This time I'm talking about Takamatsu in Kagawa. I really hope to live in this amazing city one day. 
I hope everyone is enjoying their lessons and I hope to see you all sometime! 

April in Tokyo

#6: 高松、香川県

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4-Year-Old Signs Book Deal to Publish Poems
A 4-year-old boy from the UK has signed a book deal to publish his collection of poems.

Nadim Shamma-Sourgen was discovered by poet and teacher Kate Clanchy, who won the 2020 Orwell Prize for political writing. Clanchy knew Shamma-Sourgen's mother, who teaches the study of poetry at the University of Reading.

Clanchy began sharing Shamma-Sourgen's poems on Twitter, where they became popular with her followers. Speaking to The Guardian, Clanchy said that she didn't share them because they were like an adult's poems, but because they were so much like a child's way of thinking.

The young poet has now signed a book deal with Walker Books, a children's book company, making him one of the youngest writers to get a book deal.

According to Guinness World Records, Dorothy Straight from the US is the youngest female to publish a book. She wrote a book in 1962 when she was 4 years old. It was published in 1964.

The youngest male writer is Thanuwana Serasinghe from Sri Lanka, who wrote a book when he was 4 years and 9 months old. It was published nine days before his 5th birthday.

In an interview with Sky News, Shamma-Sourgen's mother said that he's still learning to read and write, so he speaks his poems out loud and she writes them down for him.

"I like writing poems especially about nature. I feel happy that my poems will be in a book," Shamma-Sourgen told The Guardian. As well as nature, Shamma-Sourgen's poems talk about things like love, being lonely and bugs in his garden.

The book of poems will be published in summer 2021.

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4-Year-Old Signs Book Deal to Publish Poems

Cerca de 190 edificios colapsaron parcial o totalmente en la capital del país el 19 de septiembre de 1985. Al menos 6,000 personas murieron. Todo se vino abajo, sin claridad hacia el futuro. Las telecomunicaciones cayeron, la información surgía lentamente mientras la muerte colmaba el espacio de los sobrevivientes. Una conciencia colectiva se construía rápidamente, a pesar de todo, cuando miles salían a las calles ante lo innombrable. De los escombros y sin saberlo, algo estaba por nacer en México.

No fue, sin embargo, la primera vez que la ciudad sucumbía ante las sacudidas de un terremoto. Veintiocho años antes, en 1957, ocurrió un gran sismo al sureste de Acapulco. Ese terremoto llevó al piso varios inmuebles en la capital, como la Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración, y edificios habitacionales en la colonia Roma. Otras edificaciones tuvieron que ser demolidas tras la sacudida que, emblemáticamente, recordamos por haber derribado al Ángel de la Independencia. Pero no todo fue destrucción. En palabras del ingeniero civil Luis Esteva, ese sismo representó el nacimiento de la ingeniería sísmica en México; oficio dedicado a la caracterización de las sacudidas sísmicas y cuya escuela mexicana goza del más alto reconocimiento internacional. Con los escasos datos que existían, se comenzaron a trazar directivas de construcción sismo resistente. Así llegó el terremoto de 1979, esta vez al noroeste de Acapulco, que abatiría por completo uno de los edificios de la antigua sede de la Universidad Iberoamericana. Poco se sabía aún de lo implacable que podía ser un terremoto en la Ciudad de México.

El conocimiento sismológico con fines preventivos era insignificante en 1985. Contados sismómetros operaban en la capital. Nadie podía saber, en su justa dimensión, lo que supone edificar una ciudad sobre los sedimentos de antiguos lagos. Esa mañana de septiembre, la realidad se impuso incontestable desde las costas de Michoacán y la mirada de todos los sismólogos del...

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