Since tomorrow I will fly to Indonesia with my niece. It is the first time for her to go abroad. I will support her to have the first wonderful trip. At first, I supposed that I would take her to Bali to feel sightseeing hot spot, but her mother said to me she did not need to go to sightseeing area. It is a kind of study trip!!! OK, This mean I should be a teacher for her. Before I have stayed in Indonesia for 3  years, so I can speak Indonesian little bit. I need to pay attention to the safety life there especially a child. One is food poisoning, the other one is a dengue fever.  Therefore, I have told her how to protect herself from those dangers. This trip must be challenging to her because no parents, different weather and culture and some infectious diseases. My purpose of this journey is that she wants to come back to Indonesia in future. I do not know soon or later or nothing, but hopefully we can spend there without problems and seeing her big smile many times. This trip must be challenging to me also as a uncle and nurse.

8.16　Book Review　”　JORINDA AND JORINDEL 　”

There is an old castle in gloomy forest, and a fairy lived in there. This fairy changed her style whatever she wanted. She was interested in beautiful ladies. If those came into the forest, an old woman changed those into birds and put into cages. There were already more than 700 cages in her castle. Jorinda was a beautiful woman, and her boy friend was Jorindel. They went to the forest as taking walk, but they lost the way to go home and getting closed to the fairy's castle. Jorindel was really afraid of it.

One day, he dreamt a purple flower to save his girl friend, Jorinda. He looked for the purple flower in a forest for 9days, and finally he found out it. He plucked and brought  it as a safeguard into a court. When he went into the court, he saw many birds singing in cages. It is about 700 cages. He thought it was tough to find out Jorinda among them. However, eventually, he saw Jorinda by calling her name. The could go back home and lived together for a long time.

8.15 The golden bird chapter 1

The oldest son still did not come back to his hometown, and the second son set up to look for and catch the golden bird. He also met the fox in the forest as the same as the first one. The fox gave the same advice to him, but he ignored the fox 's advice in the town. As a result of it, He could not come back to the village. The youngest brother were ready for going to find out the golden bird. The fox waited for the youngest son in the forest and said to him the same suggestion as the previous boys. The youngest brother kept the suggestion of the fox and stayed in the shabby hotel. Next morning, the fox came to see him and told about the way to go to the golden bird cage at castle.

He went into the castle and saw the golden bird. However, he did wrong things when bringing the cage of the golden bird. He was caught and sentenced by the judge. He had a chance to bring a golden horse which was as fast as wind. Again, he made mistake to bring the golden horse. He was offered to take the beautiful princess to the king. it seems to be the last chance to his life.

Regarding Japanese Yogo teacher.(school nurse)

 I would like to mention about a Japanese Yogo teacher which is the same as "school nurse" in America and other European countries. What are the differences between the yogo teacher and school nurse? The most impressive job contents of the yogo teacher is to give an educational approach to students. A yogo teacher gives an injured student an educational knowledge, attitude and behavior to prevent the same accidents. Some students have a tendency to be disappointed with their wound. A yogo teacher encourages the student to have a confidence to him or herself. Additionally, a yogo teacher shares the cause of common accidents to other teachers and related people to pay attention to the accident prevention. Amazingly, those job contents are systematized by low. Thus, yogo teachers give an injured student a first aid, mental support and coordination to other staff to improve the environmental safety.

 These days, some students from elementally school to university have mentally problems, and a yogo teacher is expected to work as a main staff to take care of those by giving counseling to themselves and making arrangement to see counselors.

Book Review(2015. 8.12)
The Golden Bird

There is a great king in certain country. He loves his garden, especially an apple tree. This tree has many beautiful apples. The king is really interested in growing of this apples to eat. One day, the king knew a missing apple in the tree. He asked a gardener to monitor the tree to avoid being stolen by someone. Gardener's son was monitoring the tree, when a golden bird came to pick up an apple from the tree. He shot an arrow to hit the golden bird, but it did not hit the bird. One of bird's feather fell down on the ground. He bought it to the king. The king was so impressed with the golden feather. He offered the gardener's son to catch the golden bird. When the gardener's son went into the forest to find out the golden bird, He met a fox. The fox gave him an advice to come across the golden bird, but the gardener's son ignored fox's advice.

