Ｈｉ，ladies!!
Topic (2007.10):
Should more be done to eliminate world hunger?
Points-Climate change/Genetically modified crops/War
World hunger has been a serious problem in the developed countries for a long time, and we should do more to eliminate it.
First, these days climate change has increasing around the world, which caused devastating damages on the farms. It would be crucial to improve our environmental technology to protect those farms.
Second, we have to develop genetically modified crops more, which can provide cheaper foods to needy people.
Third, war is one of the biggest causes of food shortages. In order to change such circumstance, world institution, such as UN or food bank, should give more support to those countries both politically and financially.
All developed countries must have responsibility to reduce world hunger, which would give a big influence to food production stability worldwide.
…these words are very hard…
So, see you! Bye!
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Hello, Cherry and ladies.
Today it was cloudy in the morning and began to rain late in the afternoon.
I was too lazy to hang out laundry this morning. Before taking a bath at night, I put washing in the dryer.
The expected day of childbirth of my daughter-in-law was yesterday, but I haven’t heard a good new yet.
My daughter’s due day is in early March. She is scheduled to check her baby tomorrow.
On Saturday night, eight members including my son and daughter’s family are going to eat together at my house.
Before going to bed, I turned off the gas I had been stewing ‘Buta-no-kakuni I'm going to serve on that day.
I'd like to talk to you more but I decided not, because I have to get up early tomorrow.
Good-night, my precious friends. S.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
I watched BBC and listened to a part of Hilary's speech, today.
Her message was clear, sounding confident. She is now the Secretary of State.
Recently, I heard some people say “Shameful.” They were talking about Japanese politicians and politics. I wondered why Japanese political events aren’t exciting.
Now, I'm printing an article about Nihon Seikokai (NSKK) from the Internet.
As I wrote here last time, I visited a used book store which had books on Christianity. I noticed it had a lot of books about churches in Japan. I tried to find churches belonging to NSKK. However, it seemed that most of them were about other protestant churches.
Although a British missionary society, the Loochoo Naval Mission, reached Ryukyu (Okinawa) in the 1840s, American missionaries came to the mainlnad of Japan earlier than British missionaries. The establishment of the NSKK triggered an increase in the membership of NSKK which grew twice during the 1890s. Edward Bickersteth who led the establishment of NSKK invited British male and female missionaries, forming special missions: St. Andrews’ and St. Hilda’s. St. Hilda’s important mission was women’s education which formed Koran Jogakko (St. Hilda’s School).
Hello, Cherry and ladies.
It’s Friday. It felt incredibly warm while I was walking through the center of Sakae at a quick pace. I got into the mood to take off my coat quickly.
I recorded ‘Delia’s How to Cook’ broadcasted on CS on digital videodisc for my friends who care for watching it, but they complained that the DVD didn’t play well on their players. In other words, they could not reproduce the program so that they failed to watch it.
I don’t know why.
If region free video player is available, they could probably produce it. Plum, you told that you could watch ‘Delia’s How to Cook’ in your English class. I wonder if you use ‘region free player', which could play DVD which was recorded on BS/CS.
I wanted my friends including Rose to watch ‘Delia’s How to Cook’.
Does anyone know how to reproduce the program I recorded on my friend’s DVD player ? Is it necessary to use region free player?
It will get cold tomorrow. Please take care of yourself, my precious friends.
Hi Cherry and friends,
It is Saturday, January 24, and clear but very, very cold.
As Sunflower wrote about DVD of “Delia’s How to Cook,” I couldn’t watch the DVD at my home that she recorded and lent me before. So, unfortunately, I have not seen it yet. I’m hoping I can see it if possible.
After reading Alice’s blog, I remember that Hillary’s speech for supporting Obama just after she decided to step out from the presidential campaign last year was very wonderful and powerful. Therefore I checked that speech again over the internet and listened to it one more time last night. It was really easy to understand because she spoke very slowly and clearly using quite easy words and phrases. I was so pleased to be able to grasp the details of her messages.
