What is history?

Perhaps a diary should be the thing to write down what happened in that day. But I think it also could be the place to state your opinions, feelings or thoughts about something. So, today I'm going to write a book report.
The name of the book is ‘What is history?’ based on a speech made by E.H.Carr in 1961 in Cambridge University. The most famous part of this book is "History is a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the past and the present." Maybe you would wonder at the word "his facts" because the history is often tought as an objective thing with no doubt. If the that 'common sense' was right, "his history" must have been changed to "the history". But the thought of 'an objective history' is wrong, because it's inevitable that every history is affected by the interpretation of the historian as long as the historian chooses the import fact from every fact which occureed in the past. However, the atitude we should take toward this truth is not neglect nor pessimism. We need to identify the accuracy of the fact that is choosen by the historian and the objectivity between the fact and his interpretation. If this procedure is taken correctly, then you have to generalize his fact to get some lessens which would contribute to the future in a certain way. This is the benefit of study of the history and why we need to learn it.
The interpretation of a certain fact is various, but the fact itself is only one. A few years ago Japan and China argued the problem in the history such as Yasukuni Shrine problem. The difference between their opinion is lied on their interpretation of the fact. We quarreled because we looked at a mountain from different points. As long as we looked at a same mountain, we can end up in gettting the same picture of the mountain. In order to achieve the purpose, both people need to understand from where the opponent is looking at the mountain through dogged dialogue.

My sweet days has gone

Today I got on a full train for the first time in four years.It reminded me of my younger days before I enter my university. Since I was an elementary school student,so pretty a boy I think I was, my school zone hasn't been changed for the reason that the schools I went was in the same place. My house was a bit far from them, so I needed to use trains and subways as a matter of course. As a resultI had to get on a full train every morning except Sunday. That was so a tough job I think. There was almost no space in the train. Every people keep their silence while the train was running, and when it arrived at a station ,then they started pushing and shoving in order to get off the train. Approximately 80% of the people on the train werer middle-aged men. They were bigger than me when I was a child, and some of them smelled so bad that the people around he/her can't put up with the smell. Please imagine the desperate situation I had been in for nearly 12 years.
I was emancipated/liberated from it two years ago, because my university wasn't in the same place as before. Then how comfortable my school zone became! There was no congestion/jam in the train since the direction trains go to was the contrary to downtown. Almose every day I could sit and even sleep in the train. The time it cost from my home to the school was shortend from 45minutes to 15minutes. I think in some parts that enables my school days in university so wonderful.
Now the fantastic story ends. I have to leave home at least 30 minitus ago. surely,it was better than the sitiuation of my friends who live in far from my university,say 2hours or something like that. But once you experience the convinience, it is difficult for you to disconnect from it.
Anyway, please come back my sweet days!!

My First Blog In English!!

Helo,everyone!
I sets myself to keep a diary in English from today. That because it was recommended in a certain text book of English, when I browse it in a book shop in my university. Probably no one would correct my English diary. But I think this could be some help for me to improve my poor activating ability of English, even if this diary became a kind of complacence stuff.
So, let's start my first diary in English!
Today was the begininng day of Pro.K seminar which I belong to. It was not so easy to enter this seminar, because you were required to submit some 4 papers to Pro.K before make an application for admission. I was rather willing than compelled to challenge to this tough tasks. Even if I had handed in these papers, it did't follow that I could enter the seminer without any difficulty. There was some possibility of my failing in an interview I was going to take on 4th April. After all, fortunately, I could enter this seminer, but if not, was that meaningless effort? NO!! I think studying something hard will pay in the long run in that knowledge you got through it would become your interst and advantage.
Sorry I turned aside from the topic. I met 32 new friends( Soooo big family,wasn't it!!? ) of class mate of this seminer. Perhaps, it will need spend few more weeks for me to learn everybody's name by heart(^_^;A) Pro.K was much more intelligent and funny than I expected and new friend seemed to be so nice. ・・・OK, now I look beyond my future! mmm... Yes! My life in Pro.K seminer would became so comfortable and interesting. But it remains to be seen that this prophecy could come true for it depends on my attitude I take. If I didn't so much as make use of the chance I was given, my life here would become dull and empty one. It is imperative for me to take part in many events and to aggressively speak in discussion.