Dear Dr. M.Susan Stiner,

Thank you for your message and English corrections.

I went to Hakone to see autumn colors with my friend.

First, we were expected to go to Watarase Valley.

But we changed the program and went to Hakone.

The mountains put on autumn colors.

It is beautiful.

Autumn mountain were at their best now.

Leaves were dyed red and yellow.

We could go around the Hakone for a day.

There is the lake, Ashinoko. We took the ship there.

The other, we took ropeway cable car and mountain railroad.

We enjoyed our day trip.

Sincerely yours,

Kayo

　Dear Kayo,

　Thank you for your thirteenth message. My comments follow.

Your trip sounds like so much fun, Kayo. Do you take an autumn trip

every year?

I am sorry this message is late. I just returned from my 35th

(thirty-fifth) high school reunion. This is the website for our class:

http://www.bcpl.net/~jsmith/seton63a.html. The high school from which I

graduated was Seton (pronounced SEE-ton) High School. It was only for

girls. There were about one thousand (1,000) students. There were 248

in our graduating class of 1963. We have reunions every five years. 70

came to this reunion. Since the building is no longer used as a school,

the reunion was in a restaurant in Baltimore. Usually a school reunion

is held at the school.

We all look different after 35 years. Our name tags had two parts: our

graduation picture and our maiden names. None of us remember each other

by our married names, since we were all single while in school. We

rarely see anyone from our schools after graduation. We only remember

the way we looked back then. So the name tags helped a lot! We spent

four hours talking, remembering, eating and listening to some of the hit

music of 35 years ago. It was a wonderful afternoon!

Does Chuo Gakuin have reunions for its graduates? Do you plan to go to

them?

Sincerely

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

Thank you for your message and English correction.

I take an autumn trip every year.

And I have gone on a trip to somewhere, talking advantage of my summer vacation or

spring vacation.

This summer I enjoyed a trip to Hokkaido the most.

Hokkaido has scenic beauty, mountains, lakes and plains.

I want to go to Hokkaido again.

I don't know where my university has its reunions.

But high school reunion was held.

This is held for every class.

Secretary fix the day for reunion.

Some classes have reunions every year and other classes have them

irregularly.

I have met to my best friends sometimes.

I feel really happy to see friends for after a long time.

Sincerely yours,

Kayo

Technology will help our lives in many ways. We will have better health

because of the advances in diagnostic instruments and medicine. We will

be able to talk and see people instantly on the other side of the

world. More companies will do business "around the clock" (night and

day) because of computers that are in constant communication.

Sincerely　

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner,

Thank you for your messages and English correction.

Thank you for teaching English and accounting for one year.

I enjoyed this course.

Today is the class evaluation.

Sincerely yours,

Kayo

Dear Kayo,

　Thank you so much for your fifteenth message. My comments follow.

Kayo, thank you for your reply to the evaluation questions. We will

study all the answers to make the course better.

Thursday of this week is Thanksgiving Day. We will celebrate with a

delicious turkey and other food. You can learn more about Thanksgiving

at this site: http://www.readersdigest.com/features/thanksgiving. Click

on "Thanksgiving Stories". You will go to this page:

http://www.readersdigest.com/features/thanksgiving/thanksstories.html

Sincerely　

Dear Dr. M. Susan Stiner.

Thank you for your message and the English corrections.

Making English compositions for this class became my strong point.

I want to continue to make English composition by this as well.

This year was a year to dislike English a little, but that feeling

disappeared by itself.

An experience like this class could be survived, and it was really good.

I always feel a little regret when my part in this class ends.

I want to work with English some more after this.

Sincerely yours,

Kayo

Dear Kayo,

　Thank you so much for your final message. My comments follow.

I'm glad you felt it was good in the end, Kayo. The next time you have

to do something hard, just ask yourself if that task is as bad as this

class! And remember that you survived this class!

Kayo, it has been a pleasure to talk to you this year. I hope we can

meet someday. If you ever come to the U.S., you are always welcome to

visit my home. Please go to this site for the last web page of this

course: http://www.vill.edu/~sstiner/sayonara.html

Last Thursday was Thanksgiving in the U.S. It is a traditional

holiday. We remember a time when the early settlers (Pilgrims)

peacefully ate a meal with the American Indians who lived near them. It

is a day to give

thanks for the blessings we have. There is no school. Most businesses

are closed. Most people visit their families and eat!

We cooked a big turkey (18 pounds, about 39 kg) in the oven. That took

all day. The night before, my daughter, Kate, and a college-age friend

of the family, Beth, made pumpkin pie, pecan pie, "dirt" cake (chocolate

cookies and whipped cream) and cookies. We had fresh bread, lots of

mashed potatoes and stuffing. Beth brought candied yams.

These people were at our Thanksgiving celebration:

my husband, Fred;

our oldest son, Fred, and his three daughters (our granddaughters);

our middle son, Alex, and his friend, Beth;

our youngest son, James;

and our daughter, Kate.

We had a great time laughing, talking and eating. We were all very

sleepy after such a big meal.

Good luck to you, Kayo, with the rest of your studies. Please send me

the URL of your homepage. I would love to see it!

Sayonara