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MAMMA MIA!--movie

2009-01-31 21:30:52 | ノンジャンル
It was raining hard when I got up this morning.
Around noon the rain left off.

Around one o'clock, to my surprise, the sun appeared!
Sunlight began to come into my room.
It was the soft spring sunlight.

Suddenly I felt like going to see a movie MAMMA MIA!.
My friend in Niigata emailed me yesterday
that she would go to see the movie at the weekend.

I hurried to Tachikawa Cinema City.
I was just in time for the third show.

MAMMA MIA! is a musical film.
All songs are from the music of ABBA.

How exciting the movie was!
How nice the dancing in the movie!
How nice the songs in the movie!
How nice to be alive!

Everybody will feel happy
after enjoying the movie MAMMA MIA!.

(no sunshine when I arrived in Tachikawa)




gray sky

2009-01-29 13:02:09 | ノンジャンル
It is cold today.
No wind blows.

Clouds make the sky gray.
I see no fleecy clouds.
Will it rain in the evening?

I've just come home from Thursday Harmonica Class
at a community center.

We are now practicing playing 14 songs
on the harmonica.

4 songs out of 14 are enka.
They are very difficult for me to play on the harmonica.

We will perform them at a nursing home for the aged
in March.

This is our volunteering activity.

Now I'll go to koharu's house
by the time she comes home from school.

(in front of my apartment, today )




Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2009

2009-01-24 15:37:33 | ノンジャンル
Yesterday after enjoying Friday English Class
at the community center, I hurried to Tokyo Dome,
where Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2009
was being held.

Today is the final day of the quilt festival.

I thought that the dome would be would be very crowded
on the last day.

So I decided to visit it yesterday.
It was my first time to see such a lot of quilts.

What creative artists the quilters are !
How determined they are to continue needlework!

Special Exhibit was from the story of Anne of Green Gables.
'Green Gables', Anne's house and 'Avonlea Village' were
reproduced in quilts.

I did not know Montgomery herself, the author of
Anne of Green Gables, was fond of making quilts.
The quilt made by Montgomery was displayed there.

A Japanese quilt artist was showing how to sew a quilt.
She said to us, "Any one of you can make patchwork quilts."
She wore kimono and her obi was patchwork quilt.

An American quilt artist was answering questions about her quilts.
several Japanese women asked her about cutting, dying or design.
There was an interpreter and I was enjoying English.

Now I know there are many kind of patchwork quilts.
You can see some quilts on the following site.

http://www.tokyo-dome.co.jp/quilt/index.htm
http://www.tokyo-dome.co.jp/quilt/8th/midokoro/index.htm

Anyway I had a good time.





Obama's Inauguration Speech

2009-01-21 00:02:52 | ノンジャンル
The day has come.

Barack Obama's speech was transmitted live to the world.
I watched TV and listened to his historic speech.

Millions of Americans were listening to his speech in earnest.
No booing. No heckling.

Barack Obama told them---

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

I saw some women brush the tears away.
I saw some men put their hands together.

Every listener looked to be decided to follow President Obama.