Thanks★☆ Hello, friends! =) What have you been doing?
I have spent busy days since this semestar has started. This is because I am studying for getting two licences which relates to be a teacher. I now study English in class2 which consists of students who are going to study abroad from this August. The teacher is really fantastic and my new classmates are kind to me. It will be lucky for me to be a member of the class.

However, I really miss class3 mates. It was a pity that I did not realize how much class3 was precious when I was with them. The free time often reminds me what the classes we took were like. Most of us struggled with a lot of homework which Darren and Bond gave us. The papers I wrote are my great memory to remember them.

Since this semestar has started, I met Darren at the Departmemt of School Affairs. It makes me happy that he then spoke to me "Hey, Miyuki!". Of course I remembered him because he was my teacher. However, I was just one of many students he has. What was worse, I changed my hairstyle from curly hair to straight hair. Therefore,I was afraid about him forgetting and not realizing me. Yet, he remembered me! =) You know that he surprised us to remember all of our classmate names only after the first day of the class he had. He rarely praised me in the class, so I was so happy when he said "Good" in my paper though that did not happen once again! lol ★★

I have not had a chance to meet Bond yet through my school life since I have become a third year student. I took his class with other 11 friends last semestar. Most boys missed his class many times, so girls could not help taking his class with a few memberes. It confused us a lot at the beggining of the semestar, however,the class had become better and better as the time passed. Bond himself would also confuse like us, but he tried very hard to make fascinates us. On the day of the last class, he brought a lot of Mr doughnuts and drinks for us! We enjoyed the secret party and were very glad to hear what he felt about his class consisted of small members. He was not only strict with us but also very thoughtful.=)

Now I have an opportunity to take some classes with Mayuko,Mayumi,Yuka,Yuko,Shinji and Masa. They have a power to make me fine anytime.=) What is better, other class3 mates in foreign countries, Emi,Masako,Megumi and Togo are going to come back soon! ★★ Some of class3 mates, including me are going to study abroad after they backed Japan. Chiharu and Keiko left Japan a few months ago and they are in foreign countries. This means the time all of class3 members can gather again will come when we become 22. I do not want to get older, however, I am really looking forward the time comes true!  ¶ 6:05 PM 2 comments

  The Coming Of Age Day　① On January 9th, the celemony of coming of age day was held at the big hall in my town. There were so many people in Kimono, Hakama and suits in front of it. I was very looking forward to meeting my old friends and also felt nervous a little bit. Because I would meet some of them after a so long interval like four years. However, I could soon get back the good relationship with my friends on meeting them. =)


The ceremony was sooooooo funny because there was RAIZAR RAMON HG inside the hall　!! Do you know who he is?? He is a famous hard gay entertaier.


There were about 600 hundred people and most people dressed cool to deserve to join in the ceremony. However, one of attendance wore the same costume as RAIZAR RAMON HG always does!! He put on back best, short pants, black shoes and black sunglasses!! Of course, he is not real RAIZAR RAMON HG but he looked like him so much. I guess he was just eager to standout in front of many people. What is more interesting, he run into the stage where many politicians who were ready for greeting speech to us were!! On standing the stage, he shouted
" Seijin Foooooo!!" as shaking his hip!! I guess he probably meant "Congratulation,everyone!"
It was sooooo funny and everyone in the hall laughed at him. Some politician got angry with him and some also laughed at him. lol The matter did not come to be a so big problem, so it was ok.

After the ceremony, I visitied some my relatives to show my Kimono and to say that I became an adult.
My grandmothers especially looked happy to see me, so I felt happy too. I longed for wearing Kimono for a day, however, Kimono was tooooo tight for me and I was about to die because of the lack of the oxgen. There was no choice for me except giving up wearing Kimono.  ¶ 9:44 PM 7 comments

  The Coming Of Age Day　② I came back to life after changing to casual clothes!★★ The reunion party was going to be feld in Izakaya at 7 pm, so my friends and I went there together. It surprised me a lot that there were about almost all the junior high school friends who were in the same year as me!! It means about more than 120 people came to the party! Everyone changed so much from junior high school days and most men became hosts. It was lucky for me to experience what the host club is like in Izakaya. lol =)

It seemed that each people really live on their ways. Some people already have thier jobs, some go to university and others have married and they have already had their babies! Everyone became glad to hear that one of the couple who have gone out since they were junior high school students have also married and have their babies! I really enjoyed that party though it made me so sad that I had to leave there earlier than others to do my homework. =(

The surprising things did not stop even after I came home at night.
There was a so cute Miney Mouse which has a letter on the table!! ☆☆


