Today was a lenghy day. Well, but it may be OK because I had been too busy these days.

Firstly, I wanted to go for having my hair cut. It was over 2monthes ago that I had it cut last time, so recently I have been annoying the length of my hair.

That is how, I went to the barber with a little pleasure.
But, what I witnessed was...

"CLOSED"

Are you sure('§Õ')!? Oh, goosh.

Taking my heart, I went to Buildig22 as usual.
Today's purpose was to look over studying abroad.
The application in University to study abroad will start soon. So I made up my mind to begin research. The result was...

It ended for 10 minutes.

aahh, this was unavoidable!!, yeah maybe, because I ran acrross to my friends in class after a long separation. Although I didn't intend to talk for long time, it was already 16:30 when I noticed.
Well, but it was fun to chat about many thing such as school, clubs, friends, studying abroad, and romantic relationships

After that, I went meeting of MUN@Waseda.
It finished with moderate results.

And after that, we shot off fireworks at near park lol.
The impression was that
The season of fireworks is very summer!
Today was too cold even to say fireworks for summer evening!
After we finished fireworks, we spent time in lenghy.


Now, I'll go to barber again, and I'll make my hair clean-cut!

The reason is that Autumn is coming and I wanted to change the air

Besides, this is easier to read than before, isn't this?

Even though I'm having trouble of research, today I have no time to write long article.

So, that's all!!
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It seems difficult to go back to home tonight for research.

While research, I found an article that scratched my mind.
That is Special Report of the World's billionaires by Forbes.
According to that article, there are 691 billionaires in the world. Oh, to give a supplementary explanation, BILLIONAIRE means those who have fortune more than 1 billion U.S dollars (it amounts about 110 billion yen). And the richest person among them is Bill Gates. It is said that his net worth is nearly $46,5billion. Incidently saying, GDP of Vietnam is about $40billion.
The most surprizing thing for me is that Forbes says the net worth of these 691 billionaires is...
$2,2 trillion.
Incidently saying again, GDP of United Kingdom is $2,1trillion.
Huhh, the world is quite strange!!

Now, 1,2 billion people are living a day less than only $1. Now, 800 million people are suffering for hunger. Last year, 10 million children died because of hunger or desease or other avoidable reasons. Last year, nearly 3 million people who were infected with HIV died because they could not get medicine.

UNDP says that we need $50billion in next 10 years to improve these tragic situations dramatically, in other words to achieve Millenium Development Goals.

Well, I don't know whether we have the solution. However, I feel that we don't need miracle, much less God's salvation, but just our steady efforts.


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I can't wait to borrow it from someone, so I bought it!!(>§¥<;)




Well, this was worth buy. Viva Mr.Children!!

¡ØI ♥ U¡Ù contains 4 songs that have been released already, they are ¡Ø̤Íè¡Ù ¡Øand I love you¡Ù ¡Ø¥é¥ó¥Ë¥ó¥°¥Ï¥¤¡Ù and ¡ØSign¡Ù. Although they are very nice ofcourse, original songs of it are also wonderful! Especially, ¡ØWorlds end¡Ù is great!
The words of ¡ØWorlds end¡Ù is so true for me that I was really impressed(>_<)

Ohh, I'm getting addicted to Mr.Children again!
Recent songs of them make me to think many things really deeply.


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Today, I saw off my senior in my club. She will study in Washington University for 1 year.

Come to think of it, it was her that explained me the activities of MUN for the first time at the day of entrance ceremony...It was also her that advised me on study and activities of MUN.
I can say that I owed my survival in Spring Semester to her.

Now, that is how, I really appreciate her help. But sendoff seemed to be very simple(this might be because that I saw off her at Nippori station, not at Narita Airport). It was as if I said Good-bye at the end of a day. I had a quite strange feeling.

I wondered why I was so.
I also wondered that I'm simply cold-blood.

But now, I have another answer. That is, because we can get in touch with each other very easily though the physical distance between us is very long.
Reading web-log, we can know what he or she is like. Or using Skype, we can listen voice. Or using messenger, we can easily communicate each other.

Thinking it like this, I won't feel it is lonesome so much.

Well, in brief, I think that now is a very nice time.
In conclusion, I wish her success of Seattle life and her good health.
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Today's topic is a little cheerful.

Today, I spent most of my time on picking up and helping exchange students as an activity of wic. My work was to receive them in Shinjuku Station, and to take them to their dormitory.
I cared for 2 exchange students. Their name are Sharhariyor, and Irwin. Both of them are really nice persons.

Sharhariyor is from Uzbekistan(!). He appeared from Narita Express wearing suit(!!) and leather jacket(!!!). ¡Äeven though today was cool, wasn't he hot...? But he is very modest and he called "Suimasen" and "Arigatougozaimasu" repeatly lol.
Ah, YOU ARE JAPANESE!!?(>§¥<;)

When I picked up Sharhariyor, there were no problems. However, when I picked up Irwin, there were several troubles.
Trouble.1
Because of blunder of contact with those who were in Narita Airport, we didn't know the number of car which he got. Narita Express has 10 cars....fear was coming.
Trouble.2
After all, we lost him when the train arrived at Shinjuku. Generally speaking, it's impossible to find only one person at platform of Shinjuku for only 3 people. To find him, we went out separately to search for missing him.
3 people were running through Shinjuku Station side to side in earnest¡ÊÇú¡Ë.
Security guard men must feel us very suspicious lol.
Trouble.3
After 15 minutes runnning, we finally found Irwin.
Yeah, we were about to think that the story concludes happily.
HOWEVER, what appeared in front of us was enormous bggage.It was sooo big that we wanted to asked him "How could you bring it here from Narita?"

