May 22, 2007
Merry Ruth M. GUTIERREZ
The Japanese Esperanto Institute is issuing a special invitation to 23 Asian Esperanto activists to take part in this year's World Esperanto Congress in Yokohama. In the April issue of the Japanese magazine La Revuo Orienta JEI has published statements by each of these people. I am reproducing them here, in English translation, one by one.
The next listed activist is Merry Ruth M. GUTIERREZ of the Philippines. Gutierrez is a 37-year-old professor of reading and literature at the Philippine Normal (Teacher Training) University.
Esperanto and I
I started learning Esperanto in 2006 when Mr. Bharat GHIMIRE from Nepal came to Manila to teach Esperanto. I am an active member of the Esperanto Association for the Philippines. In January 2007, when Mr. HORI Yasuo came to the Philippines, I took care of him and studied Esperanto again under his guidance.
World Esperanto Congress and After
1) I want to teach Esperanto in my university as an official object of study. 2) I want to edit a textbook of Esperanto grammar, bilingually in English and Tagalog on the basis of Mr. Hori's Basic Grammar of Esperanto.