I was so surprised to see it because it was the first time for me to get the telegram! What is more, I could not guess who sent such a nice present to me! I took the letter from Miney Mouse and read it. It was from my aunt and it said "Congratulation, Miyuki. Hope you spend vividly life from now onward."
How kind of she!! That Miney Mouse have become one of my treasures.☆☆

The coming of age day was really interesting to me. On that day, I could experience lots of things such as wearing Kimono, meeting old friends, getting the telegram and so on which I could not do that in my usual life even if I longed for them. Is it possible for me to gether more than 120 my friends who have their own hard schedules? Is it possible for me to gather about 600 people in the same area at one time? Who can do that? I guess no one can do that. However,the nation itself actually did it. Handreds of people turned twenty this year gathered at each area in Japan on the same day. I was so impressed by the strong power of the nation. Now I like Japan much more than before I experienced the coming of age day. =)  ¶ 9:40 PM 0 comments

  TENNIS　① The spring holidays are coming soon!! I am looking forward to it very much though it makes me so sad that I cannnot take any classes with class 3 members any more. =(
I am actually so busy throughout a year because I have three part time jobs. Those working time really robs me of my free time to do homework, the favorite activities and so on. I have never longed to have such many jobs,however, it was difficult for me to refuse them who asked me to work. I am a typical Japanese who cannot say "No!". After all, I realized that I have had three part time jobs.

One of them is an really intereting job. I have worked at a tennis school named "Marine Tennis Park Kitamura" as a receptionist since I was a high school student. The tennis school has 25 tennis courts and it was the largest one in Osaka city. Therefore, a lot of large-scale events are held there. Some of my friends who belong to the tennis school at school may have been there before. I actually see the members of kansai Gaidai tennis circle "Spirits" there.

This is the tennis school at which I work.
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  TENNIS　② I work as a receptionist with chairs, so even a lot of tasks does not tire me. All that I have to do is to make big smile and be kind to the customers. =) Of course, there are much more hard jobs such as getting phone calls, managing tennis courts, selling tennis goods, taking care of tennis coaches and so on. I recently realized that working at the tennis school gives me something special.

One of the biggest reason of them is "my colleague". Most of my colleagues are tennis coaches. The youngest coach at my job is 18 years old and the oldest one is over 60 years old. They are really attractive and deserve to be respected. It will be so hard to teach their students tennis under the flaming sun in summer and with the cold weather in winter. On the other hand, I work as sitting on a chair in the club house which has an air conditioner.

Most of them have gotten something big prizes. For example, one of women tennis coaches has won against a famous tennis player, Sugiyama Ai long time ago and she became a Japan jr champion. Another coach has met a popular Rosian tennis player, Maria Sharapoa. He also on good term with Matsuoka Shuzo who is a crazy poweful tennis player and I have seen the post card which Shuzo sent him. How wonderful they are!! I cannot believe that I am one of the colleagus of them. They all have much confidence on their own and they are very competitive on everything. Whenever I see them, I am influenced by them in a good way.

The second reason why it is special for me to work there is "the students". I mean they are people who come to our tennis school to take lessons. Both men and women look much younger than their real ages because of their attractive looks. They are like models of people who tell us how to get old so beautifully.
I really want to be such people!!

What is better, most of the students are so kind to others. They do not get angry with us, receptionist and coaches even if we mistook something wrong on the job. I often see people who get angry with the clerk in the restaurant or at shops. It will be natural that the students also do like that when they feel bad because of us. The relationship between us are not like high schools or universities though we call them "the students". Of course, they are not only students but also our important customers. We should accept thier complains, however, any troubles does not happen at the tennis school.

I believe people who play any sports like tennis become so gentle. I do not why it happens, yet the power of sports to people are really strong. I recommend all of you to play sports to be young both mentally and physically and to be gentle people!! =)
I like my part time job which tells me something special and important★★  ¶ 7:34 PM 0 comments

  The Picture Contest ① One of my hobbies is taking pictures and I tried the new challenge which concerned pictures during last summer vacation.　☆.。.：*・°☆.。.：*・°

One day, I found the interesting advertisement when I was reading Yomiuri newspapers. It said "Send us your best picture taken in a foreign country which shows you precious trip memory." Then, I deceided to send my best picture to the Yomiuri picture contest as my new challenge.

This is my most favorite picture, so I chose this one for the contest.
( I have already showed this piciture to you in my old blog though.)


The subject of this picture is “Chase rainbows.”

