Vol.61: My plan to improve listening skill

Good morning!

I arrived in Rhodes island in Greece.

Now I’m trying to improve listening skill.

I can understand non-native speaker’s English.

But I can’t understand native speaker’s English sometimes.

So I want to improve my listening skill.

So let me make plan to improve listening skill.

【Final purpose of listening】

・I want to be able to understand any kinds of English.

・Talk with native speaker with light atmosphere.

・I want to be able to understand English news, Youtube, movie, radio.

・And I want to be able to make use of these contents daily.

【Analysis of the present circumstances】

・Be able to understand non-native speaker’s English.

・Sometimes difficult to understand native speaker’s English.

・I sometimes have a tension talking with native speakers.

・Tend to struggle to listen at the beginning of sentence.

・Difficult to catch the rhythm of native speaker’s English.

【Weak point from analysis】

・Listening skill of the beginning of sentence

・The skill of catching the rhythm

・Mentality to talk to native speakers.

【Necessary training point】

・Reinforce listening skill of beginning of sentence.

・Reinforce the skill of caching rhythm.

・Build up mentality to talk to native speakers.

【Specific way of training】

・Focus on the beginning of the sentence in daily conversation.

・Pile up to having a dialogue with native speaker to catch their peculiar rhythm and intonation as much as I can.

・Get used to talk with native speakers.

・Be proactive to talk to  native speakers.

・Concentrate listening more than before.

・Not only conversation but also trying to watch the video which is by native speaker with subscription. 

That is my plan.

I sometimes escape by the way.

But if I continue it, it doesn’t go well.

Because the way doesn’t approach my weak point.

So first of all, it's necessary to analysis in myself.

I tend to analysis in myself.

So, let me follow the scheme below.

①Set a purpose what I want to be

②Analysis in myself logically

③Think my improvement from self analysis

④Think practical way

⑤Make a plan

⑥Make a systematic plan to continue

⑦Practice

Let me try! 

Vol.60:Asics!

Good morning.

I arrived at Sousa port in Crete island.

It’s sunny, dry, comfortable day.

I sometimes can’t remember their face. Even though I talked with them last day.

So I was searching how can I memorize passengers?

I notice the good way. This is shoes.

One day I notice I memorize some of passengers by their own shoes.

That is naturally way to me.

So after that i try to memorize passengers by shoes.

Through these observation, I notice many passengers wear Asics shoes more than I guessed

Especially German, Australian guests likes wearing Asics.

Why do they wear Asics? Let I will ask them.

When I’m in foreign countries.

I’m glad to see Japanese products.

I feel Japanese products is admitted by them.

Next 10 to 20 years, which kind of shoes will they wear?

See you. 

Vol.59:Enjoy local food!

Hi! I arrived at Nafplion port today.

I’ll go to beach to do sunbathe.

Today, let me talk about local food.

Yesterday, I enjoyed food in local market.

In local market, there are many kinds of fruit, vegetable, nuts, olives, cheese, meat etc.

We can taste it almost everything.

I could enjoy although just checking.

I bought dry fruit, dry tomato.

I ate big chicken kebab, vegetable kebab.

I love these kind of local food in each place.

So going there is one of the biggest pleasure.

I feel the importance of local food.

Because we can eat real local food only this place.

We tend to eat fast food recently.

Of course Izmir has Starbucks and MacDonald.

But these shop declines the opportunity to eat local foods.

It’s so sorry. I feel.

In my opinion. my ideal is to eat local food mainly, and sometimes eat fast food.

I think this is best balance of our for life.

It’s so enjoyable to eat local food in each place to me!

I want to continue these kind of experience by going around the world.

To enjoy it, I need to earn money.

See you. 

Vol.58:Be familier with other language!

Good morning! I arrived at Izmir port in Turkey.

Today I’ll try Kebab.

I have an enjoyable thing in my job.

That is to greet passengers with their own languages.

For example, if I meet French passengers, I try to say "Buon Sowa!"

If they are Chinese passengers, "Zao Shang Hao!"

When I do these greeting, they look happy.

So I use it like this.

Learning other languages is so fun.

Because I feel I can be more close to them.

Let me tell you how to identify their nationalities?

We need little bit tips.

I have two ways.

First one is face.

Depends on the nationalities, of course they have their face.

