farewell garden party

I was officially invited to the farewell party of my American friend who is going to be an English teacher in Japan soon. Many people came there. Most of them looked old. I met a couple of Japanese who have lived here in the U.S. almost half a century. Even though their English speaking sounded not better than mine,they said they have brought their children up well. It was an interesting meeting.

Learning Mandarin

Because I have to drive an hour to commute, I listen to a Chinese lessen downloaded into my Walkman while driving. I've figured out Chinese tones and vowels, those of which were a little different from what I thought though. Yet, because some grammar is similar to English and some word order is similar to Japanese, I'm getting understand how to speak even though I have no idea how to write and read without Pinyin. Once understand the system of a language, it's gonna be more fun for sure.

The internship

I have been doing an internship at an tech company in San Francisco. A good thing of American working style is, unlike Japan, people don't work overtime if unnecessary. Especially on Friday, some worker leave the office after 3 - 4 pm. It's impossible for workers in Japan.

Kiraku in Berkeley

I went to Berkeley and study for a day. I met my Japanese friend who is in Ph. D program in Berkeley. We went to a Japanese Izakaya restaurant and talked for two hours. It was nice meeting him again.

Con te Partirò

When I was at Starbuck, I happened to listened to this song. I like it bud don't know where to get this song...

Helping moving

One of my friends is moving out from the old apartment. Some other friends and I helped his moving. He rent a big truck of PENSKE. Moving from his apartment into the truck took for a half of day.

After that, we went to an Italian restaurant and join dinner of English department members. It was a good night before my friend's leaving.

worst jet-lag

I've still been suffering from the jet-lag. It's the worst one ever...