My childhood friend

Today I met my childfood friend.

She lives in Tokyo...but today she had a day-off and came back to her parents' house.

We have in common...she is also working as a nurse.

She is interested in child nursing.

So she went to Tokyo to become a child nursing specialist.

We talked about our nursing....

We lives in different place...but we have same challenge and feelings.

We've been good friends since we're a elementary school students.

Thare are no secrets between her and me.

I spent a great time with my friend and her family.

This is a photo of her hometown NAKATSUGAWA which is in Gifu prefecture.

It was so cold today...in NAKATSUGAWA,it was snowing so much!!

Everything was colored white...it was so beautiful scenery...

wwiTV.com

Nowadays I often watch TV programs on wwiTV.com.
Here is the adress...
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

wwiTV offers cable TV programs of all over the world!
So I always choose English programs and watch it.
I like DISCOVERY CHANNEL and LOONEY TUNES...It's so fun!

A big pleasure.

On this week, a female patient who can't speak Japanese is hospitalized in kidney disease center...here is my working ward.
She is from Peru...and now she lives in Miami.
So she can't speak Japanese at all..her mother tongue is Spanish and she can also speak English.
When I saw her first time,she looks so nervous...she was worried about communication with the nursing staff.
She has a sister who lives in Japan...so her sister visits her everyday.
She has to take several examinations during her hospitalization...so they always go to the exam room together when she was called for exam.

I'm studying English now!...so I tried to talk with her in English.
"Good morning!"
"How is your condition today?"
"Do you have any symptoms?"
I'm not good at English pronunciation...but she understood my questions and answered with smile.
"I'm fine....I have no symptom,but I didn't sleep well yesterday."
...I was able to communicate in English! I made it!!
And then I tried to talk with her in English everytime.

My English helped a patient...I can't tell you how happy I am!!
I'm determined that I'll be a fluent English speaker in the near future...

FreeRice

I found a very interesting website " FreeRice"
http://www.freerice.com/

There are some questions of English words.
If we answered questions in FreeRice, we can donate some grains of rice for hungry people.
Wonderful!!

I'll improve my English through this program...

solved one problem.

...I've just received a calling from my mom.
She said "Why didn't you come home?"

My mom always take care of granma.

I told her honestly that I was worried and sad about my dad and granma.
She said,"Your dad doesn't hate your granma...probably he like her.But he can't express well his kindness to granma.And granma doesn't worry about it.You know,now she's an opportunist..haha.If you want to get along with dad and granma, you should come home.If you're not home,probably our family relationship will be broken!!"

...My mom is great.I'm sorry...
I'll go home next my day-off...

I'm not lonely.

Today I went to my teacher's house with my childhood friend.
He was the teacher when I was a junior high school student.

Recently I've been worried a lot of things...e.g.human relations at my office,my family's relationship...So I'm not willing to go out nowadays.Because I'm easy to cry if I remembered these things.

In my parents' house,there're 4 people...my mom,dad,granma and grampa.
My granma is sinile old woman...so she can't do everything by herself.
She needs someone's help if she want to eat,take a bath and even walk...
My father is always irritable with her.He avoid to talk with and swear her...They're real mother and child...What's happend?Why?
My family have a custom that all my family eat dinner together delightfully at every last day of the year...but the day of last year,we didn't have a fun...I was shocked..

I love my family...but I hate this relationship!
At first I planned to go my parents' house during my 2 days day-off.
But I canceled my plan...because I'm so sad at this situation...

Anyway, when I ate lunch with my teacher,his wife and my friend,suddenly he said.
"Tess,I can't see your aura...when you're younger, you have a great aura...what's happend?"
I'm so surprised..and then I cried.I talked to him all of my problems.
And he said,"Now you're in a bottom of your life...so you can't dive more. You can only rise to top of life!"
He saved my wounded mind.

My problems are not solved at all...but I 've gotten a courage to face my problems.

There are no problems which you can't solve...it's a trial for your development.
I believe this word...

Happy new year!

Greetings for the new year!

Today I went to Atsuta Jingu(Atsuta Shrine) with my colleagues.
It was so crowded...
I always wonder where have people sprung from when I came hatsumoude(hatsumoude means new year's visit to a shrine).

This year will be my turning point.
Because I'll quit the hospital where I'm working...and I'll move other hospital.
I have to set my future vision.

To tell the truth, my vision is cloudily now...
I have to choose my pathway.
But I believe my road will run to the bright future!

I hope this year will be great and wonderful year for everyone!!