HI, ladies!!
How are you?
I hope Plum already came back safely. Are you all right…?
I feel long time has past since I wrote here before.
Because I was tackling my essay writing in the same way as all of you were, and that task absorbed all my energy. I managed to submit it to Plum yesterday, and felt relieved for a while even though much remains to be done.
Bev sensei gave me a lot of productive suggestions on my essay, which were often difficult for me. “Critical perspective” is so hard…
I sincerely hope you will finish your essay soon.
Well, see you next. Bye!
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Hi Cherry and friends,
It is raining on and off today and a little bit cold. I hope Plum is getting used to this weather soon since she has just come back from the place with balmy and comfortable weather. Please take a good care of yourself, Plum.
I’m trying to concentrate on finishing my essay. The more deeply I learn about Kamiya, the more difficult I focus on one that I really want to tell. And it is also difficult to think in English and write in English without redundancy.
I believe that something better or the best thing will lie over the difficulty. I will get back to the work now.
Bye for now.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi!
You have finished writing the essay, Cherry. Wow! How admirable you are!!
I got a phone call from Sunflower, this afternoon. It's nice to hear her talk cheerfully. I was really encouraged by her voice.
We found that both of us were struggling to find how to conclude the essays.
Please keep wishing us luck!
Talk to you soon.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Wednesday, February 25, 2009 today. It’s been raining on and off gently and softly, as if it were doing some groundwork for spring, which is just around the corner, still hesitating to show up.
Thank you for asking me how I am. I am perfectly all right, my dear friends. I got back to Nagoya on Saturday night, half dead. (No exaggeration!!!) My flight back to Narita was mostly packed by gigantic Australians, most of whom I believe somewhat closely related with metabolic syndrome.
To make matters worse, these huge Australians inhaled all the oxygen in the limited space of the aircraft, which left me almost suffocated, and for the first time in my life I got airsick. Oh, dear!!!!!
On Sunday I suppose I slept for almost 20 hours. My husband would have thought I would never wake up. ( I slept like a log, truly.)
Anyway I came back alive gradually, and I know I have to get back to normal as soon as possible, because there is much to do at home and a lot of important matters await me, to my great joy.
The only concern at the moment is that I am going to get my dental implant at my dental clinic for the first time in my life tomorrow. I just hope I will have the least pain at the time of operation… I am tremendously coward. (I’m very sorry for myself, to be honest with you.)
I will get back to you tomorrow, my lovely friends. Bye for now. Have a pleasant Wednesday!!!
Hi, ladies!
Welcome back, Plum. I suppose you must be tired a little bit. I enjoyed your depiction about Australians in plane. I suppose you have to deal with a lot of work piled during your absence. Please take enough rest. I am struggling with my essay and my PC, too. Anyway, let's have a good sleep! Good night, everybody.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Thursday, February 26, 2009 today. Are you having a good time?
I went to my dentist clinic this morning to get a dental implant placed, and it took almost two and a half hours to get it done. I was lying on the treatment bed for such a long time. Amazing, isn’t it? I got some stitches, which would be removed in a week, and I was requested to go to the clinic a few times to get the wound sterilized since I am not supposed to brush that area just in case I hurt it. Eventually I will get a new tooth over the implant, and I am looking forward to getting it.
I am going to have an early night, since the dental surgery tired me out. Good night to you all, my precious friends. Night, night…
Hi Cherry and friends,
It is February 26th, sunny. Plum, welcome back to Nagoya. I greatly sympathize with you about the shortage of oxygen during the flight. I can well understand the usage of 'huge'.. I imagine the contrast of you, a beautiful slender lady and a huge Australian. And I hope the inplant operation goes well with you. The progress of teeth treatment is amazing. For the time being it might be better to eat food easy to digest. Please take care.
I belive that those who overcomes the difficulty can enjoy the taste of fruit. Good night, everyone.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Welcome back, Plum.
How exhausting it would be to lying on a treatment bed for such a long time!
Last time I visited the dentist was probably several months ago. They give us a notice for a dental examination periodically. He said that I would not have to visit him for half a year. What a relief! He is a friendly person, but whenever he talks to me while I am opening the mouth to show him, I wonder what he expects me to do. Knowing I'm working for a signboard maker, he wanted to talk about his signboard and website. Actually, we didn't make his because he didn't know us. He is in our neighborhood, though. He didn't notice our small signboard.
As for our work, it should have been the busiest season now. However, there are fewer orders to make "Under Construction" signs than every year. It seems that they're doing road repairs as much as usual. Perhaps, construction firms are trying not to bother us to cut costs. We're currently making relatively big signboards these days. For example, today we painted a picture of a sumo wrestler using illustration software. It was for a chanko (a one-pot meal for sumo wrestlers) restaurant. A travel agency ordered a big one, too. So in this time of recession, these companies might be good buys in terms of investment.
Good night.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Friday, February 27, 2009 today. It has been freezing cold, hasn’t it?
This morning I was very surprised when I looked at myself in the mirror. My left cheek was miserably swollen due to the dental surgery. I had no pain or fever, but just this swollen cheek. I quickly took out some ice and cool the cheek with it, and gradually the swollen cheek began to get smaller.