I stayed in Australia with my host family several years ago.
One day, I went shopping to the big moll with my host mother. When she was about to park her car in the parking areas, I found this two beautiful rainbows in the sky!! I was so glad to see them because it was like the good chance for me to shutter. Mum tried to start driving her car again so that I could take the picture from the best position. We chased rainbows!★  ¶ 1:01 AM 3 comments

  The picture contest ② The biggest reason why I decided to send the picture to the contest is that I just wanted to know my picture skill. Taking pictures really fascinates me a lot and I have started to think that I would like to study pictures. If I have a sense of it, I might get such a job in the future.

It would be the best way for me to send my picture to the contest because several excellent photographers look at my picture and judge whether my picture is good or not without costing.

Another reason is that I wanted to get the prize. The advertisement said "You can get 100,000yen if you got the top prize." I now have my own camera, however, it is a bit old because I bought it about two years ago. =( Therefore, I would like to get my new camera with the money.

What is more, I promised some of my classmates in the communicative English class that I would treat them Yakiniku at one calbee where Chiharu works if I still had extra money after I bought my new camera.

Now, I have to say "Sorry" to them. If my picture was allowed as the top prize, the organizers of the contest were going to call me by December. However, I have not gotten any calls yet. =( It means that my picture did not deserve the prize.

I was actually shocked to know that, but I will not give up until my picture is allowed by others. I will keep sending my picture to the contests.

This is one of the candidates taken in Italy I may send there next.

It is a poster which tells us “escalator monors.” I thought this sign really describes Italian’s humrous!!
I really like this picture too though I actually could not take it well. =)

I will try to come true my dream and I hope that I can treat my friends the supecial diner with the prize some day!★★  ¶ 12:59 AM 0 comments

  The School Festival From November 3rd to 6th, the school festival was held at our university.
I belonged to the circle which consited of the members who prepare for the school festival this year too, so I was at school from 8 am to 8 pm throughout four days. Those hard schedule actually made us so tired.

What is worse,we had much more tasks than we had imagined. For example, we had to look around the school a couple of times an hour as security guards to check whether there were any evil people or not. It was also our job to advertise the events which were going to be held on that days with the big voice in front of the guest. Of course, checking the displays, rubbish bins and so on were the part of them. Therefore, we were really busy during those days and we could not have much free time to enjoy the featival itself. However, I realized that I was wrong after I met some of my classmates at the festival.

On the first day, it surprised me a lot that one of my classmates Takaaki was at school at 8 am. When I saw him at first, I felt that was not Takaaki. It was impossible for me to believe that he was there in the early morning!! This is because he often misses classes or comes to the class late. Yet, he was actually Takaaki. He seemed to be busy with preparing for a food stand.

He looked happy whenever I saw him at the stall during the festival. When I spoke to him, he told me with a big smile that he sold hundreds of Hashimaki which is like Okonomiyaki in a day. I was very glad to hear that because he seemed to enjoy the festival so much!! I had never seen such Takaaki in the class!

Can you find Takaaki?


I also met our classmates, Yuka, keiko, Masa, Shinji, Yuto and Mayumi during four days! =) They looked really enjoy the festival. I am sure that there were other classmates such as Yuko, Kyohei and Taisuke because they had a plan to perform their works in front of the guests. It would be the good time for them to have such chances.

My friends gave me an oppotunity to realize that it was not me but the guests who had to enjoy the festival itself. It was much fun for me to see people enjoying it than that I enjoyed it myself. I could have a lot of fun thanks to them!! I am really proud of being one of the organizers. =) Thank you!★★  ¶ 2:25 AM 4 comments

  TWINS Please look at these babies!!★★ How cute they are!! =)





About three months ago, I had a great experience which I had never had until then in my life. My mother and I visited my grandmother's house in order to see the babies on the holiday. I had been looking forward to going there since my mother told me that one of my cousins gave birth to twins.

When I opened the door, two newborn babies in the room welcomed us with big smiles!!★★
It was the first time for me to see such tiny babies, so I was surprised at them. They were so tiny because it had passed only 18 days since they were born. All of thier body parts such as eyes, hands, nails were so small that I could not say anything except "Cute!!". I really long to have babies in the near future. =)

You know that those tiny babies cannnot do anything by themselves, however, I felt that the misteries of the human lives. I realized why people celebrate their birthday so importantly every year. To be born in this world as human is really awsome! The babies have such a strong power which the adults do not have. They can make everyone around them happy. We cannot help making big smiles whenever we see them.

I really envy my counsin who is the mother of these cute twins. She will be so happy even she is so busy with taking care of them. It will be so hard and the babies may sometimes irritate her, however, they also give her much power which overcomes lots of obstacles she is going to encounter. She and her husband named the twins "Ko-suke" and "Yo-ta". Those names in Chinese characters mean to be briliant forever.
I like those names, but I would name them "Musashi" and "Masato" to be strong men like K-1 players in their shoes.

