Thursday, July 27, 2006
Movies
I saw the movie of The pirates of Caribbean, Dead man’s chest. I love the movie. It consists of three stories and the third one is making now. It is about the pirates in Caribbean Sea, and they always aim the treasures that are valuable. I want to watch the third one.
At last!!
At last, I will go to Britain tomorrow. I live with a host family for a month and I link they are so kind. I bought a Fuurinn, a small wallet, and a Hanafuda that was played long time ago in Japan. A student of KGU waited for my email, so I sent an email to him. He is kind enough to answer my questions and he told me an important thing. It was about the weather in Leicester. I will visit Leicester and live there for a month. I heard that it is good weather and it is like an fall in Japan. It will cold in the mornings and the nights. However, it could be hot in the days. According to that, I have to bring many clothes.
I cannot wait tomorrow. I would like to meet my host families as soon as possible!!
I cannot wait tomorrow. I would like to meet my host families as soon as possible!!
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Movies
A friend of mine and I went to Cineplex yesterday. We watched Brave Story that is about a poor boy whose parents divorced. He wants to pull together his family. To do so, he goes to another world. He meets many people in the world and he has to be brave and hero. He also has to collect five stones to make his wish to come true. There are many difficulties on the way.
Friday, July 14, 2006
A Cat
This is the cat which an uncle of mine feeds. He will be two years old this summer. He has two brothers. One is a male, and the other is female. They are noisy and they always play outside.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The Plans for this summer vacation
I will go to Britain in this summer vacation. I also have some other plans. Shopping with my friends, watching some movies, preparation for the examinations of the short study abroad.
First of all, I am going to Britain in this summer vacation. I will leave Japan on July 28th. We are going to Fukuoka airport at first after leaving our university on 6:30 a.m. We have to arrive our university by 6 o’clock in the morning. Then we leave there to Fukuoka airport. Next, we will take two airplanes bound for Britain. One is to South Korea, and the other is to Britain. It will take over ten ours to get to Britain, I think. We will go shopping with my friends, have some parties with the student who are in local university in the country. I am sure that I could have wonderful time with them. I’m very happy to have this chance.
Second, I want to go shopping or to go to watch some movies with my friends in Japan. I can’t go shopping with them who live in Japan or Kumamoto city during my stay in Britain. I want to have more time with them. I am sorry for them about that.
Third, I would like to study abroad to brash up my English. It is necessary for me to do that because I want to be an English teacher in the future. Needless to say, I have to study harder for that. I would like to go Britain, but it will not be the same place that I will go this summer. It is Leicester that I will go this summer, and Liverpool is that I want to study abroad. I can study about Education, art, international economics in the university. I want to take the Educational lecture for my future. However, I have to take some examinations for studying abroad. People who go study abroad can get their own scholarship for it, and they also have to take the exams. Long one or short one. I would like to study hard in this summer vacation for the exam. I can study English grammar, conversation skills, writing skills, or listening skills. I can use some facilities of KGU. I want to use all of them to brush up my English. They are my plans for this summer vacation.
First of all, I am going to Britain in this summer vacation. I will leave Japan on July 28th. We are going to Fukuoka airport at first after leaving our university on 6:30 a.m. We have to arrive our university by 6 o’clock in the morning. Then we leave there to Fukuoka airport. Next, we will take two airplanes bound for Britain. One is to South Korea, and the other is to Britain. It will take over ten ours to get to Britain, I think. We will go shopping with my friends, have some parties with the student who are in local university in the country. I am sure that I could have wonderful time with them. I’m very happy to have this chance.
Second, I want to go shopping or to go to watch some movies with my friends in Japan. I can’t go shopping with them who live in Japan or Kumamoto city during my stay in Britain. I want to have more time with them. I am sorry for them about that.
