Hi, everyone!
It has been cold today, hasn’t it? It seems the severe winter has come back.
Today is Saturday, and I have some routine work. At noon we have lunch while watching a TV program yoshimoto, a sort of, slapstick comedy. After lunch, I send my kids to piano lessons and the library. We have maintained such schedule for about two years.
So, see you tomorrow. Good night.
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Hello Cherry and my friends.
It’s very windy today. The first spring gale is blowing now. It’s one o'clock in the afternoon. I’m in my warm studying room.
Alice, thank you for your feedback.
I also thought the subject of "posting" is "The Yokohama customs authorities and “post” means “ announce”. But it was not. Its subject is "imports" because the headline said that “Bottled water imports post fourfold increase. In this context “post” means “record” and “show.
Thank you for your attention.
Good evening, ladies.
It has been an extremely windy day today, hasn’t it? Horrible north wind!!! Terrifying, isn’t it?
Normally I go to the rehabilitation clinic on Saturday to get a traction therapy, which is likely to be quite effective to me. It seems that at last I am getting out of my convalescence stage. These days I am getting in much better shape, although I am still not as completely well as I was before I got hernias.
My daughter said that she and her family could be coming back in June or July, but if they could not make it, I would like to go to Sydney to see them for a week or so.
Tomorrow the renovation company will send workmen to remove our downstairs toilet and install a new one. It has been broken for a month and a half, which caused us a lot of inconvenience. I thought of getting it repaired, but it has been 20 years old, and so probably it’s better to get a new one, I supposed.
I am planning to get the floor of the west-side sunroom elevated so that my grandkids would play around there when they come and visit us. At the moment, the floor of our lounge is 23 centimeters higher that that of the sunroom.
Talk to you again tomorrow, my dear friends. I hope you are having a lovely Sunday. Goodnight…
Hi, everyone.
Today, I got up at around 7:30.
I left for Foresta hills located at Suigen in Toyota city at 10 o'clock. There, we walked about for a half and one hours. Once, we went there to gather bracken. The landscape was changed very much. I can't identify the place with the past one. However, big ferns were only track to me. We got back to house at 12:30. We had the lunch. Then I cut fruits from citron trees including a lemon tree. Before sprouting, I have to cut off all of them. How many I cut, pleas imagine, maybe more than 200 fruits. What a shame! I did not have latitude to do it before. I was always pushed for time.
No, exactly, I had enough time, but I could not. I was obsessed with an essay. It was woeful. Then I read Revolution and the Reule of Law. It is still a conundrum for me. I quitted reading it, then I tried to solve the questions of Essential Grammar in Use. I feel it is like falling scales from eyes. You don't understand what I said. It means this book is important for my ignorance. Thanks to Plum. Good night!
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
I'd like to write about
the history of Christianity:
In 1549 Franscis Xavier (1560-1552) introduced Christianity and Catholicism to Japan. The Tokugawa Shogunate decided to ban Catholicism in 1614. The isolation policy of Japan continued until 1853 when Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan.
Commodore Perry came to Uraga, Tokyo Bay with four U.S. Black Ships forcing Japan to open its country to America in 1853. The next year the Treaty of Amity was signed. Two ports, Shimoda and Hakodate were opened to United States trade. The first consul who resided in Shimoda was Townsend Harris. This treaty did not give Americans the right to reside in Japan, therefore missionary efforts were not allowed.
In 1858 the Treaty of the Commerce with America was concluded between Harris and Japan. This treaty provided American citizens to reside in Japan but it never allowed them to preach Christianity to the Japanese people. There were prejudices and antagonism against Christianity across Japan.
Men of integrity were sent to do the first mission work in this country. Control the government imposed on Christian was great and it was death of a Japanese to become a Christian.
In 1859 six missionaries were sent to Japan by three denominations from American Churches. The early missionaries were limited to teaching English, medical and scientific works to Japanese people and engaged in translating the Christian Scriptures and hymns. However, they were so excellent teachers with good characters that they were respected and admired by Japanese people.
In 1867 the Tokugawa government was collapsed and the Meiji government established.
In 1871 the freedom of religion was introduced, giving all Christian communities rights to for legal existence and preaching.
The year of 1973 was a turning-point in the history of Christianity. The edicts against Christianity were lifted and the noticed-boards of prohibiting Christianity were removed.
Years between 1873 and 1888 were the plowing and rapidly growing periods for Christianity. Public preaching was begun. In 1880 the completion of the translation of the New Testament was made. Six denominations were added to the last three ones.
Three bands of early groups of Protestantism in Kumamoto, Yokohama, and Sapporo were established. I'D like to write more about Kumamoto Band.
Thank you for reading.
Sunflower,
Sorry for meddling. I still thought it meant "to announce" because I always consider headlines as incomplete sentences. I really have a stubborn attitude of understanding.
I'm getting worse these days.
OK, it "recorded" or "showed" an increase. I see.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi. How are you?
Subzero temperatures made me reluctant to go out, but I had to. Two days ago, I offered mother to give her a ride to the station on Sunday morning. She and her friends took a day trip to Mt. Iwamoto from where Mt. Fuji and plum blossoms can be watched. Thanks to the blue sky, hikers were able to look at the beautiful scenery. She took photos there. I printed them for her. The photos show that they couldn't enjoy watching the scenery. People look as if they wanted to move out from there as soon as possible. She said it was too cold and windy to stand still.
I had been waiting for a parcel until this evening. The other day, I ordered a RAM (random access memory) which is to be installed in my sister's computer. She recently complained it was irritatingly slow. I checked the line connection and other functions of the PC. Its memory size was very small. Therefore I suggested that we should increase the size of memory. I ordered one through the Internet. Since I didn't know the vendor, I requested payment by cash on delivery. It is supposed to be safe. The vendor sent an e-mail on Saturday, saying I was able to check the current position of the parcel. A certain delivery agent provides such a service. So I checked it this morning and found it had already arrived at a branch in my city. Although I predicted it would be delivered today, it didn't come.
By the way, I'm expecting another parcel which is now making voyage across, perhaps, the Indian Ocean. It's a book I ordered from a shop in Britain. It's one of the books we will use in 2009.
Have another peaceful week.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Good evening, how are you?
It's cold, isn't it? Today's sky was as blue as yesterday. Birds chirped as if spring has come in spite of the low temperature.
Today, we've got a new memory for my sister's computer. I visited her, installed it and I have just come back home. As I expected, my sister said the computer became pleasantly faster than before.
Before I left her house, I played a game.
My sister's family has a game platform called “Wii” whose manufacturer is Nintendo. We pronounce it “we.” Have you heard about it? Since it's only a machine, it requires game software such as once a famous Super Mario. They recently got a new software called “Wii Fit” which needs another special device called "balance board." It's like a scale. In fact, when we connect it to “Wii” and step onto it, we can weigh ourselves. The machine has some other functions. One of them is to make us balance-conscious. In other words, we, the players, aim to keep our balance or shift our weight from one foot to the other quickly. It explains that if we put our weight on one foot only, it's not healthy. I tried it once today. It's easier than other game softwares which always demand us to react quickly.
I have never had a game platform which is connected to TV. Parents who have young children seem obsessed to buy one. I don't understand the feeling. Anyways, they are not my children.
Good night. Talk to you later.
Hi, everyone.
Good evening.
Today, I displayed the Hina dolls.
My dolls are only a couple of dolls. They are standing. It is very easy to display.
I made "ra-oil", I don't know how to say. It is made of sesami oil and red peppers. The red peppers were harvested in my yard last autumn. It is heated, slowly and at the low temperature on the stove. Good night.
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