HI, ladies!!
The weather has been terrible since last night, and are you all right?? Alice, are you OK?
In my area, hard rain with big thunder was heavily falling for almost two hours, and a warning siren or something sounded at midnight, so my kids finally got up due to that big sound. I wonder what it was, in order to tell us the rise of a river?
Untimely, my HD had to go for Toyohashi yesterday, because of a drinking party with his colleagues at night. He called me over and over, saying that he saw some cars flooded by a river on the way! After enjoying (?) drinking with them at a bar or somewhere, he managed to get home back around 4 o’clock this morning…Anyway, I hope now all of you are safe and sound.
So, see you next time. Good bye!!
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Dear friends,
It's August 29, cloudy. Last midnight a siren was blown. I've been living here for long, and it was my first time to hear the siren. Considereing sufferers' inconvienience and agony I hope no more rain will drop in a week or so. The followings are chronology of Kamichika, the second part.
1916 Quitted the Tokyo Daily Newspaper. Made living by translating, February Osugi confessed his love with Ito Noe, December, injured Osugi at Hikage jaya, Hayama
1917 to 1919 Imprisoned, October left prison, contributed to the Taisho Daily Newspaper
1920 Married to Atsushi Suzuki, Lived in Aoyama, Tokyo
1925 Published “Syakaiaku to hampatsu (Social evil and Repellence)”
1928 Joined Shigure Hasegawa’s Nyonin Geijyutsu
1932 Published “Seisho monogatari(Tale of the Bible)
1933 Published “Seimondai no hihan to kaiketsu (Criticism and solution on sex problems)
1934 Published “Hatten suru shakai (Developing society)
1935 Started the Fujin Bungei (Female literature)
1937 Divorced
1940 Published “Kagaku no gakko (School of Science)”
1941 “Amerika seinenki ni tassu (America grown up)
1943 “Umi to koukai no rekishi (Sea and the history of voyage)
1945 Struck by air raid, Moved to Nagano, Asked to contribute backed to Tokyo
Kamichika wrote and translated a lot of books. I was amazed by her profound and wide interest in human activities. She was not a bystander but lived like a heroine in a book.
Tomorrow I'll finish the chronology. Good night, my friends.
Dear Cherry, Plum, and wonderful ladies,
I hope everything is all right for all of you after the heavy rain and thunder last night.
This is my first writing in this blog.
I have been a friend of Sunflower’s for many years and she sometimes talked about Plum and Nagoya Women’s Studies Group. One day, she introduced me Jonathan’s study group and I attended several meetings at Cosmos’s house. Thanks to Sunflower and Cosmos, I met wonderful members of your group. One of them, Magnolia, has even invited me to her house. Sunflower also recommended me to come to the Aichi Summer Seminar last month. I was greatly touched by everyone’s presentation. Each of you prepared for the presentation very well and organized it precisely. I wish I could do like you someday in the future. I also had a precious time with Plum and some of presenters at the restaurant after the seminar. I got nervous among the energetic and talented women and was ashamed of myself because of my negligence of studying English for many years.
After coming back home, I checked Amazon and ordered one of Plum’s books. As soon as getting the book, I read it and I was deeply impressed. I admire Plum. I’m a very slow leaner and slow reader. But I’d like to keep going forward little by little.
Now, I’m reading Yosiko Miyake’s essay and found that it is too difficult for me. But Sunflower encouraged me and supported me with generous mind. Her explanation and the summary of this essay are big help for me to understand what Yoshiko Miyake really wanted to say in this essay.
I’d like to join you at the reading circle at Cosmos’s house and join this blog if you allow me, though my English ability is far below from yours.
Thank you.
Hi, ladies!!!
It is Sunday, August 30, 2008, today, and the weather has been quite wet and not so friendly to us, but I hope everyone is well and happy.
