I've been feeling a little low lately. I let myself really want the job in Talafofo but it has been three weeks since the interview with no word. I have started putting together a plan for my own business, English-to-Go. I would take English classes to the students, meeting them wherever they want to take classes, in their homes, at coffee shops, hotel lobbies, etc. I can work one-on-one or take on groups of students. I already have a core group of students who want to work with me. It might work.

Yesterday was the 63rd celebration of the liberation of Guam from the Japanese. As usual there was a big parade and fireworks. We did not attend. Wakana rode a float in the 2003 parade. She worked very hard with the other Japanese students at the English Language Institute to decorate the float. In the parade they wore kimonos and carried baskets of fruit which they presented to the governor when the float reached the reviewing stand. It was a memorable experience but they were exhausted by the end. Plus they heard some anti-Japanese shouts and saw the finger raised in their direction. Some people cannot let go of the past.