Time to review... What did I achieve from my "to do" lists?

     Seeing my "to do list this year" on my second blog, I found I could achieve some of these.

     First, I think I've been able to keep my grades. My GPA in spring semester was pretty good and I attended in most of the classes I registered. Sometimes I think chemistry experiment is pretty hard because of reports I need to make every week, but I can still catch up with everyone.

     And reminding this year, I've seldom got sick or injured. So I want to say I succeeded in controlling my physical condition well. I think my health comes from the physical trainings in my orienteering team and meals I make 3~5 times a day.

     This year I began to learn French. Also I usually get an opportunity to learn English, Spanish and French every week. In this way I can keep my competence on English. But I still have a little knowledge on Spanish and French, so I want to keep studying them from now on, too.

     I can't say I went traveling many times this year, but I had great experiences by traveling. The biggest trip this year was a one to Turkey for a week. I'm amazed with beautiful buildings and unique cities in Istanbul and magnificent landscapes in Cappadocia. And I was satisfied that I could understand some parts of Muslim culture, which I'd not been familiar with. And I've already made a plan to go to Taiwan with my senior this spring and I'm looking forward to it.

     In this university I could make many friends, so I might be able to be more sociable than before. And when I saw my parents this summer, they looked pretty pleasant that I can somehow do well in the new environment. But I'm still very dependent on my parents financially. Maybe I'll begin part time jobs from next spring.


     At the same time I failed to achieve other goals. I kinda gave up A Capella because I'm already busy with other activities. Also I couldn't do much on composing music for the same reason. I was able to study English this year, but not for TOEFL.

     However, I'm rather glad I could achieve more the a half of these. I found that my school and study will be hard from my junior year, so year 2015 may be my last chance to do many things I'd like to do. Time flies, so I want to make my "to do" lists next April again, and hopefully I get some chance to review it, too.

Planning a dinner party with awesome guests...

At a dinner party with Taro, I want to invite Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese animator, John Lennon, whom probably everyone knows, Nobuyuki Tsujii, a blind pianist, and the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei.

And Taro invites Michael Moore, an American writer and movie maker, Naomi Uemura, an explorer who achieved to climb on the Everest and never comes back from his last adventure, Cristiano Ronaldo one of the best football players in this century and Theodora, a wife of the old Roman Emperor who had had a miserable life in her youth.

Hayao Miyazaki sits next to Michael Moore. Though genres of movies Hayao Miyazaki and Michael Moore make are very different, we guess they share some ideas in making films. Another side of Hayao Miyazaki is where my partner sits on. He is a big fan of him and his works, and also interested in their talk.

An adventurer, Naomi Uemura sits on Makoto’s left. Makoto actually do not know much about him but Makoto is strongly attracted with adventurous stories that he has never experienced, such as climbing Mt. Everest, rafting Amazon, and traveling through Greenland by sleds.

The person who sits across from my partner, Galileo, was not so rich in his lifetime, similar to Theodora Also, not only in science, probably Galileo had an interest in music because his father and brother played lute, and known as a composer, so we think Galileo can be open with Theodora and John Lennon easily.

John Lennon’s seat is on the next to Galileo and Nobuyuki Tsujii. Those two people are both concerned with music in some way; especially Nobuyuki Tsujii is a worldwide blind pianist. It would be great if John Lennon and he play together at this party.

              And Taro hopes to sit down between Michael Moore and Theodora. Taro watches many Michael Moore’s movies and has been influenced with them. He especially desires to know how he made “Bowling for Columbine”. Also he wants to know how to put up with hardship and overcome it. So he wants to talk with Theodora, who was very poor when she was young.

              A man who will be seated across Taro is Chistiano Ronaldo He won’t have so many opportunities to talk with him. However, he may want to know how the athlete is like. He’ll observe what and how he eats and try to get the idea about improving great muscle.

              And Cristiano sits down between Nobuyuki Tsujii and Naomi Uemura. They have totally different jobs, an athlete, a pianist, an explorer. But all of them are known as hard workers. We expect them to share their efforts on their jobs and try to improve their skills more by acquiring the different perspectives on efforts.

              Talking about meals, we need to take some care. Theodora and Galilei may be surprised at current cuisines or they may not like it. Naomi Uemura’s favorite food is kiviak, but it smells so bad that all the others won’t eat it. Cristiano Ronaldo may refuse to eat foods with many fats as an athlete. So we’ll prepare for some breads and mild soup at first, then we’re going to let each person decide which he or she’ll eat for the main dish, fish, meat or vegetables. We may let some challengers try smelly kiviak, too.

After watching the script from Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

              Our Earth is already so big that we cannot discover everything by the time we die. And now we’re getting ready for going out for the space and explore our solar system or keep going further, seeking the end of the boundless space…

              Of course, you must have never been to the space unless you’re a member of NASA or an alien. But why do we sometimes think of going in the undiscovered space. We know few things about it, there won’t be a good environment for human beings. We may never get back to our home.

              In this video, many of movies and pictures are out of my imagination in my opinion even though most of them are REAL. As long as they really exist, we have chance to go there and see them, a gigantic red storm on Jupiter, an enormously high cliff on the moon or the ring around the Saturn. 

              I personally think we still have our nature where we seek new lands. Our ancestors pioneered our Earth by taking many risks. And we still want to see the new world in spite of the risk of losing our striving lives. 

              However, you may not want to go to the space so much. But I’m sure more people will agree with the tendency that we’re likely to get bored when we get stuck in one place. Nothing is new, we’ve got to know almost everything around us, we know what’ll happen, what we will see… How vain it is!!

              Exploring, traveling and wandering… they’re ways to escape from these meaningless lives. This video aroused my desire to travel whole the world again. Unless I’m satisfied only with pictures, I wanna see everything new to me. The only problem is I’m not in the training of NASA.