Hi, everyone!
Plum, I’m interested with your comment about Japanese scholars’ laziness. When did you think so, like as in your university’s days? How do you think those scholars show their thoughts to us? I have no idea of that field, but I think there are few distinguished people who openly speak to public about some kind of social issues. They should show their own opinion more and more, so that we the people can think of that. But we already have a handy tool for learning. Even without a specialist, especially a male authority, we can study every field on the web, can’t we?
Today I cleaned up our rooms, put our clothes to right, and it made me happy. Such domestic labor is endless for us.
So, good bye, see you!
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Hi, everyone.
The price of gold is over 3,000 yen for the first time since I began to buy it about 20 years ago. The price of Crude oil is now over 84 dollars per barrel. I had not heard the price. At last, the surge of raw material price hits our table.
Pocky's quantity is cut back and Bread's price rises by 20 yen. If the tomorrow's price is higher than today's, everyone will run to buy commodity and house them. I recalled the rice shortage. The rice disappeared from the shelf except for the rice from Thailand. On my house table, there was a bowl filled with Thailand's long grain rice.
I thought the shortage was not serious in harvest. Exactly, Tohoku region's damage was serious, but gross harvest in nationwide was not so low. Where was the rice? After the next autumn, I knew the rice was in respective households with black small elephant like bugs.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Autumn air is so clear and sky is so high. Cherry, Aikidou for female sounds interesting. I am interested in Japanese martial arts. Many foreign people are interested in them. Some of them once asked me about Karate. I was very annoyed and sad because I have had no experience. (Azalea had done judo!) Plum, I love zenzai, too. I’ll make it. I cooked sukiyaki for dinner today.
Hello, friends.
Today I asked my husband to take me to Sanage Onsen with a humble attitude. He accepted it under the condition of my payment for all fees. I can drive there by myself, but totally about 1.5 hours' drive will make me tired and the effect of spa will disappear. I've been very busy these days and my fatigue was accumulated, so I really need to go to Sanage Spa, which is good for rheumatism and whenever I go, it cures pain of my wrist. Plum,I really recommend you to bathe yourself there. It is the only spa we can drink water of the hot spring in Aichi prefecture. Moreover we can bring the water for free, so I always take some bottles and bring back its water and use it for cooking or drinking. It's full of minerals.
So while drinking it,I feel energetic and less exhausted than usual. Today we brought back 4 litters of water each.
After taking a bath, we went to Sanage Shrine where we prayed for our health and cure of our deseases. The shrine is famous for curing deseases.
According to Ehara Hiroyuki's book'Spiritual healing', going to shrine as well as spa is very good to get healing. He says that we can emit fatigue, dirt and ectoplasm while taking a bath and can refresh ourselves.
So today I could revive thanks to my husband. According to 'Josei no Hinkaku', an elegant woman never forgets thanks.
Hello, everybody!
Whenever I read the comments in the blog, I am amazed to know how active you are and what many things you are dealing. Plum’s zenzai. Cherry’s aikido, Magnolia’s JICA’s lecture meeting, etc. I wonder they might 48 hours a day. I doubt if my day is 12 hours long.
Azalea, I am always laughing at your comment. I can imagine how active, tomboyish and cute you were in your childhood. I love your character. You still maintain an atmosphere of a young boyish girl being crazy about dinosaur.
Alice, you must have had nice time with your friends after long time interval. Please cherish such a time with your friends.
By the way, I also got a call from my old friend last week after a long time silence, maybe three or four years’ interval. It was a kind of urgent call. She said that she had been hospitalized because of a fracture of a thigh bone for several months. In addition, I know she has undergone artificial dialysis since around a decade ago. So I can understand how serious her condition is. Anyway she went through the treatment and recovered from the injury. But to my sadness, her condition has not recovered well. She has to be in hospital again. She asked me to come and chat with her and said she will not endure the solitude. I know her past with wax and wane. She used to be a very diligent person. She took master’s degree in her 50s and fulfilled her life as a psychotherapist, overcoming her tragedy of losing her daughter by car accident ten years ago. But she can’t stand on her foot now. She is crying for my help. I will go to see her soon. I am sorry I have written a little bit sad story tonight. Good night, everybody.
Hi, everyone!!!
I was extremely busy, and could not read your messages last night, but this morning I woke up at around 4:30 a.m., and got up a little before 5 a.m. (My life is quite erratic these days.) I sometimes wake up very early in the morning, perhaps at 4 or 5, and it is normally still dark and I have to turn on the light. Most of the time, first of all, I get up quickly and feed our cats, because they run to me after I wake up and start doing something. Then, I have breakfast by myself, and read the newspaper or watch TV for a while. (Sometimes I fall asleep after breakfast, though I don’t want to get back to sleep in the morning.)
Cherry, thank you for your interest in my anger concerning the laziness of Japanese scholars. I felt so sick and tired of their laziness when I was teaching at Nagoya Gaikokugo University. The executive teaching staff in the English and American Studies was interested in patronizing the students, rather than instructing what the students should learn at university.
Several years ago, before I started university work, I talked with an associate professor in English literature at a certain university in northern Kanto. She said that she was too busy meeting and talking with and looking after her students’ parents. I could not figure out what she was talking about, but what she meant was that she had to hold a class observation day for her students’ parents, because they asked her for it. After class, she met and explained them what she was teaching and what their children were learning in her class, just like junior high school teachers do on a class observation day. She said sternly that today’s university students were just nursery school infants or kindergartners.
Then, 5 and a half years ago I started to teach at university. Most of my students did not have even the elementary level of English ability. (But one of such students got into Nanzan University Graduate School and graduated from it last year. I don’t know what to say about it!!!) I also had a student who was suffering from leaning disability. This student interrupted and disturbed class several times. There were plenty of students similar to him in my classes.
Japanese universities are just undergraduate degree producing companies. They seek profit and neglect teaching. Most of the Japanese universities are destroyed (I’m not talking about the buildings) and are not functioning as they are socially expected to do. How deplorable!!!
But sometimes I think Japanese universities as they are might be better for the welfare of the Japanese, at least, for the time being. Probably it is not necessary to think about the academic development of educational institutions for future generations in this country, Anyway we die one after another sooner or later. Future Japanese citizens will think about what they have to do themselves…
Am I thinking too seriously about the extremely low academic standard of present Japanese universities? Sometimes I get confused.
Now I have to go to work, my precious friends. I will talk to you if I have enough energy left after I come back. Bye for now.
Hello again,
I came back. Average public junior high school in Nagoya has only three English classes a week. Moreover thanks to the happy Monday, it decreases to twice a week, which is not enough. One of the junior highs where AET I know work has three lessons plus AET class (four in total). She says the students there like English and have higher ability. I am puzzled at the different curriculum. Teachers should give homework to make a habit of studying at home to compensate. Checking homework has very important meaning. To make a system of checking efficiently and surely is in need. Actually in my school days I had never checked. Voluntary study was more important. If more than half students in the class are lazy and don’t do their homework, it doesn’t work well and the teacher should find another system. Were you diligent in school days?
Thank you for reading.
Hi, everyone.
Peach, I played the mock Judo.
I was a lazy student.
Cosmos, sorry for your anxiety over your precious friend.
Yes, Spa is the best cure. I recommend Mine spa in Kawazu cho, shizuoka Pref. This onsen is surprising. If you go, you would understand what I say.
In my opinion, it takes 50 years to cultivate brilliant human resources, of course, as the result of society and school coping with it seriously.
In Asian nations, the good result gradually comes out from many places and shpere.
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