Third, I would like to study abroad to brash up my English. It is necessary for me to do that because I want to be an English teacher in the future. Needless to say, I have to study harder for that. I would like to go Britain, but it will not be the same place that I will go this summer. It is Leicester that I will go this summer, and Liverpool is that I want to study abroad. I can study about Education, art, international economics in the university. I want to take the Educational lecture for my future. However, I have to take some examinations for studying abroad. People who go study abroad can get their own scholarship for it, and they also have to take the exams. Long one or short one. I would like to study hard in this summer vacation for the exam. I can study English grammar, conversation skills, writing skills, or listening skills. I can use some facilities of KGU. I want to use all of them to brush up my English. They are my plans for this summer vacation.
Book Review 9: One- Way Ticket
1. Outlines
There are three short stories. A train is a closed world. Each carriage is like a small room, with windows and doors, but you can’t gat out when the train is moving. The world outside is far away, and you can forget your home, your work, your friends. On a train you sit with strangers. You don’t know anything about them, but you sit next to them for hours, or perhaps days, in the same small room. You can’t get away from them.
As the wheels of the train turn, these stories show us three different people. A beautiful young wife – going on holiday with her husband, through the green hills of England. A carefree young man – traveling across the mountains of Yugoslavia, looking for work. A sensible middle – aged man – traveling north through the forests and lakes of Finland, hoping for a quiet journey.
Three different journeys, three different people – all locked in the closed world of the train… where anything can happen.
2. Stories
There are 7 people in a carriage. A young woman and her husband, a tall dark man, a fat man with a brown hat, and a mother and two children. They are all in packed in the carriage. The husband and a fat man talk all the way to their destinations. The wife is tired of the husband’s talking and their noise, laugh. Her husband likes to talking and he always talking with other people. Even it is interesting or not. The wife, Julie is looking at a tall man who sits in front of her. He is reading his newspaper. He notices Julie, and smiles at her through the newspaper. They perhaps fall in love with each other. No one knows, but Julie gets off the train when her husband and the fat man were in the restaurant in the train. He was very gets angry with that, and there is nothing for him to do. The train already left the platform!! He continues his journey to the favorite place.
Tom is in a small carriage by himself. Some minutes later, there come two girls. They seem that they have the good relationship and actually, they are sisters. Tom is going to Bulgaria, looking for his work. The sisters, Melanie and Carl are going to Sofia in Bulgaria. They decided to meet at a hotel in Sofia, and then they part. Tom continuities his travel to his destination, however, there are some policemen outside of the train on the platform. They seem to have looking for someone. Then, they tapped Tom by his shoulder and ask him to come with them. Tom is confused because he has no reason to be treated like that. They open his bag, and there are American dollars. He cannot understand the situation. He didn’t have the money. Then, he remembers. Tom and one of the sisters, Melanie went to the restaurant in the train. Carl left in the carriage then. He thought it was Carl who put the money into his bags. That’s why the sisters asked him to meet together in two or three days later. Poor Tom is going to enter a jail and he has to spend some years there. He believes everything can be O.K soon.
Mr. Harris. There is no one except him. He is happy because he wants a quiet journey. At midnight, the train stopped at the small station of Otava. Mr. Harris looks out of the window, but he sees nobody. After the train leaves the station, two young people come into his carriage. They are a woman and a man. They start quarrel soon and woman talks about her necklace. The man takes something out of his pocket. It is made of some diamond and they are brightening. It is her necklace. He tells her that necklace belongs to him now, and she can not get back it. She takes a long knife from her pocket and stinks into his body. The bloods come to run out of the body, and he never comes back. Mr. Mr. Harris is afraid and he runs out of the carriage. He calls a conductor but the conductor tells him a story. It is just a story of ghosts, and it is similar to what he saw right now. The happening Mr. Harris saw was happened in eighty years ago. Mr. Harris feels ill and gets of the train. He doesn’t want to in the train any longer. After that, he hates the trains.
