A rebuttal to "the problem of Sally and Ann"

Sally put a candy in box A and went out of the room. Meanwhile Ann moved it to box B. Which box will Sally open when she comes back? The answer is B because the boxes were made of glass. 
Ann left her pet Charlie in the cage, left its door open and went out. Where is Charlie when Ann comes back? Charlie is fast asleep in the cage. He is a hamster. A biologist told me hamsters are in most cases asleep in the daytime. 
These problems seem at a glance to be purely logical problems. However, these show that the logical answers are not always correct. In most of the exams in Japan, we are required to get the logical answers without being shown the reality. We need the ability to get logical answers. But at the same time we need the ability to ask the biologist when hamsters are awake. 
I do simulations at lab and know how powerless it is. In most cases the simulation results don't correspond with the experimental. I wanted to show you how ridiculous Japanese exams are. Not only logical thinking but also getting the REAL information is important. 
It is ridiculous that we make too much of logical thinking and nothing of real information.

Home Start: Local Volunteers to Prevent Child Abuse

Yesterday I attended "Child Abuse Meeting" held by APCA in Osaka.
I learned about "Home-Start", volunteer activities to prevent child abuse.
It originated in the UK, and some citizens in Kumatori, Osaka are also doing that kind of activities.

Generally in Japan, the experts of child abuse are busy dealing with actual abuse.
However, child abuse is often caused by stressful conditions, and that kind of conditions can occur in any families.
A Home-Start group consists of some experts and volunteer citizens who have raised children.
They visit some families who have troubles raising children.
They talk about raising children and do some of the houseworks together.

In the modern society, some families often have no choice but to move to another ditrict.
They have no friends and get isolated.
The Home-Start activities mainly focus on these kind of isolated families.
Though they CAN get help from some of the local facilities, they DON'T, because they have no connection to the local community.

I hope this kind of activities help to prevent child abuse.

Kyoto Student Council for Blood Donation

Hi!
I am the member of

"Kyoto Student Council for Blood Donation". (Kyotofu-gakusei-kenketsu-suishin-kyogikai)

Our group consists of university, college, graduate school and vocational school students living in or attending schools in Kyoto, and we are voluntarily assembled to call for blood donation.

We have a lot of fun calling for and learning about blood donation.
(^o^)/

If you are interested in our activities, please contact:
ripple@ab.raindrop.jp