I am still in Gunma although I planned to go back to Tokyo last night. I try to relax myself and relieve my body from a fatigue. One way to refresh myself is Onsen, spa. I love to a Roten Furo, a bathtub located outside. I enjoy myself by looking at trees and landscapes and breathing fresh air.

I also love to play horse racing. The beauty of horses attracts me. Meantime, by betting money on horses, I concentrate on picking horses that may win races. Things like work, personal problems, and so on, are vanished during the time of races. By thinking about something else, my mind is refreshed. Last week, Vodka, the strongest female horse in Japan won the Yasuda Memorial, 1600m Turf! In last 100m, she made a spurt and passed all male horses!

I worked extremely hard in two days. I fell in sleep without turning off the light. Oh my god! I was really exhausted. Anyway, I've been recovered by sleeping long and deep enough. For human, sleeping is the most effective way to heal a body and mind. Today is another day to challenge something new!

A picture on the left is a ceremony in Tokyo Horse Park after Yasuda Memorial Race. A winning jokey, Yutaka Take, Yukina Kinoshita, Golgo, Red, Mieharu, and ex-femail jokey, Junko Hosoe jointed in the center of a padoc.

Things sometimes go wrong, but it's rather safe.

This week, I am in odd passage of time. I gain no profit, but lose nothing. I feel like that I am trapped in the middle of nowhere. In two years, I lost much. What have I gained in two years? Considering a situation with a chain of loss from 2007, I rather feel happy about it! The passage of time may be changed. No gain makes me feel sad, it is rather safe!

Today is another day to make things better. I know that I should not regain things I lost in two years. What I just need to do is to gain something new little by little.

Countryside

I am in Numata, Gunma! I drove a car from Tokyo to Gunma in 1.5 hours last night. Numata, the north part of Gunma, is surrounded by mountains such as Akagi, Tanigawa and others. The contrast of landscapes between the center of Tokyo and the northern Gunma stimulates my feelings and emotions everytime I come here.

I used to live in a countryside although I was born and grew in Tokyo. I lived in Nakajo, Niitaga for two years. and Tabuse, Yamaguchi for four years. Both towns have the population of about 30,000. I love a countryside maybe because I often visited my father's home village when I was a child. It is a small village with less than 100 people.

Today is another to enjoy the landscape with many mountains!

Sleepless Night

I recently have a hard time to sleep in the night. I feel uncomfortable to see bright light sneaking through curtains on bed. It is a biggest issue that I must make a change. Gradually, it harms my health.

The lifecycle is one of the most important thing for human beings to manage his or her physical and mental conditions. Although I know it, I still struggle to finding a way to solve it. Today is another day...so, I need to try something to fall in sleep in the night!

What am I gonna write about?

This is the second day of writing blogs in English. I usually release two articles to Ameblo in Japanese everyday. So, I feel a kind of running out of ideas. I believe that the most important thing is to keep trying, so I just write something here at this point.

I may find some themes to write here the sooner or later. I tell myself that this is just the second day. Even though I do not know what to write, I feel some content just to type in Enlish. It reminds me of old days in the United States as a student. I read so many books and wrote a number of reports!

I just finished setting up this blog page. It's been a quite long time not to try to write in Enlish. I studied hard in an American university over fifteen years ago. It was very hard time for me to comprehended the worldwidely most-used language academically. Out of school, I also struggled in understanding slugs and common expressions often used in everyday's life.

I here started writing a dairy in Enlish. I may miswrite sometimes grammatically and misspell very often. I believe that the most important thing is to touch with this language and keep trying something that enhances my possibilities for a future career.