Favorite TV Show I really like "RuPaul's Drag Race". This TV show is a kind of competition like "American idol". The all participants are "Drag Queen" . One of them eliminate every time even if she is "a famous local queen". I like to watch people who work hard for their dreams. The participants in this show always make efforts to their dreams. Sometimes they lose their confidence, but they try to change their mind and to have confidence. Most of them had hard time when they were young because they were different from other people. But they believe themselves and try to remain as they are. It's very important thing for our life whether man or woman. And I love RuPaul's phrase of the end of this show. "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else." I think I need to love myself for myself.

Find a job. I work at temporary staff as assistant to get results to use English on the job. But my job is easy and boring for me, so I try to find a new job. I always have a lot of time, but current company doesn't give me other tasks. I thought I would want to change my job by the end of this year, I told my agent about it. My agent said that I should change my job on Sep or Oct, because new position would be appeared. And he said current company that I would like to finish my contract on Sep. The company accepted it, but my agent haven't been showen me new jobs! No way! And then, I started to seek a new job by myself, but it is hard because of my age. For woman, almost all advertise for job said "You don't have to work over time!" or "If you have a child, it's OK for us.". I don't care of those and I want to work hard. So I can't find a job to suit for me. And also, my career is not enough for many companies. My listening skill and speaking skill are still low. It's my fault.... Anyway, I can't enjoy my holidays!

Plan for summer holiday We would plan to go "Koshien" when a high school which my husband graduated won the first game at Koshien. Do you know Koshien? Koshien is the name of baseball stadium, but the baseball games which take place there for high school baseball players every summer were called "Koshien". My husband's high school played at this tournament for the first time in11 years. But we decided not to go there. When I met my younger brother to visit our family grave, he said this tournament was very popular and we couldn't get the tickets. And he said that we had to stay at hotel previouse night and to line up at Koshien before 5 am to get the number cards. When I came back home, I checked the web site of Koshien with my husband. We found that all tickets were sold out at 6 am. And next morning, we found that all tickets were sold out at 5:30 am. So we gave up to visit Koshien... And then, we changed our plan and visited Hakone. We ate a beaf stew, took a walk and stopped by cafe which we can use a foot bath at. I had a Matcha latte and my husband had beer. The foot bath was really good and latte was delicious. Next day, we went to watch the exhibition for goldfish at the museum. Those goldfishes were drawn on acrylic resin. They were lively and so beautiful. This artist is mainly painting goldfish. I was surprised that a lot of people lined up to get a ticket. Here is his works. http://goldfishing.info/works/25d_painting/resinworks/ We couldn't go Koshien, but we spent a wounderful time.

Using Japanese My coworker who came from Malaysia asked me to check his Japanese sentences today. I felt weird, so I asked him for the reason. He replied that his boss ordered to improve his Japanese. And his boss said that it was very important to use correct Japanese in business. But we are global company! Our HQ is in Europe, we are just Japan branch! CEO in Japan branch isn't Japanese and a half of senior management team are foreigners. His goal which is later this year is that he uses Japanese basically and he uses "correct Japanese" in the office! No way! I returned him correct Japanse sentences with following sentence. "I have tons of complain to your boss, but please check the following Japanese." After that, he sent me some messages. His document in Japanese could pass through to check by his boss. I don't know why his boss forces him to use Japanese. It's too nonsense.

Movie review: Last Knights I saw this movie today. This movie was shoot by Japanese director, Kazuaki Kiriya. In the overseas review, this movie is boring and not surprise story, but it is easy to understand for Japanese people because this story is based on Japanese famous story in Edo period. I was suprised that Tsuyoshi Ihara was in this movie, because Netflix didn't give credit to him in the movie info. He was originally an action actor, his action scene in this movie was really good. When Kiriya was struggling to make this movie, Morgan Freeman said to him "I have been worked with many type of director, but you are OK." What he said cheered up Kiriya. This episod is really beautifule. I like his taste of color of his works. He was a photographer, so he is good at color control. If contents of his works (plots or story lines) become to be good, I think his works itself is more better things.

Our CEO Our CEO will leave Japan. I haven't had a lot of chance to work together, but I miss him now. He is always very polite to employees and works hard. He always smiles even if he is super busy. All of us are missing him. We plan to have a farewell party next month. I want to do something for him, so I will assist to prepare the party. I feel during this preparation that a lot of people really like him.

My shoes Someone went away with my shoes in the Tofu restaurant. When we left the restaurant, I was aware of it. Those shoes was same brand with mine, but color and size were different. My shoes changed from navy blue to sky blue after lunch. I think the suspect was one of two ladies who were in the same Tatami room. They were 4 people; a Chinese woman, a white man, a Japanese man and woman.  A white man told about sake of Tochigi and a Chinese woman was interested in the way to make Tofu cuisine. Finally, I left my cell phone number at the restaurant and I came home with "new" sky blue shoes.

Preparation for Global Meeting We are going to have a global meeting on Mar, so we have been preparing from last Dec. It's my first time of preparation for global meeting. I search for a venue for welcome dinner, search for special experience for team building, choose muffins for the meeting, and ask my boss to decide menus for lunch! And I have to arrange the hotel booking, check the flight of participants, also check their allergy, and arrange the transfer from airport to hotel. We have a lot of things! So I have to write many English email to assistants of participants. But it is good experience and good training for me.

New Years Holiday I didn't enjoy New Years holiday in this time because holiday was too short. Japanese people are usually very busy in the end of the year. We have to cook special dishes called Osechi and Zoni, clean up our house, buy new underclothes for New Year, trush the oldest underclothes, buy a decoation called Oshogatsu Kazari and prepare Soba for the night of New Years Eve. We can spent time for ourselves after it comes New Year. But I had only three days holiday in this year! I couldn't watch movies, couldn't do knitting, couldn't read a book and couldn't study English! But I recieved the result of TOEIC test of Dec. My score was improved about 20 point. So I'm happy now!