The weather is getting cooler here in Sendai and a beautiful autumn has started in Japan. I know Minnesota is noted of beautiful tinted autumn leaves, and in Sendai, the best time of autumn tint is about the end of October.

I apologize for my slow response to the messages sent from American penpals.

Fran,
I sincerely appreciate to receive your personal mail. I read your Enblish mail by using a dictionary, but I am unable to directly respond you in English due to my limitted capacity. So I express my grateful regards here in this program. As being able to take spare time in the New Year Holiday season, I will practice to write mails in English.

Bernie,
We are exactly pleased at your trip report to Italy. Even in the translated-in-Japanese report, we can understand how you enjoyed the trip. The translation is being done well by Ms. Kadowaki, one of the SCNS member.

Jean,
Thank you very much for individual messages for our Japanese penpals one by one.

Well, I represent a group of "Computer Salon" of SCNS. We have 33 members, half of them are women. I arrange the regular meeting twice a month, and manage to carry the meeting as frankly and actively as possible. Also, we have computer classes for seniors two days a week ( 4 classes), and I am coaching 2 classes.

The above activities are all done by volunteers. The Computer Saron group is sustained by 32 capable people like Ms. Kadowaki.

I used to love a relaxing life style as reading books and doing houseworks. But, after learning computer, my life seems to get busy and busy.

By the way, I have a web site created by myself. The web includes some pages of information offering and essays related to senior society.

Please let us know the URL of the web sites if you all have so that I can challenge to understand it (them) even written in English.

I think this gets longer than expected.
I will close for now. Yoko