REUSE!

It will not be long before next year!
In Japan, it is time to clean rooms! I cleaned my room and car today.

We cleaned our study room the other day. The dumping ground of our school was covered with heaps of rubbish. I found some things from the heaped trash. One of them was very big rucksack for climbing mountains. It was broken a little so I repaired it using something in my lab. They are a plastic chopping board, some bolts & nuts and a sewing kit. The improved rucksack must be stronger than before but a little unshapely.

The other things were a mouse and a tennis racket. They were not broken and not so old. They are enough for me.

Japanese culture before seeing in New Year
The object made of some bamboo and pine tree is “Kadomatu”. It was put outside the front door of my home now. It is said that it is the mark when the God of this year come our home and the place that the God dwell. The object was given to my dad by his friend.

I wish you a happy new year!

ChristmaSnowboard!

I snowboarded in a skiing ground, Fujiten, near my city with my friends in my lab for 3 days, Dec. 22, 23, 24. This skiing ground had Christmas event that gave us free lift tickets for this 3 days only if we wore clothes like Santa Claus! It was the best event for me because I had no money and no girlfriend and I was able to practice snowboard as hard as I could. Actually, there were a lot of families and couples and so many Santas were skiing. Incidentally, we bought the Santa cloth by about $4 in one coin shop. How cheep it was! We were able to enjoy it so much. Two girls in second photo spoke to us on the lift on the first day and asked us to snowboard with them. They were so talkative, loud and cheerful. Finally, we snowboarded with them whole day. Their dad thanked us when we went home.

Christmas is also one of the biggest events in Japan. Now, everything is Christmas, Christmas, Christmas! Many shops are decorated with so many lights and illuminations of some parks are very beautiful there are couples who are dating and families who buy presents for children.

Recently, some normal houses became to be decorated with so many lights! Some of them are competing with each other for illuminations. Sometime some people go to the area to see it because it may be more beautiful than some decorated parks.

However, my family thinks Christmas is not so important. My mom bought nothing but Christmas cake in our friend’s cake shop yesterday because she likes it very much and we just ate it but my dad didn't because he doesn’t like so sweet cake. For my family, Christmas is only for my mom.

Some of my friends seemed to have a good time with their girlfriends. I envy them a little but I don’t want to think so. I am writing my article and my thesis form now and I want to finish them as early as possible and go to snowboarding!

Did you have a good time in Christmas day?

The 9th Eco Products 2007 - Eco Style Fair

I took part in The 9th Eco Products 2007 in Tokyo Big Sight to see various news of Eco Products with my friend on last Saturday. The hall of Tokyo Big Sight was so large that I was sometime confused and lost my way.(^_^;) There were so many booths of various companies and organizations and a lot of products and thinking for our ecology. Example, eco-car, FCX, of HONDA, PRIUS of TOYOTA and biomass energy, organic products, wind and water electricity and so on.

I was impressed with technology of superconduction. Applying it to a train seems to have initial cost and running cost pretty low and applying superconduction element to computers seems to be able to consume lower amount of electric power. I think these technologies may be more and more important in industrial world. My company, FANUC, is also no exception. We had better improve the existing technology, products and systems for care environment as a company on the earth.

There was Earthwatch booth so I went there and gave the staff my photos of Walking with Rhinos because I was supposed to furnish them to Earthwatch.

There was the booth of hand-made chopsticks so I tried to make my chopsticks. They were unshapely, too thick and not so good but I’m going to use them when I take a meal in my laboratory. The mark on one of chopsticks is Japanese and means Eco. In Japan, disposable chopsticks are frequently used at many restaurants and they are made from woods. I don’t know details about disposable chopsticks but there are two thoughts, one is that disposable chopsticks is bad because using so many chopsticks causes consuming large quantities of wood and destruction of forests. Another one is that disposable chopsticks is good because they are made from scrap wood when timber dealers saw up logs and using them is to make good use of scrap wood. I think both are right. Anyway, I should use everything as well as these chopsticks with care.

The friend who is next me is Yumeko. I met her in Dubai airport when I went to Kenya. Then she also went to Kenya to take part in Study Tour and seemed to go to Massai village, Kibera slum, Elephant orphanage and so on. She is so nice and cheerful as well as interested in care environment and volunteer work. She invited me to take part in this exhibition. The wall behind us was made from so many milk packs and the booth was recommending us to recycle them.

