Bullying lecture

The lecture was very clear and easy to understand. I already knew most of the stuff discussed in the lecture. I think that we should educate more about cyber bullying to younger children such as elementary students. This is because more children are starting to use smartphones at younger age.

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Dreams and Reality

It is so hard facing reality when you are practically living in your dreams, imagining what you think is that just isn't.

Time flies so fast

it's already June time flies so fast.

I need to use my time more effectively........

It is June

May was so fast.

I am happy that it is June if you just ignore the temperature.

Outside it is too hot and inside is too cold.
Take care everyone!

TELL

Not much of it was new, 

but I was surprised that more then a half people who called

were Japanese.

I thought that it should be easier to express your feelings 

in your mother tongue,

but since these are people who are suffering in a Japanese society

it might been easier to talk to someone who is not Japanese.

My voice

As you all know, my voice is somehow not working very well.

My friends laugh all the time when I speak..........

this is the first time I lost my voice but I kind of like this husky voice, It's kind of  interesting listening to  new voice.

My pinky toe.

TRAGETY!!!

So I was waking happily to the class and as I was about to sit down, I hit my pinky toe. Hard. No mercy. It was bleeding. My poor pinky toe. I tried to bend by pinky toe but I can't. It is swollen. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

A drawing of my dog

Oh my god I kept this blog a draft for a week😂...
Anyways I just wanted to show the picture of my dog's painting 👻 My friend's mom painted for us:)

Wow, by the way my dog is still alive guys ...JUST FYI!!

belated birthday party

Saya, Kaho, Asuka, and Wakana celebrated Kim and my belated birthday last night at T.G.I Fridays! Not only food but also ice cream sunday was so delicious! I appreciate so much for the surprise and present:) Thank you guys:)

Birthday Party

Today Wakana, Kaho, Asuka, Sari, and I held a belated birthday party for Kim and Mina.

We went to a restaurant Fridays. We celebrated over delicious dinner!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

By the way, the food in Fridays was so delicious you should go there!!!!!!

💔Cyber Bullying Lecture💔

Today's lecture was presented mainly by Princess Najwa Waheed Naohara.

❤She talked about what the organization she works for, TELL, does.

💔She talked about the types of bullying there are:
Trolling (sending rude messages on purpose),
Sexting,
Outing (spreading information of one's secrets that the bully promised not to share publicly).

❤She also talked about the signs of bullying and it's effects on the victim, and that we need to acknowledge the Autism Spectra, which is the health needs or insecurities and difference in education, between the people we interact with.

❤Another important point she stated to spot and help victims of such bullying, is through listening better to what they say, and noticing their change in behavior if they show it.

I personally have terrible listening skills and rarely seem to show my interests and curiosity in conversations( not that I am not interested or curious!) and the beautiful princess presented me the answer why I am so!(thank you princess!) That we are thinking of what we are going to say next while "hearing" what the other person is saying...subconsciously.Come to think of it, maybe that is why it seems easier to communicate with people by email than by speech...? I admit I am very ashamed of this, and from now on I will "listen"!

❤And that was a bit beside the point. I think that the point of this lecture was to notice the changes in people's behavior and speech, and be aware that 69% of young people were being bullied in 2013, which is a number we should take into account. And if you happen to witness bullying, help the victim out by being not the bystander but the upstander.

Thank you

Whenever I do something small and someone says the word thank you, I feel relieved. It's a small think but it makes my day. I don't know why I decided to post this as one of my entries but I suddenly remember the day when someone thanked me a lot, like she literally bowed at a right angle, by just picking up the person's umbrella cover. Sorry it is random but I wanted to share this experience because I thought it's heartwarming. Lisa

The dragon boat festival

Today, fifth of May in lunar calendar, is the dragon boat festival, or so called Duanwu Festival in some of Eastern Asia countries.
We eat rice dumpling to celebrate today.
I wonder why so many festivals in Asia use special foods to celebrate.

hot

It's so hot these days.

I can't understand people who are wearing long sleeved shirts.

My friend's coming to Japan

My friend who lives in Dubai and is half Pakistan and half Japanese is coming to Japan on the 13th of June! I'm so excited to see her :) I'm planning to surprise her at the Haneda airport!! Yayyy

College classes

I wonder why some people can sleep or talk loudly during classes...it's so mottainai!

Paying for education in universities is so expensive. It's like paying the teachers about 3,000 yen after taking each and every class..and yet a number of people are talking and not listening! What a waste of money :(

Sunrise

This morning, when I looked out of the window at 4:30, the sky was so beautiful.   The sky with pink, orange, and blue mixed up like a gradation was fantastic and it made me feel relaxed though I was tired then.

dummy questions...

how do you know what's dummy and what's not dummy?
did you know that toefl tests are like 6 hours??
man this is so hard to get used to!

getting ready for toefl

I'm getting ready for the toefl ibt since they can be used in many situations!
It will be my first time taking it!
If anyone knows good test taking places in Tokyo tell me!

mushiatsui

I turned on the air conditioner at my room for the first time this summer, and sat there without noticing it was on for heating for ten minutes!

