Hi, all.

Only one month and half left  before I am going back Japan. I came here in last august. I have been in the U.S. since the last august. Time past so fast. I can not belive I will leave here in one month and half.

Hey!!! How are you all??

I am pretty good recently.The only bad thing lately is that I have not updated my diary on this blog. But I am not lazy person!! I was just too busy to do so...lol

In the last week, I went to L.A for service. And before the week, I had many exams and papaers. These are the reason I could not updated.

Anyway, I wanted to write about the trip in L.A a little bit.

In my university (of course not in my university), we have some servcive programs in spring break. We have many sites to go. For example, to Mississippi to bulit house, to Washington D.C to help organizaiotn for homelesses etc...

I chose the one, which gives the chance to learn HIV/AIDS in L.A.  

The purpose of this project to go to L.A was to participate some organizations which help people with HIV/AIDS mainly. One of the organizations prepares meals for the clients and deliver the meals  to them. We, students joing this project, prepared the meals in the morning and deliverd them in afterenoon for one week.  With another one, which promotes the understanding about HIV/AIDS among general people and help people withe HIV/AIDS, we did some helps and joined events.

Unfortunately, I could not learn about the HIV/AIDS much as I expected. I did learn, but it not enough to explain others with confident, I think. (Even though I think In this way, some people could talk about the issue based on this trip because there are different impression between us from experiences. )

But we had chances to see the life of homeless and people with some difficulties we stayed in a shelter in skid row. Those experiences broadens our perspectives and reminds us of how kucky we are.  There are people who live in such ways. We live in very good environment.....

However, I felt kind of sad because I could not use time efficientlly....that means I could have used more time to learn those kind things because I think we spent too much time with only students but not others who can talk about the issues we are interested in.

Well....anyways, this trip was really awsome for me. I could experience about the service and American students life a lot.

I want to write about the thing I was impressed about American students,　if I have a chace someday.  

Photo: beautiful sky in L.A