Hi, everyone!
Today was my last business day of the year, and now I am relieved at home, turning over various things in my mind. I can recognize nothing is happier than our good health, and good relationships with friends. I hope we will be in more fortunate circumstances year by year.
So, see you tomorrow, good night!
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Hi, everyone
Without toilet paper, how do you wipe your buttocks?
In desert area, people use sands.
In India, a rope crossing in the river is available.
In the Heian period, people used bamboo spatula.(I think it was too severe for those who suffered from hemorrhoid to use it.)
In my toilet, what can I make use of? of course you can't use washlet or other electrical divice.
How about newspaper? magazine?
Can I use a cloth? or rope?
They must be reused.
It is difficult to live in enviromentally low-impact living.
Rather, stop wipping the buttocks?
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
I’ve got a e-mail from Marlene, who was a professor at the departments of history and women’s studies at Capilano College in North Vancouver. She was retiring now after she had finished her last semesters.
This is her comment about our essays in 2006.
“The essays were fascinating, as always. I marvel at all the hard work that went in to them. I especially enjoyed reading your essay on prostitution but all of them were interesting.”
I sent printed essays to her six months ago. I told her that I’m so much interested in the impact of Christianity on Japanese women that I’d like to write it in my next essay. I’m now researching how Christianity was introduced in Japan. My great concern is that Christianity seems to have influenced on Japanese culture and people but I’ve been wondering why the spread of Christianity were very low.
I'm glad that Marlene told me that she would certainly sent me some information when she does come across something she could help me.
I’m reading ‘Chinmoku’ , ‘Silence’ by Endo Shusaku. I really hope that it would give me some hint for my simple question, why the spread of Christianity were very low in Japan.
Do you have some idea about it?
Hello, everyone!!!
It is Friday, December 21, 2007, today. It is cloudy, but a little warmer than yesterday.
My daughter has gone to see her friends with Yujin and my merry maid is now vacuum-cleaning the house, and I have a little time to talk to you, my precious friends.
At the moment I am reading The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860. Normally I read this book in bed before I go to sleep for one hour or so. At the moment I baby-sit Yujin when I have time in the daytime, and so I do not have enough time for reading. But on 23rd, Yoji is coming back and three of them will go and stay at Yoji’s parents’ house in Mie, and then probably I will have more time to read this inspiring and excellent book. We are going to Ohita on 28th. We will fly to Hakata and take a bus and a train to Usa. It takes a long time to get to my son's place, but I will take with me The Origins of Modern Feminism. I would like to finish reading it by the end of 2007.
In terms of women’s conditions, Britain, USA and other English speaking countries were far advanced in the middle of the 19th century. It is exciting and intriguing to know more about their social activities.
Recently I got emails from the two MA students who are at the moment working on writing their theses. It is fairly hard and energy-consuming to write a thesis. I really hope they will complete their theses and get relieved as soon as possible.
Talk to you again tomorrow. Have a wonderful time this Friday night, my precious frineds. Goodnight.
P. S.
I did not clearly realize that six months had passed after we began this blog. I am always conscious that 18th is a very special day, but I take Cherry’s Blog for granted, and did not think so deeply about the 6-month birthday celebration. (I probably had that knowledge in the back of my mind, but at the same time Cherry’s Blog was already part of my life and so I did not stop and think about it any more.) Maybe, we can continue writing in this blog for another 3 months, cannot we?
Sometimes I feel sorry for Cherry, ‘cause she has to write something in English to update this blog everyday. But I would like to remind you, Cherry, that it is just a start. You, of course, as well as we, have a long way to go. Keep writing, please.
If possible, I would like you to get the book: 起きてから寝るまで英語つぶやきドリル。This book was published by アルク。Probably you can get it from Amazon, but just in case you cannot, I will give you the phone number of the publisher’s customer service section: 03-3327-1101. Just try this book, and your English skills will definitely improve before long.
I may try to correct your English mistakes, of course not every day, but probably sometimes, if you allow me to do that.
It is just a start, Cherry. I will be with you all the time. Just be careful about your English grammar.
Dearest my friends
Today I’d like to brief you the rest of portion of Dr. Ueno’s assertion. She said we need not worry about dying alone. We need not worry about poor state’s supporting system. We need not lament over no family-members to take care of us. We should launch to build up our custom-made homes in accordance with our own respective needs. Group homes a kind of ideal homes, which are organized by similar seniors having similar ideas and intentions. Single persons have no family to leave money or assets, so they could spend money and ideas to set up comfortable home until the end of life without interrupting their ideas by others. That is a good merit for singles.
Dr. Ueno is very well known intelligent scholar and a kind of reformer, giving strong impact to conservative society. But I am afraid majority of women are not so smart and powerful as she. However she has lived her life as a pioneer since her young days. I am going to watch her later years from now on. She hates many old women are eager to die like PPK(Pin Pin Korori). It is a petty and fascist idea. We needn’t feel guilty when we have to be cared by someone.
Anyway, don’t take it seriously. Let’s live positively. Don’t worry. God only knows!
See you again soon. Have good holidays!
Hello, friends.
Today I went to listen to Oomae Kenichi's lecture with azalea and I enjoyed his interesting story.
So I'll tell you some of them. When he goes to foreign countries, he pretends to be rich and wants to buy a house at the real estate agency, then they come to pick him up at the hotel where he stays and show him around and take him to some houses. As he is a business consultant, it is a good opportunity for him to know and study that country. He can easily understand the economy of the place.
Judging from his theory, the land price is the first index of the economy.
Recently Russian people became rich and come to buy land around Mediterranian sea, so the price of the land and houses there is soaring.
He also said that averagely Japanese people left 35,000,000 yen when they died, which was useless, so use it while you are alive, enjoy your life.
I completely agree with him.
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