CROSSROADS Language StudioÊs Newsletter, MarchMarch 201
20 1 2The English polar
explorer,
RobertFalcon Scott, died in
the Antarctic 100 years ago this month.
Scott reached the South Pole on 17thJanuary
but
discoveredthat
theNorwegian, Roald Amundsen, had, five
weeks earlier, beaten him to become thefirst man to reach the Pole. “The worst hashappened", he wrote in his journal, "All theday dreams must go. Great God! This is anawful place”.
Scott and his four comrades faced a1,300km return journey to base camp.
Despite poor weather, they had crossed the500km Polar Plateau by 7th February.
During their descent of the 160km
Beardmore Glacier one of the team, EdgarEvans, injured himself in a fall, which left
him “dull and incapable”. He suffered afurther fall on 17th February and died at
the foot of the glacier.
In worsening weather, hungry andexhausted, and suffering from snowblindness and frostbite the men struggled
northward across the 670km Ross Ice
Shelf. On 16th March, Lawrence Oates,
barely able to walk, sacrificed himself for
his friends. As he left the tent Scottrecorded his last words as: “I am just goingoutside and may be some time”.
The team pressed on for a further 32km
before reaching their final camp, only 18km
short of the food depot they had set up on
the outward journey but 38km beyond
Oates’ recommended location for the depot.
Scott had over-ruled Oates who had
replied, “Sir, I’m afraid you’ll come toregret not taking my advice”.
Robert Falcon Scott

Trapped in their tent for ten days, withstorms raging outside and their supplies
running out they died one by one. From theposition of the bodies it is thought Scott was
the last to die. In his Letter to the Public,
written shortly before his death on 29thMarch, Scott wrote: “We took risks, we knew
we took them; things have come out against
us,and therefore we have no cause for
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complaint, but bow to the will of Providence,
determined still to do our best to the last ...
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tellof the hardihood, endurance, and courage ofmy companions which would have stirred theheart of every Englishman”.
On learning of Scott’s death Amundsen isreported to have said, “I would gladly forgo
any honour or money if thereby I could havesaved Scott his terrible death”.
Article by Jonathan

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Joshua Says: Some of our younger students have been doing reallywell recently, getting accepted into prestigious universities, and ingeneral gaining significant success in various ways with theirEnglish. We are going to feature a few of their success stories on P3of our monthly newsletters. This month we start off with Rikuta
Morifuji who has done really well at Eiken. So well in fact, that theEiken Association itself has taken notice. Check him out on P3.

Junko Says: A new term will start next month. This is a good time
to join Crossroads, and I would like to encourage you to invite any ofyour friends who want to become English speakers to join us! A goodway to introduce us to them is to “check-in” at our Face-book page.
As soon as you visit our page and click the check-in button, you willautomatically be introducing us to your friends on Face-book. They
will be able to find us and learn all about what we are doing.

Jonathan Says: I moved house last month. My new house is about 50 years

old and very cold; it has no heating of any kind. The first night there wasone of the coldest this year and I couldn’t sleep for hours. Just holding
the toothpaste tube made my hands cold. I remembered Scott of theAntarctic (see my article on page 1) and tried not to complain.

Matthew Says: I am always amazed when people are shocked that I donot like eating fish. I always get the same response – “Why don’t you likefish?” This is an impossible question to answer. I can say why I don’t likebaseball or mosquitoes or rap music or big loud American women but I
cannot explain why I do not like a specific type of food! Can you?

Arno Dit: Voilà maintenant 1 an que le Japon a été frappé de terribles
évènements, évènements qui ont fait la une de la presse mondiale. Je ne peux
m'empecher de penser à tous les japonais qui vivent dans les régions
touchées, et à Fukushima. J'espère que le gouvernement japonais dévoilera
les informations et aidera sa population comme il aurait du le faire.



DATE: Saturday, 31-03-‘12
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Invite your friends and family to join in too!

The Eiken Association of Japan has chosen Rikuta Morifuji, one of our long-term students, to give a speechat their annual awards’ ceremony in Tokyo. He was chosen top out of about 500,000 people from all overJapan who sat for the pre-second test last year – That’s right folks, top in Japan! And, he is the only one to
be invited to give a speech at the ceremony which will be attended by the Minister of Education and otherdignitaries. Here’s what he has to say about it:“Last autumn, I took the Eiken pre-2nd grade test. At first, I wasn’t very confident. I wondered what if I
encounter questions I don’t know the answers for. But I felt that it was no use lamenting my lackMunichof knowledge.
So I studied eagerly not to make any mistakes. As a result, I got an excellent score and received an award! I
couldn’t believe it! This experience taught me the joy of learning English. I want to continue studying”.

Congratulations Rikuta from everyone at Crossroads! Good Job!!

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