Sorry for the delay in writing. My computer came back from the repair shop minus an operating system. After trying to get a recovery disk from Toshiba (they don't have any in Japan) and my slacker brother who never emailed me back, I finally gave up an installed Japanese Windows on my computer, as a temporary measure until I get back to the U.S.

Of course, something had to go wrong after that. About one day later, my computer started crashing repeatedly, even before entering Windows. At some points, I would push the power button and nothing would happen at all. The hard drive and fan wouldn't even start up. I don't really know what is wrong with it, because it works some of the time, but not other times. It's quite annoying. I hope they can fix it (or replace my computer!) at Toshiba this time.

I have spent the last two weeks or so working on the program for the charity show. I am pretty happy with how it looks. I ended up making it in Adobe Illustrator, which I had no knowledge of before this project. Now I can use it pretty well. Today I just sent it to the printer in Kyoto. It will cost about 550 dollars for 1000 copies of the program (it's eight A4 pages long, in color). I think the sponsors will be happy, because their ads are in color for the first time, and they look nice. Last year they spent about 700 dollars on it, for 700 copies in single-color. The difference this year was that I had to put the whole thing together, while the printer last year did it for us. Anyway, it is finally done, and we can start worrying more about getting people to come to the show, and other small things like baking goodies for the bake sale.