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Shaked again this morning

2011-04-16T13:41:00.003+09:00

Aftershocks were decreased little by little. TV and mobile phone service tell coming of earthquake several second before hit. Rate of hit is third one, but it's useful. I thank this technology. Following is foreign people's messages who are living in Japan. http://www.gaijinpot.com/ It cheered me up a lot. Number of tourists were declined after this quake, but most of Japan are safe. Hope tourists to come and visit again.

Fukushima products are safe!!

2011-04-15T19:51:00.007+09:00

I went to Tokyo on Wednesday for my job. I found out there are Fukushima prefetural shop. There were many people how wanted to buy products for helping Fukushima. Newses broadcasted dangerous nuclear fastility, but most of Fukushima's products are safe level. I bought sake and tomato jams. They are so tasty!! Don't believe rumors!!

My friend and I are fine!

2011-04-12T03:31:00.003+09:00

Lots of news about Japan were broadcasted in this world. Poeple's kind words from all over the world cheered us a lot. I thank so much.

Last Sunday, my friends invited me to their hanami party. Everyone seems to manage to be positive, which let me fine... Actually, I'm too shocked to sleep, but I became fine by talking and enjoyeing cherry trees with my friends.

Long time no see

2011-01-26T20:41:00.001+09:00

At last, I restart this blog!
Too busy to update because of my job.
Hope that I can have time to enjoy my life this year:)

My B-day

2009-07-11T11:43:00.002+09:00

My friend have a party for me tonight at Daikan-yama.
I can't wait...

Start again!

2007-10-21T11:53:00.000+09:00

I start jogginng again. In summer, I stopped running because of unusual hot weather. Next month, race will be taken place, so I practice.

PARACUP 10k

2007-05-13T22:20:00.000+09:00

I finished 10k race today! That was my first race to participate in 1ok race. My time was about 58 minutes. Temparature was 28 degree, I was worried about it, but I was able to run safely. This race was charity marathon for Filipino orphan. One of the memento is medal made by hand of Filipino children. Other memento was T-shirts. Along the course, lots of volunteers gave high touch to cheer. I didn't know how high touch give me energy. "Difficult time is the time to smile!" "You can arrive goal soon!" Cheering supporters were dancing to cheer.

Today was mother's day in Japan. I gave present to my mom and ate delicious sushi with my family.

Twilight run

2007-05-03T20:56:00.000+09:00

5.5km 32 minutes. I found one runner on my course. My practice course is a very challenging course for me with steep ups and downs, but it helps me to prepare for difficult race. My longest run is 10km. I hope that I can run more...

Busou marathon 8k

2007-04-29T20:52:00.000+09:00

Today, I took part in Busou marathon (fun run 8k). My time was 48 minutes. The course has a lot of steep hill and long incline, but scenery is very beautiful countryside. Time limit is 58 minutes, so I had little time to relax. People along the coures cheer me up "just a bit more!". The last long incline was the hardest time for me. Some people began to walk, but I didn't give up:-) Very exhausted, but feeling of accomplishment is great! Memento was towel and picture book of Machida city. この大会で、海外のマラソン大会に何度も出ているという国際派マラソンランナー達とお話する機会がありました。夢中になれるスポーツは、人をキラキラと輝かせるんだなぁ～と思いました☆とても楽しかった。

Marathon 5k

2007-04-15T18:51:00.000+09:00

I took part in Marathon 5k. About 150 runners gathred this practice race. My record of today is 28 minutes. When I participated in Miura marathon, it's 34 minutes, so my record became better!

3 weeks to go...

2007-04-10T21:00:00.000+09:00

After coming back to home, I run about 3.4km. It's 3 weeks to go to Busou Marathon. I will participate in 8k fun run. Picture is first pansy in the garden.

