There is my favorite shop in Portland, "Anthropologie." I love that shop because they have really cute clothes, tablewares and so on.

The outward appearance looks pretty. If you go there, you would see a little of painting on the outside. After you entranced, you would see a lot of lovely clothes. The attention part is unique design and high quality of cloth. If you touch it, you would feel very soft. And also there are candle and hand cream which have sweet smells. I especially like the hand cream because it's not sticky. After I used it, my hands feel like really smooth.

The place excites my five senses so much. Now I really want to go there!!

Do you care about your weight? I know that's very important for a large number of women. Let's talk about that topic today.

I just started to diet few days ago because my friend said "You need to diet!!" I know I gained a lot of weight since I came here. I think many American people don't care about other people's looking but a lot of Japanese people do. So it's time for me to lose weight to go back to Japan.

We have a lot of ways to diet in Japan. One thing, I know the big difference between USA and Japan is supplement and medicine. American supplement is too strong to Japanese people. One of my friends who used American supplement told me, "American supplement is very strong. When I used it, my heart began to beat fast." I can think of the reason because a lot of American has strong body and they eat different food from Japanese people. So when I take medicine, I am very careful about that.

I think the best way to diet is exercising and eating vegetable. I think taking supplement is dangerous because some people very rely on supplement. Taking too much supplement causes addiction.

Please be careful when you use supplement and medicine!!

Eating tomatoes is very popular to diet in Japan. I want to try it someday although I have to eat 6 tomatoes a day...

3.11.2011

The earthquake happened in the Tohoku area of Japan. That gave us a shock. It was not just the earthquake. We also had a tsunami and radioation accident. A lot of people were lost their life.

I feel sorry for the people who suffered by these disasters. Maybe I shouldn't say anything about that because the sadness is really deep for them. But I might be able to say a little thing as a person who had a big earthquake in the past. Though it's very difficult to forget, it mustn't be forgotten because if we don't remember this sad memory, we wouldn't be able to advance in the future. This problem is for every people. We have to think about it for tomorrow, naxt year and all future.

I really hope that every thing would be better as soon as possible

It's my grandma's birthday today!! Happy Birthday!!

I hope she will live at least 30 years.

Let's celebrate the 100th birthday after 25 years!!

Love you,

I'd like to write about my favorite music today.

I used to like most of the music. But now I especially like country music because the sounds are not hard to listen. And It makes me relaxed.

I didn't used to know about country music before I came here because it's not very popular in Japan. Especially young people don't know about it, I guess. About 3 or 4 years ago, Taylor Swift was on Japanese TV show. I was surprised when I listened her song because it was really new music for me. That's why I had never listened the sounds of the particular musical insturements for country music. I really liked it as soon as I listened.

I am very curious about a lot of country music. So I'll get some country music before I leave here. If you have favorite country music, just tell me!!!!

Thanks a lot!!