The last photo is my eco bag. I got it there. Do you have eco bag? Eco bags are for shopping at supermarkets and it is for to reduce CO2 as well as shopping bags made from oil. It is recommended in many places in Japan but few people use it. It is not enough, I think. I want to make eco bags that have the mark of our snowboard team, Snowbird.

The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics

There was "The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics" on last Friday. My friend and I took part in this as public speaker. What I presented was the influence of that clamping force of screws gives fracture healing in plate fixation for diaphysis fracture. My friend’s presentation theme was "Comparison of 2D analysis and 3D analysis on the femoral trabecula distribution".

I was nervous because there were so many people in the room that we presented those in. Almost of them were medical doctors as well as much older than we and strict. We managed to present about our study in that. Doctors of orthopedics might be not so interested in our study because there was no question that I thought important. I thought doctors were interested in practical methods of clinical tests or advice rather than simulation of bone remodeling for fracture healing or trabecula distribution. So we should consider about how to use this simulation technique with medical doctors who know about clinical test well.

There were a lot of presentations that day. They were about total hip replacement, artificial knee joint, fracture, tissue, rehabilitation, sports biomechanics and so on. They sounds very interesting but we was unable to see all of them. So, we saw presentations about only orthopedics and talked with medical doctors then we got some hot information, some advice for my study and some clinical problems of implants and operations. We should have keep in touch with medical doctors more. I thought, if I had known about those advice or problems two years ago, the direction of my study must have changed a little and my study might be more useful. I regretted that a little. I will study along the advice as possible as I can from now and tell about that to my younger friends in my laboratory.

There was lunch seminar in which one professor explained about operation of total hip joint with special machine. Some movie of tests were aired, cutting skin and scraping bone… It’s gross!!! In that, doctors were eating normally!

I’ll be busy. I have to write an article and a thesis and analyze for them. In addition, I want to snowboard!

Your preparation of Christmas is good?
In Japan, though almost Japanese are Buddhism, so many people observe Christmas with their family, girlfriend or boyfriend. So couples may be busy to plan the special day but I don’t have girlfriend. I’m free! I don’t have to plan. But I’m a little lonely. Maybe I’ll drink with friends who don’t have a girlfriend! No! I just have to get a new girlfriend by Christmas.

This photo is main stage not us. I forgot to ask someone to take pictures of us.
Next photo is a small party in my lab last week. The friend is traveling Taiwan now!

Fuji Safari Park

There was a year-end party of soft volleyball team on Saturday. Everyone enjoyed singing songs with a Karaoke! Karaoke culture seemed to begin in Japan. Do you have a karaoke? Are you used to sing a song with a karaoke in a party? Almost of my friends likes a karaoke.
I found the guy who paid $300 for our drinks. He was my dad. It’s very nice and a little disappointing. I didn’t expect that because he usually doesn’t appear in my friends as well as meddle in my activities. I found he agreed with my activities and appreciated him very much.

I went to Fuji Safari Park on Sunday with my friends. I was looking forward to seeing lions because I was unable to see it in Kenya. We were able to see many kinds of animals as well as lions there but lions were the most impressive. They had so fearful face and made me remember the bone of lion’s face in Morani’s protected area. There were white rhinos but not black rhinos.

Rugby game

November 23
I went to rugby stadium of Tokyo to see the game that my younger friend took part in as a rugby player with my friend. He the player is a student of university of Keio. University of Keio is one of the most intelligent private universities in Japan and so famous. The opposite team, university of Waseda, is also intelligent private university. The game has been famous in Japan. So the stadium was crowed with so many people, OBs and students of these universities. Thanks to my younger friend, we were able to see the game from seats that were so close to players and cheer for him. We were disappointed because my friend’s team lost the game 0-40.

You seemed to enjoy Thanksgiving Day. In Japan, we don’t have Thanksgiving Day, but we have Labor Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, as a national holiday. The holiday looks like your Thanksgiving Day but the origins are different. Our origin seemed to be that so old emperor in Japan thanked their grain in so old time.
There are 15 national holidays in Japan. Japan seems to be one of countries that have the most national holidays in the world. In addition, there are so many small memorial days but they are not holidays. Almost of days in a year are memorial days of some kind. Japanese people may like memorial days.

Example :Nov. 11 (11/11)
We have 17 memorial days in that day.

