September CROSSROADS Language Studio’s Newsletter 2007
Meet Eclyse! No, she is not a zebra
who has had a tussle with a can ofwhite paint. There are no artificial
colors used to give her her uniqueappearance; though “tussle” might
be close to describing what
happened to create her. Her mother,Eclipse, is a mare and lives at a safari park in Germany. Her
father is a zebra named Ulysses. They met when Eclipse went
to Italy for a short vacation. While there, she checked-in at aranch where the owner had some horses and a few zebrasroaming freely together in one of the ranch’s paddocks.
Eclipse, being a somewhat friendly, uninhibited girl, decided
to join them. What happened next is a simple “boy meets girl”
story. Eclipse and Ulysses took a fancy to each other.
Although the romance was short, back home in Germany,…
well, meet Eclypse! Eclypse is half horse, half zebra, half
German, half Italian, and even her name is a combination ofher parents’ names! And I’ve heard that she speaks bothlanguages fluently too! Horse and Zebra, that is.
Story suggestion from Mits. “B” class
Eclipse and Ulysses may have donemuch to further inter-species
relations, but this “star crossed”
couple has a much greater challengeahead of them. “Chin”, a 12-weeksold Chinese Macaque, was near death after his mother abandonedhim. He was revived at an animal sanctuary, but remained“spiritless” until he met “Bo” a white pigeon. Once acquainted
with Bo, Chin’s spirits improved greatly and now they areinseparable. It has been reported that Bo reciprocates Chin’sfeelings, but the question on everyone’s lips is, “what now?”
Swans know a thing or two about
love, and when they fall in love, it’sfor life; nothing short of death will
deter them from their devotion totheir mate. And Petra, the AustralianBlack Swan, is no exception. Trouble
is, Petra fell in love with a plastic pedal boat designed to look
like a swan. And her loyalty is so great that when winter cameand her “mate” didn’t fly south, Petra stayed behind also,almost dieing from the cold. A kindly zoo official took pity on
her, and her “boyfriend”, and gave them a place to stay out thewinter. The last we heard, they are living “happily ever after”.

Recently, there are a number of
new sports with the word “extreme”,
such as Extreme Parachuting” and“Extreme Fishing”, which aresupposed to be extremely dangerous
and exciting forms of the sport. Now, Extreme Ironing in Europe
a group of Europeans have developed a new sport called“extreme ironing”. In extreme ironing, athletes take an ironand board to extreme places to iron their clothes. That canhappen on rapidly moving cars, a mountain top, while bungee
jumping, in a forest, in lakes and rivers, under water in theocean, etc. In fact, there is no limit. The object of extreme
ironing, which was apparently invented in Britain, is "to takeironing to the edge by demonstrating a spectacular or creativeironing style, whilst taking the creases out of your clothes".
Extreme Ironing is considered aserious sport in Japan also, where
athletes have taken iron and board to
the top of Mt. Fuji, underwater, andwhile riding a bike. “Under water?”you may query! What’s the point?
How do you get the wrinkles out Extreme Ironing on Mt. Fuji
of whatever it is you are ironing while you and the item ofclothing are under water?
Under water aside, the “point”, in my opinion, is that housework
is “exciting and dangerous”. And toprove the point the practitioners of
this sport held a world Championshipevent in Germany this year. Do you
think it will be admitted into theOlympic movement some day?
Extreme Ironing under water
Story from Adrienne
Colored words are in the glossary on page 2

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Joshua Says: You might notice some changes in the format of our newsletter
this month. We are adjusting the layout to make more room for your suggestions
and input. The idea is for our students to contribute more stories for the front
page. So, please help to make our newsletter more interesting with your own
ideas. I will be looking forward to seeing what you come up with each month!
Junko Says: We are all very sad to see Alice leave us this month. I know she isdetermined to follow a career in singing and acting, and I wish her all the bestin her efforts to achieve her goals. She is also a great teacher, so her decision is aloss not only to Crossroads, but to the teaching profession as a whole.
Nevertheless, it is true that the best decisions in life are made when we follow
our hearts. Good luck Alice, we’ll be looking for your name up in lights, soon!
Alice Says: I would like to say “thank you” to everyone at Crossroads.
You have all helped to make the past year a fantastic one for me. I
wish everyone success and happiness in the future. I’m going to takesome very special memories with me from Japan. And as you all know,I never say “goodbye”, so… “see you again”…!
Iain Says: It has been a pretty hot summer hasn’t it? At my house I have to keep the fan and air

conditioner off most of the time because my wife thinks it is bad for the baby. So we all sat and sweat in
the sauna like heat. I gained weight because I was just too hot and lazy to exercise. But now that it hascooled down a little, I finally have no excuses to avoid exercise. I’m back on the bicycle up in themountains. The air up there smells of ripening fruit and of the monkeys that eat them. We noticed thatthe monkeys aren’t around to be seen much in the summer. Where do they go? Does anyone know?

Adrienne Says: I’m going to write about cats again! I took my kitten with thebroken leg to the doctor yesterday. Actually, I took her to two doctors. One doctor
said that the leg should be cut off, but I should take her to another doctor because he
was too busy to cut off her leg. So, I took her to another doctor who said that her leg
should not be cut off. It’s always best to get a second opinion.
Greg Says: Well it’s that time of year again when I begin making preparations to fly
back to Australia for Christmas and catch up with family and friends. The year
seems to fly by from January to October, however as soon as I begin these
preparations the rest of the year seems to drag on. My father has already made a listof the things he needs fixed around the home…so even he is busy preparing as well.

Dean Says: So, summer is finally drawing to a close. There have been so many long weekends.
What did you do? I went to the Japanese highlands to visit Karuizawa and Tsumago in Gunma
Prefecture. I witnessed the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen in Japan from an altitude of
2000m. Breathtaking! The sea of clouds below reflected every color of the rising sun with many
mountain peaks appearing as islands in the sea of clouds. I hope to visit again in winter.
(These words are in color in the story on page 1)

tussle 格闘
mare 雌馬
paddocks 放牧囲い地
roaming 歩き回る
uninhibited 開放的な
abandoned 見捨てた
revived 生き返った
sanctuary (鳥獣)保護地
acquainted 知った
inseparable 離れられない
reciprocates 返報する
devotion 献身的愛情
pedal ペダル
rapidly 高速で apparently ～らしい creases しわ v wrinkles しわ admitted 参加を認められる

SCROLL OF HONOUR

We are stilladding to ourlibrary with new
short stories,..
so, check themout!

Do you have amessage for your“school-mates”? Ask
your teacher to put
it here for everyone
to read.

Congratulations toJunichi in gaining
960 in the latest
TOEIC test. Junichi
has been studying
with us in private
lessons for only 9months, but he has
made great
progress. Goodwork, Junichi!

Lead Articles for ourNewsletter!

The new format for ournewsletter relies on you, ourstudents, to come forth witharticles for the front page. We
will edit them and the best ones
will appear on the cover page
every month. Short articles, longarticles, any subject, all are
welcome. So, come on! Ask yourteachers for details, and let’sseehow
interestingournewsletter can really get!!

Here’s Natacha and her boy
Dominic at home in Canada.
Can you believe he is already
4 months old?! The photo wastaken last month when he wasonly 3 months. Don’t they lookhappy together?! If you would
like to send them a message,
let us know and we will put ithere for them to read.

A little background musicfrom Adrienne

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