Though I wrote about Obama’s inauguration speech in this blog last time, it was so difficult for me that I could not understand very well, I just could figure out only some part clearly and felt the seriousness of the situation where he was in now. I made sure what was said by reading the translation and still thought it was really difficult. It took much more time to understand it than I expected.
By the way, I’m enjoying NHK's morning drama “Dandan",which theme is the importance of life, every morning and NHK's period drama “Ten Chi Jin” on Sundays. In first several weeks in “Ten Chi Jin", I loved the child actor whose role was a childhood of the hero, Kanetugu. I’m excited to see how the stories are developing from here on.
Thank you for reading my writing.
Have a nice weekend, my precious friends,
Hi, ladies,
It was partly snowy today. Sunflower, have you heard a good news? It must be very exciting to have a grandchild!
As for Delia's program, I think I should ask Plum how. I remember she told me about the DVD player she bought through internet.
My mother-in-law is going to have a cancer treatment in Kanagawa Pre. A hospital there has one of the three machines of radiation in Japan. With twenty times radiation, cancer will disapper, they say. I hope it works well.
Good night, my percious friends.
Hello, Cherry and ladies.
It’s Sunday. I felt warm when I took a walk around my neighborhood after eating ton-kotsu, a pig bone soup noodle at a special restaurant where we have to wait for 20 minutes to eat it.
Peach, I haven’t met my grandchild yet. All the family members waited anxiously for him, but time hasn’t come yet. My son even took a week-long vacation last week to be able to attend a birth with his wife, only to find it ineffective.
Peach, I’m sorry to hear your mother-in-law who is having chemotherapy for her canser now. She must have a painful time. I hope her suffering will be reduced quickly by that treatment.
By the way, I’m proud of having our HP of NWSRG Alice kindly set up.
I’m very proud of having a person like Alice who acquired a computer literacy.
It helps us a lot when we introduce activities we’ve been doing to those who are anxious to know us. Yet, I cannot explain them how to access it on the website.
Alice, I’d be very grateful if you tell me the address of our website?
Tomorrow we’re going to have our second essay writing meeting at Cosmos. I have to go back to my work.
Good-by, my precious friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
How have you been?
I hope all of you are fine and happy.
I am in Sydney, and it has been extremely hot over the last few days. Probably the day time high has been over 30 degrees.
Thank you, Rose, for writing about the book in which Japanese pioneer women in various fields in the pre-war period are clearly and concisely explained. The book costs, at the moment, only one yen, according to Rose, which is incredible.
I strongly recommend that we, researchers of pre-war Japanese society and women, should get a copy of the book unless we have one. The book is informative and useful to all of us. Believe me!!!
I am very sorry for myself because I missed the NHK program, the 1871-3 Meiji government official tour to the US and Europe, which Cherry wrote about in this blog and I really wanted to watch. Maybe I will be able to watch it on a rerun.
Sunflower, thank you for remembering Miho. Here is her English blog site, and so maybe you could visit her site and talk with her about this coming talk show at Tunagaretto.
http://myhome.cururu.jp/englishsalon34/blog/list/bt
I am very delighted to hear that all of you are making progress in your research essay project.
I have been having tremendously hectic days ever since I arrived here on 15th, babysitting my two little grandkids. I have never imagined that childrearing is so time and energy consuming.
I will write to you all when I find time to write. (I am sorry for the delay in writing my message in this blog. I intended to do so much sooner, but it took me quite some time to get used to using my daughter’s windows, which is terrible and horrifying to me, since I have used only MAC and never used WINDOWS. )
I am pleasantly tired tonight. I will let you know the reason next time, my precious friends. Goodnight to you all…
Hi, ladies!!!
How are you today?
It started to rain late in the afternoon in Sydney.
There is a two hour time difference between Sydney and Japan now since Sydney is in summer time, with Sydney ahead of Japan.
