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Mayby I have forgotten to return the glory and thank to God these days.

These days I've been exhausted with the pressure and the unprecedented amount of communication in English for me in forums I'm in. And I was too busy to communicate online to communicate with God by reading Bible and praying. I shouldn't forget what has given me the motivation of service leadership and join in a course of this. This program has participants of wide range of nationalities and religions, so I thought it's discreet to pick up particular religion, maybe one I belong to or one another member does. But I just noticed that ignoring what originally has given me motivation makes me empty, so I set here the place to write about my faith. The story of (Green Eyed) Clunker I made up was originally narrated as a metaphor of God's creation who may have great power, but can't decide their direction unless they aren't connected to another appropriate creation. But I think I must tell it later, to the point, rather than reserving.

I'm planning to give up green eyes.

I started this blog with my eyes green (I'd like to explain why later.). Now I have several opportunities to communicate in English now it's time I gave up my green-eyes. -Now just a clunker-

Restart just as a clunker.

I started this blog to practice English communication on a blog, by writing something interesting or about me regularly. To this purpose, I have found some places to communicate in English. I'm now thinking how I use this blog as a tool of English communication. Can I use it as a shelter to the negative feelings while I'm making encouraging comments in online English-speaking community I belong in.

From a small step

When I opened a blog, I thought I could express what I wanted to say all over the world. I'm disappointed I haven't express myself as much as I expected before. Still I have had lot to say, I'm usually hesitating thinking about who I can talk to if I want to put my thought effectively. Besides, since English isn't my first language, I sometimes feel inconvenient to express myself in English. While take-it-easy thing will have been what I have to learn for coming many years, my big motivation to learn language is that I want to express myself as deeply and exactly as possible. That's why I'm never fed up with learning vocabulary and grammar. Also, although I've just began to write for a blog, I was seeking posting a masterpiece, in which I'm calculating what time I can put up my core expression most effectively. That's not the attitude for beginner. Actually Green-eyed Clunker is a story I told to my therapist when I was depressed impossible to se...

Investing in Japan's posterity | The Japan Times Online

Investing in Japan's posterity | The Japan Times Online Shared via AddThis I think intensive employment support for second-generation baby boomer - often called "dankai-junior" who have missed the opportunity to be regular employees is needed. Although this generation is one major part of Japanese population, many of them hesitate marriage or having children because they have weak financial base. And there are few policies, from both ruling and opposition parties, explicitly support this generation, although I hear several plans to support younger generation who has more job opportunities. Supporting second-generation baby boomer will help make third-generation.

A point which a non-native English speaker lacks

When you study English at school in Japan, you are always required to be perfect although anyone is hardly possible. Every mistake you make will be corrected. Meanwhile I realize that we don't use so perfect Japanese among family or friends in daily conversation. Sometimes a TV program points out errors of usages of idioms or phrases in daily communication, but not so many people seem to care. So I'm beginning to doubt that language proficiency is determined only by how correctly you can speak the target language.

A small step on YouTube

This is my small step on YouTube, but I realized that it's a little bit better to post the most trivial work than imagining that you are posting great works and actually arn't able to post anything.