Rose, it is so delightful to hear from you, and I hope you will enjoy writing in this blog. I also appreciate that you came to our speech presentation at the Aichi Summer Seminar. I also heard a lot about you from Sunflower and I am happy to hear that you are reading Miyake Yoshiko’s essay with Sunflower. The essay reading will be held at Cosmos’ place on September 23rd, I assume, and you will come and join them in the discussion of the essay. We are going to hold a tutorial on Victorian Studies on October 5. If you are interested in it, you are more than welcome to our meeting. Sunflower will let you know how you are supposed to prepare yourself for the tutorial. I am looking forward to seeing you at my house on the day.
Alice, I got your book. It reached me safe and sound. Thank you so much for lending me this valuable book. I was amazed to see that it is a gorgeous book made of excellent quality paper. It seems that a high level of printing technique was deployed, doesn’t it? I will copy it tomorrow and get it back to you on Monday by express delivery post.
It is so good that you could write down Kamichika’s timeline, Peach. Write something more about her in this blog so that everyone could understand her more and share some knowledge about great achievements done by Kamichika with you.
Well, I would like to watch a CNN news program since I want to know more about John McCain's surprise VP pick. Very interesting, isn’t it? Bye for now, my lovely friends.
Hello, friends.
Rose, welcome to this blog!
Thanks to the blog our English ability and friendship as well are becoming stronger and tighter, I believe.
It's a good place to exchange our opinions in English, so I think we can learn how to think and express our mind in English in due course.
Dear Plum
Good evening.
You don't have to use express delivery post.
I used a less expensive service called yu meiru,
which used to be a service called sasshi kozutsumi.
I sent it at the nearest post office late Friday afternoon,
and you got it on Saturday. It's quick enough, isn't it?
I believe the Japanese postal system has a good reputation in its credibility,
though it's sometimes too bureaucratic.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Good evening.
How are you?
Welcome, Rose.
We met at the farewell lunch party for Jonathan, didn't we?
And I remember you visited our session of Aichi Summer Seminar.
Nice meeting you, and nice hearing from you.
Thanks Cherry.
Our place is relatively higher than the city center.
They say many places lower than here were covered with water.
It started raining on Friday night again
and it had been raining until about 8 this evening.
I can't believe it. How much water can the sky bear?
The TV news reports the flood in India. It seems much more disastrous.
Both floods must be consequences of global warming.
Today, I have been working on the preparation of the presentation at a seminar held at Kinugawa hot springs next week. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and auditors will attend the seminar. Each student gives 15 to 40 minute presentation including the time of discussion.
Although I have interviewed some people and transcribed the interviews, I haven't organized them yet. Moreover, I have read only a few books for the report.
Hope I can finish this homework as soon as possible.
Have a good Sunday.
Hi, everyone.
Rose, welcome to this blog. You are expected to attend the 23rd meeting.
Peach, what a good student you are!
Cherry, your husband was in the dangerous situation in the heavy rain in Toyohashi, wasn't he?
Yesterday, I was sleepy because of the sounds of lightening of midnight. It lasted long, and happened many times. What a nuisance. It was naughty.
Too much is too less. This summer, we have not been visited by typhoon, but recently we have experienced the weather which we had seldom had in the past. Miserably, we can't cope with it and we have less immune response to the nature. It is because we are dull of nature's menace
Hi, friends!
This is a test.
Hi,everybody!
We have again a hotdays after suddenshowea foe a few days.
I sent a long comment twice yesterday. But to my sadness they went somewhere, exactly they disappeared at the time I clicked to send it. It took me 40minutes!
I have no energy to weite the same again.
Rose,welcome to the blog, let's talk a lots here.
Have a nice Sunday, the last day of the summer vacation. See you again.
Hi, everybody!
I made many mistakes,more than six. Please Check them by yourself.
I wonder why the comment filled with mistakes could go so smoothly, and my elaborate long ones of yesterday couldn't reach you. This is the life! Bye,everybody.