Gradually I can identify by this way.

Second one is their clothes and fascion.

They have tendency what they wear and what is their hair style.

For example, German old man likes to wear socks under sandals.

To know their tendency, I can  identify their natinonalities.

My main objective is to brush up English.

But I feel having leeway to study other languages is so important.

So I don’t need to stick to English!

Take it easy!

Learning English with enjoyable thing!! 

Vol.57: Is sunbathe good for skin?

Good morning, I arrived at Santorini island in Greece.

Needless to say, The weather is sunny.

When will it be rainy?

Today, let me talk about sunbathe.

When I went to hospital, doctor said "Sunbathe is bad for my skin. So don’t expose my skin from the sun.”.

 

But I searched on the internet, almost web site said “Sunbathe is good for skin.”.

The reason from the internet is sun has ultraviolet. Ultraviolet is good for the skin rush.

As well, sun shine provides good effect for my body.

Also in Japan, we commonly believe exposure of skin from sunshine isn’t good for our skin.

But according to Europe investigation, The people they lives less sunny day tend to be skin disease more than more sunny day country.

So the professor said sunshine has good effect to our skin.

So I decide to do sunbathe as much as possible.

I have avoided eating meat, egg, gluten food, oily food, dairy products for 1 months.

But it doesn’t have good effect to me. Rather getting worse.

And I think I need to train my skin.

Let me try to do sunbathe at least twice a week.

I expect the effect of sunbathe.

If it provides good effect to me, I post the result.

See you. 

Vol.56:Missing Japanese food

Good morning! I arrived at Lavrion port in Greece.

4weeks have passed since I started working.

Time passes so early. I sometimes feel.

I already miss Japanese food.

For example, I want to eat white rice, miso soup, natto, Japanese sake, my mother’s home cooking, Mr.Wada’s dishes, Mr. Omori’s dishes etc.

Since I came to Greece, I really feel excellence of Japanese food.

These ideas are so great. I just be surprised.

I want to shout, “I’m so happy to be Japanese!!!”

I’m proud of being Japanese. 

Vol.55:Make the guess and approach it

Good morning!

We arrived at Cosme port in Turkey.

We will left Cesme at 13:00, and then we will arrive at Mykonos island in Greece in this night.

Today let me write about my guess.

My itchy isn’t getting better yet.

What can I do?

I try to guess basically cause and approach it.

Though I went to dermatologist, why I try to cure by myself?

Because my doctor in Japan said “there isn’t the way to cure used by medicine and ointment”.

That’s why I have kept approaching my inner self.

The best way is to go to specialist of Atopy.

But unfortunately ship’s doctor doesn’t know it.

What do I want to do now?

To be honest, I don’t know clearly.

I’m about to lose my mind.haha

Or one of the possibility is that actually I want to come back to Japan.

I’m tired. Why am I Nefeli?

See you. 

Vol.54: Really feel itchy

Good morning!

I arrived at Rhodes island in Greece.

I feel tired now, so I'll take a rest in the afternoon .

I feel so itchy more than ever…

Because I think I broke my rule yesterday.

①Eat sweet pies

②Eating sweet pies means having gluten

③Drunk alcohol

I think main causes are ①&③.

This is my responsibility.

Just I should have followed my rule.

From today, I try new method.

The name is 「Eating Apple Method」.

I try to eat only apple until Friday.

This is to clean my stomach.

Stomach condition and skin condition has strong relation.

By cleaning stomach, I try to improve my skin condition.

I’m not sure it has good effects.

But It’s worth to try it.

To be honest, I want to come back eating meat, drinking alcohol.

I believe someday the days come back.

What can I do?

Just try to cure my skin problem.

See you. 

Vol.53:Tips of continuing good habit

Good morning.

Today I arrived Souda port in Crete island.

My pleasure is to go to vegetable shop.

Let me talk about continuing good habits.

We have continued many habits to cure Atopy.

Below.

【For my stomach condition】

《Take time to digest》

Avoid eating spare time eating

Take time 5 hours to have each meal

Try eating little volume of many kinds of food

Avoid eating too much

《Aspects of nutrition》

Mainly eat vegetable, plus fruit

Avoid eating & drinking meat, dairy products, alcohol.

