Happy things I have experienced in the recent weeks. 2016

1.　April 27^th was our young guitar teacher’s birthday.　I baked chocolate cupcakes for the members(4, including me) and the teacher and brought them with the green tea pot and paper cups to the class.

We celebrated his birthday, singing the familiar song;”Happy Birthday to you! ”He was very glad about that and two elderly men and Mrs. S(with whom I went to the café after the lesson several times) were also eating them with big smiles.

2. We could remove the most part of the roots of the vine of the planting area in front of the door. I am very sorry and sad that the google map photo shows the front part of our house surrounded with tangling vines.

3. I finished reading two books. “Delicassy”(In Japanese:”ナタリー”)by David Foenkinos and ”Eugine Onegin”(エフゲニー・オネーギン) by Alexander Pushkin. I sensed the delicate sense of French people which I admire and someday I’d like to watch the DVD-film, which David Foenkinos himself produced. Mrs.C(one of the students in the German class) introduced a TV program of the Hamburger Ballet dance in NHK BS. It was Tatiana(the original work is Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugine Onegine”)directed by John Neumeier(He won the Kyoto-Prize last year. Mr.C was a member of the KyotoPrize selection committee).I was not that interested in it at first, but I was fascinated by the dancer playing Onegin and stopped watching the program. I wanted to see it after reading the original story. Now I am ready to watch the ballet dance.