It is ten years since I began to exchange emails with Ilsemarie in Germany.

At the railway station of Hausingbausen

  I received an email from Ilsemarie this morning. She says 10 years have passed since we began to correspond with each other in coming March. During the past ten years, many things have happened. In October 2007, we visited her home in Housingbauzen, Germany, with Ayako's sister, Masako, and her husband, Mr.Yasuhiro Yamashita, and stayed with Ilsemarie's family for four days.

Takashi,Sachiyo,me, and Ayako

 Tomorrow, our son, Takashi, will come home from California for the first time in these two years. We are looking forward to seeing him. But it is a pity that he will come alone, not with his wife, Sachiyo.