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My Vietnamese friend and I organized the workshop for my pupils yesterday.  The theme was about Vietnam, where is so rapidly developing just like Japanese 60s. On the other hand, talking about my country-Japan, there are lots of problems including natural disaster, the accidents of nuclear power plants, economic recession and etc. When I went to Ho Chi Ming city in 2007, I recalled the old vivid days of Japan because whole town was so vibrant enough.  I felt people's energy through noisy car horns on the streets.  There is a fact that there were no multinational fast food chain restaurants or cafes excluding only one KFC.  (I don't know why they have only a KFC....) Their brave or strong mind made me so encouraged. I wish Vietnam will have kept their policy forever. Yesterday, I could have the same feeling as 2007. As if I could have seen such a powerful city's view when I was listening to the lecturer's passionate speech.  In Vietnam, it has lots of aspect a...

Today is a special day for me. Thanks for the Internet, I've got so many instant messages but I must say that those messages are not like plain electric messages but definitely warm-hearted ones with lots of dedication. Now in Japan, most high school students are struggling with the regular tests.  One of my students asked me to help her study on this day, my birthday.  However, her family celebrated my birthday with their singing and a card and hand made cake!! Oh, my god! I was almost crying!  Of course, everytime I got messages from you, I couldn't express myself because I was so happy. Happy Birthday to Me))))))) 

Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday Dear Me, Happy Birthday to Me! と夜中の2時半ごろに自分で自分に歌う「ハッピーバースデー」。Now the time is half past two in the morning... and I am singing the song for myself. I am glad to live for my **th Birthday, because I dedicate to my good health and live in this wonderful world.  I was born in May of which green leaves on the trees are so beautiful.  So I really appreciate all of natures which bring me happiness and joy. Les & Kathlin, thank you soooooo much for your kind birthday cards! Everyone, thank you for your kind messages on Facebook.

"Are you Mama?" She asked a lady who was taking a walk with a puppy. "Are you..... ?"  The lady replied. "Wow... waht have you been up to?" She said to the lady aloud. "I've been OK, but it's good to see you again!" The lady was so excited to say like this. "Why were you so quiet for such a long time?" The lady continued to ask her. "'Cause, you know, maybe...  the master wondered and asked her why you were still single...." She murmured. "Oh, no, no, he never said like that... anyway, you should come to see him." And then, she and the lady started walking toward the cafe where the lady and her husband called "Master" ran. Soon after they went into the cafe, the master looked at her with surprise and launched the words, "Welcome back, Akane!" There have been still lots of sculptures which he made displayed inside of the cafe.  The most popular one is "Penguin with Brea...

One and half months have passed since I quit (or was laid off ) the school jobs. However, I do not feel bad because sometimes it happens to you if you are a just part time teacher. As if I were like a temporally disposal teacher for the education ministry.  And more or less, I am free., I've got freedom which you cannot buy with money. But I have to fix my lifestyle now, because it tends to get lazy if you do not have to go to work in the morning.  Just remembering that Haruki Murakami wakes up early and jog every morning. I cannot jog though, but I decided to wake up early. It was good timing that I got a translation job... so it is time to wake up early for me to handle such huge translation! So now I have to go to bed...  Good night!

Please listen to the music below. What reminds you of through this music? For me, "to Clean Up". It is because I used to listen to this music while we were cleaning up our elementary school every day. The music was kind of a symbol in our school, members of the broadcasting committee played this music during the clean-up time almost every day. I am not sure if you have cleaned up your school when you were a pupil. In Japan, in almost all of the schools, pupils clean up after eating lunch. If you were eating lunch slowly (because maybe you hated carrots or some other vegetables.. but you must have eat all of them. ), other pupils would start cleaning, wiping and washing the windows, floors... So you would have to eat lunch in a dusty place. And then, you would get sad and start sobbing.... hahaha... maybe it might be shame because the music has still stuck to my ears. So, it is like "Mozart = Clean-Up"... When I hear this music, I get the feelings...

I just realised that more people in overseas read my blog when I wrote it in English. That's good for me because I could share my thoughts or ideas with the people who lives over miles away from here, in Japan. Today, I would like to ask you a favour, if you check this blog quite often, please click "Follow" on the bottom of this page. I would like to get more friends in all over the world.  In fact, I have some experience to make friends through skype, MSN, icq and Facebook.  And then, some of them visited me here in Japan and also I have visited them.   Still, I keep such great friendships with those people from Hong-Kong, Australia, Ireland, USA, UK and Sweden.  I have used such communication systems for over 5 years. At first, I used it to improve my English. It was amazing that I could do it! One day, I had my thesis proofread from my friend in LA. That's great, isn't!  2 months ago, we got a massive earthquake in Japan, at that time, almost all of...