day care center I go to a day-care center to work as a volunteer once a week. I chat with elderly people and dry dishes in the kitchen. They are nice and warm. Besides lunches served there are always tasty. So I am really looking forward to having lunch with them every week. I go there to do a volunteer activity but I think I am learning a lot from them. I work in a cram school usually untill late at night. If I have nothing to do in the morning, I just sleep. That's mottainai. ( waste of life) so I started to do volunteer activity. いいね!

How to shine a flashlight onto the back of you your knees I heard that one of the most effective solutions for jet lag is to shine a flashlight onto the back of your knees during flight. But how would you be able to do this?

New years card Thank you very much for your warm hatred Christmas card. Also I was very glad to see you with a cute dog on the video message . I had a super good time spending time with Tony and Ray. (It made me miss you Judy and Kay more though^-^) I do hope I could meet you again. I heard that recently North America is as cold as mars. Is Salt Lake City ok? I hope it will be a good year for you. With lots of love Mika.

please correct this entry I was very happy to meet you in Kyoto last year, Ray. The time was warm and fun. It was one of my best memories of 2013. Even in Osaka it has been cold these days. Mountains are brown without leaves but today I saw a bit pink mountain reflecting sunset. Beautiful scenery reminds me of you and Tony. ps I hope that one day I can see your picture you draw, the "upside down "one.

the reason I am learning English these days Many people in Fukushima have lost their house, land, and their health will be destroyed in the future by radiation. Japan is under control of nuclear mafia Tokyo Electronic Company , polititions , beaurou, police ,judge mass media. They are the members of nuclear mafia . So it is hard for Japanese people to get real information. We need help. We need to inform outside of Japan what is going on here. I need information from overseas especially from the country which chose natural energy instead of nuclear power plant. Almost all the information we can get is Japanese nuclear mafia's propaganda. We need more reliable information.

It has been a while I haven't studied English for 3 months. I have been super busy by work. Besides I have been sick on and off. So it takes me a lot more time writing a notebook entry than before. But I don't want to give up learning this language.

Mika's notebook entry: Jun 02, 2011 I have been watching American drama " Friends" to learn conversational English. I want to downlode some of the episodes on my iPhone but I can't find any of them on itune.