100 Life Goals

To understand this goal, you need a little backstory. One thing that I have never been good at is public speaking. I used to hate having to give oral presentations during high school. My hands would be shaking, and I would have to read practically the whole speech because my mind would be a complete blank. I guess it is a common enough story, but here's the part where it gets kind of interesting. I actually enjoy giving presentations now. I would even go so far as to say that giving presentations is my favourite aspect of my current job. How did I go from hating public speaking to enjoying it? Well, it certainly didn't happen overnight. I had to bluff my way through several shaky speeches. I do have a few things that I think were big turning points for me. 1. I won a Japanese speech contest. In order to improve my Japanese, I participated twice in the local Japanese speech contest in Miyazaki, and in my second year, I won! Not only was this a huge confidence boost, but it a...

My image of a time capsule is burying a small box of treasures underneath the ground, however, since I am not sure which country I will be living in five years from now, it seems pretty silly to go burying things. Instead, my friend Rikki and I decided to do a time capsule exchange. We both wrote letters to ourselves and gave them to one another to keep until the agreed upon opening time, five years later. Hopefully we don't loose or forget about them! haha Rikki came to visit me in Miyazaki. This is when we decided to write the letters.  Goal completed 3/5/2014!