CROSSROADS Language StudioÊs Newsletter, November 2010

On November 5th 1605, Guy Fawkes, anEnglish Catholic, was discovered in a cellar
beneath the House of Lords in London
guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder. His
intention was to assassinate the ProtestantKing James I (who was to be present for theState Opening of Parliament) and wipe out
as many of the Protestant aristocracy as hecould. He then planned to kidnap theKing’s 9-year-old daughter and put her onto
the throne as a Catholic monarch.
The hatred and suspicion between
Catholics and Protestants and thepersecution of both (depending on thereligious persuasion of the reigningmonarch) had been raging since Henry
VIII’s break with Rome in 1534. At the timeof the Gunpowder Plot (as Fawkes’ failed
attempt came to be called) anyone failing toattend Protestant churches faced fines,property confiscation and imprisonment.
A letter warning fellow Catholics to stayaway from the opening of parliament wasintercepted by the authorities and the King
ordered a search of the cellars. Admitting
his guilt, Fawkes told his captors that hisintention was "to blow you Scotch beggars
back to your native mountains." (KingJames I of England was also King James VIof Scotland.) He was tortured to reveal thenames of his fellow conspirators, convictedof high treason and sentenced to be hung,drawn and quartered - a particularly
gruesome punishment which involved being
hung (but not to death), disemboweled andchopped into four pieces – but managed tojump off the scaffold, breaking his neck in
the process.

The government encouraged

people to celebrate Fawkes’
failure to assassinate the Kingby lighting bonfires on 5thNovember 1605, and thistradition continues to this day. Portrait of Guy Fawkes
Fireworks became part of the celebrationfrom the 1650s and it became the custom toburn an effigy, formerly of the Pope but nowof Guy Fawkes himself. Children make the‘Guy’ out of old clothes and wheel it aroundthe streets asking passers-by for a ‘penny
for the Guy’ with which to buy fireworks.
At least one author has referred to Guy
Fawkes, jokingly, as "the only man ever toenter Parliament with honest intentions".
Indeed, for many people Bonfire Night is nota celebration of Parliament’s victory overFawkes but an expression of sympathy forhim (especially in the 1980s when effigies ofMargaret Thatcher were burnt).

Article by Jonathan

Burning an effigy of Guy
FawkesThe Houses of Parliament in London

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Joshua Says: Yet another winter is approaching. The rhythm of theprocession of the seasons, Summer to Autumn to Winter to Spring, has a massive
effect on all life, human societies being no exception. From the dawn of man wehave been “slaves” to this procession, organizing our lives to the whims of nature.
How extraordinary, then, that we can now experience life, all over the world, in
an instant via mass media. We can even travel so quickly that it is possible to live
in a single season, all year round! Internationalization? Of nature??

Junko Says: 2011, next year, is the year of the rabbit. It is said that therabbit year is a good, even lucky, year for business and finance. Rabbit
people are supposed to be virtuous, trustworthy and reserved, seldomloosing their tempers. Conscientious and tactful are adjectives also used todescribe this sign type. This characterization of next year seems to beespecially auspicious for Japan during this period of financial recession.
Let’s all look forward to the gifts this “bunny” year could bring to us.

Jonathan Says: Every Monday and Thursday I travel to Niihama toteach business English at Sumitomo. Niihama is not the prettiest town
in Japan and I’m always relieved to get back to Matsuyama. On
accepting the job at Crossroads I had no idea what the town was like.
My ‘blind date’ turned out well. Not so when I took a job in Swindon (theEnglish equivalent of Niihama) without looking around the town first. I
ended up living there for seven years. You win some, you lose some…

Greg Says: November… the time of the year most people gasp at the thoughtof yet another year nearing Christmas, and also the time we look back andscratch our heads and wonder where the past 10 months have actually gone.
Most realize at this time that the grand plans they had for the year are still in theblocks back on the starting line. But don’t feel depressed because the good news isthat it’s nearly time to make another “to do” list for the new year… and, if you areanything like me, you won’t have to because you can just reuse the old list!!

Kevin Dit: En général, les choses changent relativement doucement auJapon, la façon de penser, le regard que l'on porte sur les étrangers, lesactions politiques etc... mais il y a bien une chose qui a changé plus que
rapidement ces dernières semaines, et cette chose, c'est le climat ! Après
un été qui a parfois frôlé la canicule, un bel été indien jusqu'à la mioctobre, le froid est arrivé d'un seul coup, et avec lui le début de ladernière ligne droite vers Noel et le jour de l'an !

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