heat sickness

As we know, we are obliged to save  electriciy in this summer because of lack of electric power.
Now it is too hot in Japan. Probably all Japanese people are sure that it is necessary for us to do so.

Last Thursday morning, my mother in law went to play grand golf  with other old people.
At 9 AM, she fell  down because of heat and hurt her neck. My father in law immeadiately took her to the hospital. She recovered consciousness but her hand( fingers) started shaking.
Now she has to go to hospital and she can't move her right hand well.
She regretted to play grand golf outside although  it was too hot. But there was no choice.

When I watched TV, I knew that many young students fell down out side because of heat when it was held  at sport festival. And I also knew that many old people became heat sickness in thier house because they can't feel if  it was hot or not. It is dangerous thing.

My daughter often complains about the heat  because there were no airconditioners in her class rooms and other rooms. Whenever they take PE class outside, many students are about to fall down.
I advised  her to drink something but she told me that she had lack of drink . It is very dangerous situation because they can't go to the store easily and immediately.

Osaka governor  Hashimoto Toru  told us not to worry about saving electric power.
It is Kansai area. Kantou area only lack the electric power.
We can understand what he mention. But we  are sometimes confused ... Which way should we choose" saving or our life???
Even though there were no earthquake anc Tsunami , we would have face this serious problem.

In my case, I usually stay in the house. So I take a shower during a dialy time once. I don't use airconditioner. I use only fan. I try to drink something. When I go outside, I use umbrella to avoid ultraviolet rays. I don't want to become heat sickness. We continue to fight with intense heat.

Japanese educational situation

As you may probably know, Japanese high school students have to study very hard during thier school life. My daugher is a  high school student.She goes to cram school almost every day and I have to support as her  driver every night.

She does not have  a special dream or goal now, so she is troubled by  this situation.
But actually most high school students  wish to go to college or university. There are too many schools in Japan, I think. So some universites  are very popular but other universities are not popular. It is so difficult for them to pass  entrance exams  for popular universities.

When I was a high school student on  summer vacation, I studied  from early in the morning to late at night. It was too hard for me. But it was normal. At that time, there were not so many cram school, so I had to study by myself.
In my daughter's case, I think she is lucky. Her cram school teachers teach her and other students kindly and
politely. Most of the students pass  entrance exams every year. They have to think about after their graduation after that.

But it is said that Japanese university  students don't need to study very hard during  their school life.
They can easily graduate.So many of them slack off. This is the  Japanese people's situation
About 30% students can't find their company or job to work. Many students start to look for a company early in the semester.  Some students cut the class although monthly school fee is  so expensive. It is  a very sad story.

I don't like this Japanese style. But there is  no choice.
I think my daughter continues  to be troubled from now on,too. Because we can't answer the question.

" Why  do students have to study and go to university???"

Talk about victim's pets and animals

As we know,Fukushima power station problem hasn't been solved yet. Of course many victims are compelled to evacuate from Fukushima, but unfortunately their pets and animals were abandoned.

I happened to find one person's blog.

http://ameblo.jp/uchino-toramaru/

According to his blog, he often goes to Fukushima near the Fukushima power station in order to feed animals. I saw many pictures and read it and I was about to cry. That present situation is so terrible and sad.

Many pets were looking for their owner. Some pets died because of hunger.
He and other volunteer people are helping to them. They give some water and food to them.
And he tell about the situation for us.

By this disaster and radiation problem, many pets and animals are also damaged.
We are human being,so we can speak, appeal,cry.
But they can't speak.They can't understand their situation. They don't know what they should do.
I feel so sad and I have no idea.
But actually some kind people continue to help them.

Please read his blog and don't forget these present situation.

What a small world it is!

I usually make use of facebook. I have been using it for about 3 years. The reason is that Canadian   who have ever stayed in my house  suggested me to join.  After that I enjoy communicating with my friends.

The other day, I happened to see my page in my right side. As we know, many members who are my friends's friend are shown in our page. We can sometimes meet again accidentaly.

I saw one person's page. I was so surprised because I knew that we had a lot of in common.

I decided to write a message and ask many things to him.
I received his message.  And I was more surprised again.   Because our home town was the same, my brother's school was the same, our club was the same, my old friend is his school friend,and so on...)


What a small world is! Face book is so useful!  I am so excited now.

I was looking for other old friends by using facebook.
I found some old friends. I was also able to see some of thier pictures. Amazing!
I remember those days.

Most of my face book friends are not online friends but real friends. So I don't need to worry about too much. I will enjoy meeting old friends and communicate with them.

I am proud of them

According to the TV news,　Minamisouma city mayor Sakurai Katsunobu and Dr Kanno Takeshi were selected as  the most influential people in the world.

I didn't know that Sakurai appealed to the world on youtube website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ZHQ--cK40

escape death by a hairbreadth

As the proverb says,"escape death by a hairbreadth".
I happened to find video on the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7IL37t7Wjg&feature=related

I am not sure why he took this video at that time.

Probably he was saved after that.

Who could  imagine  huge Tsunami hit ?

Of course I couldn't imagine and  have never seen  such a terrible scenes like this.

This happening made me sad.  We can't know when disaster happen. We don't think that our life suddenly
end by natural disaster.

Nobody knows  if  we can escape death by a hairbreadth...

Talk to myself

I have a fun with my children in this spring vacation. Time goes by quickly. And my son has to return to his dorm the day after tomorrow. I could enjoy spending time with them.