There are three short stories. A train is a closed world. Each carriage is like a small room, with windows and doors, but you can’t gat out when the train is moving. The world outside is far away, and you can forget your home, your work, your friends. On a train you sit with strangers. You don’t know anything about them, but you sit next to them for hours, or perhaps days, in the same small room. You can’t get away from them.
As the wheels of the train turn, these stories show us three different people. A beautiful young wife – going on holiday with her husband, through the green hills of England. A carefree young man – traveling across the mountains of Yugoslavia, looking for work. A sensible middle – aged man – traveling north through the forests and lakes of Finland, hoping for a quiet journey.
Three different journeys, three different people – all locked in the closed world of the train… where anything can happen.
2. Stories
There are 7 people in a carriage. A young woman and her husband, a tall dark man, a fat man with a brown hat, and a mother and two children. They are all in packed in the carriage. The husband and a fat man talk all the way to their destinations. The wife is tired of the husband’s talking and their noise, laugh. Her husband likes to talking and he always talking with other people. Even it is interesting or not. The wife, Julie is looking at a tall man who sits in front of her. He is reading his newspaper. He notices Julie, and smiles at her through the newspaper. They perhaps fall in love with each other. No one knows, but Julie gets off the train when her husband and the fat man were in the restaurant in the train. He was very gets angry with that, and there is nothing for him to do. The train already left the platform!! He continues his journey to the favorite place.
Tom is in a small carriage by himself. Some minutes later, there come two girls. They seem that they have the good relationship and actually, they are sisters. Tom is going to Bulgaria, looking for his work. The sisters, Melanie and Carl are going to Sofia in Bulgaria. They decided to meet at a hotel in Sofia, and then they part. Tom continuities his travel to his destination, however, there are some policemen outside of the train on the platform. They seem to have looking for someone. Then, they tapped Tom by his shoulder and ask him to come with them. Tom is confused because he has no reason to be treated like that. They open his bag, and there are American dollars. He cannot understand the situation. He didn’t have the money. Then, he remembers. Tom and one of the sisters, Melanie went to the restaurant in the train. Carl left in the carriage then. He thought it was Carl who put the money into his bags. That’s why the sisters asked him to meet together in two or three days later. Poor Tom is going to enter a jail and he has to spend some years there. He believes everything can be O.K soon.
Mr. Harris. There is no one except him. He is happy because he wants a quiet journey. At midnight, the train stopped at the small station of Otava. Mr. Harris looks out of the window, but he sees nobody. After the train leaves the station, two young people come into his carriage. They are a woman and a man. They start quarrel soon and woman talks about her necklace. The man takes something out of his pocket. It is made of some diamond and they are brightening. It is her necklace. He tells her that necklace belongs to him now, and she can not get back it. She takes a long knife from her pocket and stinks into his body. The bloods come to run out of the body, and he never comes back. Mr. Mr. Harris is afraid and he runs out of the carriage. He calls a conductor but the conductor tells him a story. It is just a story of ghosts, and it is similar to what he saw right now. The happening Mr. Harris saw was happened in eighty years ago. Mr. Harris feels ill and gets of the train. He doesn’t want to in the train any longer. After that, he hates the trains.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Book Review 8: The Coldest Place on Earth
1. Outlines
In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an English man, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian.
But Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travelers never returned to their homes again.
This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.
2. Details
There were two groups of travelers to the South Pole in Antarctica. They wanted to be the first men to get there. They tried to prepare perfectly for their journey. The Amundsen’s group got 99 dogs from a small island in the south of Norway. Also, they didn’t forget to have the foods. They got plenty of them. While in the Scott’ team, they got Some ponies from China. The captain thought that the ponies were strong and they could work hard even on ice. However, ponies are originally live in the warm place. They need much food, and can’t work hard in the cold place.
Both two groups fought with the team mates in the cold place. The clearest differences between them were that the Amundsen team never forgot to take care of their tools and to make some tents on the way to the South Pole. They helped their lives.
