When LIfe Gives Me Lemons

    I have been facing various problems until now. For example, I was belong to tennis club when I was junior high school  student. My club was many people and teachers was too strict, so every practice was very busy. My tennis club was doubles and we participated in the tournament many times. We often played the same opponents every time when it was important in the tournament. That opponents were very strong. When we played them for the first time, we completely defeated. We were very sad and thought that we want to win them someday. We studied them thoroughly, also we practice many times. Next tournament, we played them again, of course we couldn't win them, but we got more points than last time, that encouraged me. I thought that I want to be stronger more. When my retirement approached, we played them again. At that time, I was in good shape, so I continued to attack. As a result, we could win them finally, and we were said that " You're really strong." by another junior high school teachers. I was very happy to hear that. I learned I need to be mentally strong to win and I have to keep trying.

When Life Gives Me Lemons

The college exam is one of the hardest I have ever experienced and has overcome a big wall. This is because university exams have a very wide range of exams and a large amount, so I have to memorize and understand everything I learned in high school and it’s hard for me. It was very difficult to pass the university exam at a different level from junior high school and high school exams. So I felt like my heart broke many times and gave up. But I did my best until the end because of the support of my surroundings. I was helped by friends, teachers and family. First,My friends calmed me down and encouraged me to talk when I scored bad points in the trial or when I couldn't concentrate. Second, the teacher always gave me gentle and easy-to-understand questions no matter how many times I asked them. Finally, my family gave me a pick-up at the end of the cram school, made a lunch every day, and provided a lot of support in various aspects. These supports were very supportive and helpful to me and I was able to get through college entrance exams. Through this experience, I realized that I could never get over this college exam alone. I think I can overcome the big wall thanks to the support around me. I thank everyone!

                                                                                     

When Life Gives Me Lemons...

By Kanna

When life gives me bad things, I want to be strong and I try to make changing situation better. There are two ways to be happy in bad situation. First of all, I always try to be positive thinking. For example, I face cancellation of studying abroad right now and I cannot to go out anywhere, but I am trying to find something to make me fun. I have many free times, so I watch movies a lot and I am into Origami now, and I play many games such as Wii, Uno, and Mafia Game. When I am in Japan, I cannot do these things because I have many things I must do like part-time-job, helping my mother with the housework, and a lot of classes, so I cannot spend times on these pastimes. If I think positively, I have many free times, so I can do these things. It is very sad to leave here, but I decided to enjoy the rest of time as soon as possible!

 Second, If I face bad situation, I have to forget it and think about other things to make me better. If I keep thinking about only bad things, it definitely will be worse, and it is the worst thing.  I don’t want to waste my precious time worrying about bad things. Worrying won’t change anything. We can make our life more interesting by ourselves to find new hobby or pleasure. For example, I am thinking to try drawing pictures and embroidery. I heard from my grand mother these hobbies make people relax and she gave me a set of embroidery. I actually didn't use for a long time, but I would like to try it.

In conclusion, when life gives me lemons, I try to be positive thinking and forget bad things and find something new. I know these are hard, but if I believe and try to use these ways, bad situations definitely become better! We have to stay positive!

When LIfe Gives Me Lemons

 By Tomoka 
   If difficult things happen, I always challenging without giving up. There are two reasons. First, I never want to regret. When I was junior high school student, the high school which I wanted to go to, but my teacher told me that it was impossible. However, I studied hard without giving up and took an entrance examination for the high school. Then I was able to pass it. If it was given up at that time, I couldn’t go to the high school, and I was regretted. So I thought it was important to challenge without giving up. Second, I can’t change the difficult situation if I give up challenge it. For example, if someone asks for something for me and I abandon it, nothing will change. But, if I challenge it, I can get myself known and a chance to grow up. I think that taking a challenge is giving me a lot of knowledge and experience, so it was important for me. In addition, I think that the person retreats at the moment when I gave up a challenge. For these reasons, I want to challenge it if a difficult things happen.