As we know, there was huge earthquake and Tsunami in Japan unfortunately.
Since it happened, I have been depressed and I did not do anything because of deep sadness.

But day by day, my feeling changed.

" Nobody knows about tomorrow or even after 1 minute. Is it all right for me to waste of time?"

After that, I tried to concentrate on taking care of my family.

My son is very smart  and kind.
Before I ask him to do something, he starts to help my housework. While I was going out and picking up my daughter and husband, he cooked something to eat for us.

← YAKIMESHI

My daughter has been very busy.She goes to cram school almost every day. She has to take some examination to enter the university(or colledge) next year.Recently she is doing her best. I take her to the cram school and pick up her twice a day. Although I am so busy every evening and night as a driver,I want to support her. We have a chat every night before go to bed. We talk about the future, dream, job and so on. I sometimes  feel that she is not my child but my good friend.

This was taken in front of my house.

I know life is tough and there are problems around us. But what I have to do is spend happily everyday and

feel how happy we are in our life.My duty is to give our children in struction. Even though we face difficulties, we never give up...

life is tough,isn't it?

I am sorry that I will write my diary in Japanese today

今日は日記を日本語で書く事をお許し下さい。

ご存じのように日本では大変恐ろしい地震と津波の影響で多くの被災者が今もなお大変な思いをされています。

地震の当日は家でテレビを見ていました。家ごと横揺れしだしたので地震かなと思い、電気を消し
慌てて玄関に逃げました。おさまってからテレビをつけ、事の重大さに言葉を失いました。

何台もの車や家が流されて行くのをテレビで見ました。車が走ってる所に津波が襲いかかるのも
見て叫びました。今でも思い出すと鼓動が早くなってしまいます。

実は地震の２日前に我が家の事でかなりショックを受けていました。義母が来週入院すると言うのです。それもなぜかよくわからないのです。胸騒ぎがするものの、この災害が起こってからはそちらの方も心配で２重のショックに体調を崩すほどでした。

月曜に母が入院し、木曜の今日母は帰ってきました。主治医と話した義姉が今朝やってきました。
”胃ガンが再発しリンパがかなり腫れてるらしい。抗ガン剤は一生続くけどそれも高齢やから体力なくしたり食べれへんかったらどんどん悪くなる一方。もうこれからは元気なうちにやりたい事だけやらしてあげるしかないし、迷惑かけるけどお願いします。母は元気やし治ると思ってて何もわかってないけど”との事。その時は冷静に聞いてたものの、義姉が帰ってからは谷底に突き落とされた気持ちで涙があふれました。

しばらく、学校が休みだった娘が横にいてくれて泣いてる私についててくれました。息子も帰省していたし全部聞こえてたでしょうけど、２階にあがってしまったので泣いていたのかもしれません。

娘が冷静に”泣いてもしゃあないやん、今できる事やるしかないやろ。津波で亡くなった人みたいに
突然でないだけましやろ”と言いました。”でも成人式は絶対見たいっておばあちゃん言うてたから
そこまでは絶対生きててほしい”と涙声になって言いました。

気をしっかり持たないといけないのはわかります。高１と高３の受験前突然亡くなってしまった祖父母の時は泣く暇もなく大変でした。これから私にはどんな悲しみが待ってるのでしょうか。

息子も遠くにやってるから学校を変えようかとも思いましたが、娘と息子のダブル受験の時何か起こったら本当に大変なので悲しいけど息子には遠くで頑張ってもらう事にします。

災害などで亡くなった方や家を失った方に比べたら全然ましな方かもしれません。
ただ今まで普通に皆元気で仲良く暮らせてたので、今の状況が受け入れれないのです。

今私には何が出来るのか考えています。してもらってばかりで何もしてあげれてない、ただ京都から滋賀に帰ってきてすぐそばに住んであげた事くらいしかしていません。
胃が３分の１しかないので普段からほとんど食べれません。義父は義母がすぐ治ると思って外に
元気に働きに行ってます。ラブラブな夫婦でいつも一緒に畑に行ったり旅行に行ったり、軽トラで
買い物行ったり、1人欠けたら大変ちゃうのって村中の人がいつも心配していました。
とうとうその日がやってきました。

今日は1日泣いていたのですが、たまたま英語仲間の主婦友達とスカイプで話し少し元気が出ました。そして娘が”思ってる事をためないで何かに書いたら”と言うので、日記に書く事にしました。
私はとってもいくじなしです。今まで4人の元気な親に助けてもらってばかりいてこういう日の事を
想像しようともしなかったし考えないようにしていました。まだ頭が混乱していて何をどうしたらいいか困っています。義母にはまだ会ってないけど（今日はこのあたり大雪です）会ったら泣いてしまいそうで怖いんです。いつまでも落ち込んでるわけにはいきませんが、何とか気をしっかり持ち直したいのです。

被災した方には何も出来ず後に少々ではありますが義援金を送りたいと思います。自分だけ暖かい所でご飯も食べれる状況にテレビを見てると苦しくなってしまいます。
今は子供が家にいてくれそれが何よりの支えです。普通がいかに幸せな状況であるかを感じます。

しばらくこんなテンションが続くかもしれませんが、何とか頑張りたいです。
暗い内容でごめんなさい。英語で書けたら良かったのですが、何時間もかかりそうなので日本語にしました。お許し下さい。