1. World peace day
　The day the WW1 ended.

2. Peanut day
　The time we can get peanut and peanut has 2 beans like 11.

3. Socks day
　Socks are always pairs, like 11.

4. Salmon day
　Japanese word that means salmon looks like 11.

5. Bean sprouts day
　Bean sprouts look like”1111”.

6. Chimney day
　Chimney looks like”1111”.

Continue…

It is worthless. I don’t know almost of them. (^_^;)

Hiking in Akiyama

My friends and I hiked the ridges of mountains around my local area, Akiyama, on Saturday. It was so fine day but so cold because winter is coming.

It was so hard for me to hike this course because it has a lot of uphill and downhill in addition I had sprained my ankle last week when I was playing soccer. So I challenged this hiking with bandaged my ankle.

Almost people who took part in this hiking were very talkative. We talked and laughed a lot during this hiking. It was so fun. My friend’s father said, “Walk zigzag in mountains”. So we followed the advice and walked zigzag. Then we realized that our life is similar to climbing mountains and a wise remark. It’s “Don’t take a shorter way in mountain climbing and your life!”

I made a guidebook for this hiking remembering hiking when I was a schoolboy. This picture is the front cover of it. I also made the theme of this hiking. It was “Beautiful and historic scenery in Akiyama”. There are so many small mountains in my local area. They are turning red or yellow. These are very beautiful and walking in such mountains is very nice and makes us feel so good. We enjoyed seeing beautiful views.




Akiyama, my local area, is enclosed by so many mountains. In the old time, our ancients had to go through mountain paths to trade with nearby villages. We walked same ways. There were old walls made from stone and we could feel the feelings of our ancients. Now, we have tunnels so we don’t have to go through such mountain paths and we were unable to see such historic things without hiking like this.

We also went to the mountain called “26 night mountain”. In old time, it was said that our ancients used to pray to moon’s god for health of their family, good harvests and no disaster and so on at night on July 26 every year. It was interesting that the people praying were only females. I also prayed with our palms together there for health of us!

However I caught a cold yesterday. I have a runny nose. Why? Maybe playing too much?











Last two photos are my friends who is examining with pig’s femurs. There are too many bones. It’s a sicking sight a little. He is studying about “Bone Fracture Healing Assessment and Application to the Osteoporosis Diagnosis by Impact Testing”

Trash pick up

We picked up trash along the main street in my village on Sunday as Youth organization of Akiyama. The theme was “Let’s change aluminum cans for money and donate them to our community!” It was so magnificent as well as long. About 10 people attended this event.

I don’t know if your countries have a custom that is to change aluminum cans for money. In Japan, everyone can do, but almost of people I know don’t do and don’t know about this. So this attempt was fresh and interesting for us.

I wrote two sentences to put them ahead of cars with my brush. You can see two papers that my friend is holding. The left one means, “Let’s pick up trash and donate!” and the right one means, “It’s what I can do” in Japan. Another photo is the chair that had been thrown away under a bridge so we hauled it up.

Our village has two tunnels. Around them, there is a lot of trash because there are not houses at all. So we went there and picked up trash well. It was terrible. It was too much trash to pick up in one day.




After picking up, we separated aluminum cans from all of trash. I took them to a recycle company to change aluminum cans for money. The company looked like a normal house rather than a company. I got 420Yen, about 4 dollars. The money was so little but so worthy for us. We have to be careful about how to donate and what we should donate so little money to. Personally I wanted to donate our elementary school. However I think it is too little. Maybe we will put it in a collection box in a convenient store.

We went to usual bar after we finished. We ate so much food and drank so much but it was very cheep because someone had paid money for our alcohol. I don’t know who he is. Only master of the bar know him. He paid about 300 dollars. It’s very expensive and he has a big heart. I think we should perform activities more responsibly because there seem to be so many people seeing us and hoping we work well.

Even so, alcohol of 300 dollars is too much. That meant one person drank 30 dollars because there were 10 people in a bar. Don’t worry! I didn’t drink so much!

The last photo is "Teruteru Bouse". I made it in hopes of being good wheather before the day. So it is a lucky charm of wheather in Japan. Do you have such a thing in your country?

Latest weekend

Saturday, November 3, 2007
My friends and I made some new boxes for winter. We like to snowboard and organize a team, Snowbird. We made them hardly with several machines from the morning. In the lunchtime, we went to famous restaurant. We ate curry, drank a beer and gossiped. It’s adult time for me. I hope we would spend such a holiday in future.
Finally we worked until 8 p.m. with some right and made 4 boxes! They were very tough but very heavy because they had a lot of wood. So we can’t feel free to carry them too heavy. (-_-;)
It was a full and adult holiday.
Next time, we are going to make some rails with welding machine! This photo is one of my friends and the lightest box.











