personal comments

I've read an interesting blog article by a professor teaching English at the University. He got very upset about his student's net-surfing in his class. He tried not to use the Internet in his class, but it didn't work out. He also suggested his student not to attend his class if they just want to get course credits without any willingness for learning.

I deeply understand his feeling. It's absolutely stupid to spend tuition money to do net-surfing or doze off. Why can most students spoil the money that their parent provided? Much much better earn money by yourself than spoil the tuition money for granted. It is no use taking only a college degree today. Now you are a full grown adult. Find a job right now if you do that!

However I can't say only the students are wrong, because the professor might have been doing sleep-inducing lecture in his class.

When I started studying English in the junior high school, my teacher was a native English speaker. Thanks to her, I created interest in English. She showed us how much fun English conversation was.

However in my second year, the teacher was changed to a Japanese man whose pronunciation of English was super-horrible. I dropped interest in English at all. During school trip in Kyoto, the teacher tried to talk to travelers from abroad. Guess what? His English didn't get through to them at all. In addition, the travelers asked him what he wanted to say clearly, the teacher couldn't catch what they said! Despite the fact that some students guessed what the travelers said!!!

Of course the teacher seemed disappointed. However we didn't really care about that. More importantly, all his students felt really miserable. Why would we have to be taught from this man??? We were his victims, weren't we?


Almost all the students just had studied English to get high score in the entrance exam of the University. The professor I read his blog must notice that kind of student's backgrounds. His student might think his normal lecture is as boring as high school English class. And to make matters worse, they don't want to study English as having no entrance exam any more.

So, I think he have to make a class more enjoyable,first. Before kicking against the pricks, it will be better that he shows his students how fun English conversation can be at any cost.

Thank you for reading.

Shunsuke

Now, the referee blowed the whistle for half-time.

Japan scored two points in the first half!! Good job, Nakazawa and Ohkubo!!

Japan can not afford to lose tonight. To win at an away game is much harder than at a home game.

My favorite player, Shunsuke, has suffered his leg injury, but he looks fine so far. He shows his strong will to win.

Now, it starts the last half game of a qualification match against Oman. Go for it, Shunsuke!


PS

The game is over!
Wow, Shunsuke got a goal in several minutes of the second half!!!

You did it, Shunsuke!!!
Your right leg is also great as well as your left's.

Don't say he is only free-kick specialist, any more!


Under Troussier coach, he was not selected as a member of Japan's national team. I was very shocked at that time. But he said the experiences made him grow up strongly, he noticed he was arrogance until that moment. He knew that if he has not that experience, he keeps thinking he was superior than other players. Yeah, he is right. If he had a kind of that feeling, he could not have become a great team player. I'm really glad Shunsuke became the biggest star of national team.


Japan has an away game in Oman on June 7. The announcer said the temperatures in Oman have reached 40 degrees centigrade recently. Have no fear! Hold on,Japan!

Thank you for reading.

no sense of the sacred

I got an e-mail today from a German traveller,Chris. He plans to land at Narita Airport on the 8th of June, and he said he needs help for some details. So, we will keep in touch.


Anyway, for the sake of the 49-day Buddhist memorial service of my great-aunt, I went to buy incenses to offer it to the altar.

There were many kinds of incenses. For example, slight-smelling incenses, non-smoking incenses, a kind of fruity-smelling incenses and so on. And if you want to make it look better, there are also gorgeous boxed set of paulownia wood.

To my big surprise, there were some electric type incenses such as LED illumination. I knew there are electric type candle, but I didn't know that.
To burn incenses could be source of a fire, so I understand why they sell that sort of thing. However incenses are burned for cleansing of the soul and the atmosphere. Although I can say it is rational, there is no sense of the sacred.

When I was child, my grandma taught me how to light incenses. I remember I tried to wave my wrist quickly to extinguish the flame. But sometimes they were keeping burning, I tried to blow them out, then my grandma said to me "Don't do that."
If everyone changed to the electric ones, that kind of scenes will disappear in front of the altar.

The salesclerk said the electric type incenses were selling well recently. Um, times have changed.

Thank you for reading.