As of today, president trump extended social distancing guidelines to April 30^th. One of the article says it could possibly extend to June.

With his announcement, our area’s authority has decided to extend the school closure through the remainder of the school year. So, students won’t be able to go to school until the next school year of August.

It is sad for students that they cannot go to school in this school year anymore, but this will make our community stay healthy.

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My personal update. My period came this morning as scheduled. I am thankful for that.

Thinking back of last year, after I heard about the shocking news of my parents, they both got a cancer, my period started coming irregular. Now that my period started calming down. This year for three months so far, it came regularly.

It was a windy day. The wind got much stronger in the night. As the strong wind blew, the roof shingles started making loud noise banging the roof. It sounded as if a giant monster was jumping on the roof.

I almost said some complains about the old roof shingles. But my daughter saved me for doing so. Instead of complaining, she started saying all the nice things to our house and the roof shingles.

She said “thank you to our house for protecting us. Thanks to your protection, we are staying safe inside the house in this strong windy night. Thank you for everything.”

I was impressed at how my daughter interpreted at the same scenery. I also thanked my daughter to teach me in such a beautiful way.

I joined my daughter and started saying a good prayer to our house.

Indeed, thanks to our house, we are safe inside the house in this strong windy day.

As of today, our county has confirmed three covid-19 patients. The authority announces the first two patients are self-isolating and recovering at home. They investigated the last patient’s contact and confirmed there are no threat in the community found.

I talked with several local people this morning. The 5-6 people shared their positive thoughts with me. They believe we are doing pretty well, and the situation will cleared up within 2-3 weeks.

It was good to know there are many positive thinking people in our community.

My daughter’s school supports their students by giving them weekly study assignments. It was a good intention. However, they have been struggling the best way to provide the assignments to each student.

The school originally planned to provide a printed out packet to each student. Originally our state’s school closure was planned only one week. However, considering other states’ conditions, our state decided to extend two more weeks’ school closure. Then, the school decided to preserve their paper resource in case they need to extend much more days of closure. Thus, they decided to provide the assignment through online page.

Now, it created a new issue. Every process was new to the teachers. Some teachers are really bad in writing in an online page. Their assignment instructions are hard to understand, even for us, adults.

After I communicated with the assistant principal, they agreed to provide my daughter a paper packet of assignments.

This morning on Thursday, we finally received a paper packet. It is definitely helpful for my daughter.

I feel sorry for other parents who are still struggling with the online assignments. It seems the school gives away the paper packet only to the people who communicated with their teachers.

I heard several parents complaining about the online assignments. I suggested them to talk to the school so that they can provide the paper packet.

This morning I had two dreams.

The first dream was about a huge giraffe. The giraffe was standing in front of me. It seemed to me that I received some spiritual gifts from the giraffe. I felt good about the existence.

I consider this as a messages regarding the coronavirus. A giraffe has a tall neck supporting its face up high. I won’t get affected as I stay in a higher place than others.

The second dream was about a big feast at a barbeque restaurant. I was with my family and my friends’ family. The six of us were sitting at the same table at the restaurant. Two waitresses brought us two huge plates of piled up meats. We were about to roast the meats. It had plenty of amount for everybody. We were all happy about it.

I consider this as a message about the inheritance from my late mom. It is enough for everybody, in the real life case, my dad, brother, myself. We should be all happy to have our own share.

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In the evening we had a surprise visitor to our house. One of my friends brought a pack of toilet paper. She said she has enough, and her friend who works for the grocery store could buy new pack for me. I didn’t expect their help, and it was a very nice surprise. Thank you ladies for supporting us.

The first news I read this morning was about the Tokyo Olympic 2020. After the telephone conference with IOC (the International Olympic Committee), Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, agreed to postpone due to  the coronavirus pandemic spreads world-wide. I feel sorry for Japanese people for this news, but it will be good for all of us of our safety.

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While I visited my mom in Japan, she gave me a full bag of kale tea. Since I came back to my house in America on February 2^nd, I had the tea every day. I loved this tea. This was the last gift from my mom, I loved this tea even more. While I was drinking this tea, I could feel my mom.

Sadly though, today I drank the last package of the kale tea. I cannot buy this tea from America.

Today I was talking about death with my daughter.

My daughter pretty much understands that death is not the end; our souls are eternity. But still, she said she doesn’t want to be at my death bed. She doesn’t want to be at my funeral nor cremation. It will be very tough for her to see my physical body to be ended.