At last, Amundsen’s team won the race. They could win the race because of their cautious preparations and right decision. The members fought, but they never to part from the members. They could come back their homes. However, the Scott’s team was in danger many times and they were all dead. The reason was the wrong judgments and the wrong group consciousness. The members followed the wrong order of the captain and never insist their ideas.
I thought that this book told me the most important thing. It is the right decision, the calm actions, and needless to say, the courage to have their own insistence. We have them every time we are in troubles. We should be more careful about our risk. Old people said, “The preparation is all!!” I think so, too.
In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an English man, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian.
But Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travelers never returned to their homes again.
This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.
2. Details
There were two groups of travelers to the South Pole in Antarctica. They wanted to be the first men to get there. They tried to prepare perfectly for their journey. The Amundsen’s group got 99 dogs from a small island in the south of Norway. Also, they didn’t forget to have the foods. They got plenty of them. While in the Scott’ team, they got Some ponies from China. The captain thought that the ponies were strong and they could work hard even on ice. However, ponies are originally live in the warm place. They need much food, and can’t work hard in the cold place.
Both two groups fought with the team mates in the cold place. The clearest differences between them were that the Amundsen team never forgot to take care of their tools and to make some tents on the way to the South Pole. They helped their lives.
At last, Amundsen’s team won the race. They could win the race because of their cautious preparations and right decision. The members fought, but they never to part from the members. They could come back their homes. However, the Scott’s team was in danger many times and they were all dead. The reason was the wrong judgments and the wrong group consciousness. The members followed the wrong order of the captain and never insist their ideas.
I thought that this book told me the most important thing. It is the right decision, the calm actions, and needless to say, the courage to have their own insistence. We have them every time we are in troubles. We should be more careful about our risk. Old people said, “The preparation is all!!” I think so, too.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
A Party With My Friends
We have the good friendship each other. We often have dinner together. This is a Purinto Clab. You can take some pictures called Purikura with your friends, and the pictures can be put anywhere you want. I love Purikura. I take them whenever I go out with my friends.
I want to go out to drinking with them!!
I want to go out to drinking with them!!
Takoyaki Party
We made Takoyaki on Miki’s birthday. It was fun for me to make this around. We enjoyed making and eating them.
Miki's Birthday
The party was held on Thursday, 30th June. It was the twentieth birthday of Miki, a friend of mine. There were many people to celebrate her birthday and we had the dinner together. She looked so happy and we were happy to see the face. I think it was a wonderful day. After the dinner, we talked and talked about each other. There were full of smiles and we enjoyed the time.
Miki, happy birthday and God bless you!!
Miki, happy birthday and God bless you!!
A Purikura with My Cousin
I went to see a movie with my cousin and my brother. We took this picture after the movie. It was Trick that we saw. We have very good relationship.
The phrase tells that.
"What is the most important thing is not the reason why you fell in love with the person but the truth that you love him/her and the feeling you want to be with them..."
I like this phrase because that is true for everybody.
The phrase tells that.
"What is the most important thing is not the reason why you fell in love with the person but the truth that you love him/her and the feeling you want to be with them..."
I like this phrase because that is true for everybody.
Book Review 7: The Phantom of the Opera
1. Outlines
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. It is the biggest Opera House in the world. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom-the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers…
But who has actually seen him?
2. Details
The name of the Phantom is Erick. He has an ugly face. There are no eyes and nose on his face. He also lives in the Opera House in Paris. People are afraid of him, because when he gets angry, there are some terrible accidents in the Opera House. One day, two men come to the Opera House as the directors. As soon as they arrive there, a letter is brought. That is from the Phantom of the Opera. Some requirements are written on the letter. First, nobody could see the plays at the box 5. Second, the directors have to pay 20,000 francs to the Phantom of the Opera. For the first time, they don’t answer to these requirements. However, the Phantom gets angry and some audiences are dead because of an accident that chandelier falls down on them. The phantom does that. The directors do as he wants, and his requirements are passed.