It was lucky for my cousin to have borne her husband two boys. She was not allowed to give birth to girls because the father of her husband was the politician of Osaka prefecture. She has married into a good family, so they have needed boys who are going to succeed them. I became so sad to hear that because it would not be endurable for mothers to bear babies who would never be celebrated by everyone.

Therefore, it makes me so happy that she got boys!
I hope that I can have twins like my cousin in the near future!!☆.。.：*・°☆.。.：*・°  ¶ 12:07 AM 3 comments

  Italy ① One of my hobbies is traveling to foreign countries, so I have decided to go abroad as many times as I can with taking advantage of the holidays while I am a student.

Last March, I went to Italy with Mayu who has been my best friend since we were high school students.
We were looking forward to going there so much, however, this trip caused so many troubles and it was actually too hard for us to overcome them on our own. The word, “survival” would be the best one to describe that situation.

On 2nd of March, Mayu and I left Japan for Italy. It would be better for us to go on the trip with a reasonable price, so we decided to go to Italy by way of the Shiphol airport in the Netherlands. This would be such a nice trip until we arrived at the airport. We actually had a lot of fun on the plane from Japan to the Netherlands. It was never easy for us to imagine what was going to happen to us in the Netherlands.

After the long fright, we arrived at the airport around 2 pm.
We were surprised a lot at the sight of outside the airport. It was a lot of snow.　



Because of the heavy snowfall, we were given seven hours to wait before getting on the plane which took us to Italy. Yet, it did not stop snowing in the day. At 11:00 pm, there was an announcement which told us it was impossible for us to leave the airport on that day. There was no choice for us to get the new plane tickets except staying there all night. The floor was full of people who could not catch planes like us.
The scene was so horrible and we thought as if we were in a disaster area that we often see on TV at the sight of it.  ¶ 4:12 PM 0 comments

  Italy ② Mayu and I did not know what to do except crying. Of course, there was no one whom we could rely on in the Netherlands. We were about to give up all our hopes on the trip, however, we did not do that.
The dream which we then believed was just going to go to Italy by ourselves.

At midnight, we started to line in front of the ticket counter to get new tickets and to leave the airport as soon as possible. The counter was actually closed because there was no receptionist at the midnight.
It was hard for us to get the tickets since we were standbys for the next day. The possibility that we surely got new seats were almost nothing.

What was worse, other evil people so strongly pushed us many times to intercept our turn. It was impossible for us to believe people around us. We even felt that we would be killed by them if it was happened outside the airport. Being at the airport where was so strictly ruled about knives and guns was lucky for us.

We stood there all night.



We were never allowed to eat or drink something, go to the tilets, sleep and so on. It was like that we had lost all of the human rights then. When the receotionist came to the counter in the morning, everyone who was waiting for them appalauded.

After the man who lined in front us got his new ticket, he let us get the counter very safety!!
To our surprises, he saved us from evil people who plot for robbing us of our turn. It seemed that it was the best chance for them to keep to their plans on the eve of us getting the counter. How evil they were!!

However,we were able to get the new seats thanks to the kind man!! He was like a god for us. We guessed that he was British from his apprarance and pronaunce. So, I now like all of the British people! =)

After overcoming these troubles, Mayu and I went to the restaurant at the airport to have a small ceremony for celebrating the victory!! Cheers☆☆



This beer was the best one I have ever had!! =)  ¶ 4:11 PM 0 comments

  Italy ③ When we arrived at the airport in Rome at last, we felt like crying. This is because it was like a miracle for us to be in Italy safety! Yet, there was still an evil trouble which I was going to encounter there. I spent minutes and minutes to find my suicase with Mayu in the Rome airport. Her suitcase was easily found, but it seemed that only my suitcase was lost on the way to Italy because of the airport company.
I could not believe what was happening to me. All of my clothing and other important commodities were inside the luggage.

"How can I spend six days without my suitcase?" I said to myself. The receptionist of the lost luggage counter told me that the company would be going to take my luggage to me as soon as possible whenever they found it during the trip.

Therefore, I could not buy necessities so easily because it costed me much extra money and there was a possibilty to receice my luggage again during the trip. However, it did not actually come true since I got my luggage after I came back to Japan. I only bought a pair of underwear in Italy. To my surprise, I spent six days without most of my belongings!! I believe that this record will appear on the Guiness Book of Names.

