Notes:
Arkansas アーカンソー州;
make ends meet 家計をよりくりする

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There is a park in the U.S. where you can look for diamonds. The state of Arkansas lets people keep the diamonds that they find at Crater of Diamonds State Park. One man has been digging for diamonds since February, but he recently took a job at a convenience store because it was hard to make ends meet. Then he found a 4.38 carat diamond. I wonder if he will quit his job when he sells it. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
spin 回す；
competition  競争相手, 競争;
clips  短いビデオ

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I am very impressed by how good Japanese students are at pen spinning. Before I came to Japan, I had never seen anything like it. It seems like pen spinning started in Japan, but now it looks like the Japanese have competition. Korea has been pen spinning for years, and Thai students now have a pen spinning club with 10,000 members online. If you go to YouTube and search for pen spinners, you will get clips from other Asian countries such as China and Malaysia. These days there is even an international pen spinning competition. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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