I returned from Nayoro

I returned from Nayoro. Though I was very busy, it was a very good opportunity to practice interpretation. I interpreted the short speeches in the meal time by the local sponsors,including the speeches by the representatives of the Rotary club, the Lions Club, the Soroptimist Club,Duskin Takizawa,Nayoro Human Exchange Promotion Society,etc. On the first day, that is, on the 7th of February, we took foreign people to the Nayoro Astronomical Observatory, which was a brand new observatory opened only on April 17 last year. On the way, in the bus, a local volunteer guide explained about not only the astronomical observatory but the city itself,and Nayoro Municipal University, etc. And,in the observatory, the chief resercher of the observatory, maybe a person belonging to Hokkaido University, explained about the second largest telescope in Japan which has just installed. But those explanations were all in Japanese,so I had to interprete them all into English. It was very difficult, but a very good experience for me. Then, we saw a movie about the Japanese probe Hayabusa's adventurous space trasvel to the asteroid "Itokawa". It was very interesting, and moving.