29th May

feeling so depressed these days...
who thinks it's Gogatsubyou?

I've been thinking about how to make my uni life better than anytime.

almost June

blog page looks so fancy what happened. 

Exhausted

I came back from camp today and I'm extremely exhausted. I have a terrible headache right now.. I need some rest. I think I'll talk about my camp in detail tomorrow. Good night, everyone.

Language

As you know, I've neither lived out of Japan nor learned to speak English so I have learned English only through educational institutions which means I don't know words which I don't learn at school.
whatever. That's all.

Book

I'm still reading my book and I'm dead.
Lots of researches to do.

book report

is it okay to add a map in the history section？？？

ramen

I was totally forgetting that I'm on a diet and ate ramen for two days in row...shame shame shame...

About the funny story

Well I was writing another

Funny story about the girl I dated after 

Entering uni

But it went for like 50 lines

And thought that no one was going to 

Read this 

So if anyone's interested let me know

Saturday night

I just had Red Bull for the first time in my life. I thought that drink is supposed to make you awake or something, but it didn't affect me at all. I feel like it even made me sleepy. It didn't make me fly either.
I hope everyone had a good Saturday.

Internship

Some company's summer internship only took less than a week, and are open for application now!

5.28

There will be another lecture tomorrow on 5/28 about employment in Japan, I'd love to go but I still haven't finish the book report. Why do I keep think about another book when wirting about Flowers for Algernon??

Full day today

I stayed inside school campus from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, went to Korean lecture in the morning and employment orientation in the afternoon. Tired but worthwhile

No way

I am working on the book report. 

I don't remember what happened in the beginning of the story. 

Sucks. 

Gonna be a busy weekend

I think the two days from today will pass just doing homework😡  Maybe many of you are in the same situation.  I wish I had more forethoughts...
Let's do our bests!

sunny day

I went jogging this morning because the weather was amazing!

Notice

Me and Diana went to seven eleven after we put our umbrella and a water bottle on the table in the cafeteria, but when we came back, it magically disappeared!! Help us find them!

rain

I hate the rain.

raining

Don't forget to bring an umbrella with you

I got pregnant

Nah I'm kidding

French Class

Right now I take French for the second language, and it is already too difficult for me! I have always thought French language was beautiful and sophisticated, and I wanted to learn it because it is the standard language of fencing. It turned out that its pronunciation was a hundred times harder than I had expected, and I feel left behind every week.. Need to study a lot more!

Agh....

Too many homework. I have no time to rest..

Have a good night guys!!!!!!!!

...

Argh.
Apart from school home homework, part time job preparations, I am given homework by my parents. That is, reading a Japanese book per week, and writing its summary and my comments in Japanese on each book by the end of the week. Another essay due every week, lovely, right? I am already behind on that... Also! my Russian teacher lent me a Russian book to read like a month ago, and I have hardly read 10 pages of it! I'm toast!

book report

I'm working on it but I can't see the ending...ahhh I've got to speed up my reading

Good signs

Do you believe in signs?
Like, you see a car written 777 on the number plate, you might feel lucky.
Well this morning, I saw a dove with a olive branch.
It's not that I believe them but I like finding those kind of things.

Bed

I've had a cold since yesterday so I have to stay in bed all day. 

I have lots to do but cannot to any of them. 

Somebody please take care of me. 

Please help me with the homework. 

Praying for Manchester and Ari

An explosion that appeared to be a suicide bombing(terror attack) killed at least 22 people on Monday night and wounded 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert. The police raided the home of Salman Abedi, the man they identified as the bomber; he died in the blast. ISIS claim responsibility on this attack. I was really shocked and heart broken when I heard about the news. I've been an Arianator for so long and the fact that Ari's doing everything she can do for the victims/fans made me really proud of being an Arianator. I'll always support her no matter what.
Sending my love and prayers to all the victims of the Manchester attack and Ariana Grande. Stay strong Manchester.

Spanish

I have a Spanish quiz tomorrow and a mid-term the next week.
I'm so nervous right now...

Container

Sorry the title is boring. Anyway, when I came to Japan, I noticed there aren't such services known as take out(?) which you can bring the leftovers you ordered at the restaurant  back home and enjoy it afterwards. I don't know if this directly connects to environmental problem but I have a feeling the amount of garages produced could definitely decrease... ( of course you have to prepare your own tupperware and bring it to the restaurant to decrease the amount of gasses created by making extra containers!) Lisa

Obāchan's garden

Did anyone see the whole movie we saw last Friday?
I couldn't find the movie anywhere.