The other day, a young singer, Christine Daae is afraid of her music teacher the Phantom of the Opera. As he loves her, he doesn’t allow that some young man approaches to her. It is the Roal the Vicomte de Chagny who approaches to her. He is young, handsome, and rich person. He falls in love with Christine and she does either. They decided to marry and leave the Opera House because he insists on the idea.
The day that they cary out the plan, the accident happens. The Phantom knows that. He takes Christine to his house, that is down down down under the Opera House. Roal follows them with the Persian. They get in a room that is in the house. But it was the wrong room, the Phantom’s torture room. Christine swears that she would be the wife of the Phantom, and gives a kiss to him. The Phantom allows all the people to go away.
At last, Christine and Roal can get merried and live happily. But no one knows the truth.
3.Impression
I thought that the love can make people mad and can help the lives of human beings. I have read some books about love, but I insist this idea.
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. It is the biggest Opera House in the world. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom-the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers…
But who has actually seen him?
2. Details
The name of the Phantom is Erick. He has an ugly face. There are no eyes and nose on his face. He also lives in the Opera House in Paris. People are afraid of him, because when he gets angry, there are some terrible accidents in the Opera House. One day, two men come to the Opera House as the directors. As soon as they arrive there, a letter is brought. That is from the Phantom of the Opera. Some requirements are written on the letter. First, nobody could see the plays at the box 5. Second, the directors have to pay 20,000 francs to the Phantom of the Opera. For the first time, they don’t answer to these requirements. However, the Phantom gets angry and some audiences are dead because of an accident that chandelier falls down on them. The phantom does that. The directors do as he wants, and his requirements are passed.
The other day, a young singer, Christine Daae is afraid of her music teacher the Phantom of the Opera. As he loves her, he doesn’t allow that some young man approaches to her. It is the Roal the Vicomte de Chagny who approaches to her. He is young, handsome, and rich person. He falls in love with Christine and she does either. They decided to marry and leave the Opera House because he insists on the idea.
The day that they cary out the plan, the accident happens. The Phantom knows that. He takes Christine to his house, that is down down down under the Opera House. Roal follows them with the Persian. They get in a room that is in the house. But it was the wrong room, the Phantom’s torture room. Christine swears that she would be the wife of the Phantom, and gives a kiss to him. The Phantom allows all the people to go away.
At last, Christine and Roal can get merried and live happily. But no one knows the truth.
3.Impression
I thought that the love can make people mad and can help the lives of human beings. I have read some books about love, but I insist this idea.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Book Review 6: Remember Miranda
Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children’s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn’t meet Miranda, the children’s mother, because Miranda is dead.
She died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her…
Cathy had no home because her mother and father died a long time ago and she had no brothers or sisters. It is the first her job and she wants to be happy in the house.
She met the children. Tim was five years old and Susan was seven year old, a quiet girl with big brown eyes. She watched Cathy carefully but she didn’t smile. After the dinner, there came Juliet, the sister of Miranda. She was the person who told a story about Miranda to Cathy. When she began to talk about Miranda, the children came and talked about their mother.
Some days later, Cathy met Nick on the beach and he approached her to go out for dinner. That night, she went dinner with Nick, and she talked about that to Juliet About her love with Nick. Cathy fell in love with Nick!! She said nothing about that. After that, Cathy rode on her car and drove to the children’s school. Then, there was a Landrover that came fast to her car. It was Nick’s Landrover. When she recognized the car, the car nearly hit her car. Nick came out of his car and worried about Cathy. However, there was Juliet in his car. Cathy got angry and she left there at once. Some weeks later, Christmas came near. Cathy and the children went out for a Christmas tree, but Tim fell on a tree and cut his head. He had a lot of bloods. Susan was afraid and said, ‘Is Tim going to die like my mother?’ Cathy told Susan that Tim was going to be fine. They went to a hospital and Cathy called their father, Duncan. He came to the hospital soon. He looked afraid of the injury. He was afraid of losing his family again. That night, Juliet came to see Tim and Cathy. She wanted to Cathy but she was also afraid of her with her anger to Juliet. Juliet didn’t tell the reason why Miranda was dead, but told the love with Nick. They loved each other, but Nick wanted to have some friend of women. Juliet wanted Nick to have such friend. Actually, Miranda was dead because of that. Miranda hated her husband and his children. She wanted to leave them on the Beach House to live with Nick. However, Nick didn’t love Miranda, and Duncan was angry with that. Juliet never told her sister about her love with Nick. Juliet and Nick fell in love and Miranda fell in love with Nick, and Duncan never wanted Miranda to leave her family. There was a difficult composition.
