Hi, my precious friends!!!
How have you been during these hot summer days??
I hope all of you are enjoying fantastic time.
While I skipped writing on this Blog, a lot of messages are on the boards, which are very intriguing for me, and it took a long time to read all of them. As for me, I could have a wonderful holiday with my kids in Osaka, whose temperature was a little lower than in Nagoya. But when we came back here last night, the hottest climate had already gone away, and I felt so relieved about it. Even at night, I could hear a singing of autumn insect! There are correctly four seasons in Japan.
Plum tells us to keep on writing every day. I’ll be back tomorrow as usual.
See you, good bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
Welcome back to Nagoya, Cherry. I am very happy to hear that you had a wonderful time with your children in Osaka. Your parents must have been delighted to see their grandkids, to say nothing of you, and, I can get a picture of their smiling faces surrounded by you and your family. It is always fascinating to have a family get-together, isn’t it?
Like you said, Cherry, the hottest time of the summer seems to be getting away, because I could feel cooler temperatures in the morning. I normally get up at around 5:30 a.m., as you are perhaps aware of, and recently it is nice and refereshing in the early morning.
I went out for an appointment for about an hour in the morning, but I stayed at home after returning and did what I had to do in my office, which is the room opposite the lounge.
Beijing Olympic Games are going on, and it is simply and honestly great to hear that a Japanese athlete won a medal. It is just fabulous, isn’t it? I salute to our medal winners as a Japanese citizen.
I hope all of you are having a brilliant time. I will talk to you tomorrow, my lovely friends. Good night to you…
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
Welcome back home, Cherry. You and your family must have had a lovely time at your parents. I used to visit my parents’with my kids until they became their teens every summer, sharing good time with my younger brother’s family. Now that they have already grown up, there are few chances to go back to my elderly parents who would probably miss us. Instead I sent a box of lovely peaches and a gorgeous fresh melon to them as a token of my gratitude.
I intended to talk about Delia's how to cook with you but I'm sorry I don't have much time to do so. I'll talk about it tomorrow. See you later and good night, my precious friends.
Hello, friends!
Welcome back, Cherry.
I envy your cheerful holidays with your children as well as your parents.
I recall those glorious days when my children were small. Though my parents had run a shop in Kobe and
had been too busy to take care of us , I sometimes returned home and enjoyed that atmosphere in Kobe with my kids, so they still love Kobe and sometimes visit there.
But now there's no place to stay because my parents moved to Kasugai more than 15 years ago and my dad already passed away, so my mom ,who'll be 85 years old this September, lives alone near my house which is 10 minutes' ride.
So every New Year and Bon my children gather to see their grandma with me , but they should visit her more often because they all live in Aichi.
I feel lonely because my children's family have never asked me to go on a trip together and they travel by themselves.
My husband doesn't like travelling, so I just spend my summer swimming, yoga, reading and watching DVDs. I finished 'Lost' series 3. I wish Series 4 could be available as soon as possible.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
Are you enjoying watching Delia’s How to cook Dr. Aoyama recommended us to improve our horrible English pronunciation.
I’m indeed doing so. Cooking really gives me creative satisfaction and furthermore it enlivens my everyday life. Her cooking program gives me a pleasurable edge to my daily life. It’s also marvelous to pick up easy cooking English words we use every day but we find difficult to say in English. For instance, pip is a small hard seed in a fruit. When making a fruit salad, plums should be stoned. Put simply, we use stoned plums. While skinning off litchi (レイシ) and pealing and slicing, we have lots of debris.
When cooking marmalade, toward the end of reducing it down and down, I need to stare at it more often so that it doesn’t catch on the base.
In the end of the program, Delia encouraged us to get a creastive satisfaction by cooking, saying that nothing actually measures up to homemade.
Let's survive this hot weather.
See you tomorrow, my precious friends.
August 12, 2008 1:06 PM
Dear Cherry and friends,
Welcome back, Cherry. I believe your face became smoother and younger. I’m looking forward to seeing your beautiful face.
During summer, I have to interview some people for another research. We are supposed to write a short research essay in Japanese. By the first seminar in September, we need to finish writing an interim report. To establish rapport with interviewees easily, I chose some friends as interviewee, though I have to make good excuse for doing it. When I first made a research proposal telling I would choose women who lived in Aichi, some students asked me, “why Aichi?” Of course I should not say I interviewed my friends. So far, I met 4 housewives of my generation and asked their life and opinion.
I hadn’t seen them for a while, so chatted over a cup of tea to find what we’re doing these days. They are busy mothers. Hearing I’m busy writing research essays, one mother was surprised. She recently struggled to help her kid’s book report. Her 8-year-old daughter wrote in the report, “The assigned book is longer than the one of last summer. I think this is too long.”
Here’s my book report.
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In the beginning, I felt Perkin’s writing looked too stylish because of scattered French words and I had to look up the dictionary quite often. Therefore, I worried I could not finish this soon. The most difficult part was Introduction, maybe because I had to get accustomed to the writer’s English. The rest of the chapters were not so difficult.
In nineteenth century England, many married women had to survive in disastrous marriages. A marriage could become calamities for many reasons. Perkin suggests three legal reasons put married women into trouble. First, when a wife wanted to get divorced, she lost child custody. Secondly, wives could not control their earnings. Thirdly, wives were not able to divorce their husband easily. Husbands were vested with these rights.
The latter half of the book explains how middle-class women faced and survived in marriages. It also argues diversified aspects of marriage in the era. Whether a married woman was happy or not depends on her personal luck. A lot of episodes concerning marriage were collected and discussed by topic. It focuses on unhappier wives. It briefly describes spinsters not as unsatisfied and frustrated singles but as contended and self-sufficing women.
When a marriage failed, wives pursued ways to survive. Some read novels to find independent women. Others found the way in philanthropy.
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The next book will be about Christianity in Japan.
Talk to you later.
Hello, everyone.
Cherry, you seem to really enjoy your reunion with your family in Osaka. I miss you and your comment.
It is likely to me to suppose what Mrs. Yamakawa's ideal society is like, but I doubt how much she understands and foresees what contemporary ordinary women think and what will working class women have. In this case, perhaps she may say which or who made them ignorant and impoverished like this. It may be today's capitalism. However, today, they are uneducated like this. It is too optimistic that the present condition is attributed to only capitalism. Remember what preparation is needed in order that proletarian women become aware of themselves, reflect where and why they stand on their own, find how much capitalism has exploited them as humanbeings and think what kind of new society they will have. The reason why I can't pay homege to labour movement organizers in the intelligentsia with leader looks is converged at this point. In short, first of all, the leaders should meet what they need.
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