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27 April 2010

Book "America's Poor Class Education field report" by Soichi Hayashi

The author of the book is Japanese sports journalist who worked as a part-time teacher in a chartered high school in Reno, Nevada 2006. The students come from very poor families and dropped out from regular school. Most of them live with single parents. They do not have good knowledge nor manner. They grew up in a very bad environment where parents don't have money and time to take good care of them. The author witnessed the reality of America's poor bottom class. The author himself grew up in the similar environment in Japan so he somehow felt mutual with them. He had guts and loved...

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15 April 2010

Connie Francis's "I'm gonna be warm this winter"

The lyric starts with "We met at the Ski lodge, and we fell in love." I like this song because this reminds me of my ski trip this year. I've visited 6 ski resorts this year from January to March. I really enjoyed. The last ski slope I visited was Shiga Highland in Nagano Prefecture. That is where my favorite ski film was shot. In 1998, winter Olympic was held there. I skied from one...

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