While I was listening her saying this, I thought of my mom. She gave me a great gift at the last minute of her life. I could spend time with her for one week while she was still alive. We enjoyed our company. She departed at the best timing so that I had the good reason for not being at the funeral and the cremation. I know I cannot handle to see my mom’s dead body to be ended like that. I appreciate my mom for the wonderful gift. It was very thoughtful of her. Without seeing her body cremated, without attending her funeral, I still vividly remember her as alive. Thank you mom.

I also recognized one thing. I should be more thoughtful to my dad and my brother. They were the one who dealt with my mom’s death. My mom departed on Sunday night and they had her funeral and cremation on Wednesday, so they needed to spend three nights with my mom’s dead body and witnessed her body to be cremated. It must be so tough for them to experience all of these. They must be still suffering from feeling lost. The experiences must be overwhelming for them. I appreciate my dad and my brother to take care of these for me.

Today was the first day that my daughter’s school delivered a food packet of breakfast and lunch for children at the school bus stop. The bus arrived later than the scheduled time. I appreciate all the stuff members to work for making this happen.

The school was supposed to deliver the assignment packet prepared by teachers, along with the food packet. Some students received it but it was not available for my daughter. Hopefully they will deliver it tomorrow morning.

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In the late morning, my daughter and I went to the local grocery store. The toilet paper area was all empty same as before, but there were five or six packs of facial tissues. The sign said it was limited to one per customer, so I bought one pack for my family.

I was happy to be able to buy one pack of facial tissue. Even though we are still running out of toilet papers, now that facial tissues were in the store, we should be able to buy a pack of toilet paper soon.

I refreshed my computer as it has gotten much slower than before. The Refresh process of itself did not take long, but re-installing all the app took much time.

The main reason for me to refresh the computer was some issues in my virus software. When I processed the menu of “remove cookies and trackers,” it started to have 1 or 2 unwanted temporary files left undeleted. It grew to 6 or 7 files. I thought it was due to some computer virus or something. I hoped this issue will be solved after I refresh my computer.

It turned out to be worse. After refreshed, the virus software shows 60 unwanted temporary files undeleted. I tried to reach out their online chat service, but the waiting line was 54 minutes. I could not wait that long. Hopefully some other time I will be lucky enough to contact them sooner and they will fix the issue for me.

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In order to prevent further spread of COVID-19, Japanese government decided to take an extra process for people who is entering to Japan. It includes Japanese. The visitors will need to stay 14 days in a house or a hotel room. They are prohibited to use any public transportation during this self-quarantine term. It includes the transportation from the airport to the final destination. The visitors will need to arrange a rent-a-car or a car from their family or friends. My family and I will visit my dad in Japan when everything calms down.

My house is located in a rural area. We had zero coronavirus patient. However the situation has been changed. The recent news reports one patient was confirmed in our county. My husband heard the patient works at the same workplace as his.

My husband will report this on next Monday. The company might decide to let the workers work at home same as other major companies.

In the morning I went to the local grocery store. The workers must have been working hard. The store had most shelves restocked. Paper products were exceptional. Same as last visit, the shelves were all empty. The good thing is all the workers and customers I passed by were all nice and polite. I saw customers saying thank-you to the workers for working hard to restock items. I am glad people are still civilized in this area.

After the grocery store, I went to the local bank. I had two documents to be notarized. The bank teller was not nice. She pointed out the documents that I created are not exactly of what they have in their manual books so that she cannot notarize them. I used the same document twice before; at the attorney office and at this bank. I think I was just unlucky to have this bank teller. This bank teller didn’t give me any specific information. She told me to look it up by myself. She was not helpful at all. I needed to go back home and did some research on my own and revised the documents as she pointed out. One thing I want to point out about this bank teller. When she asked me to sign the document, I started using my pen, but my pen was out of ink. I asked her to let me borrow her pen. She reluctantly passed me her pen. After I returned the pen to her, she quickly wiped it off thoroughly with Clorox wipes.

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I went back to the bank. This time a different bank teller dealt with me. She didn’t have any issues with my revised documents and notarized them.

I went back home and created a Japanese translation of those documents.

My last stop was a post office. I sent out the documents to my dad.

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I returned home. While I was revising the document, I pondered about the bank teller. The bank teller probably stressed out from the coronavirus. She might not be originally mean. This stressful environment might have changed her into rude and mean. I hope not many people will react like her.

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The state governor decided to extend the school closure until April 10^th. My daughter’s school has four weeks school closure including the spring break. The school had a Facebook Live to explain the situation. From upcoming Monday the school bus will deliver a package of breakfast and lunch along with study packet at the bus stop. It will continue throughout school closure. The teacher sent out an email notice of the online study material so that students can study online.

I appreciate everybody who stays calm and nice in this hectic environment. I hope we all will stay being safe and healthy and overcome this new worldwide challenge together.