have been, sort of, feeling down these days, simply because I have to work almost every day and no time to rest. Next week I will go to Osaka to see my sister, since she said that she felt dizzy and had an intravenous drip for three consecutive days. She sounds all right, but anything could happen to her, since she is getting weaker year by year. But I myself would like to have an ID. OK, OK, no more complaints about my life. I said enough, and enough is enough. I know…
But I get very happy when I hear my friends say that they had a lovely time, enjoyed themselves, had a fantastic experience, or something like that. Of course, it makes me envy, but it is good to have a delightful time for anyone.
Next Tuesday I will go to see my hand doctor, who is a very “obnoxious” individual, and I would like to avoid meeting and talking with him if possible, but he is a hand specialist and at the moment I have no other option. (I know no more complaints…I just said that, didn’t I?) Ahhh…life is hard.
Maybe, at the beginning of October I will have some free time, I hope.
Sorry about my lot of complaints. Just ignore them, please, my precious friends. I am OK, and I will be OK tomorrow. I will talk to you again. Until then, bye-bye, my dear friends. Goodnight.
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