I have heard that some patients would have a more swollen cheek, and probably I was rather lucky with this degree of swelling. Anyway that’s what happened this morning.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you one more important happening I got this morning. I got a phone call from my son living in Oita, and he said that his wife’s waters broke and he drove her to the clinic. He also said that tomorrow their second baby was going to be born. Oh, really? Surprise, surprise… Now I am going to have four grandchildren. Wow!!! How should I welcome my fourth grandchild to this world?
Now I will wrap up my talk, my precious friends. I will talk to you again. Night, night…
Hi Cherry and friends,
It is Saturday, February 28, and nice, sunny day. Today is already the last day of February. Time flies so fast, isn’t it?
Plum, are you really OK? I hope the swelling has gone down and everything is going well for you now.
What surprising and happy news! When was her original due for her second baby? You must be very excited to have the fourth grandchild. I can’t believe you have four grandchildren!! Are you planning to visit them?
I have been very busy with working these days. But I luckily had a chance to visit Gujyo Hachiman in Gifu with my American and Japanese friends the other day. It was the first time for me to visit Gujyo Hachiman and I had an enjoyable and relaxed time visiting the castle, walking along the old streets and going around souvenir shops. The city is famous for the bon-dancing, but it is not the season for dancing, of cause, and also famous for plastic food samplers which we can see in front of many restaurants. We also found many different kind of miniature ones which look very real and fresh amazingly. It was a long day and I was very tired.
Hope you have a nice weekend, my precious friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Saturday, February 28, 2009 today. It has been a nice and sunny early spring day, hasn’t it?
Rose, thank you for your warm response about my fourth grandchild. My son’s wife was due to give birth on March 10th, but the baby was born in the early afternoon today, the last day of February. She just could not wait until her due date and neither could my third grandchild, who was born about 20 days earlier in November last year.
Actually the baby was in a dangerous condition, I hear; her navel cord was wound around her neck and temporarily her heart sound stopped to be heard. Eventually contraction began and the baby was born safe and sound. Oh, dear!!!
Yes, I do have to go to Oita to see her. I just cannot get away without it. (My son asked me so may times when I was going to see the baby before it was born.) My son sent a photo of the new-born baby to my mobile phone (I am sorry to say this, but she is just my son’s lookalike). I am planning to visit them on Friday 13th of next month and will stay there until Sunday. Anyway I am going to send a bunch of tulips to my daughter-in-law tomorrow, since tulips are her favorite.
Well, it is getting late, and I am going to get ready for going to bed now, my lovely friends. I hope you are all having a pleasant Saturday night. Night, night.
Hi, everyone.
How have you been? Plum, you have enviable news. Congratulations on having 4 grandchildren. How about your promising base of the tooth. Please feel relaxed and take a rest sufficiently. My brother is a dentist, if you can't ask your practioner on Sunday, he might be a substitute.
Rose, you went to Gujo Hachiman, didn't you? Is it snowing? I like there. I went to Mino city last Saturday. The city is famous for the houses street with fire prevention on the both edges of the roof called Udatsu. This city used to trade Japan paper thrivingly. It has a museum displaying lights which consist of Japan paper. They are very beautiful and gave me peace in my mind. I bouught Sake bottles indigenous to the local area.
By the way, two weeks ago, I went to the Nonhoi park located in Futagawa, Toyohashi. The display of the dinosaur museum satisfies your curiosity more than before. I watched the movie there. I knew a movie hero, Indiana Jones modeling after Roy Chapman Andrews who found the fossil of Oviraptor in Mongol, prince of paleontologists. This park was visited by the Asahiyama Zoo staffs, I think the park is very successful. Why not go to the Nonhoi park, its zoo is very attractive.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Sunday, March 1, 2009 today. It has been a lovely day, hasn’t it? Especially in the early afternoon the air was balmy and the sun was shining. We are now in spring, aren’t we?
I still think about articles from time to time, and probably one of the most difficult usages of the definite article for English learners is, perhaps, as Alice describes, the + N (pl) which refers to a “general statement,” such as the troops and the unions. This usage is considered as “referring to a general statement about a specific group.” Phrases such as the upper classes, the middle classes, and the working classes belong to this usage categorization, I suppose.
Anyway, it is important to learn more about how to use and not to use articles, and I made a quiz for you. The following is a web article from BBC Learning English.
Please try this quiz.
The answers are listed below the article.
Production gloom in Japan
(1) drop in industrial production of 10 percent in January was even worse than the decline in December - setting (2) new and grim record as Japan sinks into its worst economic crisis since the Second World War.
The latest figures come just days after (3) Government said (4) exports had nearly halved. (5) consumers around the world afraid of losing their jobs in (6) downturn no longer want to buy Japanese electronic gadgets and cars. The Japanese themselves are also shopping less - average household spending fell 5.9 percent in January compared to the same month a year earlier. Jobs are being slashed - the number of people unemployed rose by (7) more than 200,000.
Japan was once seen as relatively immune to (8) global crisis because its banks are not as exposed to bad loans as those in the United States or Europe. But its reliance on (9) foreign markets to drive its economy out of a long slump in the 1990s has left it painfully exposed. In the last quarter of last year Japan's economy shrank by 3.3 percent, (10) far sharper decline than in the United States or Europe.
Roland Buerk, BBC News, Tokyo
Answers: 1-The, 2-a, 3-the, 4--, 5--, 6-the, 7--, 8-the, 9--, 10-a.
How many points did you get? 10 points? Excellent!!!
Goodnight to you all, my dear friends.
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