Hi, ladies!!
I’ll try sentences using a verb + “out”.
I've become fitter these days because I was working out regularly.
My close friend got married a few years ago but it didn’t work out, and she divorced.
Sometime it works out more expensive to cook for one person than to eat in a restaurant.
I’m trying to work out how to use my new computer.
I have to sort out the problem in writing essay.
My kids like to sort out New Years cards for each member of the family.
I ran out of time due to my failure in cooking lunch.
I phoned the library to find out what time it closed.
I’ve fallen out with a friend of mine about a trifle.
I thought she was Japanese at first, but she turned out to be Filipina.
The weather has turned out poor.
The lights went out because a fuse blew.
It will take several hours to put out the forest fire.
The kind teacher gave out leaflets about the Hansen’s disease archives.
…A lot of out.
See you next, bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Tuesday, December 9, 2008, today, and it has been gray since early morning, hasn’t it? Red and yellow fallen leaves are so pretty, remarkable, and brilliant. Many of the trees in my neighborhood are deciduous and quickly becoming leafless these days.
Yes, you are right, Cherry. We have come halfway through the whole VS program. Amazing, isn’t it? We have four more meetings to attend next year and you are individually requested to write a ten page Japanese essay on a fighting Victorian woman of your choice. I hope you believe in your power and strength to complete all your assignments for the 2008 & 2009 VS program. When you look back, someday in the future, at the days you worked hard, I am sure you will be so delighted about your own incredible endeavor and achievements.
Yesterday afternoon Rose came to my place to discuss her essay-writing project. Her research subject is Kamiya Mieko, a psychiatrist, who was born into an elite family in which her father and mother, who were Christians (am I right?), did not necessarily get along well. She, at five, was sent to her uncle’s place for a year or so. In a sense, she was alienated from her own family and experienced miscellaneous hardships at his place as a small child.
Rose also remarked that Kamiya, as a child, was fond of playing in the mountains or by the river. But for some reason, she was dragged out of her favorite play sites, probably, by her parents. Thus she was deprived of what she loved and needed for her comfort and consolation.
She was an intelligent woman, and at last, being allowed to study medicine by her parents, she was formally certified as a medical doctor and worked at Aiseien, a leprosarium in Okayama (isn’t it?), in her mid-forties, perhaps (am I right?).
She was extremely moved, impressed, and influenced by the self-sacrificing professionalism of Mikami Chiyo, a nurse, and Mitsuta Kensuke, a doctor, according to Rose’s account. (By the way, Mikami Chiyo once worked with Cornwall Legh in Kusatsu but was estranged from the English female missionary. The reason why she went away from Legh is so complicated and complex that I will not discuss it now but some other time when I have an opportunity.)
Rose strongly pointed out that although Kamiya was a daughter of wealthy elite parents she, later in her life, professionally worked for the wellbeing of Hansen’s disease patients. Rose wants to know the reason why Kamiya did what she did. Yes, that it what your research is all about, Rose. Do some research so as to clarify her reasons that are just riddles to you and us as well.
Well, I will get back to work, my lovely friends. Goodbye to you all... Have a gorgeous Tuesday evening.
Dear Cherry, Plum and friends,
It has been raining this afternoon and not so cold compared with last several days and it is good. I went out for work today and a bit tired.
Plum, thank you for your thoughtful, constructive and practical advice for me yesterday afternoon and today’s blog. Yes, you are right. What you wrote about Kamiya is just what I talked to you about and I understand what you suggested to me. I’ve been trying to concentrate my attention on thinking about it and been struggling. It is very difficult. I’m not sure that I can pursue this research as I whish. But I will try to do my best.
Thank you very much.
Have a good night.
Reiko
Hello, ladies.
I had a call from Rose who seemed to have some difficulties to start writing her essay.
I can understand her situation very well because I have had the same experiences as Rose many many times. Hang on, Rose.
After reading Plum's summary of Kamiya Mieko,I found two common points between Kamiya Mieko and Kujo Takeko I’m researching; they were born into elite and intelligent family, ending up with devoting their lives into the wellbeing of the needy and the diseased!
I also desired to analyze what motivated and drove Takeko to build Asoka hospital, one of the great medical centers of Japan and relieve poor and sick people who lost their homes after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923.
This is my hypothesis but
I think there are three important hints to solve this riddle.
First the education in her childhood nurtured her artistic temperature and religious mind. She learned various kinds of traditional Japanese arts, especially she was good at tanka poems. At the same time, as the daughter of the head temple of Jodo Shihnshu, she was raised under the religious environment, which gave her the view that life is evanescent but life would be full of hopes when we are awaken to the Great Heart of Amida’s Compassion.
Second, her sorrowful, deplorable, and unfortunate marriage life unexpectedly gave her big and ideal chances to work actively in society. While she played a pivotal role as an acting president at the Buddhist Women’s Association in Nishi Honganji, she published several anthologies of her essays and tanka poems. She was also invited to contribute her articles to the newspapers and women’s magazines. In other words, she was in the limelight on account of those books. More importantly, she was able to get the royalties, which made her help to build the hospital and other welfare works.
Thirdly, her strong religious belief encouraged her to be helpful and useful for others.
She was willing to do any little thing for people who are suffering.
I just wrote down briefly three points as they came to me.
It's time to go to bed. Good-night, my precious friends who are supposed to stick to writing essays.
Hi, ladies,
It's Wednesday, December10. I got a phone call from Cherry. We made an arrangement of meeting at a restaurant in Irinaka on December 26. I feel very sorry as I didn't attend the Victorian Studies. I am now refreshed, so I'll go on studying. I was amazed with Plum's talent in organizing things, which is really stimulating. I'll tell some of the English learners I know showing the flier Plum made.
Are you having a good dream?
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