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Starting Line
Today was my last day of summer vacation. It means the new semester begins from tomorrow! Now i'm feeling exciting but nervous just like standing on a starting line. What i'm exciting about is that i can study more specific things than before. i'm going to study International Politics. It's one of my interests so i think i can enjoy studying it. In class, i heard that there's some discussion time, so this is a good chance to improve what i learned from AUSL! This semester, I want to keep this word in my mind... It is not what you are but how you are. This is the word that i found in an ad in US. I was in a car and looking outside, and suddendly this word on a big signboard came into my eyes. I clearly remembered the word even i could see it for a short time, because i was thinking the same thing that an ad said! I think "how you are" is decided by my action. Standing on a starting line, now i'm feeling i want to try something new and find new side of myself- "how i am"  【2006/10/05 11:45】 | 未分類 | TRACKBACK(0) | COMMENT(3) | |
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Sooo sorry,,,
Long Time No see!!!! I was sooo lazy...sorry,sorry... Well, as i wrote in Mixi, i was traveling Kyoto last week. I stayed there for 4 days and spent a very nice&relaxing time  While in Kyoto, i stayed in my grandparents' house. They are still fine and we drank together  and talked a lot. They said to me that i'm so lucky to meet many good friends and enjoy my youth days. I understood terribly what they wanted to say. Their youth was kinda dark days because of WW��. They couldn't do what they wanted to do because of many regulations. Now they are enjoying their life as they want, but their memory of dark youth days will never die out. It's natural that we cannot get back our past time, but this kind of things hurts my heart  I felt that my grandparents are always so bright coz they want to get back lost juvenescence. Anyway it was so happy to talk with them deeply as one "adult" not a "grandchild". I deeply love them  I decided to update my blog every Monday and Thursday  I'll try my best next time The wind is getting cool(actually i've got a fever today.. but now it's Okay!) . Take care  【2006/09/29 00:41】 | 未分類 | TRACKBACK(0) | COMMENT(0) | |
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Photo is..
 The day before yesterday, i went to Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.(http://www.syabi.com/top/top_eng.html) I like photos. I don't know why. But there is something that strongly attract me. When i see photos, i feel that a photo has a room to allow unconsciousness to exist. I mean, we "cut" the world we see as we want through taking photos and our unconsciousness decide where to "cut". When i see someone's photos, i feel their unconciousness. It's hard to express this kind of feeling  In that Museum, i saw photos in several oceans taken by Ikuo Nakamura. His photos showed me the unknown world...unknown color, unknown shape, unknown interaction...but at the same time, i saw something that resemble to things in our daily life. I felt the connection between our lives and lives in ocean. We tend to see the things on only land, but in fact, much more things are happning in ocean because ocean is much bigger than land geographically. Anyway, i was happy to see the unknown world a little. It was kind of small travel into ocean. Yesterday, i was bitten by soooo many f#cking mosquitos!! I don't know why. Scarly! My feet are so miserable 'cause there are sooo many red points. I counted and it was 20...!! Okay, it's kind of "service" , isn't it, Yoshi? haha. 【2006/09/10 15:09】 | 未分類 | TRACKBACK(0) | COMMENT(1) | |
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My new interest
Today was a rainy day. In california, we didn't have rain, so it was little weird for me to see rain. Of course i like sunny days but i also love rainy days 'cause it bring me calmness. I also think that I like rainy days since i was born on a rainy day. To tell the truth, I like stormy days much better. I don't know why but i can't help being excited on a stormy day. Maybe because my mother was born on a stormy day. It's true!! Recently i found new interest through AUSL experience. I had some chance to go and work in "Community garden". Do you know what it is? It is a garden where people living near there can feel free to plant and grow vegetables or fruits. Generally, they are being produced in organic way. These vegetables are not for selling, so people in that community can pick up them anytime as they want. It is the system to provide healthy food to community. Besides, working together in there, people from different background can communicate easily. I think the concept of "Community garden" is needed in Japan, especially in suburb. In suburb, usually there is not much communication because people want to feel free from complicated ralationship with neighborhoods. But without sense of belonging, some problems will happen. For example, first, their sense of responsibility will be weak. second, elderly people feel loneliness. I think we need sense of belonging to some extent. I think it will be a lot of help for elderly people to work in community garden. There is 3 reasons. First, they can communicate easily with their neighborhood. Second, they have a chance to move their bodies. Third, they can actually see the result of working hard and feel self-confident to know these products support many lives of the community. I have heard that gardening is being used for medical cure , so i think "communiry garden" is kind of cure for our communities. I want to keep on learning about this issue. Anyway, i'm feeling i have written too seriously! Haha. I need some rest  ..so good night  【2006/09/07 00:48】 | 未分類 | TRACKBACK(0) | COMMENT(5) | |
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Distance
5 days have passed from when i left US. I'm still troubled with jet-lag(maybe because of my age..?) so i'm now terribly sleepy  Actually, i was in the program called "Asia-Us Service Learning" in this August. It was soooo fun and unforgetable memory...Living together with AUSL members in Stanford dorm and youth hostel, doing some volunteer works, discussing about environmental issues, preparing for our presentation, going to a crazy amusement park, eating icecream tooo much, shopping, chatting, crying...now i miss every moment of AUSL days. There are so many things that i learned from AUSL.I cannot explain all, but one thing i'm now feeling the most important is the certain change of myself about communication. Before AUSL, though i understood that communication is important, i was afraid of communicating deeply with others,including my family or close friends. But through AUSL, i felt that communicating deeply with others can bring me many many good things. For example, i can trust them and others can trust me through deeper interaction. To make communication deeper, "open-minded" is keyword. Nothing will happen if i would not open my door. I learned that it is so fun to throw myself into the world of others and see what will happen between us. I think it's kind of chemical reaction. Now i'm keeping touch with one of members from Stanford. I'm sooo happy to contact with her and she also said she is sooo happy too. I'm sure that our distance can make us grow. In march, we're going to meet again! Next time we'll meet in crazy city TOKYO  I cannot help counting down the day and planing where to go.Phew! Writing and thinking in English is still hard for me I'm going to relax... See you 【2006/09/05 16:51】 | 未分類 | TRACKBACK(0) | COMMENT(5) | |
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