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The busy days continue during my internship as the psychiatric nurse

How are you all? I am interning as a psychiatric nurse. It is different from the internships I’ve had up till now. Communicating with the patients is difficult. However, I am doing my best at using my head and being more aware of what’s going on. When my internship period is over, I want to look back on everything about this psychiatric nursing internship and collect my thoughts. That’s all for now.

みなさん、お元気ですか？　私は、今、精神科で看護実習を受けています。今までの実習と違い、患者さんとのコミュニケーションには難しいものがあります。でも、私なりに頭を使い頑張っています。実習に一区切りがつけば、今回の精神看護実習全体を振り返り、私の考え方をまとめてみたいと思っていますã Continue reading →

Today, I happened to drop by Professor T’s office. As always he said, “There is no future in radiology,” but I’m already used to that. While talking to him about various things, I heard something interesting. “Being unable to understand … Continue reading →

Yesterday, while I was looking for something, an album caught my eye so I stopped searching and started looking at the album. It was 2:00 a.m. and, although it was deep in the night, my sleepiness vanished and I became wide awake. I have a lot of pictures from the time I just graduated from high school up to my current 4th year in college.

In the old pictures everyone, including myself, had childish faces. There are people who have changed their images completely, with their hairstyles and now stylish makeup, from those faces that were chubbier than they are now. As they grow older, women are constantly polishing themselves and becoming cute. I wonder if this is because they are in love. I deeply felt that each and every one of us has changed. And, quite frankly, the thought came to me that I, myself, am unexpectedly changing. Continue reading →

Lately, when I go out and I see small children, my face will almost certainly relax into a contented smile. It is happy and contented. When I see babies, in particular, my eyes are riveted to them. I do this so much that the mothers holding the infants look back at me suspiciously.

Babies are so cute. Why are they so darn cute? Their little hands and feet, their soft red cheeks… My maternal instincts are completely aroused. Ah, so cute…

If I get married someday, I want three children. (This is because I have two siblings myself) Even if I get tired of caring for the children every day, when they make their cute faces I will probably take lots of pictures of them with my camera. I hope this future will come to pass…

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A little while ago, I saw the movie, “The Last Samurai.” Because it was a movie made by Americans, it truly described the real samurai spirit. It went so far as to make me proud to be Japanese. Looking at … Continue reading →

When I return home to my parents’ house, my beloved dog, Murphy comes running to greet me, wagging his tail. Murphy’s was named after the actor, Eddie Murphy and he is a Kishu mixed breed. Even when I don’t come … Continue reading →

Do you know what a rancel is?

A rancel is a backpack that Japanese elementary school students wear when they go to school. It is like having proof that you are in elementary school so, when someone has a rancel bought for them, they are very excited. Even I, for no reason, ran around the house with my bright red rancel.

Incidentally, there was an apple that lived on my rancel.

Sometime during my first year of elementary school, as I was going to school as always with my bright red rancel, a bully named Ai-chan said this to me. "Midori-chan, there’s something weird drawn on your rancel." "The usual teasing has begun. I can’t let it bother me," I decided my child’s mind. "Yeah, yeah, go on," I replied lightly, but… "No, really. I’m not lying. Go ahead and look!" said the curiously persistent Ai-chan. Because she was so persistent and also because she seemed unusually sincere, I took of my rancel and looked. When I did that, I was shocked. My mouth dropped open and I couldn’t move for a while. What in the world? There was a powerful graffitti drawn with a magic marker left there. It was huge and right in the center. "What’s this, Ai-chan?" "I dunno. See, I wasn’t lying." "No, no. I don’t care about that. Just tell me, who was it? Tell me." My rancel… I was dumbstruck. ………………. Continue reading →

On making cookies for the college festival. Somebody said, “We are making cookies, so can someone who has menbou please bring it.” So, even though I had already used half of them, I brought my cotton swabs (menbou). When I … Continue reading →

I joined the "Harmony Circle", which is a choral group in college. This is a group of people who enjoy singing even if they are not good at it. We gather together as a family and sing. The other day, our college had a festival and allowed us a vending space to sell our product. Guess what kind of vender we have? We have "Hayashi Rice" which is unique. It is a challenge to put together something very unusual. Yes, it is true, but the real reason is that he is here,,,,, a man who is into "Hayashi Rice" who dedicated his life to making his most tastiest one!  Am I exaggerating? No. A man whose nickname is  " Arisan".