When Life Gives Me Lemon

     This study abroad program is lemons for me because some bad things have continuously happened.  First, our trips were cancelled.  Second, all other events which I was looking forward to, such as home stay, shock football game, shrine circus, and blooms day, were also called off.  Finally, we will have to go back to Japan on Tuesday.  Corona virus is spreading both in Japan and in the U.S. and each government has started restricting those who enter the countries.  Though I know I must receive this bad situation, I’m extremely sad and disappointed.  If we were able to continue studying English at MFWI, we could learn more about American culture and real conversation.  Unfortunately, we can’t do that anymore, which is too bad for us.  However, if we give up now, we will waste the time when we stayed at MFWI with our RAs and teachers, so we must continue studying English hard.  In Japan, I intend to keep studying English in the same way I had been studying at MFWI, and I will touch real English.  For example, I will watch a lot of movie in English and BBC news, keep studying TOEIC exam, and speak English as much as possible through contacting my teachers, my RA, and my friends.  Therefore, life is giving me lemons just now, so now is the time when I make lemonade out of lemons.

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

   
　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.