Hobbies, special skills
Going for a drive

Favorite words/phrases
Endeavor (doryoku)

What is most important to me
Family and friends

What I enjoy most
Studying, though I don't enjoy it all that much

What kind of person I am
I'd like to think I'm nice to others and hard on myself, but I always end up going easy on myself, too.

Future ambition
To become a nurse

When I was little, the four members of my family—my father, mother, younger sister, and myself—lived in Tokyo. Mother was big and strong and could do any sort of work, even heavy physical labor. When I was in junior high school, my father suddenly died, leaving my mother to raise us by herself. My younger sister moved away when she married, and now the three of us—my mother, my son, and I—live in Yamagata prefecture, where my mother grew up. Like her, I am now raising a son as a single mother, but I often still rely on her to help out with housework and such.
      I work during the day, at night I study for the entrance examinations for nursing school, and on Sunday I go to high school . . . With my schedule so full, I often end up relying on my mother. But someday, once I get my dream job as a nurse, I would like to live so that, like my mother who worked so hard to raise me, the people in my life can rely on me.