Delicious Korean Dishes

Last night I met a Korean friend of mine,
and we went to the Koean restaurant in 赤坂.
The name of the restaurant is やさい村 大地.

He introduced this restaurant to me,
and we decided to go there last night.

Recently there are a lot of Korean restaurants
but it is difficult to find good restaurants.
So I always ask my Koeran friends to take me to those.
I believe his sense of taste.

This restaurant serves us many kinds of vegetable leaves.
It impressed me very much and made me excited.

We met each other after two years,
but I was glad to talk with him a lot.
We can discuss similarities & differences
between Korea and Japan, and this discussion is very fun.

I also recommend this restaurant. Try it once!

Training

Since the beginning of this month,
I have been training 10 new teachers
who will start to teach English this July.

They are very capable, eagar and practice very hard.
So I also have to make efforts to enable them to teach well.

To train a student or a teacher is really difficult.
I am really wondering wheather I can do it or not
even though I have to do it and I want to be able to do it.

I want a lot of help and ideas.

Confidence

How do you get confidence?
Do you know how to get confidence?
Have you ever thought about how to get confidence?

I don’t have the confidence about one thing now.
However, I want to overcome this
and I have been wondering how I can overcome this.

I know how to overcome this.
That is to have experience.

I strongly believe that
confidence comes after only experience,
not only one experience, but lots of experiences.
So I know that it takes a very long time.

This means that
without experience, we can never get confidence

Even if we study, practice very much and hard,
nothing improves without experience.

As you know, we can’t drive a car
even if we read a textbook in the classroom.
Driving schools make us practice driving a car
not only once but many times.

Therefore, I have to have a lot of experiences a lot of times
to have confidence and be able to overcome my problem.
Lots of experiences need a very long time.
I will try this to reach my objective.

I often hear about the following story.
These people have a bad circulation.

When we study something,
　we can’t have a confidence.①
　　⇒ we are frightened of trying.②
　　　⇒ we don’t try, thus we can’t have an experience.③
so we can’t have confidence again.①
　　⇒ we are frightened of trying again.②

BAD CIRCULATION!!

How can we overcome this situation?
The point is ③.

We Have To Try(③),
even if we don’t have a confidence(①) and we are frightened(②).

If ③ changes, we can have an experience,
And we will be able to have confidence.④ ← This is New Number 4.

This is only one way to change the situation.
The point is ③.

We Have To Try(③)

TV Drama

What drama do you watch in this cour?
Most of dramas will finish this week or next week.

I am absorbed in watching three dramas now.
They are “Tumbling, Mother, 新参者”.

And I am getting sad day by day because they will finish…
but although I want to know the endings very much.

I have liked watching dramas
since I was a junior high school student.

I have watched a lot of dramas, recorded and stocked them.
Each drama reminds me of lots of my old episodes.

Also I have bought lots of the sound track CDs about the drama.
The music also reminds me of lots of my old episodes.

From this July, new dramas will start,
and I have been wondering which dramas I will watch.

Cell Phone

This is my current cell phone.
http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/urbano_barone/index.html

This March I bought this phone.
Recently I am being used to this phone little by little.
Probably I haven’t used many functions yet though…

By the way, there are very many kinds of cell phones sold in Japan.
I have never seen the person who uses the same cell phone as mine.
Have you seen such a person?

Probably lots of people have seen the person whose family name is same as yours.
(I know just one person who has the same family name as mine though…
because my family name may be rare?!)

However, the percentage about seeing the same mobile phone must be lower.
This is what I thought in the last train last Thursday on my way from my office.
Have you never thought about such a thing?

Sky Tree

Yesterday I went to see Tokyo Sky Tree in 業平橋.
Now it is 398m tall, however it will be 634m next December,
and it will open. I am very excited.

I visited Taipei 101 in 台湾 last October(!?)
and went to the observation deck to see the Taipei view.
It was also great and it excited me very much
although I was a little frightened of the height.

After Sky Tree opens, how will 押上 and 錦糸町 be?
Will they be more fashionable, expensive or so on?
I want to see how they will be.

This new tower makes me very excited,
and I am looking forward to the days.

Library

I like libraries.

There are lots of books, magazines and CDs,
and we don’t have to buy them but can read them.
We can borrow a lot of language textbooks or CDs, too.
Then, freely and for a long time,
we can read a lot of books without money.

This is a great thing, isn’t it?

I like also book shops,
but basically there are no seats to read books and I can’t be relaxed.

Also esterday, I spent in the library for almost three hours.
One magazine isn’t very expensive, but it is weekly or monthly,
So if we buy it every week or month, we need much money.
Therefore, library is really great.

Recently we can search books or CDs and request on the inter-net.
As soon as those books or CDs come to us,
the email from the library is sent to my e-mail.

Library is really great.
We should use a library more and usefully.

Iris Garden

I went to the Iris Garden yesterday.
This garden is in 堀切, 葛飾区.
I went there for the first time.
In the past I was not interested in flowers or nature at all.
My parents took me to a lot of such places,
but I was always very bored.
However, recently to see flowers or nature is becoming interesting.
Last month I went to 秩父 to see 芝桜,
and yesterday I went to 堀切菖蒲園.
It makes me released from many things, and time goes slowly.
They say that June 10th will be the best time to see.

Saturday

My work today has just finished,
and I am released now. I love this moment best.
Especially I can watch my favorite drama on Saturday,
so I am very looking forward to it, and I am being very excited.

As I wrote here last week(!?),
I have been quite busy since I came back to Japan.
My brain is in a panic this week, and this will still continue.

Oh........

But now, only now let me feel released from everything...
I'm goint to start planning what to do tomorrow after I arrive home.
This is also my favorite thing.

Have a nice weekend!!

Where I am

I am still in my another office.
Tonight this office held a welcome party for a new staff.
We were ten of us. It started at 7:00 and finished at 9:00.

Unfortunatelly my today's work hadn't finished yet,
so I came back to the office and I am still working now.

I am writing this blog to have a short rest.
Probably I will take the last train tonight. Sigh...

When will I be able to be free?
I haven't been free yet probably because of my current work.

Supermarket

Last Sunday I went to four supermarkets in my car alone.

Almost every Sunday I go to several supermarkets around my house in my car,
and buy groceries for one week every Sunday with my wife.

These supermarkets sell very reasonable groceries.
I happened to get to know some of them,
and I heard the others from friends of mine.

Usually I do this with my wife,
but last Sunday she was really busy with her work, so I did alone.

Most of these supermarkets are in Kasai.
Kasai is very great, convienient, close to the central of Tokyo,
and the cost of living is not also very high.

I like to compare the prices among the supermarkets,
and I remember and use them when I buy groceries.
Supermarkets in Japan are great.