It was a rainy day.
It seems another typhoon No.18 is approaching. Many warnings were announced.
From today the new NHK's morning drama started. Its title is "Beppin san(べっぴんさん)" specially made goods.
The season of the Nobel Prize has come. There is a good news. Mr. Yoshinori Osumi(大隅良典), 71 years old, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research of autophagy.
Japanese researchers have been awarded for three years straight.
Congratulations!!
It was fine today.
Six of us who went out for a drink last night had breakfast together at a bakery restaurant near the station. You can choose either Cheese omlett or Bacon & egg or Garden salad, then you can eat unlimited rolls & bun and drink anything as much as you like for 75 minutes.
It seems there is no other decent cafe to take breakfast nearby, other two JOI coordinators came to the same place later.
We enjoyed eating and talking.
Everyone had something to do respectively, and five of us took the same train but got off at their own destination.
I went to Omori to visit a personal color analyst training class. There were one instructor, three students and two models. They divide the colors to four seasons, and they were divided into two groups spring & autum and summer & winter. The former group is yellowish and the latter group is bluish. There were some basic colors to judge, and each group has four drapes of similar colors. Each color is judged by the criteria of the levels of brightness and chroma, and clear or dull.
The model was checked by about five set of them and decided which color suits her.
I wanted to be checked, so I volunteered for the model next time.
I had some time until the next appointment, so I visited the Aqua park in Shinagawa to kill time. Today I enjoyed the jellyfish as usual and the dolphine show.
In the evening I attended a seminar. The opening time was 17:10, but when I arrived at that time the venue was almost full and I felt lucky to have a seat. It lasted until 19:00.
It was a fruitful weekend.
A new month has started. October is jyugatsu (十月), its old name is Kannazuki(神無月) which means the month without gods because all of the gods in Japan get together in Izumo, where October is called Kamiarizuki(神在月), which means the month with gods.
Today it was a new moon which is called Shingetsu (新月). They say it is a good time to ask for the wishes.
In the morning I attended a monthly meeting in Shinjuku.
In the afternoon I came to Saitama prefecture to attend JOI's 15th anniversary event.
I am one of the 5th year JOI coordinators and was dispatched to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida from 2006 to 2008.
It's been already 10 years since I went there. How fast time flies!
There are 59 coordinators for 15 years in total and 23 coordinators attended today. Everyone was sent to the different state and different site and tried to enhance the understanding between Japan and USA as a grassroots level for two years.
All of us have had precious experiences through outreach programs. They say we outreached 850, 000 people or more.
The program consisted of three parts. First was the reporting session of 13th year coordinators who have just finished their terms, and JOI alumni networking.
Second was address by sponsor, lecture, panel discussion, and photo taking.
Third was dinner party.
All of coordinators talked about their experiences for a short time.
I really appreciate that I was selected as the 5th year coordinator, sent to the Morikami Museum, and given a chance to work there for two years which made my life changed a lot.
After dinner party seven of us went to the second party and enjoyed chatting.
