Technical School

     I have one more job once a week. It's a teacher of general medicine in a technical college. The new school term in Japan starts in April and ends in March. This term has almost ended. Today I gave the last lecture to the students of the nursery course. Because I had already done the whole year's course, I gave the students the choice of today's topic. They wanted to know more details about influenza. Influenza is out of my majors, but it is a good opportunity for me. Giving the lecture to others means I need to study a lot. By that, I could reconfirm my knowledge about influenza and get more insight. I studied the history of influenza this time. The bodies who died of spanish influenza in 1918 were found in the permanently-frozen ground of Alaska and Finland in this decade. These bodies proved that the cause of spanish influenza was avian influenza. Besides, the virus of spanish influenza was from the south of China. It's just the same as present. It is so scary.
     Anyway, science improves a lot in a short time. I'd like to be always at the cutting edge of medical science. I really think so.
     The photo shows my students and me. They will spend one more year in this college and be nursery staff in kindergartens or some facilities dealing with physically or socially handicapped children.