What images do you have of Japanese women and war? Can you imagine women are related to war? Yae Niijima is one women had fought strongly in war. She lived irregular life in the last edo period that women usually hadn’t lived and learned to be brave from her older brother and two husbands. During Boshin war(1868-69), she fought with weapons and the regret of the thought of her brother. Everything is different to women for all of her life. Her older brother was really smart and after war, he imported new things such as religion and English. She was always with him and learned from him. And then, she got married two times and each husband influenced strongly to her life but both of them died before Yae. After her two husbands had passed, she became a nurse and worked for the other people, so she was praised from Japan. This presentation will show what irregular life was, how she was influenced and how she was brave. By understanding about how she lived, everyone will learn that some Japanese women were strong and brave.
I went on a totally amazing Southwest trip with my classmates. The trip was my first time to go to the Southwest so everything was new to me. Sarah, Anikke and Bethany came with us. They made our trip more exciting. I’m happy I could go on this trip with them and I had a lot of great experiences. First, I really enjoyed New Mexico. It was chilly but not too cold. I went to the Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I liked the Old Town because there are many cute things and good restaurants in there. For example, I found a gate that was decorated with a lot of red chili peppers. I had never seen anything like that before so I was very surprised and it looked like a lot of flowers from a distance. The red chili peppers were absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, I found a great restaurant. I forgot the name of the restaurant but they have really delicious Mexican food. They gave me some Mexican chips for free and recommended that I eat the chips with honey. I really like Mexican ...