HI, ladies!!
Cosmos, the health care system in the USA and the UK is a very interesting issue.
Alice, your mother is a so vigorous woman, isn’t she?!
Rose, I also like the poem “Youth” by Samuel Ullman!
After the lecture///
Although Plum gets us to answer the questions for the articles on the Blog everyday, I can’t understand how to deal with them correctly… (I wonder “get to + answer” is correct?)
When I was a student in the class of the creative English writing at TCLC yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t compose any meaningful sentences in simple English, because, as the teacher told us regretfully, I lacked even the knowledge of junior high level’s English grammar… Oh, what a mess!
While my husband was working hard yesterday because of this term for the settlement, I was playing tennis with a friend of mine, who used to work together at Nagoya university, at the new sports center near my house, and then having a tasty lunch at the famous café in Hoshigaoka, which was introduced on a guide book, so I felt a bit sorry for him…???
...Where is my English brain?
So, see you next. Bye for now!
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Hello, Cherry and my friends.
Rose, thank you for introducing us the nice poem,“Youth, by Samuel Ullman who sang that Youth is not a time of years but it's a state of mind. I assure you that he must be a man who never gave up his ideals until the points of his death. I’d like to try to keep and search for my dream and aspiration as long as possible.
By the way my daughter, who has stayed with us since last month, had a second girl baby at the clinic near my house on Monday.
The newborn baby was named ‘Ami’, which means brilliant, vivid dreams. (彩夢)
Hopefully she will maintain various kinds of splendid, magnificicent,and gorgeious dreams so that she would never get older after a time of years,but rather have a younger mind.
Thank you
Have a nice day, my precious friends.
Hi Cherry and friends,
Congratulations on your new born granddaughter, Sunflower. What a beautiful, meaningful name she has! And what nice Chinese characters her parents chose for her! I’m also hoping her healthy and bright future.
This afternoon, I attended Dr. Kathryn Gleadle’s lecture on “Friends of the People: Women and Community in early nineteenth-century England” with Plum, Alice and Gloriosa, who gave us this information. It was held on the 17th floor at Hotel Associa and there were about 35 attendees. Dr. Gleadle talked about mainly women’s role in the parochial realm and their political activities based on her new book planning to publish this year. Her lecture was very dense and stimulating, though it was quite difficult for me to understand. After her two-hour-lecture and a short break, we had a question-answer time for an hour and Alice, who was encouraged by Plum, asked a good question related to her study about Christianity and women’s missionaries.
After this fruitful program, Plum, Alice and I went to the café to talk about Alice’s thesis and other various things. (Alice and I, each ordered a glass of California wine because all kinds of alcohol were half price at that time and it cost only 400yen! The café latté Plum ordered cost 1,000yen! Sorry, Plum.) I had an enjoyable time being with them and was very impressed by Plum’s passion and enthusiasm toward study. I also enjoyed listening to Plum’s amazing and dangerous (?) college life in Australia and her vivid daughter counting on Plum.
Thank you, all of you, for sharing a great time.
Good night, my precious friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Well. Let me do my homework before going to bed.
We are lucky to have a great teacher who always puts pressure on us. I really appreciate it. As Rose has already reported, I attended the lecture delivered by Dr. Gleadle. We sat very close to her. Plum was next to the commentator, Prof. Okuda, who was next to Dr. Gleadle and I was next to Plum. All NWSRG members sat side by side.
I was fascinated by her lecture. Although I could not understand thoroughly her argument because she discussed the subtle difference between the public sphere and the parochial realm, I somehow found the connection between her study and my research interest. Perhaps, to understand her discussion completely, I should have known about gradational differences among social relationships ranging from micro to macro levels.
She answered my question about Christian ideologies and the Victorian ideal of womanhood. Both value systems worked together and were constantly intertwined each other within the idea of each individual woman. However, within the perspective of the public or private sphere, a female identity was more important in the private sphere such as in a traditional family. This is how I understood.
Asking questions was my norm since I was sitting next to Plum, who pushed me to do so. Thanks to Plum, I was given valuable information from Dr. Gleadle. One is her e-mail address. The other is books to read. Let me introduce them here.
