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American author Jason Kelly, who lives in Sano, Japan, is collecting socks for earthquake victims. He writes:


Here's a way you can help Japan, directly and meaningfully.

Hundreds of my readers in the United States and other parts of the world have asked me how they can help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. There are many places to donate money, and that's a wonderful thing to do, but direct aid is also cherished by victims.

My office location is perfect for managing a direct-aid operation because it's close enough to the primary damage zone that we can physically get there to help, but far enough away that mail delivery is working. So we quickly set ourselves up to run this operation, called Socks for Japan.

Guidelines:

- Send only new socks.
All human beings are comforted by a fresh, clean pair of socks. Other advantages socks offer this operation: their sizes are easy, they don't break, people need lots of them in disastrous times without running water, people can keep them forever and remember that somebody from far away cared. Please do not send any other items of clothing, food, etc. Just socks, but go ahead and choose nice ones that will brighten somebody's day.

- Group similar socks in one package.
To help our inventory management, put all socks of one type in a single package. For example, "men's large," "girls' medium," "boys' small," "baby girls'," and so on. Different colors and styles are fine in the same package, but keep the gender and sizes consistent, please. If you include several different groups in a single box, please pack the groups in clear bags with a description enclosed, facing out.

- List package contents on the package.
To help our inventory management, write on the outside of the package exactly what's inside. For example, "ten pairs, men's medium socks" or "one pair, girl's small socks" and so on. This will enable us to quickly group inventory for efficient distribution without opening packages.

- Enclose a short care letter. Japanese people treasure letters, especially ones from foreigners. Victims of the 1995 Hanshin quake in Kobe said that care letters were among the most uplifting items they received. If you enclose a care letter, provide a copy of it for each pair of socks you send. This will enable us to hand each recipient of your socks a letter from you. Please keep your letter brief. You can save us time by enclosing a translation of your letter into Japanese, which you can make easily at Google Translate, then copy, paste, and print the result to attach to each copy of your English version. Machine translations are imperfect so be sure to send your English version in case we need to tidy up the Japanese. If you send only English, we'll translate it to Japanese and include your information that the recipient can use to respond later if they would like. No guarantee on that, of course, and any replies will probably arrive months or possibly more than a year later. We'll translate replies from Japanese to English.

- Write your email address on the package. The most efficient way for us to keep in touch with you, and track the status of your package once we receive it, is via your email address. Please write it on the outside of your package so we can communicate with you without opening the package.
Please ship your package to my office:


Jason Kelly
Helping Angels : Socks for Japan
Plaza Kei 101
Wakamatsu-cho 615-6
Sano, Tochigi 327-0846
Japan


Thank you for your support! When your package arrives, we'll send a note to you at the email address you wrote on it.
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one of the way, you can do your share, send socks together with care letters to Japan.

Thalia, I just pm you.

I have a 1/32 toy violin to give away, comes with case but no bow. It does not have e-tuner so only good to be used as box violin for holding under chin practise.
I am from Hong Kong, but going to Singapore end of this month. So if you are from Singapore and Hong Kong, I can pass to you. Please pm me if interested. Thanks.

some of the words are in calligraphy instead of clear print. I think these few in calligraphy are not very clear.

there is no such thing as too late to learn anything. i've seen quite a few people learning to play violin after retirement and are playing very well. early or later is just a matter of comparison. don't compare with other kids that started earlier and you wont' feel it is late and you will be stress free. do not aim to achieve something based on someone else achievement , teach at your own pace and enjoy the process.

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nellie,

dont mean to discourage you, but you should check with minister of education whether it is legal or not. in some countries, it is just illegal to homeschool , Hong Kong being one of them, unfortunately.

when is the best age to start martial arts like wing chun, or tai chi?
i've heard that teacher usually accept kids at age 5 or 6 but when teaching their own kids will start at 2.
any ideas or experience?

thank you for sharing, will look into this book.

oh. thank you very much for your replies..

@aude- will check out that website. thanks!

well done aageles!. amazing, she can play with both hands!

Hi,

Do you know where I can find the Spanish lyrics for the album 'Canciones para mis bebes'? I searched "Aqui" and "Cuando Tengas ganas" in the web but out came different lyrics.

Thanks.

@ tmt, thanks for sharing.

when my daughter was less than 1 year old, i let her watch Little Reader, trial . she did not show much interest, not interested at all and looked elsewhere. so i bought YBCR instead. initially for YBCR , she didnt show much interest but only watch when they play songs and all. after a while  she likes to watch YBCR. after she has outgrown her YBCR at 27 months old i let her watch Little Reader again. Now she will watch and repeat after the words, both English and Chinese. so maybe you can put aside Little Reader for now and try something else, and try Little Reader again later.

or you can try bouncing him on your lap when the words of little reader comes out in flash or.. you repeat the words, maybe he prefers to hear your voice.