丸の内カフェで"PORTUGAL~ARTE E POESIA”開催中!

2011年1月26日(水)に、丸の内カフェ(千代田区丸の内3-3-1 新東京ビルジング1F)で旅と英会話スキルのセミナー”「私だけの旅」をつくる簡単英会話”の講師を勤めさせていただきました♪受講者の皆さんが、ノリノリで発音練習を一緒にやってくださったので、嬉しかったです。
http://www.marunouchicafe.com/seminar/index.html#20110126

2010年6月1日(火)~14日(月)に丸の内カフェにて、ポルトガルで描いてきた水彩画風景を展示。おかげさまで沢山の方にご来場・ご鑑賞頂きました。ありがとうございます♪

(日本ポルトガル通商修好条約締結150周年記念イベントです↓)

http://www.marunouchicafe.com/gallery/index.html#20106130

November 6, 2008

Has The Change Really Come To America?


Nov. 4 of 2008 will be the really unforgettable day not only for the people in the U.S., but for the rest of the world as Barack Obama has been elected president of the controversial nation, as the first African-American elected to the country's highest office. We were, there was no doubt, one of the witnesses of the historic moment. The speech made by the next President of the United States was surely moving.

As a matter of fact, I was somewhat skeptical about Obama's landslide victory though the U.S. Media expected him to win with a wide margin. As a person who was educated in the U.S., I thought America is not yet ready to have an African-American President. Although I had never felt that I was a MINORITY at school or in the Bay Area, I knew that the place I was from was not mirroring the whole shape of the nation. The reality of the professed nation of the unity is not a melting pot but a large piece of patchwork.


Ominous black clouds still still loom over the country and thus over the rest of the world.

In his speech, Barack Obama declared, saying "The Change has come to America." However in the midst of his supporters' chorus of shouts "Yes, We Can! Yes, We Can!" the next President of the U.S. was standing behind bulletproof glass walls.

It is surely sad and unfortunate to say that there has always been a considerable danger for Mr. Obama to be assassinated. In fact, exit polls showed that about 55% of WHITE American gave vote to John McCain. I can easily imagine that some people would say "Oh my God, The White House is no more the one we loved as it became The Black House," or something like that... In fact, it was only a couple of days ago when some creepy crazy white-Americans plot the death of Mr. Obama.

Moreover, I always wonder whether the U.S. is a real democratic and developed country or not, in terms of the MESS of voting. The election result came out clearly and quickly this time, but the complicated and not functional voting system let people to wait in the long line for hours to cast their votes.

Before dispatching troops to the middle-east and South Asia, the U.S. had better settle down a 'modern election system' not to be supervised by the United Nations election administration committee.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/04/MNFA13RQDA.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1

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