"Family Fortunes" by Davidoff, "Religion in the Lives of English Women 1760-1930" by Malmgreen and "Women, Religion, and Feminism in Britain 1750-1900" by Morgan.
These were books she recommended.
And there is one more announcement that makes you happy. Plum will send her our ESSAYS. It is wonderful, isn't it?
OK, let me finish here tonight.
Good night.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Thursday, March 12, 2009 today.
Congratulations on the birth of your third grandchild, Sunflower!!!
So, you have one grandson and two granddaughters, don’t you? You must be extremely busy looking after your daughter’s son, who is, probably, almost three years old, I wonder.
I quite enjoyed reading your writing about your mother, Alice. Your mother likes doing research as much as you do, doesn’t she? I got an impression that she is as industrious and hardworking as you are.
I was tremendously happy that you could come to listen to that woman teacher from Oxford University, Rose. It might have been difficult to understand what she argued about, simply because you were not used to that type of talk. The more lectures you attend, the easier lectures in English sound.
I am going to Oita tomorrow morning, and so I will not be able to write in this blog for three days. I will be back on Monday.
This is a new quiz and I hope you enjoy trying this. The article, which is from the BBC English Learning, is about acidic oceans and sea life. The answers are listed below.
Acidic oceans destroying sea life
11 March 2009
Carbon dioxide is (1) acidic gas and scientists say as it dissolves into the sea it's making seawater more acidic. They calculate that (2) ocean acidity is up 30% since the Industrial Revolution. A new study shows the growth of some tiny shell forming creatures appears already to have been stunted by (3) change.
(4) Research of this new branch of science suggests that as CO2 emissions continue to increase, many shell forming species may not survive the next 50 - 100 years. This would hit commercial fisheries and start to unpick the very web of life in the seas.
Dr Carol Turley, who is running today's acidification debate in Copenhagen, fears (5) mass extinction: ''55 million years ago there was a big production of CO2. That resulted in (6) mass extinction of seabed dwelling shell forming organisms. What we’re doing now is far, far faster, so it may not be possible for organisms to adapt.''
(7) Sceptics say we can't be sure how (8) ocean chemistry will respond in the future and whether (9) creatures will adapt. The scientists in Denmark say we simply shouldn’t take (10) risk.
Roger Harrabin, BBC News
Answers:
1. an: classification.
2. ---: an uncountable noun.
3. the: already mentioned, so specified.
4. ---: an uncountable noun.
5. a: first mention.
6. the: specified by the following “of…”.
7. ---: in general, so zero article with countable noun.
8. ---: an unaccountable noun.
9. ---: in general, so zero article with countable noun.
10. the: specifying in this context.
Hello, everyone.
Sunflower, congratulations on your having the 2nd girl grandchild.
Rose, wine sounds nice.
Alice, when I meet you again, would you talk about the lecture more concretely. Public sphere and parochial realm are equivalent to public and private?
Plum, thank you very much for your quizes, especially, since scientific topis began, I have not been waiting for it more than before. By the way uncountable noun(in this case, this noun is counted?) is difficult because it sometimes swiches from U to C, depending on the meaning. Surprisingly, I can carefully watch the word which Plum presented even in other magazine. The day she gave us the quize about biotechnology, Idiom was explained to us by her. My failure has not improved yet. However, some of them were done with reason.
Please have nice days in Oita and best weekend.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Plum and Cherry, thank you for complimenting my mother. She may be a hard worker because she wants to do various different things, being as slow as I am. But she is not as industrious or vigorous as her sister, which relives me a lot.
Azalea, thank you for giving me a comment.
Sorry. My explanation was not clear. The “parochial realm” is part of the public realm where middle-class women could behave influentially toward local people. The private sphere is within the family. What I meant by a macro-level social relationship was the public realm which included local community and state-level societies such as the parliament of a country. At the micro level, we are building day-to-day social relationships with our family or friends.
An interesting anecdote about a feminist activist was introduced yesterday. Although she was politically active outside, she was alienated whenever her husband had a political meeting at home. In the public sphere where she led the movement, she was inspired more by political cause. However, in the private sphere, that is, facing her husband, she behaved more feminine.
Did I get you to understand what I was trying to say?
Talk to you later.
Good night.
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