I arrived in Voncouver in one piece!

I arrived in Voncouver in one piece!

After loooooooooooooong waiting in a short line in the immigration office in Van, I finally managed to get workpermit in Canada and checked in one tiny funny hostel.

It's much warmer than I expected and the downtown of Vancouver seems to be as small as Auckland's. I am not sure how long I'm gonna stay here, but at least I'll move out from this hostel soon, due to security reason. Moreover, it's too far from DT to go there.

It was such a long day. so.... good night!

Farm ladies

Well, here my house is located in a very high place..... so just a few glass of wine were good enough to make me drunken! Hahaha! Yes, it could be said Oyo is drunken. Anyway, though I had many things to write on, as time passed other new things happen.... that's the way, ha???

I'm having very enjoyable days here in rural area, Nagano. Sometimes I go shopping, sometimes I go out with my doggies, and sometimes...... I do Wwoofing!

In fact, this small village is so old and small, that as with always the case with Japanese traditional... oooops, to say exactly, with a depopulated village, mainly manpower here are of ... the elderly persons'.

But their energy is more than we imagine. What makes me surprise is... their rich wisdom. My mon is such an instant farmer that she does know very little .... yes! we need helps from our landlady, who is one of the greatest women in this village. She knows almost everything about this small, but old village, and her experience as a farmer is ...... beyond description!! She knows who are key persons in this village, when is the best season for each veges, what are of the best use when we do farming. This afternoon, I and my mom became her agriculture pupils and started to harrow our ground.

So..... hopefully, that might be enough reason to allow me to take a hot nice bath and got drunken. :)

Good night!!!

Most of events were over!

After spending 5days in Tokyo, I came back home & brought myself back to reality.

I had very very good time in Tokyo with many of my precious friends. I stayed with my brother's house and also had such nice time with him.

I have too much things to refer now.... well, good night!

Happy & peaceful days

I heard it snowed in eastern part of Canada. It must be freezing there, just like here, Nagano!

Well, I'm having very peaceful and happy days with my mom and two doggies.

I have to admit that I am anything but diligent, because I haven't even started what I should do before I go to Canada. Well... that's what is called "survival language"..... very very basic French expression. Actually the friends I want to see in Canada live in French Canadian region, so if I visit them, it might be useful to know some basic French. What makes worse, I don't study English at all after moving in this rural place. My excuses are .... "Here is too slow!" "Many things are waiting to be done.... " Haha !


Anyway, I am enjoying country life in Japan now. After I quit my temporary work in the end of February, we had to prepare for moving, and my mom was also busy with her last job. Finally, most of things were settled in lately, and we could have relaxing time these few days. Due to sudden death of my best friend's mom, I keenly realized the importance of treasuring my family, especially my dear mom, so I feel I am in one of of happiest times of life now.

I am very looking forward to spending different life in Canada, but life with my family now is special as well.



I'm going to have "NZ-Reunion" in Tokyo tomorrow. I can't wait! :)

Sad choice

Again, I haven't blogged for a while.

Many things have happened to me, especially last week..... The beginning was one shocking news.... I was informed that my best friend's mom passed away so suddenly last Monday. I, my mom, my brother and his wife went to Utsunomiya, where my best friend live, and had a nice time chat with her mother last summer. I'd heard quite a lot about her mom and got to know that she and my mom have very similar background in their life, and actually their taste and thoughts about their retirement life was just alike. For these reasons, they seemed to enjoy sharing their dreams and actually, they were already good friends, like me and my best friend.

So, just after I got this sad news, I booked highway bus and rushed to her house last Tuesday. The situation was harder than I expected, because not only sadness was there, but also many difficulties were happening to her family business. I tried to help her out , but it didn't take so long for me to realize that there are limits to what I can do for her.... Well, of course I know I can do some helpful things for her, but..... this could go on forever.... I already decided to go to Canada and am in preparation. If I give up to go, I'm not confident of this choice... maybe someday, I might regret this decision. I really would like to keep our precious friendship, and at the same time, want to make the most of every minute with my own mom before I leave Japan, therefore.... I stayed with her for a few days and came back home now.


All I can do now is.... May her soul rest in peace, and wish that my friend will recover from the shock of her mom's absence.