From now on, I will frankly speak to everyone of the pen pals with at-home feeling.

Well, the other day, we had the third time class meeting of our junior high school graduates after 3 years. One of the classmate, who joined the meeting after 30 years and looked for familiar faces kept in memory 30 years ago, was surprised by the big changes of the classmates, and looked at each other for a while to recognize who they were. Where has all the rich hair gone ?

Bernie, welcome back ! As you have so many and wonderful memories, you must be in the mood of stayng in Italy.

Though you worried about us at the latest earthquake in Japan, Sendai and we are fortunately all right. However, Mt Oyama in Miyake Island, belonging to Tokyo Metropolis, erupted heavily , and the majority of residents in the island moved to shelters in Tokyo city.

In addition, about 10 days ago when a typhoon approached, most of the persons staying there for protection of lifeline facilities left the island, too.

Today, the photos of the damage taken from the plane were televised, and I felt the great deal of fear for the natural disaster.
Reiko.