Kamakura festival

2007-04-09T20:38:00.000+09:00

Yesterday, I went to Kamakura to see festival parade. Portable temples were being carried by lots of people. At Tsurugaoka hachiman shrine, ancient dance and beauty contest was taken place. 昨日、鎌倉まつりに行きました。パレードでは、おみこしをたくさんの人々がかついでいて、非常に活気がありました。鶴岡八幡宮では、静御前の舞やミス鎌倉コンテストも行われていました。

Weekend run: 3.4km

Snow in April

2007-04-04T20:37:00.000+09:00

Tokyo had snow today. It's really cold. I pulled out winter coat!

Tulip came out!

2007-04-01T22:25:00.000+09:00

Tulip named "Abba" came out. At last, spring has come!!

Graduation celemony

2007-03-31T20:03:00.000+09:00

Last Sunday was graduation celemony. I was really happy to receive diploma, but I need to pull up my socks. 　 I'm thinking of changing my job for more social job in the future...
先週日曜日は、卒業式でした。とても嬉しかったですが、これからが大切。気を引き締めなおさなければなりません。学んだ知識を社会に役立つ形で活かしたいです。

Hospital art

2007-03-24T12:22:00.000+09:00

Hospital art is picture for healing patient's mind　in Hospital. My painting is donated to a hospital in Tokyo. I went to see how my pictures is. Some nurses was there and said "this picture is very popular among children. They take their picture in front of this picture." I was so happy because what I did helpted another people.

ホスピタルアートは、病院の患者さんの心を癒すための絵画のことです。私が、描いた絵が東京のある病院に寄贈されたので、先日見に行って来ました。そこにいた看護師さん達が「この絵は人気があるんです。子供たちが、この絵の前で写真を撮って帰るんですよ。」と言ってくれた。私は、自分の描いた絵がこんな風に役に立っているなんて、嬉しいな～と思いました、

Next race

2007-03-21T19:49:00.000+09:00

I applied to marathon races taken place in April and March. "Buso marathon" (8k) and "Paracup" (10k　charity event). Each marathon race has its own memento. On March 4th, "Miura International marathon" was taken place. I participated in 5k fun run. Its memento was T-shirts and Japanese raddish(Special product of Miura:-) The course is along with Pacific Ocean, so scenery was so lovely.

４、５月に開催されるマラソン大会にエントリーしました。「武相マラソン(8k)」と「パラカップ(10k　チャリティ)」です。どのマラソン大会も独自の参加賞があります。３月４日に開催された「三浦国際市民マラソン」では、私は５kの部に参加しました。参加賞は、Tシャツと三浦大根(三浦市の特産物)でした（^-^）コースは、太平洋が見える道だったので、風景がすばらしかったです。

Achieved 10km!!

2007-03-18T19:37:00.000+09:00

Today, monthly marathon was taken place by Japan sports federation. I participated in 10km section. This was the first time for me to achieve 10km marathon. (1mile=1.6km)

今日は、新日本スポーツ連盟主催の月例マラソンに参加してきました。１０kmの部に参加しました。この日、初めて１０kmを連続して走ることができました。

Prepare for graduation celemony 卒業式の準備

2007-03-17T12:40:00.000+09:00

Next weekend, graduation celemony is taken place in my university. I prepared Kimono and Hakama for it. I can't wait!! Yesterday, I registered "JogNote" which is for runners who enjoy fun run. I can check my runnnig result by graph on the web and update the graph on my own weblog.
来週末は、大学の卒業式です。今日、着物や袴を予約しました。卒業式が待ち遠しい!! 昨日、「ジョグノート」という市民ランナー用サイトに登録しました。このサイトの機能で、走行距離や時間がグラフでチェックでき、その結果をブログに掲載することもできます。

First sunflower in my garden

2006-07-13T21:46:00.000+09:00

Flower name is "Gogh's sunflower, which modeled Gogh's paintings of sunflowers.

Each of flowers are different in flower petal and size.

Yesterday I met a friend who was high school classmate. We talked about memories, job and futures, which refreshed me.

