I'm looking for a sewing class!

I'm interested in sewing, especially embroidering for one of wedding stuff right now. This is funny because I didn't like the sewing when I was a junior high school and a high school student. I had a quite bad grades in domestic science such as sewing and cooking! So I've thought that I was very awkward when it came to making things. I was super clumsy with my hands!!!

I think I changed my point of view after I made a pair of mukluk three years ago.
I found a nice sewing kit of mukluk at the store in Tsiigehtchic and started to sew. Ladies were surprised at my sewing because they didin't expect the Japanese girl sew muluk and felt warm affection for me. They taught me a lot how to sew and that was really nice experience for me. I even joined their sewing class with my mukluk. We had some hot tea, sometimes eat some sweets, and chatted a lot in the evening! I had really fun sewing at that time!!

I hope I can find a sewing class in Lucknow. It might be really fun!

Will you sing the national anthem?

I found this news story last week. It's about our national anthem.


"'Kimigayo(Japanese national anthem)' directive violates freedom of thought, court rules.

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 12.03 million yen, or 30,000 yen each, in compensation to 401 teachers who objected to a city directive obliging them to stand and sing the national anthem at school ceremonies."


The guidelines for teachers were set by the education ministry in Tokyo, which says schools must fly the national flag during official ceremonies and that teachers must lead the students to sing the national anthem.
Some school followed the guidelines and fired the teachers who didn't stand and sing the anthem few years ago.

Does our national anthem obstruct teachers and students freedom of thought? Well...I don't think so.
The judgement is something wrong. The guidelines disturb thier freedom, that's all...don't they?

I'm proud of my country, and feel like that I want to hand our culture down to posterity when I sing Japanese national anthem. Currently, there is not so many opportunities for us Japanese to straighten up and think our culture. So I think it's good thing to sing national anthem, of course it's not good way to force people to sing though....will you sing your countries national anthem?

A nice flower arrangement for my parents.

I went to the flower arrangement class today. I've been interested in flowers since I was in my twenties...but finally! I found the nice class which is near my hometown!

Today's class was the secound round for me. I feel that I arrange flowers much better than I used to.
I hope I'm not mistaken my judgement!

I wish to make a nice flower arrangement for my parents at my wedding party in Tokyo next May, because May 26th is also my parents wedding anniversary!

My mom has looked after my dad for 4 years since we found his cerebral illness. She has devoted herself single-mindedly to her husband. I am deeply grateful for my mom's effort. Also, I have great respect for my mom. My dad can't speak or express his thought any more, but I'm sure he thanks to her, too.

I would like to be a wife who is like my mom.

Fish! fish! fish!

Today, I went to the Japanese cooking class. Today's menu was ...split and broiled sardines with a special sauce, pork miso soup, and barbecued eggplant with a special soi source. Yes, I splited raw fish with a kitchen knife by myself like a fish shop staff!

I realized how often us Japnese people dress fish, cook fish, eat fish! Japanese people do it very naturally. Mothers taught how to cook fish to their dauthers, and that was Japanese traditional in earlier times. (But mordern Japanese young people generally don't know how to cook it, including me though...) Eating fish is surely part of Japanese culture. And I'm proud of it as Japanese. I think that's why I got use to the native people's fishing life in Tsiigehtchic quickly.

Since I decided to move to Canada, I've felt that I need to know how to make Japanese food. I've started to make a list of some Japanese spices and foodstuff which I should take. And I added some dry small fish and shrimp on the list today!

Something very special.

Dear my friends,

Well, this is my personal note. Today I have something very special to inform you of.

I have recently engaged myself to Dan Koebel whom I met in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., Canada. I'm sorry but it's embarrassing to begin to talk about my engagement one by one, so I chose this way.

Currently I work for a camera manufacturing industry as a Website director in Tokyo. But I'll quit my job at the end of the year, and start my new life in Lucknow from the begging of January 2007. I can hardly wait to live with my fiance and his little son!

The wedding was set for the 29th of April 2007. We are looking for the site around Lucknow. I wish you would attend our party!

Lucknow is a nice small town which is what I want. It takes three hours from Toronto to Lucknow by car. Please drop in on us when you come our way.