Japanese style party

When I went to the bar at first time in the U.S, I was very surprised because most of girls in the bar did sexy dance. It is common to meet your boyfriend/girlfriend in bar here, but in my country it is not common. Do you know "Gokon"? I think it is the most common chance to make boyfriend/girlfriend. A group of male and a group of female meet in Gokon and have diner together, after that they go to karaoke or borling. They do not each other except one of boys and girls who hold the Gokon. I think it is a kind of party. For example, if I hold Gokon here, I ask one of my guyfriends let's hold Gokon. And we decied when and where we take place that. After that, I gather female members around four or five. And one of my guyfriends also gathers his male friends four or five. And then we meet and have diner with some games. If you took part in that, and you would find person you like, you can exchange email adress and telephone number each other. And after Gokon you can hangout just with him/her. Eventualy, you will real date with him/her, in other words, you can get boyfriend/girlfriend. If you have plan to come to Japan, Why don't you take part in Gokon?

I got my boyfriend in Gokon, and our relationship is still good:-)

My First Term Break!!

This time was my first term break for me, so I went Chicago with my friends. It was first trip for Chicago and I was very excited. I had a lot of experiences there. I ate many delicious dishes, for example stuffed Pizza and cheesecake. But my best experience is second day.
I went to Chicago outlet with Yasu. It is far from downtown (it takes about 1hour and half), I know that but we went to there after lunch. We left downtown at 3, and arrived Aurora station that is the nearest station from Chicago outlet at 5. And we could left there at 5:30, and We could get Chicago outlet at 6. We were enjoy shopping until 9, and then we decided to come back to downtown. Therefore we try to call taxi, and we got it, and he said that "I will go there until 10 to 15minutes", so we waited for him. But he didn't come for 30minites!! We were so nerves because if we hadn't gotten that taxi, we would have came back our hostel. We wanted to take train at 10:20, but we couldn't take that train because our taxi didn't come on time. Finally our taxi came there at 10:25, and we could come back Aurora station at 10:40. The last time of train from Aurora to Chicago downtown is 11:20. We waited train about 30minites, and we got it. We arrived at downtown at 12:20. Too late!! Moreover we had to come back our hostel. It is far from downtown (it takes 1hour by train). We took a train and arrived Loyola station that is the nearest station from our hostel. But we didn't know how to get our hostel, so I asked campus policeman. Then he took us to our hostel, so we could come back our hostel at 2am.
I learned that before I go to trip, I have to make plan.

Summary: Finland bewildered by deadly school shootings

In "Finland bewildered by deadly school shootings," by Marius Turula, it explains why school shootings happened in Finland. There are some reasons. First, police said that the people who did the massacres probably contacted each other before they did school shooting. Second, there is deep-rooted hunting traditions in Finland, so anyone who needs to have his/her own gun can buy guns, even young men. Third, Jouko Lonnqvist said that it has become a problem that depression is a mental illness, not only for middle-aged people but also for the young. Finally, Jerzy Sarnecki said that people who did school shootings are influenced by people who had done the same things; they watched these affairs through the media.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmPkjy3Rc56YqQQ1LYm_OfXgW5VwD93DDESG0

Dreams: Making Them Work for Us

Good dreams give us a good mood. However bad dreams give us a bad mood. Therefor it is important to stop nightmares and change them to positive dreams.
There are two dream therapies to change nightmares to good dreams. According to Milton Kramer, it is important to keep a journal or diary, to review our day, to remind ourselves, to remember our dream, to remember words or pictures from the dream, and to try sleeping later. According ti Cartwright, it is important to recognize your nightmare, to identify, to stop any bad dream, and to change the negative part of the dream.
We have to know ways of changing nightmares to positive dreams to make our feeling good.