Hi, everyone!
I am interested in Magnolia’s comment about our motivation. It seems natural that your pupils, company people, are desperately studying English for TOEIC. We need strong motivation.
As for my husband, he is now a very fat man. But he used to be thin when we got married about thirteen years ago. I once asked him why he could get thin at that time, and he replied because of his fatty liver. When he was a university student, he had been offered a job on a company, but after a health check, he was canceled it due to his fatty liver! So, he had to determine on urgent weight control, and began to run. Ran and ran for 2 months. As a result, he managed to lose 20 kilogram, and could get an offer from another company.
In spite of his struggles, now he has gone back to the beginning without such strong incentive. I wish his company would order him to lose weight…
Well, see you later. Good bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi! How are you?
Teaching is learning. I agree with you.
This week, I started to teach basic English conversation. Thanks to Magnolia, I got this job. Students ask me a lot of questions such as “how can I say himashiteru in English?” I feel as if I am tested by students. I'm learning through teaching.
Today, I went to the library and checked some books whose search key was “Victorian.” One of them was a beautiful book titled, “Victorian Childhood” which was filled with color photocopies of oil paintings. All the children in this book were unrealistically beautiful. I mean, it is too beautiful to be realistic. They obviously illustrate that the Victorians idealized children as naïve and innocent creatures.
On the other hand, I saw a photo card that eloquently conveys working class children's miserable condition. It was a house of Victorian working class family. It is shockingly gloomy and looks dirty even though it's black and white. This library stores a plenty of textbooks published abroad. This picture was among school materials which must have been used in social studies classes.
Talk to you later.
Good night.
Dear Cherry and friends,
It is Friday, May 16th. Time flies!
How fast a day passes ! I'm sorry I didn't write in. Let me write about Masa Nakayama again. I happen to hit the site that tells questions and answers done in the special investigation committee on overseas repatriate support in the House of Representatives. Masa was a chairperson in the committee. There her question was recorded exactly as she did. She referred to the Korean who had been living in Japan before the Pacifit War and fought for the sake of Japan. Since there was no diplomatic relations between Japan and Korea, they weren't able to return to Korea. If they were Japanese, they were paid 1000 yen and given the opportunity to be protected. Masa's question is full of pity for them as well as anxiety about the anti-Japanese sentiment. I guess Masa underent a discrimination because she was born between a Japanese woman and a British man. She is very heartful notwithstnding her birth.
She is such a splended woman.
Dear Cherry and friends,
It is a lovely day, isn't it? Today I'd like to mention about the number of the repatriates from Siberia. According to the newspaper issued on May22, 1949, the Sovie Union announced that about 95000 Japanese are captured in the Soviet district including Syberia, Sakhalin and North Korea. While command headquaters estimated that 408720 people are still left behind. The difference can be arised for how they count the number of the dead. How far do they define the place of capuring. Even so it seems that the Soviet Union's announcement is suspicious.
Ir ia hard to imagine that the government gives other countries false information, isn't it?
Dear friends,
It is Monday, May 19th. It is pouring for the typhoon. These days the media are reporting the disastruous earthquake in China. Tens of thusands of people are still buried. Sad news is that more children became victims because of the fragile construction of schools. The Chinese government has spent less money for the school buildings than that of the government.
If the counry cannot secure the lowest safety of the its poeple at the natural disasters, the country is far to be called developed.
The reaction of the Chinese govenment seems to be rather slow.
There is still aftershock. I can't find any good words to comfort them.
Hi, ladies!!!
It is Tuesday, May 20, 2008, today.
I got up at around 5:00 am, and we already finished breakfast. It is almost 6:30 am now.
Peach, thank you for writing in this blog every day. I am very happy about it and I enjoy reading your messages.
One of the most interesting factors about the movie we saw together, Bleak House, is an minor episode in which the oldest daughter of the then feminist, who serves her mother as a sort of secretary, marries the son of the teacher at a deportment school. The daughter tells Esther that she has no knowledge about proper manners that respectable women should have, perhaps because her mother is too much devoted to helping other women, neglecting her duty of educating her own children in a socially expected fashion. Thus, the daughter, presumably, negates her mother’s social activities and gets interested in deportment lessons, and ends up marrying the son of the deportment school headmaster, who is tremendously strangely dressed and behaves. The daughter is now getting away from “feminist work” represented by her mother and twining into domesticity symbolized by Esther. (dichotomy)
So many funny characters in this movie, and they are all clearly defined so that it is not so hard to see a lot of irony or contradiction.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the movie.
Well, I have to get started, since I have one class to teach this morning, my precious friends. I will talk to you later. Bye for now.
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