Hi, friends!
This afternoon I went to hear a lecture meeting of Dr Ueno, which I was also looking forward to. The topic was ‘organizing a citizen sector of minorities to survive,’ and I have imagined that she would tell us about some political issues, because the host of this event was an activists’ group for women’s political empowerment. But almost of her talk was about the nursing care for the elderly. Through her fieldwork, she could find several examples which have succeeded in an undertaking for nursery business. It is certainly important problem for us, especially those who have to face their too old parents. But I hoped to hear a point of view about women’s political participation. I suppose she can do that well, so I was disappointed a little bit. I’d like to listen to her lecture of those issues near future.
At the meeting, I could meet Cosmos, Alice, and Asahi-san.( sorry, I can’t remember your blog name.) I was happy to see them after a long time.
So, see you tomorrow. Good bye!
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Hi, everyone.
Taking care of the old is not easy, but very important for me. Especially, X-day will be imminent.
Can I continue it every day by myself? I can't trust myself. I think at least two people are needed to take care of the old who can't move. Kamato-san who died at 116 and Kin-san Gin-san were taken care of by some daughters and daughters-in-law and sons or grandchildren.
I suppose it is an important point.
If you want to die of old age, you must give birth to many babies and raise them well, moreover they must give birth to many babies.
I don't think it is a dream robots will take care of you. However, a robot holds you out of bed, and it takes you to the lavatory, on the way, the robot runs out of battery, you might have a toilet accident in the arms of the robot.
Perhaps, 30 minutes later, a municipal office staff rushes to your house.
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
Cherry, you wrote several days ago that you wanted to do what you wanted when you had your 40th birthday. And Alice put down that one of her friends said the same thing at the age 42.
When I came to 40, I vowed that I wanted to do what I really wanted. I had a lunch with a friend of mine whose birthday was exactly the same of mine. We swore at the restaurant that we wanted to do what we wanted.
Almost two decades have passed, but I have the same idea as I vowed at 40.
Good-night.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you doing? Is everything OK with you?
It was raining quietly and gently all morning, but it cleared up at round noon. This rain reminded me of the days I spent in Christchurch. It was quite wet in the city when I was there. Especially in autumn and winter it rained a lot, and I often spent some time looking out of the lounge window. I sometimes saw a young male student from Singapore, who was home-staying at the house across the road, washing his car in the early morning, especially on a very cold, misty and foggy winter morning. He was a sort of lazy high school boy and I heard that he scarcely went to school but was taking a ride almost all day. Eventually he went home. It is very strange but the grass in New Zealand was perfectly green and lively in winter. The young man’s car was bright red and the combination of the red and the green in the front garden covered with the white thin mist was so fantastic and enchanting, and I was often charmed by that, sort of, picture.
The lounge in my New Zealand house was so spacious and I sometimes just kept walking inside, simply because I did not have particular things to do. My neighbor’s black cat often came around into my house and asked me for milk by just sitting in front of the fridge and looking up at me. There was another cat that came into my lounge and this little one had a nap for a couple of hours in my armchair and off went somewhere. That cat had soft and creamy hair and was not principally pretty but extremely friendly just like other New Zealand cats in Christchurch and Auckland.
Yesterday we had a visitor, a close friend of my husband’s, in the early afternoon, and went out to a nearby coffee shop to have lunch together. In the late afternoon, my daughter and I went to a physiotherapist’s place to get some massage while my husband was babysitting Yujin.
A couple of days ago I got a phone call from Jonathan, who kindly asked me how I was and so I said that I was still in convalescence.
I hope all of you are having a lovely time in this early winter afternoon. I will talk to you again tomorrow. I am very happy that I have friends who I could talk to. Bye for now, my precious friends.
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