Do gluten free

Avoid having too much sugar

【To get sweat】

Do Cross Fit every mooring

【Training to my skin】

Do sunbathe & Getting in the sea

【Daily routine】

Write diary everyday

Never use medicine, skin cream

Write blog everyday(Japanese ver. & English ver.).

You may feel it’s too much habits!

But I can continue everyday.

Why?

Because I get new habits little by little.

And most important point is to focus on continuation.

We tend to pursue quality in our habits.

But if we can’t continue this habits, it has no mean.

To continue habits, I shouldn’t pursue quality at first time.

If you continue everyday, the quality is getting better naturally.

So don’t worry! You just follow your habits. 

Vol.52:Put on spit on my body

Good morning!

I arrived at Nafplion port in Greece.

It’s 4th time.

I did Cross Fit in the morning, it was so good.

I like the moment of finish.

Today, I explain about my spit.

I put my spit at my rush.

Why? One vegetable shop staff told me the method.

He had rush before.

So he went to many hospitals & got medicines.

But he didn’t cure.

After that, he tried this method for 1 month, he cured his rush!!

It’s surprising story.

So he recommended me this method.

I have tried it for 1 week.

I put my spit at each spot.

But it doesn’t have good change.

It means it takes long time.

Of course, I will continue this way.

I believe the power of my power.

Originally human being has great natural power in my body.

But we tend to rely on medicines.

We should believe self cure power.

Using medicine is final method.

When It will be good change in my spot, I will let you know in this blog.

The way of curing is so long.

But I have strong will.

I’m confident to overcome this difficulty.

See you. 

Vol.51:Cross Fit

Hi, I arrived at Izmir port in Turkey.

Turkish price is so cheap!

There are so attractive local shop in Izmir.

So I’ll go out to buy foods.

I love Izmir.

Let me talk about Cross Fit.

Do you know Cross Fit?

Cross Fit is combined with muscle training & Cardio training.

Especially it’s famous Eastern countries.

Gradually it expands for Japanese.

Why do I start Cross Fit?

The reason is to get more sweat.

I need to get sweat everyday for my Atopy.

I have continued step training everyday since I started working on cruise.

But it’s so boring and it’s difficult to get sweat for 20min.

Yesterday my cabin mate recommended me to do Cross Fit.

And he gave me video on my laptop.

I tried in this morning for 20min.

The result is… so fun!! Got more sweat!!

I didn’t expect it’s so enjoyable work out for me.

I feel I can continue everyday!

Furthermore as I do cardio, I can do muscle training.

It means I can obtain easier getting sweat body.

I could change my habit much better.

By Cross Fit, I hope I cure my skin disease.

I really appreciate my cabin mate.

See you. 

Vol.50:I went to hospital

Hi, today I arrived at Santorini island.

It’s so good weather!

Surprisingly, I saw rain only one time since I came to Greece.

Yesterday, I went to dermatology at Piraeus.

Our ship’s doctor booked it.

I really appreciate.

Dermatologist said my skin disease is chronic problem.

Also said I need to wash special shampoo, body lotion.

Furthermore I have to use cream to my rush.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know how to cure naturally.

And also I ask him to have IgG test.

But he didn’t allow me to have it.

He said I don’t need to have a test. Because It doesn’t have relation of my skin disease.

What will I do next?

I’ll try to cure naturally.

I think the disease try to get out my toxic in my body.

It is natural function in my body.

So I should appreciate my function.

And It means I shouldn’t eliminate this problem by medicine.

As continuing try to cure naturally, I’ll ask ship’s doctor to have IgG test again.

Because I suspect small food allergy.

I strict to eat foods.

I avoid to eat wheat product, meat, egg, dairy product, sugar.

To be honest, it is so stressful.

So I really want to know the chemistry between my body and foods by blood test.

Is it funny reason? I don’t think so.

I never give up until obtain the opportunity!

See you! 

Vol.49:How can I be trustful person?

Good morning! I arrived at Lavrion port.

It means I finished 3rd week, It comes 4th week for me.

It’s so early to come time for me.

Let me talk about my job.

I belong to Entertainment team now.

My it divides two positions, dancer・singer or host・animator.

My position is second one.

My main job is below.

・Support to send passengers to go shore excursion 

・Support onboard activity, show time.

