Hi, ladies!
Today is the last day of school and from tomorrow a long summer vacation will begin! Sigh…Every time the season comes, I know the value of the school lunch.
My kids are eager to finish their summer homework as soon as possible, and the elder daughter asked me, “I want to make some homemaking works. Why don’t you have a sewing machine?” Yes, I’ve never had my own one. I used to have my mother sew my homework when I was a school girl! So, I replied to her that she should give it up. What a rough mother…
Well, see you tomorrow. Good night!!
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Hi, Cherry and friends!
Long summer vacation for kids has started, hasn't it? But some foregners seem to think that Japanese school's summer holidays are too short. America has three month-holidays. Cherry, how do you deal with the longer vacation? I think that's why summer camps and summer school for kids are so prosperous in America. Children have a chance to learn a lot through living in a group.
Let's overcome Japanese hot humid summer! Good night, friends.
Hi, everybody!
I suppose everybody consentrate on preparing for "Ai-semi". I should do it, too. On this particular occasion for that once, my lovable WAKA has got a rash. I don't worry so much about it, but my daughter was so anxious about the rash,and pleaded with me to bring WAKA to the dog's doctor with her. I couldn't refuse her asking. Oh,no! Now, telephone is ringing....(I answered it.)----(Thirty minutes has past.) It was from my friend who has now been in bad condition. I couldn't hang it up.
Whooo...What a day! Please take a rest, everybody.
Helo, friends!
Did you enjoy 'Ai-Semi'?
I was reluctant because I was short of explanation about Iwako in the end, which means my conclusion was weak, so I'd like to add something here.
When alice asked me if Iwako earned money, I should 've noticed that my introduction of Iwako wasn't enough to describe her.
As you know the saying, 'Necessity is the mother of invention', Iwako wasn't rich and she had to think about raising money in various ways because she had to take care of orphans in many facilities that she and her supporters established.
So she had to earn money to spend for the poor, not for herself.
She sacrificed her life to the weak people, but if they became less miserable she was happy, so Shimoda Utako regarded her as a reincarnatio of Buddha. I forgot to mention about it in my presentation. I should have focused more on her religion.
She was a devoted Buddhist and influenced by the priests of Jigenji temple and Chofukuji temple. She invited them to her facility to preach before the students and children.
She wanted to teach her students good moral to be nice people.
Iwako had a long plan of social welfare including children's education, medical and health care for the elderly and the insurance.
These ideas are the same as present social services. What a splendid and a creative woman Iwako was!
She hit uopn a good idea one after another to make money in order to save the less fortunate.
If she had been a man, she could have been a marvelous politician, which Goto Shinpei later mantioned about her.
Iwako Uryu was the real pioneer in the Meiji era.
Thank you for reading!
Sorry I found a mistake in the last paragraph, Goto shinpei not mantioned but mentioned.
Hi, Cherry and friends!
Thank you for a sequel of Iwako's story. Your presentation was very nice. I enjoyed it.
Isuppose now that all of you have been released from the stress. Ok, it' good, and then let's go ahead as Plum mentioned.
Good night, friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
Last night I submitted a report online. Today was the due date. The class I'm auditing in Tokyo has a mailing list (ML). The ML functions like MSN Group or Google Group. Since we sent it using the ML, I've been receiving a bunch of e-mails from my classmates.
I'm writing on the 144th page of a file called “Dear Cherry and friends.odt” where I have stored most of my comments for Cherry's blog. It's a shame. In my plan I would have finished 200 pages by the end of June because I was writing the 100th page at the end of February. It is convenient to store comments because I can find what I have written so far.
According to my previous comment, I was going to write about other things that I encountered in South Korea. I've changed my mind. I'll mention one thing which surprised me. You might have already known that the South Korean government is crazy about English education.
I was surprised that Korean student presenters and students who took us to the city tour spoke English without difficulties. They are all students in statistics. As you know, Japanese science students are poor at speaking English. I asked the students who took us to the tour why they can speak English well. To my surprise, almost one third of classes at the graduate school were conducted in English by non-native statisticians.
Moreover, the 3 tour guide students are planning to go abroad to enter a doctoral course.
I enjoyed 2008 Aichi Summer Seminar very much. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to serve as chair. I was named by Cosmos because she did it. I would like to name Sunflower as the next year's chairperson.
Please, everybody, don't forget it.
I appreciate your giving comments and questions to presenters.
After I answered Azalea's question, I found that I was telling what I read in Frank Prochaska's “Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain.” Yes. Even working-class people raised funds to help poor people. For Christians, the heathens had to be saved from the hell. If I was asked what was written in the fist chapter of this book, I could not answer the outline because I forgot it. But I spoke yesterday was a part of the first chapter. I was relieved that some parts remains in my memory. Today, I resumed reading the book again. What I read today was about Education and Christianity. Sunday schools were for working-class children. Did we read it in the article when we studied Victorian education last month?
According to Prochaska, Sunday school children were also powerful fund raisers not because they had money, but because they collected money from parents or adults. If missionaries visited a Sunday school, its students became motivated to do so.
Good night.
Dear friends,
Magnolia, I can understand about Iwako Uryu better than before. Alice's remark that she seemed to have been a business woman drew my interest, too. Selling Mizuame sounds very cute attractive,isn't it? Nothing is more sweet and delicious than mizuame in those days. I feel like eating it. I remember my grandmother bought a can of mizuame and let me have it. she was also born in the Meiji era.
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