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"Hang in there." This is a phrase that gives me a push from behind. From here on out, I will hold fast to these words and do my best.

A little while ago, with my job interviews and nursing practical training, I was so busy that my stress level reached its peak. However, during this time, time would not wait for me and, as I was feeling discouraged, I feel like I hung in there and did my best to do as much as I could do. Even now, there are lots of things I have to do. However, I don’t do anything and feel discouraged. That is why I have become tense and I don’t smile much anymore. Now, once again, I think it is time for me to hang in there. I guess I should just go for it.
「踏ん張りどころ」、この言葉は、私の背中をポンと押してくれる言葉です。これからも、この言葉を持って頑張っていこう。 Continue reading →

"Hang in there," was a phrase my childhood friend, Ai-chan, would suddenly say to me softly.

For her, it was most likely an offhand comment but, for me, it really touched my heart.

I am clumsy, and my personality is such that it takes me twice as long as other people to get things done at my own pace.

That is why, when I have to get a lot of things done, if my will is taken away, I am quick to give up.

At these times, I remember those words and thinking, "It’s time to hang in there," I feel encouraged and do my best. Words have a lot of power, huh?

I want to try to draw a picture of this phrase in my own way! I am now in the middle of grappling with how to express this phrase in a picture. When I am finished, please look at it, won’t you? Continue reading →

I will send a picture.

I bought postcard-sized paper and printed out a birthday card for the first time. I made it while picturing the happy face of the recipient. The other day, I gave the card to her. She smiled at me. I was happy. It was the only one of its kind in the whole world.

イラスト送りマース。

葉書サイズの用紙を買ってきて、プリントアウトし、初めて誕生日カードを作りました。受け取る相手の顔を思い浮かべながら楽しく書きました。この間、その子に、このカードを渡しました。笑顔になってくれました。嬉しかった。世界にたった一枚しかないバースデイカードですã Continue reading →

I made a new drawing.

Being busy is fulfilling, but I think it is also necessary for human beings to relax. I drew this picture while imagining my parents’ house in the country and thinking how nice it would be to sunbathe lying on tatami mats, a therapy which is the pride of Japan.

新たに描きました。忙しいことは充実していることだけど、人間ゴロゴロする日も必要だと思う！　日本の誇る癒し、畳の上で日向ぼっこしながら昼寝したいなぁ・・・　と、田舎の実家を思い浮かべながら描きました。
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I drew this picture when I was stressed out in the middle of my internship while thinking, "The outside world is like summer…" A country scene.

切羽詰った研修中に、「世間は夏なんだなぁ～」と思いながら書いたものです。
田舎の風景・・・　という感じでした。
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This is the backpack I talked about in a short story. I wore an apple like this on my back to elementary school.

小話に出てきた私のランドセルです。こんな感じのりんごを背負って小学校に通っていました。

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I tried adding the chick to the drawig of a baby that appeared in one of my short stories. 😉 Isn’t the diaper cute?

小話にも出て来た赤ちゃんにひよこをあしらってみました。（笑い）オムツがかわいいでしょう？
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This self-portrait doesn’t look like me… Drawing one’s self is really difficult.

似ていない自画像。自分を書くというのは本当にむずかしい。
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I tried writing "Hiroshima NACOS" in a grafitti style. It is crude and messy, but I think it has style.

　落書きのように、広島ＮＡＣＯＳと書いてみました。なんだか、へにょへにょな下手な字ですが、これが味になっている・・・　と思い込んでいます。
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My three weeks of internship in psychiatric nursing came to an uneventful close. In this internship, I was in charge of a schizophrenia case who had lost touch with reality and talked to himself in a loud voice. In the beginning, the patient absolutely refused to have an intern. As soon as he found out I was an intern he yelled, "No need!" Because of that, I devoted myself to spending time with him, silently praying that he would let me stay beside him.

One day, when I had to bathe him, as I was drying his hair, I hear the words, "thank you…" I was so happy I could have cried. With this, compared to how it was in the beginning, it seemed that the patient had come to accept me. I honestly don’t know what good I did that person as his nurse, but I was able to learn a lot from our interaction. Continue reading →