Sunday, March 29, 2009

"something" chanced in my mind

As title tells, something has greatly changed today.
Maybe, I noticed I can enjoy the life more.
Although you might not understand the meaning, difinitely I realized I can be more relaxed.
I might have been tense this week.
I felt I wanted to do everything and I expected I can do all of them. Also, I can do all things much better than others.
But now, I realized it's impossible to do as what I hoped.
I might have thought everything is competition with others, though it's obvious that it doesn't work good to me.

I should be more relaxed and enjoy what I'm doing.


One more thing, here is a good news.
I have an older sister, and she might be going to marry!!
I'm not sure yet, but I've been happy since I heard from my mother.
I sent email to her today, and she told me that her boyfriend came to the house yesterday to talk with my father and mother.
He asked them if he can live together with my sister, not marriage yet.
My sister is 27 years old, and the guy is 31.
My mother said he looks smart and cool.

He was working in the same laboratory at Kyoto University with my sister in Kobe.
I guess he took PhD there.
He start working in a medical school in Tokyo as a lecturer from April.

My sister was also a PhD student of Kyoto University.
However, she decided to drop out from the college the last month, though no one in my family knew the reason of that is to live with her boyfriend at that time.
Actually, I am worried about her a bit because Kyoto University is the second best college in Japan.
Also, she is a talented researcher.
She told me before that she wants to study more in UK or US after she got PhD.

However, I believe her decision is right for her.
She is 27. It's true that women have more work in their life other than their career.
She also starts working in a hospital in Tokyo.
I don't know what she does in that job, but I hope she can use her skills there.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

How I spend the rest of days

First of all, I'm fine now.
I wrote it was a bad day yesterday, but now I got invigorated.

Now, I'm going to write how I want to spend the rest of days in US.
I have only 1 and half months left to stay in US.
I cannot believe that. I feel the time passes so fast.
At the same time, I'm thinking what I learned in my stay here.
Actually, I have had so many experiences and I cannot tell because I learned too many things.
I'm learning from "something" every day and every moment in a great environment.

However, I want to make the time more precious.
I'm going to enjoy the life more by spending more time with my friends because I cannot meat most of them after I leave here.
It is the freest time now. I don't transfer any credits to the college in Japan, so I don't need to be too serious about my academics.
I was so busy when I was in Japan.
I worked a part-time job 5 days a week, especially I worked almost all day on weekends.
Also, I had lab courses and did experiments every afternoon.
I did stocks exchange, built couple of websites, and studied English a little bit.
Actually, I was much much busier than average students because I did so many things other than school life.

But here, I'm not doing such things.
Although I need to spend so much time for study, I feel much free.
I'm pretty sure I will spend so much energy for other than academic study after I'm back to Japan.


Next, I'm going to pour more energy for study.
As I wrote, I'm going to emphasize on other activities other than studies in Japan.
So, this is the only time that I can spend energy for "study."
I'm going to hang in the study.


Anyway, I need to cherish every moment while I'm in US.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

bad day.....

I have had so strange feelings since the last night.
I'm still a little bit depressed, though my health is no problem.
Maybe it's because of the protest I saw the last night.

Originally, I don't have any political view.
The protest was very related to their political view.
When I was in Japan, I didn't need to care about our political view, but here some people have big political view and sometimes they protest based on it.
Honestly, I don't understand it.
I was talking about it with my friend the last night.


Ah.... it's a bad day today.....
I might be so sensitive.....

Friday, March 20, 2009

WBC

These days, I have been excited to WBC (World Baseball Classic.)
It's an international baseball event.
Although this has been the hottest topic in Japan and many people are watching in Japan, only a few people know WBC in US...
It's actually suprising for me.
Baseball is not a popular sports in US any more.
It WAS popular, but baseball is the third most popular sports, after football and basketball.

It's a sad thing that American people don't watch baseball and even don't know WBC.
They should show their nationality in the event.
Only Japanese and Korean are excited to the games.
And, so am I!
Originally, I really like baseball. I played baseball for 5 years from 5th grade in elementary school to senior year in junior high. Also, I was a captain of a baseball club in junior high school.
So, it's obvious that I'm so excited to this baseball event.
I bought a subscribe and could watch on my laptop.

The last three days, I watched games in night.
On Wednesday, the game was at 11:00-2:30..
On Thursday, at 11:00-3:00,
On Friday, at 9:00-12:30...
I had been so tired until yesterday. Also, I had a lot of work and studied hard.
I could take 8 hours sleep the last night, so I was fine today.
The next game is on Sunday with US!!
It must be exciting.
I'm watching with my American friend. I hope Japan wins.


By the way, it was a so nice day today.
To tell the truth, I didn't study at all.
Instead, I spent most of time for talking with my friends. Also, I went to a haircut.
However, I have to study tomorrow, though it's Saturday...
I have two exams next week, and I will not be able to study on Sunday night because I'm watching WBC.
Tomorrow, I'm studying so hard!!!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Feedback of volunteering in Petersburg

I haven't written articles for a long time.
It's fresh to write now.

Anyway, I came back to campus 3 hours ago from a-week volunteer in Petersburg, Virginia.
To tell the truth, I'm so tired now.
However, I'm going to write what I did and learned there because I had a great experience and want to keep in mind what I got from the experience by writing about it.

First, Petersburg is famous as the most collapsed city in Virginia.
One of my friends is from the city, and she says it's terrible.

We left for Petersburg on the last Saturday night. Actually, I was so exhausted because I woke up at 5 in the morning to watch a baseball game...

The first two days, we didn't do almost anything. We hunged out in the city and roughly knew the city.
Honestly, I was disappointed to the trip then, though I didn't expect too much to this volunteer trip. I couldn't see what we would do in the trip.

However, I didn't need to be disappointed any more when the real work started on Monday.
I don't write exactly what we did because we did so many things and it's a lot of work to explain all of them.
We helped painting the inside of house, made frameworks of housing, visited an elementary school and helped the class, helped the organization which is working on HIV problem, and visited houses in community and did survey.

I'm not sure how much we could contribute to community development, but I can say we could become a part of power for organizations that are already working.
The work was first for ourselves, but it was not only self-satisfaction.


This trip made me realize how much I am in a great environment.
My father has gotten higher salary than average family, and much much higher compared with poor family in Petersburg. The community I was raised is pretty good. I went to the second prestigious high school in the area. I'm a college student and I'm studying in US as an exchange student now.
I thought I have noticed that I'm in a good environment. However, I could truely realize the environment I am in.
I have to appreciate for that and I must not take for granted that!!