Hi, everyone!
Plum, you are having busy days, and I’m afraid I’ve set you the extra work. I hope you will be able to relieve your fatigue with your beloved family in Oita.
This afternoon, I phoned the Kochi city office to ask about some details on political activities in the Meiji period, because Plum instructed me to do it yesterday. At first, a woman in the gender equality section attended to me, and said that she would call back after checking them. After a half an hour, the person in charge of the jiyu minken kinenkan called me back, and taught me them in detail. I found that Kochi was an important place in minken undo, where attracted a lot of interest in those days.
Magnolia, your plan sounds nice, doesn’t it!? I’d like to go, but I can’t. Have a good trip!
So, see you tomorrow. Good night.
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Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
We had a very warm day on Friday. I drove to Aichi Will to attend a CCEA General Meeting this morning with DH. He got off the car near Sakae to work
in Nagoya. On our way to Sakae we talked about a topic of what my mother said on the phone. She called me early this morning.
She was 80 but she has a good time with her partner, 86 in Kobe.
When I arrived at the meeting, a guest speaker was giving her presentation. Today’s topic was Reiki, Energy Healing. I have a limited idea about Reiki so I focused my attention on her lecture. She was speaking not so fast but clearly and explicitly. Her voice was so comfortable to my ears. Her way of presentation was perfect. She drew all the audience’s attention to her story. In the end I asked her a question. Are Reiki and Kiko the same? The answer was of course NO. I cannot explain the difference between the two. Do you?
She looks Asian but her English was neither American nor British. I’d like to say that it is very standard English.
She said she lived in France, Holland, Belgium, Cameroon, Guam, Taiwan, China and Australia(Cairns). Her DH works at Hillton Hotel as a manager.
I was much more interested in her way of presentation than her topics.
It's very late at night. Good night.
Dear Magnolia,
Did I tell you I would love to join your trip to Lake Biwa? Please count me in.
Thank you.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Finally, I got the confirmation of my graduation and our professor told us that my fellow student and I were the most excellent students. The fellow student became the representative of the graduating class. He is top of the class and I'm the second. The difference between the first and the second is too big to be ignored. He will get a degree certificate at the commencement ceremonies. I will do nothing. I'll just attend. How many students are there in the class? I don't know. Maybe 20 or so, I guess. A graduating class is composed of several seminars. There are three students in our seminar. Two of us became the first and second best. To sum up, we belonged to the best seminar. Forgive my vain boast.
Ok, it's enough.
Good night.
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
Congratulation on the confirmation of your graduation, Alice.
You should be proud of yourself.
Your professor must be proud to have you in his seminar.
And I’m very proud of having such a precious compannion like you. Please keep in touch with me!!
Peach, I’m sorry to hear that you are suffering pollen allergies.
I had suffered hey fever for more than several years in this season. At that time I had a runny nose and I couldn’t stop my sneezing which came out suddenly and one after another. However, those syndromes stopped affecting me suddenly two years ago. It is very strange to say but I don’t have any sneezing nor a runny nose at present. It’s lucky not to get troubled with nasty condition any more.
A doctor used to give me effective pills to combat pollen allergies. The medicine worked well and immediately. I hope you’ll get better soon.
Dear Sunflower,
Thank you for giving me a special compliment. You, too, are our precious companion. We are comrades, aren't we? (By the way, in the dictionary it seems that "comrade" is exclusively applied for males. I wonder if women can have comradery.)
Hi,
How are you doing? It is March 8, actually 9. Thank you for encouraging me, Plum. As soon I’ll send you more information about Masa. Actually writing an essay is very challenging. I’ll do my best as Cherry and other members have been doing. Alice, congratulations! I’m really proud of you as Sunflower have put down. I have little knowledge on how much you have studied, but I can imagine it. The other day Mario, an AET as I mentioned before looked ill. He said he was shivering. I heard that when he was handed a thermometer by a school nurse, he said, “Is it expensive?” The school nurse asked me, “Don’t they have thermometer at home in the United States. He also said he had one for babies.” I don’t know what to say, do you? Maybe he is not so familiar with the digital one. Is taking temperature only for babies? What is the difference between adult’s and baby’s.? What is natural is not natural at all! Thank you.
Hello, Cherry and friends
I am very excited to get your report that you were praised as a honors students by your professor. What an excellent friends I have! I know you are a very diligent person, and you are evaluated rightly. Congratulations, Alice!
Today is a so beautiful Sunday and Women’s Full Marathon has been held in Nagoya. The “never-give –up spirit” of racers is a main attraction of this race. Racers simply keep on running on road, without any exciting performances or dramatic interactions. Of course they have their own strategies, such as distribution of their energy or speed paces. But I think they fight against themselves rather than their competitors. Marathon is a real mental race. I’ like to see the result of Naoko Takahashi.
Now I must to take my pet, Waka to the park for a walk. See you again. Bye, my precious friends.
I made stupid mistakes in my comment, using plural forms instead of sigle forms. Sorry, everyone!
Hello, my friends.
Alice, I counted you in and so far fellow members to go on a trip to Lake Biwa consist of Alice, cosmos, Yoko(Cosmos's friend), Noriko Kawabata and I.
The other day I went to apply for the renewal of a driver's license. I had to listen to the 2-hour lecture including the film of the accidents. I've been long wanted to have a gold license, but 3 years ago I got a ticket of illegal parking once, which I thought was erased this time, but it wasn't so and I had to take 2 hours lecture and got a 3-year-license, too. What a wasting time I had spent!
I was really tired. I should be very careful to drive and park from now on until I can get a 5-year-license next time.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Good evening. How did you spend the day, today?
I was at home all day long. I read, “The Course of English History 3” which I got from Cosmos. It was originally handed to Cosmos from Plum the other day. I didn't solve questions on the pages on the right, but just read pages on the left. I thought this was the easiest among the articles on Victorian History overviews. If you, my fellow pupils, haven't read this, I suggest you should start from this one although I didn't do that. If I'm wrong, please correct me, Plum.
Also I played the piano for about 2 hours this afternoon. I hadn't played the piano since when I went to Canada. I recently try to find time to play it even for 10 minutes or so. My fingers don't move well because of the blank period of more than 2 years. So the sound is terrible. A month ago, I started with Hanon, simple training tunes. Now I'm regaining my old tune.
When I took piano lessons, I played the piano for an hour everyday. When I was 14, I was feeling that studying was more important than playing the piano. Meanwhile, I watched the movie, “Amadeus,” which made me quit piano lessons. Amadeus is the first name of Mozart. The movie implied, I felt, that only the gifted like Mozart was able to live on art. My scope of idea was so narrow that I could see only a part of art, that was, as a future profession to live on.
Now, as an adult, I have different feeling toward art. Art gives us more. Sometimes it gives us rich feelings and sometimes life itself. And I have witnessed art heals people's mind. It makes people's sense and mind affluent. So does music.
Have a melodious dream.
Good night.
Sorry,
the title of the book was "The Course of British History 3."
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