Oct. 20 (Wed.)

Preparation for Wednesday's class is hard but one for Thursday's too. I started studying for tomorrow's assignment in the evening TODAY. There is not a way to complete it! Tomorrow morning I have to work as a volunteer teaching assistant in center city so I can't study tomorrow morning. I don't have time!

Oct. 19 (Tue.)

I was pretty busy with working on an assignment due Wednesday. Well, every course has an assignment every week and it's getting tough and difficult. One of homework due tomorrow is a bookreview. The book is very difficult for me to understand because the author uses many difficult words, refers American culture which I am not familiar with, and does not speak straight. Besides, I don't agree with his idea. I finished the bookreview so I'm going to burn it!

Oct. 18 (Mon.)

I had been flustrated about a discussion of Mondays' class. I had an opinion but I hesitated to speak out because usually only Americans talk and control the discussion. I felt uneasy to speak English in front of native speakers at an academic setting. But last Monday I told my opinion at a discussion, and today I contributed a discussion a lot! Although I still have a lot of problems when I express my opinion, I became not to take it seriously.

Oct. 17 (Sun.)

I borrowed books at a library on campus. What surprised me is that I can keep them until the end of semester, December. It's great! In Japan we have to return books in two weeks or something at a city library and I was always late for return date.

By the way, I couldn't focus today. That's why I didn't study much. My mind was travelling Matsudo, Japan.

It's getting really cold! Don't catch a cold, everyone!