HI, ladies!!
I’m glad to hear your beautiful impressions about Prince Edward Island. I envy you because I’ve been to neither that island nor Canada. Since I eagerly read a series of books of Anne when I was thirteen years old or so, Canada has been a symbol of this charming girly novel for me. Though I almost forgot that sense for a long time, this TV program about Anne reminds me of dear old memory at once. It is probably because a recall of my best time is closely linked to the novel.
On the program, actress Keiko Matsuzaka visited the island with a commentator, introducing its wonderful scenery in a bit too much pretty dress. Her teenage daughters were sometimes appearing on it, and I was surprised by their fluent English. Though Mrs.Matsuzaka’s one was a kind of Japanese, theirs were completely native’s since they once lived in New York.
So, see you tomorrow, bye.
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Hi, ladies!!!
I think it was raining in the morning but in the afternoon the sun came back.
It is always good to have sunshine, isn’t it?
Keiko Matsuzaka is a stunningly beautiful actress in her probably 50s. Not everyone can grow old like her, can’t we?
This afternoon, my next-door neighbor knocked on the front door and handed me over the bag that contained a recycle garbage net belonging to the Nagoya municipal office. We, the residents living in our area, are supposed to put the net over the garbage in turn so as to prevent crows from messing it up. This system was organized several years ago by Mrs. A, who is in charge of garbage collection in our area. She was fairly despotic and exercised her absolute authority as she liked.
She was a hard worker, circulating each collection point, which numbered 5 or 6, early in the morning on each collection day, maybe 3 or 4 days a week. She not only checked whether garbage was properly separated or not but also put up a note when she found garbage improperly placed at the site.
We, more or less, appreciated her work, although we terribly hated her arrogant way of behavior and abrasive way of talking. Besides no one wanted to take over her job. When we moved into this area 20 years ago she was already in charge of health and welfare in the community and actively moved around in the community, advising, sometimes severely blamed, residents who were responsible to the negligence in cleaning up.
Interestingly, it was disclosed a few years ago that she spent an annual subsidy given to each local community for garbage collection by the Nagoya municipal office as she liked: She went to the new airport and Misonoza theater to see some plays with the public fund. (It seems that almost no one knew that such a fund was delivered to each community, and so it was an enormous surprise to us residents when we heard about it.)
Then, what happened to her afterwards? The community autonomous committee prepared a strict financial check-out system so that all the subsidy would not straightly go to her. Actually the committee members wanted to replace her with another resident, but unfortunately still no one wanted to take her work over.
So she is still busily scurrying as before, and surprisingly she appears to be enjoying this seemingly tiring public service even after her misbehavior was discovered. In another word, it seems that she is still enjoying abusing her authority. She is as arrogant and abrasive as before. But it is OK. It is not a big deal. Let her enjoy herself. That’s her life.
Well, I will get ready for bed soon, my lovely friends. Bye for now.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
I'm sorry to say but
I am not good at being creative. I’m not good at thinking out of the box. I’m not good at
actually listening to criticism and accepting it. And I’m not good at working in a team. But all these things are what we need to succeed in the real world.
These elements are also needed in the International Space Station where there are two or three men at any one time. They stay there for almost six months. They must have tough time.
As you know, Mr. Wakata will be the first Japanese to make an extended stay,in the ISS THIS December. Actually he is going to stay for three months in the ISS. Can you imagine a life of three men working in the very limited space in the weightless environment in the ISS? Their missions are to do experiments of physics, biology, medicine and microgravity. Anyway don't you think that the most important element needed for these astronauts must be to control their emotions?
By the way, Mr. Hoshide will come back from a space soon after finishing his great mission of installing a core module of Kibo space lab in the ISS.
Hang in there, Rookie astronaut Hoshide!
Dear friends,
I can imagine how beatiful PEI is!
In my image,which is very narrow and restricted, besides novels, Canadian people are very cynical. I only knew three Canadians and maybe it is dangerous to say so. As Canada is next to the USA, the relations between the two countries is very delicate and complicated like the one between Mexico and the USA. They sometimes could be rivals.
When I meet a foreign people speaking American English, I used to think they are Americans. It was very stupid of me. Thank you for reading, my precious friends. I always think positive, which I have decided to declare.
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