・Socialize with passengers.

As I’m growing up, I’ll be assigned other jobs.

To be honest, I can’t be necessary member in my team.

Because these job is everyone can do it.

Our colleagues have special skills.

Of course, they can organize event in English.

But I can’t organize event them.

Let me think how I can get trust, how can be trustful person.

I write what I can do below.

・Show them being proactive

・Focus on my job

・Obtain roles which I can do by myself

・To be able to organize activity, I pile up practice

・Do my best every socializing time

If I don’t have a  skill, I just brush up it.

And get maximum result.

What I can do is to pile up small things.

Through following my rule, I promise to be trustful, necessary member.

See you. 

Vol.48:How can I hear the voice?

Good morning! I arrived at Cesme port.

Today we have two ports of call.

We’ll leave from Cesme a 2pm to go to Mykonos island.

Let me talk about listening.

I struggle to hear quick English.

Especially my colleague.She is from South Africa.

Her English is so quick & speedy.

So it’s good practice for me.

Her English is more difficult than passengers from United States, Canada ,Australia.

For me, it is the most difficult level.

What can I do to hear English?

I’m trying below.

①Talk with her as much as possible.

②If i don’t understand the meaning, I try to ask saying that again.

③Guess what they will say from the sentence.

④Listen TED’s presentation everyday.

Especially ①&② are important for me.

About①, I think getting used to it is more important than studying.

About②, If I can’t understand at the moment, it means I can’t understand it more than after.

Anyway, I really appreciate my company.

Because I have a opportunity to talk with native speaker.

If I hope, I can make use of this environment.

My final purpose is to communicate with native speakers fluently.

And finally I want to use my English in business.

I’m enjoying this process.

I can do it!

See you. 

Vol.47:Avoid breakfast for a week

Good mooring. We arrived at Rhodes island in Greece today.

Rhodes is second most visitor island in Greece.

So even in weekdays there are many people in main area.

Today let me talk about my experiment.

To tell the truth, I have avoided breakfast for 6 days.

The purpose is try to clean my stomach.

According to one blog, it’s too much for stomach to have breakfast.

Especially eating too much breakfast is bad for stomach.

And stomach condition relates skin condition.

It means if my stomach condition is bad, also skin condition is bad.

So I decided to do it for a week.

I expected my stomach and skin getting better.

The result it doesn’t see big change.

Rather I found worse aspects.

In my case, avoiding breakfast makes me so hungry in the morning.

Feeling hungry makes me lack of concentration.

It means I can’t focus on my job until lunch.

And my skin doesn’t see big change.

But I also see good aspect.

I feel my stomach condition is good.

it seems stomach takes a good rest.

This experiment is so hard to me.

I could’t see big change.

But I could find a lot of discovery.

One of them is the importance of breakfast.

To me, breakfast is my energy. I feel.

So after day after tomorrow, I will come back to have a breakfast.

If I found good experiment, I ‘ll try at least for week.

See you! 

Vol.46:First time to go hospital

Good morning! I arrived at Souda port in Crete island.

I’m waiting for today very much.

Because I’m going to buy carrot. I’ve been looking forward to going.

It’s strange motivation.

Yesterday I went to ship’s hospital.

Because I want to ask the possibility to have IgE and IgG test.

According to him, there is the hospital in Piraeus.

Piraeus is the first town to stay.

I stayed for a week. To get certification.

But he said my top priority is to know my name of disease.

So he will book the hospital.

I wish I want to cure this problem naturally, but it will be good experience for me.

Because it’s first time to go to other country’s hospital.

So I little look forward to go to hospital.

Before going to hospital, I need to check point what I need to tell them.

My points are:

・I want to try to cure naturally

・I don’t want to use anti-biometric medicine and steroid

・Ask to have a IgE, IgG test.

Although I’ll go to hospital, there are paradoxical requests. haha

Of course I trust ship’s doctor. Also I really appreciate him.

But what is important is to cure naturally and basically.

So let me prepare my opinions to dermatologist. 

Vol.45:Be simple!!

Good morning! I arrived at Nafplion port in Greece.

It’s 3rd time to be there.

Let me talk about English.

Yesterday, I talked with cabin mate from Turkish.

Me  "I will buy English book! I found good used book store last cruise!"

