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もう１０年以上前の話になるけれど、ある中学で常勤講師をやっていた時、イラク戦争で人道的復興支援活動および安全確保支援活動の実施に関する特別措置法が成立しました。その時から既に今まさに目の当たりにしている危機感がありました。少なくとも自分には感じられました。私はその後、教職には就いているもの、短大卒だったため、学位を取得するために大学へ編入学しました。そのとき、卒業記念に本を自費出版しました。自分の旅をフィクション仕立てにして書きました。でも、その中に、教職で感じたあの戦争の危機感を書きました。要は、あのイラク特措法で、子供たち（特に男子）が将来に不安を感じていたのです。本は英語で書いていますが、こんな風にその生徒は言いました。 主人公トモエは産休補助の英語教員で、１年生を担当しています。自分が旅で見たシンガポールを生徒たちに見せます。それは教科書にあるようなマーライオンの写真ではなく、日本がシンガポールを占領していたということが書かれた碑の写真でした。上辺ではなく、事実を教えたいという想いからでした。それは生徒たちの真剣な学びたいと言う想いに応えたいという気持ちのあったのです。そこで、或る生徒は、 "We never learned this kind of history, maybe we should be quiet..." one of the girls said,  "No! No! No way! I don't wanna fight if war happens in the future! "another boy shouted.  「歴史でこんなこと習ってないから、たぶん、黙っていた方がいいのかも・・・」一人の女性とが言った。 「嫌だ！嫌だ！とんでもないや！将来戦争が起こっても戦うんなてことしたくない！」別の男子生徒が叫んだ。 『La Puchi Princesse』(Akane Spring-Day)より この話は本当の話です。実際にシンガポールの写真は授業で見せました。当時扱っていた教科書を見て、ショックでした。シンガポール＝マーライオンみたいな、上辺だけの薄っぺらいものでした。今は、ゆとり教育が終わり、単に詰め込み・・・、これもどうよって思います。もっと大切なことを教...

Nothing is not just a word, but also you can learn something important from it. Lear. A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.  Cordelia. Nothing!  Lear. Nothing!  Cordelia Nothing.  Lear. Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again.  Cordelia. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your Mejesty According to my bond; no more nor less. ("King Lear" 1.1) I learned from this word, somehow, "human beings". Real love do not come from materialistic but nothing because you try to create or find new things with your love. What I learned this from this word.

Yesterday, when I read my classmate's piece (Feature Article), which said that Star Trek represents indicates international relationship. That is, this is not just SF. One of other classmates, who is just like me, hardly read SF, got interested in her opinion. I started watching Star Trek, but older version. Later, I checked Wikipedia, which said exactly the same as her piece. It's good timing for us to watch it. A professor, who lectures it in some universities. Wars or dispute happen because of poverty or unfair, Star Trek wants to express those problems. The same thing, I saw a scholar Johan Galtung  saying on TV last night.  https://www.transcend.org/galtung/     To be thankful, he said the article 9th (Japanese constitution) is valuable because it insists on building up peace without fighting. His advocates peace is no fighting, which is ”positive peace”.  Star Trek :  http://www.startrek.com/

While I was waiting for the bus, I tried describing the scenes below. If you can't get any pictures about these scenes in your mind, I need to revise them. Cacao, sweet and fruity aroma, smoke from cigarettes are floating full of the entire room. Hearing young couples conversation, hissing pans, boiling warter and rattling and washing cutely. I’m in a café killing time until the bus comes. On a bus, a small kid, turned back with holding the seat, addressing his fretful voice, “papa, papa” or “pi, pi”. While the kid, the bus, in the dark, is crawling as well as groaning in heavy traffic.

The site of the Konoe's house in Kyoto Imperial Garden The Konoe's house was transferred to Nishio in Aichi. With Meiji Emperor's moving out to Tokyo for the reason why the capital was transferred to Tokyo, most noble families followed him having kept their houses empty. Just imagine, around that time, Kyoto, it lost population, such houses were dilapidated like ghost ones. Confusion, disorder, mess, whatever, unbelievable in Kyoto. Just unbelievable. The Konoe's house, however, luckily it was saved by Nishio, of which macha output is the second following Uji. Other houses were dismantled and Kyoto Imperial Place was remodelled to Kyoto Imperial Garden. Kyot  

On the Sunday’s public library, in the large room, as usual, it was as still as you could hear someone glowing his or her stomach from hungriness. That afternoon, however, it was slightly different.  Getting a seat at the reception, I moved forward to my desk. Looking over my desk, there was an approximately over 60 year old man with gray thin hair in a short sleeved whitish polo shirt, off his socks and even shoes, laying them beside him. It made me a little afraid if his socks and shoes were giving out a stench all over the desk. Contrary to my expectation, there is nothing bad to smell. Instead of it, in the next moment, without any expectation, I heard starting him making a rustling sound with a plastic bag, taking something from that, which startled me. Supposedly, he started eating or drinking, munching and gulping made me annoyed and irritated. There, one of the librarians was making a tour of inspection. Moreover, a voice spread out the entir...

My new course is "Article Writing".  We practice writing article.  Two weeks ago, our assignment was about writing LEAD. I chose an article about "money", which actually I am interested in.  Please check out my writing, if you have any comment, please write to me. [the Original lead] INIDVIDUAL investors can’t do much to improve the miserable performance of the stock market, but they may be able to help their own portfolios. (New York Times Business: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/business/01fund.html) [makeover of the lead] INIDVIDUAL investors do not have to give up the stock's bad performing . If they make use of such negative situation with positive perspective, they may be able to help their own portfolios. It means that all they can do is regard such situation as a chance to make a profit. This is the new style of investment for all kinds of business. Here comes the time to switch our minds to coping with diversity of changes.