It was the grandmother who killed Miranda. She wanted to break Miranda’s leg not to go out for her love. Unfortunately, Miranda was dead. There was no murderous reason to kill Miranda, but she ended her life.
After the affair, Duncan confessed his love to Cathy and Cathy found her house at last
After I read this book, I thought that there was a selfish love in the world. I hate Nick and Miranda. I decided not to be such a person like them.
She died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her…
Cathy had no home because her mother and father died a long time ago and she had no brothers or sisters. It is the first her job and she wants to be happy in the house.
She met the children. Tim was five years old and Susan was seven year old, a quiet girl with big brown eyes. She watched Cathy carefully but she didn’t smile. After the dinner, there came Juliet, the sister of Miranda. She was the person who told a story about Miranda to Cathy. When she began to talk about Miranda, the children came and talked about their mother.
Some days later, Cathy met Nick on the beach and he approached her to go out for dinner. That night, she went dinner with Nick, and she talked about that to Juliet About her love with Nick. Cathy fell in love with Nick!! She said nothing about that. After that, Cathy rode on her car and drove to the children’s school. Then, there was a Landrover that came fast to her car. It was Nick’s Landrover. When she recognized the car, the car nearly hit her car. Nick came out of his car and worried about Cathy. However, there was Juliet in his car. Cathy got angry and she left there at once. Some weeks later, Christmas came near. Cathy and the children went out for a Christmas tree, but Tim fell on a tree and cut his head. He had a lot of bloods. Susan was afraid and said, ‘Is Tim going to die like my mother?’ Cathy told Susan that Tim was going to be fine. They went to a hospital and Cathy called their father, Duncan. He came to the hospital soon. He looked afraid of the injury. He was afraid of losing his family again. That night, Juliet came to see Tim and Cathy. She wanted to Cathy but she was also afraid of her with her anger to Juliet. Juliet didn’t tell the reason why Miranda was dead, but told the love with Nick. They loved each other, but Nick wanted to have some friend of women. Juliet wanted Nick to have such friend. Actually, Miranda was dead because of that. Miranda hated her husband and his children. She wanted to leave them on the Beach House to live with Nick. However, Nick didn’t love Miranda, and Duncan was angry with that. Juliet never told her sister about her love with Nick. Juliet and Nick fell in love and Miranda fell in love with Nick, and Duncan never wanted Miranda to leave her family. There was a difficult composition.
It was the grandmother who killed Miranda. She wanted to break Miranda’s leg not to go out for her love. Unfortunately, Miranda was dead. There was no murderous reason to kill Miranda, but she ended her life.
After the affair, Duncan confessed his love to Cathy and Cathy found her house at last
After I read this book, I thought that there was a selfish love in the world. I hate Nick and Miranda. I decided not to be such a person like them.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Book Review 5: The Love of a King
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ‘No!’
He was Edward Ⅷ , King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. Mrs. Wallis was beautiful and she loved him- but she was already married to another man, Mr. Wallis. They met in the autumn if 1930, she had a cold then, and Edward worried about that. Mrs. Wallis told him the truth that the Prince of Wales would talk about something more interesting. He had never heard anybody said like that, he was pleased at her honesty. Soon he fell in love with Mrs. Wallis.
