private

I have some blogs that are open to many people.
There are quite a few readers visiting every day.
Since I made links those blogs to my business web site, I now feel those blogs are rather "public" blog where it is not appropriate to publish my private feeling.

Unlike those blogs, this English blog "inner light" is quite private one.
Since I have not made a lot of connection through this blog within blogger or blog ranking communities, I feel like I can write what I feel more freely in this blog than in other blog.


Thanks for the language barrier, there are only a few Japanese friends visiting here.

I think I can make use of this blog as a space to express my private feeling.


Then, the next question comes up.
"Why do I need to have a blog to express my private feeling? This blog is still in a public space where anybody can visit."

That is very true.


I guess I just like to write something.
Also I like to communicate to somebody who might be interested in my feeling.

Å©This is a banner for the blog ranking at the "Blog MURA".Each click encourages me a lot! Thank you for clicking this.

drawing lines

What is the difference between Waldorf education and non-Waldorf?

For me the definition is very clear, but the difficulties of understanding Anthroposophy may make the definition of the education unclear.


I see many people, especially parents, misunderstand Waldorf education.
Some believe that using natural material or doing crafts are just simply Waldorf...

It is not...



Sorry I am talking to myself on this post....

5th birthday

Tomorrow my first son will turn to five.
It is hard to believe that I have already been a mother for five years.
It seems to me very short time when I look back the last five years although each moment I face to the children are not always easy and I felt the time for them to grow was so long..... Do you know what I mean?


As a part of anniversary, I collected some photos on my Japanese blog "Kayo in England". I am sure you will enjoy seeing the growth of the boy on the photos.

See you on the blog.

absence

Again, it has been a long absence...

I have been busy again, preparing for my business, building several web sites, and also starting new job at a Japanese school.

Our nearest Japanese school started high school which they haven't had before, and I became their first high school class teacher. I teach Japanese, including classics, and of course mathematics, which is my speciality.


First I was hesitant to accept the fact that I have to teach Japanese. When I was in Japan, I have taught Japanese to elementary to high school level. But now I feel I have been losing my language sense as a Japanese during my long absence from Japanese language environment... You know, I have been away from my country, Japan for seven years. I visited Japan only once since 2002. That was fairly short visit that I had only five nights in Japan...

So I felt I needed to brush up my Japanese language sense to teach high school students. But I also thought it would be good opportunity to recover my mother tongue skill.

It is not just about the language, but the culture. I have adjusted myself to the Western culture through my life in English speaking countries, but at the same time I had to cut off some Japanese customs and culture from my life. These traditions still live deep in me, but I need to consciously bring them forward to teach the language, after living in totally different society for several years.


So I really think it is a good chance to remember my identity as a Japanese.



And it is ALWAYS fun to learn/study something new or fresh.

It may sound strange for you that I said Japanese as something new/fresh. But I really feel so. The proper formal language that appears on the Japanese text book is not the everyday casual language which you read on the web or bestseller books. I read some books which are hard to understand sometimes, but it is hard because of the contents. The language itself is not very sophisticated nor beautiful. The language on the text book is proper, and more beautiful than those I usually read.

So I enjoy reading Japanese text books and also enjoy teaching Japanese as a high school subject.

fractal

You might not know that I am a geometer... , since I have not talked about Geometry so long.


Today I just found an article about paper craft using the idea of fractal.
If you are interested in learning "fractal", go to wiki, which will give you some idea of it.


Then what I made today is....




Isn't it beautiful!?

This is made of a sheet of copy paper, using a pair of scissors.
You don't need a ruler or pattern to design this.

Just cut it following the method.

The method is here.

Simple, easy.
I am sure you would enjoy the beauty of geometrical shape as you make this!!

new web site

My project started from launching a web site. This is not the business web site but just a sub-website related to my future business.

It is just at a starting point and doesn't contain much yet. However I am aiming to improve this site as a big community for those who want to study Steiner-Waldorf education. The idea of this web site is the place where you can find all the workshops or study materials of Steiner Ed/Anthroposophy.


I am planning to develop this website more and build another website for English speaking people showing all the information from all over the world.


I am doing this because I really want to give everybody opportunity to reach Steiner Education which should to be available and open to main stream world.

I would appreciate if you visit the website.

long time no see...

Maybe my dear readers have already forgotten me....
I am sorry I have not updated anything in the past month.

My life has been again crazily busy....


I bought a yearly diary in the very beginning of 2009. Before that, I have used an organizer for over 10 years. That was genuin leather diary made in Italy. I loved it for a long time, but I felt larger diary would suit to my new year.

I thought I would be busy this year, having lots of work and becoming more active, gradually separating my life from my little sons as they grow up, although I had only one plan of three-month maternity cover teaching from April to July when I bought the new diary.


Within one week after I bought the diary, I had a request to become a high school class 1 teacher at a Japanese school. Original plan was supply-teaching for one term, but the new offer was whole year class teaching position.

Wow, as I expected, I am getting busier... :D

Then, soon after that, I suddenly had one brilliant idea of a business. Now I am working for the business to be reality. This is so exciting which I can use all my experience, knowledge and connections.



And then, I had another offer of three jobs from a recruitment company I have registered with in August 2008. I haven't heard any suitable job opening information since the initial registration, but suddenly I got three!

One was just an office working lady, part of administrative role. The job sounds boring XD, but the work place is fairly close and it is a part time position which is suitable for me.

Another one was a full-time position and a bit far from my house...It is within commuting distance though. The job was what I was really interested in. Unfortunately I am not qualified with the position, because I need to be trained for the job first, I thought. But the manager of the recruitment company suggested to apply for it, since there are only a few people who would qualify this job. He thought it would be worth to try it..... Maybe he is right. If the company think I am disqualified, they just decline my application. That's all. If they would give me some training for starting the job, that is what I desire. I am keen to learn this stuff.

The third one is not really my stuff. So I wouldn't apply for it.

But, the two jobs are on their process of the application now.....



So that is my recent life.
Getting more and more busy, and I am excited about being busy really.


I try to update here more frequently, but believe me, no news is a good news.

I am doing great.