When Life Gives Me Lemons

     When I face difficult things, I usually overcome them three ways. For example, our study abroad was cancelled because of the Coronavirus. When I heard this bad news, I was so depressed, and I felt really frustrated because I couldn't go out anymore, our homestay was cancelled, and also, I couldn't talk with my RA and my teachers anymore. It was the one of the worst news in my life, but I think it's not good to have been depressed all the time, so I usually do these to overcome it. First of all, I often try to think positively even if I face really bad situations. For example, I think that how much my English skills have improved during this study abroad, or how my values have changed since I came here. Second, I think about only fun things, such as my favorite singers, clothing stores, coffee shops, and planning of travel with my friends. By doing these. I'm able to be relax or calm myself down. Finally, I try to do whatever I want to. For example, I watch comedy shows on YouTube and listening my favorite songs. These things make me happy, relieved, and smile. For these ways, when life gives me lemons, I can overcome bad situations.

When Life Gives You Lemons

By Sayaka

I experienced some problems in my life. There are two problems. The first is college exams. When I was a high school student, I studied hard everyday because I wanted to pass the entrance examination of the school of my first choice, so I was attending cram school everyday. I tried to study hard, but I was not admitted to the school of my first choice, so I was depressed and totally lost my confidence. When I was depressed, I was encouraged by my family and they said “ Never give up, you can do it.”  I was helped many times by this word, so I am very grateful to my family. The second is my personality. I was shy until I entered junior high school, so I was not good at speaking in front of people. When I was junior high school student, I went to China. It was the first time for me to go travel abroad, and I was very excited. I trie to speak to people many times, and then my personality changed little by little and I became able to speak in front of people. Now, I can think positively about anything. In conclusion, I think it is important to listen to good advices from others and to try something new.

When Life Gives You Lemon

　I had two troubles in my life. First, when I was junior high school student, I quarreled over trivial things with my friend. I was very confused and sad. Also, I didn't talk with her, and I was scared her because I had never had such a big quarrel in my life, but my friends helped me to talk with her, gave some advice to me, and encouraged me, so I could apologize to her, and I could repair our relationships. Second, when I was high school student, I studied a lot to pass the university entrance examination, but a judgement of pretest was always not good, so I was so sad and lost my motivations. Then, my teachers and family found my situation and encouraged me. They told their own experiences and gave some advice to study. Also, my friends and I encouraged each other, and I imagined what I want to do when I pass the university, so I regained my motivations, and I could pass the entrance examination. I was very happy and said thanks to them. Also, I thought it is important not to give up. Finally, I found if you have troubles, even if it is painful, you can always solve it someday and make lemonade!!

When Life Gives Me Lemons

   
　I have ever hardest experienced is when I was taking college exams. I always attended a supplemental school every day from morning 9 am to 10 pm. I studied English words and grammar desperately. I also wrote the marker for my mistake and solved it for many times. I especially took a lot of history lessons, because I was not good at remembering history. It was very hard for me, but I didn’t give up studying. I wanted to pass the entrance examination for university, but I couldn’t pass the first-choice school. It was painful for me. I nearly discouraged many times, but I was able to make it this for thanks to the encouragement of my friends. I asked my friends and teachers what I didn’t understand and managed to overcome my weak subject. I went on to major in humanities or social science because I was not good at mathematics and science. I was able to enroll to Mukogawa Women’s University thanks to my continued studying until the end. I was happy to be able to enter this university now. With this experience, I realized it was important not give up anything.

When Life Gives You Lemons

When I live, some problems are sure to happen.  For example, When I was third-year high school student, I was faced with university entrance examination.  I was really worried about it, but I barely could overcome it by ways of fourth thinking.  First, I studied hard to get rid of my anxiety.  When I was third-year high school student, I studied about 10 hours in a day.  The more I study, the more my confidence level ups, so it was good way for me.  Second, my friends and I mutually enhanced each other until we took exam.  For example, I taught my friend English because she was poor at it.  In contrast, she taught me math because I was bad at math.  Also, I shared her sadness about the test when she felt depressed.  Sometimes I talked with her my worries I couldn’t talk with my parents because she understood my feeling better than my parents.  Third, I talked with my family or my teacher who are reliable persons.  I felt so much better and got the feeling that I can overcome the problem through the conversation with them because they often advised me what I should do.  Finally, I compared my worries with another harder problems, for example, poverty, conflict, education problem and so on.  When I thought of their stories, I always feel they are very small ones.  In short, I think these ways are the best way to overcome my problems.