Mate ”Sounds good! Is this English book?”

Me “Yes! “

Mate ”I’m not good at  English book. Sometimes i don’t understand the sentence. That’s why I usually buy Turkish book. Like this.”

I was surprised. Because he speaks English fluently.

I thought reading English book is easy to him.

I notice that speaking skill and reading skill are different.

I thought studying all skills with good balance is the fastest way to learn.

Of course it’s true. But sometimes false.

Because Speaking skill improves by speaking.

Reading skill improves by reading.

I concentrated balance too much.

In his case, he improved speaking skills by speaking.

It means depends on the purpose, we need to change approach.

He can speak fluently, but he can’t use difficult word.

My purpose is to speak English fluently, furthermore with many vocabularies.

That’s why I read books.

Through that conversation, I noticed important thing.

Thank you my friend!

I feel I can think more simply. I tend to overthink.

It has sometimes good aspect, also has bad aspect.

So I try to be more simple.

I learnt from my cabin mate.

See you. 

Vol.44:Itch

Good morning. I arrived at Izmir port in Turkey today.

It’s 3rd time to come this port.

I found good book store in last cruise.

So I try to buy English book.

Let me take about itch.

My Atopy is getting bad.

I increasingly feel itchy.

How can I cure Atopy?

It’s only way to cure Atopy.

I scratch my skin during sleeping.

Because i can’t control to scratch.

I did in unconsciousness.

Of course I can control to scratch my skin during waking up.

So I cut my nail always.

Because long nail is bad for my skin if I scratch my skin.

I found 2 causes of itch by searching on internet.

First one is allergen.

Depends on the person, we have another allergen in ourselves.

So we need to know our allergen.

Second one is histamine. This is one of nutritions.

Some of food includes histamine.

For example, tomato, cucumber, walnut etc.

To cure my Atopy, I need to remove these allergen and cautions.

After that, necessary to get nutrition that I’m lack of.

If I can, I want to check IgG and IgE.

So I’m searching hospital that can check these checks.

But even now I can do something by myself.

This is to observe my body by myself.

So I take diary everyday.

I think curing perfectly takes long time.

So It’s important not to be hurry, calm my mind everyday.

I already have a good patience.

I’ll pile up good habits everyday.

See you. 

Vol.43:Good meeting

Hi! Today we arrived at Santorini island.

This is 3rd time to me.

I gradually get used to this life.

My mind is so calm today.

In this mooring, we have a weekly meeting.

The meeting is for entertainment team.

Let me say my conclusion first, it was so good meeting.

It makes me cheerful.

Because since I started working on this ship.

I couldn’t find the direction of our company and purpose.

But our manager clarified my question in this meeting.

I realize them.

And our manager has so good attitude.

He took care of each member, he talked with his honest.

So it’s easy to realize.

Through this meeting, I re realize the importance of meeting.

Meeting has so important role.

I think it has 3 role.

①Review our action

②Discuss how to improve

③Make next term’s purpose.

By continuing it, we can reach more high level.

If we don’t do this, otherwise we can’t be good team and can’t offer good service to passenger.

But our director shows us clear direction, purpose.

So we can realize our role. 

And we perform good team work.

By learning from cruise director, I want to be good leader in the future. 

Vol.42:Atopy

Hi! today I arrived at Lavrion port.

It means this is 14th day working on the ship.

Let me talk about Atopy.

To tell the truth, I have atopy condition since I was born.

When I was a child, I suffered from Atopy.

But after that I the problem hadn’t happened until last February.

Suddenly, last February I suddenly happened Atopy in my body.

My skin on my face is dry, I felt itchy on my body.

Then I went to hospital. I got steroid and medicine.

I cured my skin problem, but last month Atopy happened to my body again.

Why I got Atopy again? I thought the reasons.

I searched internet. Then I came up with reasons are:

・I got allergen 

・My blood condition isn’t good

・I’m lack of some function in my body

I don’t know the exact reason.

So from the problem I try to cure the problem by my self.

Now I have tried some actions below.

・Eat a lot of vegetable.

・Avoid to eat meat, egg, sugar.

・Write diary about my skin condition.

・Search about Atopy on internet.

・Trust in my body.

To be honest, I sometimes feel nervous because of Atopy.

But I believe I’ll cure Atopy.

