LOST IN GLASGOW

Nov 10 2005

Weather : Had bit rain though, it was still ok. Hope it will be fine this weekend.

Today, Thursday, was the kind of heaviest day in the week: Lectures from 12pm till 6:30pm. World religion lecture was a bit interesting today. We had a professor from a university in Netherlands, but I think he’s French, giving us a presentation on an issue about wearing the headscarf for Muslim women in France. It would be better if I could understand details of the presentation (My fucking listening skill!!). Difficulty with English led me to sleep. I should go to bed earlier. Not sound asleep though, I was little sleepy during that lecture. It’s a shame actually. Coz, as I said it seemed to be very interesting lecture.

The tutorial for sociology was just after the world religion lecture. This tutorial is the most stressful time for me. It’s in the Adam Smith Building…. 4th floor which means we have to go up tens of stairs. The number of students is 20. It mostly consists of British students, well… actually Glaswegian is proper rather than saying British, and few foreigners; American (probably), Italian, Finnish and Japanese…me!! It’s quite stressful because I mostly don’t understand what is going on. Especially discussion time is terrible. I nearly cry every time. But good boy Mitsuyoshi! I’m always challenging myself, trying to say something! Today’s topic was sex & gender. To tell you the result, well done I made some of them laughed. Foreigner English works well in this kind of situation! Listening skill has got better than ever, than 1 month ago definitely. It will be alright soon if keeping working hard as I’m doing now. But the tutorial mates are not that friendly so far. Some of them yes, Acta and the Italian guy are cool. But the others are not that much. Is there a something wrong with me? Even if I said something to them, their responses were bit odd. Maybe it’s due to my English. Otherwise they are really boring people. Erm…they are still teenagers I guess, so it’s reasonable, in that sense.

I watched Love Actually with my flat mates in our Uber Flat. More than half mates joined it. It’s unusual. Actually it’s nice movie in terms of feeling like being felt in love. Nice music. All you need is LOVE! Hooo!! Jaaaaa!

The internet community called Mixi is becoming so cool recently. Through it, I can know many of my friends are doing very well in Japan. I have to work harder here and accomplish what I want to. Never give up!!!

Mitsuyoshi