Sunday, November 4, 2007
I went to school despite a holiday because there was a school festival. One of my friends belongs to “Kadou” club. “Kadou” is the art of flower arrangement of Japan. So he displayed his work. We went to see them with a camera. They were very beautiful and artistic. These photos are his work and him.





















After that, we did tasting wine a lot for free because my university develops some kind of wine and grape is specialty product in Yamanashi. It was delicious! (^_^)

I will tell you about Halloween in Japan because Arla asked me.

What Halloween means? It is American culture? Or it is a function of Christianity? I don’t know about real Halloween well because we don’t Halloween. However, I have heard about Halloween recently. Now, many people who have their shops started to put up decorations in their shops and tried to sell some goods that were associated with Halloween. Probably normal people in Japan don’t know when it is and children don’t go around their house then. So Halloween is only a business chance in Japan.

I thought why Halloween don't spread among Japanese people. In September of Japan, there is “Tsukimi” like your Halloween. “Tsukimi” means a night with a full moon. Almost of families decorate Japanese pampas grass and Mochi and so on. You know Mochi because you ate in Kenya. When I was a child, we used to go around our neighborhood at the night and say, “Please give me moon”. Then they gave us some chips. For me, I used to go to 60 houses and get two big bags of chips. The origin of “Tsukimi” is that ancient people prayed for a good harvest.
This photo is a general decoration.

In anywhere, you know, it is important for children to do such events. As for me, not only I was able to know my neighbors through such events but also my neighbors knew me. So we certainly greet each other whenever we meet. We don’t have to lock our house because we trust each other. In addition, one of my neighbors sometimes takes in our laundry and folds it. I want to try to keep this environment.
Unfortunately, Now, there are nothing like such an environment and events in big cities in Japan.

Soft volleyball

It is so warm and humid like Japanese summer because 20th typhoon got through Japan.

There was a tournament of soft volleyball near Mt. Fuji, yesterday. Soft volleyball is sports for very large range of generation. It is so easier than real volleyball. So lots of elderly people play this. We played 7 games, so there were 3 games in the morning and 4 games in the afternoon. The results are not so good and not so bad, 4 win and 3 defeats. We enjoyed all games very much regardless of won or lost. I am not good at Soft volleyball because I started to play it since August of this year. My friends give me a lot of advice while a game. I appreciate them but it is too lots, and I am sometimes confused and blunder, in addition I can feel free to ask them some questions. So usually games we play are noisy and funny. We often involve not only spectators but also the opposing teams. I like it, delightful atmosphere. After the tournament, one elderly people said to me "I like watching your games, thank you." It was absolutely compliment for me.


There was "a party" last Saturday. Two friends and I went to a bar. The party had 2 men and me I knew and 3 girls I didn't know. One of my friends invited them for a dinner. You know, such a party is a chance to find a girlfriend or boyfriend in Japan. Of course, at first, we said each other "Nice to meet you." Then we talked about works, studies, hobbies and so on. They have same hobbies. They seem to do tea ceremony. Do you know tea ceremony? It is traditional manners when you drink Japanese green tea. In addition, another hobby is to wear Kimono. Do you know Kimono? It is Japanese traditional clothes. Now, such girls are very rare and interesting but a little strange for me. I was able to drink and talk then. Maybe this was first time and last time to drink with them. (^_^;) Let's go next!!!

Bruce emailed me about his life from Uganda! He sounds good! However I heard a bad news. It was that Lucky Dube was shot and dead by someone in Johannesburg, so sorry. There seems to be the most dangerous city in the world. Bruce loves him and his songs. He knew all of his songs and sometimes sang them when we were doing a campfire in Kenya. You may not know Lucky Dube. He was a singer in South Africa. I knew him in Nanyuki and got his CD there. In Kenya and Africa, almost of people know him who is very popular because he sings about discrimination and slave and so on. His songs that have very strong massages also impressed me. I often listen to his songs in Japan. They make me remember our life in Kenya. "Different Colours One People"

Busy Friday started!

My disease was cured. So I started to drink and exercise!

Friday morning
Usually, I have a long meeting in my lab Friday morning. We, students in my lab, have to explain about our studies of a week to our teachers and friends.

Friday afternoon
My friends and I play football in my school for 2 or 3 hours. It was rainy and cool a bit yesterday but we played outside because I got better. We practiced football. I did enjoy it! However I didn't know if my friends enjoyed.(-_-;) As you expect, we got drenched to the skin and got muddy.