When I overcome Atopy, I’ll obtain big confidence by myself.

See you. 

Vol.41:Why do I write blog?

Hi! We arrived at Cesme port this morning.

We have two port of call today.

So we’ll left Cesme 1pm, and then we”ll arrive at Mykonos island at 7pm.

Let me check my objection to write blog today.

Let me ask the question to myself, “Why do I write blog everyday?”

It has 2 reasons.

First one is to brush up my English skill.

I think if I”ll be able to write blog everyday, I can improve my English skill.

I hope I”ll be able to expand my English expression and vocabulary,  improve my writing skill.

The second reason is to feel the power of "Slight Edge”.

What is  "Slight Edge”?

The meaning is the importance to pile up small thing everyday.

 We tend to give up to continue something.

But if we continue everyday, even if the thing is so slight.

We”ll get amazing power.

When we continue everyday, it’s difficult to feel the power.

But suddenly we can notice the power if you can pile up so longtime.

That’s why it’s so important to pile up "Slight Edge”  everyday.

Having a objection is so important.

If it’s so small thing.

Objection leads me great success.

So I recommend you to have an objection.

To everything.

Of course I also keep to have an objection to everything.

See you. 

Vol.40:Warm-Heart Story

Hi! Today I arrived at Rhodes port.

One of the town is world heritage in Rhodes.

I can feel ancient atmosphere, and I can imagine the days.

Today, I tell you warm-heart story from yesterday.

Yesterday I go to shopping in Cretan town.

There were my objective below.

・To buy olive oil
・To buy healthy food

When I was walking around, I found a shop selling vegetable.

I found carrot. And ask the man.

“Can I eat directly?”

“Of course! I recommend to eat directly. And don’t remove peel, otherwise you can’t get Vitamin C”

“I see. Can I preserve in normal temperature?”

“Yes, it can preserve for 2 weeks.”

“Really? So long. OK, I buy it.”

“Thank you! You can buy at least 1.12€ / 1kg. OK?"

"It's so cheap! No problem. This is what I want."

"I recommend you the best way to eat."

"Please."

"You cut carrot for quarter size, and squeeze lemon on the carrot. That's it."

"Thank you"

"OK, I give you a rlemon."

"Thank you very much!! What a kind man you are!"

Like this, I bought carrot.

I was so impressed. He made my heart so warm.

Through these conversation, I notice the importance of real communication.

It means have a dialogue with someone directly.

Of course, we can obtain power from someone by just text and phone.

But real communication is more powerful than them.

So I want to prioritize real communication.

How can I make use of this experience?

I thought.

The answer is to give our passengers sincere.

This is what I can now.

I recommend you to prioritize to have a real communication.

See you!

Have a nice day! 

Vol.39:Learn from other language

Hi, today I arrived at Sousa port in Crete island.

It’s second time to come to this port.

I exhausted my olive oil, so I’ll buy bigger one.

Today, let me talk about passengers.

In our ship, more than 50 percent of passenger is German passenger.

So I naturally get a opportunity to use German words.

So I learn German gradually.

Of course, my objective is to brush up my English skill.

But I can also learn from learning the other languages.

For example, through learning Latin language,  I can find the relation of each language.

Let me compare with Spanish and Italian.

The meaning of “How are you” means “Como esta?” in Spanish, and “Come sta” in Italian.

They are so similar. 

How can we guess this fact?

To me, I can guess one of two is origin of another word.

Through like this thinking, we are able to discover new things.

If you have a opportunity to talk with them who isn’t same nationality with you,

Let you be proactive to learn their language!

Then you can obtain new discovery.

See you. 

Vol.38:The importance of sleeping

Hi! today we arrived at Lafplion port.

Continuing last week, It’s my second time.

Today, let me tell you about the sleep.

Yesterday, I slept at 0am to 6am.

It’s enough time to sleep to me.

But I feel so sleepy in the morning.

I can’t concentrate to everything. 

And I feel so lazy.

I thought I slept well and enough time.

Why?

My application told me the answer.

I use sleep one application.

It can assess quality of sleeping.

I set it before sleeping last night.

And then I check it in this morning.

The application tells the application with 0% to 100%.

Today, my quality of sleeping was 33%…

It’s my worst quality ever.

I understand the reason.

