Hi, everyone!
It was the coldest day today, wasn’t it!? I had to put on my down jacket to go out. Winter finally has come. They say the flu will go around this winter, and I’m afraid of that I might catch it this season. I must wear a flu mask on a subway so as not to receive others germs.
When I went to the lecture meeting of Dr Ueno several days ago, as I told you before, I got some copy materials of her story, published on Fujin koron and Nikkei woman. I was interested with one article on it, saying she had hated her mother because of devoting to her bossy father. Azalea taught me before that Fusae Ichikawa, a great advocate for women’s suffrage, had also been disappointed by her father’s violence against her mother. It is interesting that those repressions of their mothers made them aim toward women’s empowerment.
So, it’s time to prepare a bath. See you tomorrow!
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Hello, friends.
No, Cherry I have no confidence to pass the Guide Exam. In addition to my wrong greeting, I replied badly sometimes. When the examiner asked me when and where was the last summer Olympics held in Japan.
I was at a loss, because I remembered last winter Olympics in Nagano, but what about summer Olympics? She told me it was in Tokyo in 1964. I didn't think of that far at all.
So I replied , " Oh,Yes and Tokyo governor wants to invite it again. It will enhance Japanese economy if it'll happen."
Then I was asked the difference between Shinto and Buddhism. My first essay was about Butsudan, so I could speak about it for a while. I prepared talking about tourist spots in Nagoya and Kyoto, but she didn't ask about them at all instead she asked me about Okinawa which I have never been to.
My son went there and liked its Soki Soba which was only I could talk about.
I made friends with 3 people from Aichi and after the exam. we talked about the test over a cup of coffee, all of whom had no confidence and they are older than I, so they said,"If I can pass it, maybe we'll have no opportunity to work as a guide because we are too old for it. If I fail, I have no gut to try it again." They are all modest people. I wonder if I will try it again.
Hi, everyone.
Your breath turns into white when you exhale it. The deep winter I like the best has come.
Cherry, when living things die, soft tissues almost disappear from decomposition by bacteria and scavengers including insects and vertebrate animals. We know about dinosaurs which lived more tnan 65 million years ago by the fossilized bones and impression such as footprints or skinprint and fossilized manure. Sometimes, calcified tendon and calcified cartilage remain as fossil. However, to observe skin or ligament of dinosaurs is nothing but a miracle. You often see the dinosaurs in the movie or in the book. However, even their colors are not true. Their shape or pattern is imagined or speculated through the petrified bones. No one knows real dinosaurs. This is the fact. This discovery brings us numerous information and reveals what dinosaurs are. not all but some parts, of course.
By the way, do you know the words 'shanks' pony' and 'Hobson's choice'? One American says that these words were used in the dinosaurs' era. It means dead language. Do British people agree to it?
Hello,everybody!
I have retreatred from this blog for a while. Then it might be angry at me. It doesn't work well. So this is a trial. I hope it will reach you.
Ok, anyway it has run.Then I'll continue my message.Firstly I must apologize to you for a long retreat.Now, I have read fantastic and inspiring messages from you. How nice! Some are so exciting and interesting new information, others are so poetic ones full of fantastic views of life. I love all of them and enjoyed a lot.
By the way, yesterday was Jonathan's Class day. As you know, his favorite topic is "discrimination". I told one story about discrimination I happened to encounter in Turumai park which has now beautiful collored scenary. One man was enjoying feeding doves. He looked very happy surrunding doves, a symbol creature of peace. However a lot of crows outside of doves were waiting for a chance to pick up the food for doves. A crow managed to pick up one food narrowly. What happened next. You canimagine easily. The manfeeding doves,was very angry at the ceow,and fight off with loud voice and shaking his fist at all ceows. Doves were still happily enjoy eating. This scene was in the beautiful colorful woods under the clean blue sky. My story is also poetic, isn't it? By my precious friends. See you soon.
My dearest friends
I am very sorry so many wrong spelling in my last messaage. Anyway the PC guidance is a little different from the before. I don't know why. But I will be able to do soon, I hope. Please forgive me.
Hello, everyone!!!
How are you doing?
It is Friday, December 6, 2007, today. It has been a little warmer than yesterday, but still it has been a bit chilly, and I have stayed at home all day.
It has been extremely quiet this evening since my daughter has gone to Yoji’s parents’ place with Yujin, and there is no sound but silence in my lounge.
The other day, I was looking for something, and happened to find a little poem I had been looking for, say, for twenty years, since I moved into my house at Shiroyama.
When I was 19 years old, I began taking private English lessons from an elderly American woman at her house in Ogikubo, Tokyo. A half year or so later, she left and one day she sent me a card from USA and a dainty and lovely poem was printed on it. I often read it out and loud, and it became my treasure, but I could not find it for a long time and I thought I had lost it. But I found it.
I don’t know whether you like poems or not, but I like short poems like this one, and I sometimes read out for relaxation and feel refreshed. I just copy it in my today’s message, and I hope you like it.
Thinking of You
Once a day, and sometimes more,
You knock upon my daydream door,
And I say warmly, “Come right in,
I’m glad you’re here with me again!”
And we sit down and have a chat,
Recalling this, discussing that,
Until some task that I must do
Forces me away from you…
Reluctantly I say good-bye,
Smiling with a little sigh,
For though my daydreams bring you near
I wish that you were really here…
But what reality can’t change
My dreams and wishes can arrange…
And through my wishing you’ll be brought
To me each day, a guest in thought.
Goodnight, my precious friends. I will talk to you again tomorrow. Sweet dreams…
Just one correction to my message.
It is not Friday, but Thursday today.
Sorry about my mistake.
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