Although it was hard, picking up them and helping them was quite enjoyable. Thinking I will(hope) study abroad like them, I got a close affinity with them.

Incidently, I got my score of TOEFL in August today.
The result is 200
(this is CBT based. if PBT, it amounts 530)

Honestly, it's pretty difficult to decide whether it is good or bad. Anyway, the company said that my score of September would be better, so maybe this is indifferent.

Well, vaguely, today was the day that encouraged my motivation for study abroad

Yeah, I knew it a long time ago, I knew. But these days, I feel it very keenly.

When I laddered two training camps last weekend, my poor capacity caused many troubles...

Everyone who got troubled, I'm very sorry of it<(_ _)>

Ahh, though it is said that next semester will be much harder than last semeseter, will I be able to manage all tasks? It's my present big concern.

Or simply am I summer lethargy?
As I wrote before, I made myself to act excessively hardly
That may curse me now.

When we got summer lethargy, what should we do?
I don't remember, so I would get glad if you told me that

I wanna develop my capacity!¡Ä¤Î³¤­¤òÆɤà

Today's topic is serious, Poverty.
Encouraged by Masataka, I'm writing my opinion.

Yesterday, Human Development Report 2005 was published by UNDP.(ÆüËܸ쳵ÍפϤ³¤Á¤é) It mainly discusses dissolution of unfairness, reform of international trade system, and security.
Since world leaders adopted Millenium Declaration, we have made efforts for poverty reduction according to Millenium Development Goals, and indeed the tendency to emphasize poverty reduction has been getting bigger.

HOWEVER, can the world really accomplish the goals?
Few of my friends know MDGs ITSELF, and even those friends don't know the CONTENTS and MEANINGS of MDGs.
Without understanding the problem, how can we solve it?

As I wrote last time, Katrina killed thousands of American people. Many people and victims must feel sad and ask THEIR god for help.
However, how many of them know that their government are making dicisions which will interrupt actions for poverty reduction, and may kill millions of people in result?

Thinking about such things, I feel very hollow...


The first step is to know the truth.
Despite now is the time to act specifically, many(or perhaps almost?) people have not made even the first step. It's quite regrettable for me.

I earnestly hope that All people make the first step.
Where is answer?¡Ä¤Î³¤­¤òÆɤà

Today, there was nothing speciall to write here.

¡¼end

...I seem not to get away with it, though I wanna finish. So I'm writing miscellaneous thoughts.

­¡About this blog
Through last Summar Training, I found that some members of Waseken(MUN Waseda Branch) read this blog, but they are hesitate to write comments saying "It's annoying!"
Well, should I write in Japanese? Hmmmm...

­¢About typhoon¡õhurricane
Maybe because I don't access any media excepting Internet, I didn't know details of disasters well.So I was surprised by the width of disasters.
In America, thouands people died, and oil price may raise over 100¡ð/1barrel because of the damage of Katrina.
In Japan, the 14th typhoon will pass over Kyushu area, and a lot of transportations seem to stop.
In China, about 60 people died because of flood and avalanche of rocks and earth.
Ohhh, is the idea, that more disasters including earthquakes than before are happening in all over the world, just my fancy?It is fairly ironic that many disasters happen now, when human-being are flourishing sacrificing environments of the earth, isn't it?

I confess that my last article includes many mistakes(>_<;) Sorry. The thing is, I was tired!
Today's miscellaneous thoughts¡Ä¤Î³¤­¤òÆɤà

I'd gone to Okutama for Summer Training Camp until today.

Above it was really fun for me, it was valuable for thinking about many things (including my dairy things).
It is impossible to write down all of what I felt, so today I'd like to write what I felt strongly.

[1] The most surprising thing
One of my seniors, who was in charge of all, was extremely late for appointment time. We had to wait her for over 2 hours!!
When I asked her to tell the reason, she answered,
"I missed the airplane for Haneda yesterday."
...WHAAAT'S THAT!!? It was quite unbelievable for me.

[2]The most interesting thing
It was a romp playing with water for me. Although many of us are adult and didn't have swimwears, we played with water and got wet completely.

[3]The most regrettable thing
I missed to listen a love-story because I got asleep at that time. Despite that I made a great deal of efforts to listen it, I missed critical chance!

Hmm, that's it for now.


PS
I don't like ghosts.
Summar Training Camp of MUN Branch in Okutama¡Ä¤Î³¤­¤òÆɤà

Well, my renewal pace is quite slow

I wonder writing in English is a bit too difficult for me after all? Hmm....

Now, August had gone without my notice, so today I'd like to summarize my events in August.

Aug.4 Drinking all night with crawl Incidentally, I threw up 3 times at that time.
Aug.8¡Á11 Training camp of International Sypothium for Students. It was really interesting though extremely hard Total sleeping for 3days was only 7hours...including 2vigils.
Aug.12 Travel for Nagoya
Aug.17 Travel for Niigata
Aug.19&20 Drinking and Karaoke all night again with my friends in Niigata. I ate BBQ 2days in a row for the first time.
Aug.24¡Á26¡¡progress2005
Aug.27,28 I stayed up all night 2days in a row again because of nightshift and meeting of sympo
Aug.30 TOEFL

Hmmmmm, I am reallly unhealthy I had stayed up all night 6times in August!!

Everyone, please be careful for your health lol.