Happy New Year, Mochizuki Seminar!,

How are you spending your winter holidays? I hope you are enjoying yourselves. I had a wonderful vacation although I spent most of my time in a quiet dormitory. On a New Year's Eve, some TV programs showed the New Year's countdown in multiple countries, live. So I counted down for the New Millennium seven or eight times with the people around the world on TV. I felt how big-scaled America is, providing that I was able to celebrate in different places around the world at different times. I heard the TV stations used approximately 54 satellites for this event. For the countdown in Lincoln, I went downtown and saw a laser show which displayed numbers on a building wall for the millennium-to-come, and then, the fireworks erupted at the moment of the Millennium.

I wish that this year will be filled with li,
Yoko