
This is my trainning note of English as a foreign language.
I am Japanese . I was born and grown up in Japan over 27 years.
I've never studied abroad nor worked abroad. but I hope sometime I do.
Now I resume studying English after an absence of 8 years.
This is why I want to switch my career from subcontract Software Engineer to something Interesting.
Not just only coding or testing ,but designing architecture I want to try in the future. 
I have a round trip commute of 3 hours or more every weekday. Almost all the time, I am in a (or the
) train with reading book, newspaper or sometimes MANGA (Japanese comic).
In Japan, even for functional adults read MANGA especially in the train but it looks strange for other countrys people. To which most Japanese say that "MANGA is not same as comic. MANGA is more interesting than foreign comic. This is why we read MANGA." I have never read foreign comics and can't judge which is more interesting, but to say the least, I know very interesting MANGA.
by the way, I am reading "NIJUSSEIKI SHOUNENN(20th century boys)", "VAGABOND", "BLACK JACK NI YOLOSHIKU( say hello to BLACK JACK)" and "BERSERK" every week or biweekly.
Have you ever read MANGA?
What's MANGA?:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga