finally feel fine!

After taking cold medicine for three days, I finally feel much better, almost fine now! The headache, nosy voice, exhaustion, all of them are gone! Great! I'm glad it was not a flu.

Today, my husband and I went to the Bunraku theater and saw their performance. It was just amazing! The Gidayu singers, Shamisen players, and puppet players, all of them made the play so wonderful! I was glad I made it going there today!

cold or flu?

I might have caught a cold. I hope it's not a flu, will see.....
Influenza is spreading around in Japan now so rapidly in the past week!
I heard it's extremely cold in the US. I know we should be careful for not catching one but sometimes you just cannot help it but catch it from somebody on the street or in the train car!

Well..... at least I should have a good rest tonight.
I'm glad I made it for my senior choir rehearsal this morning and a piano lesson in the afternoon.

I'm going to have a kid piano student next morning and another choir rehearsal in the evening.  I hope it's gone till next morning and I can make everything as planned tomorrow!


Good night from Osaka!

Momo

Momo died in the late evening of January 1st, the new year day! She went to heaven in peace. She was 17 years old.  lived quite a long life. We had been so happy being with her. thank you, Momo. we love you!

hot water bottle

a hot water bottle 湯たんぽ. my essential good for winter. I actually have three of them all in different sizes. this is the smallest one. I hold this when in a living room watching TV, or in my piano room practicing. I made the cover from a used trousers.  And this black thin glove is my current favorite! I cut the fingertip parts so that I can wear them as I type or play the piano!

busy day!

It's been a hectic day today!
Practiced the piano for three hours in the morning then had a piano lesson with my teacher starting from 12:30 till 2:30.  On my way home, did grocery shopping at a local supermarket "Kotobuki". Had a late lunch at 3 then headed to Uehonmachi station to meet my mother. After having a tea time with her, went to Minamimorimachi. At a cozy cafe, previewed vocab for the evening English class. We had a new member today and he liked our class and said would be coming next week!  Great to have a new member since we were just a small group with two students and a teacher before having him.  Yahoo!! When I finally got home, I felt exhausted!

Now I feel much better after having a relaxing time with my husband, watched my favorite drama "Criminal minds" with him and now watching some concert recording which sounding so beautiful.


Good night from Osaka, Japan!

Good morning!

Yesterday, I got a phone call from Dynah, living at a nursing home in Brooklyn in the US where I once worked as a volunteer worker. She sounded wonderful!

I'm going to my piano lesson today, should be fun!

Have a good day, everyone!

why not wavering?

I used to want to be stable, not changeable or wavering.

Now, I want to be a person who is willing to change their opinion or ideas after listening to others very carefully.

As I am living my life everyday, I learn new things almost every day. I meet people who are far smarter than I am or who are much more experienced than I am.  Then I would realize what I was believing or doing was wrong or slightly different, then I would feel happy to change my previous way, not always, but often I feel this way.

I used to believe a teacher should be consistent.

Then now I teach music sometimes, and I'm not consistent at all! I learn things and I would realize..... the same thing happens for this as well. When I find a new thing, I would think of myself, like how stupid I am, not knowing such a basic thing! or like that..... but why not?

I want to be a teacher who keeps learning new things and gets new ideas all the time, changeable? yes, why not? You will never bored learning with this kind of teacher!

Do you agree with me?

writing

I recently read a book titled "Good bye orange" (written in Japanese, and for a small part in English).

It is about two women moved to Australia each from an Asian country (possibly Japan), and an African country as a refugee.  They met each other at an ESL school and became good friends.

The narrator is the Asian woman.  She tells stories about the African women named Salima who has a great ambition and guts for life. Salima was married to an African man with two sons. They moved all together from their home country but after moving, her husband became a bad guy and left them to go to a big city. She struggles to live her life with her two sons, working as a meat processing worker at a supermarket because the job doesn't require language skill.  She had a very had time to find the job before that.

Meanwhile, the narrator. Sayuri, is having a hard time too.  Her husband has a job in a university as a researcher and keeps himself busy on his research about languages.  So she is always left alone with their baby daughter.

This book is consisted of two parts, one for her narration about Salima's story, another for her letters to her former English teacher, who encouraged her to keep writing anything in English.

Then I remember, that writing used be my favorite thing to do, especially keeping my journal here! Why I stopped doing it? Because I get busy?

I thought, I should restart it any soon, even for a few lines each day.


So.... please accept my apology, my dear journal.  I love you, so much!


I have to go now, for my piano practice.  See you later!