30 Days Challenge

What are you waiting for? I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days.---Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts, who is a supervisor of  Google spam section is suggesting a simple but effective way to change our life---trying small things that we always want to add to our life for 30 consecutive days. Then these new things will become our habits. He explained, these 30 days are good term to attach a new habit to you or subtract one from your life. 

Accordingly, I thought about it. What kind of habit do I want to add to my daily life? There are a lot nominees like jogging, yoga, and reading newspaper, but in my case, the habit that I must get the most is a household chore----housekeeping.

I am really terrible at housekeeping. It has been that way since I was a little child. The reason my house can keep its tidiness is thanks to my husband.  He always cleans up our house for lack of an alternative because I am lazy. He doesn't complain about it so often, but sometimes he scolds me as if he were my mum. (Actually, his nickname at home is "mommie", although he doesn't seem to like this.) 

I must obtain the habit to tidy my house up, but how? Matt Cutts advised the new thing should be tiny, because it's a ton of fun but also difficult to stick to big challenges. Hence my wrap up is that every day, I put my clothes back to proper place at least which I just take off.  

FAMILY TREE

My Strange Phobia

In the world, there are many kinds of phobia like acrophobia or claustrophobia, but I wonder whether there are such people who suffer from the same one as mine. I don't know the name, but if I dare to name it, my phobia is collapse-phobia.


I don't know why, but at higher floors than 2nd floor in apartments or buildings, if I make a noise for example, by walking roughly or bringing big furniture into my house, I start to worry that the floor might collapse because of the impact or shock made by these. It sounds very weird to other people, but I'm truly serious. Hence I can't stay for a long time at such boisterous places with people, like shopping centers or sports gyms except when they are located on the 1st floor.


This does not mean that I dislike staying at high place. If anything, I like it, because I can see beautiful scenery and  it's kind of thrilling! Therefore my fear is not for high places, but for the acts or din people make at that place. 


On account of this funny phobia, there are a lot of  harmful influence. I can't live in apartments so now I inhabit in a two-storey house. Even though we are in my house, if my husband ever walk in the 2nd floor roughly, I always get angry, but it is okay in the case of the 1st floor. I can't attend sports gyms that are in more than 2nd floor, because there, a good many people are exercising  and dancing. 


I have no idea why I am suffering from this strange phobia. Almost all people laugh when I tell them about it. Anyway, I hope this mental condition will fade down the road.

【Intoroduction Of English Online School】English On The Go

Nowadays I attend 2 English online schools at the same time. Today I want to share something about one of them. The school's name is "English on the Go". 

Above all, its biggest advantage is its superior teachers. They can speak American English very well, because some of them are native English speakers(having blood relationships with westerners), and the rest have experienced studying abroad. Furthermore, they can truly teach. Needless to say,  the ability to speak English well and one to teach it are different. Teaching needs for some techniques and skills, this is why not all English speakers can teach students well. I think finding such skilled teachers is really difficult, so this school must make a big effort in doing so. Moreover, this school doesn't only hire such capable teachers but also trains them well and imposes them with some English examinations, like TOEIC or IELTS, every year to maintain their abilities. Perhaps there are only few schools that keep on improving their teachers. 

Its next good trait is its price. Contrary to its high quality, its lesson fee is not expensive, rather reasonable. A lot of schools whose main teachers are native speakers have a high‐priced fee system, for example, a lesson(25mins) is equal to more than ￥1,000, this scool's charge is only  ￥250(30mins), in short, less than a fourth. 

If such a nice school has its website, that is to say, if it is exposed to numerous people, a large number of students will flood into it. This is why this school doesn't have its website, as opposed to other schools. As I mentioned above, it hires special teachers, but their number is not so many. Hence, it doesn't hope to be famous, since it is impossible to provide few good teachers for all of many students. Therefore its way of marketing is only by word of mouth.

Can Somebody Tell Me How To Manage Time Schedule?

I don't mean to brag, but I am busy as a beaver everyday. My weekdays is like below.

6:30-7:00---getting up and having breakfast

7:00-7:30---taking my dogs for a walk

7:30-8:00---English online lesson(not everyday)

8:00-18:30---work and commuting

18:30-19:00---taking my dogs for a walk

19:00-20:00---cooking dinner and eating it

20:00-21:00---taking a bath

21:00-22:00---English online lesson

22:00-24:00---Studying English by myself

*I need at least 6hours and a half sleeping time because I suffered from a kind of sickness and originally I am a long sleeper.
*I often have to head for a hospital straight after my work,  in that case, I have my dinner, a loaf of bread, on the way there.

I am busy, ain't I? I think a hectic life means a substantial one so it's okay, but if I keep on doing this, I can't take the bonding time with my dogs and my hubby. However, I want to secure enough sleeping time and actually, I have a lot of things I want to do such as, studying English more or jogging or cleaning my room!


How can I cope with that? I wish I was a student, who has a lot of time!

Teachers Should Use Their Ingenuity In Teaching Way

It has been almost 4 months since I started teaching English to kids. Although I don't have any confidence in my teaching style, but I have one solid policy.
I never limit my lesson based on the text.


When it comes to just reading text, we can study it by ourselves. Just following the contents  of text means students can acquire only what is written on those. Needless to say, students want to enlarge their knowledge as much as they can. Then teachers should make the most of the limited lesson time and impart their skills to their students as much as they can.

Way back, I have met some teachers whose teaching way was just tracing the text. In those days, I accepted such simple lessons like that was the way lessons were. However after encountering some lessons with ingenuity, I realized lessons should be like these. Then I determined I would devise my lessons.

【Complaint】How Annoying! Don't Talk So Long!

In my office there is an annoying person, who talks very long.


This elderly sales rep is capable at work. He can get a lot of contracts and he 
has been working at this company for a long ime, so he is given a back seat by our president. 
However, we ordinary employees dislike him, since he always drags his conversations on. What is worse, His story is either sermon or bragging almost every time.


In the case of a drinking party, the situation gets worse. Some alcohol makes him more talkative. He fires off talking to people around him in rapid succession , like a machine gun. To avoid becoming victims, we are always desperate in order not to sit next to or in front of him.

Why is his story so long? Why isn't he aware of that? Hasn't anyone, like his family member, warn him?  We hope someone who is older or more important than him admonishes him.
Anyway, all we can do at present is to keep away from him to avoid being his target.

My Husband Is Like An Angel

Today is me and my husband's wedding anniversary, so in commemoration of it, I want to mention something about him. Not meaning to brag, but when it comes to getting a good husband, I am sure that I am an absolutely successful woman. It might sound weird, but in a word, he is like an angel for me.

First of all, he always tries to help people without expecting anything in return. Sometimes I even feel his kindness goes too far. For example, he helps city council member’s preparation for his election. During the preparation, it requires my husband his whole weekends. This is a volunteer work, so he doesn't get paid. I think volunteer works are a kind of waste of time because they never generate any money, but he does it so for helping the member. He is always willing to give a hand to anyone who needs help.

He is kind to animals as well as to people. Every day he hugs and kisses our dogs. Even if he finds them, which we keep inside our house, wrongly urinate and defecate on our living room’s floor and mess it up, he never gets angry. If I am in his shoes, I get furious at them and might almost beat them to death. It is said that animals can detect kind people, so do our dogs. They seem to love my husband from the bottom of their hearts.

Needless to say, he always supports me both physically and mentally. When I am tired, he is delighted to do house chores instead of me. In fact, even though I am not tiered, he still does. Besides, when I am devastated, he is patient enough to listen to my all complaints or worries.  

He often strokes me until my tear stops running down. Every time I feel depressed, my husband encourages me.


The more I write about him, the more my gratitude toward him flows out. How many considerate men like him exist in the world?  Here, I mean  the word"considerate"  as "genuine kindness", not just "seeming one".　Anyway, today I swore from now on I will cherish him more than ever before.