Painting picture

2006-07-09T20:17:00.000+09:00

I painted picture of morning glory to make a card for my colleague who stayed hospital. I hope that she recovers soon.

I use acrylic color to paint. It's been a while since I painted before. To paint is really fun!

Morning glory named "fliying saucer"

2006-07-06T22:11:00.000+09:00

It was my dream to plant this flower since last year.
Yesterday, at last first flower came out. Each flower is different design.

Menu of bean

2006-07-02T20:49:00.000+09:00

I harvested runner bean! My mother made "miso soup" with the bean. It is said that miso soup is a daily essential in Japan.

Gladiolus

2006-06-28T21:02:00.000+09:00

This flower is about 1 m (3 feet) tall! Its name is from gladius in Latin, which means dagger.

I planted its small bulb in April and it's grown up very soon.

Runner bean

2006-06-26T20:34:00.000+09:00

Bean's flower has come out. I will be able to harvest its bean soon.

This weekend, exam of July is taken place. I must be very busy, but after exam, I can be relaxed;-)

Aubergine

2006-06-25T21:50:00.000+09:00

This vegetable is called "Aubergine" in French, "egg apple" in English. Japanese call it "Nasu". I don't know why they are called the name, but think it's funny.

Cherry tomato

2006-06-24T18:39:00.000+09:00

Today letter from my univercity told me that I passed exam of May and cleaned credits:-) I need acquire only 4 credits (Exam of July and summer courses in August), and graduation thesis of November for my graduation:-) At last, I have the goal in sight...

Cherry tomatos are getting red in my garden. They looks very cute.

Pansy

2006-06-23T22:45:00.000+09:00

I sowed Pansy seeds last September. They've been coming out since December in waves.

Hydrangea

2006-06-22T20:41:00.000+09:00

There are lots of hydrangeas in Japanese rainy season. I can see multihued hydrangea on the way to my office. Their colours are different from garden to garden by soil, which is enjoyable.

Amaryllis

2006-06-21T20:48:00.000+09:00

I planted Amaryllis's bulb in April. The flower already came out. This is the most magnificent flower I ever grew. It seems trumpet and to be ready to sing. After 4 flower came out, another 2 flowers appeared.

Lavender flower

2006-06-20T20:28:00.000+09:00

It took me about 2 years to grow lavender flower.
Scent of this flower refreshes me. Japanese summer is humid and very hot, so I will have to be care for weather.

Actually I raise Hibiscus in my office as well as my home.
This week, the one in my office came out at last.
My colleagues and I are looking forward to seeing its flower.

Traditional cooking

2006-06-19T20:09:00.000+09:00

Last Saturday, I ate traditional cooking from Kaga in Japan. A Hydrangea was decolated with it.

Ancient City of Aleppo

2006-06-19T19:55:00.000+09:00

My friend gave me a soap from Ancient City of Aleppo. The soap is made of olive oil and laurel, same as ancient days. It has worked to wash face. My hair became like straight perm. My colleague also use it and said same words. Ancient people had already known that simple material is the best thing...

Hibiscus

2006-06-18T22:19:00.000+09:00

One of my colleague gave me Hibiscus branch (about 20 cm). I got it in the water on May.
It passed about one month since then. The hibiscus's green leaves come out, so I potted it today.

Last year, I started this blog for learning English, but I gave up this idea because of my job and univercity. This year, I can have time for blog because I accustomed myself to this hard schedule.

Father's day

2006-06-18T22:10:00.000+09:00

My family celebrated father's day. I gave present to my father:-) My father seems very happy. I was happy, too. We enjoyed dinner with wine. We also celebrated mother's day in May.

Morning Groly

2005-07-26T21:59:00.000+09:00

This one is also pretty. Look at the center of this flower! It looks as if it's shining itself.

Typhoon has come!

