August 17 A while ago, I organized my smartphone display for the first time since I bought it more than a year ago. It was filled with a lot of unused applications, so I decided to uninstall most of them. Now, my smartphone display is much easier to watch because of the reorganization.

September 4 These days, I've been torn between going back to my hometown on 9/15 and 9/18. I'm supposed to take a vacation from 9/14 to 9/23. My Japanese friend who lives in Canada is supposed to be back to Tokyo temporarily, and planning to organize a hike with some of our friends on 9/15. Meanwhile, My brother in my hometown is off work on the same day. I've already booked a flight bound for my hometown on 9/15, but it's possible to change the flight date to 9/18 with cheaper additional fee than any other date. It seems to be difficult to meet both the friend and my brother this time. I will make a decision within a few days.

August 24 Today, I'm off. I was originally planning to binge watch some videos on Netflix, but I changed my plan and decided to go to a library to study English. As I'm supposed to take an English exam next month, I took a workbook for the test and worked on it. After an hour, I felt bored and left my desk for the other section of the library. Then, I found a nice English reference book by chance. The book title is ｢イメージでわかる表現英文法(VISUAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR EXPRESSION)｣. I think I'm lucky to find this.

August 22 Now I'm on my way back to Tokyo from Kyoto by express bus. A while ago, the bus stopped at a service area of highway, and we had a short break. I got out of the bus to go to a restroom, but I almost got lost when I tried to come back to the bus because the service area is big and I have no sense of direction.

August 18 Yesterday, I went to Akikawa Keikoku(秋川渓谷) with my dorm friends and some people from another dorm. It was my first time to visit there, so I felt excited and enjoyed comfortable atmosphere of the place. Most of the time, we played in a river or had a BBQ by the river. The place was so crowded with many family and young groups. As the sunlight was strong, my body got heated whenever I was out of the river. Bathing myself into the river was so comfortable since Japan is in the middle of hot summer season. Boiled meat, onion, carrot, corn, green pepper, etc, were yummy. I could meet some of my old friends. It was such a nice day. However, I had two bad experiences. Firstly, I twisted and sprained my right ankle in the river, so I cannot walk well now. Secondly, my body surface is aching because of the sunburn. Now I think I should have been more careful of myself, but I'm satisfied with the visit to the place.

August 10 Last weekend, I climbed up Mt. Fuji for the first time in two years with my dormitory friends, ten people in total. We left for our dormitory at 13:00 for the fifth station of Mt. Fuji, and reached there at around 18:00. After wearing trekking shoes, headlight, gloves, and so on, we set off to the sumit at 19:30. Since it was a night climbing, I was able to see a lot of beautiful stars in the sky. Given a chance, I would like to take pictures by high resolution camera (for now, I don't have it, though). As I got closer to the sumit, my heart got started to pump fast. I think it was caused by high altitude. I felt like throwing up, but I was barely able to reach the sumit without vomiting. When I reached the sumit, I could not say anything because of joy and exhaustion. One of our companions told us that he would never join this climbing event again because it was too hard for him. In my case, I also may not join this event for the next few years. However, I really did a nice experience.

July 13 These days, I've been busy for searching for a new job because my current work contract is supposed to be over at the end of this October. A few days ago, I received a message from an technical college which needs a new staff who has decent English skills. I had applied for the job opening of the college, and it turned out that I would be able to take a job interview there. I was excited and the next day, booked a round trip tickets for an express bus which goes to a prefecture where the technical college is located. Wish something unvisible power will lead me to the right path.

July 3 Today, when I was commuting to my workplace on foot in the morning, I found a funny yellow character bag being carried by a woman on her back. It would be nice if I could find the same character goods in a shopping mall or somewhere. I think a person who came up with that design of the character is really genius.

June 30 It's been raining here in Tokyo since yesterday because now Japan is in a rainy season. This is supposed to last more than a week and I'm sick of it. I miss sunny days. Speaking of weather, I heard from my Filipino teacher that Manila, in the Philippines, has faced water shortage these days. I was a bit surprised to hear that because in my image, the Philippines is always full of water due to many tyhoons which emerge from the big ocean surrounding the country. Now I miss sunny days, but probably the people in Manila miss rain. It would be great if we could control daily weather at least only in emergency.