Mayu was so kind to me and I was sure that she was the best friend of mine. She lent me some commodities and she also wore same clothing throughout the trip. I was very glad that she was so thoughtful.  ¶ 4:10 PM 0 comments

  Italy ④ This trip had not only bad parts but also good ones.We really enjoyed Italy itself★★

This is the lobby at the hotel. We could have breakfast there as looking at the cool paint on the wall.


I love Italian food. =)


I found the Italian vergion of Sugimoto Aya!! How sexy she is!!


Mayu and I at the hotel


When I overcame these many troubles with Mayu during this trip, we felt that we really became strong compared before the trip. It was right that we at first had never imagined that we could get the new plane seats on our own and spend six days in Italy without my luggage. However, we now have the big confidence which has a power to get through any bad situations. This trip seemed to be a really bad one for us at first, yet we believe that there was no other better trips which told us how to change impossible things to possible ones than this! =)

I hope that I can go abroad again with my best friend, Mayu.☆.。.：*・°☆.。.：*・°  ¶ 4:05 PM 1 comments

  Kimono ① About two months ago, I visited the photo shop to be taken the pictures for the Coming of Age Day with my mum. You know that it is actually on January 9th, however, the photo shop will be busy with so many girls in Kimono on the day. Therefore, I asked them to take my picture earlier to avoid a confusion.

The Coming of Age Day is the very traditional Japanese events for people who turn twenty years old the year. Most of the girls wear Kimonos and most boys wear the suits except Yankees in Hakama to attend the celemonies which are held in each region. The day is very special because it gives us the chances to meet old friends and reminds us of the Japanese traditional style that is wearing Kimonos.

It was the first time for me to wear Kimono made to order, so I was very excited at the photo shop.
When the clerk looked at my Kimono, she told me that my Kimono was very beautiful!!★★
I was so glad to hear that because I was afraid of the criticism about the color of my Kimono.

Most girls choose the popular colored Kimonos such as red or pink ones. However, my friend who already experienced the Coming of Age Day last year recommed me not to choose those colors to stand out.
After I got the information, I was thinking to choose the black color as my Kimono. This is because my image of women in black Kimono are so cool like Aya Sugimoto who is my ideal woman!! =)  ¶ 1:37 AM 1 comments

  Kimono ② Before the last summer began, I went to the Kimono shop to buy my black one with my mum.
When I told the clerk that I was going to buy the black one, he did not accept it. To my surprise, he told that color would not suit me because I had no eye power!! How cruel critisism it was, I thought. =(

He told me that it was better for me to choose the white one and I had almost no knowleade about the Kimono, so I bought it as he recommended. However, most people whom I told the color of my Kimono were surprised a lot. It seems that there are few people who wear the White Kimono on the Coming of Age Day. I actually could not imagine people in white Kimono except ghosts or the samurai who are about to hurt thier stomachs with the knives.

So, I had regretted choosing the white Kimono a lot until the clerk at the photo shop admired it.
It makes me so happy and I could have had the confidence in my white Kimono since then! ☆☆

This is the photo which was taken while the hairdresser set my hair for Kimono.
I was so worried whether my hair style would be looked so weird because so many curler were on my head!!



This is me in Kimono.
My parents bought it for me though Kimono is really expensive. So, I am very happy to come to love it! =)



I am really looking forward to the Coming of Age Day!  ¶ 1:29 AM 1 comments

  My darling ② I mean that my darling is actually Mr Iriki Yusaku who is a pro baseball player.
You now find how much I like him from my latest blog.

He belonged to the pro baseball team named "Nippon ham fighters" last year, so he mainly played in Hokkaido. It made me sad because I could not see him easily though it was my dream to meet him at the baseball stadium. What is worse, the information about him which I could get from the mass madia had been decreased than before that was when he was in the team, "Yomiuri Giants". It was true that the central league was much popular than the pacific one among both young and old people.

However, my dream has come true during last summer vacation!!
One of my classmates, Masa who has known I like baseball so much gave me the baseball game tickets and let me go to the stadium to see Mr Iriki Yusaku!! How kind of Masa!! =)
I could not say anything except "Thank you!" to him then.

On 20th August, my friend and I went to the Osaka Dome with the tickets.
We got so excited at the sight of Mr Iriki playing on a pitcher's mound!!

The man in the red circle is Mr Iriki.



How cool he is !!! He must be the coolest man in the world!!

It was unbelievable that I was in the same stadium as he was. I felt as if I were in the another world.
However, it shocked me that he never looked at me during the game though I practiced how to wink well many times to get him. =(

Anyway, his nice pitching gave me the confidence to support him as his wife!★
I am still so happy that I could have the chance to meet my darling! Thank you, Masa! =)  ¶ 11:15 PM 1 comments