One day, The King was dead and Edward had to be the next King. When he knew that, he telephone to Mrs. Wallis and proposed to her. As soon as she heard it, she wrote a letter to her husband to ask him a divorce. They got divorce and she was free at last.
Next morning, Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury was waiting for Edward. He had some newspapers on his arm and told him not to marry Wallis. Lang also told him that the Church would be against their marriage. Edward was a King of Britain, so he was a Christian. Christian people had to keep their marriage and they could not have a divorce. Needless to say, they could not have remarriage. The Church would have a big outcry against Edward and Wallis.
He could not help following his heart, Edward decided to gibe the crown to his brother and he would leave England.
It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love… and leave his country, never to return.
They lived in Paris for many years. In 1952, King George and Queen Mary died, and Edward and his wife could back to Britain and met Queen Elizabeth. She was Edward’s niece. After their death, their body was buried in England. ‘It’s a strange thing.’ one newspaper said. ‘When they were alive, the Duke (Edward) and Duchess (his wife) could never live in retain. It was only in death that they could be there together.’
From this story, I found a difficulty about the religion. There are no religious issues in particular, I think, in Japan. I could not understand the conflicts or fights about religion. Could the Japanese people understand and have to comprehend religious issues?? I think no one knows that…
He was Edward Ⅷ , King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. Mrs. Wallis was beautiful and she loved him- but she was already married to another man, Mr. Wallis. They met in the autumn if 1930, she had a cold then, and Edward worried about that. Mrs. Wallis told him the truth that the Prince of Wales would talk about something more interesting. He had never heard anybody said like that, he was pleased at her honesty. Soon he fell in love with Mrs. Wallis.
One day, The King was dead and Edward had to be the next King. When he knew that, he telephone to Mrs. Wallis and proposed to her. As soon as she heard it, she wrote a letter to her husband to ask him a divorce. They got divorce and she was free at last.
Next morning, Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury was waiting for Edward. He had some newspapers on his arm and told him not to marry Wallis. Lang also told him that the Church would be against their marriage. Edward was a King of Britain, so he was a Christian. Christian people had to keep their marriage and they could not have a divorce. Needless to say, they could not have remarriage. The Church would have a big outcry against Edward and Wallis.
He could not help following his heart, Edward decided to gibe the crown to his brother and he would leave England.
It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love… and leave his country, never to return.
They lived in Paris for many years. In 1952, King George and Queen Mary died, and Edward and his wife could back to Britain and met Queen Elizabeth. She was Edward’s niece. After their death, their body was buried in England. ‘It’s a strange thing.’ one newspaper said. ‘When they were alive, the Duke (Edward) and Duchess (his wife) could never live in retain. It was only in death that they could be there together.’
From this story, I found a difficulty about the religion. There are no religious issues in particular, I think, in Japan. I could not understand the conflicts or fights about religion. Could the Japanese people understand and have to comprehend religious issues?? I think no one knows that…
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Book Review 4: A Little Princess
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin’s school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.
But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world… The terrible thing is that her father was dead. When she heard the news, she did not cry. Her father wanted her to be brave. As she understood the father’s wish, she never cries and she tries to be brave and kind to others. She is told to be not a school student but a school servant. She works day and night for the school.
Some years passed and the friend of her father’s moves to London next to the school. He wants to find the only child of his friend’s, and wants to take care of her. Since he cannot find her, he tries to give some presents for the girl next door. The girl always looks tired and hungry. It is Sara Crewe and it is the girl who he have looked for a long time.
But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world… The terrible thing is that her father was dead. When she heard the news, she did not cry. Her father wanted her to be brave. As she understood the father’s wish, she never cries and she tries to be brave and kind to others. She is told to be not a school student but a school servant. She works day and night for the school.
Some years passed and the friend of her father’s moves to London next to the school. He wants to find the only child of his friend’s, and wants to take care of her. Since he cannot find her, he tries to give some presents for the girl next door. The girl always looks tired and hungry. It is Sara Crewe and it is the girl who he have looked for a long time.
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