HI, ladies!!
Peach, we had a ｄｅｊａ vu in this political situation last night, didn’t we? I can find the lightness of the position as a Prime Minister in Japan.
Yesterday was the 85th memorial day of the Kanto great earthquake, which killed about 140,000 people in the Kanto area. But that big disaster also caused the slaughter of Korean people and socialists. In fact, I didn’t know in detail about it, until recently the other day I read a novel written by Jakucho Setouchi. She was interested by the chain of female anarchists in the Meiji era, from Sugako Kanno to Noe Ito and Fumiko Kaneko, and wrote several novels, or partly biographies of them. (As for Sugako Kanno, the author exaggerated her as a badly behaved woman in the novel, which created her image in the society.)
As for Noe Ito and Fumiko Kaneko, I was shocked by many disgusting incidents after the earthquake. The atrocity by the government is very terrible, of course, but more horrifying is ordinary Japanese people, who made neighborhood watch to protect themselves from ‘rebellious’ Korean people. I wonder why common people could become so cruel against other people.
I’ve never read other books about Kaneko and Ito, and would like to get some.
Thank you for reading. See you next. Good bye!!
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Dear friends
I am very glad that Gloriosa has come back here. Please stimulate us as before.
Now is a turbulent time in political field as well as in natural environment. It is said that natural disasters will happen when everybody forget about it, but political disorder occurs while everybody still remember the last one. Almost all Japanese think “Again?” But I feel a little bit sympathize for Fukuda, who has been severely criticized in the media about the performances of his cabinet in spite of such a confused twisted political situation. Seeing U.S. presidential election campaign, they have criticized their rivals severely, but they are always cheered by a large number of supporters. I haven’t seen any articles where what Prime Minister did are praised. Staying in such a position might be tough mentally in Japan.
By the way, what a muggy day again! Please take care of yourselves, friends. Bye.
Hi, ladies!!!
How are you this evening, my lovely friends? I hope all of you are having a delightful time.
Just recently I got a DVD about how to look after a newborn baby up to 3 months. I assume that none of you have raised a baby using English, and I simply thought that it would be possible for us to learn English related to baby-rearing, by watching this DVD. This DVD is, perhaps, produced in Australia, and consists of different segments such as how to settle your baby, how to bathe and change your baby, how to establish a sleep and feed routine and what to do with a crying baby.
Probably, their way of taking care of a baby is the same as our way, you may presuppose. In fact, some aspects are the same but some other are very different. (Actually what is shown on this DVD is what is taking place in English-speaking countries such as the UK and the USA, I assure you. There might be a slight difference between the UK and the USA, but the difference would not be as big as the one between them and us.) This DVD also includes some advice from a psychologist, a maternal child health nurse and a doctor. Thus it is not only tremendously practical but also highly professional.
You may not be interested in English in this field, but I believe it is worth seeing, since seeing is believing, isn’t it? Besides, it’s so interesting, believe me. You can learn a lot of baby-care English.
One day in the fall, I will hold a DVD showing so that you may come to my house to see this DVD, preferably, together. Just sit back and relax!!! (Nonetheless I’d like you to bring a notebook or something like that to write down useful expressions as you did at the time of the showing of Bleak House.)
Well, I will get ready for bed now. (I normally read in bed for a couple of hours, at least for one hour, before going to sleep. How about you?) Goodnight to you all, my precious friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Studying rearing on DVD together sounds nice and interesting. If I knew it in English, it could help me study English. There are a lot of words we don't study at school especially in this field. For example we learn 'baby' and 'child' but are never taught toddler or infant at school, aren't we? I learn these words by looking at printings on a pack of diapers in a foreign country.
It is going to rain again. I hope there will be no serious damages to you all.
Reading is fun, but I haven't read these days beacause as soon I fall asleep. Reading a variety genre of books must be stimulating me. Plum, your question awakens my interest in reading.
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