Japanese mogul skier--- Uemura Aiko

I saw Uemura Aiko's mogul ski performace on TV.  She came in 5th in the preliminay and went to the finals.  She was in 4th  and missed the medals, but did very well under pressure.  The race is judged by speed and performance.  It takes only about 30 seconds or so from the start to the goal.  She has prepared and fought many competitions for todays's race at Olympic Games in Vancouver.  I want to say thank-you for showing us beautiful and powerful ski performance.

The influence of American TV drama in my childhood

I teach English in a Japanese high school.  My students sometimes ask me why I became a teacher of English.  One of the reasons is because I didn't want to be an office worker or a businessman because I didn't want to work hard.  Secondly, I wanted to be engaged in learning English.  But I knew I must work to make a living.  Teaching English seemed a right decision to me those days.

Why English teacher?
Because I was interested in American movies and TV dramas those days.
One of them was "The fugitives"

The Fugitive is an American television series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen starred as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man" (played by Bill Raisch). At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably by Stafford Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard (Barry Morse).          ---quoted from Wikkipedia

I watched the drama in a dubbed-Japanese voice, andI was influenced by what I saw on black-and-white TV screen.  A big car and big refrigerators were impressive to a 6-year old boy.