２．３日前にスカイプに登録しました。以前、美智子さんからもすすめられたことがありました。面倒かな？と思っていましたが、何てことありませんでした。今までは、日本にいる家族とは携帯からかけたり受けたりしていましたが、電話料がどの位かかるのか実は確認したことがないのですが、スカイプ同士ですと無料ですし、スカイプのない相手でも若干通話料は安いようですから、もっと早くスカイプにすればよかったと思います。

でも、まだうまく日本にいる父とうまく送受信がでません；；実家にかけるとオペレーターが『おかけになったお電話番号の前に１８６をつけるなどをして、あなた様の電話番号を表示しておかけなおし下さい』とメッセージがはいります。１８６をつけるとそういった番号はないというメッセージななってしまいます。たぶん父は、相手の番号が表示されるように設定しているようなのですが、その場合どうNO.登録したらよいのかわかりません。父に確認しても、わからないそうです。

いろいろ調べてみるつもりですが、どなたか、ご存知の方いらっしゃったら教えてください。

As my job approaches, my days are now becoming busy! (Strange!).
As a bank employee, I had to fill out many many forms yesterday.
The bank is highly regulated by the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) and thus, the records must be clear.
I received an email yesterday from human resources that had many file attachments.
In particular, I had to fill out…SEC Disclosure agreement, drug-free form, background check and other forms.
Today, I actually have to go and get tested and submit my name for another background test!
I have to do all of this soon because I have class at 5pm today so I will be busy.

今日のような日には、次の諺が、ちょうど良いと思う。。。「千里の道も一歩より」ですよ！


初出勤の日が近付いてきました。いよいよ私の生活もあわただしくなってきました。（変ですね！）。昨日、私は、銀行員としてのいろいろな書式の書類を作成しなければなりませんでした。銀行はSECによって厳しく規制されています。ですから、記載事項は全て明確になっていなければなりません。昨日、私は人事部からメールを受け取りました。そのメールにはいろいろな書類が添付されていました。特に私の個人情報を書かなければなりませんでした。実は、今日もテストセンターへ行って、また私の個人情報を説明しました。今日五時から日本語のクラスがありますので、出来るだけ早く済まさなければなりません。

今日のような日には、「千里の道も一歩より」という諺がぴったりだと思います。

NYC, September 2006

Eigergletcher Switzerland, September 2007

　６月２７日の誕生花

【花言葉】誕生花アクリル画イラスト

働いてて初めて、一年目さんに声を荒げてしまった。患者さんに一番迷惑がかかってるのに自覚がないところがどうしても許せず。学生じゃない。甘える時期はもう終了で、責任がある立場を自覚していかんといけんね。頑張ろう。

にしても、理不尽に声を荒げてしまった自分に反省。他にも先輩でちょびっと口調がきつくなってしまったら、
結局、一年目さん、泣いてしまったらしく…　2人で超あと味悪い思いで仕事を終えました。偉そうな自分にも自己嫌悪だし。大人のニキビもいっぱいできちゃったし。６/３０のプリセプター会、早く来て〜。

揺れる　　ゆれる　　ユレル

zawa zawa　　ざわざわ　　ザワザワ

木も　花も　人も　揺れる　　　きも　はなも　ひとも　ゆれる

In Arizona there aren’t many things to do.  We had originally planned to go to the Hualapai Reservation to go on the skywalk, a glass bridge over the Grand Canyon.  After talking to the owner of our RV camp, we discovered that the Hualapai charge $50 a head to get on the reservation, and then an additional $25 to walk on the skybridge.  So with nothing else to do we hopped on route 66 and hightailed it to Vegas.  We stopped one night at a RV camp in the middle of nowhere.  At the camp, the locals had made a giant firepit from a piece of drainage pipe.  They had a bonfire burning white, and a bunch of burlap sacks soaking.  Later when we returned, the pit was covered and the sacks were gone, so we assumed that they had made an imu!  I don’t know what they cooked, but the only animals I saw were cows and sheep, so maybe a sheep.

We arrived in Vegas two days ahead of our schedule.  The first night we stayed in a RV camp outside of Circus Circus.  The outside temperature was about 105.  We had our RV hooked up to electricity and ran the A/C on high, but it was still super hot.  When we took the RV back, the RV shop guy told us that the RV’s A/C can only bring the outside temp down by 15 degrees, so it was around 90 inside!   The second night, we decided to stay in the hotel.  It was so, so much nicer, and only ended up costing $20 more for two rooms than to park in the RV park.  In Vegas, I found out that my mom is a gambling addict.  The whole trip she used a cane to walk and was generally the slowest person.  But as soon as we got in the casino, her eyes lit up like it was Christmas, and she could suddenly move fast!  I arrived with $25 to gamble and left Vegas with just under $100 (thank you Celtics for beating the spread!), but my mom did really well.  Our last night on the mainland, she treated us all to a prime rib dinner, and I still think she came out ahead.  It was the perfect way to end our trip.

Random stuff at the RV camp:

anybody know why route 66 is famous?

McCarran Airport

After visiting the Grand Canyon, we continued south in Arizona. Arizona was HOT. Not quite as hot as Vegas, but still very, very hot. We went to Prescott National Forest to see the famous bluffs there. Had that been the first place we visited on our trip, I am sure we would have thought it was very nice. But after everything we saw, everybody was not impressed at all. I heard a lot of “what are we looking at? It’s just rocks” from my nieces and nephews. There were also a lot of Navajo (I think. Or some other tribe) vendors selling their goods. My sister was shopping at the vendor closest to the parking lot, while I went to one of the furthest ones about 50 ft down the line. I bought a money clip and bracelet for Ryo, then went to check how much it would have cost at the first vendor. Lucky I walked down to the end, because the first few vendor’s prices were twice as much!
Back on the road, my brother-in-law decided to take a few “historical” routes. One highway took us to the ghost town of Jerome. Jerome is situated on the side of a very steep mountain. We started at the bottom of the mountain face where there were about 5 houses. I was thinking, what kind of town only has 5 houses? But after about 5 minutes of hairpin turns (very hard in an RV, and especially scary when one side of the road is over a cliff. More so when there are no guardrails), we finally got to the actual town. I think that the road could give that road in San Fran a run for it’s money as far as which is the windier and steeper road. The town was very quaint, and might have been a nice place to visit if it were possible to park an RV there. But the roads were too narrow, and the town was very busy and crowded. I was constantly in danger of hitting oncoming cars or pedestrians through the entire town. At the top, there was a sign that said the road narrows! When we finally got past that town, I think my knuckles had lost all their blood and I had made dents in the steering wheel.

  Prescott

Indian crafts

sorry, no pictures of Jerome.

ラジオでご一緒し、
ラーメンのテレビ番組も手がけたことがあるＯさんに
高知で一番うまいラーメン屋を聞いたのが、ことの起こり。

ついに行ってきました 土州屋。
出しはカツオ節の魚介系スープ。
まいうーー（うまい）です。
高知にきた際にはお試しあれ。

モヤモヤって表現、よく使ってるな〜私。
ということで、

モヤモヤ。

特に何があったわけでもないのに、
平和で、毎日笑えて、仕事もそれなりに充実してるのに、

モヤモヤ。

なんか溜まってんな〜。
なんなんだろな〜。
カラオケにでも行ってワァーーーッて発散させたい気分です。