Higher education costs are rising!!

Escalating cost of higher education is causing many to question whether it is worthwhile to continue education beyond highschool. The opprtunity cost of tuition to choose college is over fulltime employment. Additionally, accumulating thousands of dollors of dept causes people wonder its investment which is valuable or not.The risk is especially large for low-income families who have a difficult time making ends meet, and do not want the additional burden of college tuition and other fees.

There is evidence that the rate of return on investment is high enough to justify a lot of the cost of higher education fee. College graduates earn more differential variesover time which never disappear compared to highschool graduates.

                                                                                               2015.8.11 Masa

"Remember the magic words and you will never be hungry again"

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This story shows Hannah's kind attitude. Hannah is always hungry. Oneday, she saw the honey in the forest and she shared the honey with old woman. Old woman was pleased with her sharing and she gave her a pot. This pot is magic pot which give porridge with magic words. Hannah used this pot everyday and be happy; However, a greedy boy saw the pot and stole it from the Hannah's house. He did not know how to use it, and he could not stop cooking porridge. There is a porridge river around his house. Hannah gave the magic words to stop porridge cooking. He apporogize to Hannah. Hannah forgave him.


Reference
Dickins R. (2007 ) The magic porridge pot. Usborne Publishing Ltd.

Today, I had time to read a magazine whose name is "Newton". It had a special topic of medicine. I am interested in medicine for allergy due to quite common in our daily life. Currently, There are so many pepole who are struggling with hay fever in Japan. I think hay fever includes not only pollen but also chemical materials. I have learnt from the magazine why anti histamine make us sleepy.
First, when allergen come into our body, our body release histamine. The secind, histamines hold the protein, histamine acceptor , on the mucous membrane in nose. it make us nasal mucus, and we call it an allergic reaction. unfortunately, histamine acceptors are located in the brain, so anti histamine medicine is able to fly to the acceptor in the brain. Brain may be infuluenced by anti histamine sideeffect. Some new medicines, Cralitin, and Aregula, are advanced because they do not give sideeffect to the brain acceptor, therefore after taking anti hisitamine, people will not be sleepy. I think it is good because we can drive without concern about sleepness. I should pay attention to medicine industry to take appropriately and keep on my helth conditions.  Thanks Masa

I am wondering what the healthy life is...


I have worked as a nurse for 11years and I support patients to increase their health condition by using the result of medical check up. These days, there are some documents about BMI if there is important or not. Some doctors point out the importance of BMI data because obesity may be related to health problems strongly; however, some doctors say it does not related to each other. For me, I have gained my weight year by year. it was 60kg in 20 years ago, and 65kg in 2015. My BMI is just over 25 which is beyond the normal. However, I feel current weight is the best condition in my life. when I run outside, sometimes I realize my body is too healvy to run faster compared to before. Even though, my happy feeling comes up from the inside. Needless to say, balance is important, so we should see the total health condition to understand what healthy life is. In addition, we should ask my physical and mental condition if I am healthy or not without data of the medical check up. Both feeling and science view should be important to assess our health condition. masa

Regarding my CV


Today I made my CV to submit some companies and universities in Japan.
Usually, candidates needs to make their own CV in order to show its job history. I like doing this process because it make me remind of my career. It is not wonderful one, but I am able to remember of my life. I try to show my details  on my CV as much as possible. It is not only for the someone to accept my CV but also for myself. AS confirming my career, I can imagine what to do at the next field. I am sure  starting my life is coming soon. masa

1. Henry looked out outside every morning. “Not yet, Mudge,” he would say.

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Henry and his dog Mudge loved winter season because of snow.

