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![]() ![]() Friday, December 1, 2006 High time with the Cooks Mrs. Elycia Cook was born in Detroit, Michigan and spent a year in the Japan Center for Michigan University in Hikone during her college days. Since then she came to like Shiga Prefecture and came again and stayed for a year as an ALT of Kokusai Joho High School in Ritto. After that she stayed in Tokyo for four years and returned to the U.S. She moved to Colorado and got married one year later to Mr. Byron Cook whom she had met two days after she had arrived at Colorado. Mr. Cook came to know Japan through Mrs. Cook and earnestly want to live in Japan. They were determined to place in Hikone with their two cute girls last summer. ![]() The number of Japanese people living in Colorado is 11500, larger than that of the Native Americans. Among them are 4470 Japanese nationals. There are the Japan and Colorado Association, Japanese schools, the Rocky Times whose articles are written in Japanese, Aiki-doj ![]() A few days later, thanks to two of the audience, Mr. and Mrs. Miyagi who are RIFA members, Mrs. Cook fulfilled her wish to let her daughters wear kimono. |
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Acomplished her mission in Brazil | ||
![]() While she was a voluntary Japanese instructor in RIFA, she decided to study how to teach Japanese in real earnest, applied for the project ![]() Although she is slightly-built, she never got sick, and says she wanted to stay more in Brazil. She admires that people are proud of themselves because they are Japanese-Brazilians. She is also grateful that they did not discriminate her because she is Japanese, on the contrary, they treated her well because she is Japanese, which she thinks that the first generations have handed down the spirits to generations. She appreciates it and told that she would like to teach Japanese to Brazilian children whose parents have come to work in Japan and work for them by assisting them. |
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March, 2007 Issue(No2) |