This weekend is a long weekend since Monday, which is today, is Australia day, a public holiday, which I do not know much about.
Yesterday was Sunday, and I am wondering whether Peach and Cherry took a STEP test. Was it very difficult? Or just so so?
I am very glad to hear that many of you are fond of Delia’s How to Cook. Yes, it is a delightful TV program, isn’t it?
In order to make a copy of the program, it is necessary to use a digital recorder, since it is a digital program, I think.
Likewise, in order to play your copy, a digital DVD player is needed. It does not work properly on a non-digital player, I assume.
My life here in Sydney with my daughter’s family at the moment is totally different from the one in Nagoya. It is disorganized, chaotic, and extremely hectic. But I am fine and fortunately can manage to babysit my daughter’s two little sons, Yujin, one year and a half, and Kenjin, nearly three months old.
Saturday morning, my daughter, her sons and I, went to the Blue Mountains and stayed overnight at a five-star hotel (wow!!!) at Leura, which is a very beautiful village resort.
I felt as if I were a celebrity at the English style gorgeous holiday hotel. If you want to go and stay there, don’t forget to bring your swimsuit, because there are two wonderful swimming pools, one outside and the other inside.
It is getting late in Sydney, although it is still a dinner time in Japan. I will get ready for going to bed now. Goodnight to you all, my precious friends.
Hello, Cherry and ladies.
It’s Monday.
We had a second essay writing meeting this morning.
Magnolia was absent for the meeting because she did not feel well due to her rheumatism. Last Monday we met together, she complained of pains in her swollen joints of the fingers. She took some medicine to alleviate her aching. I hope she’ll get much better by next Monday.
Cosmos had accidentally double booking, so unfortunately she was not in the meeting with us.
As Rose told us that inaugural speech was difficult to understand, we two started to read out Obama's inaugural speech before starting our discussion.
We appreciated his magnificent speech with full of powerful expressions. I picked up some phrases I like.
--Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
---The success of our economy has always depended on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart---not out of charity but because it the surest route to our common good.
---All are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
---What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility---a recognition that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world,
duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly,
firm in the knowledge that
*there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit,
so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.
It was so fun to make some parodies from the inauguration.
For example,
**There is nothing so challenging to me than giving my all to a difficult task of writing an English essay.
**What is required of us now is finishing our essays by the end of Februay.
We have duties to ourselves.
It's so lovely to hear from Plum.
Let me talk you more tomorrow, my precious friends.
Good-night.
Hi Cherry and friends,
It is Tuesday, January 27, and a fine day but extremely cold in the morning, the temperature was around zero, because of stream of cold air.
It is so nice to hear from you, Plum. I’m glad you are doing fine in Sydney even in the very hot weather and having a busy but enjoyable time with your daughter’s family. I wish I could visit such a gorgeous hotel where you stayed at. I hope I can see some pictures of the hotel and the scenery around it. It might be a lifelong dream for me.
As Sunflower wrote, we had an essay writing meeting at Cosmos’s place though the owner of the house was out because of her another engagement. Kindly enough, she allowed us to use the room, so we studied and discussed for about five hours.
It was so interesting to talk about Obama’s inauguration speech with Sunflower. We analyzed some important parts of his speech and memorized some phrases which we liked. I was very excited because Sunflower ignited high aspirations in me with her energetic spirit. Thank you, Sunflower. We talked about Japanese politics as well as American’s. We were ashamed to say that we were disappointed at Prime Minister Aso’s policy which ignores public opinion, such as cash handout plan, and less interested in his ministration.
About the essay, I’m still in the middle of research. I need some strong evidence which showed that Kamiya was very helpful and reliable for the Hansen’s disease patients. My writing tends to be a kind of book report. There are so many achievements and incidents in her life I would like to introduce to everyone, but of cause, I have to narrow down precisely and focus on one theme. It is so difficult.
See you, my precious friends.
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