Apr. 8th. I like singing. When I was a child, I was a member of chorus group which TV station had. My mother asked me if I want to had an audition for it. It was because I like music. I said to her "Yes" of course. After passing the audition, I had many opportunities to sing in front of audiences. These experiences made me feel confident by myself, and good memories. Now I have taken voice training. It is for not classical but American pop or musical. I rather pop music than classical one. My teacher told me to open my soft palate over and over again. I was surprised because I'd never been taught to do that. But when I opened my soft palate, it was easy to sing. Besides my English pronunciation became better. I definitely found out English native speakers and Japanese are different how to use their mouth when they speak each own languages.

Apr. 7th I have taken English lessons once a week for 6 months. My teacher is a Japanese woman who had lived in Canada, and took TESOL. She has over 10 year experience as a English teacher. She lives in Japan now. But it is far from my house, we communicate together by Skype. The most fantastic thing of her lesson is repeating sentences I learnt. For example,she taught me how to use "you'd better going, you'll be late" at a lesson. And then I had to memorize this sentence by sound material she sent me. At next lesson she did a test I can use this sentence. This sentence appears at her lessons many times. So I became to use it naturally. Recently I memorized many sentences. I am happy to understand some sentences when I watched TV dramas and movies in English. Her lesson motivated me to use English.

April 6th I usually take trains to commute to my office. There are a lot of people in a train. Some of them are students in an international elementary school They are chatting with friends in English. I sometimes listen carefully to their conversations because I want to learn English:p All of them are carrying bag packs on their shoulders. Its look so heavy. Its maybe bigger than junior students. I wonder what are the bags inside. Anyway it gets increasing international schools in Japan. And recently Japanese public elementary schools start to have English classes once a week. It is clear Japanese government strengthen children's English skills.

April 5th. It's been 3 years since I had worked for this company. I like my work and coworkers, and got a raise from April. But I am a temp,and I want to work as a regular staff. So I started to look for a new job. My priorities of my job searching are... The first is a job as a regular staff. The second is office location is easy to comute. The third is a job using my experience. I think it is the time to go on the next stage.

Spring has come It is already April. Time goes fast, right? From April, a lot of thing are beginning here in Japan. New students enter in schools and new employees join in companies. Our devision has two new people from this month. It is international business development devision. We export our product overseas. One is new employee who had studied in Ireland for a several years. He are energetic. But he doesn't know about trading work. So his mentor began to teach him our work. The other one who was overseas worker. She had worked in USA branch for a year. After term expires, she came back to Japan head office. Although she joined our devision for the fist time, she are familiar with our product and trading. She became PIC of shipping to USA, started working from 6:30am to 3:00pm according to USA time zone. I got new influence from them.

Tue. Nov. 18. I went drinking with coworkers the last night. It was a very good time. They came to Tokyo from the Kansai area in Japan. We have a meeting once a week via TV conference system. Even though we met each other for the first time, became friendly once we met.

Fortune telling My friend lent me a book of fortune-telling. It tells that my fortune of this year is the worst in 30 years. Kazuko Hosoki(a Japaneses famous fortune-teller) tells the same thing as that book. But I am happy to get a lot of chances to learn about new things this year. I look forward to next year because both of the books predict that it will be the best year for me!!

My earphone was broken I listen to music or English education material while in commuting to my office. But my earphone was broken, I can’t hear sounds from left side of it. The earphone is only one year old! I was bored the commuting time, and have to get new one as soon as possible.