Recently I feel the importance of sleeping.

It’s not only quantity but also quality.

Yesterday, I could take enough sleep time, but I could take high quality sleeping.

But I don’t understand the cause?

One of the reason I guess is rough sea.

Last night, sea was so rough. So our ship was so moved.

I think it has relation of sleep.

From next time, I try to prioritize my sleep more than before.

See you. 

Vol.37:Why my feeling is stable?

Good morning.

Today I arrived at Izmir port.

This is second time to me.

Today is about 10th day of my crew life.

Gradually I get used to my job.

To tell the truth, at the beginning of crew life.

I felt I really want to come back to Japan.

My mentality was so unstable.

So I thought how I can control my feeling.

But now, my feeling is so stable condition.

So today let me think why I get stable condition.

There are two reasons.

First, I get used to crew life.

Because I gradually have grasped the rhythm of work and life.

I think this is the biggest point.

Second, my colleague follows me.

Fortunately, my colleagues always take care of me.

They are so kind.

So I really appreciate them.

Above that, I have some reasons.

And also I appreciate my ability of adaption.

See you.  

Vol.36:Restart writing 1min memo

Hi! today I arrived Santorini island.

Santorini is famous for white building and caldera, volcano.

Yesterday, I restarted writing 1min memo.

What’s 1min memo?

This is invented by Yuji Akaba. Former consultant of McKinsey company.

The method is written in "0 second thinking”

If you’re interested in this book, let you try it.

It’s worthy to read.

Let me explain how to write memo.

First, you have to prepare white A4 paper and ball pen(we recommend "V corn” made by PILOT, Japanese stationary company)

How to write memo? it has some points.

⒈Write topic on the top of left side

⒉Write date on the top of right side

⒊Write sentence following the topic

⒋With in 1minute.

That’s it.

In spite of simply way.

It provides you amazing effects.

・After writing memo, your brain will be more clear.

・It gives you confidence.

・You can come up with new idea.

And so on…

I used to write memo when I worked for SPACEMARKET and Italian cruise ship company.

I wrote 10 sheets of memo per day in Japanese in SPACEMARKET, and in English in Italian cruise ship company.

I really recommend you to write “1min memo”.

If you continue it every day.

It will provide great effect to you.

If you have question about memo.

Please feel free to ask me.

I really would like to share method for you.

See you. 

Vol.35:Grasped invisible thing

Hi, I arrived Lavrio port this morning.

Lavrio is east part of Greece.

It takes 1 hour and half from Athens by car.

I arrived at Lavrio last Friday. So I could finish lap 1 of cruise.

Yesterday, I suddenly grasped invisible thing.

What is good meaning.

Until 2 days ago, I always have invisible anxiety.

But last night suddenly I could grasp the hope of light.

I was so glad.

Thanks to this light, I could enjoy yesterday’s job.

And I had a good conversation with Italian passengers.

I leant a lot of thing from the conversation.

Since then, I found the importance of keeping on the thing I believe.

If I’m not good condition, we need to pile up good action.

Because this connects our growth.

Through my actions, I’ll be able to break through.

I’d like to put principle in my body.

This is what I can do.

Fight with invisible thing is difficult.

It makes us nervous.

But I must struggle with it.

Because this is only what we beat them.

I promise you to focus on right now.

I promise you to try to enjoy each moment. 

Vol.34:How can I enjoy this moment?

Hello, today we arrived at Cesme port in Turkey.

Cesme is resort town west of Izmir from 75km.

It’s calm and clean beautiful day.

Today let me talk about my mentality.

I told it also, I can’t enjoy each moment.

Why? let me think about the reasons.

First of all, I tend to think about future from now.

In other words, I usually expect to the future.

This is bad habit It think.

Because if I can’t solve me habit, I’m not able to enjoy each moment.

Then I came up with one sentence.

The one is “You can get success depends on environment. But the really success is depends on you. “

This is from Dr. Stephen R Covey in The seven habits of highly effective people.

It means I can enjoy whenever, everywhere if I want.

I thought I noticed that already, but I actually didn’t notice the truth meaning.

I’m lack of mentality to focus on right now, try to enjoy right now.

Everything is depends on me!

I can enjoy every time although if I’m in bad environment.

Because I can choose reaction from happening. 

