mourn It was very sad news of Japanese entartainment world that the actor Masayuki Imai has passed away due to colorectal cancer. He was an actor and 54. he confessed his medical condition in the previous month, he said he paused playing on the stage because he coudn't speak loud with abdominal breathing. At that time the cancer was stage four. He is known by the movie tokkotai, meaning kamikaze attack duing world war II. I also knew him as powerful man but the last month photo seemed to be very weak like old man. He was also known as work hard man. Maybe he fought the cancer till the end. RIP.

Entrance ceremony at elementary school We all family attended the entrance ceremony of our daughter's elementary school yesterday. I mainly took care of our younger two-year-old son instead he try to do something wrong. In spite of image of entrance ceremony season, all cherry blossom has already fallen. Our region has a lot of children in spite of facing decreasing children in Japan, so there are 6 classes in the first grade. She went to a kindergarten far from the elementary school, so we aren't familiar with other students well, we knew my apartment members only. She was 3rd class and she didn't know whole of the members. Her most familiar friends and she were separated. The ceremony was little bit boring so my young boy was fretful, So I had to go out till he was calm. After ceremony, she took her text book in her classroom while my son and I played on ground. Before we come back home, we took photos of ourselves in front of the ceremony board. Anyway from today, she have to wake up at 6:30 earlier than kinder age but she is very cheerful. She seems very looking forward to going to school.

Makankousappou I found a very funny news on the net. That said recent trend of Japanese high school girls is taking photo of Makankousappou. This means taking a photo on poses in several members like doing martial arts skills from anime Dragon Ball as if it's really working on. However I think this is not Makankousappou. http://www.j-cast.com/2013/04/09172660.html?p=all The following is real Makankousappou. http://www.google.co.jp/imgres?imgurl=http://www.deviantart.com/download/113358162/dragonball___makankosappo_by_nostal-d1vhnpu.png&imgrefurl=http://nostal.deviantart.com/art/Makankosappo-113358162&h=1063&w=1470&sz=1249&tbnid=R9MROSD8Sps9jM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=124&zoom=1&usg=__ed6pnG8fdJiv6uoQhZJDuRaQl8A=&docid=I9MEyb5iCCKQWM&sa=X&ei=PIFjUbC-EYykiQeM2YD4AQ&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAA&dur=1780

I bought friends season 1 and 2. I bought "friends season 1 and 2" on on amazon.com which is one of the best drama in America. I heard these provide the most effective way of studying 'recent' American conversation. Because it isn't too formal and too slangy. I'm going to see them with English dubbed and try to write down the scripts and confirm it with sub. (It's called "dictation".) US amazon's "friends" is much cheaper than Japanese's one. In addition, I noticed many anime was also cheaper than Japan's one on Amazon.com. They will reach me 18-32 days later. I can't wait it. (However I didn't change 'Global Expedited Shipping'.^^;)

Hello Hello, everyone on italki! This is the first post on me. Nice to meet you! I want to improve my English skills so I decided joining this website. My English level is around beginner, I can correct Japanese.