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Jun. 17th, 2020 03:49 pmDaily life: More school stuff: back at one of the night-time junior highs run by the city. This one serves primarily two populations, a) Nepali kids aged 17 to 21 or so who generally speak good English but need a lot more Japanese study for further education and/or employment, and b) Japanese, Chinese and Korean ladies aged 50 or so to 90 (I am not kidding, Mrs. O is 92) who for various reasons never got to go to junior high to begin with. Almost all of them are enthusiastic and inquisitive and have a lot to say.
Also my husband and I bet on the future (no, not that way) by making umeshu, plum liqueur: you put green plums, rock candy sugar and white liquor (I don't know any of the English names) into a very large glass jar, allow it to take up more than its fair share of space in the fridge, and wait a minimum of three months (or up to ten years). We'll see.
Music: Nothing immediately new, but it's a good time to bring up Florence Price and her amazing piano sonata among other works.
Books: Rereading Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald, which I read in preference to actually reading Fitzgerald's novels because I'm strange that way. (Also, if I could write a biography this good of anyone I could probably die happy, knock wood.) A quote from one of the novels: "Prayer should be beyond self, and so Nenna repeated a Hail Mary for everyone in the world who was lost in Kingsland Road without their bus fares."
Chinese: I'll give Duolingo credit: I translated "their wives" as 她们的妻子 (in which "their" is feminine) to see if I could get away with it, and the system marked it as a right answer without hesitation. Right on.
Writing: Well, the above-mentioned Penelope Fitzgerald once wrote "Women, if they can, must write novels." I don't know if this is what she had in mind, but I'm trying. There's about one more chapter to go until "everything is quiet and peaceful" suddenly shatters bigtime; I've paused to try and sort out all the threads so far and see what I need to pick up and how.
Photos: ( Only technically the rainy season )
Also, if not already doing so, please see posts by naye and others recently recommending various useful things to do. Be safe and well.
Also my husband and I bet on the future (no, not that way) by making umeshu, plum liqueur: you put green plums, rock candy sugar and white liquor (I don't know any of the English names) into a very large glass jar, allow it to take up more than its fair share of space in the fridge, and wait a minimum of three months (or up to ten years). We'll see.
Music: Nothing immediately new, but it's a good time to bring up Florence Price and her amazing piano sonata among other works.
Books: Rereading Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald, which I read in preference to actually reading Fitzgerald's novels because I'm strange that way. (Also, if I could write a biography this good of anyone I could probably die happy, knock wood.) A quote from one of the novels: "Prayer should be beyond self, and so Nenna repeated a Hail Mary for everyone in the world who was lost in Kingsland Road without their bus fares."
Chinese: I'll give Duolingo credit: I translated "their wives" as 她们的妻子 (in which "their" is feminine) to see if I could get away with it, and the system marked it as a right answer without hesitation. Right on.
Writing: Well, the above-mentioned Penelope Fitzgerald once wrote "Women, if they can, must write novels." I don't know if this is what she had in mind, but I'm trying. There's about one more chapter to go until "everything is quiet and peaceful" suddenly shatters bigtime; I've paused to try and sort out all the threads so far and see what I need to pick up and how.
Photos: ( Only technically the rainy season )
Also, if not already doing so, please see posts by naye and others recently recommending various useful things to do. Be safe and well.
