HI, ladies!
Sunflower, I am, too, so sorry to hear your news about your grandson that I don’t know how to comfort you. I hope all treatment will help him grow healthier.
Rose, I feel sorry that your mother-in-law passed away. You must have been shocked by the sudden word. The parting of your dear mother is really wrenching…
The first month has already gone with the wind…Time flies too fast. I’d like to finish my essay and send it to Azalea and Alice as soon as possible, but I’m still in the middle of writing.
So, see you later, Bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Monday, February 2, 2009, today. It was extremely hot in the morning. Perhaps the temperature rose to over 35 degrees but it got a bit cloudy and windy in the late afternoon here in Sydney.
Sunflower, I’m very delighted to hear that Yuko left the maternity hospital safe and sound and, you and your family members got together for dinner to celebrate the birth of Taiga. I know it is so painful for all of you to talk about his sickness, but it is very important to discuss what you should do for his wellbeing and happiness, since he is in such a critical condition. He needs a lot of attention and care. I really hope that Yuko will be able to breastfeed her baby and he will get bigger and bigger.
Rose, I’m very sorry to hear that your mother-in-law, who was in the hospital for a long time, suddenly passed away last Friday. I would like to express my deepest sympathies on the loss of your husband’s mother. I know you highly respected and admired her. It must be so sad for you to know that she is not in the hospital any more. But she will be in your heart and stay with you all the time.
Alice, thank you so much for letting us know about your group essay discussion meeting. I am very glad that it appears that all of you are making progress in essay writing. It takes time and efforts to complete writing essays but, in fact, it is very joyful and worthwhile to produce research essays. I really hope that each one of you will have a very good and excellent discussion with Bev so that your essays will be improved and upgraded. Remember that your essay should be concise and lucid. Get to the point. Don’t run around.
Today I met some friends of my daughter’s who were married to Australian men. I saw so many half Caucasian and half Japanese babies and infants this time in Sydney. I have never seen so many children of that kind for such a short time in my life.
At our afternoon tea time, my daughter had a strawberry tart and I an apple tartlet at a small café in the shopping complex we went to together. This kind of tea time is our greatest happiness at the moment. Funny, isn’t it?
It’s getting late in Sydney, my dear friends. I am a bit tired from our shopping and babysitting. Goodnight to you all, my precious friends.
Hello, dear friends!
I am very surprised to get an unexpected news from Sunflower but felt relieved a little bit, because your family members including baby’s mother are so positive with affectionate solidarity. Don’t worry, please believe the latest medical technology.
To tell the truth, my twi daughters were premature babies. They were so small and fragile. The doctor told my husband that he doubted that they would live more one week. I didn’t know that that information at that time. The babies stayed in incubators for more than a month. They were born in September, but the first time I had them in my arms were in November. After that they were grown up without special problems.
Nowadays I know a lot of much smaller babies than my babies have survived nowadays. Let’ believe today’s medical technology.
Today is the day before the calendrical beginning of spring. I am going to the neighbor shrine to scatter parched beans to drive out evilspirits and summon good luck.
See you soon, my dear friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Tuesday, February 3, 2009, today. The weather has been so balmy and pleasant as usual here in Sydney. This morning to the playground on the beach my daughter and Yujin went while I was staying at home with Kenjin. Normally parents take their children to the playground in the morning when there is no ultraviolet rays warning issued and around noon they quickly leave in order to avoid any damage from the strong sunlight so that there would be no one in the playground until the next morning.
No sooner had they got home than my daughter said that Yujin was looking for me around the café on the beach. (There is a stylish and trendy café on the beach which looks as if it was made of glass.) He even tried to get into the café, shouting Nanna Nanna. (By the way Yujin calls me Nanna, which means a grandmother.)
Yesterday I was there drinking diet coke (too mundane, isn’t it?) with Kenjin on my lap while Yujin was in the fenced playground. Thus he suddenly recollected what happened yesterday and thought I might be there today too, though I was at home. Young children are so funny, aren’t they?
The other day I got an email from Ms. K. F. asking me whether I could get her a copy of the chapter about 19th century English working class marriages if I happened to go to Sydney University. (Do you remember the book Women and Marriage in Nineteenth Century England you have read for the last tutorial of 2008? Actually the chapter she mentioned was omitted and we did only the middle class and upper class marriages in 19th century England. )
She remarked that she would like to read the skipped pages because she was at the moment researching on a Victorian woman belonging to the working classes. I wish I could help her, but currently I have no time to go out to the university in which a copy of the book is held. I went through the Internet and tried to find out which Japanese university held a copy of the book but it appeared likely that no Japanese university library held one. But I found out that the British Library held a copy, and the library does a copy service to anyone around the world for copy and postal fees. I emailed her about the BL copy service but she replied that she could not find the way to get a copy service from the BL despite her husband’s through assistance and advice. Actually it is very easy if you know the system, but if not it might be troublesome. Poor Ms. K. F… I think I could tell her how to go to the copy service order page, but unfortunately it is too complicated to explain in written words. I somehow sent a follow-up email but so far received no reply from her. I just wonder what happened to her…
Now the kids are asleep and so it is very quiet in this flat, which is nice and wonderful. I will get ready for going to bed now, my precious friends. Goodnight to you all…
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