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蘇我から娘の家族がこの豪雨の中、一か月ぶりで我が家に。今月末に２歳になるNo4の孫娘の誕生会を爺婆の所でということで来訪。お兄ちゃんの星太君（No２の孫息子、７歳）は百名山の一つ、群馬県にある至仏山に父親と登る筈だったが雨のため断念。家族一緒にやってきた。登っていれば３４個目の山を登ったことになるという。百名山以外にも登っていて総数１００は超えているらしい。あと３週間で２歳になるが一か月前と比べて余りの成長に驚いています。コミュニケーションが取れるようになり、顔の表情といい、ボディーランゲッジが豊かになって笑いが絶えない。爺婆としては一番楽しめる時なのだろう。
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Fashion show with the dress on I made
for her first birthday last year. Now
it perfectly fits on her. |
Our daughter's family living in Soga came up here to see us in such heavy rain. It was a month ago they visited us last time. We decided to organize No.4 grandchild's second birthday party at out place this time. Her brother, 7 years old, was supposed to go mountain-climbing with his father in Gunma, but because of this bad weather, they gave it up and came together whole his family. He already conquered 33 out of 100 mountains registered as famous mountains for their beauty in Japan and Shifuku-zan in Gunma was supposed to be the 34th. He climbed already more than 100 usual mountains including one in Honkong and one in Taiwan.
It's amazing to see the little girl, going to be two years old at the end of this month, growing so quick. She is now capable to communicate with us with rich not only facial expression with new words coming out but also body language. It might be most enjoyable period for us to be with them.
そして今日は世界女性連合の栃木連合会主催の第１８回栃木県女子留学生日本語弁論大会に審査員の一人として参加する機会を得ました。留学生の弁論の内容も年々程度が高くなってきている印象を受けて、感心させられました。日本に来て、短い人で数か月の学生から、長い人は７，８年も勉強している。異なる社会環境の中で、日本社会と文化を理解しようとする前向きの姿勢が彼等を大きく成長させている。今回は中国から３人、台湾から１人、イランから１人であった。大学院生から高校生まで幅広く、共通する内容は将来、母国と日本の架け橋になって働きたいという夢を持っていることでした。交通事故にあって半年も休学し、リハビリに励み、困難を乗り越えて学生生活に復帰した学生の話は痛々しく、再起するその姿には感動させられた。草の根的にこういった交流を行うことがやがては国家間の交流に貢献するものであり、こういった小さな一つ一つの活動が世界平和に向けてのうねりとなって行くのだと思う。
It was just yesterday when I was so impressed with the Soprano performance by Ms.Ai Ichihara accompanied by Mr.Shigeru Maruyama on the piano whose performance was also fascinating. It was the first music performance named Promenade Concert this year, which gave me a big satisfaction. Then today another cultural event entitled Speech Contest in Japanese by women foreign students conducted by WFWP was held in Utsunomiya. I was invited to be one of the judges. The quality of speech has been promoted more and more year by year. The speakers are all stepping forward in spite of many difficulties, barriers, even traffic accident they experienced but they try to challenge and overcome them to find out what to do for the sake of their future. This kind of grass-roots movement is indispensable to eventually contribute to promote bilateral relation in terms of nations. This movement should lead us toward the world peace.
