Finally, it’s Friday tomorrow. This week, I have been in so many meetings! As I wrote in a previous blog, my meetings last all day usually. Today was a very big meeting that I was involved with. It included the vice president of my company and a partner (kind of like President) of a consulting firm. We were discussing the progress that we must make before the end of this year. We have a long way to go but I’m confident that we will get there. My boss introduced me to the Partner who is a very tall man. For lunch today, it was Japanese food as usual, katsu curry rice! (one of my favorite!)
Lumahai beach. I like to jump off the rock
Hanakapi’ai beach
mountain apples
Hanakapi’ai falls
pool at bottom of falls
Here are some pictures from Kauai.
Elephant mountain. Kinda hard to tell in this picture.
my night to cook:
namasu
asazuke
hijiki
rafute (Okinawan pork…pretty much buta no kakuni)
eggplant
steamed uhu
fried papio
miso soup
uhu before being cooked
大きな問題なく、テスト期間が終わりました。 夏の素敵な天気の日に一日中家、図書館にこもる生活に別れを告げてこれから全力で夏を満喫したいと思います。
気がつかなかったのですが、二階のサッシの窓枠に蜂の巣が〜
くっついていました。
ヒヤッ〜気づかなかったぁ〜から(@_@)〜
どう退治したらいのでしょう。。。
日本の平均寿命、女性は85.9才で世界一！さすがですね。 それに比べて男性は79.1才。 日本は健康ブームでいろいろな情報が出回っているけど、ブームを起こすのは必ず女性だなと感じます。男性がなにかブームを起こせばいいのに。
前から思うこと→ 健康への取り組み方に男女差がある。 女性は自分がキレイになるために！と前向きに取り組むけど、男性はメタボにならないように後ろ向きでしょうがなく取り組む人が多い気がする。男性が前向きになるにはどうしたらいいんでしょうね〜。
Yesterday I just got back from camping on Kauai. It was the first time for me to go to Kauai in over 5 years! The camp was a total of 11 days, but I stayed for 8. It was so nice to be back and see all of the aunties, uncles, and my friends. This year, the extended Sakamaki clan dominated the camp. Out of the 40 or so people there, 14 were from my extended family, and 7 more were my nephew’s friends and families. For one week we hung out at the beach. This year I wasn’t able to go fishing as much, because Ryoko wanted to do other things (like lie in a hammock). I only landed one papio, though I got a lot of bites (and one that got off the line right at shore!). I was able to go diving a few times. I speared a 4′ white eel and a night tako. I also found a few uhu, but I couldn’t get a clean head shot at any of them, so they’re still swimming around (probably). And we also found a giant 7-11 crab, but nobody had a bag, only stringers, so we didn’t get him. The last night of camp we had a fish feast. I made pulehu teriyaki eel. My friend got some uhus, and we steamed those up chinese style. My brother was busy catching papio and ta’ape, so we pan-fried those. We had some moanos that we were going to steam, but they ended up being pan-fried too. Unfortunately our tako had gone bad, so we had to throw it out.
Ryoko’s favorite part of the trip was when we hiked into Hanakapi’ai. Our camp was in Haena, which is just before the end of the road. The end of the road is the beginning of the Na Pali coast, which, if you know Hawaiian, means “the cliffs” coast. Hanakapi’ai is a 2 mile hike that takes you to the first valley along the Na Pali coast. From the beach, we then hiked 2 more miles into the valley to Hanakapi’ai falls. The trail went through a tropical forest filled with flowers and fruit trees. We saw banana, mango, avacado, papaya, mountain apple, and guava. However, the only in season fruits we could reach were the mountain apples and guavas. At the end of the trail was the waterfall that fell into a big pool. When we got there, I jumped in the pool immediately, the jumped out immediately because it was so cold! But it was so refreshing after the hike.
Now that Ryoko has experienced Kauai, and knows why it is my favorite place in the world, she has shown interest in living there! Hopefully I can buy a house out there, because I can’t think of a better place to be!
気が抜けてるのか…とちった(汗)
待たせてしまってすみませんでしたε= (+△+ 
先日お別れの挨拶をした受け持ち患者さんがまだいらっしゃった。
「退院したかと思ってました。」「とろが来るのを待ってたんよヾ( ´ー｀)」
あら、お上手だこと(笑) また元気な顔見せてくださいね。
夜は誘われ、久々に同僚たちとご飯。何やかんや言っても仲イイ病棟になりましたね。
去年までは日常に戻るのが嫌で憂うつだったけど、今はそれなりに楽しんでます。大きな進歩やね。
In the restaurant we have been getting more and more Japanese guests. This makes our future outlook a little brighter. Right now with the economy where it is, we are just worried about how this will affect not only us as a restaurant but our island home as a tourist destination. We recently had a conversation with our owner and discussed the future of the economy and what we can expect. The truth is no one knows! All he said is that we are doing a very great job and that if we keep up what we are doing we’ll do just fine. With gas prices at there highest it worries me that people (not only Americans) will taper off traveling and this will be very devastating to Hawaii’s economy. Hawaii doesn’t import or export anything but smiles from a great experience in the islands. Sure we do export some goods but nothing that will profoundly revive our economy. My hopes are high that people will work hard and vacation even harder. Peace, love and aloha from the islands
