The Twelveth Message

Dear Mitsu,

Thank you for your twelfth message. My comments follow. Please excuse

my late reply. This is our last lesson. I really enjoyed talking with

you this year. When you make your web page, please tell me your URL.

I want to see it!

Sincerely,

Prof Sue Stiner

Mitsuhiro Yamamoto wrote:

> Dear,

> Prof Sue Stiner

> I feel the chill in the air.

> It gets much colder at night.

> How is the weather there?

The weather here is cool now. We had some frost, which killed some of

the plants. Yesterday, however, it was as warm as a spring day.

Today it is rainy.

>>What kind of food do you like in the autumn?

> I don't have likes and dislikes in food.

> Autumn is the best season for fruits and edible wild plants.

> Especially, I like pears and eggplant.

>>>>Does you piano teacher have cats?

>>>Yes! She has five cats.

>>>One of them is the mother and the others are her kittens.

>>That is a lot of cats! How old are her kittens now?

> They are a year and three months.

> Kittens are as big as their mother now!

Yes, they are! I bet they love to run and play.

> Sincerely,

> Mitsu

Homework;

1.A.Send me the URL and name of a Japanese firm that is an Internet service provider,

or sells routers, or sells software.

Japanese firm that an Internet service provider is "yahoo!BB"

http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/

Japanese firm that sells routers is "infonet"

http://www.infosys.co.jp/

Japanese firm that sells software is "BIGLOBE".

http://softplaza.biglobe.ne.jp/index.html

1.B.Send me the URL and name of a Japanese CPA firm.

The　Japanese CPA firm's name is "KPMG".

http://www.kpmg.or.jp/

2.What role will technology have in your future?

Internet will be more spread all over the world.

Students can get school lectures from home.

In Japan, there are many students who take over an hour to go to school.

That's a long commute every day!

> Workers also have long commutes.

> They can work from home with no need to make business trips!

> Japanese commuter rush hour is terrible...

> In the packed train, we can't move at all.

I know! I saw that many years ago. The crowding must be even worse now.

The last lesson has two web pages. The first is a summary of the year.

It is here: http://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/susan.stiner/cgu/summaryAll02.htm

The second web page is a course evaluation. It is here:

http://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/susan.stiner/cgu/evaluate02.htm

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