Podcast S1 E3 - amazing flatmates

Episode three of our shiny new podcast features the work of Jim's Thursday afternoon business English class, describing how they'd imagine some very famous people, living together, would go.Flatmates they line up are:

• Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton
• Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama & the opposition leader Mr. Ozawa
• Tiger Woods & Barrack Obama
• Bill Gates & Steve Jobs

Now obviously these are hypothetical (imaginary) situations, but the idea was to suggest how their potential flat-sharing relationships might deteriorate & finally bottom out.

In the podcast you can here Masao, Shuji, Susumu & Keiko delivering their monologues, as well as some reaction from us all. Which is your favourite? We'd love to know! Comments welcome - please subscribe :)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

As you know, the story consists of spoken lines. At first, I’m not accustomed to this style. Therefore I can’t read quickly. However, I’d read from Act 2 to Act 5 at one sitting in the Sunday afternoon. Hamlet and Laertes understood each other finally but even so they had to fight and killed each other. Why they had to fight? Did they yield up their life for the sake of justice? Were they wild for revenge? I think they had a strong sense of justice. In these latter days, I wonder if there is such a man who fights for justice. Everyone, don’t be a cold fish!

Ikaros,

The Garden Party and Other Stories

These stories are difficult a bit for me. Backgrounds of these are not familiar to me. Maybe that makes me difficult to understand. However, these are all quite interesting and it is a kind of thought-provoking book. My favorite story is “The Garden Party”. The story puts questions to us what is human happiness, life and important thing to us. Ikaros, (24 May 2009)