Lesson 14
Dear Prof. Sue Garreis
Thank you for the 14 message. And thank you for correcting. My reply is written in Bookman Old Style. Your idea makes me feel easy to read. Thank you!! This time is prefaced my reply with a "☆"mark. My homework is the end.
⇒Thank you for forwarding the homework to
Saya. I don't know why my reply to her didn't arrive. This week I copied you on
her reply, in case the same thing happens again.
☆I understand. When I send my email from school lately, the internet often doesn't work perfectly. So I don't know if my email reach you every time. If you don't receive on friday, let me know. Possibly it may have some problems in the line of school. Don't worry. You send the correct address. But Saya didn't receive your email this time, though Prof. Kaneko received. I will inquire of school about it.
>I am impressed with how much you can run. Good for you! Keep up your training. So sorry your colleague has to work to the point of exhaustion.
☆Thank you!!
>Sorry. I probably should have written it as "a lot." It means "very much." Example: I like spaghetti alot. I like spaghetti a lot. I like spaghetti very much. All three sentences mean the same thing.
☆I see. I also like spaghetti.
> I read about that on the internet. I remember how tall the buildings were in Tokyo. The new tower will be really impressive!
☆You have seen the Tokyo Tower, right? The night view of the tower is truly beautiful!!
>In the US many, many CPAs are needed by ordinary people (not companies) to file their income taxes. In addition, corporations in the US probably use more CPAs than companies in Japan.
☆In Japan, the licensed tax accountants often help report concerning tax. Ordinarily the duty of CPA is only audit.
>Mei,
The new lesson is here: http://msgarreis.com/investor10.htm
We will select one company and find several sources of financial information about it online.
This week was busy. On Monday I drove two hours (seventy-two miles one way; about one hundred fifteen kilometers) to see my aunt and two cousins.
My cousins showed pictures of their recent trip to Alaska. Beautiful pictures of a beautiful place! They went in June. They saw icebergs, glaciers and fantastic flowers. We three had a great visit with our aunt. She is eighty-three years old. I hope I am in great shape like her when I am her age.
☆It took only two hours to drive 72miles, isn't it? It is so fast!! Though it is about 50 miles from my home to school, it takes about two and a half hours. How fast do you drive?
>On Saturday I drove to Delaware (two hours; about the same distance). Autumn colors were in the countryside. Fields of gold, trees brushed with burgandy and dark green, and a beautiful blue sky with benign white clouds. It was a wonderful, peaceful ride through narrow country roads with very few cars. I drove through several tiny towns. The old houses in the towns were lovely.
>I saw my nine year old grandson play soccer in the morning. In the afternoon, I took four granddaughters to my grandson's birthday party. Sean's birthday was actually last month. For various reasons, the party was late. Three of my children, one daughter-in-law, six grandchildren and one boy friend were at the party, as well as four friends from Sean's soccer team.
>They played lazer tag. Everyone goes in a dark room and shoots each other with special pistols. The pistols have red lights that strike special vests with sensors.
My kids and grandkids love it. Do you have games like that in Japan?
☆Maybe we don't have games like that. But I would like to play, too!
>There were other gentle games to play. There was a double decked structure for young kids to climb and then shoot foam balls down to the lower deck. I rode a motorcycle game. You sit on a real motorcycle with functional hand controls, watch a screen in front of you showing a cityscape, and try to beat other avatars (characters) racing through town. I crashed into buildings, ran through a line of trees, careened off the sides of bridges and tunnels and had a great time.
☆Can you play the game in your home? In Japan, we play such games in the game centers.
>We ate cake and pizza, standard fare for a kid's birthday party. We all had a good time! On Sunday my daughter and I took the two oldest granddaughters to a marching band competition. The two girls are in the color guard. The color guard members twirl flags while the band plays. They perform at their high school football games. Today was a competition, with trophies awarded at the end. Here's a link to the host school, showing its marching band on the field: http://www.bulldogssports.com/Page8425.aspx. Here's a wikipedia article describing color guard as part of a school marching band. Finally, here's a link to a video of several color guards performing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHCfmv1BxM These are probably college level groups. The high schools near me are not this sophisticated! But the video shows the costumes and the objects twirled.
>It was fun to watch the different bands put on their shows. They all their unique stamp on the performance. The event was outside and the weather was perfect.
My daughter, one granddaughter and I had dinner afterward. The other granddaughter had dinner with her boy friend. It was another good day.
☆You had very busy and fun days. I also belongd to a marching band, when I was an elementary schoolchild. But I have never seen the performance like the video. How wonderful!! I felt they look quite mature for them age.
☆I went out to my chinese friend's home last week. Then they cooked some chinese foods for me. It was so yummy!
Homework
1. B. (1) the date of the quote,
It is 19.
(2) the time of quote and
It is ten twenty-three p.m.
(3) the stock price.
It is $11.65.
C. This is the link of "SBI SEC". https://trading1.sbisec.co.jp/ETGate/
2. A. Tell me the stock price quote that you find.
It is $ 11.87.
