2010年10月13日水曜日

Lemon fragrance

Lemon makes me calm down.

When people have a lot of things to do, their minds are likely to be filled with uneasiness.
I think that we should welcome the start of the day with a great hopeful mind.

Speaking of me, when I wake up, at the same time, my head is filled with my urgent work before feeling morning sun shine.
So when I feel anxiety, I try to feel lemon fragrance.
The fragrance let me give a moment to think about my condition in my heart.
It locks one of my drawers where there are negative experiences in my life.
Instead, it opens another drawer in which there are hopeful mind, happiness and optimistic view.

Just smell lemon fragrance.

It may seem to be ridiculous for you.
Even though you say that it is meaningless, I want to insist that definitely it has a valuable meaning.

Although I don't have enough time to go out for refreshing, I believe that I can make myself stable if I really take care of such a small stuff in my daily life.

My lesson in the morning:
1. Feel sun shine.
2. Breath deeply
3. Image my happy future
4. Smell lemon flavor
5. Start my study

I want to have a great time at least in the morning even though I'm so busy.

2010年10月4日月曜日

One month passed.

One month has passed since I came to N.Y.
Did I change anything ?
Or didn't I change anything else?

The environment is different.
The language is different.
The culture is different.
The character of people is different.
The food is different.
The weather is different.
The way to catch things is different.
The way to spent time is different.


What did I obtain from the new life in N.Y?
Actually, I feel unsatisfied because I notice there are a lot of things I should do and I want to do.
Speaking of studying, it wasn't enough for me as I didn't review the lectures like I wanted.
Because of meaningless stress, I couldn't keep myself positive.
I mean, I couldn't overcome temptation.
However, I got happy because I was able to pay attention to personal things like communication with my friends and also to leave my work halfway.
I was able to change the order of priority.
It was awesome for me.
In almost all my life, I thought the first priority was to do things efficiently.
I've worked on everything without my inner reserves,using my huge energy.
But I couldn't change my tendency of the way to think for a long time.
Looking back to the month I spent in the university in N.Y, I thought actually I did change my fixed idea that I had thought had been exactly correct although it was no conclusive evidence; it was just my belief.
In fact, I did try to make as much time as I could to talk with my friends when they have something to talk with me about their concern.
Even though I had a lot of thing to do, I prioritized the things connected with human inner mind.
Of course, still I often feel huge stress for myself.
But I did change myself a little bit although the change was very very small.

I know what I should do in order to improve my human skill and my English level as long as I can during ten months.
But I don't make a plan for a month because the schedule for a long term in the future is more likely not to work well as I expect.
So I should make a small step to achieve a small aim in a few days.
Today I made the list which was about what I should pay attention to.

The first thing is to strive to talk with the professors to improve the formal English expression.

The second task is to get information about volunteer in hospitals and and find the opportunity to work as an assistant in a cosmetic company.

The third task is to make a list when I don't know how to say what I really tell in English.

The forth thing is to catch up the word used during the conversation between English speakers.

I want to challenge my small but important step in a week.