Friday, September 12, 2008

My Solution

My situation has well I guess my situation made me work harder in japanese because I know for sure that pretty soon I won't be able to have it easy. What I mean by this is that I won't be able to come home to a family and practice my japanese. This means I really have to depend on myself and work really hard to achieve. So far, I have been doing this. I've been changing everything on computer to japanese, looking at clubs to participate at my school, offering students help with english in exchange for japanese, taking advantage of cheap japanese lessons, watching japanese shows, and and listening to the music. Overall, this move made me realize that it really is up to me to make this happen so I've been studying much more harder now and really paying attention to everything. I also realize that I don't want to waste a good opportunity that not everyone is fortunate to have in life. Even though, there are some people out there that aren't paitent with international students ( I haven't come across them, but witnessed it in America), I'm pretty sure that there's always someone well a lot of students out there that are paitent and want to build a friendship with them. Thanks again for your support and this bad situation will indeed pass. Other than that, I was very unfortunate esp. being the nice person that I am to have a not so caring host family. I have faith that this will pass too and I will definitely achieve my goal in Japan which is to become fluent in Japanese. I have spoken to my dad on the phone and through e-mails. This has helped a lot though! I'm glad to have family support back home but the stress hasn't been effecting my work in class though so that's exciting!! that's definatly the good part. I'll officially be moving to an all female dorms because well the new family is scared well anyways i gotta bounce so peace

1 comment:

JamasiaN said...

Brittany I am proud of you for stepping up to your own plate. I was so mad about not having good opportunities to use Chinese that I went back to listening to my Japanese music and watching Korean dramas...

I'll use your inspiration and put those things away for rainy days (which are few here) and I will continue watching Chinese dramas with no subtitles and just accept the frustration until I get what they're saying. Music too. I came here to be fluent in Chinese so that's what I'll do.

加油!!to me
頑張ってね!! to you lol