Day before yesterday, my mom called me and told me a sad news. The mother of our family friend, when we lived in the U.S. had been killed in a car crash. This family had a girl who was my sister's age and we lived just across from eachother,too. So, us children grew up as sisters and brothers. Ofcourse, our family friendship were still continuing although we returned to Japan. She was only 55 when she died. And because she was so young and it was all happened too suddenly, we just can't believe it! I want to visit her grave and give my prayers as well as visit another good friend of ours, who is fighting against breast cancer. Because Japan and the U.S. is far in distance, it's not very easy to travel and make a visit. I wasn't able to make my decision to visit the U.S. because I was too afraid, if I visit my friend who is fighting against breast cancer, it'll be our last meeting. But I don't want to regret that I didn't visit her, even if I could of. So I decided to make this trip possible. Because I'm working now, I won't be able to get a long holidays till spring. But while I wait for spring to come, I'll save up some money and make my plans to travel.