Hi, I'm Ayako Edahiro, a Pangaea volunteer. I work for personnel affairs in City Bank, the global financial group headquartered in the U.S. I learned about Pangaea for the first time in the fall of 2003 when I heard "There is an amazing project bonding children all over the world through the internet" from Ms. Keiko Yamamoto, my close friend from college days. She is a reporter of NHK and was introduced to this Pangaea Ring. I couldn't understand exactly what Pangaea was at that moment. However I was very impressed by her when she talked about a huge-scale project with bright eyes. I remember she wasn't satisfied with my comment, "you're such a mysterious person", but I had intended to have praised her very much.

Later on, I had a chance to meet Ms. Mori and Mr. Takasaki through Ms. Keiko Yamamoto in the fall of 2005. When I summarized what I had heard from them at the end of 2005, I felt something strongly knocked at the door of my heart and I felt happy that they didn't die in the attacks on September 11, 2001. Because it was so strong that the door would break if I left it, I e-mailed Ms Mori immediately to tell her that I wanted to help Pangaea. She replied soon as I expected. I remember this happened on New Year's Eve. Since then I've been helping Pangaea by update and translation of the homepage and a setup of the blog.

As for my wishes for Pangaea in the future, I hope the Pangaea activity will continue forever and expand all over the world by becoming an aspect from lines as well as the line from points. I'm very happy to help Pangaea with this.


Ayako Edahiro, Volunteer