Friday evening
I got home by train. It takes about 2 hours to go home. The time in train is rest time to get over physical fatigue for me because I am supposed to play football at 8 o'clock in my local area. It was raining hardly on the night. So we played in a gym of my high school. It was very dangerous to play there. The floor had too good grip. I have sprained my ankle some times before.

Then I got my new electric dictionary made by Casio! My friend sold me a new dictionary which he got as a gift in summer festival and he don't use it. So it was very cheap. The latest electric dictionary is too nice! It has 86 dictionaries about Japanese, English, life, health care, hobbies, computer, business, travels and several languages and so on. It includes too many dictionaries and functions. Of course, there is a heavy manual but I do not want to read it. I will learn by doing like studying English! (^_^)
After that, we went to a bar in Hashimoto city near here and drunk until 4 o'clock! I had a delightful time to talk with waitresses as well as my friends.

This morning
I felt pain in my feet! Surly gout?
Don't worry. I found sudden hard exercise made me feel pain. So it was muscular pain!

About Kenya:
After our project, I went to Nairobi airport by taxi Sep. 19 to go home.
I was puzzled in the airport because I didn't know how and where to get new tickets. Then one policeman let me known where to go and helped me write a paper to get tickets kindly. However, I thought it was too kind a bit. As expected, after he finished to help me, he said "Give me money!". I was unable to believe my ears, "Are you Kenyan policeman?" I asked. I said "I'm sorry. I don't have money because I am a student." and he returned without saying.
I don't know if Kenyan policemen have enough money and I don't know if it is culture of Kenya. However I think such an action may stand in the way of the development of Kenyan tourist industry.

"Konnichiwa!" One man spoke to me there. It means "Hello" in Japan. He, Kelvin, is from Tanzania, 28 years old and He has been to Japan once for business. There were 2 men, Ahmed and Shaikh, with him. They are also from Tanzania. At first, I was afraid of them because there had been a trouble of Kenyan policeman, in addition I had heard from Dixon that Tanzania was very dangerous place. but he tried to talk about Japan he know hardly and they were friendly to me and talkative. So I also asked them many things about Tanzania and told them about Japan and me. I told them that I had left my dictionary there because I wanted to find it. Then they helped me to find it kindly and hardly but finally we were not able to find it. However, I had a good time with them by Dubai. They was going to go to Dubai for business. Their job is to import Japanese old cars to Tanzania. Kelvin told me that he liked his job because he was able to go to many countries and see many things and many foreign girls! I envy them so much!

Weeding for winter

I cut the weeds a field that had a lot of weeds with my friend yesterday. We sonwboard in the place sometime when the snow piles up high in my local area. We used weeding machines. There were too many vines grown well there, the area was so large and we were not used to using the machines. So it was very hard to weed.There are some boxes or items my friend made several years ago and made from woods.

Unfortunately, they were broken. So we must make new boxes to play with items. At first designing!

I will go shopping to look for materials to make mobile boxes! I want to bring them to mountains we usually go to!

I hope we would have a heavy fall of snow!

The following photos are "before", "after" and "my friend".

Athletic meeting in Akiyama

It recently have got a little cool in Japan. Autumn have started. So streets of my school smell strange because maidenhair trees take their ginkgo off.

There was an athletic meeting in my local area yesterday. We attended it as Youth Organization of Akiyama. We not only helped preparation but also sold Yakisoba, juice and Rakugaki Senbe.

Do you know Yakisoba? Yakisoba is one of Japanese foods, like noodles without soup. Japanese Yakisoba is shown in left photo. It is not Yakisoba we made because I forgot to take a picture of our Yakisoba. It looks like our Yakisoba very well but I think our Yakisoba is better taste than its Yakisoba.

There were not any stalls in the athletic meeting by now. So it was risky for us to sell foods there because all costumers didn't know our stalls and brought own lunch. However, They bought our Yakisoba a lot because it is hot food, good taste and very cheap, I think. We were very busy and had no time to have a lunch. People with yellow T-short in photos are my friends. Do you remember the T-short? I wore it in Kenya.

Do you know Rakugaki Senbe? It is chips for children. You know Senbe. I brought it in Kenya. Senbe is traditional Japanese food and made from rice. Rakugaki means to feel free to draw something. The following is explanation of how to make Rakugaki Senbe. At first, we give children a Senbe whose size is big like a notebook. They feel free to draw something by several brushes with sugared water. After they finished to draw something, we put colorful sugar on the Senbe. So colorful sugar was fixed on only wet area. The stall also was busy with many children.

We went to our favorite bar after the Athletic meeting to have "a evaluation meeting". We enjoyed our time there as well as had dinner and drunk. Then, all of money we had got was gone. We spent all of the profit before we thought this year. (-_-;) I think now I should have donate the profit our community. We will do next year!

By the way, I did not drink in "a evaluation meeting". It was not so hard. I found that I was able to enjoy drinking party without alcohol.

About Kenya:

You know my essential tools in Kenya. Those were a notebook and a pen. Now they help me remember details of life in Kenya. I tell you about Kenyan adulteries. I asked Vincent about them when we were walking around there September 4. Kenyan adulteries similar to Japanese. Someone do and another one don't. He said that Nairobi has a lot of disease but here is very safe. I asked him how many time have you ever done. He said "uh..., one, two, three..... I don't know." Finally, he said that I necessarily use a condom.

Blood examination

I went to a hospital near my school yesterday because toes of my right foot has swelled up since I came Japan from Kenya. The result of my blood examination was that my blood had much urea. So I must not exercise snd drink. Oh my gosh!!!!

Life in Kenya (Sep. 2. 2007 ~ Sep. 20. 2007)

I went to Kenya as a volunteer to participate "Walking with Rhinos". This expedition was a project of Earthwatch and to protect Black Rhinos. This was my first foreign travel.
Driving from Nairobi airport to Fairview Hotel was surprising for me. There were many guards who had big guns. Our taxi was very old. There were many Japanese used cars and many walking people who may not have a job. Fairview Hotel has very heavy security and is very beautiful.

Unfortunately, I found that I left my dictionary and my pen case at Nairobi airport. I asked a store keeper at Fairview to sell a dictionary. But I couldn't get it because there was not a dictionary in a big bookstore in Nairobi. I said to myself "Take it easy." Now I think I didn’t have to be so anxious then because my team members and staff in Kenya were very kind to me. It was too busy to use a dictionary because you explained me with easier English and body language as soon as I was unable to understand. You are my good English teachers! I could have a good time. I appreciate you.

We left Fairview hotel to Sweetwaters by microbus Sep. 3. 2007. Then I thought the way to Sweetwaters was very bad and had many holes but I think it very well in Kenya now. Some people didn’t wear shoes. Many children looked at us and waved their hands. They were very cute. In Nanyuki we met Geoff who is our principal investigator. We bought something there. It was very first time that I negotiated with Kenyan salesmen. They were very aggressive. It was interesting that they negotiated each other to take me their shops.

I appreciate Geoff because he was very friendly. For this expedition I was able to ask him about conservancy of wildlife and Kenyan culture. Then he answered me kindly with easy and slow English. Other staff was also friendly, kind and funny!

Dickson is a head of our kitchen staff. He and I drank in his house every night. He is Massai tribe. So he told me about his family, Kenyan people and Masai culture and gossiped about other members. These were very fun. One night he said me. "Be happy all the time!" I want to keep these words in my mind when no matter how hard I am.
Chris is one of our staff. He likes wildlife. He seems to want to be an expert of wildlife. He taught me very nice English words when I picked a trash behind main building. It was "Thank you for care environment." I like this one.

Vincent is one of our guards. He seems to like talking and laugh all the time. I asked him about Kenyan or his adulteries. These were same it in Japan. By the way, I can’t say whether he is right or not!

James is another guard. He was so kind and friendly that he explained me about wildlife in the field. His body language was very nice.

In Sweetwaters Tented Camp, Chris invited me to a bar for staff. Beer is very sheep there! Bruce is one of Uganda guys. He can open a cap of beer by his teeth. He was very strong. Then Chris introduced his cousin to me. She was very cute. Regretfully, I could say "Nice to meet you." only. I was shy boy.

Masai village was the most imposing for Community day. Especially, Masai children were very cute and looked happy but no shoes, no pens, no note. I think we have to avoid the case that they can't choose in future. Their mom said me "Give me 10 dollars". This may be current condition in Kenya. There seem to be a lot of things we can do. I gave a girl a pen and note. She wrote something with a happy look as soon as I did.

About field works, I like measuring tree! Height! Diameter! Ants, red red black! Next bearing! I like this rhythm and to find tags which were lost. Tank you, Judy! Your help made me free. So I could take a movie! I will make a movie from now.

I was able to enjoy this project with you so much as well as go through rare experience. This experience must have influenced me. Thank you everyone!