2005-07-26T18:01:00.000+09:00

Typhoon named "BANYAN" (Asian name) will come today. The effect of it began to appear at around 14:00 pm. It My company had people go home at 16:30 pm, to my regret that was too late. I was able to arrive my home now, but my trousers and bag was soaked to wet. However I have to go to dentist today. I reserved it a week ago:(

Quake hit upon Tokyo and Kanto area.

2005-07-23T21:07:00.000+09:00

The earthquake had the magnitude of 6.0.
I thought "it has fanally come!", but I wasn't able to move where I was.
Authorities of earthquake have continued to predict for a long time, but anyboday can't find the way of predicting it correctly yet. My office began to prepare since quake since several years ago.

I wonder where is safe place in this world, no, there aren't any safe place. "C'est la vie" , French phrase is well-turned phrase, isn't it? This kind of phrase can be found in each language in this world, I thought. It's very interesting, people invent same kind of idea even if country is different. Can't people fight against destiny? There are some people who say that life is interesting because of its beyond calculation. However I feel myself compelled to hope that everything goes well. That brought out the philosopher in people?

There are BBS service of mobile phone (Cellular Digital Packet Data) for disarster so that people can tell their family and friends they are safe. Also people can leave their messege by telephone.

Anyway, I have to do my homeworks today as well.
C'est la vie!?

Fitness club

2005-07-21T21:04:00.000+09:00

After my job, I went to fitness club. I met aerobics instructor by accident on the way to the club and we talked. To my surprise, she didn't like to exercise till her univercity days. One day she went to fitness club to kill time and found how aerobics is fine. It's only 4 years since she begian and she teacheas others! She said "To find what is really in tune with a person seems to be diffecult, but you can find it unless you give up." I was very impressed. I can't find what I can do with full confidence yet. I do hope that I can be proud of myself someday, so I learn a lot.

French lesson by myself.

2005-07-20T20:34:00.000+09:00

Everyday I listen French lesson CD on bus to go to my office. I want to understand French language and after graduate I wanna visit to France. Actually I wanna visit all European country. They are very attractive for me. When I went to UK, I was so impressed by stone archtecture. They was much more gigantic than I imagined. I felt big difference from asian culture then. Stone is strong, so it preserved even history.

Sunflower came out again, which is 150 cm tall. Another one is 180 cm tall, but still not come out. I can't wait to see it comes out.

Morning glory came out

2005-07-18T17:00:00.000+09:00

It's 32 degrees, but sensible climate is 35 degrees!! That means that I have to stay home and do reports, doesn't it? Any way, I finish lots of works in this succussesive holidays. I printed sunflower picture and made postcard to send letter to my gramma. Also I wrote summer greeting for my friends in abroad. I found very pretty greeting card in book store the other day.

I watched TV program "World Heritage site " this afternoon. The site is "I Sassi di Matera", which was very splended as if the city is from classic myths. Someday, I would like to go there.
http://www.unesco.or.jp/contents/isan/world/isan_image/l/S216_L.jpg

At last I have finish one report. (Law of realty)

2005-07-17T17:11:00.000+09:00

Today is very hot day, so I got up very early and finished to write out. My univercity forbid student to input report by computer. I have to write by hand, which takes me about one hour. One report need 2,000 characters (Japanese).

Also I was able to finish anothre report (family law) this afternoon. This weekend is three successive holidays. I can be relaxed, but too hot to go anywhere. I don't feel to do anything.

Flower named "pink" is fair. Real one looks more beautiful than picture.

sunflower

2005-07-16T12:40:00.000+09:00

Today, sunflower bloomed whose mane is "Mracle beam". It bloom 20 flowers from one seed.

It's 30 degrees today.

2005-07-16T11:57:00.000+09:00

This is the first time for me to make blog. I will show pictures of flowers and foods in this blog. I'm working in my office and student of correspondence courses at an Univercity. Also I'm learning some languages (English, French, Chinese and Spanish), but not make progress yet. I hope this blog help my language study. To meet friend of foreign country motivated me to learn many languages.