Michele, It is my friend's son who wants to study there, and I wish him the best of luck. He is choosing a city he thinks has a good skate board culture. She is so lucky. Instead of being on tech all the time, he and his friends are out at skate board parks skating and practicing their tricks. He is also in AP classes in high school in math and English and doing well in school. So, he will hopefully get to skate and learn in Osaka.

I think you, your husband, my husband, my daughter and I all love books. We have shipped 110 boxes of books to Germany and left behind bookcases we had built in and other ones which we did not think we could move. This is what is left after purging about 2000 books from our collection, and then another 5-6000 of my mother's books before moving her with the remaining books. With her dementia she cannot read any more. My husband also has 18 boxes of books at a friend's house in another German state which we need to get. We have enough bookcases to have shelved 26 boxes of books, but will have some made once we sell our house in the US and can afford it. We plan on floor to ceiling shelves, but wooden bookcases cost more here than in the US, so it has to wait now that we are on a fixed income.