B. No. It shows $11.79 on the web.
C. I think it is different because the quotes change per a minute in the markets.
3. How easy was this lesson for you?
The accounting was somewhat hard. The English was about right. Getting to and using the linked web pages was very easy.
Have a great weekend!
Sincerley,
Mei
>Mei,
The next lesson is at: http://msgarreis.com/technology10.htm. We will talk about how internet technology is changing.
This past week was a busy one. I was in Delaware for four days. On Wednesday night I drove to Delaware.
In the US every car must register in the state where the owner lives.This is partly intended to make sure the cars are safe to drive on the roads.
On Thursday I registered my daughter's white car. Since my daughter works, it is hard for her to go to the registration place (the Department of Motor Vehicles or DMV). So I did it for her. Some headlights had to be fixed, so I took the white car to the repair shop. Fortunately the repairs were quick, but I took plenty of paper work to do while waiting for the work to be done.
My daughter (Kate) has another car, a red one. That car needed repairs, too. However, the red car's repairs took two days. The check engine light came on. It turned out to be some faulty hoses. It took a long time to find the problem. We hadn't expected her red car to stay in the shop overnight. When I came uup Wednesday night, I expected to return to my home Thursday evening. Instead, I stayed over an extra day, drove my daughter to work on Friday morning, then immediately drove to my house in Maryland. There I spent four hours feeding the cats, repacking my suitcase, and doing some chores. On Friday afternoon I drove back to Delaware. My daughter got her red car back Friday evening.
On Sat morning we awoke early. We took my two oldest granddaughters to their school for an Open House. That means the school was open on Saturday morning so that parents and kids who are thinking about going to the school could see what it looked like, talk to teachers, and learn what clubs and sports are available at the school. The oldest daughter (Bec) is in a reenactment group (they dress up like Revolutionary War soldiers and shoot black powder muskets), the art club and the chess club. So she stayed at those tables. She and her younger sister (Emily) are both in the Color Guard, a group of seven girls who twirl flags at the half-time show at football games. The girls perfom along with the band. Emily stayed at the color guard table. It was a three hour event. Some parents made delicious cookies and brownies for all to eat. I grabbed a few on the way out the door!
There was really nothing for us to do once the girls had their tables set up, so Kate and I left during the Open House. We went to a nearby park to make stick bundles for her hospice work. Twice a year Hospice has a ceremony to honor those who died within the last six months. For the fall ceremony, the surviving family members are given a small bundle of sticks tied with hemp. They seem to be a comfort to the survivors. So we sat at a picnic table surrounded by the golds, greens and burgundies of fall and made the bundles. While I worked, I thought of my husband and hoped that the survivors do well.
At noon we returned to the school for the granddaughters. The oldest went with my daughter to the capital of Delaware to vote. Unfortunately their trip was not successful. Voting day is November 2, but we will be out of town that day. So Kate and Bec went to cast an absentee ballot. Unfortunately Kate had been given the wrong information and was not allowed to vote in that town. By the time she got to the right place, the office would be closed. Unfortunately for Bec, her application to vote got lost in the mail. So she was not allowed to vote either. It would have been Bec's first election. She was disappointed. The next time she can vote is two years from now. Sometimes government bureaucracy is a hindrance.
While Bec was in Dover, Emily had color guard practice. I walked around the park for a while and then watched the practice for a little bit. Emily and I went to lunch and then picked up her sister at Kate's apartment. Bec, Emily and I went shopping for cosmetics. Well, the girls did. I don't wear makeup since it rubs off too quickly or doesn't agree with my skin. The girls, however, need to wear a lot of eye makeup for their performances. That trip was successful. They walked out of the drug store with a nice bag full of cosmetics.
In the evening we took the girls to their game. We were joined by Kate's older brother and the girls' uncle, James. I was glad he decided to join us. When I go to the games, I must confess to not watching the team play. I have a hard time following where the ball is. I much prefer to talk, listen to the band play its songs and work on a sewing project. However, the side we had to sit on was too dark to see my sewing. The trees blocked the light. So I actually did watch some of the game this time. The game was over about nine pm. Instead of leaving right away for my home, I watched a little baseball with James and Kate back at the apartment. The team I rooted for, the Phillies, will not be in the World Series. Oh, well. But neither will the Yankees be in it. Good!
So I was back on the road to Maryland about ten thirty (10:30 pm). After feeding the cats and unloading my junk (and playing a little bit of computer games) I went to sleep at one am. Five hours later I was up again and on the road to Baltimore. My very good friend from high school was walking in a Cancer Walk to raise money for cancer research. I was walking with her. She is my age and has lived seventeen years since her diagnosis. She is the only survivor I know. Too many of my friends and family have died from their cancers.
This is the
event's web site: http://makingstrides.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCFY11SouthAtlantic?fr_id=28177&pg=entry
It was a four mile walk. The weather was perfect. And it took place very near the neighborhood where my friend, Gayle, and I lived while in high school and college. I hadn't walked in the area in several decades, so that was an extra treat.
Have a great week!
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