They would like to go outside as soon as possible,when they saw the snow. They were crazy about playing with snow such as throwing snow, building the house and digging the hole. Henry's mother took care of Henry and Mudge after coming home. In addition, Henry's mother and father prepared delicious foods and atmosphere in the house. After having dinner they went outside to feel the happy christmas scene in their neighbor.

Reference

Cynthia Rylant, (1993), Henry and Mudge in the sparkle days, Simon spot light

2. Henry cried , Medge licked, and the hand hurt. But in a while, the hand stopped hurting, Henry stopped crying, and Mudge stopped licking, Henry looked at Mudge and smiled.
   
   

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Henry and Mudge liked going to picnick, it had am accident there. Mudge took care of Henry sincerely. Henry was getting better. Behind Henry's house, there is a green hill. They like going to the top of the hill. It their playground and the special place to grow day by day.

Reference

Cynthia Rylant, (1992), Henry and Mudge in the garden time, Simon spot light

 Blue quickly opened all the cages in the plane. He opened the plane door too, but then Nigel saw him. No! shouted Jewel. She wanted to stop Nigel but he pulled her away. ' Oh my wing' she shouted. She felt out of the plane door. ' Blue help !' I can not fly!' '

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  This story show a baby bird tryed to fly in order to help his friend. A small bird whose name was Blue, He could not fly because of a still baby. His wings were  too small to fly. He stayed in Rio, Brasil, but he was caught and sold by illegal business men. Blue was transfered in America and met Linda. Linda loved living with Blue. Blue was also happy with Linda .
 Tulio came to Lindaa's house to ask for support to preserve macaw birds because the number of the bird had been decreasing by human activities. Linda agreed with Tulio's asking and visit Rio to see the real stuation in rainforest.
 Nigel and Marcel sold birds on their business, and they caught Blue and his friends. One day Blue and his friend tried to escape from the cage they were captured, but Blue could not fly , and his friend helped Blue to escape by flying in the sky. However, they could not escape from Nigel and Marcel. Blue met many people and got some suggestion from them. Blue increased his motivation to fly by their friends comments.
 Blue and his friend challenged to escape again, and their trip have strated with.




vocablary:
Reference
 Jacquie Bloese, (2102), Rio Learning to fly, Scholastic     876words, level 2

My name is Masa Honda. I come from Yokohama city. I have studied about public health in developping countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Timor leste. I live with my parents in Kumaoto because I have no house to stay in Japan. In the last 7 years I was in Indonesia and Thailand, so I rent a house in those countries. During my study at Kumamoto university, I would like to stay my parents house. I am so excited to stay in Kumamoto because it is my first time. Kumato is not a big city, but not so countryside. It is just big enough to stay for my daily life. If we can go to the downtown, we can see Kumamoto castle which is simbol of Kumamoto city.I can recommend some traditional Kumamoto foods whose name is BASASHI. It is raw meet of horse. Please do not imagine of horse before eating.


I will finish my course at Kumamoto university this coming March. I need to look for my job not only Japan but also other countries. I am interested in medical system in the third country. Japanese government pays attention to ODA(official development assistance) to developping countries. I have a chance to apply for the job as a teacher at some university in Thailand as well as Indonesia. In future, We Japanese needs some help from other countries especially caregiver to take care of elderly people. In 2015, the rate of population of people, over 65 is near 20 %, this rate will be  higher year by year.Therefore, we predict some problems due to too many elderly people. Taking care of elderly people needs cost, manpower and adequate system, so each community try to make  sustainable strategies.


when I look at other countires such as Canada, England and German, those countries need caregiver from other countries. Those countries have a flexible solution to welcome people to imigrate. It is really competitive field to get caregivers in many countries. if we invite caregivers from some countries, we should consider how to give a good condition for those inorder to stay in Japan for lonf time.