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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The 44th Phoenix English Festival

Here is the timetable for the 44th Phoenix English Festival.
Come and see our fun-loving entertainment!!
http://www.eigozuke.co.jp/

☆Saturday, January 20
12:00-12:30 Miracle on 34th Street
12:40-13:10 In Her Shoes
13:20-13:50 Jersey girl
14:00-14:30 Steel Magnolias
14:40-15:10 *The Japanese government should obligate fathers to take child-care leave.
15:20-15:50 RENT
16:00-16:30 *The Japanese government should open the door more for foreign workers.
16:40-17:10 Rain Man
17:20-17:50 *English education at elementary school must be compulsory subject.
18:00-18:30 Father of the bride
(* mark means Dramatic Debate presentations. The others are Drama presentations.)

☆Sunday, January 21
11:00-11:30 Rain man
11:40-12:10 *English education at elementary school must be compulsory subject.
12:20-12:50 Father of the bride
13:00-13:30 *The Japanese government should open the door more for foreign workers.
13:50-14:20 In Her Shoes
14:30-15:00 *The Japanese government should obligate fathers to take child-care leave.
15:10-15:40 Miracle on 34th Street
16:00-16:30 Steel Magnolias
16:40-17:10 Jersey girl
17:20-17:50 RENT
18:30-20:30 Awarding ceremony & 1 min. presentations

Here is the map to Phoenix English School.
http://www.eigozuke.co.jp/address.html

Monday, January 08, 2007

Witty remarks 21













*The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself. (Graham Greene)

*In my next life I would like to be a pessimist. And then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. (Katharine Whitehorn)

*Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. (Leo Tolstoy)

*When you're relaxed and confident, you get good stuff. (Robert De Niro)

*Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

*The difficult should be done at once; the impossible takes a little longer. (Royal Navy)

*Risky to change. Riskier no to change. (John Watts Young)

*Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. (Les Brown)

*It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)

*Two fat people will walk side by side, whether they know each other or not. (Murphy's law)

*The pimples don't appear until the hour before the date. (Murphy's law)

Witty remarks 20













*A great artist is always before his time or behind it. (George Moore)

*Good people, are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. (William Saroyan)

*When someone tells you no, that is just the beginning. The art of overcoming the word no is something you must master. (James Cook)

*The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. (Mark Twain)

*The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)

*The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

*One person with courage makes a majority. (Andrew Jackson)

*We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)

*The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. (a saying)

*Assumption is the mother of screw-up. (Angelo Donghia)

*Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Branch Rickey)

*If you're early, it'll be cancelled. If you knock yourself out to be on time, you'll have to wait. If you're late, you'll be too late. (Murphy's law)