Notes:

exhibit 展示会;
fair trade フェアトレード
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There is an exhibit about chocolate at the Nagoya Science Museum right know. How much do you know about one of the world’s best-loved sweets?
(1) Which part of the world does chocolate originally come from?
(2) Which came first, hot chocolate (the drink), or hard chocolate (the sweet)?
(3) When we drink hot chocolate, what two things do we add to the chocolate powder to make it creamy and sweet?
(4) Where does most of the world’s chocolate come from now?
(5) Why is it a good idea to buy fair trade chocolate?

ANSWERS:
(1) From Mexico (or Central America).
(2) The drink.
(3) Milk and sugar.
(4) 70% comes from Africa.
(5) Many children work on cacao plantations in Africa but don’t get paid. If you buy fair trade chocolate, you know that the work is done by adults who are paid, not by unpaid children.  (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)

Notes:
bother 悩ます、うるさがらせる;
Braille (ブライユ)点字(法);

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I met a young blind woman on a train a couple of weeks ago. I watched her using a machine to read with her fingers. We both had to change trains, so I took her hand and helped her to the next platform. She told me that she was going from Yokohama to Kyoto by regular train. That takes more than eight hours, but it didn’t seem to bother her. She likes to read on the train. I found out that Japanese Braille (the kind of writing that blind people use to read) only uses “kana.” It must be difficult to read because Japanese has many words with the same pronunciation. ( by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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