Hello Cherry, Plum, and ladies,
Today is August 31 and it is a nice and quiet day after the heavy thunderstorm. The electric power went off in my house about 30 minutes (!!!) owing to the storm two days ago in the midnight and I was a little bit scared. Even after the power came back, there was still problem and I had an electrician to fix it yesterday. I’m relieved now. But I feel very sorry for those who are suffering terrible damage from the flood.
Thank you so much for your kind comments, Plum and friends. I’d love to join the essay reading circle at Cosmos’s house and the tutorial at Plum’s house.
Cosmos, I’m sorry that your long comments had disappeared somewhere and we can’t read it. When something happens in my computer, I’m always getting frustrated and uneasy.
American Presidency election is getting more interesting and exciting. What the Democratic National Convention in Denver was enormous! It was like a big festival. I just can’t believe soooo many people got together at that football field for the political convention. I could watch CNN news only a little bit, so I checked “You Tube” to listen to the address of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama. As Plum mentioned, Hillary Clinton looked wonderful in her yellow pant suits. Her speech was clear and full of persuasiveness. Both Mr. and Mrs. Obama made a really good speech, too. But it is not clear that why Obama chose Joe Biden, not Clinton as his running mate. I guess many supporters of Hillary Clinton must be very disappointed.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin, Republican Vice-Presidential nominee was a big surprise. She is young and charming and her background is quite unique. Of cause, Hillary and Sarah have very different policies but both women are strong and powerful and have confidence with determination to fight for people, I think.
I don’t know about politics and I’m not so interested in it, but right now, the American politics is much more interesting than Japanese.
Hope everyone has a nice evening. Bye for now.
Dear friends,
I made a mistake. I had an electrician fix it yesterday. (not to fix)
Sorry about this basic mistake.
Hi, everyone.
Today, I watched Dicovery Channel program on the survival. To survive, I have to have mental and physical power. Unfortunately, I don't have both of them. However, it is the most important thing not to lose my head. Miserably, I am timid, even in the normal condition, I am restless and fidget. If you lose your direction in the dessert or land yourself in the sea, how do you tide yourself over the crisis? Maybe I would be found to be a victim at first among the missing.
Hi,Cherry and friends,
Rose, welcome to the blog! Your comment on political issues is really impressive. You seem to have interest in politics, don't you? Compare to the distinguished U.S.political party, the Japanese one looks ambiguous and chaotic.
The judoman Ishii commented when he first met Prime minister Fukuta and shook hands. He said that Mr. Fukuta is one of the rare politicians who is far from scheming or blackbellied. His commnet is full of sentiment and intuition, isn't it.
Oh, I feel ashamed of my superficial knowledge in politics.
I'd like to know more in detail.
Hi, Ladies.
Long time no write.
Maybe I should change my name from gloriosa to 'forget-me-not-2.' But whether I can send my comment or not is all depend on a good chemistry between my PC and the blog. Well...
2008.8.28
Three weeks has passed since I left hospital. What I can not do now and what inconvenience are as follows: 1) picking up things I drop on the floor. 2) getting seasonings, pans, and plates placed on lower shelves in the kitchen. 3) pulling open lower drawers with both hands. 4) going out into the yard to dry the laundry in the sun. 5) taking out garbage (carrying heavy stuff). 6) driving the car. 7) sitting on the desk chair for a long time, one hour at most. 8) Answering phone calls and delivery services at the door quickly. 9) weeding. 10) putting on socks.
The book, 'Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England', clarifies the backstage devices of the flourishing missionary societies at the time. Prochaska, the author, shows how women became powerful in management of philanthropic society. He also explains how ingeniously children were involved in benevolent activities by religious societies in order to make promising pious Christians for each religious society.
I had an impression that religious societies could compete with then capitalists in their conspiracy. Sarcastically, religious societies manufactured 'charity warriors', which helped prospering the missionary cause both in domestic and overseas, not to mention in Japan.
I have to stand up and stretch my joints now.
Have a good night.
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