So from now on, I would realize the meaning of sentence. 

Vol.33:How to improve my speaking skill?

Hi, today we arrived at Rhodes port in Greece.

Whole of city of Rhodes is world heritage.

We can see unexpected  view this city.

Let me share my speaking skill.

I always think about “how can I speak fluent English?”

Because my English isn’t fluent.

But I can speak understandable English.

I always hope someday I want to speak fluent English.

What cause do I have?

The answer is simple.

First, I’m lack of English experience.

Second, I sometimes overthink to speak.

For example, when I speak with someone I think “is it correct grammar?”

Like this.

How can I improve this problem?

First, try to pile up English experience as much as, as soon as.

For example, I talk to passenger as much as.

I try to talk to my colleague as much as.

If I find a opportunity to talk, I try to make use of this opportunity maximumly.

Second, I try not to overthink when I talk with someone.

It means I shouldn’t try to make sentence during talking.

I follow my brain.

I feel it’s necessary to think “take it easy!”

I should live “take it easy” in my daily life.

See you. 

Vol.32:How can I improve listening skill?

Hi! Today I arrived at Souda port.

Souda city is the part of Crete island in Greece.

Crete island is the biggest island in Greece.

Also famous for olive and olive oil.

Our family uses Crete’s olive. It has rich taste compared to other olive oils.

But of course little bit expensive.

Today, let me share my bother of my English skill.

What kind of skill? This is listening skill.

To be honest, I can’t understand every contents of conversation.

For example, when our colleagues talk with them, sometimes I couldn’t understand the contents.

It means I’m lack of listening skill.

If I leave this situation forever, otherwise I can’t use machine, I can’t use microphone in front of them, at last I will be unnecessary person in the team.

To avoid this situation, what can I do?

I have some ideas.

First, I increase opportunity to listening music.

For example, when I have time, I try to listen my favorite English songs.

If I will be able to pile up this habits, I can get exact English skill gradually.

Second idea is to ask again.

What does it mean? If I can’t understand the conversation or can’t hear the sentence.

I try to ask saying again until I understand.

I tend to leave the things that I couldn’t understand things.

So I try to never escape my weakness.

There are so little habits.

But if I can pile up small, slight habits, I will be able to get exact result.

Keep up them!

See you! 

Vol.31:How can I get fluent English?

Hi, we arrived at Nafplio port.

Surprisingly, Nafplio was first capital of Greece.

Now the city is known as a tourist place.

Today I want to write about my anxiety.

My anxiety is I can to speak fluent English.

Of course, I can tell what I want to tell to my colleague.

But not influence.

In contrast, my colleague can speak English fluently.

I really hope to speak like them.

So let me think how can I get fluent English.

I come up with two ideas.

At first, as much as possible try to communicate with people.

It means I try it even to passengers.

For example, at first I talk to them “How are you?” and then I try to expand the conversation.

I think this is the easiest way. Whenever I can try it.

One book said, “If you want to speak the language fluently, you need to make mistakes 1 million times."

At second, try a lot of input.

it means I try to input from English stuff as much as I can.

English stuff, for example, article, news paper, song and so on.

One book said, “To brush up the language skill, you need to input a lot of volume. And it’s necessary to the stuffs which I’m interested in.”

So I try it which is my interested stuffs.

There are my ideas to brush up my method.

I follow it, but I keep in mind that I shouldn’t overdo.

Because overdoing leads my body collapsed.

Just going to my big objective.

Then I can achieve it!

See you! 

No.30:At Izumir

First of all, I apologize that I could't post yesterday's blog.

Because of internet connection.

We arrived at Izmir port in this morning.

Izumir is the west part of Turkey.

The port faces Aegean sea.

Today I didn’t have a time to go out.

So I hope I will go out next opportunity.

By the way, I gradually assigned the jobs to me.

So I need to remember the tasks as soon as possible.

But I try not to be hurry.

Today, I was assigned to check embarkation passengers.

Let me explain in detail.

There are about 100 new passengers onboard today.

So we need to check their passport and e-ticket.

And then we give them cabin card key.

Today I did it.

Explaining the procedure is little difficult to me.

Today there are a lot of activities on a cruise.

I want to get used to my tasks as soon as possible.

And I want to contribute our team maximally.

See you!!