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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/figure-skating-japan-s/1555002.html http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/cm/main?d=20141228-00000077-dal-spo&s=lost_points&o=desc&p=10&t=t http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20141229-00000001-wordleafs-spo&p=2 I'm just really really shocked to hear this news today on December 28 !!!! 2014's World silver medalist Tatsuki Machida has announced that he has decided to retire from his competitive skating after he was qualified for Worlds team. so he handed his worlds position to Mura . Machida said he is going to Waseda graduate University to study sports science and wants to get a PHD degree to be a researcher for it . He sounded like he was already thinking about his future after retiring from his skating life in last season. My impression of him is very intelligent and often calmly analyzing things and is a very hard worker. He was secretly studying hard for this since last season including  during the

I'm loving the weather here recently. The temperature here is around 70F to 79F during the day since this month, December. Like spring has already come up !  But I suppose it will be cold again in January. Last weekend, we were hanging around a sightseeing spot in Tucson where there were tourists. I needed to take some photos of us to send to my relatives in Japan for new year's greetings,  so took some photos there.   It was a very beautiful day !                                                          On the way home, we stopped at Trader Joe's ( import super market ) and when we went to the exit after finished shopping, we saw amazing sunset there !   Gorgeous view !