Self Evaluation

Today, I evaluated myself along with the items given by my English teacher.

Language

My strong point as an English speaker is that I can put some difficult sentence in simpler terms.

My weak points as an English speaker are shyness and performance anxiety. I’m not good at speaking in public, even talking with others. So, when I speak in English, my voice wavers, and my mind goes blank.

The English language is important for me because I want to read theses for my study in the future. And I need English to express my feelings or thoughts to people all over the world.

Being multilingual means the increase in the number of people who I can talk with. Talking with many people may broaden my outlook on life.

Academic Life

My strong points as a university student are diligence and enthusiasm. I can work on studying hard.

My weak point as a university student is that I have a few friends. In more detail, I have a few close friends. A friend is the best asset in life.

My most improved point over the last school year is the ability of talking. In the old days, I couldn’t speak to a person who I didn’t know. But now, I can do it without any sign of nervousness.

My goal for next year is being able to speak in public stately.

In the next four years, I am looking forward to meeting those I don’t know and making friends with them.

Life in General

My strong point as a human being is my mild-mannered personality. I can show it well to my friends.

My weak point as a human being is shyness, you may already know it. I must improve it.

I am happy about my life. I live in happiness.

I am sorry about that I haven’t been dutiful to my parents. I want to stand on my own feet at once.

I get frustrated with myself. I feel ashamed of helplessness.

If I see Mario (my English teacher) again in twenty years, I will ask him, “Do you remember me?” He will not remember me because I did not stand out in his class. But if he remember me, I will invite him to tea, and talk about my life. If he gives me some advices as a person, I will be glad.

The meaning of life doesn’t exist. I can live a happy life without any meanings.

Adolescence

Today I am a would-be poet. I never even dreamed that I would write a poem at my age.
Of course, poetry is wonderful culture, but a poem written by an amateur like me is miserable.
I should have written it after studying about verse writing.
This is an excuse.

Love is a spoon
                                by me

Love is a spoon
there are various spoons

according to purposes

and love has many faces

though the name is the same

love

Love is a spoon
you use a spoon

to take sugar 

in your tea 

and love gives you the sweets

in your daily life 

Love is a spoon
you use a spoon

to scoop some food
and you scoop up 

your precious with your

motherly love 

Love is a spoon
an image on the spoon 

looks warped 

and love warps your view

in a good sense 

or a bad sense

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By the way, I wonder whether writing poems in the adolescence is common custom around the word. 

A HELL ON THE EARTH

   Today, I’ll talk about the disease that I have had in my life. When I was a child, I was very delicate, and I had many diseases such as asthma, measles, chicken pox, and so on. I have suffered from many types of influenza and numberless cold. But these were not diseases that I felt most painful (as far as I remember.).
   The most painful disease was “nonbacterial acute gastroenteritis”, a stomach problem caused by a norovirus.
   “Nonbacterial” means “not caused by bacilli”, and “gastroenteritis” is “an illness of the stomach that makes stomach and intestine become swollen and causes diarrhea and vomiting”. And norovirus is a virus that causes the disease with strong infectiousness.
   If you are infected by the virus, you will suddenly vomit, have diarrhea, suffer from a stomachache, have chills, run a fever of 38 degrees, and feel something heavy on your stomach several hours before you vomit. These symptoms subside in a few days, but in case of babies or the elderly, it lasts longer.
   Noroviruses infect you through your oral cavity, and the route of infection is classified as follows.

1. Infected by food or water

• Eating something that store many viruses or be polluted by them. (For example, oysters, blue mussels, and many bivalves tend to store the viruses.)
• Drinking water polluted by noroviruses.

2. Transmitted from person to person

• Getting viruses from patients’ feces or vomit via toilets or hands.
• Getting viruses from patients’ feces or vomit, which are dispersed in the air. Airborne infection.
• Eating food cooked by patients. 

   Noroviruses can live for several weeks on the surface of clothes, beddings, or furniture. And they don’t die by alcoholic antiseptic. Once they enter your body, there are no way which treats you directly. There is no effective antiviral drug to noroviruses. So what only you can do is drinking some water, and standing by a toilet.
   To prevent infection, what you need are “heating” and “washing”. Enough heating kills viruses in food. So if you eat oysters or blue mussels, you should heat them thoroughly. And washing hands enough will carry away the viruses that don’t die by alcoholic antiseptic or soap.

   When I was infected by the noroviruses, I was a high school student, who was busy with studying for the entrance exam. Even now, I don’t know why, from what, I was infected. I didn’t eat oysters, and there were no absentees because of infectious disease in my school.
   I suffered. I vomited, had diarrhea. I couldn’t leave from a bathroom. I couldn’t drink anything. After hellish several days, my condition had improved a little. But my weight fell by 3 kg.


You should prevent them, if you want to live a happy life.