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I always thought teachers are very important whenever I learn something, even small things. When I was a school student, I was not so interested in all the school subjects and depending on the teacher, my score results changed. In most of teacher's classes  I got bored and getting sleepy or started thinking other things, or got nervous from pressure. I don't know why but taking group lessons which has over 30 students was often hard to concentrate while teacher is teaching unless teacher tells interesting stories.   There was only one impressive teacher who grabbed children's attention through the way how she taught with her talking, tone of voice, explanation and expression.   Her name is Mrs. Kurakazu.                                 With Mrs. Kurakazu at the top of Mt. Jimba in Japan, Mrs. Kurakazu  was kind of a manly middle aged woman who was very passionate , had enormous sense of humor, and was giving a lot of love to kids, also she had a stric

2014 Grand Prix series figure skating competitions have started since October 23 , and we have watched Skate America and Skate Canada and Cup of China on NBC channel. It was so nice to see Johnny & Tara & Terry as the commentators in Skate America and Skate Canada. We really enjoyed and were laughing a lot in some of their comments. Johnny has already impact, even just sitting there, and also is entertaining and knowledgeable, and Tara is catching the rhythm of Johnny's talking well. I think they are really match together with commentating and also Terry is a wonderful veteran commentator. I really love seeing this commentator combination. That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to seeing ISU competition on NBC. I was a little disappointed they didn't show them at the end at Skate Canada , and they were not commentating for Cup of China's event on November 9. Terry and Tracy did professional great job for Cup of China, although, I al

My husband Ray's birthday will be coming very soon ! So I made a cake today. and we purchased an electric guitar which he had been wanting for his birthday present this year. Because it was limited quantities and we were afraid it may all sold out before his birthday, so we bought it last week. He has been working hard, so he deserved to get it. It's gorgeous !    I love the color.  It looks like a shining beautiful gemstone ! I knew nothing about guitar but I've never seen such a beautiful electric guitar except for The Alfee's Toshihiko Takamizawa's special custom order guitar. If it's beautiful, anything is great to me. We have a keyboard which Ray purchased a long time ago, but we haven't used it for a long time.  Since he started practicing to play guitar and making music, I also started practicing the piano / keyboard for about one hour a day in my free time. I choose the sound of grand piano while